Elf Your Christmas mini book

I'm on a roll with this blog posting lark now lol.

At our all day crop the weekend before last, I made this mini book to record Alf's adventures in December.  I've added all the journalling now, so here is the finished book.

It's following a mini book that Sue made at a class, using paper lunchbags and a couple of sheets of acetate.  Really pleased with how it turned out, and a good reminder of the mischief Alf got up to so we know for this year ;-)

First walk

Clyde has had all his vaccinations now and is able to go for proper walks.  He's loving it!  Here's a couple of photos as he has got much bigger since I last posted pictures of him.

100% cuteness (he's eating a treat hence the smile lol)

The serious look....

The 'wot no' impression over the garden wall

First walk/gallop this weekend

We've been to our first puppy training class tonight, was really good and looking forward to next week's.

A couple of LOs to share...

The Crumblies (aka the remaining 365ers) have set this week's challenge over on UKScrappers.  The criteria was to use the Pagemaps sketch we chose, distressing and 5 patterned papers.  Here's my LO:

Was pretty pleased with this LO, love the colours and all the papers were scraps from the Christmas bunting I made (well cut out, I didn't actually get round to making it last year but there's always this Christmas!).  And I used one of those fab snowflakes Wendy gave me at the last crop.

I've finally got round to taking a photo of the LO I did for last week's challenge - criteria was to use the sketch, make your own blossoms, add butterflies and sewing (real or faux).

I found this photo on Liam's camera a couple of weeks ago.  Not sure when the boys will tire of taking funny self portraits.....

No scrapping because....

..... we adopted his little fella last weekend.  He's now 10 weeks old and is called Clyde.  He's settled in really well and none of us are getting anything done as he's a total time waster :-)

Fair play to him wanting to be anywhere near my slippers!!!

He might be small but he wanted to help with the snowman making...

... but in the end was just happy to be cute :-)

UKS weekly challenge

This is the page I did for last week's challenge on UKScrappers set by Violaceous.  The criteria was to use turquoise and purple, scrap yourself, and use butterflies or scrap about change, growth or freedom.

 The photo is my colleagues and I at the masked dinner our company laid on in Venice.  The food was delicious!  I went a bit mad with the paintbrush flicking, but I quite like the spritzed look lol.

A couple of LOs

My scrapping has been pretty non-existent since my initial spurt at the start of the month, but I managed to finish a couple of LOs this week.  They are using a Total Papercrafts kit (November I think).

For once I had the perfect photos for the rich colours in this kit, and the gold embossing powder.  Haven't embossed for ages, but pleased with the effect it gave.  The LO is based on my UKS team's January sketch.

And I used the leftovers to create this LOs based on Mary's sketch she designed for last week's challenge on UKS.  It features our resident woodpeckers, who come to our bird feeder most days now.  Really hoping we have little baby woodpeckers visiting in the spring but we'll have to wait and see!

Whoops, bad blogger!

Well it's been a while since I last blogged..... I had a hectic week the week before last as I was on a work trip to Venice for the weekend.  I know, my job really does have its perks!!  Venice is beautiful, even in January when it is freezing cold.  Here's a few photos, I've tried to limit them so it's not an overload!  I am sure some will be appearing on LOs soon.

our hotel!

the view across the water from hotel room

Friday evening's 'masked' dinner

Bridge of Sighs

 

St Mark's Basilica

and the detail of the decorations...

St Mark's square - the left hand figure sounds the bell at 5 mins to the hour, the right hand one on the hour.

Just a normal street, with water instead of tarmac... 

It really was amazing, and to think all the foundations are sitting on millions of wooden pilings is hard to get your head around. 

The only downside to the trip is that I managed to pick up labyrinthitis over that weekend.  I can honestly say I don't think I have ever felt as rough..... the world was spinning for almost a week and I felt awful.  I had to spend 4 days in bed, and now I'm just so tired!  But hopefully things are on the up now and I'll be back to normal in a few days.  Hope to be back scrapping soon too - so many new challenges and classes for the new year, I've got a backlog of things I'd like to do!