Challenge 8

Another tricky challenge - another scraplift - aaargh! I am not particularly fond of scraplifts, basically because I'm pretty useless at them lol! Anyway, there are a handful of people whose scrapping I really admire - but whose creations are mostly way beyond my abilities to imitate (including my partner, but I've already scraplifted you Mag so I thought I'd best go choose another victim lol!)

So I went surfing through some 'idol' galleries, hoping against hope that I'd find something I could cope with...when I stumbled across this awesome layout of Amanda's daughter Bella. I remember when she first posted it, and I was struck by how stunningly simple it was, and how crisp and clean and fresh it looked.


So here's my take, I've tried to keep it as simple as possible, and as luck would have it while I was struggling to find something for the border edge of the photo, Karen Stimson launched her new Eyelet Lace Action - and it was perfect!!!

The picture was taken when my mum came to visit us in 2006 - just a few months after we moved to Canada. It was a huge trip for her coming from Dublin, but I was so thrilled she came, and we had such fun in Victoria taking snaps with all the Spirit Bears - of which this was my favourite. Waltzing with Bears is a reference to a rather whimsical ditty by Tommy Makem, whom we both loved, and we found ourselves humming it as we went 'hunting' for bears to snap, so here's a little taster...

Our Uncle Walter's not right in the head
He's been that way all his life, my mother said
Its not that he's violent or falls down the stairs
Its just he goes waltzing, waltzing with bears
He goes wa wa wa waltzing, waltzing with bears
Raggy bears, shaggy bears, baggy bears too
There's nothing on earth Uncle Walter won't do
So he can go waltzing, wa wa wa waltzing
He can go waltzing, waltzing with bears

Cheery!!!