Getting into Scrapbooking!

Phew - What a week!! Its been a hard week this week with one thing and another (I think its my punishment for having such a fab day on Sunday at the dancing comp!)

I did have a lovely evening though on Tuesday when I had 3 ladies round for Scrapbooking!!! I have got another class tomorrow and am really looking forward to it again!!

Here is the table! As part of the Scrapbooking classes the ladies got a 12x12 album included and each month they get a kit for a different theme - this month it was Christmas and I asked them to bring 4 photos!
Here is my double layout. I am a beginner scrapbooker myself and I am just getting really into it! Really enjoying it.

This is the second page. The colour combo is Crumb Cake, Garden Green, Choc Chip, Real Red and Old Olive. The background is stamped with Versamark using the Serene Snowflakes set.

Added some Real Red ribbon stapled on for a bit of texture!

This is the first page (dont know why I uploaded them this way) and I have used the Big Deal alphabet which is retiring next week!!! We also used Tree Trimmings to dangle the baubles from the pciture. Some of the ladies had them hanging from the letters which looked really fab!

Hope you like my layouts, they are very simple but I am getting there!!!!

Very excited as I am at some Stampin Up training tonight and I am delivering a 20 minute presentation!! (bit nervous about that!!)

See you soon

Jules x

Challenge Night!

Last night I took part in a Challenge Night on a forum I go on - In Love with Stamping.

We were put into teams - I was a Giraffe and we had 5 challenges over the course of the night with an hour allowed per challenge. You could make as many cards as you wanted for each challenge!

Here is the conservatoire all ready for action!

The first challenge was the Baby Wipe Technique which I have NEVER done before!! You used your reinkers by dripping them onto a Babywipe and then stamp your stamp into it! I chose to use the new Dot, Dot, Dot background stamp to make these little backgrounds!!!!! I decided to make 4 cards in an hour which was very ambitious but I did it!

The animals represent each of the teams on the night!

Stamp set used is Fox and Friends and the frame at the back is from Framed with Love!

The sentiment is from Tiny Tags and I have used the new jewellry tag punch!

Hope you like my challenge cards, I will show you some more tomorrow!!

Jules xx