Scrapbook page

 Hi Everyone, something a little different today, a digital scrapbook page I did for a challenge and then couldn't get into the site. Anyhow, here are the Great Great Granchildren of my eldest brother. I was sent the photo and couldn't resist using it for the "challenge". My privacy browser wouldn't let me in to the site, I have to find a way around it. 

I followed the template, adding little touches to make it a little different. I haven't done a page for a long while and really enjoyed doing it.

 template - Rachel Designs, The Digital Press October Template challenge 2022

papers - MKC Kindness kit (Digital Press)

quote - Soco DSP

hearts - Glee

All items are from the Kindness Matters blog hop 2015?

 

Scrapbook page

 Hi Everyone, I found this photo of my youngest brother at 16, (he's 73 now) and decided to make a scrapbook page for him. It certainly brought back memories for me, I hope it will for him too. I used quite a few digital designers items, so I won't add them all, just where they can be found, most of the elements and papers are years old and in my files. I enjoyed putting this together, finding I have so many items linked to photography was great, especially for this.

Digital is my preferred way to scrapbook, it's great changing details or deleting and using different to what I started with. I have to admit, it probably took me far too many more hours, than if I did it with paper and dies etc. hahaha I enjoyed it that's all that matters isn't it? He can print it out or keep it digital and I'm pleased to say he was pleased with it.

dp's, asstd designers - DigitalScrapbook

A scrapbook page!

 Hi Everyone, another couple of scrapbook pages. Both completely different feelings in each. My #2 brother's birthday is today and I don't like to let it pass without doing something. This year a scrapbook page. I really enjoyed putting this together with a photo of when he was about 14-16 years of age. I duplicated the page and changed it to Father for his 3 daughters. I added daffodils as it was something the girls had as a memory at his funeral. I love the fact that being digital, I can send a copy to his daughters so they can print or just keep as is.

digital kit - Remembrance 

from a blog train July 2018 at  DigitalScrapbook.com

Then I decided to make another of my son as a lad. We lived in Saudi Arabia at the time and he was a Boy Scout, a very proud one. I coloured the template elements to match the photo, then added papers where I thought they should be.

template - #58 Megan Turnidge

background - Alexis Design Studio

sun paper - Sherry K Designs

Scout logo 

 

More scrapbook pages!

 Hi Everyone it seems I'm on a scrapbook making splurge. My subjects today are my Niece's Grandchildren, doesn't seem possible to me! Anyhow, the first is Owen with Static hair Bless him. He's such an adorable little one. The second is Owen and his big Sister, she is a sweet child. Shame we live 4 hours from them. Although I do have plenty of photos sent to me of them.

I'm not that good with scrapbooking it's not something that I had heard of until I saw digital scrapbooking a few years ago, in fact I started making them in 2011, that sounds a long time ago now, I didn't do many at all, just special pages. I don't have grandchildren or many digital photos to pull from, although I do have a few photos I have digitised. I prefer the digital pages, so I went with them and have enjoyed doing it, I can print them out if I want or send them to someone, as I have with these, to their parents and Grandmother. They can then do what they want with them, save them on different medias or print them out. OR, print them as an album, as is possible online.

These were templates all I had to do was add photos so easy.

template - Akizo

I added text and added a bevel and emboss in PS,

 hoping it looked like static electric?

added a label and it was done

This was also a template I added different elements and papers, text and a label, I love these photos of them,

Template - Marisa Lerin PixelScrapper

background paper and elements Marisa Lerin Pixelscrapper

Scrapbook page

 Hi Everyone, we woke to snow this morning a rare occurrence for us, so it was as the poet J.P Priestly said  -

" The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of world and wake up in another quite different."

It certainly was for us, first thing before I did anything, it was out with the camera and step outside in my nightie and -2C to take photos of the garden and the beautiful site before me, crazy? Yep! but so glad I did, as before lunch, half had melted and gone, there is still a layering of about 2 inches in most parts and the road is covered. I'm hoping hubby can still go get his vaccination on Tuesday. 

Of course it had to be recorded and I did, by using just 2 photos. I made a digital scrapbook page, I had the template in my files and I thought it so apt, not only for the snow, but Covid circumstances too.

I know quite a few of you have had snow and probably more than us, but this is my record of our snow. Looking at the mountain that is in front of us and our garden. It seems as if my header predicted it for us!

page template - Akizo Stay Home

background dp - LouCee Creations

Lockdown Stories

Hi Everyone, after my last scrapbook page it put me in the mood to make another one and, as I was sent photographs of my Niece with her grandchildren, I felt they needed a scrapbook page to record them. Hence this page.

I loved Dorothy sitting down to listen, live, to her Grandmother reading her stories, she is so intense and very interested in them too. I had to include the lovely photo of the 3 of them, this time Owen joined them, they are enjoying their stories before lockdown. I did the journaling as if my Niece wrote it. When I was searching for papers etc in my files I came across a digital kit I haven't used, (so many of them). I loved the fresh colours and then noticed the kit's name! - Perfect! I then went on to make my own scrap page design, OH! This lockdown is doing funny things to me LOL.

digital kit - Morning Story

 by Gina Cabrera digitaldesignessentials

I have another poem from Gill Reed my SiL's Sister for you. She is so clever with words.

Keeping a Lert, by Gill Reed

A Lert is the most adorable creature,

Its home-loving nature

Is a notable feature.

Its eyes should always be shiny and bright

For it is famous

For measuring two metres by sight.

It is trained in the art of hand sanitation,

And knows how to prevent

The hugging temptation.

A Lert with its knowledge can always be trusted

But updates must always

Be daily adjusted.

With a Lert as your guide, you’ll covidly know

You R-valued for freedom

To get up and go.

Getting a Lert can be a wonderful thing

But remember it’s for life

Don’t get a Lert on a whim.

Soon you and a Lert will find a new way

Together you’ll conquer

And you’ll want it to stay,

A Lert.

Scrapbook page TMR 136

Hi Everyone, my DT card today is for

https://themaleroomchallengeblog.blogspot.com/

The garden? what an easy challenge for me! Of course I had to make a scrapbook page. I started with a template and filled it from then on, I don't really have much idea how to do scrapbook pages, but this way it is so much easier (for me). I chose all white flowers and shrubs and chose papers and elements to match. Hopefully keeping it masculine.

template - Akizo

background floral paper - Pixelscrapper

white honeycomb background - Gina Cabrera
ribbon paper - etc by Danyale
boots - Marisa Lerrin
seed packets - Pixelscrapper
fence - Meldesigns

New baby first Christmas

Hi Everyone, I don't think I have shown you much of what I made over Christmas, so thought I would pop in with this. I made them for our new baby Owen, who thankfully, after a traumatic birth, Mother and baby are doing well.

I also made an insert for the box, top and bottom,

 so that the ball wouldn't move about in the post.

box - blossom box - SVGcuts.

dragon - bought, but Owen  name, added in Heat Transfer Vinyl cut with Cameo 2

Card -  cut file Lori Whitlock 

polar bear - Creativefabrica

bauble bought - filled with false snow and Dragon Flag printed and cut out 

with "Nadolig Llawen" added - meaning Happy Christmas in Welsh",

 it hangs so moves within the bauble.

snowflakes - various files,

 cut with Cameo 2 in white vinyl and added over the bauble.

Name and year - cut with Cameo 2 and added to bauble.

Carrying on showing you Owen, here he is at 1 week old, a digital scrapbook page I did, very quickly and simply. His Mum likes simple things.

Scrapbook page template - Marisa Lerin at Pixelscrapper

Scrapbook pages.

Hi Everyone, a little something I have been playing with, they are of the newest babies to the family and as I saw one quickpage and one template I just HAD to use, here they are.

They are both Granddaughters of two of my Nieces! that makes them my Great Great Nieces! am I old, YEP! it seems like when they grow like this LOL.

leaves template - Akizo @ Digital Press

wood background - Sheila Reid Pixelscrapper

freebie  newsletter template - Valentina @Digital Scrapbooking Studio

Boat!

Hi everyone, here's a scrapbook page I have done quickly, after a trip we did a couple of weeks ago.

Paper and elements - Dragons Lair designs "Seaside Retreat".

Scrapbook page

Hi Everyone, I have nothing to show you today, so did a quick scrapbook page, what I mean by quick was using a "quick page" already set out, it had all the colours I needed, so why spend time finding them I asked myself. That's how lazy I am of late. Apart from DT work that is. LOL.

Anyhow here it is.

Quick scrapbook page - Jilbert

Flowers! and a moan

Hi Everyone a few piccies today, hope you won't get bored! I've been lacking mojo, at least that isn't quite right, I have so many ideas I can't start on one, because, as soon as I think of one, another pops into my head making it impossible to start. and the last one has gone and the second is going with a third coming in. I sound a little mad, but there you knew that didn't you?

 In the meantime here's some piccies of the garden this week.

 pink Camellia 

  

red Camellia

pink Camellia in full bloom

beautiful Rhododendron 

   

berberis thunbergii

 our Acer palmatum tree has flowers in Spring? They are so tiny.

Photinia Red Robin and a lime green Euphorbia 

   

a little Azealia, it's about 8 - 10 inches tall, 

but the flowers are about 3 inches across

 greenhouse with a selection of plants mostly for the front garden this year, hubby wanted to slow down a little. Although - he has added a packet or two of seeds in the additional little greenhouse he has. It's been so cold that the Antirrhinum on the top left are later going out that should be.

this is a NEW Variety of brambles,

 it has flowers which  look like dog poo in plastic bags!!!!!!!!!! -

It's at the back of our garden and filthy people throw the dog poo bags into it instead of taking it home. Hubby has taken it upon himself to remove it and dispose of it properly. 

Tea time

This is a filler scheduled post today, as it's my birthday and we have my #3 Brother and SiL visiting we intend to go out for a meal tonight. Not sure if I can schedule a post before they come or for a couple of days after, so

 if I miss visiting you, please accept my apologies.

TEA? Always in this house LOL

this was made from waste vinyl after doing the 

Teapots and cups in an earlier post.

should have had hats on and stayed a little later to see the tide right in.

Scrapbook pages

Hi Everyone, it's ages since I did a scrapbook page and as I still have very little mojo to actually make something physically, I thought I would try playing in PS and these were made, funny thing is, I could have done quite a few more if time had allowed.

Anyhow they are self explanatory, I hope you enjoy them. I used layout templates by Marisa Lerin at Pixelscrapper

Winter morning

 my eldest brother with his first Great Grand Daughter

My #3 brother, I did this last year, I thought I had blogged it but can't find it!!

AND
I thought I would show you what I found in our garden,
 after I glimpsed a bit of yellow. These crocus opening up on a cold and VERY wet, miserable day, they certainly gave me a smile, BUT aren't they early?

daffodils about to bend their heads, ready to flower, in the soggy soil.

 and more coming, promising a long flowering period, hopefully.

Fishes!

Hi Everyone,  a card today of "Fishes" LOL. The progressive challenge at the Outlawz has both these fish as images to use, a zentangle and a simple image, I loved playing and colouring these. I found the perfect paper, (I think) for them, which is one paper out of 2 sets I won in a challenge a few weeks ago. The angle of the photo has somehow made it look like the layered background paper isn't straight, I used my "Perfect Layers" ruler to do it so I know it is, why do cameras do that, OK! why do I take photos at the wrong angle? LOL

After layering it onto the card, I sprayed it with CC's Spray and Sparkle, so it has a lovely all over sparkly effect. 

Fish - Jean Chaney

Sentiment - Create with TLC

dp - We are 3

fish coloured in PS, 

sentiment with gradient overlay in PS

hope you can see the sparkle in this closeup

Now onto another digital scrapbook page of our weekend away, this time more personal, we had such a lovely time and were so spoilt by my family.

http://ikesworldchallengeblog.blogspot.co.uk/2017/08/ikesworld-challenges-95-anything-goes.html

http://craftycardmakers.blogspot.co.uk/2017/08/194-under-sea-or-at-beach.html

floral Sympathy

Hi Everyone, my make for the Outlawz Sketch challenge today is very, very simple, a couple of layers and one paper and something from my first crafting experiences, to embellish a card - gold stickers! The die cutting took ages though, getting the right sizes to fit LOL. I wanted, so much, to put more on, a die cut or something, but I resisted and the end result is something I am pleased with.

dp - Fontbundles Pattern flowers 3

square pieced dies - Sue Wilson

gold stickers - Dovecraft

I thought I would add another digital scrapbook page of our weekend away, aren't you thrilled? AND I have a couple more to share - all say Yippee! LOL

Her Horse

Hi Everyone, I have done a digital scrapbook page for the Digitally Made challenge, which is asking for pets or animals. We unfortunately don't have any pets now, but I do have a niece who is head over heels in love with her Spanish horse. This was a photo I got recently and I decided to use it to enter the challenge.

I used texture and masks in Photoshop to get the end result

Scrapbook page layout Marisa Lerin Pixelscrapper

mask over photo - Angelle Design

canvas texture - Fuzzimo

horse paper - Melo-Vrijhof at Pixelscrapper

mask over horse paper - SugarPlum Paperie

mask over background paper - Sheila Reid at Pixelscrapper

horseshoes - Moms Graphics

various Blending options

Our weekend break

Hi Everyone, I've had a little rest from blogging and it was quite pleasant, BUT gotta get back to it, to show you what I've been doing. I hope I've caught up with your blogs, but if I haven't I will try too soon.

Here's a scrapbook page of our 4 day break with my Brother and SiL in Linconshire. We had the most wonderful weather after all the rain we have had here, it was wonderful to feel the warmth of the sun and see blue skies ahhhhh!
I recently sent photos to be printed in a book, it came back so beautifully I decided to do another, this will be one of a double page spread. I intend to add digital pages of our weekend photos, so look out to be bored LOL.

The flag on the left is St Georges the English flag

the top right is the Royalist flag and the one under it is the Parliamentarian flag 

Summer living

Hi Everyone the challenge at Digitally Made is "Summer Fun / Patriotic". My make is of The Mumbles on the Gower Peninsula, such a lovely place to visit. Which means I'm going for Patriotic with a bit of Summer.  I used a scrapbook layout to put all this together, I'm not sure I will get the hang of scrapbook layouts, but I do enjoy doing it when I decide to.

scrapbook layout - Marisa Lerin Pixelscrapper

lollipops - Beach Set at Fontbundles

umbrella, bikini, lifebelt - Designbundles Summer time - Fontbundles

Books

Hi Everyone, had time on my hands and rather than do the ironing! UGH! I decided to make another scrapbook page for the digital blog challenge at Digitally Made. I saw this quote recently and made a note of it, that's what started the story on my page. 

A lot of things we read about and experience can give our lives excitement, danger, love and hate, just by turning a page, don't you just love reading? 

This page contains a lot of digital papers, elements and masks, so rather than list them, if you like the look of an image or paper, let me know and I will tell you where it's from and who by.

http://digitallymadechallenges.blogspot.co.uk/2017/06/challenge-2-quote.html