#THROWBACK THURSDAY
FRIDAY, 20 MARCH, 2015

Well, I completely missed my #Throwback Thursday post yesterday as have been super busy with some important legal matters so I guess officially it is now Flashback Friday! 
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Apologies for my tardiness.  Not that there were probably many people checking in to see yesterday's post but nonetheless, here it is! 
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Today's post is sharing a layout I did back in 1999 - 2000 about my grandfather, who was a real cowboy. Not something you see that much nowadays, or even back then, a true cowboy that is, unless you live in the Midwest U.S. (which I didn't, by the way).
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My grandfather had actually passed many years before this but my mother had recently acquired some of his personal effects due to my grandmother passing.  I was so moved by some of the stories that my mother had told me about him and what it was like growing up with him that I thought I would create a commemorate page in his honor. 
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I used a mini themed kit to create this layout, something that I typically did not use back then. I think this was more of a L.S.S. kit then it was a manufacturer's kit. It included a few sheets of cowboy themed patterned paper and full size sheet of cowboy themed stickers. 

I also added a few embellishments that I thought fit the theme and created the journalling on my computer using a font that was rope like. 

Left page
For this page I wanted the main focus to be my grandfather so I included a picture of him on one of his Appaloosa's in the annual Las Vegas parade.

Right page
For the accompanying page I added a picture of us three kids with my grandfather along with a picture of myself on one of his horses during a family visit, which wasn't complete without a ride on his horse. 

I love the page for the uniqueness of it and as well the sentimentality of it. 

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Happy Scrapping and Happy Friday!

JUST BAKE IT OFF LAYOUT
TUESDAY, 17 MARCH, 2015

Well, it seems like once I got going with creating traditional layouts that the creativity just kept coming. 

So I went with it!
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Sometimes if I want to get completely lost in the process of something I will do a bit of baking. I find it a bit therapeutic. I seem to be able to switch off and get completely absorbed by whatever I'm doing. Like I'm sort of on auto pilot, which is nice. 
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I have to say that the inspiration for the title for this layout came from Taylor Swift and Jamie Oliver somewhat. They did an advert in the UK for Stand Up to Cancer sung to the tune of her song 'Shake it Off'.
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It's really quite cute.  You can find it here. Hence the title "Just Bake It Off". 
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The full page

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LOOKING RUFF LAYOUT
SUNDAY, 15 MARCH, 2015

Hello Fellow Crafters!

I have been in a bit of a crafting funk lately, seem to have lost my crafting mojo earlier this week. 
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Wanted to sit down and finish my PL for February but it just wasn't happening.  I do hate when that happens. You find the time to scrap and then nothing comes. 
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I played around with a lot of stuff, seemed to get out all of my supplies on my desk, as if this would help but I just couldn't create anything. Nothing felt right. I fiddled around with pictures, changing things - the background card, trying different colours, the position of the pic on the card, adding every embellishment known to man and nothing. 
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So I put it all away and went back to basics, just creating a standard layout, which I blogged about here
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Then after I created that layout I found myself playing around with another photo that I wanted to scrap. I said to myself that I would do something quite different from my usual page, a bit more abstract, lots of tiny details and also use a bit of paint. 

This is what I ended up with and I like it!
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A close up of the cute pic that inspired the layout!
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As always, thanks for taking the time to drop by my blog!

Happy Scrapping!

#THROWBACK THURSDAY
THURSDAY, 12 MARCH, 2015

I am still carrying on with my #Throwback Thursday series. Today I am sharing one of my all time favorite layouts - favorite for the subject matter, the colours used in the layout and the style of the layout. 

This layout is a #throwback to 2003.
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As I mentioned this is one of my all time favorite layouts with it being about my favorite show - Sex and the City! I am sure I am not the only girl who would classify this show as her favorite, or at the very least one of.
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I wanted to do something quite girly with this layout so hence the varying shades of pink. I also wanted to incorporate a few pictures along with lengthy journalling - talking about Carrie's story and how much I loved the programme.  The journalling was written near the start of the last season so at this point I was unaware of the "Big" reveal for the ending. 

Close up of left page
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Close up of right page
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The complete two page spread
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I have cut down on my text in my blog posts as I recently read on a forum that not only do people not visit blogs that much anymore but that they also don't really read what is written, mostly just look at the pictures. So if there is not the audience for it, I guess I will keep it short and sweet! 

Thanks for taking the time out of your busy day to drop by my blog!

Hope you are enjoying my #Throwback Thursday series.
VA-VA VINTAGE LAYOUT
TUESDAY, 10 MARCH, 2015

Today's post is a short one.
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I seem to have lost my scrapping mojo a little bit lately with my PL so have gone back to basics and created a layout with plain cardstock, a single picture, one piece of themed paper that matches the photo and hardly any embellishments.
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I am a big fan of the retro look and for those of you that have read my blog before may know this. 

Anything that is sort of vintage or retro style 1940/50's I just love! 
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This was a simple layout about a vintage style bag that I recently purchased from Top Vintage, one of my favorite online shops. You can find them here, if you are curious. 
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The leopard print paper is super old, we're talking ancient. I mounted this on plain brown Bazzill cardstock as it didn't pop enough against the black background. I wanted to use these Jewelry Box Thickers by American Crafts specifically so added the strip of rust coloured cardstock as the alphas were lost against the leopard background. Added the 5 x 6 photograph of my recently acquired Vera Pelle bag with my old leopard print heels. Then I added three small gold glittery enamel dots along the bottom of the title strip. Done!

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#THROWBACK THURSDAY
THURSDAY, 5 MARCH, 2015

Today I am sharing a themed kit layout from 2005 in carrying on with my #Throwback Thursday series. This layout documents the time my dad spent in the U.S. Air Force. I had received copies of some old black & white photos of my Dad from my Mom at the time and wanted to create a layout to commemorate them.
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I was not one to use themed kits in my scrapbooking back then although I know they were quite popular. (Not the case nowadays, now I love a good kit!) I guess I always felt like I wanted to create my own design or theme for the layout of my pages. Plus I also felt like a kit could be restrictive or even in some ways, intimidating.  
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In addition, I felt that anything that wasn't used in the initial project would be wasted. I know that it could potentially be used in other projects but if it was a theme that you didn't use very often, then what was left over would just go to waste. With being a budget scrapper it wasn't something that I easily reconciled with. 
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As mentioned in the start of my post this two page layout documents the time that my father spent in the United States Air Force in the early 50's. I wanted to find something that had a military theme to it. 

This kit was by Karen Foster and contained mostly stickers or sticker embellishments plus a couple sheets of themed paper. It pushed me a bit to work outside of my creative comfort zone.   
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As you can see here, in this close up, there is one of my favorite techniques at the time - paper tearing and also chalking!  I also used paper tearing on the title but no distressing. I used some patterned paper that would suit that time - Western Union telegram paper and sepia paper with pictures of military vehicles. Along with another patterned paper that looked like a snippet from a handwritten love letter. 

I love the Egyptian style borders on the old black and white photographs! It gave the photos such a different feel than modern day photos.
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The left page

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The right page
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The full layout 

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