Layouts from Yesterday's Crop

Hello Everyone,

No 'In A Vase On Monday' again today. I was out all yesterday and had no time to tootle round the garden then, and today, well, today has been a complete write off. As the EM would say, it's persisted down all day! If this is all that Autumn has to offer then Spring can't come soon enough.

So on to nicer things. Although, I think it can only be me that can spend the best part of the day at a crop and only create three pages! The lovely ladies sitting on either side of me managed a lot more, one made a dozen and they were all exquisite. Anyway, here's the three I managed.

This one is the first of a double-page spread - Celebrating Fifty Years.

This is the second page.

The photos are of my son, Alun, taken on the holiday he took recently to celebrate his fiftieth birthday. Alun, together with his lovely partner, Elaine, visited Amsterdam, Edinburgh and Prague spending a few days in each place. And, as you can see, he likes to try out the local beers wherever he goes - he's a keen amateur brewer himself. These pages will go into the album I've made for him as a record of those fifty years.

And here's the third page I made - Sweet.

This photo is one of my great-grandchildren taken while they were staying with their grandparents, my daughter and son-in-law, for two weeks during the school summer break. This photo was taken at Calderglen Country Park.

Supplies used:
- plain white cardstock
- patterned papers: Cocoa Vanilla's 'Expressive' & 'So Fresh'; Pink Fresh Studio's 'Chitchat'& 'Hope'
- alphas: Pink Fresh Studio's 'Just a Little Lovely' white puffy stickers; American Crafts 'See the Good' black thickers
- puffy phrase stickers from Pink Fresh Studio
- stamp sets: - Anita y su Mundo's 'De Viage' set; Kaisercraft's 'Polaroid' set
- tools: circle punches; scissors; guillotine and various adhesives including dimensional dots 
- all other embellishments from my stash

I used a sketch from Scrapbook Page Maps as a starting point for the double-page spread. And for 'Sweet' I lifted a page from the very talented Jill Brogden.

So that's my all today. I'm sitting here thinking, now, what is it I am planning to do next. Time for a cuppa and maybe that will help me remember.

Take care and have a lovely evening.

Christmas Card Club - Card 18/2019 - Snowman

Hello and Happy Sunday Everyone,

I'm having to schedule this post as I'm going to be at an all-day crop tomorrow. A whole day of making scrap pages - bliss! And, as time has been short, I've only managed to make one card for the Christmas Card Club. The theme, chosen by Valery, is snowman or snowmen.

As you can see, I've chosen to do just the one snowman - but he's a cute one. The bits and bobs box came in handy once more - it's where I found the piece of blue embossed card for the background for the topper. The card supplies for the snowman came out of the box of scraps, leftovers and snippets - I really could do with some sort of abbreviated name for those two boxes. Both the topper and the greeting are layered on to a very shiny silver card that hasn't photographed very well.

Here's a list of supplies used:

- a white card base
- the blue embossed card - the card has a special satin finish, very pretty, and the folder used was 'Stars Frame' from Crafts-Too
- scraps of white card and the silver card for the topper and greeting 
- stamps: 'Snowman' from Kars and two - the 'Merry & Bright' greeting and the 'snow flakes' - from the 'Forest Magic' stamp set - a magazine gift from a couple of years ago.
- inks: Ranger's Archival Ink in 'Jet Black' and Adirondack 'Stonewashed'
- markers in shades of grey, brown, blue, red and orange for colouring the snowman
- 'Fluffy Puffy Stuff' from Inkylicious for the fake snow

That's it for CCC today but I hope you will pop over to see what my teammates have created for Valery's theme - you'll find a list of their names and links on my right sidebar - as always they are so much more creative than me.

What's On Your Workdesk Wednesday - Week 534

Morning Everyone,

It's another WOYWW and I have to say it feels that the week has more than whizzed by. I blame the bank holiday - even though officially in Scotland it wasn't a holiday, the EM and I decided we were not going to miss out. And shamelessly I admit, I'm using the holiday as an excuse for there being nothing to show on my desk today. 

So, I thought I'd show what goes on at the end of the desk instead. Besides the usual boxes of scrapbooking supplies teetering on the edge there's the trolley. What would I do without the trolley - it holds all the clutter that would have, in the past, found it's way on to the desk. As can be seen, the top tray holds all sorts of junk crafty items - mostly a variety of adhesives ... can't craft without them ... pots of scissors and paintbrushes, etc. - what I deem necessary tools of the trade.  Behind all that there's storage for yet more scrapbooking supplies and a couple of containers of stamps. The stamp situation is becoming outrageous - I feel a sort out and donate session coming on!

Here's another shot, on the other side of the craft room. Even more scrapbooking supplies - pretty patterned paper sorted, more or less, by colour, photo albums, the guillotine corner, and the ink pad collection in it's custom built (courtesy of the EM) storage.The little fabric basket at the front is full of our Rita's beautiful flowers. Looking quite organised but then, of course, tidying and organising is my favourite procraftination!

No book bit this week. I'm struggling to finish Kazuo Ishiguro's 'When We Were Orphans' at the moment. I don't know why because I really enjoyed his 'The Remains of the Day'. I'll persist. 

Instead, I have an ... And ...

Finally ...

Totally appropriate given what my photos have revealed today :)

That's it for this WOYWW. Until next week, I wish you all a wonderfully crafty week.