December Week 3 layout for Being Scrappy...

Morning Everyone!

This week from the December 'Being Scrappy' Kit I used the 'Chalk Studio' papers from My Mind's Eye which feature some of the chalk style papers that are very popular right now. I decided to scrap some photos I had from a visit to Shaw's Corner with mum and dad last year, that featured some stunning purple alliums.

I used the 'Pictured' paper as the base for my layout and trimmed it to 11.75" x 11.75". Then I carefully cut out the centres from all of the whole frames (6) on the paper.

Use these centres to cut shapes from the green honeycomb 'Happy Day' paper and cover the frames centres around the edge of the paper.

Use some short strips of the gold glitter trim to line just under some of the frame edges.

Cut your photos so you can stick them behind each of the 6 x frames.

Attach the entire layout to the piece of purple Bazzill.

Then I added short pieces of some of the patterned strips to the bottom right corner. From my stash I did add a few purple enamel dots around the layout.

I managed to fit some journaling into one of the small frames. To finish off add your title, I used some alphas from my own stash.

Pop on over to Niki's blog to see the two layouts that she has designed this week. This month's Kit can be purchased here for a limited time.

Thanks for looking!
Kirei xx

GoGo Getaway Oct 2013 Part 1...

Hi Everyone!

Last weekend I was at the October GoGo Getaway with some of my lovely scrapbooking friends. Niki, Jean and I all went along to the very handy location at Cheshunt (only 30mins away from us!). We met Donna and Rachel there and also caught up with Natalie who we hadn't seen for a while. Janice and Lorraine put together a great weekend, with 7 x classes (you can select from 3 x options for each class!), plenty of crop space and a visiting shop (we were very lucky to have Sarah's Cards there this time...lot's of opportunity to spend money on essential stash of course!).

Here are the classes I completed over the weekend...

The first class of the weekend was on Friday night and was 'Twiglet Time' with Lorraine Ablett...

'Chanson Pour Deux' on Saturday morning with Nicola Kerridge, a lovely little mini canvas decorated just like a scrapbook layout...

'Make An Entrance' taught by Rebekah Brumby was my second class on the Saturday. We created some acetate faux gates to go over a photo...

My next class on the Saturday was 'Just Divine' by Sam Ball... you need to be prepared for lots of fussy cutting in one of Sam's classes as you can see!

 The last class of the day was 'Nesting Instinct' which was another class with Sam. Not quite as much cutting out in this class though we did have to make a nest from raffia, sew some eggs from felt and twist some thin twigs into a nice shape to go round a photo!

On Sunday morning I did the 'Pop Up Peeps' class with Rebekah, we made our very own pop up on  a layout...

My final class of the weekend was 'Petal Press' with Sheena Rowland. We got to make faux handmade paper using loo roll but looks very effective!

All in all a fab weekend, I look forward to these each year and they never disappoint! When else can you sit up until 2am in the morning with friends scrapping and catching up.. perfect! More photos in a post later in the week...

Thanks for looking!
Kirei x

Mum and Dad's visit to the UK...

Hi Everyone!

For the last 9 weeks my mum and dad have been visiting from Australia and they just went home yesterday. We will definitely miss having them round, as I know Lee enjoyed spending time with dad in the old pubs around St. Albans and I had fun taking mum to a few scrapbook and card classes!

They packed in loads while they were here... Marrakech for mum's CWA group (Country Women's Association), visiting an old friend on the Algarve in Portugal, a weekend in Paris, Europe coach trip (Munich, Budapest, Vienna, Salzburg and Prague), a week on the Isle of Wight with Lee and I, trip around the UK, visiting relatives in York and Lincoln and quite a few day trips locally (London Eye, Houses of Westminster, Highclere Castle, Shaw's Corner, Garden's of the Rose). Here are just some of my favourite memories from their time here...

Arrival day...

Verulamium Park...

Scrapbook Class...

Shaw's Corner...

Isle of Wight - Osborne House...

Isle of Wight - Cowes...

Isle of Wight - Spyglass Inn at Ventnor...

Isle of Wight - Donkey Sanctuary...

Isle of Wight - The Needles... 

Isle of Wight - Yarmouth Pier...

Isle of Wight - Shanklin Chine...

Isle of Wight - Carisbrooke Castle...

Isle of Wight - local ice-cream...

Anniversary Games...

BBQ at Sue & Garry's...

Highclere Castle...

Garden's of the Rose...

Dinner on their last night in the UK...

At the airport...

Bye mum and dad, we had a fab time with you both, see you in 2015!

Thanks for looking!
Kirei x

August Week 3 layout for Being Scrappy...

 Hi Everyone!

This week's Kit from Being Scrappy featured some of the striking papers from the Prima 'Doodle-Deux' collection. I went through my photos and found this one of me with my mum and dad when they were here in the UK on holiday after Lee and I were married 2 years ago. The colours of all our coats went with the papers perfectly!

I used the grid/patterened side of the 'Lucky Charms' paper as my base but firstly cut the selvedge off this and the other patterned paper as we will use them later. Now I did gut a small piece from the centre of the 'Lucky Charms' paper however I suggest you do this once you have all of your other papers and photo arranged so you know exactly where you can cut it out!

Cut a 4" x 8"piece from the black swirled 'Doodle-Up' paper, making sure the black swirls are running down the long length. Then cut a piece 4.5" x 8.5" from the mustard pattern side of the same paper.

Mount your photo onto a piece of the red Bazzill, my pic was a 7" x 5" cut down to 6.5" x 4.5". Now layer this and the other patterned papers onto your layout base so you can work out how much you can gut from it. Once you have done that cut two pieces from it, 1" x 2.5" and 2" x 7.25". Now you can layer all of the cut patterned papers and the mounted photo and stick them down.

Then I cut a strip of the orange Bazzill 9.5" x 1.5" and used a border punch along one edge, attach this below your photo. Now you can use the two selvedge strips layered up over the orange Bazzill, I cut them both 10" long.

I then punched some flowers and layered them up at the bottom left corner and top right corner of my photo, I did have to add a button and twine from my stash to finish each of them off!

Finally add some journalling with the smaller Prima alphas that come with your Kit to below the photo, and the larger ones to the top for your title.

This Kit is available for a limited time here, do pop on over to Being Scrappy to see what else Niki did with these papers.

Thanks for looking!
Kirei x