Sepia Tones & Cream

My latest LO for It's Crafting Time follows the theme "Sepia Tones &Cream" and who better to model  these beautiful soft shades for me than my neighbours cows?

Visit the It's Crafting Time blog here for more details and why not check out their online store  (with over 3000 items) whilst you're there?

Nina & Helen just stocked up with washi tapes in fab colours and designs, if you don't see what you're looking for online just contact them to ask if it's in store.

UKS August Week 4 Challenge

The week 4 challenge called for photo's of a place; metallic colours and circles.
Voila!

I used cratepapers's "Portrait Collection - June" for the background paper and lilybee design's "handmade running stitch" patterned paper to represent the waves on the beach in beautiful Hilton Head, our favourite place to go for R&R.

From my stash; metallic strips and alphas from Mrs Grosman, silver & gold buttons discovered in my button tin, other card stock embellishments and a Tim Holtz idea-ology mini compass mask finished off the LO.

j'adore Dior Scrap a Sketch August challenge

This is my take on the Scrap a Sketch August challenge.

It features the scrumptiously pink Dior Museum (his childhood home) in Granville, Normandy, 

which we visited recently.

Click here to read about the visit on my other blog Normandy Life.

It's Crafting Time - Sketch

This is the LO that I created from a sketch, provided by It's Crafting Time, to the Design Team to interpret.

Patterned background paper, journal tag and strips are from Crate Paper’s Hampton and Clambake Sailing collection.

The embellishment cluster and stars are from my stash and there’s a hidden journaling tag inside a Tim Holtz idea-ology Kraft glassine pocket, tucked behind the photo.

The photo was taken as we strolled around the harbour at Shelter Cove, H.H.I South Carolina, in 2009 when our friends from Texas came to visit us there.

Hidden journalling reads:

We always enjoy our time in Hilton Head, especially when we can spend it with good friends. When Susan & John joined us in the spring of 2009 we were thrilled to share it with them. It was the Cox’s first visit to H.H.I. but I don’t think it will be last.

Fasching 1990

The week 2 challenge for this month at UK Scrappers called for us to show our "wild side"! Also to use stars or flourishes and an affirmative statement, quite a challenge!
As far as I knew all proof of my wild side had been destryoyed disappeared long ago then I remembered some photos of the Senior Partner & I, taken by a neighbour, as we sipped champagne before leaving for a Faschings party in 1990.
(Fasching is how they celebrate Mardi Gras in Bavaria, Germany).

This is as wild as we got back in the day...................................................

When summer ends....

The brief for the House Challenge at UK Scrappers this month was to use a colour palette of white, grey, cool pink and mid green.
I had a photo of a cushion that I had seen in the potting shed of a Savannah, GA residence in 2010.

I thought it would suit the colour scheme and the sentiment is especially fitting this year as my potager has truly gone to pot due to the constant rain it and I have had to endure!

DT Challenge - It's Crafting Time

Recently I posted details of my "Journey" mini book but left out photos of pages 2 and 3.
Well, here they are.
Tucked inside page three is a tag I made for my first assignment as a member of the   It's Crafting Time
Design Team.

The theme: "Faces"

Pages 2 & 3.

tags, tags and more tags!

the one of the left is the Senior Partner & I

with the beautiful Amalfi coastline as a backdrop

what a great vacation it was, despite the rain

on the right, a Tim Holtz inspired tag using idea-ology products

For the "how to" details of the TH tag click on this link
 It's Crafting Time
to go the blog

and here for the ICT online shop where you will find some of the materials that I used
and many more Ranger/Tim Holtz products, to tempt you.