Best Friends

 For this layout I used MME amazing Wander on the gray dot side I'm absolutely loving polka dots at the moment in my clothes and even my handbag lol my lovely Kath Kidston gray dot handbag :-) I had such an amazing day on the 10th March my best friend took me for a early birthday present a surprise trip to London including tickets to Disney Princesses on Ice anyone who knows me would know that I have every Disney in the classic collection on DVD and I love Disney's and think of my self as a princess!!!

 for this layout I include my tickets and cut out a circle embellishment from a Disney on ice tag which I picked up from someones popcorn label after the show!!

Me and Lauren did have such a good time playing with our iPhone camera and pulling lots of silly faces.

Katie xxx

Explore

This is my second layout using my Scrapagogo 'Happy Hive' March Kit Ive got to say that at first I wasn't sure on the papers but now I appsolutly love them...

 I took some inspiration from Sams class on the gogo getaway but getting my craft knife out and cutting out the honeycomb pattern from the MME amazing honey blue paper. I then used the cut out sections to add definition on 3d foam pads with a mix of the aeroplane and bird hybrid elements to the page.

I created a film strip along the side of the paper with three photographs and used a brown pen for a stitching effect ... Katie xxx

Trip to London

So I've been getting crafty this afternoon with my March Scrapagogo Kit 'Happy Hive' which has some beautiful papers from MyMindsEye I followed the Blueprint To Go for this Layout.

 I used the MME Be Amazing Kraft Unique for my base and added a raised shelf for the photographs with some added bazzil card stock I had leftover from some other projects, used the journaling tag from the hybrids and used the branding strip form the MME papers to add as embellishments.

 I also attached the lace ribbon to the paper shelf secured with the paper clip and added this cute butterfly button and hybrid butterfly's to finish....

Enjoy Katie xx

My gogo wekend!!!

so as you know I spent this weekend at the GoGoGetaway at Theobald's Park Heartfordshire it was amazing. I enjoyed every second but I'm now totally scraped out lol

This was my first getaway so I ventured out alone but not for long!!! I posted on the forum for a lift share from chelmsford and Lisa Evens answered me and I'm so glad she did we got on like a house on fire she is totally fab and I hope we will stay friends, she runs a crop in my area she now has a new member she introduced me to Tracey and her mum Dawn they are so funny love them we has such a laugh:-)
And the girls on my table were so lovely too Debbie, Cindy, Terri and Bev lent me anything I didn't have and were so chatty hope to stay in touch with you all :-)I met such amazing people and your all so great...

Janice and Lorraine who are the co-owners are so lovely I could have spent all weekend chatting to them they genuinely care about everyone and truly made me feel part of the gogo family. they are so well organised and totally amazing in every way!!
Check out the gogo website for more info http://www.scrapagogo.co.uk/
The weekend was like your own piece of absolute luxury from the amazing hotel to the lush bedrooms and the tasty food I must have put on at least 5 pounds this weekend!!!!

The Classes were fabulous and every member of the design team is so talented I learnt so much this weekend and came back with lots of left overs from the class kits so well worth every penny. Lisa was so amazing I loved her 'I can paint a Rainbow class' shes such a bubbly character big shout out to you. It was great doing some classes with Nicola I really enjoyed her classes on the gogo through the keyhole day I did a couple of years ago and I was really looking forward to meeting her again because she is totally fab and super talented. Sam's classes were really good and I tired lots of thing I wouldn't normally and I now love Bostick too!!! Rebekah was so lovely I'm defiantly going to use fabric with embossing and glimmer mists again and I love my Black Glaze pen that I rushed out of class to the shop to buy!!! all the ladies are super thank you for making my weekend so special.

The shop was very good indeed I brought different bits and bobs from each brand that was on sale to complete all 8 of the sketch challenges which was a fantastic idea from the team. me and Lisa had such fun making all 8!!!
The crop room was huge Ive never seen anything like it so much talent in one room and it was lovely to look at everyone's work displayed on the wall and get up and take a peek at what some people were working on :-)we were treated so well with juice and hot chocolate on the tap!!! with lots of sweet treats and cakes and biscuits :-)yummy

So here's all the Layouts and Projects I did this weekend...
My First Class Magic Roundabout with Nicola Kerridge

PinkPaislee- London Market Sketch Challange
St James' Park

My Mind's Eye- On the Bright Side Shetch Challenge
Film Fanatics

Second Class I Can Paint a Rainbow with Lisa Griffin

My Minds Eye- Miss Caroline Scketch Challenge
What Matters Most

Class Three Shelf of Memories with Sam Ball

Class Four Tattured and Torn with Lisa Griffin

Echo Park Graceful shetch Challenge
I Sea You

GoGo Group Photo Challenge

Class Five Talored to perfection with Sam Ball

Echo Park Absolutely Charming Sketch Challenge- I think you are amazing

Simple Stories- Fabulous Sketch Challenge Diseny on Ice


Prima - SongBird Sketch Challenge Colchester Zoo

Class Six How tweet can you resist? with Rebekah Day


Simple Stories- Documented Sketch Challenge

Class Seven Spiffing Idea with Nicola Kerridge

I was also very lucky to have my number picked at the prize giving raffel at the end of the weeknend look at all the fab goodies I won !!! Hope you enjoyed seeing what I got up to
love katie xxxx

All Packed Up and Ready to GOGO!!!

Ok so today is the day... the day Ive been waiting for since I booked my cancellation space in September!!! Its time for the March Scrapagogo Getaway at Theobolds Park and I'm super excited. Ive done all the prep work making sure I have a selcetion of photographs for each of the seven classes I'm taking. As well as creating my name badge and doing both the layout challenges. I had the near impossible task of packing!!! umm deciding what needs to be packed and what I can live without for one weekend was very difficult, especially when I realised that I don't have any storage bags to transport my stash lol but never fear I realise a couple of weeks ago so I had enough time to treat myself to a tote and a papermaina organiser bag with are both fantastic. so heres all the goodies Im taking with me..........

for some reason the smalles bag is my colothes!!!! in the navey spotted bag.
Happy Scrapping everyone
Katie xxxx

Year to go

I was just buzzing to have a go at challenge 3 for the scrapagogo getaway in only 12 Days time :-) however I was very stumped when i got home got out all my photographs and stated to think of a idea as for the challenge it set to use 8 diffident elements of scrapbook materials including 8 letters so I got a little suck with the title as that had to fit with a photograph........ anyway I found the photo I took of my wedding countdown app on my IPhone which made a screen shot of when it was exactly a year to go until our wedding so the title blended its self well to this photograph. I used robins egg blue and silver letting as this coincided with our wedding theme of Tiffany blue sparkles :-)it was only last month when this photograph was taken and a lot happened on that day i put a deposit on my dream wedding dress as well as having another viewing at our venue and lovely Sunday lunch with chris' parents to sample the cuisine, also I was surprised that my dad had paid some extra money towards the wedding and we have paid half now :-)

I used some Disney Princess sandylion sticker which I had in my stash to fit the fairytale feel of the page as well as layered ribbons and a stamped image of the love birds stamp form February scrapagogo kit.

These chipboard letters were all dressed up from DCWV in silver glitter.... Lush

Enjoy Katie xxxx

Ice-cream factory

I took some really great photos of me and my friend Lauren on Tuesday night after weight watchers we had our weekly treat and this week we had a ice-cream factory like we used to have a pizza hut before we stated to look too silly :-p I also decided to have a go at the scrapagogo pre-retreat challenge 2 :-) which was a sketch layout with 8 photos, 8 lines of journaling and 8 embellishments.

I used a teal piece of card stock for the background and a piece of doodlebug sweet treats paper which I brought ages ago and was saving for the right photographs :-)

I used doodlebug brads to embellish the page as well as some coloured adhesive gems and cut out circles and scallops from patented paper. Also I inked around the edge of the journaling to blend with the teal frame.

Enjoy Katie xxx