Three layouts and a card...

Morning Everyone...

A couple more layouts that I have done recently, these were inspired by some of the UK Scrappers challenges in July. 

This layout followed the Simple Recipes challenge, I used the colour scheme and gold accents.

The photos are from our friends Andy and Gen's recent wedding down in Devon at a lovely hotel in Wembury...

 For this layout I used the House Challenge sketch...

The pic is our godson Freddie hitching a ride on Lee's shoulders when he was over for the Easter weekend...

I followed the July Week 4 challenge for this layout, we had to use the colour scheme, be inspired by Alice in Wonderland and use letters and numbers in the title.

I used some pics of our friend's kids having tea after being out for Christmas lunch last year...

And finally a card I made for my nephew Ralph's 1st Birthday. I had the little monkey stickers from an old card set so thought it was about time I put them to good use!

I had some bits left over so made a little sign to hang on his door...

Thanks for looking!

Kirei x

UKScrappers 2014 Summer Scrapbooking Challenge...

Morning Everyone!

My lovely crafty friend Niki is hosting the Summer Scrapbooking Challenge over at UK Scrappers. She has posted 10 different challenges that you have until the end of September to complete. There are loads of fab ideas and if like me you have limited time they are great for kick-starting a layout idea quickly!

Challenge #1 - follow a sketch...

And this is my layout...

Challenge #2 - Happy Days of Summer...
We had to use a summery colour scheme or summer related photos, so I used bright colours to scrap this summer photo of me and Lee cooling our feet at Wembury beach...

Thanks for looking!
Kirei x

A couple of layouts...

Hi Everyone!

While I was at the GoGo Aquarelle Adventures weekend I did manage to get a couple of layouts of my own finished. 

I love this photo of Lee's godson Oscar tucking into a burger!  

These weren't such good photos of Lucy and Ellie however I really like how it captured them so I was determined to scrap them...

Thanks for looking!

Kirei x

GoGo Getaway - Aquarelle Adventures...

Hi Everyone!

I went on a mini retreat with my lovely crafty friend Niki to Wanborough (near Swindon) with GoGo Getaway last month. It was called Aquarelle Adventures and as the name suggests was based around watercolours and painting! Not my normal style but I do like to try new techniques and GoGo are great for this. We did 3 x layouts, a mini album and box and for all of them used the lovely Prima 'Free Spirit' range of papers and embellishments.

This was our first class with Sam Ball, a double layout featuring one large photos and a couple of small ones. We had fun adding paint using a dry brush, an old credit card and paint tube lids...brought out the messy child in you!

We added some subtle stamping using a Prima floral stamp and light gray ink..

Our next class was with the lovely Sheena Rowland and we made a fabby mini album with lots of lift up flaps and hidden journaling...

And the box that we decorated to hold the mini album (it started off life as the watercolour paint set that we received!)...

Next on the agenda was another Sam Ball class featuring another double layout. We had to mix the colours for the background as we went so that it created a graduated wash of complementary colours. 

We had to splatter paint as well, and add embossing powder to artist medium to create the glossy bumps. 

Sheena was back with a single layout class, we used a Heidi Swapp stencil to cut out sunrays from a piece of white card. This then went over the painted background to create a lovely colourful sunburst.

 
We added rock salt once we had painted to add a different texture to some of the painted rays.

And we couldn't finish off without making a card...

We added some stamped flowers...

And some watercoloured panels...

Another fab weekend from Janice and Lorraine at GoGo! Looking forward to the next retreat for more fab classes :-) 

Thanks for looking!

Kirei x