Use your Scraps with Amy Tan Layout

Having spent a fun week with the Andy and the kids doing lots of things - reviewing the show Out of the box and the accompanying workshop, visiting Carmarthen and going to Llansteffan Castle I came home exhausted late Friday night.  So yesterday, when I should have been putting the clothes away I had a couple of hours scrapbooking, here's the first page I made to tie in with Shimelle's online crop challenge of Use your Scraps with Amy Tan.  Here I've used a picture of my Grandmother (Mama) and my mum with the 3 kids and added some of scraps from the pages I made last weekend as well as some scraps that are older with some of my favorite Washi Tape.  I love it!

Steps at CIA

Last Friday night S and I went to review the Step's concert in the CIA in Cardiff.  I was an amazing night, not only was I surprised by really good customer service (the first time I have received the tickets without any problems!) but Steps and their 2 warm up bands were awesome.

A great party was had by everyone in Cardiff's Motorpoint Arena while watching Steps and their friends on Friday night.


Shockolady was the first act on stage and one of her highlights was a disco version of Bennie and the Jets, including disco light boots.


The next act was former Miss World, Kamaliya who entertained us with Ibiza inspired dance anthems. Not just a pretty face, Kamaliya knows how to present a song that makes you get up and dance. This she demonstrated to perfection on her new single Arrhythmia when she was joined on stage by 6 dancers that displayed athleticism gymnastics.

Then it was Steps turn to take the stage. Their opening act included A Deeper Shade of Blue closely followed by a Steps Dance section enabling the audience to learn new dance routines to old favourites Last Thing on My Mind and Better Best Forgotten.


All 5 members of Steps individually showcased their own voices in a solo section. Highlights included Lee’s performance of Moves like Jagger and H singing Don't Stop Believing.


Steps were also supported on stage with 10 phenomenal dancers whose movements ranged from classic Steps disco pop to flamenco dancing and even dancing on roller skates!

Other Step-tacular highlights included When I Said Goodbye showcasing how strong their voices are and a Better the Devil You Know mash up with Judas by Lady Gaga.


The concert ended on a high with one of my favourite all time songs One for Sorrow followed by Steps new cover version of ABBA’s Dancing Queen and the BeeGee’s classic Tragedy.

St Fagan's

Wow, three layout's completed today!  It's amazing what you can do without the children around.  This layout is again from Shimelle's Online Scrapbooking Weekend and this time it's Challenge 10: Something Bold.  I have had this green paper in my collection for years and never really knew what to do with it.  When I saw Jill's layout in this challenge the first thing that came to my mind was this paper.  I used a really bold picture taken at St Fagan's and matched to red cardstock as closely as possible,  I love the way it has turned out, a great way to use and unusable paper!

Roar!

I'm back again with another challenge from Shimelle.This time it's Challenge 1 where we take inspiration from a layout that Shimelle chose.  Here's my interpretation of the layout:




Journalling Reads: probably the only time we have managed to get face paint on Jonathan, during a trip to Roath Park in 2008.

First day!

This weekend Shimelle is running an online crop with ideas and inspiration. As the kids are away I've allowed myself a few hours to take part and get some layouts done. The first one I decided to do was Challenge 9: Take Your Pick because it allowed me to look back at one of my favourite classes ever 4x6 Photo Love. I had 3 lovely pix of the kids on their first day in school on September 2011 so using the layout for 3 pix I created this page:




Thanks Shimelle for running these weekends as it really helps getting pages done.