Wednesday 22 June 2011

Flowery Wednesday!

How lucky am I?  We celebrate our wedding anniversary this week and I am already being spoilt rotten!  I was given this lovely bunch of flowers yesterday and later today we are going out for a steam train ride followed by a meal at a lovely restaurant.
Today for WOYWW catches my desk in between projects...in fact I am in the process of tidying up after a scrapbooking session to enable me to have the space to start the next layout or card! On the desk you can see my trusty mug of tea (nearly empty now), the stamps I have been using recently, some post-it notes, glue roll, craft knife, scissors and new phone (in its case!).
So here are the two scrapbook layouts that I have been working on. The first one follows the sketch from this weeks  Sketchy Thursday.  I used scraps of three different papers, and drew the circles using four different coloured pro-marker pens (created by drawing round a plate!). I added two ribbons (the ones printed with autumnal leaves), 3 buttons and a stack of flowers to make one 3D flower.  The title was made using a Stamps Away 'Autumn' stamp and Letraset and Making memories Rub Ons.  This layout therefore fits with the All sorts challenge (3 different papers, 2 ribbons and 1 flower), and Speedy the cats friends 'buttons' challenge.
The second layout followed this weeks Pencil Lines sketch and again uses scraps of papers.  The title reads 'My Friend Santa' and the journalling reads 'Alex and Santa sat chatting away like old friends when they met'. I heat embossed the gold swirl in the corner (before I added the photos!) and added gold peel off stars. This layout therefore also fits the Pile it on and Simon says stamp 'metal' challenges. That is all from me, I am off to find a steam train!  Have a nice rest of the week.
Love,
Caro
x

26 comments:

alexa said...

That's a lot of very careful work on those circles with a pen! Admiring your neatness and skill :). Nice to find a few scrapbooker!

April said...

Lovely scrapbook pages! Thanks for sharing.

April said...

Ooh forgot to say too how lovely your flowers are... enjoy your anniversary week!

jude said...

Happy Anniversary !Have alovely day out and meal hope the weather keeps fine.It's chucking it down here after glorious sunny morning!Anyways enjoy!Have creative week
hugs judex 10

Helen said...

Great layouts! Happy Anniversary - have a great night out!

lisa said...

Lovely pages.
Thanks for playing along with us at Sketchy Thursdays x

Hels Sheridan said...

Lovely flowers... and how exciting, a steam train ride... have a wonderful time! Happy Anniversary... I have a little giveaway on my desk this week ;o))

nerllybird said...

Great idea with the circles, I love using circles on LOs. Happy anniversary, hope you enjoy your train ride and your meal!
Helen S

Carol Hurlock said...

What a great layout. The flowers and embellishments look delightful. Love how you did the buttons for the challenge element. Thank you so much for playing with Speedy's Friends. It was a pleasure to visit and see your work. Hope you can play again with us next week.

Anonymous said...

Those circles on the LO are amazing, I thought they were wire or something as they look 3d, until I zoomed on the picture. Great work and lovely flowers too, have a great time out tonight and happy anniversary.

Hugs
Brenda 81

Kayla W said...

Adorable pics and your circle is fabulous!

okienurse said...

Love your scrap book layouts. And I love the pretty flowers. Happy Anniversary! Thanks for sharing. Vickie #107

Winnie and Patty said...

These are great scrapbook layouts! I especially love the Christmas one! Thanks for playing along with us at Speedy the Cat's Friends challenge this week!

redwasher1 said...

Beautiful pages!!!! Sounds like you will have a lovely time!!! Enjoy your day!!
Thanks for sharing with us at Speedy's Friends.

Julie Tucker-Wolek said...

AWESOME lo's and PHOTOS!!! Happy Anniversary! Thanks sooooooooooooo much for playing along with Sketchy Thursdays! :):):):):):):):):):):):):):):)

Diana Fisher said...

I love how you drew the circles! :)

Janeen said...

beautiful page, i too, had to zoom in and take a closer look at what you did. i'm going to lift this design for a card. :) Thanks for entering this lovely work in the challenge at Mark's Finest Papers with Speedy the cat. Good luck in the drawing.

Gorgeous flowers. how nice for you.

Audrey Yeager said...

Love your patterned paper strips!!! Thanks for joining us this week at Sketchy Thursdays!

Emma (metalicbutterfly) said...

Fantastic layout lovely pictures!!

Thanks for playing at Allsorts this week

Emma xxx

JoZart Designs said...

Happy Anniversary! Hope you have a great time.
Always love seeing your great LOs.
JoZarty x

scotspanda said...

gorgeous layout, the colours are fab

thank you for joining in with my 3-2-1 challenge this week at Allsorts

hugs

Amanda xx

Spyder said...

Love your scrap bookpages they are always brilliant, lovely flower too!! Happy Anniversary! Happy Crafting! HapPy LatE WoyWw!!
((Lyn))

Unknown said...

Gorgeous LOs. I love scrapbooking with circles. They are so effective. Great desk. Love the crafty storage in the pics. xx

Terry said...

Great LO thank you for joining the DT from Simon Says Stamp and Show. Hugs Terry xxxx

Tasha said...

Wonderful pages! Love your page for the Pencil Lines Sketch!

Helen said...

Fabulous LO's - love the one with the big circles!
Thanks for joining us at Pile It On!
Helen x