Blog Candy

There's some fabulous Birthday Blog Candy to be won over at Berrylicious... off you go! ;)

Peckover House Garden

Not so sunny today, thank goodness, can enjoy garden.

Junkers 52

Going home after Duxford! Seen from back garden!

Wing Walkers!

Car Boot 5

The sample book of buttons. All stitched to the pages with elastic.
This book isn't full, there's all sorts of random fixing samples in
the back. Half zips, stiffeners, small fabric patches etc. I don't
think they'll be usable. The fabric is probably too small even for
flowers.

The buttons are good though!!

Car Boot 4

The sample book of lace. These are also stuck down on both ends, but
there's a book full of all kinds.

Car Boot 3

Small lengths of ribbons and trims. All are stuck to card, so have
glue on either end. Still, that won't matter in a lot of cases if just
a small piece is used on a layout.

Car Boot 2

Selection of button examples, only one of each, although they are in
sets of style or sizes of the same colour. Picture doesn't do justice
to the prettiness of the colours!

Car Boot 1

These are the beads Daddy found at a car boot sale! One of each, all
samples.

Evening Sky

Listening to The Real Thing in the distance, smelling a BBQ and
watching Mr Next Door water toms.

Paris - Montmartre

The using up of Scraps gave quite a boost to my Mojo. I suddenly came across papers that I'd forgotten, or used to love and hadn't realised that I still had bits left, or that I'd been hanging onto for particular projects and had kept putting off. This is one of those.

I saw these papers amongst Jo's stash and thought they'd be great for some of my Paris photos. Just never quite got round to it. Anyway, tidying up gave me the kick to do it and here it is:

Melman in Scotland

I seem to have had a run on scrapping Melman in Scotland, in 8.5 x 11 format, using up old scraps.

This picture was John's idea, Melman munching on the undergrowth in Princes Street Gardens!

This was supposed to be a grid background, but it went a bit wrong when I started to stick things down in the wrong places. Melman is now in Glasgow outside a House for an Art Lover.

This one is an attempt to use up lots of Sassafrass Lass. Lots of papers that I think I like, but I don't really. They're all far too busy and hard to work with. I've tried to use the sides that have simpler designs on for this.

Mainly made for a UKS Weekly Challenge in June.

And now an attempt to use up Junebug! John and Melman are in the cafe at Edinburgh Castle.

Twisted Sketches #55

A bit late in putting this one up, and I haven't done Twist #56 yet and #57 will be up today! Still, the twist was to use Flags, so I made some banners out of ribbon and came up with this:


The photos are all old shots of me, various quality, especially that one in the middle of my 7th Birthday!

Once again, I've used Jo's papers. Thanks Jo! These are all K&Co. paper snob in me wants to know what they're called and I think they may be Mira, but I'm not sure.

Road Trip ... there's still more!

A couple of pieces of what I call "Jo's Paper" because it came from her stash! I just had to have these two sheets, one of them with old American cars on and the other which was mainly a map of America with various bits of ephemera printed up one side. That sheet was just crying out to be chopped up and reassembled.

So that's what I did! I really should've taken a 'before' picture of the paper before I attacked it, but I forgot.

The photo isn't terribly clear, but I'm building a small stone cairn by the side of the road on the way into the Valley of Fire. Here's the cairn, I scrapped it as part of my Believe Mini Album:


The map tab came from my Teamie Sue, so thanks to both Jo and Sue for helping me to make this layout! :)

Scrap, Paper Scissors

Here's the layout that I made for the Saturday Sketch on the Scrap, Paper, Scissors Blog. I made a special effort in taking the photo... outside on one of John's small easels!

My parents, with their granny-grabbers, go blackberry picking. I should have been blackberry picking, but instead I took a lot of close up photos of interesting things in the hedgerows.

I've been trying to use the old stash to thin it out and get myself some space in my paper box. I can't break out of that box, I don't have the room! So I used my final full sheet of the gorgeous Wild Saffron.

Two of the butterflies have been painted and the other has been Distress inked. They've all been Stickled.