Time for a new challenge at OUAS!!!

What do you think?....-Don't you just love this sketch...?

I think it is supernice, and although it is not my fortnight to contribute to the blog I think I

shall have to give it a go .

December 1st Challenge

Journalling Criteria/theme: The thing I look most forward to in December.

Write at least 2 sentences on what you look forward to in the next month. December is a festive month so your journalling could be about the Christmas season, the holidays, the presents or if you do not celebrate Christmas what does December bring for you that you look most forward to? Note:You layout DOES NOT have to be about Christmas! It can be about anything December brings.

Other ideas for journalling: an annual holiday or celebration, a specific event such as putting up the Christmas tree or pre Christmas traditions you might have leading up to Christmas, family time, snow covered fields or warmer weather, time off work, school holidays, change of weather, new season fruit.

We have  Ivana Camdzic as a sponsor guest and Rachael Funnell as the winner of GDT position this time, They do beautiful work as does the team!

Hope you can find some time to join in the fun!

Finally the storm is over!!

Yesterday was supposed to be a cosy day in our local town, with all the shops opening on the Sunday afternoon to start the Christmas season/shopping. The kids were looking forward to seeing Father Christmas arriving  in his sled pulled by a horse.

It is a big shame that a huge storm approached and hardly anybody could go outside. I feel sorry for the local shopowners who had a lot invested in this.

A lot of roads were cut off and the buses and trains were immobilized. We also had powercuts. 

In the aftermaths I am having internet problems, I'll have to check with the experts tomorrow, but for now I have borrowed a laptop.

We were quite lucky in our household that nothing much happened to our house etc.

Our trampoline has seen better days though,...

And if you look in the background of this photo you can see a huge fallen tree. 

It is the same one in the photo below.  

We have had two other large storms in the last ten years  and have had one tree like this one fall down in our garden. We have been very sad  to loose the trees, but extatic that they did not fall on our house....

And as I ran out the door to work this morning I discovered these little guys in my garden!...

I callede the owner and by the time I got home he had taken care of it and they were bak in their field.  

I hope I shall be able to post a lo tomorrow. 

It all depends on my computer cooperating!

Take care and goodbye for now!

Imaginarium Designs and New "Authentique" "Blissfull"

Today I have a layout to share that uses a lot of the beautiful chipboard by "Imaginarium Designs".

I know I've told you before how awesome ID chippies are and how easy to work with. You can paint, glaze stamp, mist etc to customize your pieces in so many ways.

This is the page I made:

Today I have painted my chipboard embellishments white to match my layout. I have inked the top parts of my alphas so the letters will stand out more against the background.

These are the chipboard pieces I used: ( if you click on the link it will take you to the right article)

OBS!! I was not able to access the Seriously Scrapbooking site so will add links later!

Alphabet, caps

Alphabet, lower

Corner swirl

Flourish

I made this made using a sketch from "Sasya sketches" a Russian sketch/challenge blog that I happened upon. The sketch is really beautiful!

I layered and sewed my papers according to the sketch. I decided to use two photos in the space of the photo mat as I had a matching pair of Beatrice as a cat.

The papers I used for this lo is one of the latest collections from "Authentique" and it's called "Blissful".

The predominantly yellow and taupe colour scheme is really beautiful and feminine.

Again I used a doily die from Cheery Lynn to make this.

The flowers are "Prima Marketing" and some mulberry flowers from my stash.

The saying "Exuberance is beauty" is also from the collection kit by "Authentique", 

as are the tiny yellow letter stickers.

The photos of Beatrice as a cat was of course taken at the same time as the ones in my previous post. 

Thanks for taking a look at my layouts. I so enjoy all your little comments.

Hugs, B

Sweet Lady has been with us for a year.

I do not have any layouts to show today, but Bea wanted me to write about our sweet cat that has now been with us for a year.

She could not be any cuter and we are so happy to have her. I will admit I was not an 'animal person' but having a cat sure agrees with me....

     And some shots of our other sassay girl cat. I think she had been dressed up for a school play this day.

Hope you are enjoying your week so far. Mine is terribly busy!!

Take care!