tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2207060026769388542024-03-14T04:32:34.854+00:00What a Scrappy LifeHi, I'm Jackie, I started scrapbooking in January 2008, and I'm not affraid to stand up and say "I'm jackie, and I'm addicated to Scrapbooking and other crafts" ... so thanks for stopping by and I hope you enjoy my ramblings ...Jackie xxxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13586283595396573558noreply@blogger.comBlogger657125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-220706002676938854.post-22241307492897405682016-08-17T10:00:00.000+01:002016-08-17T10:00:05.814+01:00HLM - Blogpost August 2016My blogpost is up over on the <a href="http://blog.heylittlemagpie.com/" target="_blank">Hey Little Magpie blog </a>today, using papers from <a href="http://www.heylittlemagpie.com/brands/jillibean-soup/mushroom-medley.html" target="_blank">Jillibean Soup - Mushroom Medley</a>, please hop over and have a look and also visit the Hey Little Magpie shop to see this collection and tonnes more.<br />
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I will start by telling you the background, several years ago I started to think about running crafting events, and got talking to my friends Sam and Sheena and you know how it is, when you get-together and start to throw around ideas and it all seems such a great idea, but we never actually did any research to see whether it was viable or even if we could actually pull it off.<br />
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Well, life got on the way and even though no plans had been put into place it was also at the back of my mind, that one day something could / would happen. I took to organising my mini retreats with a group of friends twice a year and was happy with how these were going and still are and more so how our little group of scrapping friends really got on and always looked forward to the next one, even when the current one hadn't even finished.<br />
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So back to my tale, so 3 weeks ago I was swiping through Instagram and saw that a designer who I followed and who style I was in awe of, was holding a workshop in the area she lived, well I don't know what came over me, but I sent her a message and asked if she would even think of coming to the UK to teach, and after pressing send ... I was like OMG! what have I done, she will think I'm bloody mad just messaging her out of the blue ... well I believe within 15 minutes I had a reply saying she would love too ... WTF! OMG! really, I spent an age just looking at the phone and thinking OMG! what now??. Anyway a couple of phone calls to Sam and Sheena who where both as stunned as I was, and it was on. What 'it' was we had no idea. But our little partnership had a kick start and our new venture was taking hold we called ourselves 'Birds of a Feather'.<br />
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In the midst of planning this event, I was looking for some photographs that I wanted to scrap and came across this layouts I did back in March 2013, what a coincidence the title of the page and also that the photograph was taken at the same venue we are going to hold our event at ...I'm taking this a good sign. My scrapping style as changed but so glad our friendship remains.</div>
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In my former life I was a secretary for 20 years and was used to organising things and this just gave me the buzz I need, after feeling crap for the last couple of months. So I was on the hunt to find a hotel, possible a shop to attend, raffle prizes, what we would do at the event.<br />
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Within two weeks of sending that message, I had found a hotel to hold the event, got a shop, obviously Hey Little Magpie was our first choice and they said yes. Our designer had booked her flight and it was all systems go.<br />
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Sam, Sheena and me have worked really hard to fine turn what we though we could offer and the date was set to launch our new adventure ... and today is the day that it has gone live on Facebook. The buzz over the past few days have been great and we have smiled between us, as people are planning to book days off, and make travel arrangements and they didn't even know what was happening. I do hope that they are as excited to see who we have asked to teach and book on the workshops, we are buzzing and we know that she is.<br />
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We are so exciting that she will be with us for the whole weekend, teaching at two full days workshops and we are really looking forward to seeing what she will produce with you new paper collection - Take Me Away.</div>
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Hope over to the blog and see my 4 layouts I've managed to do this month, and better still why not purchase some of this lovely collection from the store. - <a href="http://www.heylittlemagpie.com/brands/fancy-pants/life-is-beautiful.html" target="_blank">here</a></div>
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Can you stop a theme over my last few pages, I love this little word stickers to add details and interest on my pages.</div>
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<br />Jackie xxxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13586283595396573558noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-220706002676938854.post-8683094998930463192016-07-14T22:08:00.000+01:002016-07-14T22:08:00.155+01:00Mosley Crop - July 2016 challengeAt the beginning of July, I went to one of my crops and they had a challenge to produce a layout, project or anything crafty that was pink based, using pineapples and flamingos - which are all the rage now.<br />
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The challenge was to complete the project within the time of the crop, but I spent most of my day talking and ran out of time, but I did manage to come home and finish it.<br />
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I've used this photographs before on a layout, and to be honest I'm ok with using a photograph more than once, but as you can see - it fitted the bill perfectly. I went though my stash and found some pink papers and found some with a pineapple print. </div>
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I have a flamingo stamp, which I stamp onto two different shades of cardstock, cut them out and added them to the layout.</div>
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Another layout that came together quickly, once I stopped talking that is, and put my head down and got on with it - lol x.</div>
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<br />Jackie xxxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13586283595396573558noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-220706002676938854.post-47115320645830887592016-07-12T09:00:00.000+01:002016-07-12T09:00:17.378+01:00Hip Kit Club - June 2016 KitHi everyone, I'm back with another layouts I did recently using the Hip Kit Club, June 2016 kit. This time I did a 9x12 layout - just because ... I've been doing quite a few of my layouts this size and just love working on this size, but I think I will always be a 12x12 scrapbooker at heart.<br />
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A quick layout which works for me, I used a sketch as a starting point, but by the end of it, the only thing that was the same as the sketch was the use of 3 photos, but eh! it got me scrapping, it is what is all about.</div>
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<br />Jackie xxxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13586283595396573558noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-220706002676938854.post-27674601147293546382016-07-10T09:00:00.000+01:002016-07-10T09:00:00.832+01:00It's coming back ....Yeah! I think my mojo is returning, slowly and surely, and hopefully I can get myself back into blogging regularly, but I won't promise anything as I've been doing that and it just not happening.<br />
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I can now share some layouts, that I've done over the past few weeks, I recently subscribed to the<a href="http://www.hipkitclub.net/" target="_blank"> Hip Kit Club</a> monthly kit, I've been following the site for a while and really love how the DT use the kits. And decided to give them a go and see what the quality was like and how / if I would use what was in the kit each month. So far I'm loving the kits and really hope that it has given me the kick re-start I needed to get back into scrapping.<br />
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This is my first layout using this kit - 'Hello Today' - and using a sketch they had put up on their site. <br />
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My 2nd layout with this kit is another one using a sketch from their site. I found these photos that I had printed and was just eating to scrap, of me and James on our visit to Bristol last year. We had such a fab time and of course, there is always time for a selfie or two while we were on the hunt for Shaun the Sheeps.</div>
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They also have exclusive alphabets - the dark blue are from the May kit, and the teal are from the June kit.</div>
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I really love the colour tones of this kit and also having some sketches to work with has helped me get back in the flow of scrapbooking again.<br />
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<br />Jackie xxxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13586283595396573558noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-220706002676938854.post-25828106161521314522016-06-22T09:00:00.000+01:002016-06-22T09:00:02.792+01:00Barbara's Birthday PageThere was some extra page protectors in Barbara's birthday album, so we decided to each do her an extra page of her on the day.<br />
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My blogpost this month was about using stamps from Pink Fresh Studio <a href="http://www.heylittlemagpie.com/brands/pinkfresh-studio/clear-stamps.html" target="_blank">here</a>. Here are some close ups.</div>
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I stamped the little cupcake and colour washed with distress inks</div>
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I stamped on some patterned paper and cut a few of the word phases out to use as accents around the page.</div>
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<br />Jackie xxxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13586283595396573558noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-220706002676938854.post-27390449195461971702016-06-20T09:00:00.000+01:002016-06-20T09:00:09.658+01:00Barbara's Birthday - May 2016In May, my lovely friend Barbara celebrated her 65th birthday, and the girls, who I went to New York with, and I decided to take her out for the day, and we chose Stratford. the weather forecast didn't look very promising but we were determined to make the most of it. We a walk around the town, which obviously meant we needed to take a few photos<br />
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Then it was time for her next surprise, Afternoon Tea in the wonderful cafe on the High Street.</div>
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As it was a special birthday we did her an album, we each did 3 pages.</div>
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As you can see from this photograph she was overwhelmed and loved it.</div>
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The Afternoon Tea was great, and there was so much that we couldn't finish it.<br />
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The we had a walk around to Butterfly Farm, again a lovely place that I need to go back to.<br />
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I think the butterfly through my top was part of the display, I was keen on it landing on me, but so glad I took a deep breath and got these photos - coming to a scrapbook pages soon.<br />
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And our final stop was for a coffee and cake, but I didn't fancy any cake so I had this yummy ice-cream instead.</div>
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We all had a fab day and Barbara loved it, which was just want we wanted to hear after all the planning.<br />
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These are my pages that I did for her album, I choose to do photos from our New York trip<br />
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This was a sketch, one of the many sketches I have on Pinterest. I love how it turned out and I used Shimelle's Starshine collection and did some hand stitching.</div>
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More hand-stitching, photographs taken at the Top of the Rock.</div>
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This design is a cut file from the silhouette cameo store, but instead of cutting it I used the 'perforation' feature, so instead of cutting the shape out, it makes perforation marks - allowing me to hand stitch the design.</div>
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using Crate Paper - Wonder Collection - <a href="http://www.heylittlemagpie.com/brands/crate-paper/wonder.html" target="_blank">here</a></div>
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I love how this one came out, simply but effective using the black cardstock as my background. the cut file is from Kerri Bradford Design. Paper are from Cocoa Vanilla - Free Spirit <a href="http://www.heylittlemagpie.com/brands/cocoa-vanilla-studio/free-spirit.html" target="_blank">here</a></div>
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Another scrap lift, this time from one Julie did for one of her Cut Shoppe post. Papers are a mixture of travel themed papers I had in my stash.<br />
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and I did this in a 9x12 format, using a photographs that I had taken the same day, I can never remember ever scrapping a photograph so quickly. Me and Sheena at Chatsworth, photograph taken by Sam. Papers used My Minds Eye - On Trend 2 collection<a href="http://www.heylittlemagpie.com/brands/my-mind-s-eye/on-trend-2.html" target="_blank"> here</a>.</div>
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Before we lifted me and one of my cousins went onto a bus tour, the island is just stunning, and the harbours are simply amazing<br />
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So one of the day my family decided that they wanted to stay by the pool and relax, and me being me just needed to get up and go and explore, so that is what I did, all on my own.<br />
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Here I am at the bus stop. The Maltese people are very friendly, and as the island is small it is easy to get around. The bus journey was only about 10 minutes to Mdina - The Silence City.</div>
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What a beautiful place it is, its a city with a fortress, please actually live here, there was a few cars and tourist horse and carriages, but mainly people walked around.</div>
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<br />Jackie xxxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13586283595396573558noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-220706002676938854.post-60309691060422646982016-05-29T09:00:00.000+01:002016-05-29T09:00:06.270+01:00Malta 2016 - Part 1 My aunty turned 80 at the end of March and my cousin and I took her to Malta for a 5 day visit, my cousin had booked the hotel it being a spa hotel so that if my aunty didn't want to leave the hotel then there would be nice facilities for us all to relax in.<br />
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Well my Aunty was up for everything that we wanted to do, she is definitely a very young 80 year old, she has her aches and pains but she as always made the most out of life, when my mum died suddenly at 65 - not only did it shocked us all but it put everything in to perspective that life is definitely too short and it needs to be lived as best you can.<br />
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we arrived to temperature of 21 degrees, and were where ready to make the most of the weather whilst we were there.<br />
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The first look of the hotel, was very impressive.<br />
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After being completely full with our meal, we returned to our room and the staff had left us some chocolate cake and champagne, which was lovely. The champagne was lovely, but as I don't eat chocolate cake I had to take my families word that it was really nice.<br />
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<br />Jackie xxxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13586283595396573558noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-220706002676938854.post-11093495381414695242016-05-27T09:00:00.000+01:002016-05-27T09:00:44.563+01:00I'm still here ... Hello everyone, well April was a very busy month for me so it will take a few blogposts to get up to date, and now we are nearly at the end of May and I'm still trying to catch-up with my blog.<br />
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I've compared my month of April to waiting for a bus, you know you wait and wait for a bus and then, not one but two or three turn up at once. Well that was how my April was, but with events not buses - lol x.<br />
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Good Friday (25/3) till Tuesday (29/3) - Norfolk<br />
Wednesday (30/3) - travel to London<br />
Thursday(31/3) - Fly to Malta with family<br />
Tuesday (5/4) - Return to UK, and travel home<br />
Wed (6/4 -8/4) - Fri am - quick turn around them travel to Preston for a long weekend<br />
Fri pm (8/4) - Mon pm (11/4)- Preston (school re-union)<br />
Mon pm (11/4) - Fri am (15/4) - home and catch up with my boys<br />
Friday (15/4) - till Mon (25/4) (10 days) - Crafting retreat - organised 2 weekend craft retreats with two different group - 1st one friends, 2nd one HLM DT girls. But decided to stay the days in between and went on a few day trips, blog post to follow.<br />
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The above took a lot of planning and organising especially with such a short turn around between each event. Thankfully my husband was great and supported my time away from the family 100% and now that James is older its a lot easier. But really could I have been any more busier for the month of April.<br />
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Now I am back its taking me some time to sort my head out and get back on track with everything, I am hoping that I can catch up with my blog and share some of my layouts with your all, over the next few weeks, <br />
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Let's get back to Sheringham, have I told you that I love this place, walking by the sea, visiting the various cafe in the town, eating fish & chips, enjoying an ice-cream or two, listening to the waves crashing on the rocks, I really could go on and on, but all in all this place brings me back down to earth and I've stood still for a while and just enjoy the peace, calm and stillness of life while I recharge my batteries.<br />
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So I will start my catch-up from the end of March, well Good Friday to be exact and we made our trip down to Norfolk for a family holiday, this was going to be a short week for me as I had to make my way to London for a trip to Malta (blogpost here).<br />
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So here are a few photos from my trip.<br />
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My inlaws where with us this time and we had a few long beach walks together, which was lovely.<br />
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After one of our walks, we found a pen of lamb near the sea front, talk about seeing something<br />
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As usual I went to the Easter Sunday service, again bringing be peace and calmness.<br />
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We had a family Thai meal in the local restaurant, which was lovely.<br />
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One of my highlight was re-meeting Wes, I met him on the beach last October and he came running up to me, OMG! I love this dog, is that possible to love a dog when you don't even know it - well again he came running over to me and the owners was just as shocked as me that he recognised me, if I lived down here I could be his regular dog walker and dog sitter no problem.<br />
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And an evening walk to watch the sunset over the sea.<br />
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I will be back shortly with my visit to Malta, which will be in two parts.Jackie xxxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13586283595396573558noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-220706002676938854.post-90199581545561587332016-03-25T09:00:00.000+00:002016-03-25T09:00:29.118+00:00Like For Ever Retreat - LayoutsHello everyone, I'm back with my layouts that I managed to do at the retreat, as well as teaching a class, I ended up completed 5 and one half finished, which is a lot for me.<br />
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For all of these layouts I used kits from LFE<br />
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Love New York (January 2016 kit)<br />
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I love how I captured my champagne glass and the wing of the plane in this photograph, and even though I've used this photograph before I wanted to give it its own page. This is a 9x12 size page. Patterned papers from the kit, with bites and pieces from my travel stash.</div>
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This collection is from My Minds Eye - On Trend2 - I wasn't keen on it when I saw in on screen, but when I got it, it was better than I thought so, as I've got a backlog of kits to cut into I decided to get struck in right away and create another 9x12 layout, which came together really quicker and will be used as a filler page within the album, as it doesn't really have a story to tell.</div>
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This was the layout that Julie designed as her pillow present, so it came with all the cardstock and I just added patterned paper and bits and pieces from the February kit, and also changed it around to suit my style.</div>
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This was one of the challenges, again something I struggle to do when at retreats, but has we had the 3 challenges before we got to the event, I found it easier to prepare for it. So for this one I cut out the phase on white cardstock, and backed each letter. The papers are from Crate Paper - Wonder collection.</div>
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I cut the white cardstock down slightly and mounted it onto some Kraft cardstock, as this will be going into my Harry Potter album and I've used Kraft Cardstock with all those layouts.</div>
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<br />Jackie xxxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13586283595396573558noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-220706002676938854.post-10554042840850034302016-03-18T09:00:00.000+00:002016-03-18T09:00:22.511+00:00Hey Little Magpie - March 2016 BlogpostJust wanted to put on that my layouts for this month are up on the Hey Little Magpie blog<a href="http://blog.heylittlemagpie.com/cest-la-vie-by-pink-paislee/" target="_blank"> (here)</a>.<br />
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I've used the lovely collection from<a href="http://www.heylittlemagpie.com/brands/pink-paislee/c-est-la-vie.html" target="_blank"> Pink Paislee - Cest La Vie.</a><br />
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Hope over the the blog to see how I put this and the two other layouts together.<br />
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Please note that at the time of writing some of the products are out of stock, but as Pink Paislee is under the umbrella of American Crafts, re-stocking of all the new products had been put on hold whilst AC moved warehouses in the USA. Hopefully by the end of March AC should be back to shipping products to all stores.<br />
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<br />Jackie xxxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13586283595396573558noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-220706002676938854.post-54353068157980684342016-03-17T16:00:00.000+00:002016-03-17T20:19:49.290+00:00Like For Ever Retreat - March 2016This was the first retreat that Nicola from Like For Ever (LFE) had done and was just opened to the LFE Subscribers.<br />
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She had chosen a great setting in Licestershire, which was a new venue and was idea for our weekend of crafting. Apologies for the the photo heavy post, but here goes.<br />
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A beautiful logged building, that was plenty big enough for us all and self contained, so we didn't have to wander far from our scrapping room to have our meals.</div>
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These are my bags - I did had several kits that I'd hadn't even touched, and was determined that I would try and make a few layouts over the weekend, using these kits, as well as 'all that necessary' stash I needed - not ! lol x</div>
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One of the welcome gifts from Nicola, was this lovely mug, full of sweets, wood veneer and washi tape.</div>
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We also had a 8x11 album with some inserts along with a a selection of products from Pink Fresh Studio - the Felicity collection.</div>
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Part of our evening meal - which was totally yummy !!!</div>
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Throughout the weekend, there was 3 challenges to do, and it was great seeing the 'challenge' wall get full of our layouts.</div>
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I will be back soon with the layouts I did over the weekend - I managed to do 5 and start another - which I'm so pleased with.</div>
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I stamped a thank you message onto white cardstock and cut it out, layering a piece of patterned paper underneath the sentiment and cut that into the same shape as the sentiment, then I punched 2 different sizes of pattern papers and layered on top of a dollie, adding some silver thread messily between the sentiment and the circles.</div>
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So last October whilst on holiday in Norfolk I took some supplies to make a start on them.<br />
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Then when I was home I added some washi tape, wood veneer stars, and gold mist and I thought great they are done and packed them away feeling very accomplished with my presents. Until, samples started to appear in our retreat group chat, and sneak I was like OMG! my little cards are so boring and simple, and what an understatement.</div>
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Then it was time to put them all together, I glued the top of the feathers to the label, then using the mini attachers I stapled the bow to the top of the feather, and added a enamel dot over the staple to help disguise the staple.</div>
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I was happy with version one but feel a lot better with version two, only wish I'd thought about it a bit more at the early stage. Anyway, they are done and given out now.</div>
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Jackie xxxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13586283595396573558noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-220706002676938854.post-83562669620161478032016-03-12T11:00:00.000+00:002016-03-12T11:00:07.279+00:00Like For Ever Retreat ClassI was asked to teach at the first Like For Ever retreat, and you know what its like when you are asked, and it always seems like a fab idea and I got really excited, then the panic set in and I thought OMG! am I good enough? can I do a layout that others would like to copy?, yes I've taught at our charity crops before, but that with people I know and at my own crop, so even though I was nervous at the time, it didn't feel me with panic. But I soon settled down and grabbed the opportunity with both hands.<br />
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I wasn't given a brief to work from and basically I could do whatever I wanted (within reason), so I choose to do a 12x12 page and an accompanying project life divided page protector.<br />
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I decided that I wanted to use some of the many photographs I had from my holiday last year to Central Park, NY.<br />
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The paper are from Pebbles Jen Hadfeld - Everyday Collection <a href="http://www.heylittlemagpie.com/brands/pebbles/jen-hadfield-everyday.html" target="_blank">(here)</a>, and embellishments from Crate Paper - Maggie Holmes - Shine Collection.</div>
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and a few close up of the 12x12 page.</div>
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I also decided to use Becky Higgins Page Protector - Design P, which have 4x4 pockets and randomly added photos of our 'Day in the Park'.</div>
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I designed and cut this out on my silhouette cameo for each of the delegates. Well I actually designed a 2nd version, as I couldn't decide which one l like best the other said 'A Day at the Park'.</div>
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I tried to add some variety to some of the insert, so for this one, I made a pocket for one of the inserts and added a tag, as well as some hand stitching around 2 edges.</div>
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The class is simple in design, but I do hope that the delegate enjoy putting it all together, and like me get some of the many photographs that we take of one event.</div>
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At the end of February, we had a girlie weekend to celebrate Morag's 50th birthday, this is the 2nd layout I did, its a scrap lift of one that Julie did for her Hey Little Magpie blogpost (<a href="http://blog.heylittlemagpie.com/with-a-sunny-disposition/" target="_blank">here</a>).</div>
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I used a selection of papers from my travel stash, The 12x12 is from a pack from Simple Stories last year called Stars & Stripes <a href="https://www.simplestories.com/products/stars-%26-stripes" target="_blank">here</a> and the rest are just papers that where in my box.</div>
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Then I basically went though my stash and found similar items that I could use.</div>
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As well as the puffy sticker; the puffy camera sticker is from MAMBI - <a href="http://www.heylittlemagpie.com/brands/me-my-big-ideas/create-365tm-the-happy-plannertm/me-my-big-ideas-create-365-the-happy-planner-puffy-stickers-to-do.html" target="_blank">here</a></div>
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I'm loving these mini alphas and have got a selection of them, they are great to added to my layouts - these one are Jillibean Soup <a href="http://www.heylittlemagpie.com/brands/jillibean-soup/stickers.html" target="_blank">(here)</a></div>
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I cut the 'Good Times' from a steel die from Technique Tuesday, using kraft cardstock and backed it with paper from a 6x6 pad from MME - Hello World!; the flair badge is from Flair for buttons and great online store that has a large away of flair badges for every different occasion. The gold and black chervons are from Crate Paper - Journey - puffy sticker sheet and the plane washi tape is from Hey Little Magpie (<a href="http://www.heylittlemagpie.com/hey-little-magpie-washi-tape-come-fly-with-me-black-white.html" target="_blank">here)</a></div>
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