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Rossanowlagh Beach – Summery Memories!

July 28th, 2010

Hey everyone,
Today I have a scrapbook layout to share. It’s funny how a single photo can bring back so many memories.

When we were growing up, summer holidays were full of fond memories of Rossanowlagh Beach. Every year we would go, with either friends or family. When we were very young, the beach meant jumping the waves with mummy, or building sandcastles. As we grew up, the beach meant playing with velcro-catch and digging massive dad-sized holes, and eventually it meant playing frisbee and catching the rays. No matter what we were doing, the beach always meant fun!

So the last time I was home in Northern Ireland, and Mum and Dad mentioned a trip to the beach, I jumped at the chance of re-living my childhood memories. I couldn’t help but take a photo through the car window of the ‘wee house’ that is the iconic feature of Rossanowlagh beach. All those memories came flooding back with just one glance of that stone structure. It makes me happy!

And so, it needed to be scrapped! With happy, bright summery colours, perfect for the beach! It was fun putting it all together.

Love it!!

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(p.s. just figured out that Rossnowlagh doesn’t have an ‘a’ in the middle. Whoopsies! ah, well, it did in my memories, so i’m not bothered’. hee heee!)

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Tags: alpha stickers, beach, brads, cath kidston, chipboard, circle, doodlebug, flower, gem, hearts, mme, October afternoon, pinwheel, polka, rub on, scrapbook, sewing, Stitching, summer, tag
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A Busy Weekend & A Quick & Easy Miss You Monday Card

July 26th, 2010

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Another weekend over, hope you’re ready to start the week all over again!

I’ve had a busy one this weekend, because Craig and I are house hunting! Yeay!! Between searching online, booking appointments, checking out local areas and calculating the budget, its been hard work. But I know it will all pay off. I hope it all goes smoothly!

Another thing in life just now – at work we are preparing for fundraising day. We are selling raffle tickets to raise money for Debra, Macmillan cancer appeal and X, but we are also hosting a fundraising day to help gather some money for such a great cause. We are having a ‘Guess the Name of the Teddy competition’, so after buying a cute little bear in town, I put together a quick page using freebie digital scrapbooking kits. {By the way, it was Criag’s idea to put the name ‘Andrew’ in there?!!?!? I don’t think anyone would name their teddy Andrew?! Would they?!! }

We are also doing a “guess the number of sweeties in the jar”. We are trying to figure out if we can put together a jar easily ourselves, but we may go for this pre-made charity jar. They count the number of sweeties already and email it to you so you don’t have to count them yourself. I thought that was a crackin’ idea!

The other thing we are doing is a Treasure Map – where you guess where the treasure is hidden. Of course, I jumped at the chance of drawing the map, and i’ve been having lots of fun with my distress inks. Here’s what it looks like so far: (dodgy phone camera photo)

Okay, so with a weekend full of house hunting and preparing fundraising ideas, I had to make a quick and easy Miss You Monday card for Sarah. So this is it:

Products used:
Fly free stamp – Unity Stamps
Butterfly stamp – Unity stamps
Mask – I made this myself, I simply cut out a heart from thin copy paper.
Distress ink – Worn lipstick

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Tags: butterflies, distress ink, fundraising, tim holtz, unity stamps
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Our First Car – Scrapbook Layout

July 24th, 2010

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Hey there everyone,

Another layout to share today.

This time i got my fingers messy as I played with some Cosmic Shimmers sprays! FUN FUN FUN!

I thought it was about time I scrapped about our first car. Most people probably dream about getting their first car when they are about 16 -17 years old, but no, not me. I never actually got off my butt to even start to learn to drive until this year! Whoops, i’m ten years behind the game! Meh, i don’t care!

Even though I was 27, not 17, it was still just as exciting when we went to go car shopping! I was like a big kid, almost hyperventilating at the fact that we were going to bring home our first car. Eeeek!!

No more walking into town in the thundering rain!
No more bored days at home.
No more going into Guildford because it was something to do – now we can go anywhere we want. See new places, have new adventures, picnics, forest walks, drive to the airport!!! AwESoMe!!

And so we picked one. A little Renault Clio. And I love it! I’m sure it will get plenty of scrapes and bumps and bruises, but it’ll always be our first car!

So this layout isn’t one of my clean and simple layouts, but is a bit more carefree. I just had fun when I was making it!

Journaling reads:
It was so exciting going & looking at cars. We picked out a few that ticked the boxes & began to narrow down the choices. Can you believe the best one was teal – my favourite colour!! When we saw the number plate, it sealed the deal. A little Scottish Clio – the perfect choice! Proud as punch, I insisted that you took a photo of this momentous day – of me and our new car!

Products Used

Pattern Paper – ‘Sundress’ from the lemonade collection, Basic Grey
cogs mask, tim holtz
cosmic shimmer
sizzlets watercolour papers
sewing machine
baby pack stickers
october afternoon paper (yellow flowers)
doodlebug loopy lou alpha stickers
white signo pen
stickers – border strip and arrow
papermania brad
button
string
doodlebug cardboard stickers
making memories shimmerz silver alphas
making memories tiny alphas, black
glitz designs rub ons
black pigment marker
K&co chipboard to go- (pink and green tag)