A few of me layouts

I thought I would share some of the layouts I have made recently.
I am doing some scrapbooking with a faith perspective as part of my sabbatical - using the photos from all my adventures. It will be going on well after the Sab has ended I think!
For some reason I seem to have lost the ability to take clear photos of my layouts so please excuse the blur and if you have any tips I would welcome them!

I love this layout (not a word I use often). The photos make me very happy and the plan I had worked pretty well.
Except I still don't know how to weld properly as the "remember" looked all together on the Cameo but came out in bits that I then had to jigsaw together!
The backround is made using the Julie Balzer microbial stencil and my favourite dye paints. I brushed the paint onto the stencil and then laid it onto the white cardstock. The poppy was cut on the cameo and lined with some extra thick vellum. I added some Christmas papers from Kaisercraft (!), stickles and glass gems to keep the light and airy feel. Oh and some clear die cuts from Basic Grey.

The Bible verse is written in silver pen and is quite hard to read so here it is "  Yet hope returns when I remember this one thing: The Lord's unfailing love and mercy still continue, The Lord is all I have, and so in him I put my hope." Lamentations 3:21-24

This next one is actually a two pager (gasp)

The anchors and title were again cut using the Cameo. I then went through my stash to find papers in the colours I wanted and cut them into different shapes. Some of the papers are Studio Calico and some Maggie Holmes and some I have no clue!
What I have noticed in these layouts is that almost all of them have a little detail in the right hand corner. Dunno what that is about...

I did some of that "preschool writing" as Phil calls it for the Bible verse. (I keep telling him it is bang on trend script writing but he won't have it)

and used a song for my reflective words on the other side

Lots of outlining, lots of misty sprinkles, some enamel dots and a few die cuts later and I was all done.

And finally for now

Three times I have tried to photograph this layout. Three. Times. And this is the best I could manage. Maybe my camera just doesn't know where to look!
Everything on here apart from the enamel dots is from Fancy Pants Wonderful Day collection (which is a good one to use as it was). Oh and I have the little camera dies which are fiddly but nice. Camera details have been "in" in Scrapbooking and I have loads kicking about somewhere. But could I find them when I have just the layouts to use them on?

Ah well "It don't make me no never mind" as they say on the Wire (one of the only lines of the Wire that I can reproduce here as the swearing/racial words that only people of colour should use and even then maybe should not, is high) (We are watching the Wire with Em and C. Phil and I are amazed by the amount we have forgotten of the stories. It's still good. Its like a Bawl-mer version of Game of Thrones really)

Some close ups...

The last one is the clearest version of the writing.

In and out

This Summer I am a bit like the Scarlet Pimpernel and learning to live out of suitcases! Its quite fun although I am really a homebird so make sure I have a few days back at the ranch before the next foray into the big wild world. This week I have spent time with Carys and my mother in law at her lovely home in Milford on Sea. Milford is by the sea (obvs) but also only about 30 minutes from the New Forest. We have to drive through it to get there and I never tire of seeing all the horses roaming around. They particularly like bus stops! Or standing in the road in a crowd, daring you to try and make them move...

All of which means I will be either absent or tardy with Daring Cards for a bit. I had managed to make my card in good time for this Friday but failed in first attempts to photograph it. I am being a big brave girl and moving off "auto" on the DSLR. Only I have discovered that I will need to stick to it for photographing layouts and cards as I shake too much so have loads of blurry photos. One layout I have taken out of the album twice now and both sets of photos are so rubbish I will need to go again. At least it isn't film wasted I suppose...

It being the beginning of a new month, we have a colour combo to play with...

 Now I already had this card on my desk which had been a fun play with my new Winnie and Walter stamps, when Carys mentioned she could do with 5 thank you cards to give to the Stagecoach staff as she finishes today (too old!)

I thought that with a bit of tweaking it would make a card fit for the dare

although my colours are perhaps a leetle too bright - I still like it! I used a dotty stencil and several different colour distress inks. Then some Winnie and Walter stamps (NB I now have a mini stamp press which I love!) and a trio of different enamel dots and the card was done
Here are all 5 (but out of focus)

.... and it turned out that Carys only needed 4 cards after all!