Feb Week 2 layout for Being Scrappy...

Hi Everyone!

In this week's Being Scrappy Kit I had the lovely 'The Sweetest Thing' papers from My Mind's Eye to play with (along with a coordinating die cut and washi tape!). I decided to use some photos from my Hen weekend in 2010 for this layout...

I used the pink Bazzill as my base but did trim it to 10.5" x 12" and then punched along one of the 12" edges. Then cut a 2" x 12" strip of the script side of the 'About Me' paper (making sure that the script is running across as this is then attached to the border punched edge of the pink Bazzill. You will need to make sure that the entire layout measures 12" x 12" once the two pieces are stuck together.

Next cut a 2" x 12" strip of the 'The Best' paper and attach this down the left side so that the pink border is showing.

Cut a 9" x 10" piece of the beige Bazzill and stick this down to the layout.

I used the washi tape to make a frame round the edge of the beige Bazzill.

Stick down your photos (mine were both cropped to 5.5" x 4").

Attach the coordinating diecut and add your journalling.

Finish off with a title, mine was a mix of tiny alphas from my stash and a Thickers alpha from a previous Kit. I also used some of the little flowers pieces from the Thickers to embellish the layout.

This Kit is available for a limited time here... do pop on over to Niki's blog to see what she has done with the Kit this week!

Thanks for looking!
Kirei x

November Week 2 layout for Being Scrappy...

Hi Everyone!

This week's Kit contained the brightly coloured papers from the 'Doodle-Deux' range by Prima. Now just recently I have been digging into some older photos and found some fun ones from a trip to Walt Disney World that I went on with my sister in 1997! I love the way that the background is blurred and gives a real sense of movement, not sure that we were loving it that much!

Here is the finished layout...

I used the 'Alpha-Bytes' paper as my background as I thought the circles and swirls went perfectly with us spinning on the Mad Hatter's Tea Party ride! Then I cut a 9.5" square of the red Bazzill, inked the edges and stuck down to the 'Alpha-Bytes' paper.

I cropped two photos to 5.5" x 3.5", and one to 3" x 3.25". Cut two pieces of the green Bazzill to 3.25" x 3.5" and mount the smaller photo onto one of them. Cut 2 x strips of the 'All-Overs' paper to 0.75" x 9" and ink the edges. Then stick all of these pieces down onto the red Bazzill square. Add a button that has been threaded with twine.

Cut a couple of thin strips of the red Bazzill, and along with a few pieces of one of the manufacturers strips (from the bottom of the papers) stick these to the top right and bottom left of the layout. Don't forget to ink the edges. Add a couple of the pretty buttons that come with the Kit, tieing some twine through first... can't have naked buttons!

Finish off with a title... I use some black Thickers from my stash and the black Kaisercraft Mini Alphas that come with the Kit. Don't forget to add some journalling to your blank square of green Bazzill!

This Kit is available for a limited time here, have a look here to see what else Niki did with the Kit.

Thanks for looking!
Kirei

Another layout...

Hi Everyone!

Hope you have all had a lovely relaxing Bank Holiday weekend, we visited friends down near Bath and had a great day out at Longleat Safari Park. Freddie our godson enjoyed it and for an almost 2 year old did very well considering we were there for over 8 hrs! I will post some photos soon...

Anyway I have another layout to share that I forgot to blog of my sister and her husband on their wedding day, I love this photo as they look so happy! I realised it went perfectly with some of the leftover 'Miss Caroline' papers by My Minds Eye from one of the Being Scrappy Kits. 

Lots of layered embellishments, some were flower images fussy cut from the Being Scrappy Kit papers, and others were leftovers from previous ScrapaGoGo Kits...

The little lace flower was actually a ribbon strip that I cut into separate flowers...

Loved this American Crafts Thickers alpha 'Forest'...

Thanks for looking!
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

June Week 3 layout for Pages of Memories

Hi Everyone!

The Pages of Memories Kit for this week included some very pretty papers from the My Mind's Eye 'Miss Caroline' range which went perfectly with some wedding photos of my sister Tina and her husband Craig.

I used the pale yellow Bazzill as my base, I did gut it but only ended up using a few strips of it later for my journalling. I then cut an 11" x 11" piece from the orange spot 'Lovely' Mums paper and attached it to my base. From the 'Beautiful' paper I cut a 2" x 12" strip that I atached down on the left side of the layout. A piece of the yellow diamond 'Lovely' Wallpaper paper was cut into 7" x 9" and layered over the other papers. Finally I cut a 3" x 7" piece of the floral diamonds 'Lovely' Wallpaper paper and stuck that down to the right side of the layout, this forms the base for my journalling.

The photos I used were 6" x 4" but were cut down slightly to 4" x 5", one of them was mounted onto some of the orange Bazzill. These were both attached to the layout.

The pretty flowers that came with the Kit were used as a focal point between the two photos. I cut some strips of the pale yellow Bazzill for my journalling and stuck them down onto the floral diamond patterened paper. 

I attached some of the brads in a type of photo corner in the bottom right and upper
left of the layout. To finish off I used some alphas from my stash for the title!

This Kit is available for a short time from the Pages of Memories Online Store. To see more fab layouts with this Kit pop on over to the Being Scrappy blog.

Thanks for looking!
Kirei x

Mini Album class...

Hi Everyone!

Just wanted to post the latest class project that I did at my friend Niki's on Saturday... a Mini Album. Being as we have just come back from Australia I knew they were the photos that I was going to use in this album. We used a chipboard album and pretty bright papers from Kaisercraft so they suited the holiday pics perfectly!

Thanks for looking!
Kirei x

More layouts from Pages of Memories...

Hi Everyone!

Hope you are all enjoying the amazing weather at the moment, let's hope it is as good for the Jubilee weekend coming up!

Anyway here are my last 3 x layouts that I did for Pages of Memories...

This one is using the May Week 2 Kit 'Sweet Pea' and I had a lovely photo of a family get together in 2010 with Lee and I, both of our parents and his nan. We took his nan to Sopwell House in St. Albans for dinner as she couldn't make it out to Las Vegas for our wedding. Unfortunately she passed away last year so this holds some very special memories for us.

The next layout was using the May Week 3 Kit 'Rosy Love' and I had a beautiful photo of my sister on her wedding day that I knew I wanted to use. I loved her bright bouquet of gerberas and the colours matched perfectly with the papers...

My final layout was using the May Week 4 Kit 'Con Brio' and I had a cute photo of our friend's daughter Lucy to use...

You can buy all of these Page Kits from the Pages of Memories Online Store for a limited time!

Thanks for looking!

Kirei x

Back from a land downunder!

Hi Everyone!

Lee and I have just had an amazing 3 week holiday in Oz visiting my family and friends. My family emigrated there when I was 10 years old, but I came back to the UK 15 years ago. It has actually been 6 years since we were last there so it was so good to catch up with everyone! Thought I would share some of our holiday snaps with you... (be warned this is a photo heavy post!).

My Mum and Dad live in Gulgong which is a small country town in central NSW about 4.5hrs from Sydney.

We visited Hill End, an old mining town...

Wandered through Mudgee and Gulgong...

We flew up to Brisbane to visit our friends Donna and Aldo.

Day trip to the Sunshine Coast visiting Noosa...

Took the ferry to Moreton Island and spent the day on the beach, swimming and snorkelling...

Had a few days down on the south coast at Mollymook with my sister Tina and her husband Craig and my Mum and Dad...

Lunch at Bondi Beach...

A walk around The Gap and Watsons Bay...

A day in Sydney at The Rocks and lunch at Manly...

Spent the night with my friends Sharon and Trevor down in the Southern Highlands...

Lee went on the Illawarra Fly viewing walk, I am a scaredy cat with heights so skipped this!

Lunch at their local pub...

It was an amazing holiday and we are already thinking about when we next go, it certainly won't be 6 years between visits next time! Plenty of scrapping opportunities so keep an eye out for some layouts coming up...

Thanks for looking!
Kirei x