Jan Week 3 layout for Being Scrappy...

Hi Everyone!

I'm back with another layout from this week's fab Being Scrappy Kit. I had the 'Note to Self' papers from Echo Park to play with and I decided that they would be perfect for our trip to Disneyland Paris last June. I had a cute photo of Oscar and Eliza taking a ride on Lee and Simon's shoulders that was just right...

I used the light grey Bazzil as the base for my layout. Cut a 7.5" x 10" piece of the lined ' Red Dots' paper and stick down to the left side of the base. Now this is the point that you should mist your layout as it will be much easier than trying to do it when everything but the embellishments are stuck down! Which is what I did as I am sure you can guess, that's what you get for having a bright idea half way through your layout... I had to do some tweaks to the embellishments that I had planned as I made a bit of a mess by doing it at that late point!

Then cut a 1.5" x 12" strip of the dotty 'Red Dot' paper and stick down. Next cut a 4.25" x 12" strip of the 'Arrows' paper and stick down just slightly overlapping the 'Red Dot's paper.

I cut some narrow strips (approx. 0.5" x 7.5" and 0.5 x 4.5") of the dotty 'Red Dots' paper and blue ledger 'Arrows' paper and border punched all of them and attached to the top and bottom edges of the lined 'Red Dots' paper. Then add embellishments using the fab sticker sheet that comes with the Kit, I raised some of them on foam pads to add dimension. I did use a bit of Washi Tape from my stash as well!

Add some journaling below the photo and finish off with a title, I used a Thickers Alpha from my stash.

Have a look here to see what Niki made with the Kit... to purchase the Kit you will find it here for a limited time.

Thanks for looking!
Kirei x

August Week 5 layout for Being Scrappy...

Hi Everyone!

Back with another layout from Being Scrappy and this week we had the colourful 'Hello Summer' range by Echo Park to work with... so picking a photo was easy as I had plenty from our trip to Disneyland Paris that would go perfectly! I ended up using a cute one of Lee's godson Oscar waiting for the Parade...

I used the green Bazzill for my base, but first gutted the centre leaving a frame of approx. 1". I then cut a piece of the spotty 'Bubbles' paper 11.5" x 11.5", and also gutted this leaving a frame of approx. 2". Finally I cut a 9" square from the green 'You've Been Flagged' paper and then stuck each of these down.

Attach a 7" x 5" portrait photo on a slant to the left side of the green paper.

I then cut a 12" strip of the cute banners from the 'You've Been Flagged' paper and a 12" strip of the yellow chevron 'Bubbles' paper and layered these up over the bottom of the photo.

Mount one of the journalling cards cut from the 'Journalling Cards' paper onto one of the coloured papers/cardstock of your choice. I then added the flowers to each corner with brads from my stash and attached this with foam pads to the layout.

Add a flower and another brad to the top left corner of the photo.

I finished off by adding a title using alphas from my stash!

This Kit is available for a short time at Be Scrappy... To see what else you could do with the Kit pop on over and visit Niki's blog.

Thanks for lookiong!
Kirei x

Scrapbook class...

Hi Everyone,

I was at Niki's yesterday for one of her fab scrapbook classes, we made four layouts (one was a double) and this is how they turned out...

This is our friend Simon and his 'Mini-Me' son Oscar, we spend the day with them on the Jubilee weekend and this pic was taken in St. Albans town centre amongst all of the celebrations...

And this one is a cute pic of Oscar's little sister Eliza on the same weekend...

A couple of photos from my sister's wedding day...

And the last one is the double layout and I used some pics of the buildings in Main Street, Disneyland Paris which we visited in June...

Thanks for looking!
Kirei x

Disneyland Paris...

Hi Everyone!

Lee and I went to Disneyland Paris a couple of weekends ago with our friends Simon and Julia and their lovely kids Oscar and Eliza (Lee is Oscar's godfather). We went over on the Eurostar from St. Pancras and arrived in Disneyland Paris on Thu afternoon to glorious sunshine and 30 degrees! Headed into the Park at 3.30pm after checking in and didn't come back until the Park closed at 11pm as we had to see the fab new 20th Anniversary 'Disney Dreams' evening show! We stayed for 2 nights and we all had a great time enjoying the Park with the kids, here are some highlights...

Eating in Cafe Mickey and meeting the characters...

Oscar likes cars...

'Magic on Parade' in Disneyland Park...

Hitching a ride...

Watching the 'Moteurs Action' stunt show with Lightning McQueen...

The family with Mike from Monsters Inc...

Watching the 'Stars 'n' Cars' parade in Walt Disney Studios Park...

The End...

Thanks for looking!
Kirei x