Another degree.

Last week we celebrated Michael's graduation. Here are a few of the photos I took. There are many more that his father took and I'm sure they will be the subject of forthcoming layouts. Meanwhile it has taken me a year to use the frame paper I bought for a class during ATDML's cyber crop 2014. Better late than never.

more old stash

 Again, I saw these papers  and just had to have them. No project in mind but knew I would find something. So, in my quest to use everything up before buying anything else-impossible-I found a picture of me with lips that matched the colour of the tulips and with some inspiration from I know not where now,  another layout was born.

Celebrate

Celebrate what?-I hear you ask. Celebrate using old stash and old photos with old layout sketches or inspiration. Feels soooooooo good. So, first up are the last photos from Steven's graduation last year-just in time because Michael's are not far behind.
One for me and one for him-gotta use them all up.

At the time of getting these papers I absolutely loved them-still do but they are not very boyish. As most of my photos are male orientated they will have to do though as it could well be another year before I get some mojo.

ma boyz

I was looking for a photo of both my boys to go with this project. Never sure which comes first- the chicken or the egg aka the photo or the project. I realised that it's been a while because the only recent one I could find was taken last summer. I guess the camera goes away when the sun is hiding-that would be most of the year then in this wet country. Being the impatient person I am, I didn't want to leave the project without a photograph so had to use this one taken in Leamington. 

The papers and stickers are a Kaisercraft range to which I added a couple of Tim Holtz embellishments.

happy happy happy

It doesn't take a lot really. Using old stash and scrapping photographs of stunning paintings.  Simples. Did these two over the last couple of days. Pottered about and left them on the table. Kept coming and going, adding and subtracting. Finished.

This first one I lifted and blogged with permission from a finish scrapbooker, Veera,  whose style is clean and simple. She uses lots of white space yet lots of clusters too. Her colours are mainly pastel and summery and quite frankly deliciously ice-creamy. Go visit her.

This next one is straight irl-it just looks wonky!! the sequins idea also comes from Veera.

Remember......

Alexis? The guy from Carabelle? The one who I'm slightly in awe of? Well, here we are at Version Scrap at the end of one of the workshops. Don't know how the person who took this photo managed to get such a horrendous picture of me but it'll have to do 'cos although, she took two, the other one was worse. I decided it had to be scrapped in his fashion so did this at our crop along with the other girls. Looking forward to seeing their versions.

Credit to carabelle dt.

A good idea

Well, it seemed it at the time. Michele and I bought a Kaisercraft box each with the idea of keeping our PL cards in it once decorated. Of course we didn't take into account that once the lid was on the PL cards wouldn't fit in comfortably. Anyone, I made and decorated mine with the new intention of giving it, as a present, to a friend who makes her own jewellery. I think it will serve her better as a 'bits 'n bobs box' than it will me. 
This is the top which slides on and off:

to reveal the inside:

Hope she likes it.