Two for the price of one

A little while ago, Isobel posted in the CS forum that one of her New Year's resolutions was to reduce her pile of unfinished layouts. I went tsk, tsk, you always must finish one LO before starting another.

Then I started tidying up my craft room, and had to eat my words (or thoughts). It turns out I have quite a number of unfinished layouts.

For the one above I had the photo, cardstock and patterned paper already chosen. I even had the flowers cut out. But I could't find a way to put everything together.

Then I went back to Eva's class in Scrapwest and found the missing inspiration. I rotated the LO, and one or other placement, but it is a close scraplift. Not a patch on the original but it is finished! As I already had done a LO inspired by the class' theme (see below), that's 2 for the price of one.

One creative thing a day...

Do one creative thing a day. That was one of my (many)New Year's resolution. This was last Tuesday's.

The lacy cardstock from KI Memories is so gorgeous I would be happy to only collect it but I finally was brave and used one of them...

I've been tagged!

Aine (or should I say Gertie) tagged me.

“You Make My Day Award” the rules are…..Give the award to up to 10 people whose blogs bring you happiness and inspiration and make you feel so happy about blogland! Let them know by posting a comment on their blog so that they can pass it on. Beware! You may get the award several times!So, to narrow it down to ten….

Thanks Aine, you make my day too!

I nominate: Heather (Persephone), Neasa, Rosie, Beckie and Liz (Littlebit)

12 Weeks to Better Photos

An online photo course started in 2peas, "12 weeks to better photos" by Joanna & Mark Bolick. I finished week 1 assignment today and I am delighted, the material is so well written, and unbelievably it is free! Week 1 assignment was to play with aperture, here's my photos:

New Year's resolutions/dreams

It's been a long time since I blogged, first my laptop started behaving really weird until I finally gave up and we got a new one. Between all the problems, taking holidays and finishing up my job, I really had little time. I'll try to be more consistent from now on.
Eva started the Scrapwest's Friday tutorials with a layout about resolutions. Her idea inspired me to make my own list of 2008's resolutions. Even though each one of them is simple and feasible, there were too many, so I decided to call them dreams instead of resolutions. If I at least make an effort towards these goals I'll end up a better person by the end of 2008. Cross the fingers!

This is a digital layout and the background is a brush from DesignFruit.

I've been scraplifted!

A couple of weeks ago I received a pm from Crafty Kacy (UKS) asking if she could scraplift me. Of course, I said yes pleeease.

I don't know how she spotted my gallery, I only have a dozen of pics in it...

Here's her beautiful LO, the gorgeous choice of colours and her interpretation made it unique and special. Thanks, Karen!



Take a look at Karen's gallery, well worth a visit!

This is my LO:

Scrapwest Cybercrop

The very talented girls in Scrapwest hosted a cybercrop last Sunday to celebrate its first birthday.

I loved Annamarie's class, it is kinda hybrid as I printed the photos with the aged frames for PSE and the crochet flower is a digital element:



Lucy was sick and off school. When I suggested that she did some "arts&crafts" while I tried to finish my layout she replied that she want to do "adult's arts & crafts", like what I was doing. So I gave her a photo of Annemarie's layout and off she went. Here's my daughter's take:



Dialog after we finished:

Lucy: I like yours better.
Me: How come? I really like both.
Lucy: Yours is all together and mine is all over the place...

I think she's got an amazing way to put words together for a five-year-old!