Nancy Cam part 2

As promised more from Nancy's adventures with my camera- this was one of the up the nose shots she took of herself. I used some of my Sassafras Lass foldies on this and some bits of Echo Park for the record- the background paper is American Crafts

Nancy Cam

Last weekend Nancy got her hands on my camera- I made the mistake of letting her brother use it- so I had to relent when she started crying- when I managed to pry it out of her sweaty little hands 20 minutes later I had an interesting selection of photos - about 45 of what was on TV, three up the nose shots of Nancy, me with my head cut off, a tree in the garden and any other random bit of stuff that took her fancy

I chose four and put them on this LO
More tomorrow!

Inspired by..... me

If you've seen my post about the latest Scrapbookers Anonymous challenge then you'll know what i mean by the title! the challenge was to use your stamps to make a background paper as well as use for embellishments and i used this stamp and idea on a much smaller scale- but i was so excited by it that I decided to make a whole LO using the technique.

I stamped the frame shape randomly over the cardstock and then spent ages cutting the space out of the middle of the frame. I backed the holes with patterned paper scraps and then layered everything else up at the side of the LO

When I scraplifted Sue

I saw a LO over at Two Peas last week and when I went to bookmark it I realised it was by Sue AKA Mid Western Girl AKA my design team mate at Scrapbookers Anonymous- so I thought I'd scraplift her!
Here's Sue's original LO ( hers has a bit more detail to it and kraft paper! I would have used kraft as my background but I am waiting for supplies to arrive and my LSS doesn't sell it- I mean really!) 315/365

Love Actually

I went super simple for this months challenge at From Screen 2 Scrap- the poster for inspiration is Love Actually and the criteria to add to the LO is a red bow, a tag and the names/ labels on the people you love

There's not much else to say about the LO- I used strips of red along the bottom and some cute close up pictures of my children and my husband
the poster

MUsic - Guest designer

I have been very kindly invited to be the guest designer over at Scrapping the Music for the months of May and June-My first challenge was the song Falling Slowly from the movie Once- I decided the line for me was " I can't react" -

Really there are hundreds of photos I could have used for my intended purpose- It's always dangerous to start laughing when the children have got up to something naughty so it's best not to " react" I chose a picture of Nancy when she had painted her own face with poster paints but i could have chosen the picture of Arthur plastered in my make up, or the wall after Stanley had drawn on it, or the floor covered in nail varnish after Nancy tried to put it on herself or - well you get the picture!

Head on over there to see what inspires you from the lyrics

Scrapbookers Anonymous May

Well it's that time again- the new Scrapbookers Anonymous challenge is announced- ( although if you tried out for the new design team you've already done it!)

the challenge is this

to dig into your stash of stamps. Use those stamps to make at least one piece of patterned paper for your layout and 3 stamped embellishments.

here is my version of the challenge.

instead of making one background paper I made four- it's because I couldn't decide what to use! For one of them I used a small frame stamp and then cut out the space in the middle- I backed it with patterned paper to make it a bit more exciting.

there are also four stamped embellishments on here- a fox, a bike, a circle and a leaf shape that I then punched out with a circle punch to make an embellie with.
Head on over to Scrapbookers Anonymous to see what the rest of the lovely design team came up with including all the new girls