January Favourites

My favourite photos from January….

birthdays and park fun

 

A Tangled Adventure

When I heard that Disney was releasing a new film called Tangled I knew I wanted to take Aidan to see it.

We rode the bus into town, since Aidan had left the house without a jumper on we bought a new jumper and shoes.

We also bought some glittery bouncing balls in the Disney shop. We went to Wilkinson's so he could pick out some sweets and a drink before going to watch the film. 

Afterwards we went to McDonald's for lunch before catching the bus home.

 

Here is my layout which is good since we only went this morning.

 

 

Shanna

Finally Friday….

Just one of those days where I’ve had enough and not got enough down. At least it’s friday.

 

Shanna.

Templates

I have a collection of templates I’ve collected from various places over the last few years but I rarely use them as I prefer to create my own layout from a sketch. However I do use templates from Yin Designs when I want to get lots of photographs on a layout. Here are some examples all have been previously posted from my trip to Edinburgh last year.

 

Shanna

Just because…

Shanna

Back to the prompts…

Today’s prompt is to share a humorous story

 

The story that still cracks me up is about my little brother. It must have been about ten fifteen years ago and we were on a train and he decided to declare that he was going to run away and live on Salisbury Railway Station in a cardboard box and only eat lamb.  The thing that gets me is that he was deadly serious about it. I’m laughing even know.

 

Now on another note did you see that kiss on Castle? How is it that everyone else knows it but neither Castle or Beckett will admit it?

 

Anyways (it always annoyed me how much they used that on NYPD Blue)

 

Shanna

New Alison Davies sketch…

 

So Alison Davies has another new sketch up at www.sketchsupport.com and this time it is a one page sketch. I’ve already made a layout so here it is….

Weeds and Wildflowers s&s 11

 

Shanna

Scraplift

 

Today I made some layout based on the magazines I found yesterday.

 

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Scraplift of Off We Go By Denine Zielinski CK May 2009
Information from Bristol Zoo Website

 

Weeds and Wildflowers S&S 4
Scraplift of Diamond In The Rough by Sheri Reguly CK May 09

 

This layout is based on a sketch by Becky Higgins

 

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Shanna

Lost and Found…

Now I have a habit of losing my TV remote so a year or so ago after not being able to change channels for three days I came up with the solution of tying a long piece of ribbon to my bed side table and taping it to the back of the remote so I could always find it. The tape has had to be replaced a few times since it pulls off but I’ve always known where it was. Until today. 

Two days ago the tape came off and I could find another roll so I thought since I’ve only lost my cordless computer mouse once I  thought I would chance it again.  Bad idea.  I just spent three hours looking for it for it only to find is sat in the middle of the bed where I’ve looked SIX times.

However while looking I did find some old issues of Creating Keepsakes. Now I used to buy my copy from Borders as it is the only place I find that stocked it in Swansea but since they closed I can’t find it anywhere and I’m not paying the internal subscription fee when they keep changing the number of issues you get.  I found some great layouts to scraplift and a really great article by Allison Davies (who I love).

 

Shanna

It’s Friday…

and it’s been a long week. I’m glad it’s over.

Nothing scrappy to report so I’m going to curl up and watch National Treasure.

 

Shanna.

Inspiration

Inspiration is a funny thing. I like to write Fan fiction so I get inspired by little things around me and by the characters themselves. My current works in progress revolve around Glee and Grey’s Anatomy, sometimes I spent all day playing conversation the characters would have with each other in my head.

Now when it comes to scrapbook I tend to pick a sketch I like, create it using my digi supplies and then picking photos that will go and then finish the layout off. This sort of follows the Club Scrap ASLB process. I used to be a member of their digital kit club which used to supply kits which were very similar to their paper kit so you could follow the ASLB instructions and create great looking layouts quickly. However when they switch to making the digi kits different I stop my membership.

But that being said I liked the idea of having the ASLB layouts ready but have rarely used them.  Here are a few old layouts using Club Scrap ASLB layouts.

 

 

This last one isn’t made with the ASLB layouts but is using Club Scrap supplies but’s one of my favourite as it shows my grandmother, great grandmother and great great grandmother and my aunt.

Shanna

Weight loss update….

For the past two weeks I have been using the Biggest Loser Wii game to keep and I’ve lost 4lbs…. yeah me!

I’ve also placed an order for the new Biggest Loser challenges game which you use a gym ball and stretchy bands with.

So this morning I went to Tesco to buy a Gym ball it was marked as being reduced to £8 from £12 but when I paid for it at the till it cost me £3.33. BARGIN!

Now I’ve just spent the last 45 minutes working out and I’m going to hit the shower and the finish watching White Collar.

 

Shanna xx

Sometimes the photos aren’t what the story is about…

When I was a kid my grandmother had a chicken shaped cookie jar that sat on the dresser in the kitchen (well she still has it) but inside was a collection of things she wanted to keep including some of the toys out of Christmas crackers. One of them was a little yellow frog, the only pictures I had of the frog were of my nephew playing with this frog but the story got told….

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allison davis sketch

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pagemaps sketch

 

Shanna

Older photos…

Is it just me or does anyone else have an issue with scrapbooking older family photos for fear of getting wrong? I mean I have no problem scrapbooking the thousands of pictures I have of my niece and nephew but scrapbooking pictures from my childhood or heritage photographs and I just can’t bring myself to do it.

I think it all boils down to a fear of getting it wrong.  I mean I only have a few pictures from back then as my mum couldn’t afford to have them developed, I lost a load of my secondary school pictures after a computer crash when I was  a teenager.

I know it’s irrational as I’m a digital scrapbooker I have all this photos stored digitally if I don’t like the page I’m making I can discard it and start over but I still can’t bring myself to do it.

 

Shanna

Note to self….

Just went to see Season of the Witch – Note to self do not go and watch films with killer wolfs, demons and monks at this time of night.

Where is a nice Disney film when I need it?

 

Shanna.

Challenge Yourself

Today’s prompt was to do a challenge – I decided to challenge myself to create a layout based on this weeks Allison Davis sketch (www.sketchsupport.com) which has a completly different theme to the one I created earlier in the week.

 

Here is my original layout.

 

and here is my new layout

 

Credits – Sydney Nuckles – Follow Your Bliss

A completely different feel. Challenge done.

Here is another layout I did yesterday…

 

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Shanna

Colin Jackson.

 

Todays prompt was to post a picture from years ago and write something inspired by that.

<----- That’s me on the right with the ponytail.

 

On a warm Friday, we all gathered around on the school playground waiting as a black limousine pulled up with Colin Jackson inside who had come to meet us as part of our prize. Our teacher Miss Templar was very big on saving the environment, so we got involved in collecting milk bottle tops for the Save the Children appeal. We were a small school but we managed to save over 180,600 milk bottle tops.  It helped that we lived in a small village where we managed to get the neighbours to save their milk bottle tops and that fact the father of one of the students was a milkman who asked everyone on the round to save their milk bottle tops for us. We ended up with the equivalent of 6000 milk bottle tops for every student, which meant we came top in the country in a campaign that raised over £106,000.
Our prize was meeting Colin Jackson and having a training session and picnic.  Great job!  Circa 1990.

Here is my layout of this day.

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Shanna xx

ACDSee.

I organise all my scrapbooking supplies with ACDSee. Since I had to buy a new computer last year I’ve had to create a new database so I only have the supplies I use categorised at the moment that seems to be all of my pdf sketches, all my supplies from Weeds and Wildflowers Design and all my kits from Scrapgirls.

 

The only supply I tag with a colour is paper which is broken down further to include certain types such as solids or patterns. Everything else has a category to make it easy to find. They are labelled with the designer and kit to make it easy to find. The only thing I have left to finish tagging of these supplies is the wordart. But since I rarely use it is isn’t a priority.

 

 

Shanna.

I hate the dentist…

 

So I’ve had a fillings in the past well more than a few I’m usually at the dentist for half an hour max, today 1 hour.  I don’t know why but she kept drilling and drilling.  Ouch! 

On a positive note here are some more layouts…

 

 

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Pagemaps January sketch

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Sketch Support Sketch January 2011

 

Shanna xx