Favourite Layout...Slimbridge 2009

Hello Friends

I thought I would share another layout from BB (Before Blogging).  This is one of my favourites and I started it when I went to my first Scrapbooking Retreat in Mevagissy with Linda of Just Scrapbooking.  Linda had given us a suggested photo requirement list of 10 - 14 photos in a mixture of sizes from very small to A4, preferably of one theme.  Well in February (14th actually) we went to Slimbridge, somewhere I had not been for some years so decided to use these as my subject.  Here is the left hand page....

Lots of elements spread over two pages.  K&Company patterned paper onto Bazzill cardstock.  Included were velumn, grungeboard, lace, ribbon, fibres, stamping, pearls, cord, machine sewing, die cutting, charms and a host of other bits and pieces and techniques.

Here is the right side....

The little frog is sooo cute and is pewter.  The cotton flowers were made by my Mum.  I started the layout at Mevagissy but could not stay to finish it as it was a long drive home.  When I got home I was able to use elements that I did not have with me including my Silhouette machine.  

I just love all the fun I had in creating this double paged layout and it is still one of my favourite layouts I have ever undertaken.  I hope you like it too.  

Thanks for popping by.  Please sign the Visitors Book and let me know what you think of my layout.

TTFN

Hettie

Happy Birthday to my Darling Hubby!

Good Evening Peeps

I will warn you now this is a picture heavy post so if you wish to go and make a cuppa before you start reading, I will not be offended in the slightest!

Today xxx (put in your own figure here) years ago, my lovely Hubby was born.  And long before I met him he was involved in local Hospital Radio.  Unfortunately due to working committments he is no longer involved but whilst he was involved he, and ultimately I, have had some very funny and memorable moments. So with this in mind I set about making Hubby a birthday present. 

It all started when I first went to Cornwall on a Scrapbooking Retreat with Just Scrapbooking and I saw a layout which Linda had done using an LP.  Little bell started dingelinelinging (is that a word? It is now).  So one day I happened to be selling at a car boot sale and someone was selling LPs and coloured ones to boot.  So I offered him £1 for a red LP.  He refused.  I went away.  Later I passed the seller, he came down in price.  I offered him £1.  I went away.  Then he came to me at the end of the day and asked me if I still wanted it and I offered him the same £1.  He relented.  Then he asked me why I wanted a red one.  So I told him.  His face was a picture and he told me it was a mint LP, never played and was worth more than £1.  I politely told him that the LP was now mine, having paid him £1, and that I could now do whatever I chose to do with it!

So the LP sat in my craft room calling to me. 

I have recently started taking my photos out of photograph albums as some of them are starting to deteriorate and moving them into a storage system which I bought HERE.  However, all the photos connected with PYF Hospital Radio I stashed elsewhere.  Until about 10 days ago.  A little plan formulated in my head and hey presto, this is what has happened to those photographs and the LP....

If you want to skip to the end and leave me a comment so I know you have been to see me, please feel free to do so as I thought I might show you some close ups of my favourite bits. 

Thanks for bearing with me (that is a little more than I can say for Blogger!    I hope my little bit of craziness has inspired you to do something of your own.  Please let me know as I would love to see what you come up with.

Don't forget to leave me a message so I know you have been.

Hugs

Hettie

Ingredients:  Dies - Tim Holtz, Sizzix, Silhouette; Inks - Distress, Colourwash, Archival - all Ranger; Masks - Creative (loaned from Penny - thanks!); Punch - Stampin' Up; Cardstock - Bazzill; Patterned papers - Rouge de Garance, DCWV, Snippets; Stamps - Tim Holtz, Stampin' Up, All Night Media, Jo Capper Sandon; Stickers - no idea - they have been in my stash that long!; Sparkles - Do Crafts; Tissue tape - Ranger; Ribbons - East of India and assorted; Grungeboard - Ranger; Chipboard - recycled from paper pads at work!; Anything else you are interested in please ask!

Scrappy Tuesday - Our Little Star

Hello Peeps

I do hope you haven't all been washed away with this weather we are having at the moment.  I am not going to whinge about it as we are in desperate need for rain though I wish it didn't have to fall heavily at the exact time I left the office for home!  I actually had hail go down the back of my neck and right down my back was wet!  Yuk!

Right, on to tonight's post.  I am showing you a post which I actually did some time ago - 2009 in fact when I was on a retreat in Cornwall with Just Scrapbooking.  We were actually exploring the concept of Inchies and I just could not "get" it!  Poor Linda went away that evening a little upset as I did  not seem to be enjoying the workshop.  However, persisted I did and by the morning I had the makings of this layout.  It is actually one of my favourite layouts too.  I hope you like it....

The lovely dog you see there is "Hironomous" a Blenheim King Charles Spaniel.  He was sent to us to foster for "a couple of weeks".  The owner never came back to claim him and so we were lucky to have him for some 8 years before he died of a heart attack during the particularly hot summer of 2003 (yes we did have one once!).  We consider ourselves lucky to have had him and I would love another but we don't agree with puppy farming and prefer "second hand" dogs so the likliehood of us having another one are slim!  Our Little Star!!

If you ever get chance to go on a retreat with Linda, it is worthwhile going.  I have been again and enjoyed it each time.  Hopefully I will go again soon, but not this year.

Ho Hum!

Thanks for looking and please leave me a comment. 

Hugs

Hettie