May challenge A to Z!

scrapperal I add 3, 1 point for doing a LO, 1 point for it being a challenge and 1 point for posting it here. Then if the LO fits any other challenges, I just add 1 more point for that challenge. I hope that makes sense?

mom I love your LO's! I love your style, you would have been so perfect for Simple Scrapbooks magazine and that is a massive compliment cause I LovED that magazine!

justjac what a fantastic use of U! Great photos and a fab LO!

Here's mine for R, Road Trip. I have scrapped this photo over and over and over but I love it lol! It's my friend and I on the road in Florida. She was always on the phone (it wasn't illegal in 2008) and I was always telling her off about it (it was illegal in the UK and seriously, so dangerous!). I dug out this really old October Afternoon paper and it's not like me to use something like this as a background but I was brave and I did it! There's also some old Oct Aft die cuts and the title is a really old Scrap FX chipboard one which I painted. And I got to use the Vespa from the new Here + There, that's the kind of embellishment I can never use!

S today and it's Selfie! I stumbled across the Studio Calico plastic hearts in an old kit, they were stuck in behind something so they were a big surprise. I love them so I wanted them to be seen on this page so I kept everything else pretty simple. It's turned out one of my favourites!

Love that banner across the page grammadee - it's amaZing! And way to go doing all the letters, you beat me fair & square on that one (I'm up to U), you're awesome!

I did study graphic design way back in the day. I didn't get my degree, I dropped out when I got a job cause I didn't care about getting a degree, I was just studying to get a foot in the door. So I worked as a graphic designer till the recession in 2008 and then there wasn't much call for advertising the luxury car brands I was working on (I was freelancing from 2002) so I stopped working. But it's nice to be able to use the design skills I have, without having a client saying 'make the logo bigger' or a writer wanting the words bigger, or the photographer wanting the photo bigger. I only have to make myself happy now

Fab LO's gramma ! I love those stars on the purple LO and the papers you've used on the second are so perfect! I love that you get so many photos on a LO and there's still room to breathe and you've made them both so cheerleader! Awesome work

Here's my U LO. I was actually going to do unhappy for this letter but I decided not to be all maudlin and depressing so I went for Underground instead. I've had this postcard sitting around for ages (I buy a lot of postcards when I travel because I am useless at taking photos). I used some of those really cheap and nasty layered stickers from Hobbycraft (the UK's sub-par version of Michaels)!

V is for Vignette. When I was studying graphic design, way back when dinosaurs roamed the earth, we used the word vignette. I loved this word! Then it sort of became a called a gradient, I think because the computer software called it that and now people call it ombre, don't have any idea where that word came from. But to me it's still a vignette of colour. So I picked a favourite vignette paper for today's LO. And then I stuck loads of stuff on it! And I ran out of English Mustard & Rhubarb Crumble Nuvo Dots doing the border.... so I have to do some shopping!!!!!

Thank you stinkerbelle , you're too kind!

W is for Wheel. This is the Falkirk Wheel and it's an absolutely amazing piece of engineering and it's well worth a google if you have a minute. The big structure behind me in the photo rotates around like a clock hand and boats sit in a trough inside it. It's fantastic! It takes boats (canal boats mainly but others go in as well if they fit) from the canal at the bottom to the canal at the top, connecting the waterways. I was well impressed!

I did the LO yesterday and then had no idea how to embellish it. So it sat on my desk all day. Then I found a few packs of circle journalling spots and those worked! So I was able to finish it after all and it's become one of my favourites too.



Ooh, here's a gif of the wheel in action. It's amazing!

Here's my X LO. I went with X is for Xtra large photo. Because I'm a cheater like that and X is really hard! I used some proper old stash on this one too!



And here's a little sneak of the other one I created and can't share properly till the 1st but I'm claiming points for it and will post a full size image when I can

Thank you grammadee! The washi was just some I got from eBay. I bought a lot of black & white stripe washi from there. It's really good for making a border around the page too