Inspiration seems to be a bit thin on the ground for me at the moment, but I managed to make these cards with some of my new Banana Frog stamps.... I used That Takes The Cake, Teen Tiny Full Set, and Paperchains stamps.
A little bit of Stickles for some of the icing!
I also tried out my new watercolour pencils - £6.00 from Tesco! I thought I had better try some out first and see if I used them before I splashed out on some expensive ones!

OK, so I started off with a layout instead! Picture is from inside the Reflections of China exhibition at Epcot - we wanted to watch the 3D film but unfortunately they were having technical difficulties!
Papers are from Basic Grey and Making Memories. Alpha's are Scenic Route and Heidi Swapp, and I used a Prima crystal swirl (I cut it in half to make it go a bit further!). I also used some of my new stamps from Banana Frog - the dotty circle is from Concentric.

I know, I know, I'm a bad blogger! Sometimes life gets in the way of scrapbooking, LOL! I've nothing to share with you today but I have just had a lovely delivery from Banana Frog with some new stamps for me to play with, so fingers crossed I will get something done this weekend! Maybe I will start out small....a few cards? Work my way up to a layout? Watch this space!

...down by the sea! Well, not really the sea, more of a lake, but it was close enough for me! Pictures are from our January trip to Orlando back in 2006, it was soooo nice to get away from the horrible british weather (although there were a couple of days when we had to get bundled up in fleeces and woolly hats, it was still better than being at home!)
I have used some more of the lovely Jenni Bowlin papers from Banana Frog, along with Budmo Jiggler and Teen Tiny Full Set stamps for the title and the journalling. I managed to squeeze a bit of bling on there too, I used my Bejeweller to stick the crystals onto the chipboard swirls!
Free P&P at Banana Frog this weekend too - finishes tonight!

LOL, well, not really - 8 years this year! This is a LO I did for Banana Frog, I thought I would see if I could use my Take Note journalling stamps to make a nice frame for the picture - love how it turned out!
I really like these colours at the moment, especially when combined with the old book print...

Picture of my mum and dad enjoying an afternoon in Celebration, Florida. It's a great place to just people watch and see how the other half live!
I was struggling a bit with inspiration today so I thought I would just keep it simple - have mainly used bits from the Studio Calico May kit with the addition of some felt Thickers and a few Making Memories flowers and tags.
It's been so hot today I have almost felt like I was back in Florida! Shame we don't have the same air conditioning though!

Apologies for the lack of regular blogging - it's been a busy week! Hopefully I will have time to do some scrapping tomorrow, I have a lovely Studio Calico kit here waiting for me...

Used some more bits from Aprils Scrapagogo kit for this one - Cinderella's Castle by night, all lit up in pink! I thought it would be ideal for this dotty Making Memories paper. I also used some Queen & Co felt ribbon and some MM chipboard buttons. I used Banana Frog Paperchain stamps for the title - thought I would keep the title quite small as it just looked too much when I tried it with some bigger chipboard letters!

I just about managed to complete this layout in between painting what felt like the WHOLE house in the last two days (although it was only the living room, stairs and landing really!). Still, it will be nice to feel that we have actually achieved something over the bank holiday weekend for a change!
I love these two pictures - they are just two of many that I took at the mini golf place across the road from the hotel. The colours are so vivid and summery - look at that blue sky!
I used up some Basic Grey monogram die cuts that I have had for ages, a couple of them didn't really match the colours I wanted so I inked them to make them fit better. I then distressed the edges with my nify little BG precision file set. I used KI lace cardstock that came in Aprils Scrapagogo kit, and the Scenic Route paper was from the month before! A bit of Heidi Swapp tape, some MM tags and flowers and I of course I had to use the new stamps I picked up at the Range the other day (99p! Bargain!).

Well, I guess I can blog this layout now that the May issue of Scrapbook Inspirations is out! I submitted this a couple of months ago and was really pleased that it was accepted for the readers gallery!
Look! I am a new face! LOL! I'm not sure if you can read the print on the photo but the pictures were from a walk round our local country park last September. I used Bazzil Bling cardstock (which looks great but is really difficult to get things to stick to!), the tree and label were cut on the Craft Robo using digital brushes as a template, (Katie Pertiet Holiday Trees and Jennifer Pebbles Swank Labels) the leaves were also cut on the CR from Basic Grey papers, Heidi Swapp chipboard letters and finally some little crystals!

We came across this book in a shop in Downtown Disney and of course I had to take a picture! Tongue firmly in cheek, of course ;-)
I used some of my lovely Jenni Bowlin stash from Banana Frog, Budmo Jiggler stamps for the title and Funky Flowers and Take Note stamped on to old book pages (and believe me, it was very hard for me to rip pages out of a book, even if it was an old one!)


And it's Bank Holiday weekend - always nice to look forward to that extra day off work!

I used the April Scrapagogo kit for this layout showing a picture of one of the lovely floral arrangements we saw at Epcot last May during the Flower and Garden festival.

I thought I would join in with Shimelle's latest challenge to "Scrap Your Day" - the idea is that on the 25th of every month for a year we take our camera's out with us and snap away, and then record the day in our scrapbook. I was lucky enough to get one of the kits from Shimelle, and I have prepared most of my pages in advance with patterned paper and cardstock so all I have to do on the 25th is take my piccys and write some journalling!
I normally end up using the computer for journalling on something like this but I thought what the heck, just handwrite it - much less bother!
I'm surprised I managed as many pictures as I did (although I totally forgot to get a shot of my alarm clock when I woke up!), some of them like my self portrait were a bit blurry but I used them anyway ;-)
At least the traffic jam I sat in on the M6 coming back from Stafford is recorded for posterity now!

Here's a layout I completed with some of the lovely stash that Bev sent me. I love the colours of these Jenni Bowlin papers - so summery! The picture is my mum and dad in the Magic Kingdom last year, just look at that beautiful blue sky...*sigh*...I need a holiday!The papers are from Jenni Bowlins Tangerine Dream collection, and I used Paperchains stamps for the title...
And some little flowers from Tropical Garden...

Thought I would share a mini book I made a little while ago with you - I used pictures from Seuss landing at Islands of Adventure in Orlando, and lots of colourful bits and pieces! The front cover is made from felt - I cut out a frame sort of shape from two different colours and stitched them together with a little stuffing in the middle to make a cushion, then attached the photo to the front with embroidery thread through eyelets!
I used little quotes from Dr Seuss throughout the mini book...
Banana Frog, Autumn Leaves and Technique Tuesday stamps...
And some colourful Crate paper too...

I'm sure my husband will agree that this is a very fitting title! Pictures from one of our shopping trips to the Mall at Millenia in Orlando last year, it's full of very swanky shops like Tiffanys, Jimmy Choo's and Louis Vuitton, but I know my strengths and concentrated my efforts in Bloomingdales and the Quiksilver shop!
I've used Scenic Route papers, KI cardstock lace, AC and Scenic Route alphas, and a few buts of bling and buttons. The Billabong label came off one of the purchases - I just thought it was pretty!

I was trying to upload this yesterday, but Blogger was sulking and didn't want to play (apparantly there is some problem with photo uploading on Blogger at the moment, it's a bit hit and miss as to whether it actually works!).
I have been playing with my new Banana Frog stamps again; Budmo Jiggler for the title with some teeny crystals, Take Note on the journalling spot, and the hearts are from Paperchains, papers are K&Co Amy Butler...

So glad I finally got to use my AC Jewellery Box Thickers - they are just right for this title! I was going for a mythical kind of look on this layout and I am really happy with how it turned out. The Queen & Co felt swirls really set it off nicely, well, I think so anyway! I used Basic Grey Obscure papers, a bit of Technique Tuesday chipboard and a Bazzil Edge with my pictures of the Duelling Dragons coaster at Islands of Adventure in Orlando (or, as I like to call it, the "dangly legs" coaster!)
You know, I really wasn't sure about the Obscure papers when they came out, I thought they were a bit TOO obscure, but they have definately grown on me...

Last Sunday we went out for lunch - of course I had to take my camera! Unfortunately as I am still getting used to shooting in something other than automatic, I completely forgot that I had been taking pictures outdoors the day before and had the ISO set to 100, so most of the pictures came out a little dark. Still, you live and learn!

I thought I would share some of the pictures I have taken this week as part of the Painting With Light workshop. It took me a while but I am happy with these ones! First is my desk lamp - I love the way you can see me and the whole room reflected so clearly in the lamp!
Next is one from the garden - the remnants of a blackberry bush that my neighbour chopped down last year...And finally - my CD tower! I was lying on the living room floor for this one...