Time to share some more layouts

Well I just couldn't get my head into posting this week and I have no idea why.  Bit of a virus going around the family leaving us all washed out, especially after such a busy couple of months that we are now winding down from.  Anyway, I have a few things to share, in fact I've lost track of what I've posted on here and what I haven't!  I still haven't managed to get a photo of the layout I'm not sure about but since then I've started another one that I can't make work!  I think I have a problem with colour as I've used the sketch from the double page layout that I loved the other day and it just looks.. wrong.  I've done a couple of layouts where I think I've carefully chosen the papers etc and then its not right at the end.  Any advice on this would be really appreciated.

Anyway, here is the final project from Emma Trout at Scrap-a-Mia.  This was her Make and Take which is pretty awesome really.  I just need to get the right photo to go into the little box and it will go up in our hallway.

A close up of the music paper covered "house".

And the other side.

And then here is a layout from Paula's class that I was working on last week.  I struggled with the title and journalling on this one as I used a couple of photos that I just liked, not that told any particular story.  They were taken at Beaulieu like so many of our other photos and how many layouts can you have that are about that one place, or are called Cute! Beautiful etc.  So it reads "She's Just a Girl.... but she's my girl, and she has special powers to melt my heart and give me a physical ache when I think of her."

I don't normally stitch on my layouts at all, and this is the first time I've hand stitched.  Obviously I changed it a little bit from the original class sketch but I actually quite like it.  I've got loads of embroidery floss from my cross stitch days so it would be good to make more use of them.

Maybe I'll take a picture of my half finished layout and see if someone else can tell me why it looks so wrong. In the meantime, I have a couple of Father's Day cards to finish that should have been posted this morning, oops!

Bye for now xx

Now for something a little different...

Is it just me that goes from loving to not-liking my work?  I loved the layout I showed here and so I thought I was on a roll and went ahead with another sketch from Shimelle.  I played with it for ages, finally flipping it, but it still didn't look right.  I wanted to use the papers with the strong pink in it and I wanted to use a little of the blue from the sea but it just wouldn't work.  Then the scallops that I cut flipped over and the colour on the reverse was a lighter blue and it seemed to work better.  I then spent ages playing with the embellishments.  So all in all it took me far far longer than the double page one that I loved and yet I'm still not completely happy with it.  I need to photograph it when it stops raining. IF it stops raining...

In the meantime, I thought I would share a couple more of the projects from Scrap-a-Mia.  These two layouts were from the class by Emma Trout and involved a lot of intricate cutting and embellishment using the papers from Websters Pages.  I really enjoyed doing something different but I don't think its really my style at all.  It was good to see how you could build up a page by using different elements of the papers and it was also good to use different sizes too.

This is an 8x8 but some of the bits are refusing to stay put so it will be the first thing in my album with page protectors at that size (my other one is just a ring binder format).

And now Blogger is playing silly bloggers so I can't upload the other photos from the other projects so I will try again tomorrow.

Bye for now xx

  

What's on your workdesk Wednesday 102

Yikes, time is marching on so fast right now!  I had such a great time at Scrap-a-Mia but I have yet to try and even sort through all the half finished projects.  I'm still catching up on life and organising a 5th birthday party and planning our day trip to Wales for the rugby at the weekend.

So basically that big pile in the middle and off to the right is all stuff from the weekend.  On the corner and just in front of the black bag are the layouts from Emma Trout's class (almost finished) and most of the pile in the middle is the barely started 3D project from MJM.  I'll probably do that last as it is going to be a labour of love and I need to work up to it!

Right back to those party invitations....

Don't forget to check out all the other crafty desks at Julia's Stamping Ground.

Bye for now xx

Returning from Scrap-A-Mia

Oh my goodness I am so tired.  My head is full, my purse is empty and my hands are an inky mess but I had SUCH a ball!

We all signed this huge canvas that one of the teachers, Celine Navarro, misted for us. Creative Moments are going to keep the canvas as a reminder of the fantastic weekend.

The venue was here, the New Place in Wickham, which is in between Portsmouth and Southampton.  We were in conference facilities just behind this beautiful building but the grounds are lovely.

Two of the classes involved misting in a big way which was fantastic as it was something new for me.  There were so many colours and brands and masks to try that would be impossible at home but boy did I get in a mess!  I have a couple of mists but I've always been too scared to try them.  I used them once ages ago and I got in a mess but Dina Wakley was great and helped me to embrace the random effects and the mess.

 The strangest project of the weekend was a 3D construction with Michelle Mogford-Jackson which involved a LOT of cutting with a craft knife.  We got messy again here with Luminesce paints and Stazon inks.  It was an ambitious project and I hope I can finish it because it looked fab.

And I'm afraid that's it for today.  No finished projects to share, just a a couple of sneaks to tease you with.  Hopefully I will have a couple of completed things to share by the end of the week if I can manage to recover my brain.  I think it is in my craft bag somewhere....

Bye for now
xx