When Time Is Not On Your Side....

...what do you do?

I am currently playing along with LayOut A Day

and yesterday was one of those days when time just wasn't on my side.

My sheer determination to keep up this month spurred me on to create a quick hybrid

layout.

I set out where I wanted my photo before printing everything else onto my 12x12

and after adding a little washi my layout was complete...

and then, because time was short today, I created another...

So, would you have given up, stuck with it somehow or stayed up late to create 

a more "real" layout??

I hope time will be on my side tomorrow!

Perfect for Me!

 If, like me you have lots of saved images on a Pinterest Board then the 3rd Counterfeit Kit challenge of this month is just perfect for you too!!

We have been asked by Queen Laura to create something using a previously saved idea.

Having used up most of my kit, and having pinned this idea a while ago...

(credit)

 I decided to create a card for a fellow Master Forger's birthday.

I must say, having that zig-zag punch made it a whole lot easier!!!

A Simple Story of Her @ Easter

Over the past few days I've been sharing layouts using the fabulous collection,

DIY Boutique by Simple Stories.

Jen sent me this collection and wow have I loved playing with it.

A few of you have complained about squiffy eyes but 

maybe my eyes are squiffy already so it didn't bother me!

I have a few scraps left and hope to make one more after today but

this layout is a great way to use up scraps.

My layout today is for another LOAD prompt

and show The Child at the end of her annual Easter Egg Hunt.

She will never grown out of this OR Advent Calendars

(I am in the process of devising that one!)

Anyway, my layout...

Do you have little traditions that will never cease?

A Simple Story of Churros & Me

Remember the snake & me?

Well today it's something a lot nicer and one of my favourite

"stall" foods!

I'm drooling just thinking about these delicious bits of deep fried batter, covered in sugar 

and dipped in hot chocolate.

Mmmm healthy!!!

I love these papers from Simple Stories, so bright and fun and available at Wearcrafts.

The collection is DIY Boutique, how do you feel about bright papers?

This layout is created for today's LOAD prompt which is foreign food.

What is your favourite foreign food?

Negative World

A while ago I cut out this map using my little machine.

You can see the layout HERE

Whilst shopping for my "Hello October" kit

 I found the negative stuck between some 12x12s I knew just what I wanted to do with it...

...and I love how it turned out.

The Wrong Master Forger!

The second challenge of the month posed by 

Queen Laura 

is to use confetti on our project and this is just the perfect challenge for fellow 

Master Forger & Sparkly, Shiny Lover Lisa !

(I wonder if she will choose CH#2 for the blog hop this month?!)

However this is my assigned challenge for the month so

"bling" it on!!!

I used a mask to create a few hearts (the blue ones) before using one of my favourite punches to create smaller confetti hearts to layer up a bit. I the n used gems and liquid pearls to add a few more scatterings and no glitter in sight!

Do you like glitter or do you prefer to cheat like me!?

Do You Scrap Sad?

I don't know about you but I usually scrap the happier stories in life.

The holidays, the parties, the days out, you know the ones

BUT

the joining in with a prompt for LOAD I decided to go sad.

We were asked to scrap about a pet and this photo had been ready in my collection for a long time and although it looks like a happy photo, the story behind it is sad.

Taking the photo whilst holding back the tears was difficult especially knowing that he
wouldn't be there when she got home.
These two were best buddies but the time had come to let him go.
I dreaded her coming home from school but she was very brave, far braver than me in fact!

So, before I get my keyboard any wetter, do you scrap sad?