More Book Reviews

Theese are the latest book review pages published on my other blog:

The Long Afternoon
http://petrabooks.blogspot.com/2009/06/long-afternoon.html

The War of the Worlds
http://petrabooks.blogspot.com/2009/06/war-of-worlds.html

The Secret Garden
http://petrabooks.blogspot.com/2009/06/secret-garden.html

LOs completed 11th June 2009.

Time

Kit used: "A Time for Everything" by Valerie Brumfield
Font: Century Schoolbook
Template: Michelle Filo
LO completed: 11th June 2009
A sculpture we saw at Spring Harvest and which totally fascinated me.
LO for the GDS Be Inspired Challenge - the inspiration was a LO made with clock pieces which for me translated into the "Time" theme...

Bellringing Champions

Kit uesd: "For the Graduate" by Andrea Gold
Fonts: Matura Script + Pristina
Template by Andrea Gold
LO completed: 11th June 2009
Our band won this trophy in a local competition in the Call Changes section (I wasn't ringing, but Sean and FIL were!).
LO for GDS Template Challenge.

Sophie's New Look

Kit used: quickpage by Dani Alencar
Fonts: Jokewood + Mariah
LO completed: 10th June 2009
A photo Sophie sent in an email earlier this year.
LO for GDS Style Challenge.

Nigella

Kit used: "Catch the Day" - GDS Collab kit
Font: Beyond Wonderland
Template by Andrea Gold
LO completed: 10th June 2009
Our garden is full of nigella - we sowed them the year we moved in here and they have multiplied ever since...
LO for GDS template challenge.

Longacres

Kit used: "Catch the Day" - GDS Collab kit
Font: Monotype Corsiva
Template by Andrea Gold (included with kit)
LO completed: 10th June 2009
A visit to our favourite garden centre...
LO for GDS Collab Kit Challenge.

Recycle

Kit used: "Butterfly Heaven" by Dancing Princess Designs
Font: Bernhard Mod
Template from Club Scrap "Avant Garde" kit
LO completed: 7th June 2009
Sean and I had a major clear-out in the shed, followed by a trip to the local recycle point.
LO for GDS Colour Challenge.

Wallflowers

Kit used: "Sweetpea" by Carena Scott
Font: Century Schoolbook
Template from Club Scrap "Artifacts" kit
LO completed: 7th June 2009
Another garden photo...
LO for GDS Digi Dish Challenge.

T is for Travel

Kit used: "Affair in Red Square" by Scrapalooza Designs
Fonts: CK Scratchy Box + Chaucer
Template by ConnyB
LO competed: 6th June 2009
Just to have a memory of the hilarious event of using Sean's new GPS for the first time...
LO for GDS ABD Challenge - letter T.

S is for Smile

Kit used: "Affair in Red Square" by Scrapalooza Designs
Font: Harlow Solid
Template by ConnyB
LO completed: 6th June 2009
Another portrait taken on our 10th wedding anniversary.
LO for GDS ABC Challenge - letter S.

No More Fun in the Sun

Kit used: "Concrete Jungle" by Club Scrap
Wordart by Mickey B Designs
Font: Amazone
Template by: Daly
LO completed: 6th June 2009
Fountains on the promenade in Staines.
LO for the GDS Wordart Challenge - the whole idea/theme for this LO was inspired by the given title wordart.

Sunset

Kit used: "Rhapsody" by Club Scrap
Fonts: Bradley Hand + 101 Kidlet Sunshine
Template: Michelle Filo
LO completed: 6th June 2009
Sunset photo taken on the way back from Sheringham.
LO for the GDS Font Challenge.

Tea in Style

Kit used: "Collections" by Club Scrap; flowers from kit "In his World" by Veronica Spriggs
Font: Santana
Template: Amber Reimer
LO completed: 6th Jun 2009
Pictures taken last year in Sheringham during our last visit to Sean's Nan.
LO for the GDS Multiple Photo LO Challenge.

Our Garden in May

Kit used: "In his World" by Veronica Spriggs
Font: TypoUpright
LO completed: 4th June 2009
More flowers in our garden - these are in late May: pulsatilla, aquilegia, wallflowers, American lilac, rosebud.
Using up another spare page from this month's subscription album.

Chiefie

Kit used: "In his World" by Veronica Spriggs
Font: Viner Hand
LO completed: 4th June 2009
Chiefie in her favourite pose...September 2008.
Using up a spare album LO from my May Scrapper's Guide kit.

Tin Anniversary

Kit used: "From the Heart" with swirls from "Ivory Elegance" - both by Club Scrap
Font: The King and Queen
LO completed: 3rd June 2009
Photos taken on our 10th wedding anniversary.
LO made from scratch, playing with photo saturation.

Bellringing Trip to Kent

This is the album I made with my June kit from Scrapper's Guide:

http://petra.hostit.us/scrapbook/

Then click on 2008 and at the bottom of this page click "More Photos".

LOs made 1st to 3rd June 2009.

Portrait

Kit used: "Henna" by Club Scrap
Font: James Fajardo
LO completed: 31st May 2009
Photo taken on our 10th wedding anniversary.
LO following a technique from the May Scraprap on how to "colour in" a giant stamp.

Cream Tea at the Ritz

Kit used: "Henna" by Club Scrap
Font: James Fajardo
LO completed: 31st May 2009
Eve and I had the most fantastic cream tea at the Ritz in London - a very special outing!
LO inspired by the May Scraprap, using cluster brushes made from stamps. I also tried out a word brush title border.

My first three book review pages

I have a special blog for book reviews. Click on the links below to see the respective pages:

The Alchemist
http://petrabooks.blogspot.com/2009/05/alchemist.html

The Shack
http://petrabooks.blogspot.com/2009/05/shack.html

The Shadow of the Wind
http://petrabooks.blogspot.com/2009/05/shadow-of-wind.html

LOs completed: 27th May 2009

Adele's 50s Birthday Party

This is the album completed with the May kit of my Scrapper's Guide subscription.

http://petra.hostit.us/scrapbook/

then click on 2008 and at the bottom of that page click on "more photos".

Los completed 4th to 6th May 2009.

Return from Sheringham

Kit used: "Henna" by Club Scrap
Font: CK Marker
LO completed: 2nd May 2009
Photos taken while driving on the M25, capturing the sunset.
LO following the Scraprap ideas of making your own papers using stamps as brushes, and using special shape rounded rectangular as clipping mask for getting rounded corners on photos.

Spring Colours

Kit used: "Avant Garde" by Club Scrap
Font: "CK Scratchy Box"
LO completed: 2nd May 2009
Flowers in our garden, April-May 2009.
LO idea from May Scraprap with the used of photo slices and vellum overlays.

Bellringers' BBQ

Kit used: "Common Threads" by Club Scrap
Font: Myriad Pro
LO completed: 31st April 2009
The Old Windsor Bellringers having a BBQ at the Tower Captain's Mum's place.
LO made from scratch, trying out brush techniques.

Pancakes

Kit used: "Henna" by Club Scrap
Font: SF Expresso Shack
LO completed: 2nd May 09
This is me learning to make "English pancakes" - the type you flip in the pan. This was for Pancake Day 2009, and it was a rather hilarious experience. I'll certainly try again!
The LO idea from the Scraprap (multi-photo LO and chunky title used a clipping mask for paper).

Oliver Twist

Kit used: "Memories by Vera Lim
Font: Myriad Pro
LO completed: 31st April 09
This is my SIL and BIL in their costumes for the Christmas performance of the amateur playgroup they belong to - this was in 2008, "Oliver Twist". Both played various small rolls but here they are the maid and the butler...
The page was created following a "designer tips" tutorial from Scrapper's Guide.

Victoria + Albert Museum, London - ALBUM

This is the album made with my April subscription kit from Scrapper's Guide

http://petra.hostit.us/scrapbook/

then click on "2008".

LOs completed 24th to 26th April 2009.

What this blog is about

I've started this blog to have a place to quickly and easily upload all my recent scrapbook pages. Most of these will be done digitally now and they include just inspirational pages as well as those made from tutorials and for challenges and contests at the various forums I belong to.
One of my subscriptions also comes with a premade set of pages for seven 2-page spreads in a styled album, and these I will not feature here, but rather as a complete album on my main website. I do one of those every month and will post the link here as soon as they are uploaded.