What a great weekend...

How fast time flies when you're having fun and there was plenty of that last weekend at the 11th GoGoGetaway...

I taught four classes over the weekend, starting with a simple one for the first class on Friday night!

We decorated the cutest pegs, covering them in musical tissue paper print and did masses of intricate cutting... the Prima papers are way too pretty not to!

Rose Inca Gold was also used to embellish the page - gotta get me some of that stuff!

After assisting Nicola in her canvas class and Janice in the prettiest class where you decorated a tailors dummy, it was time for my second class...

I'm personally very into white backgrounds at the moment and loved this class, with yet more intricate cutting... We used model magic by Crayola to create some Prima style tiles, which were stamped into and left to air dry.

The last class on Saturday evening was so cute, creating a wee nest for the birdies to lay their eggs in...

Sunday morning saw my last class 'Tashtastic'

Such a fun layout to finish on after such a busy weekend...

Ladies, I had a blast and if you enjoyed yourselves half as much as I did then you'll have a brilliant time indeed!

Cats... and not the musical!

Having been asked to be the Special Investigator for October over at CSI, case file 94 was right up my street!

As a lover and owner of seven cats, I had never heard of the book 'I could pee on this and other poems by cats' written by Francesco Marciuliano. The cover of this book was the inspiration for the case file.

With my eldest cat Cuthbert being a Ginger Tom and the book being such an obscure title, I ordered it from Amazon for my husband, on the basis that he would take a photo of Cuthbert reading the book and I would then scrap it!

After many attempts, we hit upon the perfect shot, although Cuth wasn't too impressed!

I used some Project Life cards that my friend Julie had given me and embellished them with rub-ons, ribbons and a button.

One of the CSI prompts was to journal from your pets point of view... something I thought would be really tricky to do actually flowed quite freely!

Cuth is now 15 and whilst he's getting those tell tale old cat signs such as a bony spine, he's still a cutie and I love him to bits!

Those gromits were great 'ey lad?

Never ones to miss out, we went to see the Gromits exhibition in aid of the Bristol Children's Hospital in early September.

If you haven't heard about them, 80m Gromits were located in and around the city of Bristol amd with the aid of a map, you had to locate them!

We visited on the very last day, so only had chance to see about 24 before these loveable pooches were congregated together for a final weekend of viewings before being auctioned off.

And who could have dream't that each would have sold for £18,000, with the majority being sold for around £35,000 and the dearest raising a whopping £65,000!

Case File 93 was the perfect excuse to scrap the Gromit photo...

Two weeks today

And I'll be packed and ready to wend my way to Theobalds Park for a weekend of fun and laughter at the 11th GoGoGetaway!

I'm teaching four classes and thought I would share with you the sneak peeks the delegates have got to see - with the option of seeing the class layout in full before the event, something GoGo has never chosen to do before but it seems to have been a bit hit with the ladies!

Yummy, with lovely Prima papers...

 So, so very fun!

Totally adorable, so tweet...

Very very pretty and delicate, again beautiful Prima products!

And on that note, I must dash - off to spend the weekend scrapping with some great friends in Derbyshire...

ARE YOU READY ASHBOURNE?

Special Investigator for CSI

A while back I was contacted by CSI to ask if I'd like to be one of their Special Investigators for the month of October...

Of course I leapt at the chance and what a fantastic first case file I had to work with!

Case File 92 - such a pretty palette of muted pinks and blues...

I used one of my current favourite techniques of cutting an oversized title, inking the edges and then by putting the wording back onto the layout, the title becomes very much part of the background.

I used ribbons and charms to replicate the book markers, layering them to add interest.

CSI challenges me to journal, which is so out of my comfort zone! But once I've composed my wording, I realise that the sentiments are far more free-flowing than I ever imagined!

Case File 93 is due at the end of the week... watch this space!