Me on Monday

It's Monday so time to give a big wave to Sian over at From High in the Sky and give a little round up on all the weekend goings on.

We are still not up to full fitness yet at Parkhurst Towers so it was a fairly quiet one recovering from a late night out for a 21st Birthday on the Friday.  It was a weekend of finishing off a layout that had been started a week ago.  In fact loads of craftiness happened - Brushos that were ordered weeks ago were dug out from their safe hiding place and backgrounds were created ready for some cardmaking.  A pile of green card scraps were punched to within an inch of their life to produce a lovely pile of useful leaves for cardmaking and scrapbooking.

It was also a weekend of running round all the neighbours' houses trying to find out who had parked across our garage (again) so that we couldn't get the car out - four hours later and after a phonecall to the Police the owner finally showed up .  Yet again someone who didn't think they were causing any harm by parking there, who didn't think the large No Parking sign applied to them.  

So onto Monday, the weather started off really dire but has improved, at least it has stopped raining now and the sun has come out.  Monday has been about taking the parents to Lidl's for their shopping and then a run out to Firle to Middle Farm to stock up on a few essentials treats.  We had a lovely lunch there too, well it would have been rude not to have a little sit down in the restaurant.

If you want to join in with Me on Monday then pop on over to say hello to Sian

Happy Birthday to Moo

Belated Happy 21st Birthday to my nephew Harry, it was yesterday but I couldn't show his card till later until I had given it to him.

The theme this month at Penny Black Saturday Challenge is Trees or Nature.  I used this lovely farm animal stamp from Penny Black called 'From the Folks'

 The sentiment is also by Penny Black and the 21 is AC Thickers.  I cut the image out with a Stampin Up Thinlet die and coloured with Promarkers.

Jan and Mia

Another Facebook challenge for National Scrapbooking Day was to use your newest stash and three or more photos.  I haven't bought any patterned paper for ages as I am trying to use up my existing stash especially lots of half finished kits and collection packs.  But when a friend sent me a link to a new paper range from Kaisercraft (Shine Bright) knowing that my favourite colour combo at the moment is yellow and grey - well I just couldn't resist LOL!!

These photos were taken back in 2012 on a long weekend spent in The Netherlands when we took my parents over to visit our family friends The Jansens.  Mum and Dad hadn't seen Jan and Mia for over 30 years so it was a lovely reunion.  I was a little sad whilst scrapping these photos as both Jan and Mia have both passed away since then, but I was also glad that we persuaded my parents to take the trip.  We spent a lovely day with them and other members of the family.

The butterflies were diecut with Cheery Lynn dies and embellished with gemstones from Majorcrafts.

One Photo & Twenty Words

It's the 9th of the month so time to join in with Abi from Creating Paper Dreams for one photo & twenty words.

Three nights of Marillion, the most amazing friends, confetti

Loads of tears knowing it's two years till the next convention

Photo courtesy of Alan Jones

Marillion Eve

Another Facebook challenge on National Scrapbooking Day was a scraplift challenge on Amanda's blog.

This is my layout based on hers -

I used a mixture of papers from WRMK 'Maple Grove' and Jillibean Soup 'Apple Cheddar Soup'.  The title was cut using Tim Holtz Sizzlet alphabet 'Wanted'.  The border stickers are Crate Paper 'Farmhouse' and the butterflies are a mixture of Martha Stewart and EK Success punches.

The photographs are from last December and a meet up with friends the night before seeing Marillion in Leamington.  Big thank you to Sy who came up with the title for me and loaned me her Sizzlet flower card edge die.

Thanks Amanda for setting a great scraplift challenge!

The Little Chapel

For National Scrapbooking Day, the Facebook Group 'For the Love of Pretty Paper' had a cybercrop and set various challenges.

One of the challenges was this sketch set by Jennifer Grace

 I used Basic Grey Serenade 'Half Penny' for the main background and overstamped it with Stampin' Up 'Swallowtail'  in Certainly Celery. 

The patterned paper for the bunting is Pebbles 'Family Ties', the butterflies are an EKSuccess punch.  The heart (SU) is punched from Bazill cardstock and covered in Seafoam Stickles.  The title is done with AC foam thickers.  The photographs are from a lovely holiday on Guernsey, there is a beautiful chapel that is decorated in glass, shells and broken china.

Thanks for the great sketch Jennifer, I am sure I will use it again.

Me on Monday

Whoo hoo I'm back in the land of the living (well virtually, still cough cough coughing and struggling to talk) but at least I feel like crafting again and going out.

It's Monday so it is time to go and give Sian a wave at From High in the Sky.

The weekend saw me going out for the first time in over two weeks - a lovely evening spent with my parents on Saturday watching the third part of The Hobbit and then an all day crop on Sunday with lovely friends at Cardinal Colours.  Saturday was National Scrapbooking Day so I had plenty of layouts to do as there have been lots of online challenges to take part in.

Today has been a bank holiday here, so I have continued working on layouts that I started yesterday

And we've also done our civic duty and filled in our postal voting papers.

If you want to join in, then drop by Sian's blog and give her a wave.