UKS February House Challenge.

At first glance the February House challenge seemed simple enough, 

choose one of the three famous quotes on offer and create a LO from it, 

I chose:

One way to get the most out of life is to look upon it as an adventure.

William Feather.

In April 2012 I persuaded the Senior Partner to accompany me

to the Salon Version Scrap at the Parc Floral, Paris.

My first ever visit to a scrap booking exhibition.

Watching a stamping demo at the PaperArtsy stand

I was in heaven and the SP, bless him,

 carried my bags, bought me lunch & chatted with the vendors

all afternoon.

Later on we returned to our hotel 

Le Daumesnil 

 for a rest & GT before heading out for dinner.

The next morning we headed back to Normandy but not before 

enjoying P'tit D in this corner cafe.

la vie est vraiment une aventure!

Sunday walk at the beach

 Les Braves sculpture

St. Laurent sur Mer, Normandy

Our first beach walk of the New Year.

The SP's coat is bright orange so I decided to convert the image to b/w 

to fit better with the Simple Recipes Challenge.

UKS November Challenge LO's

House Challenge

Week 2
Challenge: use a colour you wouldn't normally choose

Week 3
Loved the browns & sepias so much I used them again
for this LO of nephews Alex & Nicholas

Merly Impressions Monthly CHallenge

Well, the "Where Bloggers Create" party was a lot of fun, I visited some amazing blogs and saw some truly stunning crafting spaces.
There is a world of beautiful blogs out there and I was thrilled to receive many visits from some very talented bloggers.
One such talented blogger is Emilie Chamel and I was very inspired by her blog when I popped over to visit during the UKS bloghop recently.
Click here for a peek into her crafting world.
Emilie is on the DT teams of Scrap 365 and Merly Impressions who hold a LO challenge on the 15th of each month.
The July challenge is "why I scrapbook" and here's my take on it.

I scrapbook for many reasons but they can all be summed up in one word "memories".
The "everyday memories", the "big event" memories, the "sad" memories, the "silly" memories and the "did we really do that" memories they all find their way into my scrapbooks.

The papers and some of the embellies are from the Saturdays range by Little Yellow Bicycle, other bits and pieces from my stash.

Linking to the Merly Impressions blog post July 2012 Layout Challenge.

A wedding & a sonnet

Like many of you I've been staying indoors out of the rain, my poor vegetable garden is looking so neglected, and scrapping.
The inspiration for much of my crafting this past week has come, as usual, from the UK Scrappers site.
Last week they held an amazing sponsor blog hop and I spent a couple of hours hopping around visiting all the sponsors and gathering ideas for future projects and learning about new techniques.
I was surprised and a little thrilled (!) this morning to see that my blog hopping had resulted in not only "just scrapping" but also "Normandy Life" making it onto the home page at UKS in the BlogBits review.

This is the sketch for the monthly House Challenge set by the Gold Eyelets team.

and this is my take.
The pp's all came from my stash, I misted the paper with Adirondack colour wash in "Lettuce" using a flower mask from TCW. The chipboard alpha's are American Crafts "Forest".
I "quilt stitched" the hexagons using a sparkly green Gelly Roll pen.

The week one challenge was to use something, blue, a Shakespearian quote and to place the photograph in the centre of the page.

This was a great challenge and enabled me to use a photo, of my sister and her eldest son, which I've been itching to scrap for some time.
The papers are from the Tim Holtz "Destinations" series and I used a TH  "idea-ology" kraft glassine pocket to hold the tag.

à bien tôt

my name is maggie and I'm a scrapaholic

when I rekindled my love of scrapbooking earlier this year I never dreamt that it would lead to me starting yet another blog!
in circumstances very similar to when my love of books was creeping into my normandy life blog a little too often in 2011, and led to the creation of just books, so it is with my addiction to scrapbooking, particularly my tag obsession.
here at just scrapping I can indulge in all things involving paper & glue to my hearts content and share my latest LO's and tags.
i'm thinking there might be smash books, atc's and circle journals involved too at a later date......
so here are some pix of LO's created for the various ukscrappers challenges in June.

mum & me in torquay 1953 & me celebrating the Queen's 60th Jubillee 2012

with a cuppa in my Coronation Mug.

beautiful purples & blues

delicate yet strong

zesty citrus colours recall our trip to Italy's Amalfi coast

in April 2012

June Trendy Tag Swap 

the theme was flags & bunting

and finally

I made these 3 tags as a gift for Jeanie @The Marmalade Gypsy

who sent me large tags when i couldn't find any