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I know I know!!! I have not been blogging for many months but that is about to change ;-)
If I do it correctly I am now claiming this blog from Blogger & should be able to access it (and you should be able to read it) in Bloglovin instead!

Fingers crossed xx

Oooops!!

Oh dear ...... I forgot about the give-away!
So very quickly I will reveal the winner (chosen randomly by my DS)

Jo C. at Sugarandscraps!!

Well done Jo :)))
I will be posting your stash when I recieve your postal details ok?

TTFN xx

My first give-away!

Okay. As promised last week. I would like to give away something to one of my lovely readers/followers :))

Some time ago I met my niece in Shrewsbury and we did some retail therapy (mostly window shopping!) and had lunch together. Of course one cannot go to Shrewsbury and not go in to the QVC shop. That would be too rude.

If I had more money I swear I would by loads & loads of crafty goodness from there as it is all so ridiculously cheap!! The box of goodies you see in the photos below is one of two I bought - in fact these were limited to 2 per customer and there weren't many left in the pile. Each box contains at least 8 sheets of double-sided card/paper and a set each of rub-ons, stickers & brads. The colour scheme is an unusual mix of dark reds, blues, greys & yellows. Very autumnal & very pretty :))



And as a little bonus there is a secret package too xx

If you would like to be included in the draw please let me know in the comments below and please pass the word around! Unfortunately I have to restrict the entrants to the UK & Northern Ireland because of the postage costs :( Sorry!

I will make the draw next Tuesday evening to give plenty of time for people to enter. Good luck and thankyou for reading my blog xx

2 x PPP layouts!

 



Hello! I have actually enjoyed the prompts from Shimelles Pretty Paper Party and I have even managed some layouts!! This one is inspired by prompt 4 to use spots & stripes together. Great fun and the ideal background for a fab photo of my niece & great niece :))

This one is from prompt 2 to use patterned background not cardstock! One of my fave photos of my boy :))

Its great to get some inspiration ........ I've even found time to prepare my JYC already!!

TTFN xx

Pretty Paper Party

 

This layout was made following the first prompt from Shimelles new class in which she suggested using strips of paper as a background. This school photo of me was taken c1969 when I was about 7 years old. I had long hair then & my mum would spend time making sure I looked presentable before I was allowed out of the door! I actually remember the pink & orange hair bobbles as I used to be able to snap them apart with my teeth & I can remember the texture & feel of them in my mouth lol ;-)

 

 

Do you have any peculiar memories you want to share?

Stash!!

Okay so I finally got round to updating my blog again!!
We have all enjoyed the last week off together for the half term break (Neil & I decided to book time off work too) and we have been busy visiting Neils daughter in south Wales, trips to the cinema, lunch at my parents and catching up with my niece & her whirlwind daughter!! All very lovely :)

But best of all I have rediscovered my mojo ... hoorah!! Thanks to the very lovely Shimelle and her wonderful inspirational Pretty Paper Party we have been given some great ideas as to how we can best use our stash and some very useful tips too.
Firstly she invited us to share photos of our stash so here we go with mine

scraps or partially used sheets of patterned paper are sorted(ish) by colour
and in magazine holders

                              

cardstock, patterned papers, alphas and embellishments in two
3 drawer units from Asda Home (just about 12 x12)

my desk which is actually a wardrobe door found in one of those wonderful
 'gloryhole' type places where you have to rummage & delve to find treasure!
I think I'm overdue a tidy-up ;-)

So now you know where I work and some idea of what stash I have in there!
I have some layouts and another project to share in future posts ....... and a giveaway to be announced soon! So see you back here soon xx

Pretty Paper Party

WOW!! Thats a big photo isn't it?
But then she does love her cupcakes (and I have no idea how to alter the size of the image!) so its going to stay that way :)
Yes I have signed up for another class from the ever so clever Shimelle .... hopefully I will manage to stick with this one especially as we will be using lots of pretty paper that we all seem to have tucked away somewhere. 
Shimelle promises  "A four week celebration of pasting pretty paper to other pretty papers in an aesthetically pleasing manner." Which sounds just up my street ...... maybe my mojo is listening & will show up at some point! I think I belong to the Scrap Sorter kind of scrapper - I hate waste.

                    

The Scrap Sorter:

An inevitable part of papercrafting is

the partial sheet. The off-cuts, the left-overs, the

scraps. Call them what you will, but it’s rare that there

are no extra pieces of paper on the desk once a project

is finished. Now what to do with all those small pieces?

Scrap Sorters are dedicated to keeping all these small

pieces in case they come in handy for another project.

The most advanced Scrap Sorters have intricate

systems of filing these off-cuts by colour, pattern, size

or manufacturer; other Scrap Sorters tend to place all

these papers in one place without worry of further

organisation. The merit of this philosophy is widely

acknowledged as a strong return on the paper

investment... but it can be overwhelming to find the

scrapheap never stops growing.

Now all I have to do is replace a couple of colour cartridges in my printer & get printing some photos to scrap ;-)