Splashes and ropes...

... is what I have been scrapping this week LOL. The weather has been better this week, so we made plans to go to Landmark on Wednesday. It was probably the best day of the Easter Holidays weather wise, and it seemed like half of Scotland decided to go aswell LOL. We got there early, and queued up for a go on the Tarzan Trail - a high ropes course, that is family friendly. I don't do heights, and I am always reluctant to go on them. But I always get talked into it, and I manage to get round without having to be rescued. Mark took the camera, and snapped some dubious shots of me, not one for having my photo taken, and I hate it even more when I don't feel comfortable and am hanging from a harness...
I decided that I would scrap the photos, so I sat down on Thursday night and did it. So the photos were taken on Wednesday, and I finished the layout 24 hours later LOL. That never happens....
I used a LHS of a 12x12 double page map from April 2010 for this, removing some of the photos to make room for my title and journalling.

I used kraft bazzill, Crate Paper, American Crafts and Prima patterned papers, and American Craft Thickers that I coloured with a Promarker and added Stickles to for a bit of bling. The border is made with a Martha Stewart punch. The flower is punched using EK success retro flower punches, and I added a paper rose and a teeny butterfly.

I finally got round to looking through our 2008 holiday photos... They have been put in a folder, all nice and safe, since they came from Photobox! As I was going through them, I realised that we had a thing for using the continuous shot feature on our Fuji! We can program it to take 3 photos one after the other, which is great for doing action sequences. The hotel pool was a popular venue to use this, as Tom had a thing for jumping in it LOL.

I used a September 2009 PageMap for this one. I love that I could place the photos on the left hand page so that the pool edge lined up.

I used plain cardstock, Scenic Route paper, Basic grey chipboard numbers and Heidi Swapp ghost letters. I painted the chipboard and the edges of the acetate letters with Making Memories paint, and then added some Stickles. I stuck the letters on with diamond glaze, which adds to the watery look of them. I added the journalling with my trusty Zig pen, and added a hand drawn border.

Excitement this week too, as I got paid! And this included an annual bonus! Which has led me to treat myself and order a CRICUT!!!!!!! I've only gone for a small one, and one of the original personal machines instead of the Create. I think I may treat myself to the Design Studio software at a later date. Hopefully it will be with me sometime next week, and I'll get to have a play :) My friend has also been to IKEA for me, and phoned me to say that she had my 2 x 4 Expedit bookcase. So maybe, just maybe I'll now get to sort out the craft room properly.
I am thinking about ordering some more Promarkers too.... Well, if I can't treat myself, eh....

Mark is painting the fence as I type, Jemma is on the trampoline with her friend, and Tom is in the lounge Super Smash Brother's Brawl-ing with his pal, so maybe I will just sneak off into the craft room for a bit....

TTFN

xxxx