Red Ribbons September Fun Weekend

Challenge six was to scrap a LO in under an hour. Now I am the worlds worst faffer and can leave a page on my desk for days and every time I look at it I will move something or add something until I am happy with it.

For this page I went back to one of Shimelles Scrapbook starting points - you can see it here. One 6x6 Basic Grey Offbeat paper pad and a few punches and the page was complete. I love these papers but I think I now only have scraps left - I wonder if I will be able to find any 12x12 sheets of them anywhere.........

Photos taken of the boys at Culloden Battlefield last month when Gramps was staying with us.

♥D♥ Thirsty Thursday/Red Ribbons September Fun Weekend

I am combining two challenges with this page.

Over on the A Trip Down Memory Lane we are up to letter D in the alphabet. My inspiration came from this photo of my Dad taken when he came up to visit last month. We went to Culloden and the reason he is wearing headphones is that when you get out onto the battlefield you get a commentary as you walk around - along with sound effects. I have to admit it does make the place come alive and you do get a sense of what it must have been like back in 1745. The papers I have used are ones that I have had for a long long time - Remember The Moments by Dream Street Papers. I used them on both this and the previous page and now only have a few scraps left - wonder if I can use them up on another page?

This page is also my take on the 2nd challenge set by the Red Ribbons house as part of their fun weekend. Shimelle gave us our very own starting point challenge - and I love these challenges so had to play along.

Red Ribbons September Fun Weekend

Over on UK Scrappers my house (the Red Ribbons) have organised a weekend full of crafty challenges - these include scrap lifts, art journalling, blind scrap lifting and Shimelle even gave us our very own starting point challenge.

I am doing the challenges in no particular order as we have all week to complete and upload them. This is my take on challenge five which was to take a page from our favourites gallery on the site and scrap lift it.
I chose A Mother's Love by Rachel Elliot. If you haven't seen her work before then you really need to pop over and have a look at her blog - it is stunning.

Here is her original:



And here is my take on it:






































I already had these papers out on my desk after finishing another page (more about that later) and chose a rare photo of the boys together on a trip to Culloden Battlefield earlier in the year - the blues in the papers matched the unusual stone wall perfectly. The flower is a EK Success punched and I punched a black button with a Martha Stewart button punch and topped it off with an orange button, and finished it off with leaves made with a sizzix die.