We Cropped Our Asses Off!

Last night was the last evening that my local crop is hosted by the totally wonderful Emma!

So in celebration (not that she's passing the cropping mantle to another intrepid soul, but rather that Baby Collins will be taking some of her attention from us when she arrives!) we (the royal we!) hosted a free crop for the Scrapping Frenzy faithful, plus lots of scrapping virgins in the form of various friends and family!

The lovely Erica came along for the first time and completed her very first page! And very gorgeous it was too!

Along with Natalie who's a veteran scrapper now!

Emma shows off one of Natalie's pages!

I put together a little kit with some page examples for the girls to have a go at  -  and they did a sterling job! So many gorgeous pages including some great variations on my designs! These were the pages... there were two variations of kit so I did the same 3 pages in two colour ways!

Lovely Emma surprised my with a fabby bottle of Vino as a thankyou! I'm going to try my hardest to save it for Friday night after a long week at work! Thanks hun!

David and Brenda from Craft Obsessions are going to be taking over the reins of the crop after this week - Brenda has been coming along to crop for ages and of course the wonderful David has been generously showing us his bits (ooh matron!) for a while too, so i'm sure it will continue to be fantastic!

I'll be back later to share a page or two!

Just the Two of Us!

Had a great day today over at Farmer Giles farm pack near Salisbury. Martha was welcomed by the wonderful staff and other visitors as well as by the animals! Martha's a country girl so done of it fazed her at all, except maybe the geese! Her favourite was this CUTE skewbald foal who i'm sure thought Martha was a pony too! They had a big kiss and then trotted about along the fence line together!


She wasn't so sure of the pigs (this is a Kune Kune) and who can blame her with those huge teeth? (tucks??)

The sheep and goats were pretty popular too and they rushed over for Newfy kisses too!

Crop tonight and it was a hoot as always! It's an ongoing 'in' joke that 'Just the Two of Us' is always the perfect title for a page, and tonight Anita came up trumps! (looking back at my photos from today, i think a WHOLE mini book with this title is in order!) I'll try and twist Anita's arm to post it on her blog later! Think her pages were my faves tonight!

Some to share!

A few pages to share today...

The last of these is over on Scrapping Frenzy today.... why not pop along and share your extra vibrant pages!

Can't resist a challenge

Willow posted a little challenge over on Scrapping Frenzy to create a page using acetate as the background of the page, and it just so happens i've done a couple of these recently. The first I did a couple of weeks ago and uses a Hambly overlay along with lots of fabby BasicGrey Archaic Chip Stickers.
The second is using an acetate overlay that is a bit of a sneaky peek of things to come soon from Papermania. All I can say is that the girls at my crop went a bit silly over them! And who can blame them!