Twisted Sketch #103!!

Oh its feel so good to be scrapping again!! I've missed a couple of weeks because of my exams and assessments but thats all over now!

Another fabulous sketch from Twisted Sketches website, check it out here....

And heres my interpretation, I used photos from my birthday day out at Going Ape, there was no way that one photo alone could capture how much fun I had in the day so had to work out how to add loads more :o)

Now the twist on this sketch was "stop" .....had to admit I did just that, confused me to think how i could incorporate the twist, all I could think of was a stop sign! So from that I got a hexagonal shape which I used on my layout instead of circles in the sketch. I just ended up covering half of it though with embellishments.













I used the lovely Emmas shoppe collection from Crate Paper. never used this brand before and have to admit I really like the quality of the papers, will definitely be keeping an eye on their collections in the future.

Grapevine Queen.....It's Official!!!!

How excited am I!!! EXHAUSTED but excited. After many months of study and exams, thousands of step-touches, box-steps, grapevines, squats, lunges, hamstring curls, jumping jacks, crunches, press-ups etc etc etc etc and more ETC I so relieved to be able to say I passed my final assessment.

I am now allowed to teach "exercise to music". Well actually this is only step 1 to my final goal but every step counts!!

Royal Wedding

Oh could she be anymore beautiful!!!!! I've had a good cry watching this wedding, gorgeous service....don't you love a good wedding!!!!

Twisted Sketch #098!!

Another fortnight gone already and my turn again to produce a layout for twisted sketches. I'd been looking forward to this sketch and had some lovely new papers from 'My Minds Eye' Stella and Rose Collection to play with. I'll definitely be buying some more from that collection, they're just gorgeous!

Check out the Twisted sketch here...

Here's my interpretation of the sketch, the photos were taken on a jetty at lake Conniston in the Lakes District, where we did our Body Balance stretches. it was a glorious sunny morning and felt adapt to be doing "Sun Salutations" :o)

Make sure you go to the website and have a look at what some of the other girls from the design team are producing, their layouts are amazing!

Happy Good Friday!!!

Isn't Easter a lovely time of year! Especially when we have weather as gorgeous as it has been this year!!

And so today is Good Friday and traditionally its the day we tuck into hot cross buns. Theres loads of varieties in the stores to pick from but you just can't beat freshly home-made hot cross buns. I've been baking most of today, and baking myself in the sun in between dough rises :o)

This batch is glazed and ready to go, I bake a large batch every year to distribute to my neighbours in our lovely little village.

Always interesting seeing a grown man cry as all these buns walk out the door and not into his belly!!!! My poor Kenny.....;o)

On a more traditonal note....they may be delightfully yummy, but take a moment to remember what the cross on the bun represents, and in our household as I was raised a good little Latino girl .....there will be fish for supper...ok it'll probably be Fish Pie but its still fish!!

Have a blessed and safe Easter Weekend everyone! xxx

More Holiday Videos

And heres the best video, saved for last....and man and his dog, finally Kenny gets his 'water' dog :o)

Our Holidays!

Well we've been back for a couple of weeks now but been soooo busy I've only just motivated myself to post about our week away! Kenny hired a 6 berth campervan so we could take our boy away comfortably and after deciding we didnt have enough time to head to Ireland we decided to head up to the Lakes district instead.

We had reasonable weather at Lake Windemere ....

Twisted Sketch #096!!

Well another layout that was done in a bit of a rush, we were away all last week for a getaway in the Lakes district and then when I've come home my printers run out of ink, luckily I found this photo which I had meant to scrap ages ago but never got around to it. This weeks sketch can be found here....

I love these papers from My Minds Eye!! Great colours for a male layout.

 I just cant shake the feeling that my layout looks a little incomplete though, just feels a little dull to me and I've drawn a bit of a blank as to what else to do on it....any ideas would be greatly appreciated!!! Or do I stick to a 'less is more' approach.....maybe its just cause my last layout was full of glitter and bling and really girly....really difficult doing frills and flowers on a male layout without it looking prissy :o)

Twisted Sketch #094!!

Talk about putting myself under a bit of scrapping pressure....have been so busy lately that I didn't round to even looking at this sketch until Sunday...(for those who know me....I'm a very slow scrapper and tend to be the queen of paper shuffling) It's a fab sketch....very inspiring and gets the mind thinking. Have a look here:

Here's my interpretation of the sketch. I used the prettiest of papers from Creative Imaginations - Loolah range
Cut out a great big heart and machine stitched a border around it. Used some glittery red pastels to shade a border around it to make it 'pop' more. Also machine stitch some ribbon to gather it.


I mounted the photo on some black card stock painted with black crackle paint and then got out the trusty foam squares to give it some lift. I wanted my title to hang over the edge of the photo so used clear acetate to stick the letters to.

Spring is here....baby coos in the forest!!!!

You can always tell when spring reaches the forest, its been glorious blue skies about, the views in the forest become breath-taking again, and new baby animals begin to appear!!! First on the scene are some little calves, they're just gorgeous!! It's like a little cow creche, they all play together and have 2 naps a day...mid-morning and mid-afternoon, so cute!! It's just the mama cows you have to watch out for!!

It's my birthday!!

Well what a fun weekend!!! On Saturday Kenny went out with the boys to play on his trail bike (something he doesn't get to do often) I spent the afternoon with the boy and had a couple of visits from my lovely neighbours with flowers and chocolates for my birthday. In the evening we went out for dinner with a large group of friends to wish Carol all the best for her 6 mth tour of duty in Afghanistan, may she come home safely!!!

On Sunday Kenny had organised a pre-birthday surprise which was an absolute blast! We went to Go-Ape tree-top adventure park (yes we are the romantic couple aren't we!) (I took him zorbing last year!) lots of swinging, climbing and balancing....well attempted balancing, check out the vids!

Twisted Sketch #092!!

Well this weeks sketch was a great one! So many different ideas popped into my head. I ended up turning it on it side ( I seem to be a fan of doing that to practically all the sketches I used!) And decided to use a multitude of photos just to make life difficult for myself :o)

Take a look at the sketch here.......

Heres my take on it, the fiddly bit was trying to scale and print out all the smaller photos.....a little bit of a tedious task but a great way to sum up our week away without having to write about it.  Must remember to put a date on it somewhere too!! Hope you like it!

 Finally joined the bunting club.... more faffing but it does look cute!! The alphas are actually plain mini white foam letters by Papermania which I coloured with a gelly roll pen. They come up lovely and glittery!!

And of course a little pleated flower embellie.

Happy Pancake Day!!!!

Well what a day!!! Spent the afternoon buying treats for the chickens....trying to sort out an over zealous case of chicken pecking!! And as it's Shrove Tuesday had to make some pancakes for my man. He seemed quite pleased with a tower of blueberry pancakes covered with more blueberries, some strawberries and drizzled with golden syrup....mmmmmm

Twisted Sketch #090

I absolutely LOVED this sketch!! I have absolutely no reason why, but it just leapt off the page at me and admittedly I did this layout before sketch #88!! Have a look at it here.....

First thing I did was turn the sketch around and started from there. I finally used my favourite sheet from BoBunny's Midnight Frost Collection.....have you seen it??? Absolutely Gorgeous!! I shaded the edges of cardstock and patterned paper with some shimmery pastels. I raised the photos with foam pads from the masks I made for them underneath.




The 'twist' on the sketch was 'Frames' so I incorporated this onto my layout with some good old fashioned sewing....and yes it's meant to look a little messy!

 I used my trusty Robo to cut out some snowflakes which I then covered in distress stickles. I had some lovely blue pearl flourishes which I cut up and positioned to finish my layout. I was really pleased with the finished layout as I finally got to use these photos of Samurai 'trying' to catch his snowballs.

Really must blog more

First a bone to chew on.....INDOORS!!

Well I've finally gotten around to downloading photos off the camera!!! Had to post some photos of Samurai's b'day. He turned 12 at the beginning of February and we made a right fuss of him on the day. Can't believe my little mans been with me for 12 years!! Seems like yesterday I was picking him out of his litter at 6 weeks of age and 2kgs weight. He's been my best friend and closest companion ever since.

I made him a special birthday cake - a Victoria Sponge with jam and cream and his name dusted in icing on top.

Does it look like he wants a piece???

Took him ages to take it off the plate, I've trained him too well and he wouldn't touch it as its on a 'people plate' and not a doggie bowl.

Eventually he went for the grab and ended up taking it to his bowl.....awwww bless!! Very happy dog!

Hope you enjoyed your birthday Samurai, mummy and daddy love you lots!!!xxxx