Turning Four!

I started this layout ages ago as part of Shimelle's on line crop weekend. I think the challenge was to scrap using grey and yellow, which would not be a natural colour combination choice for me but once I had added a splash of pink and brown I quite liked it.

Inspired by Jennifer who often scatters gems and pearls across her layouts I gave it a try with some little pink and yellow ones for this page.

As you can see it's dated 2007 .... I'm pleased  another photo from the pile of "Older photos of H To be Scrapped" is in my album and the memory recorded!

I've been lucky enough to be able to get along to a crop today and last weekend (2 different ones!) so have been quite productive with my scrapping. Just need to get them photographed now!

i hope you are having a lovely weekend!

Biddys Layout!

I hope you have all had a wonderful long bank holiday weekend!

My daughter was in a show with her dance school on Sunday so our weekend was busy with last minute costume preparations, rehearsals on Saturday and then the actual show on Sunday afternoon but I did manage to squeeze in a little crafting.

I seem to have a pile of "half done" layouts which all just needed finishing off so over the weekend I settled down and got a couple of them finished. 

Last year, whilst in Northern Ireland visiting family, my hubby and I got a rare couple of days away on our own in Donegal whilst H enjoyed some quality time with Grandparents! On the way to Donegal we stopped at the famous Irish Pub, Biddys O' Barnes, nestled at the foot of the Blue Stack mountains. I adore old traditional pubs like "Biddys", with it's original flagstones still on the floor and roaring open fires!!

I used mainly Echo Park's Note to Self papers, alphas and stickers. The brown woodgrain paper is from MME's Miss Caroline collection and I added some brown tiny letter stickers and used my EK Success punch to create the notebook border edge. All the papers are inked with brushed corduroy distress ink.

A fairly simple page but right now I'm all about getting the photos into my albums and the memories written down! 

Note to me: Add the date to this layout!!

I'll be back soon to show you the other layout I got finished!

Thanks for stopping by!