I Cannot Wait!!!

Saturday cannot come too soon!!!

Scrapping London Style!!

Well I finally got round to playing with my London pictures from the trip Archi and I took to the Globe Theatre. You may guess from the double (er triple!) photos that I was rather taken with Southwark Bridge. Always been a bit of a grease monkey so I was very drawn to the early 20th Century Industrial style of the Bridge. Functional yet with a strong beauty to it. All those rivets!! Oh and on a girly note- pretty colours too!!

Supplies
7gypsies Notting Hill Paper ( a perfect match!)
7gypsies tissue (a blast from the past)
Prima Tape (love it!)
QuicKutz Madamoiselle font (a prize!)

I spent last Saturday in Stratford in Avon at the Scrapaganza event with some great pals of mine. I had a hoot with Angela, cutnpaste, SarahK, LynM, Annnijo, izzy, Privateuni, Pauline and Lily and her wonderful Scrapshed!

We did some fabbo classes some of the techniques I crammed onto this layout!
Although I didn't take the class Karen Burniston's interactive LO's looked awesome!
Donna Downey had us painting up a frenzy with BIG chipboard so THAT went onto the LO too!!
Melodee Langworthy Family Favourites class was just beautiful. She has such a way with minibooks- quick yet so stylish. I loved the way she inserted double backed photos into the mini book as page.
Also had another class which wasn't quite as revealing as I'd hoped but I did get to play with Pearly Powders so that made me a happy bunny! I also learnt that a true artiste needs Baby Wipes- ahhh well maybe one day I'll aspire!!






So the LO- I had several piccies of an architectural nature from our London trip that needed to go together but I didn't want to cram them all together and lose the focus on each one. I decided to pinch a leaf from Karen Burniston's LO's (her samples at Stratford were fantastic) and use a lift up flap with a montage of photies in a Donna Downey stylee- mixing my designers here!! I also embellished the flap with LARGE chipboard, painted, crackle glazed and then a touch of gold Paint Dabber added to the Crackle Paint. I had real fun with this- getting painty and messy is such a joy!

Supplies
Prima Paper
7gypsies Tissue
Prima Tape
Dymo Tape
Chipboard Scroll
Distress Inks (for edging papers)
Paint Dabber and Crackle Paint for Chipboard
QuicKutz Madamoiselle font (a prize!)

Bouncing Boys & Beagles!!!

I think the nice weather is making everyone including Beagles feel EXTRA SPRINGY!!!! Beagle Dogfish!!!



The 'Boy with the Hair ' was in fine fettle too and having a Springtime Prance!!

The Globe

Supplies
Prima Paper
Kraft Cardstock
Prima Tape
QK vine and Eliza letters
MM Brads
Silver tape and StazOn Ink
Heidi Swapp clock
Tim H spinners

Little Boxes...update....

....I has been having FUN with these !!!
So I started with a plan- in my head at least- one technique per 3-4 ATC's ROTFL well that went out the window the second I started!! I suffer from Art Tsunami in that I want to do everything all at the same time! But at least with 21 ATCs to d I had plenty of canvas to go to town on!!
Since I started I have used:- Distress Inks, Lumiere Paints, Crackle paint, Shrink Plastic, Stamping, Stamping on Acetate, Resist method, Collage, Layering, Grungeboard and Acrylic Paints to name a few!!
I have completed 20 out of the 21 ATCs now so I will be finishing off the final card and posting them to the Hostess with the Mostess this weekend!!

A bit of Shakespeare!!

We went to London but not to visit the Queen! We went to the Globe to see A Midsummer Night's Dream. We had a good nose at St. Pancras Station on the way there



The Globe was amazing and really is the BEST way to see Shakespeare. The play was a fair romp especially Nick Bottom who was a riot!