Catching up

At the end of last month I joined several other members of UK Scrappers' Green Buttons House at the Beeches Hotel, Bournville, UK for a long weekend of scrapping and chatting.
It was my first experience of scrapping with a group of like minded crafters and I really enjoyed meeting everyone IRL, learning some new techniques and seeing how other people make magic happen using just paper, glue and other bits and bobs.
Michele gave us a short tutorial on how to incorporate modelling paste, gesso and inks into our LO's and this was one of the things I was keen to try for myself once I got back home to Normandy.
The first of the UKS's October challenges was all I needed to get my hands messy.
Use a Cliff Richard song as the title.
Use 5 of something.
Add a foreign element somewhere on the LO.
Further inspiration came from Sue's Sketch Challenge featured on her Me & Mine blog.

I haven't yet ordered some modelling paste so had to leave that technique for later but I did cover the clean white cardstock quite liberally with gesso, allowed it to try before trickling Adirondack alcohol inks, Sandal & Aqua, down the page.
I quickly spritzed with water then dried everything with my hand dryer before giving it all a light shimmer with Perfect Pearls Mist in perfect copper.

Using my finger I applied a light coating of Fired Brick Distress stickles over and around the hexagon shapes and then applied a German language stamp randomly across the page before completing the LO with a photo of me and my Dad on cross country skis which was taken in the garden of our house in Ellmau, Austria in 1992.
Five colour coordinated brads and a Cliff Richard song title "I Could Easily Fall" completed the page.

just can't stop scrapping those holiday photos!

Sometimes I just can't make the criteria for the weekly challenges on UKS fit my style of scrapping or tie them in with my Counterfeit Kit but then sometimes everything just falls into place.

This week's challenge from CoventryAnn is nice and easy with lots of options to play around with:

use holiday photos (tick); more than 3 photos (tick) use Kraft (tick).

I did have to grab the orange card stock from stash to use as the background and cannibalize some PL cards to add interest to the tags.

I made the tags and journalling strips from the Kraft card stock in my Retro Metro kit.

The Jenni Bowlin March Bingo card, enamel dots, paper clip, brads and patterned paper all came from this months forged kit, too.

hello!

The weekly challenge on UKS last week called for circles, a photograph of an animal and a song title to be included in the layout.

Using Picasa I created a simple collage of two photographs, taken on one of our Sunday walks last summer, of our GS Fleur "talking" to two of the horses that we often see when we go down that way.
Coming up with a suitable title wasn't much of a struggle, Lionel Ritchie's "Hello" came immediately to mind and I thought it was a perfect match.

Any CKCB'ers visiting might be able to spot a few things from my Indolence Blues kit on this page.

The running horse die cut from Dear Lizzy was a no brainer(!) ditto the Toga frame which I placed on the left hand photo to add depth to the layout. The circles were punched out of a template from my Carnets de Scrap magazine.

Cardstock, buttons & tags were also from the kit but I had to dip into my stash for the two butterflies, a couple of extra embellies and the pale blue alphas, pp's are all teresa collins' "He said She said" collection.

and au revoir!

The Bodyguard

Using my Counterfeit Kit made the UKS weekly challenge quick and easy for me to do. 

I actually finished it within a few hours of the challenge being posted, a first for me.

This is my interpretation, I chose the title The Bodyguard from the film starring Whitney Houston and Kevin Costner and turned the spotlight onto my own personal bodyguard, our 3 year old German Shepherd, Fleur.

The pink paper & flower came from my stash, everything else was in my forged kit.

Linking this post to the CKCB.