SLYMI weeks 33-38

Oops I have been forgetting to post here so now have a few weeks to catch up with

Week 38 - Scrap a lesson learned, I scrapped the many photos of my girls after discovering how hard it is to get the 2 of them to sit still long enough to get just one nice photo. The title is one long sentence but with 3 words picked out based on the fabulous line uttered by Heath Ledger in The Dark Knight - "why so serious"

Week 37 - Scrap with metal

I used the metal word Love and some brads for this

Week 36 - Scrap something magical

well this was just my 2 looking like princesses at my friends wedding

Week 35 - Scrap a bank holiday weekend

We very rarely have bank hols in Scotland so had to pick the easter holiday

Week 34 - Scrap from the sketch

Week 33 - Scrap a square within a square

SLYMI weeks 30 and 31

week 31 - scrap something old, new borrowed or blue.
I managed all 4 - new cardstock, old papers, borrowed sledge (in photo) and blue title



Week 30 Scrap your Independence
I did Daisy's independence and wanting to do everything herself

SLYMI week 29

Week 29 -Scrap with 3. used 3 pics of Robyn as a toddler, 3 flower brads and 3 heart brads

Teacher's present and SLYMI week 26

SLYMI Week 26 - Play

this week was scrap with stickers, I'm not a big fan of stickers but had bought a pad from Tesco as the front page looked ok, unfortunately the rest of it was utter rubbish so it was nice to get some use out of them

It's also that time of year again when our peace and quiet is shattered for the next 6 weeks. I made Robyn's teacher a covered notebook and a little kitkat holder in matching paper. I hope she appreciates a little handmade gift as I know not everyone does

the notebook uncovered

the finished book

the book with the matching kitkat holder

SLYMI weeks 23 and 24

Week 23 - scrap a self portrait



Week 24 - Scrap with Felt
(flowers and the green lacey stuff is felt)

SLYMI weeks 21 and 22

Week 21 - scrap a song title

I went for Lily Allen's "Not Fair" for these photos of Robyn being caught on the kitchen counter



Week 22 - Scrap from the sketch

a very minimalist sketch that was hard for me even though I like simple layouts I found this one just a bit too empty

SLYMI week 20

Use a pen



woohoo got this done on the day of the prompt, (just 4 hours after getting it) very pleased with myself now that's a speed record for me. This week was to use a pen so I hand wrote the journalling on the tag and doodled on the title.
I also combined it with the challenge #2 over on Scrappers Block and used metal brads on the tag (2 round and one heart)



I've also had a busy week, I finished the second half of my Spotty Dotty Layout. It was originally a stand alone LO but when Daisy came down with chicken pox too I knew I had to make it a double page.








I also made these cute little name signs for the girls room
They're not finished yet, I've still to add some flowers and gems etc to bling it up a bit

SLYMI - 19 Scraplift

I managed to finish a layout less than 12 hours after the prompt went up on UK Scrappers which I am very impressed with, I think I've only done that one other time over the past 19 weeks.

this week we had to scraplift another layout from the Scrap Like You Mean It gallery and make sure we credited the original artist so mine was lifted from a scrapper called Coxabey. her layout can be seen here http://www.ukscrappers.co.uk/photopost/showphoto.php?photo=181066

SLYMI week 18

Wow it's week 18 already and I'm still getting the challenges done on time, I am very impressed with myself.

This week the challenge is to scrap the outdoors





I also got my little RAK through the post last week for the sketch challenge on sisterlycreations blog. I am in love with the butterfly and the mother print papers as well as the skeleton leaves



I'm getting a pink BIA for my birthday in 3 weeks time so this is just crying out to be made into some kind of a book

SLYMI 17

Week 17 -Layers and lace
not hugely layered but enough

sketch LO and SLYMI week 16

I found another lovely site with great sketches here http://www.creativelyyours.wordpress.com/ and this is my attempt at sketch number 53. I have so many pages that I'm impatient to get done right now. Using a sketch is a wonderful idea as it takes the time needed to decide where everything is going to go away so you can just get on with it. I've also rediscovered sewing on layouts which is great fun and definitely needed on the ribbon as it was a pain to stick the folds down.

SLYMI Week 16 - scrap in the morning

pain in the bum for me as I'm an evening scrapper. it's the only time I get peace and quiet to do anything so this ended up taking about 5 mornings whereas normally I'd have finished it in an evening

SLYMI week 15

week 15 - scrap on the edge

SLYMI - weeks 13 and 14

Week 14 - Scrap something hidden

Baby bump picture (hidden baby) and journalling hidden uder a flap on the middle photo






Week 13 - scrap with stamps

SLYMI weeks 11 and 12

Week 12 scrap from the sketch





Week 11 - Scrap with fabric

Easter baskets, a Home sign and my SLYMI week 10 effort

HOME sign



Over Christmas I made a cute Yule sign which when the festive season was over it left a bare spot on my wall that was just crying out to be replaced by a similar sign that I can keep up for the other 11 months of the year and this is what I came up with

Easter Baskets
My easter baskets taken from here http://nicholeheady.typepad.com/capture_the_moment/2007/07/papertrey-newsl.html

these are made from a toilet roll middle cut into thirds and covered in pretty paper with a handle and scalloped circle base cut from cardstock. The eggs are really tiny mini eggs - half the size of the normal one which I got from Asda for 99p a bag, Tesco also do them for the same price

SLYMI week 10 - Scrap a funny face

Scrap like You Mean It

The Scrap like You Mean It challenge has to be the best thing Uk Scrappers have ever done. Run by Shimelle Laing it is simply a different technique or style to scrap in each week. We are up to week 9 now and here are my layouts for it





Week 9 - Use a punch






Week 8 - cut a photo







Week 7 - Use an old photo




Week 6 - Use ribbon

Week 5 - Scrap in black and white

Week 4 - Use the sketch

Week 3 - Use chipboard

Week 2 - use stars or hearts

Week 1 - scrap in your favourite colours