Not just paper adventures

In the last few weeks I have been creating a lot of dig Los and no hybrid or paper. One of the reasons is that by the time I get in from work etc it is now dark in Scotland and I find it hard to see paper colours accurately. Was having withdrawal symptoms so tonight started a paper lo of mum and dads wedding. I had planned on using a range of pink papers but the black and White photos sucked the colour out of the pink. Plan 2 involves purples, lace punches and ample amounts of silver glimmer mists. My fingers are now inky and the midnight silver mist has got under my fingernails and won't come off. I love this messy stuff! No pics tonight as light so poor but maybe tomorrow. Lens guy is in the bath and singing (or wailing) along to faith no more, gotta love him. Feeling bit flat as DD in Paris and won't see him again till Christmas. Dreading next week at work as we got the inspectors in, am trying to finish mum's album and organise surprise party for 30th and it's Lens guy's birthday on Halloween...no shopping done yet.

More blog hopping with Helping Hands

There is so much choice in this wonderful kit and using the paper stacks and clusters saved me so much time, whilst it looks like I spent hours on this. I even managed to keep most of the "white space". If you click here you can find out more.
You can see the kit previews here and read why you should buy this fab digi kit.

Blog Hop Featuring Helping Hand Layouts

Welcome to my blog.  I know I posted this layout on the 11 October and you can read more about it here but this is such a good kit and such a good cause. If you want to find out more about the kit follow the links below. Those of you who read my blog know I have only just started scrapping pictures of my brother, David, who died 2 years ago. If you want to join the blog hop, click here.  

"J'aime rien, je suis Parisienne" sticker on Moped, but I loved it

I have just come back from a wonderful trip to visit eldest son in Paris and saw a moped with this sticker. It is a wonderful city but they do like to moan... I think I took over 250 pictures so the above are just a few from my huge album.

Double Trouble using the Helping Hand Collaboration

One of the CT members of Owl Tree Studios has just lost her 17 year old daughter and a group of digi designers have created a kit to raise money for the funeral and hospital expenses. You can find out about it at  http://www.owltreestudio.com/news/helping-hand-charity-collaboration I created this layout using elements from the kit and one of the OTS October Calendar templates. If you get a change to buy the kit please do as it is a great kit for a good cause. This is another photo of my brother and me, aged about 8 and 6 I think.

Bubbly Lady

This is a layout about a lovely Dutch lady called Riek who looked after us when we were children. I used the Nature's Elements October kit from Owl Tree Studio. This was for a challenge on UKS. The bubbles came from the August kit and met the circular element of the challenge.

Monkeying around again with Owl Tree Studio Kit

I am very drawn to bright colours and layouts and all these black and white photos are so monochrome so just had to dip into fab You Like Kit from GBGD at Owl Tree Studio to create this page. It makes me laugh and remember fun times and if it does that it works for me.

Cheeky Monkeys layout using Owl Tree Studio's You Look Like a Monkey Kit

This layout is all about a photo of my brother and me taken when I was 7 and he was 5. I always think it looks as if we are bursting to get out of the picture and were secretly plotting something mischievous. When I downloaded the new October kits from Owl Tree Studio the "You Look Like a Monkey" kit designed by Jen Balding of GBGD seemed ideal. I used papers and elements from this kit and the alpha came from another OWL kit by GBGD called "SUP".

Busy cropping

My brother and me on holiday - I journalled on one tag and have left the others for mum to complete

The tags

I went to the monthly crop yesterday and as well as chatting, eating cakes, chatting and eating more cakes I managed a few more pages for mum's album.

I added old lace around photo of my grandmother and her family and stamped the title. There is no journalling as I need to find out more about people in photo

Mix of photos of dad and family and using the 12 x 12 photo page seemed a good way of tying them all together

This shows mum aged 16 wearing a ludicrous hat at wedding - this was for the monochrome challenge at the crop

layers of prima flowers and buttons sewn for a hint of colour

Three more buttons and ribbon

Page 1 of double lo showing photos of dad in Fleet Air Arm in 1950's

He was the navigator in the plane, tragically his friend Nick, the pilot was killed in a flying accident when he was in hospital having his appendix removed. The background was stamped with acrylic paint pads as circles seemed to go with planes and flying.