Booby crop

I had a lovely day at the Booby crop with my pal Michele on Saturday. We both managed to get a lot done which makes a change from paper shuffling. 
I managed 4 layouts and another is on it's way.
This one is for Niki's challenge:

I love the way my husband has managed to get the lamp central in front of Kings college Oxford on this one.

The same uni but from a different angle.

Last but not least dear Molly Malone in Dublin with her barrow. This is a lift of one of Natalie's layouts on Sarah's Cards blog.

One of the things I was most pleased about is that apart from one sheet of paper everything is from my own stash of paper which is gradually diminishing. It will take a while but I'm getting there.
Sorry about the poor quality of the photos-not sure what is going on with my camera. John Lewis say it's going to the camera heaven but I think that's a marketing ploy cos my camera is not that old. They maintain that one should change their camera every couple of years-hmmm not so sure!!
Thanks for looking.

University Challenge

I can remember very vividly having to sit and watch University challenge when I was little. It was one of the highlights of my parents' television viewing! I can still hear Bamber Gascoigne's voice as he announced each team. We visited Trinity College, Dublin this summer and as we approached all I  could hear was Bamber's voice announcing the name of Dublin's fine university.

This memory merited a layout so when the Merly challenge happened to be based on Television what else could I do?

Sunday crop

Not having done any scrapping for a while due to the mess I call a scrap room,  I was quite chuffed to finish layout number 2 from the crop at the weekend. It is based on Niki's sketch number 16. Another photo of my youngest playing the guitar.

Phew

Not sure about this new look blogger dashboard but heh let's see what happens. Finally I have done some scrapping. it feels like ages since I have had time to do anything for myself after what seems like an age of a full household of various offspring.
Anyway today was crop day so I produced 11/2 layouts and here is the finished one.Another of Niki's instructions from her weekly pages. Number 17 this time.

Off to finish the other one now.

At last....

I have had some play time. I decided to do two challenges. First of all number 12 of Niki's 52 layouts using MME Indie Chic and two photos from long ago featuring 2 generations of cousins with my grandparents taking centre stage in the bottom of the 2 photos.The second layout is something I've been wanting to try for a long time now and the My Creative Sketches challenge gave me the opportunity to do this. I've been inspired by Emilie Chamel whose workshops I'm lucky enough to be going to with my pal-soooo looking forward to being shown how to do this properly. The idea is a stamp only layout and I have used Kaisercraft stamps for the blocks from Merly Impressions. Although grungy and black I wanted to keep it fairly simple with no embellishments. Love this photo of Michael on his 21st.

9/52

So week 9 of Niki's sketches and here is a photo of my niece. I've not put any journalling on it yet as I need to ask her about the picture which is on her Facebook page. I've used MME papers (at last) which I've had for a while so chuffed to be using them.
So week 9 of Niki's sketches and here is a photo of my niece. I've not put any journalling on it yet as I need to ask her about the picture which is on her Facebook page. I've used MME papers (at last) which I've had them for a while so chuffed to be using them.

my creative sketches challenge

Not sure how I forgot to upload this or even that I had done it. I was looking for the photo that I had in mind to participate in this challenge when I came across the layout that I did for it a while back. Oh dear my memory is failing me-it must be an age thing.

Anyhow here it is -another photo from the surprise 21st pizza lunch.