AT MY BEST...

Well, Friday night saw the announcement over at Scrapbook Savvy of their Guest Designer for July. Yep, you guessed it.... Its me!!!

I was excited to get my hands on the Exclusive but Sold Out You're Savvy kit. It was a good combination of papers and a lot of gorgeous embellishments. This kit didn't swing towards either gender and was really easy to work with. I must admit, I pulled everything out of the pack had a good look at it, then put it all away again. That way I had a clear head to pick my photos and from there all of the pages just fell together. I have added only an extra piece of card stock and a couple of little extras, such as string, brads, flower, a sticker and some extra alphas.

From this kit I have managed to produce 6 pages and still have enough materials to put together another page or maybe 2 with a few additions from the stash!!! You can't ask for better value from a $35 kit!!!

So here are my layouts from this kit. I will identify the extras on each page, just so you can see how versatile the kits at Scrapbook Savvy really are!!!

Firstly, I thought I would do my own take on Sar's Random Kit Challenge for July. The page must contain heavy distressing or tearing, thick doodled border, journal strips and at least 1 bird.

Additions - Brads, Mist

I have also completed Renee's Song Challenge over at Savvy.


Note, this page is missing a pink notion flower... I lost it and looked all day for it and still can't find it. I think the dog may have eaten it!!!

Additions - Ribbon, String, Small Black Alpha, Glimmer Mist

This one is untitled as it is a page for our engagement party album.


Additions - Mist, String

Note the extra yellow and blue pattern butterflies. These were punched from the backing card out of the bird rub on packet... I just needed a coordinating colour but didn't want to add extras that didn't belong in the kit, so found this and it worked perfectly.


Additions - Flower, String, Sticker, Chipboard, Alphas, Mist



Additions - Alpha, String, Paint

If this doesn't make you want to sub to the Savvy kits on sheer value alone, I don't know what will!!!


TFL xx

I have been mad at it this weekend punching out the pages, but that will have to wait for another post!!!

Every month I complete the sketch challenge over at Scrapbook Savvy and this month was no exception. I will admit that this page was started a week ago, and I really lost my way with it. My original ideas flew out the window and then I couldn't remember where I was going with it. The end result is that I am not happy with it, but it is another page finished for the album, and I am sure once they are all in their respective places and in many years to come, I wont even notice that I didn't like it!!!

Kerryns manufacturers challenge for July over at Scrapbook Savvy is to use ECHO PARK papers and don't I have a stash full of them!!! But in my usual manner, I chose not to use what was already in the stash, I waited to get my hands on the new Splash line. I had the perfect photo ready for it too!!

Friday night at Scrapbooking Delights was the perfect place to sit and play with this months word challenge over at Scrapbook Savvy.

These challenges are a wonderful place to get the mojo flowing (which with the cold weather I have been really struggling at the moment).

Here is my take using this months Were Savvy kit.



I have added a few extras to this one like this beautiful brown lace, the WOW chipboard heart and those gorgeous flowers all from Scrapbooking Delights. I wasn't sure about using both a colour photo and a sepia photo on the same page, but I love how this page turned out!!

TFL xx

Here is a show and tell from Friday a week ago, using an old She's Savvy kit.

Well another month, another Stuck?! sketch!!!

This one is a hand drawn sketch and really could be interpreted so many ways... The list is endless!!!

Here is my take on the sketch using some old BasicGrey Max & Whiskers papers that I have had stashed for a while!!



Pop over to the Stuck blog to check out what the DT have done with it for some inspiration!!

TFL xx

To my blog readers from the USA, I wish you all a very happy 4th of July. I hope the weather is good and you are relaxing!!

This layout is possibly more appropriate for Memorial Day, but I sat and finished it last Friday and I think I kept the picture as the stand out that I hoped for.




This photo was also my first real play with Photoshop, and I am more than happy with the result.

The photo was taken at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington DC on our recent holiday, and the setting really appealed to the photographer in me. Always looking for a moving and dramatic shot that tells a story. On this occasion I think I found it!!!

TFL xx

Happy 1st Birthday Purple Pumpkin....

To celebrate Sam is having an awesome giveaway over at the Purple Pumpkin blog.

June seemed to be a more productive month that previous ones... The total for last month is


I completed most of the challenges that I set out to finish and have a few more layouts done for the holiday album.

And a quick share from the June collection




This is from our trip to Thailand in 2009. I couldn't resist this photo and paper combination!!!

I will be back soon with the start of the July challenges.

The second Stuck sketch for June has been up for a little while now and as the month is coming to an end, you better be quick if you want to get your layout in.

Here is my take on the sketch using beautiful Echo Park

... to the end of the month (and end of financial year). Eeekkk where has that time gone??

I don't find it easy to scrap during the winter months. Lack of taking photos, inspiration and just the cold weather make it difficult. These are the months where I seem to read a few good books, and have one on the go at the moment. I spent a good bit of today sitting in the sun reading as the house was too cold!!!

Here are a couple of just because layouts that I have don't this month for the holiday album.



I will be back in the next couple of days with the latest Stuck sketch.

TFL xx

The deadline to enter was last night, yet I am just so happy with 2 of my challenge layouts that I just have to show...

Sara's challenge was to use masking on your layout. This one really pushed me out of my comfort zone, but I am more than thrilled at the result. With a piece of chipboard used as the mask and a bit of Glimmermist, and a good flick of white paint, I was able to pull this one together. When it came to the title, I just couldn't get this REM song out of my head. I'm not exactly sure why it was in there to start with, but I thought it worked ok!!!




To check out all of the fantastic layouts, pop over to the Savvy gallery!! There is some very inspirational work in there.

I will be back soon with a couple more "just because" layouts that I can't wait to share!!

TFL xx

I love nothing more that taking inspiration for other scrappers and their layouts... One thing I really try hard not to do is scraplift. I love knowing that everything I produce is in someway my design.

Except when it comes to the Lipstick Chicks. Scraplifting is the name to their game!!!

They have been away for a little while, but I was so glad to see that they are back. This is the second time that I have played along with these girls, and I seem to have drawn my inspiraton again from Ana White.

There is something with Anas style that I seem to relate to.

Here is my take on her layout for June.


To check out Anas original layout, jump over the the Lipstick Chicks blog.

I hope to find a little bit more time to have a go at a few more layouts this month. Otherwise there is always next month with these lovely ladies!!

TFL XX

Where has the last week gone?? I had all intentions of uploading this one last week, but better late than never I guess!!

I couldn't wait to get my latest purple pumpkin order. I missed the sale night, but was lucky enough to have a few of the items I wanted still available the next day... Its amazing how fast those beautiful fun animal kits go!!!

I was able to nab one of the apple kits. I just loved a couple of the flowers in it, and knew that I would use it somewhere. Well I wasn't wrong. Once I saw the sketch, this one just came together.

Here is my take on the sketch


Don't forget to upload your take on this to the Purple Pumkin site, before the end of the month!!

The Stuck sketch for the 1st June scared me a little. It left everything open to your imagination.

I put forward a challenge to myself to complete a layout with NO patterned papers, so this sketch was perfect. The photos I picked really needed a page where they could speak for themselves as they are very powerful. I decided to have a play with paint as it is a medium that I don't use very often, and to be honest scares me as much as this sketch.

Red, Navy and White are to represent America and the stars were an added bonus that happened to tie in with the theme.

Here is my layout


TFL xx

There is nothing better than the feelings that come with love.... Happiness, Joy, those Butterflies....

I feel all of that and more when I look at my gorgeous man, so when I scrapped this photo, I really wanted the colours and feel of the page to reflect those feelings. Short of putting butterflies on the page, I have used a selection of warm bright colours, with beautiful blues and fresh greens, flowers and ribbons.

This photo also holds special meaning for us as it was taken in Central Park, NYC and was used for our Engagement invitations and photo board centre piece.

Using an old Savvy kit which I had been saving for a rainy day (and we have just had a long weekend of that), I came up with this... Its a bit more vintage than I am used to, but totally in love with the final result!!! The only things I added to the kit was the music paper and a couple of extra little flowers. I am also in love with the Mister Hueys "Hot Dog" mist which I bought this weekend and the splatter technique which I am finally getting to resemble a splatter!!!


I hope your lives are filled with the joys that I have and the memories that are accompanied with this photo!!

I will have more pages to share from my scrappy weekend once the sun comes out but would love to know what you think of this one!!!

TFL xx

What else is there to do when the weather is wet & cold and you have a long weekend, but scrap. I set myself the challenge of finishing off a heap of the June challenges so that I could keep working through these holiday photos. I haven't been working anywhere near as fast as when the mojo is really flowing, but I have been happy with the results so far!!!


I have finished Antheas Savvy Sketch for June with an old He's Savvy kit that I had saved.

I mentioned a couple of posts ago that I have a new scrap space. Well its not new as such, its just had a face lift, but feels new to me!!!

If you remember, back in January Donna put out a call for us all to reveal our creative spaces... Here is what it looked like then....



I got sick of not having anywhere to put so much of my stuff, so though a face lift would help the situation. It has organised a few things but I still don't have all of the space that I need. I think another cabinet with basket draws would be perfect to put a few of the extra items that are still floating around.

Here is what it looks like now.... Still a total mess and just the end of the dining table, but that is just how I create :-)







I would love to see your scrap space!!!

I will be back later with a few challenges too...

TFL xx

I have never been a big user of flowers on all of my LOs but at the moment I just can't seem to think of other things to cluster. So this LO does look a bit girly for what it is, but another page done none the less.

Time to continue the challenges for the month (one of which I finished the day it was released), and more cards to make too.

Have a wonderful Saturday

TFL xxx