Yippee, it's a new month! (Although how April got here quite so fast I don't know).
So why am I so excited? It's because I can finally reveal to you the layouts I have made from the fabulous new store collab and free with purchase collab over at Funky Playground Designs
Layout 1: Wedding Day
The limited edition April collab is called Every Day is Earth Day and has over 50 papers and nearly 100 elements! As soon as I saw this kit I fell in love with the colour pallette used, and knew immediately that I just had to use it to scrap photos of my sister's wedding. This is the layout which I came up with.
I love the way this layout has turned out. The colours used in this kit match perfectly with the teal of the bridesmaid's dresses, and with the bright spring greenery of the hotel gardens where these photos were taken.
What makes this layout even more special to me is that it is the 3rd time that I have tried to scrap photos of my sister's wedding. Both of the previous layouts were OK, but they were missing something which I couldn't put my finger on. But finally with this layout I have a page that I am happy with, and which feels just right! Hurrah!
Layout 2: Big Tree!
the second collab I used is called Celebrate Trees and is the April FPD free with purchase kit.
When I first downloaded this collab I was at a loss about what to scrap with it. I loved all the tree themed elements, and the wonderful patterned papers, but inspiration about what to do with them just wasn't striking. Afterall, spring has only just started over here so the trees aren't looking their best yet...
So, I decided to trawl through the photo folders on my PC and see if anything sprang to mind. Then suddenly, there it was. Photos of our trip to Sequoia National Park on our honeymoon. Yippee! If you are going to celebrate trees, you might as well pick the biggest living organisms on the planet!
One of the creative tasks I set myself for this year was participation in and ultimate completion of Michelle Batton's Me: A-Z workshop over at MellowButterfly.com
Boy, did I bit off more than I can chew! Not because the workshop is difficult - because it's not. Michelle kindly provides a free prompt kit with each new letter which not only contains papers and elements, but also word arts etc. which inspire your layouts.
No, the problem is me! I'm so into this workshop, that I am taking ages to complete each layout because it takes me so much time to chose the perfect photos to use to illustrate my story. And don't get me started on how long it takes me to draft the text for the journalling.
Well, the exciting news is that today I had the day to myself, and was visited by the scrapbooking fairy with a bit of her inspiration mojo and I finally completed my layouts for the letter A and the letter P.
I'm really pleased with how they have turned out, and am now eagerly looking forward to next month when Michelle posts her next prompt.
...or should I say hospital.
It was Matilda's birthday recently, and for her birthday she got some really fab Lego Friends sets. So the other day, I was helping her put together her kits when she asked if I could build a hospital for her. Ah ha, a challenge! I thought, and set to work trying to figure out how to construct a lego hospital...
Oh my goodness, I got so into it! I hadn't played with lego for years, but it all came flooding back. Before I knew it, a couple of hours had passed with Matilda and I sitting together happily playing with our respective lego, and I was the proud creator of a rather elaborate lego hospital!
I had so much fun! Oh, and more than a week later the hospital is still sitting on the floor in the middle of the front room because I won't let anyone clear it away!
I've been following Michelle Batton's Me: A-Z Workshop since it started over at Funky Playground Designs late last year.
Sadly, Michelle has now left FDP, but she is still running the workshop through her blog. This week the prompt was for the letter J - my least favourite letter in the whole world. I know it is irrational, but I developed a dislike for the letter after many a game of Scrabble was scuppered by me being left with this beast of a letter.
So when I saw that I had to try and create a layout about myself using the letter J my heart sunk. What on earth was I going to scrap about? Then it hit me. I should scrap about my dislike of the letter J.
So here it is, my "I hate the letter J" layout:
To see more of my scrapbook layouts, visit my gallery at Funky Playground Designs.
Ooh, I'm really starting to get into this social networking lark and have created a new Facebook Page to compliment my Blog posts and the work I am doing as a CT member for Funky Playground Designs.
I'm having lots of fun playing with the page settings, and working out what I'm going to have on there (I hope in the future to start being able to offer digital scrapbooking freebies designed by yours truly!). So if you fancy giving my page a like, pop on over to Capricious Kate's Facebook Page.
Oh wow, oh wow, oh wow! I'm so excited! My application to join the Funky Playground Designs CT team has been accepted. So I am now an official Sandbox Crew Member. Woo hoo!
I can't wait to get stuck in, and have already made a few layouts - but I can't show you them yet...ooh the anticipation!
And that's not all, I'm also going to be CTing for another fabulous designer once her new store is up and running. Yippee!
I am in my element!
So, after completing the "Sweet Little Canvas" (see January post), the next craft kit that Matilda wanted to do was a Fairy Castle Canvas from the Early Learning Centre.
The kit contained a white canvas about A4 in size with a line drawing of the castle etc. pre-printed on it, a set of paints, and some wool, glitter and star embellishments to add at the end.
Matilda really enjoyed painting the canvas. The paints that were provided with the kit were nice colours and went on nicely, but we also ended up using some of Matilda's other paints too. Then, when the paint was dry the real fun started. Using the embellishments and glitter provided, plus extra glitter that she already had, Matilda turned the canvas into a very pretty and magical picture which she was justly proud of.
I would definitely recommend this simple but effective kit to parents of similarly creative children.
