I think someone liked his birthday cake………

Oooh, get me, blogging twice in one day .

With it being Thursday ‘n’ all, it’s time for a new Sketchy Thursday sketch – but I’d printed off last weeks a couple of days ago and wanted to get it done, so I’m just scraping through at the last minute before the new sketch is revealed!

I used the Jan Cocoa Daisy kit, I really love those Thickers, might need to see what other colours they come in…..

TFL! xx

I’ve just realised I haven’t blogged last Sunday’s Studio challenge – you’ve still got plenty of time to play, so get yourselves over there and have a squizz!   The challenge is very straightforward – make a double-page LO.  I’ve never seen the appeal of double-page LO’s, to be honest, no particular reason, it’s just down to personal preference I guess.  But I have to say I’m pleased with the results of this!  It was a good way to get plenty of photos on show, we had lots from this train trip on Paul’s 40th birthday weekend away:

I dug out some Making Memories Passport papers (I forgot how much I like these), and added a few bit and pieces.

It’s now the Mad Month of March in our house – birthday time!  Max is 5 on Saturday, and he’s having a joint party tonight with a friend, we’re all looking forward to that. Mum’s and Sam’s are next week, mine the week after, and Mother’s Day somewhere in the middle of all that……it’s a lot of fun, but I confess we do breathe a sigh of relief when April comes, LOL!

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Its was time for another Studio challenge yesterday, this time with a photo for inspiration:

The photo immediately said ‘autumn’ to me, and I chose a photo of Sam in some local woods last autumn:

I decided to go with the brown and yellow colours, keeping with the autumn theme, and found that the January Cocoa Daisy kit was perfect.  The circles are stamped using a paint dabber lid, dabbed into a brown inkpad, I then highlighted with a white gel pen, and continued the theme with a line-border round the whole page.  I haven’t tried the circle-stamping before, I like the look!

I really got inspiration from the photo, it was a great trigger for scrapping.  Hope you think so too, would love to see what you come up with!  Drop by The Studio and have a play .

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VERY happy to report that I’ve been asked to be Guest Designer for February at The Studio! .  The challenges there are set every Sunday, and the challenge from last Sunday was to make a page about the love of your life (person, chocolate bar, whatever!), without using red or pink.

I don’t use a great deal of pink in scrapping anyway, although I do love red, but I decided to use the latest Cocoa Daisy kit, which is full of gorgeous browns and blues, ideal for the challenge.   I thought I’d go with the love of my life that is AKA hubby, the idea being that I love him even when he’s larking about (actually, especially when he’s larking about!!).  This photo was taken on his 40th birthday, we were celebrating with cake and champers :

TFL! x