Board Game Fun...

For a while now I have kept my eye out for any type of board game digital kit. Without too much luck. Or maybe I have simply been looking in the wrong places :)

Anyway, I was so pleased when Kate and Kaye released this collab kit at the Lilypad:

It was the perfect kit for me to pick and use as one of my Creative Team assignments. Also it's a very fun kit so I used that as inspiration for my layout title too :)

[Supplies used: Let's Play - Kate Hadfield, Kaye Winiecki , In A Line Templates Mini 1 - Amy Martin, Ice Cream Parlor - Gina Miller, Stamped - Kaye Winiecki, (all from the Lilypad) Grungy Edges 1 - Penny Springmann (from SSD)]

I'm still working on my hybrid cards here. I have done all the designing on the computer now, re-sized everything to the size I need it etc and I'm on the printing stage now. Then I have lots of cutting and assembling to do. Also I make all my card blanks from scratch so I'm going to bring out my very much loved Scor-Pal and do that too, hopefully this afternoon...

May?...

I hope you all had a great Bank Holiday weekend :) I know we did. But brrrr was it cold!!! We had a nice day out in the Peak District on Sunday but it was so cold that we hardly left the car (had planned some nice walking) and several times I considered stopping to buying a big jumper or jacket LOL! Not exactly May weather...! Let's hope it goes a bit warmer soon :) At least the sun is out at the moment though. The washing machine is on and I hope to hang the washing outside in a bit.

This layout is not from the weekend but rather from... 2008 (I mean, the photo was taken then). The layout was done for Shimelle's cybercrop the other week.

Right I'm off to download some digital kits and then I hope to get started on some hybrid cards this afternoon. It's ages since I have had the chance to sit down and make hybrid cards so I'm really looking forward to it :)

Yumminess...

Seeing as it's {inter}National Scrapbooking weekend and a lot of places have fun thigns going on, I wanted to share one of my favourite digital stores with you. Kay Miller has a great sale at the moment - so don't miss out on grabbing some of her super cute kits :)

Crab Time...

I found myself giggling to myself when I made this layout...

Why? Well it was made for a challenge at Shimelle's cyber crop and there I was having an early alarm set on a Saturday morning... I sat scrapping in my pyjamas at 8 in the morning and what was I scrapping? A crab of all things! It just seemed VERY funny at the time!

Like at least if I was up at that time scrapping on a Saturday then it somehow should be something important and urgent to scrap (that is, whether scrapping actually ever can be urgent? Unless you have a deadline of a gift or DT/CT work of course).

Maybe that was my way of staying awake. Giggling at the rather usual thing I chose to scrap at that time in the morning. All I know is that I think now I will always have a little giggle at this when I see this layout in my albums.

iNSD Fun...

It's time for iNSD and lots of fun will be happening at the Lilypad over the weekend. Please come and join us! :)

Hardwick Hall...

We went on a great day out on Saturday. Visited a few places/parks and had a cosy picnic lunch out. As I have some Creative Team work to get done this week, I thought I might as well use a few of the photos from this weekend. This has been done for the Lilypad:

[Supplies used: CU Scallop Templates - Amy Wolff , Tickled Pink - Cori Gammon, Simple Singles Template Painted 1 - Gina Miller, Being A Princess Isn't All It's Cracked Up To Be - Karah Fredricks, Stamped - Kaye Winiecki (all from The Lilypad)]

I literally just got the kits this morning and finished this layout before I started the blog post. I'm off now to get some other things done, deal with the frequent eye drops & treatments that needs to be done all the time (sigh!) and then have lunch. I hope to get some more CT work for Lilypad done this afternoon, but we'll see how far I get...

Have a great day everyone :)

Cupcakes...

This was the very first layout I did for Shimelle's cybercrop last weekend. The first challenge of the Friday evening. And the challenge was? To create something featuring cupcakes... the more the better (of course)! So I printed some cupcake photos and got out some cupcake stash and enjoyed it lots...

Want to know the funny thing? When I got up on Saturday morning I got a parcel with stash from the US containing... - you guessed it - .... some more cupcake items! I kinda wish I'd known that it would arrive then because I could have waited with my layout and used some of my new stuff. But I guess it wasn't meant to be :)

*Sigh*...

Ever had one of those days when everything just go wrong? I'm sure you have. We all have. And I'm having one of them today - sigh. Thing after thing. Problem after problem. I hope I can solve some of them, but we'll see... And can I just say that I hate it when people don't keep appointments and let you wait without even letting you know that they won't turn up - grrr!

In the meantime I'm putting my frustrations into tidying. Got some stash which desperately needed to be put away so I guess that's good at least :) And the dropped egg on the floor was at least pretty easy, and minor, to solve LOL!

Above is a layout which I did for Shimelle's crop last weekend. And with that comes a wish for nicer weather and barbecue time again :)

Let's hope tomorrow is a better day...

Clumber Park...

The same day that we had been to Lincoln, the weather was so great we also continued to Clumber Park (another new place for us to visit) for a nice long walk. It was the first time this year that I have comfortably walked around outside in a t-shirt and it hasn't felt too cold :) Unfortunately the weather has not been quite so nice since, even if it is a bit sunny today it's still much colder...

[Supplies used: Springtime Basics Paper Pack - Shimelle Laine (from 2Peas), Photoy Templates 2 - Amy Martin, Flower Bits - Jenna Desai (from the Lilypad), 2 Straws - Shawna Clingerman, Dani Mogstad, Traci Reed (from SSD)]

We took quite a few photos walking around the park (it was a BIG place!) and yesterday I decided to scrap just a few of them. I made this layout as part of my Creative Team work for Shimelle as I thought her spring papers fit just perfectly :)

A Great Weekend...

...last weekend, that is, and I'll come to that in a minute. This weekend? Won't be so great as all our plans have been cancelled :( Mum & Dad were due to fly over and we were to spend the weekend in the Lake District with them. It's been planned and booked for weeks and weeks, but last night had to be cancelled due to a certain volcano eruption. So I feel a little sad about that as I was really looking forward to seeing my parents. The only positive thing is that it's looking like it might be rescheduled for a few weeks later... but it's still being worked on, re-booked etc.

So let's talk last weekend. I took part in Shimelle's cyber crop. Seriously took part, really, as I completed every single thing and loved every minute of it :) It was great and brought back a little of that magic cyber crop feeling which I have not felt for years now. Yay!

And I found out yesterday that I was lucky enough to win a prize too, for this layout:

That's far from the best one (I was getting really tired from the scrapping marathon at this stage!) I made this weekend, in my opinion, but I think it might be totally irrelevant anyway as I have a feeling the prize giving was random between the entries. Anyway, I won a prize of a free pass to one of Shimelle's future classes and as I always enjoy them a lot, I'm really very happy for my prize :)