Grid format again with RUBIKS cube challenge

No secret I love a grid format layout and so it was easy to rise to the RUBIKS CUBE challenge last weekend with ATDML where I created a very graphic page which is probably one of my favourite layouts I have made this year.

Again using left overs with a FUN bramblefox perspective, stamping, infusion stains, enamel dots, acetate with an ever trusty hand drawn border.

I love this page so much I think I am going to use it as the basis of a layout for the forthcoming ATDML retreat in Autumn.

Jenga class for ATDML Cybercrop

Used the kissing technique with distress inks watered down on acetate to ink up my background a little before adding blocks of distressed papers from Kaisercraft in my JENGA class for the ATDML cybercrop. Just a few cork butterflies to tie in with the skin tones in the photo and this page was done.

A cleaner look for my second page in this class showing how one collection can create such different looks.

Even more challenge layouts

Still joining in with our ATDML cybercrop challenges and reverting to my favoured grid of four format in this summery page (using left over ephemera pieces) - this one for the SCRABBLE challenge.

And who doesn't love a sketch challenge - this one picked as it looked a little like a Hop Scotch board and was used for our HOP SCOTCH challenge.

Again using left overs from other projects (same papers I used for the DRAUGHTS challenge) I created this page of recent photos of the Bristol Wallace & Gromit trails.

Plenty more challenges to come - at least three if I remember correctly! Hope you join in!

More challenge pages from ATDML Cybercrop

Sharing a few more of my challenge pages from the weekend.

This was my DRAUGHTS challenge, a simple one to scrap a black and white photo and I used left over papers from a retreat class earlier this year, continuing my self imposed challenge to join in this weekend but use only left overs to make my stash stretch even further.

And here is my UNO challenge page - a challenge to use ONE cardstock, ONE pattern paper and ONE photo on your page. You may add anything else, but no more card, only use ONE pattern paper (can be double sided though) and just the ONE photo. I hope you find time either this weekend or before schools restart to join in some of our challenges.

Cybercrop Challenges with ATDML

Are you joining in with the ATDML cybercrop this weekend?

I may have been involved in setting the challenges but I do so enjoy rising to them as well during the course of the weekend.

This was my page in response to the TWISTER challenge which can be found HERE. Lots of left over bits and pieces including those flocked alphabet letters which I have had for many years, mixed up with more modern items such as the gorgeous Bramblefox "Love today" perspective.

Plenty more challenges and classes to come over the weekend.

Cybercrop Weekend with ATDML - Connect 4 class

Cybercrop weekend with ATDML and I have started with three layouts to create, all nice and simple for a gentle start to a weekend full of inspiration. My pages are inspired by the game Connect 4 and the instructions explain why.

ATDML have an album on Facebook for you to share the pages you make inspired by the classes and we'd love to see what you do.

Pop on to this LINK to download your free instructions. 

I loved the soft dreamy colours of these Kaisercraft papers, but the designs I created can easily be replicated in design with any papers 

Edinburgh Wedding Pics

One of my fave photos from this year taken of hubby and I at our good friends wedding. My hair was just a few weeks post charity headshave and yet I still felt super feminine and rather chuffed my dress pattern and hubbies tie coordinated so well!

Silly selfie the gorgeous bride, Ellie and I - we were sober honest, fab weekend away with beautiful people

ATDML Cybercrop coming next weekend

Watch this space...

So excited for next weekend which will be full of inspiration from ATDML - so proud to be part of this team!!

Book Club 33/52 - The Accident by Dawn Goodwin

A tragic accident, an unbearable loss and a marriage in crisis – but who can she trust or is she all alone? A gripping, debut psychological thriller that will keep you hooked is how this was described and they weren't kidding. I would absolutely LOVE to see this book made in to a movie! Very much recommended!

Veronica Pullman's comfortable suburban life comes to a shuddering halt when her young daughter, Grace, tragically dies in a car accident. Months later, unable to come to terms with her daughter's death, detached from her husband and alienated from her friends and family, a chance encounter on a rainy street pushes her into an unlikely new friendship.

Scarlet is everything Veronica could've been: feisty, adventurous, unpredictable. But as she approaches what would have been Grace's 10th birthday, it becomes clear to Veronica that the friendship she thought was saving her life could be costing her everything. Consumed by grief and left questioning her own sanity, is there anyone she can really trust or is someone out to torment her as part of their twisted game?

Book Club 32/52 - Sharp Objects

Fresh from a brief stay at a psych hospital, reporter Camille Preaker faces a troubling assignment: she must return to her tiny hometown to cover the murders of two preteen girls. For years, Camille has hardly spoken to her neurotic, hypochondriac mother or to the half-sister she barely knows: a beautiful thirteen-year-old with an eerie grip on the town. Now, installed in her old bedroom in her family's Victorian mansion, Camille finds herself identifying with the young victims—a bit too strongly. Dogged by her own demons, she must unravel the psychological puzzle of her own past if she wants to get the story—and survive this homecoming



This was a very twisted and sometimes disturbing read - not for the fainthearted! I actually was blown away by the ending and believe this is now a TV drama (that I will not be rushing to watch!)

Book Club 31/52 - The Party

This was meant to be a lighthearted holiday read but was actually a bit of a page turner and not really what I expected. Quite the unexpected turn of events and eventual outcome and worth a read.

When Rachel wakes up in a strange room, the morning after a neighbour’s party, she has no memory of what happened the night before. Why did her husband leave her alone at the party? Did they row? Why are Rachel’s arms so bruised? And why are her neighbours and friends so vague about what really happened?

Little by little, Rachel pieces together the devastating events that took place in a friend’s house, at a party where she should have been safe. Everyone remembers what happened that night differently, and everyone has something to hide. But someone knows the truth ...