Holiday Selfies so far

Few of my fave photos from our Fuertaventura holiday so far - just wish hubby was with us..next year for sure we will tie our A/L together!! Plenty suncream on my bald head that's for sure!

May gallery with ATDML

Lots of punched circles layered in this quick page I made for the ATDML gallery this month to scrap one of my fave photos of my daughter and her friends in Central Park, NYC in March.

I was intending to add some real stitching on this page but chickened out at the last minute!! I do think it is a nice easy one to scraplift which is sometimes very much looked for by the shoppers at ATDML so it's a pleasure to knock out a quick colourful page which then gets lots of positive feedback. This could so easily be made with left overs from a kit or collection pack too (even though the circle paper I used was one sheet!)

ATDML May 18 Virtual Crop Day

Morning all and it's another Virtual Crop day with A Trip Down Memory Lane and I am up first with a travel themed class with the lovely Simple Stories You are Here.  I have created three layouts from the kit, two shown here.

I hope you will join in with the virtual crop today, either using the kits which were available to buy or using your own papers - maybe you even have this collection in your stash ready to use!.

Download your free instructions HERE and grab those scissors for a little fussy cutting today! 

Have a great scrappy day

Off on my travels >>>> Cardiff here we come!

Off for the weekend to Cardiff with my pal Tracy to the Prosecco and Fizz festival staying with the lovely welsh delegates from the ATDML retreat. Weekend will consist of much fizz and laughter AND i have been promised more than one CASTLE! What is a girl not to love?

Another destination ticked off in the UK that I have never previously visited. Beware, plenty photos to follow next week!!

March Scrapates

Lots of clustering with our travel themed kit for this month's crop. Apologies I meant to share last weekend but was super busy playing with paper :)

These papers are by Crate Paper from their Here and There collection and I can see me doing plenty more pages with this range as I LOVE it and it is so versatile. Lucky for me the map paper (after having bought it for MArch crop kits) was also included in my March MTS kit so another chance to scrap with that background for sure!

Photos of 2014

2014 has been a year full of adventures, family and friends. Here are a few (well more than a few!) of my favourite photographs and memories on this, the last day, of 2014.

Mothers day in mum's garden taking silly selfies with Ellie - March2014

ScrapMates Mad Hatters Tea Party - March 2014

Scotland visit with friends & Matt Cardle Glasgow Gig - April 2014

Rob takes up and becomes addicted to running - June 2014

The arrival of Fred the Hamster - Jamie's pet! - June 2014

Robert receiving highest Cub Scout Award with his Dad & Grandad - July 2014

My gorgeous kids at our friends' wedding - July 2014

Frinton-on-Sea day out with mum and the boys - July 2014

Summer holidays day out to Kew Gardens - July 2014

Back to Glasgow for the Commonwealth Games and more time with friends - July 2014

Go Ape Adventures - Leeds Castle Aug 2014

Homegrown Music Festival and Cardle cuddles - Aug 2014

Books about town with Caroline - Aug 2014

Summer holiday to Kos - Sept 2014

I stood up to Cancer and got Pretty Muddy - Sept 2014

ATDML Autumn retreat - Oct/Nov 2014

Ellie turned 18 - Nov 2014

Christmas jumpers day - Dec 2014

Return of Timmy with his trainee Elf Ted - Dec 2014

Fun times preparing for the festive season - Dec 2014

The newest Freeman - Ronnie - Dec2014

Thank you to everyone who made me smile, laugh, and shared in the good and bad times of 2014. You know who you are xx

It didn't end of the brightest of notes but it was a year full of adventure, travelling, friendship and family time and I look forward to more good times in 2015.

ATDML Websters Pages travel class

As promised I am back sharing more layouts from my recent scrapbooking retreat - this time a couple of travel themed pages taught on Saturday with Websters Pages.

The kit included a 12x12 set of vellum Polaroid frames and tags which I used most of on the above page which was inspired by a design on saw on Pinterest and can no longer find to give credit back to. Anyway the page again was a quite straight forward one to pull together, starting with two rows of the vellum frames at the top and bottom of the page. These were filled with an assortment of photos and paper elements which together with a couple of tags, the journaling strips and the rather lovely vinyl thickers lead to another bright and fun page for my album.

More cutting out of the paper elements on the second page as you can see.

All of the papers and the vellum frames featured in the images above can be found in the ATDMK store HERE.. Hope you like the pages!