You NEED to be Quick...

Good Morning!

What a strange weather day we're having here in the Northwest of England.

Hail, rain, glorious sunshine...

How's your day so far???

On Friday I shared a layout using the fabulous

March 12 Pledges Kit

from Wearcrafts.

As usual and due to Jen's brilliant and clever choices of kit content, it is very nearly sold out.

I have absolutely LOVED playing with this kit, such pretty colours

and designs don't you think.

Another thing I love about MME papers is the coordinating strip at the bottom.

Do you throw it away?

I ALWAYS use it as you can see on both my layouts below...

 Before my retreat last week, the attendees were have a conversation about photo editing

software. I have always used Picassa and get along with it really well.

But, Pauline mentioned fotor.com so off I went to have a play before I ordered my photos.

I love how this one turned out and just had to use it straight away.

There are so many different collages to use or you can even generate your own.

Do you ever start a layout and think "oh dear, that's just not going anywhere"?

That's how this one started and I very nearly discarded it to start again

I'm glad I persevered as I love how it turned out.

For more inspiration head over to Jen's and Virginia's blogs and if you want to get your hands on what's left of this gorgeous kit, be very quick!!!

" ALL the subscriber kits have been claimed and the Heavy Add On has gone. However, there are a couple of Light Add On kits left (£10) and a couple of Main kits left (£5). So for 15 you can get yourself SIX sheets of Bazzill, TWELVE sheets of doublesided MME Dorothy, TWO sticker sheets, and a scatter of embellishments to coordinate beautifully. Add the washi tape bundle (£2.50) and the wooden words (£2.00) and you have yourself a grand bundle for less than twenty quid! Now that can't be bad, can it? Have a peep here and see what you think..."

Keep Calm and...

...Challenge YOURself
to use the fabulous new
12 Pledges kit from
Wearcrafts

I love the Challenge YOURself blog as, like most, I hardly ever scrap ME!

Challenge YOURself provides challenges where the whole object

of the game is to include a photo of yourself as well

as play along with the main focus of the challenge.

This Challenge #4 (and you have until April 4th to join in) 

asks us to use the quote "Keep Calm and..." but NOT scrapbook related.

Having just had some new photos printed I have used my success at Slimming World

as the topic of my layout showing how the incentive of Farley's Rusks

got me to target.

I love Farley's (I lived on cornflakes and Farley's until I was about 15!)

and every so often I will treat myself to a box.

My layout uses the new MME Dorothy papers supplied by Wearcrafts

and are available from today as a kit for £5, yes, £5!

I have created 3 more layouts from this kit and I'll be back in a couple of days

with the those.

Tomorrow however, Virginia will be showing what she has created

with the kit too so why not hop over there and take a look...

There is also an add on kit with coordinating embellishments and a full kit for £15

These kits, in previous months have flown out of Jen's door 

as though there were no tomorrow so grab one quick

if you're interested.

Thanks for stopping by and let me know if  manage to get your hands on a kit!

What a Weekend!!!

I am thrilled to report that my first ever retreat went far better

than I had ever imagined.

Don't get me wrong, I've been on organised retreats before but I had organised this one

from start to finish.

After Sarah's Cards retreats finished last year I felt at a bit of a loose end so when Gillian said

"why don't you organise one"

it didn't take long before I was looking at venues and booking the dates!

I have shared so many laughs over the weekend with some fabulous friends, old and new, that my sides hurt. I have been honoured with the most beautiful "thankyou" bouquet 

and I've had tears in my eyes reading the fabulous comments on my feedback forms.

These girls have been amazing...

Spot the difference...

The fancy dress costumes were awesome...

The challenge entries were spectacular...

The food was delicious...

and the pannacotta, well, say no more ;)

A truly brilliant weekend, thank you ALL for coming and I'm so glad that you all want to do it all again,

let the preparations commence... 

She IS Rockin'

This Friday I am dedicationg my

Rocking Your World Friday post to this girl...

At 1634 on Tuesday the 11th of March,

she got the call.

Remember my post last week about how she's had an interview to go to

Nepal with Fire Cadets next year?

She's going!!!

(Thank you to all of you who sent her good luck and kept your fingers crossed for her)

I am so proud of her, if not a little scared, and now the fundraising starts...

As my post goes live this morning, I will be getting ready to leave home to spend a 

(hopefully) great weekend with some fabulous ladies.

I have organised my first ever retreat!

Have a great weekend and week to come.

We're on cloud 9 here.

Do You Look...

...for inspiration?

If so

Challenge #2: Let's get inspired by JENNIFER! 

is up over at the Counterfeit Kit Blog 
and maybe just what you're looking for To be honest, I really don't really go looking for inspiration 
from other people because my scrapbooking is mine 
and I really want it to stay that way.
Of course I will join in with Sketch Challenges and scraplifts 
but I still like to make things my own.
When I saw this challenge it really didn't fill with much gusto 
as I didn't want to just copy somebody else's work. 
On looking through Jennifer's blog, I saw one of her layouts 
using the MME frames (of which I have a few in my kit).

Don't forget to link up if you join in with our challenge

or email  counterfeitkitchallenge@yahoo.com

if you care to join in with our end of the month hop

using any of the 3 monthly challenges

Proud Mummy Layout

Another beautiful morning here in sunny Cheshire.

Isn't it lovely when the sun shines, people smile and say hello

instead of looking at you as though you've gone mad.

I would also like to welcome Jess as my 51st follower,

Only three sleeps until I go off to set up for

my very first retreat.

I am so excited and yet quite nervous but looking forward to seeing

all the lovely ladies who are joining me for a weekend of fun, chatting,

eating, drinking, relaxing and maybe a bit of paper sticking!

Today I'm sharing a proud Mummy moment.

I was delighted when DD was chosen to represent her Fire Cadet unit and

lay the wreath for Remembrance last year.

Being ex-forces, these things are dear to my heart

and I've always brought her up to "remember" and understand.

I had been on the search for this paper for a while and Wearcrafts Jen came up trumps

by sending her two last sheets for me to play with.

Behind You!

The March challenge is up over at Punky Scraps Blog.
This month we have been asked to use a Kraft background
and in honour of our Alpha Leader's birthday
the mood board has a little alcohol to inspire you!

 This mood board just shouts Spring doesn't it?
With this beautiful sunshine showing its face (at last)
here in the UK I got sunshine inspired...

You can't really see from my photo but sitting on a wall in
the Florida sunshine last year, DD posed for a photo
well aware that an alligator had its beady eyes upon her.
The things she does for a scrappable photo!