My Kit Picks...

I mentioned the other day that I was working with the new BYOC stuff from the Lilypad. And today all the kits are finally available in the shop. There must be... over 50+ new kits I think. I'm not kidding. A huge colour co-ordinated bunch of kits to choose from. :)

As usual (and it feels like this is getting harder and harder each time!) I will try and pick my top 3 and tell you why. So here we go...

Mega ribbon kit :) I'm so happy. I love ribbons. If a layout is "missing" something, adding some ribbon normally solves that problem.

This fun alphabet by CD Muckosky just makes me smile. Not to mention that I love tall & narrow letters. I find a lot of alphabets are quite "fat" and it's hard to make your titles fit - so this one I like a lot!

And finally a paper pick! I love, love, love kraft cardstock. Both as "real" paper and while digi scrapping. You can never go wrong with kraft so this had to be one of my picks.

If you have some time tomorrow, please come back to see what I have created using these...

Home For Christmas...

No I'm not making Christmas plans quite yet (even though I totally love Christmas and would be very happy to do just that) LOL! It's the title of the layout below and that's why I picked it as my blog title for today :)

This morning I have been really busy grabbing some of the new Lilypad BYOC stuff that goes on sale on Friday this week. Lots of great kits to pick from. So I have kept myself busy downloading, unzipping, tagging and scrapping. I can show you, but not until Friday at the earliest...

And talking about Lilypad, I'd better get back and get some more scrapping done with the BYOC stuff. Have a great day everyone :)

A Bakers Dozen...

I mentioned this a little bit on Saturday already. A Bakers Dozen is a new BPS class that I'm taking that started last week. Rather than doing my usual (grabbing the stash and jumping in ONCE we get down to scrapping and I know what we're doing) I've decided to embrace this class fully and follow every mysterious stash gathering prompt that we get. And it starts out rather unusual... with an empty egg carton...

(Please excuse my poor photos, the weather is terribly rainy and dark here so they are pretty rubbish flash photos).

Each day for the last 5 days we have gotten an e-mail to fill up certain parts of the egg carton with certain items. So and so many brads here, so and so many buttons that co-ordinate with a piece of ribbon there etc. The whole point is to use your stash and not buy anything new. And I'm loving it!

If you don't have a certain something, the substitute with something similar. Like one day one of the things to go into a certain compartment was a green crayon. Now I'm not actually sure I have ANY crayons... so I added a green pencil instead. Will hopefully work :)

Apart from the egg carton we're also gathering stuff into 13 big envelopes. Or I'm gathering mine into 13 12x12 zip lock bags as I did not have a full 13 BIG envelopes to hand. And what are we gathering? Photos and some patterned paper.

I have no idea where this will end. I'm guessing a random numbered egg compartment gets combined with a random numbered envelope (zip lock bag!) for a layout... but who knows. I'm quite enjoying following this to the letter without knowing exactly what or why I'm doing certain things... :)

Water Fun...

Well the weather could have been a bit nicer this bank holiday weekend, but hey... Let's scrap something summery instead to keep a positive feeling going...

[Supplies used: Island Paradise - Kate Hadfield , Splash-Tastic! - Kate Hadfield, Apron Strings - Gina Miller, Blocked Brushes 2 - Gina Miller, Soho Afternoon - Gina Miller, Simple Singles Template Painted 3 - Gina Miller (all from the Lilypad)]

Oh and something fun! A few weeks ago I signed up for a new BPS class. It's called "A Bakers Dozen" and started this Thursday. So far we're just gathering supplies without actually knowing what we're going to do with them - and you know what, it's rather fun!

Normally it's the type of thing that I wouldn't bother with, I'd just grab some stash when we'd actually get down to the scrapping. But this time I have decided to follow the prompts and do exactly like instructed. It's a bit "difficult" for me as I'm a person who wants to know all the facts... so to do something without knowing why or what for is a little challenge. But a fun one :) We'll see where this end up... :)

Lake District...

Every month at the Lilypad we have a great guest designer and for May that was definitely true once again. The talented Creashens is the guest designer of this month.

I especially love her Torn Bits photo frames and when she released another pack this week (available from today) I really couldn't resist scrapping with them.

[Supplies used: Machine Stitches - Anne deJong, The Stationery Story - Amy Wolff, Torn Bits 3 - Creashens, Blocked Brushes 2 - Gina Miller, Soho Afternoon - Gina Miller, Paint Rubs - Lauren Reid (all from The Lilypad)]

I made the layout on Wednesday but since the Torn Bits 3 pack was not released until today, this is the first day I can post it on-line. I picked a few photos from last weekend's Lake District trip for my layout and enjoyed making this a lot :)

Wishing you all a great weekend - and a great bank holiday weekend (yay - extra long!!) for those in the UK :)

Excitement...

My iPad is here!!! Aaaaah - soooo excited! And even a day before the official release too - however that is possible?! LOL! I'm off to register, sync and have fun... :)

Summer Lovin'...

Well I guess that was it for the "summer" weather this time. We went from 25-26 degrees & sun at the weekend to 10-11 today. Some rain in the morning today but mainly dark boring clouds. I so wish it would have lasted a little longer. But let's hope it returns soon again instead :)

In the meantime I grabbed these cute summer kits (to try and keep those happy summery feelings going a little longer)...

They are by Lliella Designs (available at Sweet Shoppe Designs) and come in a boy and a girl version:

I ended up doing a layout this morning which I think is very different from my normal style. I didn't really plan for it to be (I NEVER know how something will turn out when I start to scrap and I NEVER have a plan at all LOL!) but it's definitely different for me. Kinda more like a picture/painting look than a "normal" scrapbooking page. It was definitely fun to do something so different.

[Supplies used: Beach Kids (Bundle 1) - Lliella Designs, Beach Girls - Lliella Designs, Beach Boys - Lliella Designs (all from SSD), Simple Singles Template Painted 3 - Gina Miller (from the Lilypad)]

Want to know something I'm really excited about? I got an e-mail at the weekend that my iPad had been dispatched!! So excited!! And something else... it looks like it might (it's scheduled at least - so fingers crossed!!) be delivered already on Thursday even though Friday it's the official release day in the UK. We'll see what happens, either way, I'm super, super excited... :)

The Perfect Weekend...

We had the perfect weekend. Everything was just right, the company, the weather, the food, the places... ideal! :) I think I might have mentioned it about a month ago... My parents were due to fly over from Sweden and we were to spend a weekend in the Lake District with them...

...only the Icelandic Volcano decided to erupt and cause all planes to be grounded. So Mum & Dad had to completely cancel their trip and re-book everything. I was so disappointed back then. In hindsight it might have been a blessing in disguise...


...because the re-booked for this weekend just gone and we got the most amazing summer weather. 25-26 degrees and sun. The best weather this year by far!


We spent an amazing 2 1/2 days in the Lake District and I took hundreds of photos. I've literally just downloaded them all onto the computer and just quickly picked a few for this blog post.


Having only briefly spent a few hours in Kendal before, going to the Lake District and actually having time to explore it by car was great :) Definitely a place we'd love to visit again :)

Yay For Warmer Weather...

Finally it's becoming a bit warmer. About time :) Let's hope it lasts...

Anyway this is just a quick post for today as I want to take advantage of the warmer weather while it's here.

This layout was done for Shimelle's cybercrop. For this challenge we were supplied with a sketch to use and I really loved it as it was very "me". I have done very similar layouts in the past already as I really love this look. The photo is of my sister and her family, taken by Dad. :)

Seafood...

Kate Hadfield released a great underwater themed kit today with the most amazing fish doodles (you can get it here if you're interested)...

I knew I wanted to scrap with it straight away. But what photos to use? I've never been whale spotting or (fortunately!!) never met a shark. So that was out. The next obvious one was to work with some aquarium photos. Which I have. But they are old and not so great so that quickly became my backup plan. But what else could I scrap about while using these doodles? Then I spotted the doodled crab and a thought appeared...

Yep I decided to scrap my love of seafood! Yum! I had some great crab and crayfish photos which went perfectly with Kate's doodles. :)