Weekly Challenge

Monday was the turn of my team, Blooming Pages, to set the weekly challenge over on UKS. We tried to keep it simple and choose the Chinese New Year celebrations as our theme.

So if you fancy having a go then you need to...

Scrap an animal - 10 points

Use traditional Oriental colours of black, red or gold - 10 points

Some form of stitching - 10 points

I must admit it took me a while to find the right photo and even then I had to change it to black and white, I finally settled on this little otter who look liked he was attempting to do the Mexican wave lol.

I also managed to scrap a photo for my eldest son's album, I love this photo and I really didn't want to desaturate the colour so after a bit of searching I remembered I had an old kit from GottaCraft with Birdie Bits from Dream Street which I thought would work perfectly with the backdrop.

It took me quite a while to cut the scallops out and a whole week to stop finding escaped seed beads lol, its not the most masculine page I've done but they are standing in front of a garden and in my defence gardens have flowers so why not the layout :)

Blog-a-Thon

A few fellow bloggers have started up a Blog-a-Thon over on UKS today, which is a fab idea and I like nothing more than chillin' with a coffee and being nosey, so I thought I had better up-date mine :)

My gorgeous Thickers arrived, some of the new ranges including the gorgeous Jewellery Box in a lovely metallic red.

Then yesterday my tickets turned up for the Chelsea Flower Show, I'm so excited at the thought of actually being there rather than watching on TV with a biscuit and a cup of coffee, roll on the 21st May :)

And I did this layout last night featuring Kyle, only problem is I'm not happy with it...can't tell you why, just am but I'll pop it in his album, wait a week then print the photo off again to do a better effort otherwise it will just bug me. I used BasicGrey Mellow range, AL stamps and a Prima birdie that will be prised off if (no that's definitely when) I do the layout again lol. Oh in real life its actually straight, its my photography skills that are wonky lol.

Tomorrow I will upload my layouts that I did as Guest Designer for ATDML this month, if you fancy a look they are called 'Queen Lily', '100% Cute Girl' which is Lacie and a 'Mom' card.