Dream

The joy of being young and filled with dreams of daring conquests and fighting dragons! The LO was also from a class at the weekend by Traciedoodle. The photo is of John several years ago now. He got this sword and shield at Christmas and was imagining himself being a daring knight! How quickly time passes and how quickly they grow up.

I am doing another online course for the Holiday Season - Holidays in Hand by Jessica Sprague

Today for the first prompt we are asked to think about our Values & Goals for the Festive Season. Here are some of the words that I think of as values for this time of year: family, love, tradition, laughter, sharing. For our goals we are to try and be specific about certain things we would like to achieve. This was a bit harder and needed a lot more thought. I have come up with:

To have fun with the children

To try and make some presents for people this year.

To be less stressed and more flexible.

To concentrate on the spiritual meaning of Advent and Christmas.

To try and get the children to think less of 'getting' and more about 'giving'.

I am hoping that after the past few months that we have had that Christmas this year will be a time of relaxation and enjoyment.

What are your values and goals for this season?

Scrapbooking - dangerous????

Well who would have thought that a nice hobby like scrapbooking would be dangerous? Last night I was sitting at my desk doing a LO when I got up to get something, lost my balance and fell down! All the fault of this silly shoe I am having to wear at the moment, see this post here for a photo of my shoe. Thankfully I was not really hurt - just a bit sore as I landed on my hip and my wrist. So beware scrapping can be dangerous!

In my last post about the cybercrop Kathy asked how the teams worked. Everyone who registers for the CC is allocated to a team, there are differing points for the classes and challenges and when you complete and upload them you can claim the points for your team. All the classes are uploaded to a PDF file which you download and then follow the instructions. At the end of the CC the winning team is announced - just a bit of fun really!

I have managed to do one challenge and one LO so far.

The challenge was to do a LO featuring travel. I chose photos from our visit to Legoland last October, the top one is of Andrew and I and the bottom one is John and myself on a couple of the less scary rides!

The class that I managed to do was Somewhere Over the Rainbow by ifa. It was a really good class and a great way to use up some of my stash of ribbons. The photo is of Andrew at his favourite lunchtime eating place - McDonalds, again from our trip last October when we visited Oxford for the day.

We're off to see..

the wizard, the wonderful Wizard of Oz!! Yes it's Cybercrop time again over at UKS and the theme this time is the Wizard of Oz. I am in the ToTos team - Go ToTos Go!!! I have done really done much scrapping for ages so I am hoping the the classes and challenges will inspire me and help me find my mojo again.

I decided that I was feeling a bit better this morning so thought I would bake a cake as it was a Friday. The kids thought that was a great idea when they came home from school and discovered there would be cake for tea - maybe I should do this more often.

This morning I got a very welcome delivery from Amazon

I think the Twilight series of books are great and am looking forward to seeing how the story ends (no don't tell me!!). They are a great light read for me just now when I am spending so much time with my feet up! Although now that I have started it, stopping to join in with the cybercrop might be difficult.

Shimelle's prompt for today on Blogging for Scrapbookers was about how important and good it is to comment on other people's posts. This is something that I have been trying to do during this class as I have realised how good it is to have some comments. So a big thank you to all who have commented here and I shall be visiting your blogs, if I have not already done so.

Last of the cybercrop LOs

Here are another couple of things I did at the cybercrop at the weekend. This first one is a journal/notebook class by Annette. I have done it in masculine colours as it is for John to use with his Warhammer army. I now have to make another one for Andrew!


This LO was for a sketch challenge and the photos are of Gordon and John visiting Andrew and I in hospital when he was born.


I have not been doing any scrapping this week as my next essay is due in for my OU course - I have only written half of it so far and it is to be handed in on Friday - so guess what I'm doing tomorrow!

Mystery Kit

Every cybercrop there is Mystery Kit which you can buy and make something with, this year there was also a theme to the challenge. As I was in Musical Melodies I had to make something with a musical theme, the kit came from A Trip Down Memory Lane. I decided to make a star book using the song Do-Re-Mi as inspiration.

Cyber cropping

Its cybercrop weekend again at UKS. Was away all day yesterday so didn't get quite as many LOs done as usual, but am pleased with what I have done.

I managed this LO on Friday night, it was for a class by Clo. The photos are from Ballinoy Harbor, Co Antrim. It was a fabulous place and the waves were spectacular.

Next class was one I had the kit for, by Bubbly Funk, I am going to make it into a canvas. I have still got some other bits from the kit to finish.

This next one is for a class by Louise. The photos are of the Emperor Constantine in the Capitaline Museum, Rome. Papers are Basic Grey Hang 10.

I shall upload more later. There is a birthday boy here wanting his birthday tea and cake!

An Oscar Cybercrop

UKS are having a cybercrop next weekend with the theme of Oscars, I am in the Musical Melodies team, I just love cybercrops.

I was trying out crochet on holiday and decided to do an Oscar to sit on my desk for the cybercrop.

I have also managed to do my first flower. I quite enjoyed it, so will be practising lots.

I have also done a LO for a pre cc sketch class. This is another LO for my Rome album

Back to Work

That's the holidays over, went back to work today. Kids back to school. Roll on the next holiday.

Yesterday I spent almost all day trying to do an acetate album for the cyber crop, thankfully I finally managed it. This was the first acetate album I have tried to do. It was quite fiddly but I like the end result but not sure how many more I will attempt. I used the pictures from our crop party weekend at my sisters for it.

Got the Book!

Another couple of LOs from the cyber crop. This one was for a class by Papermaze. The photo is of John reading the last Harry Potter book, which he went and bought at midnight - he managed to persuade his Auntie Karen to take him. The paper used is Sassafraslass Serendipity Crimson Dots and Exuberant.

This one was for a class by one of my team mates, Sarah, it involved painting and using a mask. Very messy but a lot of fun! The photos are from Johns trip to Legoland last summer.

Dinosaur Day

One of the highlights of the cyber crop is the Mystery Kit. You buy a kit, the contents of which are a complete surprise, then you have to make something using only the contents of the kit. This time I made a concertina mini book of a visit John made to a Dinosaur Exhibition several years ago. I really liked the kit this year, mine came from Crafty Pastimes.

Flamingos

Last weekend I went to my sisters where we joined in the fun of the cyber crop on UKS. My mum was also there - it was good fun. Here are the two LOs that I managed to do.

The first one was Banana Frog's class, I had bought the kit for it. The papers are Pink Martini and the stamps are Banana Frog ones, Swirls. The photos are from our holiday last summer at Kingennie, near Dundee.

The second layout was from a class by Karen. It was a good way to use up lots of scraps of paper. The photos are from Flamingoland. My sister loved looking at the flamingos and would have watched them all day!

Rock Star

Managed to do another LO today, again from a class in the cyber crop at UKS. This one was by Mel at A Trip Down Memory Lane, one of my favourite shops. The photos are of Andrew a couple of years ago now when he got his guitar for his birthday. I altered the middle photo in Elements. The background is painted and the title is chipboard letters painted gold.

Going up to Glasgow tomorrow for a week's holiday. On Saturday going to a card making class at Craftology, then round to my sisters for some cyber cropping fun!

Scrapping at Last!

I have finally got my mojo back - and started scrapping again!. I have done two layouts today from the cyber crop classes on UKS.

The first is a class by Angi - Dotty about You. The LO is of Gordon and John visiting Andrew and I in hospital. All the dots and doodling are done freehand.

The second is Em's class Wishes. I have used ribbons from Little Silver Hat kit. The LO is of John when he was at Legoland last summer.

Fun

The last couple of LOs that I did for the cyber crop last week on UK Scrappers, the first one was for a class by Scrapping Angels. The flowers were made by cutting out several circles of different sizes then scrunching them up and sandpapering the edges then securing them with a brad in the middle.
This next LO was for a class by Anglesey Crafts and is of the boys (and myself) at a park this summer. The swing thing was really comfortable to lie in and very relaxing!!

Well its the last weekend of the holidays, boys go back on Tuesday, I have to go in on Monday. Its also the weekend for birthdays - Andrew will be 8 tomorrow, I will 21? again on Monday and my sister has her birthday in a week but as she is coming down on Sunday we might let her have her presents then. Its going to be cake, cake and more cake this weekend.

Happiness

Happiness is... when the boys got a first scaletrix set for Christmas a few years ago now. Gordon was in his element and didnt even need anyone to play with him!!! The boys have now outgrown this set and he hasnt managed to persuade them that they really want a new bigger set yet. The LO was done for a class by Jillybeans on UK Scrappers. Paper is Basic Grey (again, I seem to use a lot of Basic Grey). The buttons were cut out using a sizzlet die cut.

Andrew got on well yesterday and his hand is now out of the splint, the consultant doesn't want it strapped up now at all and he is just to use it normally. We are to go back in a couple of weeks for him to check on its progress.

Time

I did this LO yesterday for the cyber crop on UKS. It was a class by the Scrapbook Lady. The photo is of Rievaulx Abbey in Yorkshire, which I actually managed to turn into sepia tones. I was quite pleased as this is the first time I have tried that, I also managed to clone out some cars and modern buildings in the background, mind you it took me ages to do that. I stamped the swirly bits using Making Memories stamp set.

We take Andrew to the orthopaedic consultant today to see about his broken hand, so we will find out what is to happen with it.

I suppose I'd better tidy up my craft room today as it looks like a bomb-site after the last few days scrapping!!!

Home on the cliffs?

Next class on the UKS cyber crop is this one by Mojo Scraplift team. Paper is Crate Paper. It took ages to do the eyelets and thread the ribbon through, but I do quite like the effect. Gordon took the photo at the RSPB place at Bempton Cliffs, East Yorkshire. I think its great that he's getting back into taking photos as it gives me some super photos to scrap.

Beauty is

I think this is going to be one of my favourite LOs I have done for the cyber crop on UKS. This was a class by the Collectively Yours team. Paper is by Upsy Daisy Designs, Ice Cream Shoppe - Cherries Jubilee and Mango Sorbet. The chipboard leaf I painted and the swirls are a rub on. The photo is one that Gordon took on holiday this year.

Palatine Hill

I enjoy cyber crops, I have managed another LO today, this one by a class by A Trip Down Memory Lane. It is a LO of the ruins of Domus Augustiana on the Palatine Hill, Rome. The papers are Basic Grey Fusion, the stitching effect is done by black pen. I used a doodling template for the doodling.

The Palatine Hill was a lovely place and you can see why the Roman nobility chose to build their houses there. There was cool breeze blowing and you got a wonderful view of Rome.