Sunday 18 November 2012

The cure for a hangover...?

Apart from a 'hair of the dog' perhaps the best cure for a hangover is looking over the photos from the crazy twilight themed party from last night!

And so it started with Caitlin opening her pressie - a new white laptop named Trina!


Every girl needs a new dress for their party!


Back from the cinema and the first chance we got to see the cake!

Mum you did us proud... you're best cake to date by far!


Everyone wore black, red and white... Harvey's Dad even colour co-ordinated his socks...


Me and Bethan, Caitlin's best friend... your help has been invaluable - thank-you xxx


Sing song on the mini-bus coach on the way to the restaurant...

I slept on the way home!


One of many photos... Harvey and his angels xxx


Still early in the night!


Sisters... ahh!


Behind bars... the restaurant in Ironbridge is the old police station and we were in the cells!


Twilight themed table dressing...


The only way I could focus... close one eye!


Cousins behind bars...


Friends behind bars...


Apparently this was our romantic behind bars photo - I thought it looked more like Caitlin's checking to see if I still have a pulse!


I went straight to bed, but drinking games ensued till 4.30am!


The rules were told to me this morning and I didn't understand them sober!


Poor Cakey - they kept making it land on her!


And another casualty...


Art, who fell asleep on the floor, got face painted and woke up still in his clothes!


Glad to discover no-one was sick! Yippee!!!

Off to bed, X Factor and I'm a Celebrity then SLEEP xxx

Saturday 3 November 2012

GoGo Classes

Can't believe a week has already flown by since the ScrapaGoGo getaway... and we had a blast as usual!

The delegates participate in 7 classes.... for each class they can choose from three, so in total 21 classes are designed and taught! Image trying to sort out that little lot! Janice and Lorraine are dab hands at it now and so it runs like clockwork...

I taught four classes, the first one was on Friday evening and was called Anatomy Antics...


We used a selection of papers to create the layout and skeleton, and along with the cute little bone charm and antique medical bookplate paper, each delegate created a layout with a biological feel.

My next class was on Saturday afternoon, so I had time for both a lie-in and some scrapping! I raided the shop (or what was left of it!) to create a layout using some stunning Prima papers and embellishments.

The Key to Success focused on stamping key charms into texture paste to leave an impression. An amount of patience was necessary but the end results were stunning...


The third and fourth classes were my personal favourites...

My Fair Lady was the last class on Saturday night. Each delegate got a cute little hat stamp and embossed onto acetate using embossing powders.

This class used such pretty papers from Pink Paislee and I had such a sweet photo of Nina to use, taken at Ironbridge Gorge museum in the dressing up room!


My last class on Sunday morning was called Waxed Lyrical

The delegates got wax-tastic and anything and everything got waxed using wax beads - they give a vintage feel to layouts and create stunning backgrounds which look like expensive papers but simply use cardstock.


I love this technique and will be definitely using it on future layouts, maybe as soon as next weekend!