Challenges 7 and 8

I'm a bit slow on the uptake this week. It seemed to take me a while to work out what I wanted to do with challenge 7. I loved Chris' take on the kit, changing the colours and how she made it work, but I decided to try and stick with just the kit (very difficult for me) and this is what I came up with:




















Challenge 8 was so hard - there are so many amazing scrappers out there that I admire and to pick just one and then only one of their layouts to lift - so so hard. I ended up picking She_ - she has some amazing layouts, however I ended up lifting her layout called Autumn Treasures - I loved everything about this and in fact she had scraplifted it from another of her layouts:

Here is my take on it:




















I love Chris' Challenge 8 and had a chuckle at the song. what a great memory. Well I am now off to bed - it is 1.05am and have been working at layout 8 for what seems like hours.

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!!!

Challenge 7

I must admit I thought I was going to struggle with this one, but once I got started it went rather well. The photo was taken during our trip to Canada in 2004, actually it was just before we were due to fly home. We'd fallen in love with Canada in 1997 and dreamed of moving here, and when we began to seriously plan in 2004, we came back to see if we still felt the same way...and we fell in love all over again.

We overnighted in Toronto on the way home, and had dinner at the top of the CN Tower, and I think this was the night when we both finally admitted that this was what we wanted to do, and we haven't looked back since then really!

I 'borrowed' the restaurant logo and a snap of the tower at night, and I think Karen's Lace Bow Action really is the perfect finishing touch! Click the picture for credits and journalling.

If you ever find yourself in Toronto and looking for a perfect place for dinner, you can't beat 360 - the food is fabulous, the staff are fun and friendly and the view...well, it has to be seen to be believed!

Challenge 6 - Sunset Silks

Whew! This is a real relief, because I was really nervous about doing this one, but I think it turned out better than I expected lol! I had oodles of fun browsing through Mag's gallery...took me ages to choose a layout that I thought I could do a reasonable job of recreating, flipping and tilting...but I finally settled on very elegant and classy page:
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And here's my take on it...I do so love this view!!!


Click on either picture to see the credits and details, and feel free to leave a little love!

Challenge 5

Firstly, I am totally in awe of my partner...Mag your challenge 5 simply blew me right out of the water!!! I am sooooo glad to have you as my partner...and you're so much quicker than me too lol!!!

Anyway, here's my little effort, I actually had great fun with this because it gave me an excuse (not that much is needed) to go rifling through my digi stash...and then I ended up with so many frames I couldn't whittle them down to less than twelve!!! Which is how I ended up with this:

Click on the picture for credits and journalling...and if you look closely you'll see I've managed to sneak in a couple of my very own frames in there too lol!!!

Challenge 5

Boy that came around so fast. Thank you Chris for posting my challenge 4 layout - I absolutely love your "Wicked" layout and am going on a hunt for that book.

Those wonderful footprints are fantastic. Can see all sorts of uses for those.

I have posted my challenge 5 so here is the layout:

I am loving how these challenges are making me stretch my creative muscle. Not loving the journalling so much but am getting there.

I had forgotten to post my challenge 3 (Opps) so here's that one as well:

Challenge 4

It's taken me absolutely ages, but I'm finally finished Challenge 4! But first let's have a look at Mag's because this is absolutely stunning, and way better than my little effort!!! Click on the picture for credits and journalling in the gallery...and leave some love!


And now here's mine...no don't laugh! This was the best I could come up with, and it took me way longer than it should have because I'm never really sure what I should be doing for altered and artsy! Again, click the picture for credits and journalling:


I've just uploaded it and nipped into the forums quickly, and arrrgh! It's taken me so long to get this finished that Challenge 5 is up already....time to fire up Photoshop again!!!!