SJ Papercraft Blog Challenge - August 2012

This month blog challenge from SJ Papercraft is to do a craft project regarding the Olympics, and this is my take on the challenge

Studio Calico July 2012 kit

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Still working with Studio Calico July kit, which I'm loving by the way, I completed these layouts.

'Oh Happy Day'

A photo taken on a crafting weekend away early this year.

stamps the 'exclusive' wood veneer tweets - love them.

And of course, use of my cameo.

Sudden Downpour

At the end of June we had a sudden downpour, which left roads flooded, according to the weather reports it was going to be 'light showers in part' but it was more like 1 months rain within 1 hr.

Love these cameo cut "rain clouds"

and my final layout for now.

2 Men & a dog

I managed to do a layout using just the Solihull July Class kit (Sweet Day by Echo Park Papers) and a bit of misting. The dog was one that was playing on the beach, and James always take the opportunity to stop and play whenever one happens to be nearby.

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Impromptu visit

OMG - after a couple of phone calls and several textes, I'm spending this weekend with my girlies in Preston.





There will be plenty of laughs and the odd bottle of wine or two - love spending time in Preston and catching up with these girls xxx


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Getting my Scrap on ...

I really need to scrap more of my photos that I've printed so this month I set too and decided to use the July 2012 Studio Calico kit and try and use up as must as I can before the next one arrives.

So at the July Solihull crop I started on a few, this one in particular caused us load of laughs trying to think of a title, well they where laughing, I just thought the title were silly and had nothing to do with the layout, so thank to Morag, who found one of Sir Cliff song title online, I choose this one.

Travellin' Light (Need to add some journalling to this one)

I got this pin badge from Sainsburys and cut the back off.

Photo with my friends - having a break after watching the torch relay.

stamped a wood veneer camera.

A double pages layout, about the kissing of the torches

I was not so keen on this kit at first, but now I love the mixture of colour and have been able to complete 6 layouts and still have loads left to use up.

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Last Day of School

Today is James last day of school, for the summer holiday, so of course I needed the end of year photos, well this is my Mr grumpy this morning,

And him September 2011 - all happy and smiling - boy he has changed.

Then when his friends came I asked for a group shot like I did in September, so this is the September one

And here they are this morning (notice how James has managed a smile now his friends are here - lol).

Well another year over with, and now he's in Year 10, WOW !!! where has the time gone. T

Not only has James changes but so has his friends, has I see them everyday I hadn't noticed much, but they have.

Well happy holiday to everyone

I will be back with some layouts over the weekend.

Child's Play Challenge Blog - Watercolour

This weeks challange is up here, with the challenge being 'Watercolour', and this is my take. I misted and splatted ink on the top of the layout

And one of my cameo die-cut

I hope that you can take part in this weeks challenge and upload your layouts to the Child's Play blog.

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General Layouts

Just a few layouts that I've done and forgot to upload.

This is the class layout that Morag designed for the Solihull June Class, but I'd already had the papers that she used, so I just did a layout using some of my stash, being Echo Park - Awesome.

Another iphone photo of James and me, I used a sketch from Basic Grey, here

What about this lovely wood veneer 'tweet' by Studio Calico, apparently they were meant to be 'exclusive' to their kits, but I managed to get my hand on a packet, that was sent out by mistake by American Craft.

An iphone of James, after he had his yearly MRI Scan, I just wanted to document how well he did and the fact that he went back to school after it. This layout is completely different to how it started, I think the next time I will take photos at my first stage of design, and see how it differs by the time I get to the end.

And the final one for today, me making my TV appearance with Sir Cliff. Whilst watching the local news about the Olympic Torch coming to Birmingham, I noticed I was on the TV, you can clearly see me waving and hear me shouting 'Sir Cliff! Sir Cliff!' trying to get his attention so he would turn round, you would have thought I was his No. 1 fan - lol.

This layout is like this one by Shimelle, here, using a sketch as a basic and they adding your own style.

There I am ....

I used a Studio Calico mistable camera, really easy to change the colour with an ink pad.

Thats all for now, please come back soon.