My Digi Scrapbook Pages

Book of Me LOs - October Challenge

2009-10-31T10:58:00.001-07:00

This month's challenge was to make a page about 10 things we love, 10 things that make us smile and 10 things we like about ourselves. As usual, I've made my adaptations to suit the Dual BOM album I'm doing for Sean and myself.

Part 1: what makes us smile - kit "Fizz" by Club Scrap; font: Spin Cycle + Space Cowboy

Part 2: what we like about each other - kit "Chapter One" by Club Scrap; fonts: Stocky + Minion Pro

Part 3: 10 things we love - kit "Ivory Elegance" by Club Scrap; Font: Santana regular/black

First pages of our recent District Bellringers' Outing

2009-10-25T13:38:00.000-07:00

On 10th October, we had a great time visiting and ringing at eight churches and seeing a working windmill in the Redhill area, with about 40 people attending from 14 different churches in the district. It was wonderful bright and sunny day, ideal for photography!

A summary page of the eight churches - more detailed in separate pages below.

We were due at the first church at 9:30am when it was still slightly misty and chilly before the sun came out to grace us.

A beautiful flower arrangement in a beautiful morning spot: the porch at St Katherine's.

All the churches were still lavishly decorated with autumn style flowers and props, as the weekend before had been Harvest festival. St Katherine's was one of the best for the flowers!

It also provided this very funny scene of ringers "gathered around the pumpkin" which adorned the font in the middle of the ringing chamber.

The bright and cheerful Fly Agarics always remind me of fairy stories from my childhood - these were spotted in the churchyward of the 2nd church.

Lunch was at Bletchingly and entailed a 10-minute walk from church to pub, partly through the idyllic Church Lane and past the Manse cottage.

A break from ringing in the afternoon to make a short detour to Outwood mill, the oldest post mill in England, where we received a short tour of the inside. The photo is the view from the upstairs window.

Book of Me LOs

2009-09-25T08:30:00.000-07:00

It's been a long time since something went into this blog but I did a lot of paper scrapbooking, finishing a wedding keepsake book for my friend Emily (which you can see on my website - click here and look down the links page for "Emily & Giles Wedding") and tried to keep up-to-date with my Book Reviews and Faithbook pages...
But now I'm taking part in the new Book of Me challenge with Club Scrap, doing a page for each topic for both myself and Sean. With three topics a months, that's quite a few pages and here are the September ones:

The first pair is on the topic of names I've used the CS Apothecary kit and one of the templates included and made the pages to match. Fonts: Andreas Typewriter and EK Lollipops

The 2nd pair is on the topic of roles in life. I used the CS Matrix kit and one of the templates that came with it. Font is LDC.

The third pair is on the topic of personalities. I used the CS Gimme a Ring kit and one of the quickpages that came with it. Font is Honey Script.

I've followed the same challenge some years back, doing a traditional scrapbook for myself only (for Sean this is the first time). So I'm trying to cover additional angles or changes in my pages and sometimes refer to what has gone before. You can see the old pages on my website (same link as above for Emily's book but page down to find the link called BOM).

The Dance Story

2009-07-31T05:53:00.001-07:00

Kit used: "Memoirs" by Club Scrap (including quickpage)
Font: Jayne Print
LO completed: 25.07.2009
Created for the Club Scrap PSL summer kits challenge and based on a quickpage that came with the "Memoirs" kit, adapted and added to.
Three of the women from our dance group (Emily's practical project for her Masters degree!) presenting a worship dance during the signing of registers at the wedding of Emily and Giles.

Hypericum

2009-07-31T05:48:00.000-07:00

Kits used: "Memoirs" and "Body & Soul" by Club Scrap
Font: Exocet
Template: Club Scrap ("Memoirs")
LO completed: 25.07.2009
Created for the Club Scrap PSL summer kits challenge. I used the complete photo on the clipping mask for the matte and zoomed in on it for the actual photo.
These are the boring bushes that grow between our and the neighbours' paths to our front doors - they come to live for a month in summer and look really lovely and bright.

Test Station

2009-07-31T05:45:00.000-07:00

Kit used: "Matrix" by Club Scrap
Font: LCD
Template: Pink + Blue Designs
LO completed: 26.07.2009
Created for the Club Scrap PSL summer kits challenge.
One of Sean's current project: designed a photovoltaic cells array for our roof to harness solar energy.

Birthday Boy - Birthday Cake

2009-07-31T05:41:00.000-07:00

Kit used: "Memoirs" by Club Scrap (including quickpages)
Font: Kristen
LO completed: 23.07.2009
A double page (Birthday Boy left side, Birthday Cake right side) about Sean's birthday - created for Club Scrap PSL summer kits challenge. Both sides using quickpages from the kit.

Memoirs - Irish Dancing

2009-07-31T05:38:00.000-07:00

Kit used: "Memoirs" by Club Scrap (including quickpage)
Font: Patrick
LO completed: 21.07.2009
Created for the Club Scrap PSL summer kit challenge and based on a quickpage that came with the kit.
Photos from the 25 year celebration show of the dance school Eleanor and Zoe go to. This was the highlight dance (last before finale) which featured Eleanor in her competition Irish dancing costume and wig!

Hollyhock Harmony

2009-07-31T05:35:00.000-07:00

Kit used: "Memoirs" by Club Scrap (including quickpage)
Font: Script MT bold
LO completed: 21.07.2009
Created for the Club Scrap PSL summer kit challenge and based on the quickpage that came with the kit, modified and added to.
The hollyhock in our garden was wonderful this year!

Cornflower Beauty

2009-07-31T05:31:00.001-07:00

Kit used: "Memoirs" by Club Scrap (including quickpage)
Font: Jayne Print
LO completed: 23.07.2009
Created for Club Scrap PSL summer kits challenge.
Photo taken during the photo session in the church yard at Emily and Giles' wedding. The title refers to the lovely cornflowers she had in her bouquet and crown, and also decorations in church and on the carriage. The flowers were all grown in our allotment.

Chance Encounter

2009-07-31T05:13:00.000-07:00

Kit used: "Memoirs" by Club Scrap
Font: Bradley Hand
LO completed: 26.07.2009
LO completed for the Club Scrap PSL Summer kit challenge.
The photos were taken a few days before in our allotment where we found this rare endangered snake - really cute little thing!

St George's Day Album

2009-07-15T06:55:00.000-07:00

Kit used: "Liberty" by Michelle Coleman (July kit from Scrappers' Guide)
Fonts: Eras medium + Lucida
Album completed: 04.07.2009
St George's Day is the English equivalent to the 4th of July, so although much less elaborately celebrated, it seemed the best choice for this somewhat patriotic kit. It's a good thing the Union Jack has the same colours as the Stars+Stripes...
All pages are based on the quickpage album that came with the kit, and for 2-page layouts I have added the full layout as well as the single pages for more detail...

Homo Meerkats

2009-07-15T06:47:00.000-07:00

Kit used: PYP June by Laitha
Font: Beyond Wonderland
Layout completed: 30.06.2009
A layout completed for a forum challenge - the kit came in greyscale and you had to change everything to colours to suit your chosen photo.
The photo is from the Churches, Crypts and Clerics walk of the London Goth Meetup Group in March 2009 and came to me from one of the other walkers, done up in sepia as it is here. It shows me sitting next to my friend Eve but it was the funny posture, all four of us sitting in the same way and looking at the same thing, that inspired the title...

More Book Reviews

2009-06-16T11:19:00.000-07:00

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

2009-06-16T11:17:00.000-07:00

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

2009-06-16T11:14:00.000-07:00

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

2009-06-16T11:12:00.000-07:00

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

2009-06-16T11:09:00.001-07:00

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

2009-06-16T11:07:00.001-07:00

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

2009-06-16T11:04:00.000-07:00

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

2009-06-16T11:03:00.001-07:00

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

2009-06-16T10:53:00.000-07:00

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

2009-06-16T10:51:00.000-07:00

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

2009-06-16T10:49:00.001-07:00

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

2009-06-16T10:47:00.000-07:00

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

2009-06-16T10:44:00.000-07:00

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

2009-06-16T10:39:00.001-07:00

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

2009-06-16T10:37:00.000-07:00

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

2009-06-16T10:35:00.001-07:00

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

2009-06-16T10:33:00.000-07:00

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

2009-06-16T10:31:00.000-07:00

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

2009-06-16T10:27:00.000-07:00

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

2009-06-16T10:24:00.000-07:00

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

2009-06-16T10:17:00.000-07:00

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

2009-06-16T10:14:00.000-07:00

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

2009-06-16T10:11:00.000-07:00

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

2009-06-16T10:03:00.001-07:00

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

2009-06-16T09:57:00.000-07:00

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

2009-06-16T09:53:00.000-07:00

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

2009-06-16T09:50:00.000-07:00

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

2009-06-16T09:42:00.000-07:00

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.