ROCKING YOUR WORLD FRIDAY - 39TH OF 2015

Morning all, tis Friday so means only one thing in this household

Meeting up with a friend and old work colleague last Friday was lovely, we haven't seen each other in an absolute age so it was great to have a proper chat and put the world to rights!

Saturday saw us doing lots of jobs that needed doing, so it was one of those tootling days, but we enjoyed it nonetheless.

Sunday saw said 15 year old take part in the local colour run for the local hospice.

Here he is before the race started - yes I did say before!

And this is after the event, when we managed to find one of my cousins and his daughter (who had been desperate to join in), it was so lovely to see them.  They decided this year to add in some bubbles near the end, I'm not convinced making the paint stick was such a great idea!

Thankfully this year said 15 year old didn't ruin the bath mat and managed to scrub himself clean enough to not cause undue issues with his white school shirts over subsequent days!

The rest of the week has been it's usual self, racing along at a merry old pace.  We did have a really great day on Wednesday at work, I work for a homelessness charity and attended a launch event for a project.  We've piloted the work for a while and this was the launch of new funding.  The afternoon was filled not only with guest speakers who are highly regarded in their field but also speeches by young people that the project has already helped, me and my fellow colleagues got quite emotional and teary with some of the stories and it really left us feeling positive and upbeat about the work we are doing.  It was also great for me as I often see names and numbers but never the actual people we are helping as I'm based in the finance department.

I'm also grateful for the listening ear of my fellow slimming world members who gave me a few pointers on Tuesday as I've definitely lost my way.

I'm also very very grateful for said 15 year old and hubby helping to clean on Thursday evening, the house always feels so much happier when it's all clean and spic and span.

So there you have it my lovely people, my week of happy and grateful moments. I hope yours has been just as positive, if you fancy joining in pop a post together, pop back and link up.

MORNING

Morning all - well officially 31st March - how did that happen - no really how?

So thought I'd share a few layouts from the blog folder.  First up said 14 year old and me after his colour assault challenge last year - had no idea how much of the paint had ended up on us until we got home - I had green hair!

Then a family barbecue at home just chilling 

And finally a layout showing elements of Much Wenlock Priory including a panoramic shot!

Hope you are having a happy scrapping day!

CKCB COLOUR CHALLENGE - #5

My final layout linked with the fabulous challenges set by the counterfeit kit colour challenge for national scrapbooking day, this one was to do with primary colours, the background striped paper is blue red and a pale yellow, I added a brighter yellow and embossed some red cardstock to make the picture pop, lots of ribbons, some stars raised on foam pads, a blue title using some fabulous stickers from Wear Crafts and it came together, documenting my utter giddiness at seeing Mr David Tennant last year in Richard II at the RSC!

May I thank all the girls on the counterfeit kit challenge blog for making some fabulous challenges - I've had a blast - thank you!

CKCB COLOUR CHALLENGE #4 - RAINBOW

Now I've been working my way through the challenges on the counterfeit kit blog linked with national scrapbook day, it's been great fun.  Lesley's challenge was rainbow - yes that's right folks using every colour of the rainbow on my layout, now although I had a couple of papers in my kit this month that would most definitely have met most of the colours and therefore could have been used with a couple of additions, I fancied having a go at a technique in the Scrap365 magazine this month and I must admit I'm really rather pleased with the effect.

It started out as sheet of white cardstock, 7 acrylic paints were dragged out, as was mini brayer and away I went, I put the colours together that seemed to be more pleasing on the eye (I was tempted to go with the song, but thought there might be some significant colour clash).  Then I waited for it to dry, used some white gesso, a few stamps on the background in black, a few ink splats and it was done.

I've used a photo of the fantastic window at the new Coventry cathedral that we were lucky enough to visit last year.  My journalling is hidden behind the photo, which I matted up on purple and white to make it stand out.

Hope you've had a fabulous scrapping day!

CKCB COLOUR CHALLENGE #3 COLOURFUL EMBELLISHMENTS

Good morning, well I'm sharing another layout for the counterfeit kit challenge blog's colour challenge, this was challenge number 3 and it was to use colourful embellishments.

I used an offcut from the fantastic Wear Crafts mini book kit that I recently received for the title (the bit that says Life documented).  I used an instagram shot of my Mum and sister when we visited Chatsworth last year and used the colour orange as the main prompt from the photo, adding orange half circle elements and a scalloped piece and some arrows.  However it didn't 'pop' enough, so I used some little bunting stickers and some shiny dots before adding the tag and the 'memories' sticker.  I'm really pleased with it, not only do the embellishment 'lift' the layouts, but as all of these were in my counterfeit kit for this month they cover both tasks.

The background paper I've had forever and never actually thought I'd use, this is why I love love love the counterfeit kit challenge because I use up papers that quite honestly will probably never be used otherwise!

Hope you're having a great happy scrapping day.

CKCB - COLOUR CHALLENGE #2

So this morning I shared my take on the first colour challenge on the Counterfeit Kit Colour Challenge from national scrapbook day, this afternoon I'm sharing my take on the second challenge - the challenge was using black/white/grey with one other colour to create a layout, now this was an interesting balance if I'm honest.  

I went rummaging through my stash found some white and grey papers and a 12 x 12 that I'd created using my gelli plate last year with lots of masks and purple paint. The cog embellishment was part of a Secret Santa gift I received last year, I punched white and purple stars out of the offcuts.  Handstitched the buttons and ribbon to the paper and added a couple of accent items behind.  I then grabbed the predominantly purple photo and put this together.

I really enjoyed the concept of this one and plan on using it again in the future!  

COUNTERFEIT COLOUR CHALLENGE FOR NSD 2014

Good morning, thought I'd better put what I've managed to put together this month for the colour challenge that was on counterfeit kit blog's national scrapbook day challenge.

This is the first challenge set which was around colours and mood.  Now strangely enough I don't normally scrap in yellow - not sure why, and I've had this paper at the back an absolute age, it had a bright garrish edge element to it, which I cut away and put a more subtle blend behind it, punched out the hearts and stuck them down and stitched around them, I am really pleased with the layout and have discovered that yellow makes me HAPPY to scrap with!

I've got more to share, but dashing off to work - so you'll have to wait until later, hope you have a happy scrapping day!   As this came out of my May kit for CKCB it covers both elements - win win!