Bloggers weekend ...

... but firstly I seem to have lost a month! February has flown past whilst being busy handing over at my Customer Support work and settling into my fabulous new role.As I get into my stride I'm hoping for lots more creative time.

And to kick start that all I had a fabulous weekend at the YHA Milton Keynes, organised by Lizzie, with 16 wonderful like-minded people and I've made some lovely new friends.

I had lots to eat (that was just lunch) ...

demolished Mel's amazing Malteser cake ...

and had lots of late night crafting and chat especially with Jennifer, who was great company.

Although I thought I might have been more productive, completing 5 layouts, it took me awhile to get into my stride. And I got lots of inspiration, learnt some new skills and have a shopping list the length of my arm!

This is my favourite page from the weekend, scraplifted from Margrethe Aas Johnsen's page on the cover of Scrap 365 this month.

 

Using up the scraps ...

... I had mostly tags left after completing the others pages, so basically threw them all onto the card and tinkered with them till I was happy. I've used the same mask as a previous page but with paint this time and it does give a slightly different effect.

 

I have a handful of scraps left, maybe will make a card, so really pleased with what I accomplished with the Scrapagogo kiy. I also made 1 page for each of our 4 albums - Me, each of the girls, and the annual one.

Growing up ...

... I know as parents we say it all the time about how fast our children are growing up, but I look at these photos and feel slightly overwhlemed by how quickly that actually is!

Most of the elements for this page came from a printed page that was included in the kit, a really useful addition. It's all straight in real life but some reason the photo makes it look really wonky!!

 

 

Life in 2013 ...

... so this is the first LO I made with the Scrapagogo kit. I like to do pages every now and again with what's happening in my life, so that seemed to be a good place to start with the kit.

I added some washi and bakers twines, plus a couple of extra buttons.

Cards and kits ...

... so having organised my albums, I moved on to sorting out paper and stripping uot old kits. Before discarding the last contents of a kit I am challenging myself to make some cards. So here are my first lot. I'm going to add sentiments as and when.

And of course, destashing means you can buy more! So I decided to try a Scrapagogo kit which arrived this morning. First impressions are good, 4 pieces of paper, 2 cardstock, a stamp, a printable and assorted embellies - just enough to make a few LOs without having loads left over. It's very similiar in colour to an old Scrapbook Circle kit that I have, so I shall probably combine the two.

 

Shopping and scrapping ...

... January week 3 challenge over on UKS was to use a sketch, add some ink/paint, some stitching and a quote. I decided not to do the quote and chose this photo I took at 12:12 on 12/12/12.

I had the day off work today and after a mammoth album sort out at the weekend I needed some supplies so headed off to TK Maxx and The Range. I got what I needed, plus more of course!

Now I've moved onto stripping out old kits and purging lots of stash.

Some random snowy pictures .....

... just for fun

 

 

 

Thanks for all the kind comments last week, the day passed unremarkably and I actually had quite an enjoyable walk and coffee with my friend :).