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Sarah is home and needed to make something for a friend who has just had a baby. She needed company so who was I to say no?
I produced three layouts and here are two of them:
This first one, (lifted and blogged with permission from Alex), is of a temple in Nara. It houses a huge Buddha which  will  appear on a future layout.

The second one is of a typical little street in Kyoto. it amazed me that anyone could liven the small and narrow houses, let alone a whole family.

round 2.....

Whilst at the retreat I also did these.

This is a view of Tokyo by day. I used lots of washi tape and ink for this one:

and this is a view of Tokyo by night:

 Whilst there, we came across an Apple shop where they, like they do here, gave one to one lessons on how to use mac computers. I used Kaisercraft papers and inspiration for this one:

This last one is of a road of huge electrical shops:

Somewhere there are some layouts of the boys that I did. I have already put them in the album so will get them out for round three.

If you click on the photo, the colours are better for some reason.????

Hi there..Its been a while...

Happy Festivities to anyone out there who still pops on here from time to time.
 At a retreat recently some of us ladies dusted off our scrapbooking stash and set to. Here is round one....still in Japan. I will finish recording it eventually but it was such a fantastic array of experiences that I don't want the memories to stop so, from time to time, I scrap another few pictures and my mind goes back to earlier this year when we were there for real. It seems much longer ago than this year though. 
So here are first few creations:
Difficult to see properly but the photo is of Old Kyoto. Meandering round the back streets where little canals ran and tiny wooden houses, often the living quarters for the Geishas, could be seen. Windows were lit up and in one or two places we could just make out  a geisha serving tea to her clients.
The girls in tradition kimono seen around Kyoto are not usually Geishas as they are rarely seen in daylight and at night quickly scurry to their client. 

This next one is of modern Kyoto and one of the big department stores just over the bridge that divides the old and the new. Again the lighting doesn't do this justice as the gold is so shiny both on the photo and the papers as well as the stamping.

I've scrapped the Fushimi temple before but a different view. This is the start to the temple and its thousands of gates. just another amazing experience.

In the art gallery that overlooks the Mount fuji we came across this painting. Anyone who knows me, knows I love the beauty and elegance of ladies faces and this painting was stunning:

Lastly a photo of a scene taken by hubby in which the colours and the reflections of the buildings are simply astounding. Love it.

It is, of course, straight. I just didn't take a straight photo of the layout.

See you next time. Thanks for looking.

crop day

Had a lovely crop day yesterday and produced a layout inspired by one of my wannabes of the moment Terhi: Very different for me and totally enjoyed doing it.

Can see more of these happening-it would be  a shame to waste the thread!!

Another two...

..from last weekend's crop. Both inspired by Lesley G. Love this range of papers and embellishments but wasn't sure what I'd do with them and needed some inspiration. 
I'm still on Steven's degree weekend but need to go back and finish my Japan album. the forthcoming retreat should provide that opportunity.

I love how the flash of colour in the first one matches their lips.

yay, another post

proving I am alive and kicking. Two of the layouts I produced at the weekend at Haslington. Both inspired by others. My mojo isn't that good ATM.

This first one was inspired by Ali P

Both taken during Steven's degree ceremony weekend.

its been a while

Before I forget how to use blogger and PSE, I thought I'd better post something before people think I've disappeared. Last weekend was our monthly get together and for a change we did something arty rather than scrap. Having watched Leandra at work we had a go at producing similar backgrounds using Paperartsy paints and stamps. Nowhere near as good of course but heh, it was our first time.
This was my first attempt:

Now for the second go:

Hmmmm not at all sure I like those colours. So not me.

Try again:

Yeh, thats more my comfort zone.

So then we had a go at Emma Godfrey's technique. She was demoing next to Leandra and I didn't get to watch her but whilst I was watching Leandra my partner in craft was watching Emma.

Love the colours but not so sure about the size of the flowers.

As a wise woman once said "it's only a piece of card. it doesn't matter if it goes wrong".