Month in Review - November

I've finished the penultimate pages in my Scrapagogo Month in Review Yearbook!  I really can't believe that the year is nearly over!  I am all ready for next year though, and I already have my 8 x 8 album.  I just need to see what the GoGo girls will come up with!

I loved the November Scrapagogo Kit, but I wasn't sure if my photographs for November would go.  I really didn't have to worry!  November is a quiet month for us, the calm before the storm, as we have 2 birthday's and Christmas all in the space of 6 weeks!  Page 1 is recording that I had my first Starbucks Skinny Gingerbread Latte, minus the cream of course, and Remembrance Sunday.  We didn't go to church this year, but we watched the ceremony on TV.

I loved the Pink Paislee Vintage Vogue Spool Buttons, they are really different.  I gathered a length of black lace trim underneath the button and attached to my layout.

Page 2 records Emily's passion for having her face painted.  The lady that painted her face in this picture is now booked for Emily's 5th Birthday, as she was so good!  We also went to our local Indian for a meal.  I really liked the ready embellishment printed onto the paper, so I used this as part of my design by adding a couple of butterflies punched with my Martha Stewart punch, and one of the Prima Trinkets and more black lace.

I start taking my December photo's on Sunday, which is Jame's 13th birthday, so watch this space for my last pages in my book.  Thanks for following my journey through 2011!

Month in Review - October 2011

I can't believe that we are coming towards the end of the year!!  I've thoroughly enjoyed my Month in Review with the Scrapagogo girls so far, so much so, that I've already bought my 8 x 8 American Crafts Album ready for next year!!!!

October saw us having a lazy half term week, going to Longleat to experience their Halloween Fest and to see their amazing firework display, and us having our own Halloween at home!  We gave away 52 cup cakes in about 20 minutes and 2.5kgs of Sweets!

Longleat had a pumpkin hunt!  We had to find 10 pumpkins with pictures on them in order to claim a bag of Cadbury Halloween Eggs.  We also enjoyed hot fresh doughnuts at the end of the day!

October's Scrapagogo kit had some Studio Calico Fabrip in it, which I love!  The fabric is easy to rip off the backing sheet, and you can do what you want with it!  I pleated mine to make the flowers on my pages, but you can scrunch it, stamp on it, punch it, make flowers and so much more.

I had my photo's printed at Costco this time and they included an index card, which I used on my Month in Review Page to add some interest.  I attached them to my pages using foam pads to give a bit of dimension.

This year, Emily wanted to dress up, although she left her hat at dancing!  Craig and the kiddies also decorated the front of our house.  I included another Fabrip flower with a green centre to balance up my pages.

I used the fabric tags down the centre of my second page to add some interest.  I used a black Memento Ink Pad to stamp the boo.  It's the first time I've stamped on fabric, and I'm really pleased with the results.  I hope you all had a Happy Halloween.

A Month in Review - September

This month just had to be about school!  James started Year 8 of secondary school, and Emily started Primary School!!  I love Scrapagogo's September Kit, Curiosity Shop, as there was a fair amount of black and white!  I really liked the Echo Park For the Record elements sticker sheet in this kit, so both of my pages are embellished with pretty much the stickers only.

I love the Maya Road Kraft Doilies that were in the kit!  I've painted the doily white with Acrylic paint, so that it really stands out against the black background.  I then cut the doily in half to go on both of my pages to balance them up.

Emily has also been learning to ride her bike in September, so this had to be documented too.  The subject of my photo's went perfectly with the GoGo stamp this month!  The black pleated ribbon gives my page a bit of texture, which just stops it looking a little bit too flat!

I'm liking the look of Octobers Scrapagogo Kit, Home Comforts, too as we go into the last three months of the Yearbook!!  Where has the time gone??

P.S  I have photographed Emily's Chickenpox, so a layout will be posted at some point!!

Month in Review - August

Wow, only four months left of my Month in Review, where has the time gone?  I'm really enjoying completing this "yearbook", and even if the ladies at Scrapagogo don't do a yearbook of some sort next year, I'm going to do one myself!  Here are my August pages......

August saw us getting Emily measured up for her very first pair of School Shoes!  After finding out she was a 10G, it was onto the fitting.  Craig nearly choked when the sales assistant asked for £47.75!  Well, Emily's first School shoes are Lelli Kelly's!!

Scrapagogo's August Kit is lush (yep, I've watched Gavin & Stacey!), and I loved the Studio Calico Veneer hearts!

This is the second page of my Month in Review.  We went to Longleat as part of our summer holiday and I took loads of photo's of the butterflies.  The die cut butterflies on my page are Marianne D Creatables and are gorgeous!

What will September bring?

Month in Review - July

I finished my July pages a little while ago, but I just haven't got around to photographing them and blogging them.  So without delay, here are my July pages....

www.scrapagogo.co.uk have done it again, and the July kit was gorgeous!  I loved these beach huts at Lyme Regis, and the edge on the Sassasfras paper reminded me of sandcastles!!  When on the beach front I always think of ice creams, so Sam Ball's bespoke card was an obvious addition to the page!  The month plate was made using the stamp in my kit and it was so easy to cut out and layer.

A close up of the Sassasfras paper edging as sandcastles!  I had to add little flag to the sandcastles.

I also used the Maya Road chipboard flags to cut some paper flags to put on the corner of my layout. 

This is the other side of my July pages!  Our holiday this year was in Cornwall, and these photo's were taken at Bluff Cove!  The kiddies had a great time playing on the beach!  Again Sam Ball's bucket and spade bespoke card just had to be added.  I also love the material banners that were in the kit!  They reminded me of the lifeguards flags on the beach, so I painted them red and yellow using Glimmermist and Dylusions inks, threaded red Bakers Twine through the holes and included them on my page!  With the pictures on the beach and the flags, my title came naturally!

This is a close up of the flag that I painted.  The photo's plaque was cut off the top of the filmstrip on the left hand side of the page.  It was too lovely to throw away and again fit my page beautifully!

Scrapagogo's September Kit, Curiosity Shop, looks gorgeous!!  Make sure you pop on by their website using the link above to check it out!!

Month in Review - June

June has been a bit of a strange month, lots going on, but not much to Scrap about really!  We've had Emily's meeting for Primary School, Craig has been away to Taiwan, James just being James, but not many photo's!

So because I started to take part in Karen's weekly challenge, I thought one page of my Month in Review could be about my first subject, Reflections, and we've also discovered Wagamammas!!

As always, I've used my months kit from the talented Scrapagogo ladies!

The first page of my June Month in Review!  This is Emily's meal in Wagamammas!  I love the little wooden ladybirds that were included in this months kit, and the butterfly punch marries up well with the ladybirds!

You  know how I love Sarah Youde right!  Well on one of her latest layouts, Sarah used the negatives from punches to make circles on her layout, and I decided to use Sarah's idea with the butterfly negative!  

The other page of my Month in Review!  These are the pictures I took for my Reflections assignment.

I like the effect the Bakers Twine wrapped around the body of the Butterfly gives!  This puts a bit of texture on the punched butterflies.

Another Butterfly negative with bakers twine tied around it.

The stamp in the June Scrapagogo Kit just begged to be made into a little booklet, which I've used to do my journalling in!  I'm sure this idea will be used again at some point.

Month in Review - May

As you know, I'm taking part in the Scrapagogo Class, Month in Review.  May's Scrapagogo Kit is gorgeous, with very spring and summery colours.  We'd recently been to the Heights of Abraham, and I knew the photo's would go with this kit.

I had an all day crop a couple of Saturday's ago, so my Month in Review for May pages were the first I tackled.

One full page of my Month in Review for May.  Heights of Abraham had a chair lift that the kiddies could sit in to pretend that they were on the cables cars.  A photo opportunity that I couldn't resist!

I used Nellie Sneddon heart dies to cut two hearts, which I then punch holes in and used some Bakers Twine to make into a banner.  I love the Prima Marketing sunflowers that came with my May Scrapagogo Kit, and they made perfect anchors for the Bakers Twine.

The buttons will make a bit more sense on this page when you see the other page!  I had some more Basic Grey Small Details again, which I love!  The Studio Calico duck egg blue banners also compliment my photo's perfectly as well.

Hopefully the buttons now make sense.  The Cloud and the tree are Jillibean Soup corrugated shapes.  I inked around the cloud with Broken China Distress Ink, and I used an idea that I'd seen on Sarah Youde's Blog (thanks Sarah!) and added buttons to the tree to add some interest and dimension.

One sheet of patterned paper in my kit had birds on one side that were just begging to be cut out, which I did and again, added another button to tie it into the layout,