WOYWW Week 893/113 - Visit to the Isle of Bute

Hello and Happy Wednesday Everyone,

We're having a heatwave here in Scotland. It's nowhere as hot as down in the south of England, but with temperatures around 25C degrees it's more than hot enough for me. 

Today's desk, actually Tuesday night's, is a bit messy. Nothing that can't be cleared up pretty quickly. To the left are a few layouts I started months ago, last year in fact, but never completed. Mainly because they are Project Life pocket style and I've come to realise I don't really like scrapping that way. 

In the middle are a couple of page protectors containing bits and bobs left from the last two layouts made. My system is to pop items in the protector as I finish with them. It makes it easier for me to record them once the page is complete. 

This is a page I made at the weekend. The adorable puppy, Leigh, one of my grandson's fiancée's, is 6 years old now and quite grown up. The patterned background paper is an unbelievable 21 years old. Bought from a shop that shut down a long time ago. For the princely sum of 50p! Perfect for these photos of Leigh but I can't think why I've been hording it for so long. 

Yesterday, my daughter, SIL and I, took the ferry to the Isle of Bute for the day. We had a great time sightseeing round this small but beautiful island.

We especially enjoyed visiting this lovely house, Mount Stuart, and the gardens surrounding it. 

This stunning 'hedge' of hydrangeas edges the car park!

As usual, I'll just leave you with a photo of Silver, my early morning wake-up call today, and post this to Sarah's Craft Shed where you can see many more creative workdesks every Wednesday. If you don't already do so, feel free to join in the fun and show us what's on your workdesk today. You'll be made most welcome.

Have a great WOYWW day and a fabulous week everyone,

Take care everyone,

Elizabeth

Scrapbook Page No. 38/2026 - Do Not Disturb

Hello and Happy Saturday,

I thought I'd share this layout Ive just completed with you today. 

It's the latest layout from me for Shimelle's 3x4 Photo Love classes using three photos of my cat Silver. I swear she thinks the bed is hers! 

Most of the papers used are from 2022 - not as old as some I've used on earlier layouts recently, but old enough to mark up as a win in this my year dedicated to using up what I've got. Anybody else, like me, on a spending freeze and using up only what you have already? 

Only one full size sheet (12"×12") of black cardstock and one of the heart patterned paper was used. All the rest came from my stash of leftover scraps. 

The punched floral trim has touches of blue and the cat in bed sticker is yellow, so I did a very Shimelle Laine like trick and added a few embellishments in shades to match. 

I plan to share more layouts in the future now that I've got back in the way of things. If only to prove here that I'm sticking to the 'no buy' resolution. 

Thanks for looking. 

Take care

Elizabeth

WOYWW Week 892/112 - Don't Eat The Daisies

Hello & Good Morning Everyone,

Hope you've all had a good week wherever you are. It's been a cool, cloudy and damp Ardrossan here. Perfect weather for watching the tennis at Wimbledon! 

Which is why I'm really late today. I had to, really I had to, stay up very late last night watching, with bated breath, the battle between Djokovic & Auger-Aliassime. I'm sure it did my blood pressure no good whatsoever but what a match! 

Not that it stopped me scrapping altogether. This is my desk this morning. 

Under the folder full of the leftovers from the page made yesterday is a pile of homemade kits waiting for me to decide which one to work from next. They are surrounded with all sorts of bits and bobs that are slowly amassing around me. I can feel a time fast approaching where it will all have to be sorted out and filed away. Only to be brought out again I'm sure. 

Here's yesterday's make. It features two pics of the daisies that grow up through the cracks at the base of the retaining wall in the back garden. They remind me of among many things, times in my childhood spent picking them and making daisy chains to wear in my hair, and of Doris Day singing that song. That lovely piece of die-cut paper, from My Mind's Eye's 'Quite Contrary' collection, is, I'm embarrassed to admit, 16 years old. I've been hording it far too long!

Having completed one course I'm on to another. This time it's the 3x4 Photo Love classes again from Shimelle Laine . These concentrate on using photos half the size of the more usual 6"x4". The benefits are that I can print off two photos per page from my Canon Selphy printer - with the help of the collage setting on the new app - and more photos can be used on a 12"x12" layout. It means all the difference between having to either make double page spreads or having to reject many photos down to lack of space. In fact, space is the real problem. I'm running out of room to store my many albums and I have had to admit I need to put a limit on how many to keep. That's a sorting task waiting on my to-do list for another day. 

Given that I'm so late this morning, I'll just leave you with this photo of Silver and get on with the job of posting this to Sarah's Craft Shed where you can see many more creative workdesks every Wednesday.  If you don't already do so, feel free to join in the fun and show us what's on your workdesk today.  You'll be made most welcome.

Have a great WOYWW day and a fabulous week everyone,

Take care everyone,

Elizabeth