Well after a fairly short run in - the UKS Cyber crop has come and gone and I had a great weekend of scrapping.
This time round the theme was Monopoly and all the teams were the playing pieces which go round the board, and the classes and challenges were named after the streets and other things on the board. There was a pre crop challenge set by Fi (aka scrappybunny) called Officer Mallory (just in case you didn't know - that's the name of the little bewhiskered banker) and we had to scrap someone who means a lot to us using a minimum of 4 colours and 2 techniques. Here is my offering for that one.
I chose to scrap this lovely pic of Sam who of all the family did the most to get me through my depression. He was there for me to talk to and cuddle when everyone else was at work/ school/ asleep and give me a reassuring paw when I needed it. He was the one who dragged me out on walks when all I wanted to do was hide under the duvet, and by insisting on playing with other dogs we met, and greeting their owners he made me talk to people on those walks. His love and compassion came cheap - all for the price of a few walks a few pats and regular meals!! I didn't win - but it felt good getting all that out on a layout!!
Now each Cybercrop also does a mystery kit challenge. Each team gets a kit designed by one of the sponsor shops, and the challenge is to do your worst with it... the creativity of some of the UKS members never ceases to amaze me (as does the lack of creativity in some!!) as some of the items produced are simply stunning! The Cars team kit was put together by the lovely Lyn at Craft Emporium and I got a boxful of lush October afternoon papers, cardstock and embellies to play with.
This is where it helps to be a Scrapaholix organiser who has to get at least 2 pages out of each monthly kit using (as far as possible) only what is in the baggie. With this challenge, I was allowed to add extra cardstock and a few extras - and I managed to come up with 2 layouts almost straight away, with a third one following with very little effort! This one was the first page I produced.....
When I was clearing out mum's house in December - I found this long forgotten photo of me at a friend's wedding back in the early 1980s. As well as smiling ruefully at my long forgotten size 12 figure... the hairdo and fashion always raise a laugh. The bright red jacket (with frightful padded shoulders and supersize lapels) floaty scarf and Charlies Angels hairdo just epitomise the decade taste forgot!!! The red was picked up in several of the papers, so this one just begged to be used. The page is based on a sketch from BasicGrey - which funnily enough was also featured in one of the challenges on Sunday morning.....
This was the second page I did - back to my own clean and simple style.....
We could add as much black and white cardstock as we liked to the kit and with the bright papers, I took advantage of that to have a contrasting base. One of the papers featured pinwheels so I chose to make a few to embellish the page which features Katy with THAT look on her face....
The final page from the mystery kit was this one based on a Davinie Fiero design in an old Scrapbook Trends magazine......
This was Karen aged about 6 when we went on a last minute holiday to Scotland. Mum rang up and asked me to find somewhere in Scotland which could take a party of 6 at a week or so's notice and not cost too much! Not that easy to find something to meet that requirement at the height of the holiday season - but I managed it!! We ended up in a mobile home at a lovely site near Perth Racecourse in the grounds of Scone Palace!! It was great location for going around sightseeing, and on one day out in Dundee - we found this gorgeous Wonder Woman outfit which Karen just HAD to have... This was her posing on the bonnet of my old car (Grandad almost had a heart attack when she asked if she could jump on his shiny new Rover......)
Anyway - that's all the pre-crop stuff.... I'll deal with the weekend pages in my next post - or you can always check out my gallery on UKS if you want an early peek!
