Scrapping again...

and it's been a while since I completed my last page.  I could tell that, because when I got the box and album from behind my settee I nearly screamed the place down when a huge spider crawled out.  It must have been 6 cm at least (okay 6 mm but it's easy to get confused when you're in a panic).  I dropped everything and made a run for it.  Luckily so did the spider cause when I finally picked up the courage to come back to the box it had disappeared.  Very sensible, in view of the fact that I had my shoe off ready to sort him out!

As you can see it's more photos from Brazil.  I've made it quite hard for myself as I had these photos developed at Tesco and they are all the same size.  Makes it hard to ring the changes and also I would have preferred a larger size photo in the layout above, but needs must and no scanner so can't alter things in that way.

All the photos are of Shelley.  Bless her - she posed all over the hotel grounds for me so I could get lots of shots with my then new camera.  The background paper just seemed to fit the scene perfectly.  It was in my stash and I think it may have originally been from a DCWV Photostack pad, but I'm not sure.  I've a lot to learn about scrapbooking, but I'm chuffed with myself in the way I've cut the slits in the grasses to slide in the photos.  Think that's an effective touch.

The flower was made using my Cricut for the base layers to get the size and then a Marianne flower die for the top finished off with a Dovecraft gem brad.  I was going to use one of my Prima flower centres that I won the other day, but the one in the right colour fell to bits when I got it out of the packet.  Hmmm, won't be buying them in a hurry.  Very disappointing!

I'm hoping my flower embellishment means that I can enter my pages for these challenges...

• A Spoonful of Sugar - Floral Delight
• My Time to Craft - An Extra Special Person (Shelley, my youngest daughter is certainly that!)
• Alphabet Challenge - Flowers

I was tempted to enter this into the Die Cut Dreams challenge of 'angels' but seeing as Shelley has just acquired a horrid huge tattoo of a skull she doesn't qualify on that count anymore.  Better start saving up for the 'removal of monstrousities' operation that's sure to be needed in a few years time!

Have a fab day all.

Ann xxx