Oh...I know its been ages

but I have been so busy. Not had time to doing much scrapbooking let alone blogging! Now let me see...what has happened? I was one of the winners in the 7G competition over at 'ATDML' and received a lovely box full of goodies the other day including some 7G black lace metal paper edgers! Can't wait to have a play with them...they look fabby.

My bind-it-all arrived from the states as well...but it is a xmas pressie so I have to wait a few more days before I can play with that but I gotta few ideas for little projects so really can't wait. Apart from that xmas has dominated my little world in recent days and will do for the next few too!

Merry Xmas everyone!

Emily Falconbridge Deck of Me

I have now completed 49 weeks of this little art journal...can't believe the year has gone so fast! Here are the last few but of course you can click on the link on the sidebar to see them all in their glory!

7 Gypsies Challenge at A Trip Down Memory Lane

Well, the store e-mailed a few weeks ago to say they were putting up a challenge using 7G stash so I dug out this lovely portfolio which I bought a year ago and gathered my 7G bits and pieces together and made this. I am so wrapped with it. These photos are over 40 years old and I think putting them in mini-books/portfolios is the perfect setting for them. There wasn't enough space for all 9 of my photos so I made a little insert which I thread through with black lace. Love 7G stuff!

Final class for Bad Girls...

A little xmas mini-book inspired by Celia's class...really loved doing this. I couldn't decide whether to go with traditional red and green or do a silver and blue one so I did a bit of both and it worked really well...I love it! Tempted to keep it for myself but I think I may give it to my daughter so she can record her own xmas photos in it.

And some of the pages

Had a wonderful time doing some of these classes and it has definately h elped to get me in the xmas mood. Never got round to doing Tracies class which I really wanted to do but I will do it at some time.

More Bad Girls stuff

First of all the Christmas Memories class by Bonnie


And secondly the wonderful paper xmas tree by Tinasue...I have admired this for a while and now I have my own. The photo doesn't do this any justice because its been so dark and miserable and rainy all day so the light isn't good but I was so desperate to upload it. The little bird is just a xmas decoration altered with a bit of glitter and ribbon. The papers are the festive ones by American Crafts.

Having a lot of fun in the BAD GIRLS Christmas Workshop...

Here are a couple of projects completed today...first of all the class by Anna Louis Bowkis. Really loved doing this although I had to adapt it to make it larger but all in all I am pleased as I managed to scrap a photo from last year...featuring my nephew and step-grandaughter...aw cute! I have become a big fan of these type of flowers in recent months and have used them on many layouts so I was totally in 'my box' as they say.

The other class was a shadowbox by Wendy Rago. Never done anything quite like this before but it was fun and actually turned out better than I thought and indeed it looks better irl than in the photo as well.

Whilst writing I may just put up a peak of the project I am submitting for the 7 gypsies competition over on 'A trip down memory lane'.

I am having such a scrapalicious time right now!!!

A mothers treasure...

Really loved doing this layout from the Scrapping Angels October Kit. I have a passion for layered flowers at the moment...thing is getting the pages into those albums is becoming a task in itself. What do you all do with your scrapbook pages? Do they all go into albums or pizza boxes :lol: