IN GOOD COMPANY WITH GLITTER GIRL ...AT CAMP AND THEN A SOIREE!

Before I did the 'Great Scrap Area Tidy', in honour of my friend Elaine's arrival ...and she KNOWS how honoured she is ;) I managed to squeeze in one more Layout, 

The inspiration for the paper choices came from SUSANNE'S IN GOOD COMPANY challenge,  for which this month, she is looking for PINK PAISLEE products. My background paper and the striped one are both from the 'VINTAGE VOGUE' collection..everything else is from my stash.

The sketch itself is the one used by GLITTER GIRL HERE....and I did use both Washi Tape and ribbon!

The CAMP FRIENDZY challenge was:

 to use the colors of the rainbow as your inspiration and use at least 5 of those colors. And yes, to make it easy, the colors can be any shade you want. Just make sure you have at least 5 of the 7 main colors found in the rainbow on your LOs or cards

...and finally, I'm linking up to JENNIFER'S SCRAPBOOKING SOIREE!

Have a great week my friends!

Thanks for dropping by!

Take care of you

Alison xx

BACK AT CAMP!

You may remember that I mentioned in THIS POST that I was attending (a virtual) Summer Camp over at SCRAP FRIENDZY.....then proceeded to go AWOL, due to my visitors. This week I got back to camp, and got these two layouts done.


For the first one I used was SHIMELLE'S  most recent STARTING POINT

The Camp Friendzy challenge was for the 'Nature' Badge:

To meet this challenge, complete a LO with SOME KIND of NATURE! It can be flowers, leaves, butterflies, birds, etc.

There are flowers and a butterfly on the LO

This beautiful metallic embellishment was handmade...and sent to me by the very talented MITRA

....I have been waiting for just the right LO to use it on!

For the second LO, I used this sketch from PAGE DRAFTS (which I rotated to fit my picture).....

and the 'GONE FISHING' challenge from Camp Friendzy:

For this challenge you will have to have 3 elements on your LO. First there needs to be some twine or string to use to fish with, second something needs to be tied (it's up to you if you want to actually tie a worm on or not ), third you need to have some blue on there for the water.

There is twine inside the scalloped circles, a tied bow on the button and lots of blue!

I am also linking up to THE SCRAPBOOKING SOIREE over at Jennifer's blog.

Hope you're having a good weekend...come rain or shine!

Thanks for dropping by!

Take care of you

Alison xx

SOMEONE'S HAD A HAIRCUT!

.....and it's not me!

Believe me, it was long overdue! DH keeps assuring me that animals don't feel the heat...but how the heck does HE know....she looked pretty hot to me! In saying that, poor Boo doesn't seem any more comfortable now...she has taken to spending most days under my bed, on the tiled floor! She appears out in the early evening and finds some shade in the garden (and drinks the water from the pool!), patiently waiting for someone to take her for a walk when the heat has dissipated somewhat...it's a dog's life indeed!

I couldn't resist the pull of my NEW PAPERS any longer, and made this 'Boo' page

I don't know if it's the very bright natural light here at the moment, but my LO pics just don't seem to  be as sharp as usual :(

It fits the criteria for the second Bonus Challenge over at CAMP FRIENDZY, which was to use multiple smaller sized pics.

Hope you're all having a good week!

Thanks for dropping by!

Take care of you

Alison xx

TRIPLE WHAMMY!

Today I resisted playing with my yummy new papers...though I have had a few occasions just to go look lovingly at them.....as I wanted to get my page done for SUSANNE'S IN GOOD COMPANY challenge. Each month she has been challenging us to create a layout, using papers and/or embellishments primarily from one company (she chooses a different Company every month). 

This month, the chosen Company is OCTOBER AFTERNOON...if you have any in your stash why not come and join us?

Being that it's too  hot here for my brain to do any serious work, I decided to take the easy route and use SHIMELLE'S most recent STARTING POINT

So I had a rake through my stash and found some October Afternoon 'CAMPFIRE' papers and some '5&DIME'...and here's the result. There's a mix of other stuff from  my stash in there too...funny how it doesn't seem to matter how much I dip into my stash, it never seems to decrease very much (if at all!)

The layout also works for one of the Bonus Challenges over at CAMP FRIENDZY

I only have a few more pages left to do for my niece's album, and then I'll get back to scrapping some of my own pics!

Hope you've all seen even a LITTLE bit of sunshine this weekend!

Thanks for dropping by!

Take care of you

Alison xx

OFF TO SUMMER CAMP.......

......NOT literally I hasten to add, but the brilliant DT over at SCRAP FRIENDZY have put together a summer of challenges, inspiration and prizes. Why not come and join us..I can assure you of a warm welcome and lots of fun!

We have had a few Pre-Crop challenges, and this is the layout I made for the third of these

The challenge was based on making S'MORES, which appear to be a great camping tradition in the USA.

SOURCE

To make S'mores make sure to pack:
Graham Crackers (texture).........vellum and twine
Chocolate (2 shades of brown).....dark and light brown on papers
Marsh-mellows (something white, and something round) * can be 2 different items......white flower and brads (round)
and last but not least something to roast them on! (something to stick your marsh-mellows on and roast)......stickpin

Hope you're all having a good weekend, and that your weather hasn't curtailled your activities TOO much!

Thanks for dropping by!

Take care of you

Alison xx

Edited to add that I'm adding this to JENNIFER'S SCRAPBOOKING SOIREE......why not pop over to see what it's all about?