October at Scrapology....B is for Borders!

For October the Scrapology design team chose a layout designed by Georgia K Keays.

Please see Georgia's blog ON MY MIND for more of her beautiful layouts. As you will see from Georgia's layouts, many of them feature narrow borders around the page, patterned papers and photos. And so it is this idea that we would like you to use in your scraplifts for this month.
Here is my layout for the DT this month.
I used some older papers from Cosmo Cricket Delovely Range, Black and white Bazill, AC Thickers, Cosmo cricket mini alpha stickers, hot pink acrylic paint, organza and bead blossoms and some resin flowers.

The photo is of me, taken at Drusillas ( our local small zoo park). They have recently opened a new area called Lory Landing, an enclosure that is amass with beautifully coloured ( and very VERY noisy!!) rainbow Lorikeets. You can buy a pot of nectar and walk amongst them, feeding them.

Here is Georgia's beautiful layout that totally inspired us in the first place.

And this is the sketch that the DT worked from.



If you would like to have a go at this challenge, pop over to the Scrapology Blog and find out what you need to do and to see what the rest of the design team made. We would LOVE to see you join in and send us an image of your layout.
Once again we have also been incredibly lucky and have been given a prize( on display on the scrapology blog), for one lucky person to win, from our lovely friend Jill of Cardinal Colours, thanks again for your generosity Jill.

Bring out the old!

I was blog hopping the other day and i hopped from Sarah's
and i found this fantastic blog that belongs to a hugely talented lady called Tracie
She has created the most gorgeous layout using some really old stash ( Scenic Route) after being challenged by a friend of hers to break out some old stash.
And she has thrown the challenge out to everyone else to do the same. Seeing how my mojo has been little and not very often at the mo it really inspired me to go and have a rummage through my old artbin.....and this layout is made from some of the papers i found.

The papers are from the old Cosmo Cricket collection called Jitterbug. Now I guess I must have liked them at the time that I bought them originally....but to be honest, when I first saw them yesterday again they didn't really * do it* for me LOL. Which made it even MORE of a challenge to use them. But ya know what? I really rather like them now they are chopped up a lot smaller and inked.

I used an old A4 thick manilla type envelope to punch out and die cut somebutterflies and added some crystal beads, some Sassafrass and AC thickers letters for the title...oh yes and a little wooden flower.

the photo is Chloe and her cousin, Holly...taken at the playpark end of last summer.

Thanks for challenge Tracie :)

Warmest wishes Anita..xxx

better late than never!

or so the saying goes! this month on Scrapology we were extremely lucky to have chance to lift a beautiful page from the majorly talented Wendy McKee.

this was the page that Wendy designed

and this is my page. There is still time for you to join in on this months challenge and once again there is a fab prize which has been very kindly donated by Jill at Cardinal Colours, thank you so much jill once again for you generosity..xxx

The* Early Bird* catches the worm....

One of my favourite paper collections to come out for a long time has been Early Bird by Cosmo Cricket, I love the vintagey/retro feel about it and its easy to work with.

Before I got to actually scrap with it I decided to have a play with an old wooden photo frame. I painted it with a Barn Red Acrylic and then coated it with PVA glue. When that was dry I then covered it with Cream acrylic and waited for all the crackles to appear ( obviously there are crackle mediums you can buy too, but I am a cheapskate lol).

I cut out various bits and bobs off of the sheets and added a photo, some AC Thickers and some cup hooks and ...Voila!....... a key holder that hangs in the hallway for us all to use.

After a blog hopping session one day I bounced from Jill's Blog http://acalendarofcolours.blogspot.com/ and came across the Dotty Divas blog http://dottydivas.blogspot.com/ where they have an Ad challenge going on. You had to take inspiration from this advert in any way you like. So here is what I created....and I have to say I LOVE IT!

Back in June we spent a weekend away up in York, which is beautiful and I very much want to return sometime. Anyway, on the way up we stumbled across this American style Diner,

it was fantastic and looked as though we had stepped back into the 50's( I half expected The Fonz to swagger through the door at any time)....the food, the music, the furniture and decor and even the waiters and waitresses uniform were spot on and it was a fab experience. Lauren had her first ever coke float and huge stack of pancakes with maple syrup, whilst rest of us had what we fancied and then we carried on our way to York. I wish they had these diner's down South, but sadly not ( although to be honest maybe thats a good thing!)