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I've been busy

Wow what a weekend, all started by the wedding, I know its been discussed and done to death so I'll just say two words, classy and beautiful. I think that covers everything.
My scrapbooking buddy Julia has been here for the weekend and we have had another of our kitchen retreats, I can't believe how many pages we have almost finished. We usually buy one of Sarah's Cards kits and then make as many pages as we can from the kit. Back in January we bought the Fancy Pants - Happy Together kit, sorry its sold out. These papers were so delicious. We also had made a kit up using the Dovecraft - Tea House papers. I have managed five single page layouts and two doubles. I've also got the bones of a book. I still need to get the photos onto most of them and the final little touches but they are mostly done and I'm very chuffed with myself.
The one that is completely finished isn't using any of the papers I've mentioned but I wanted to make it while it was all still fresh in my mind.It is based on the fabulous sketch from Scrapbook and Cards Today, that I used in my last post. I like these sketches so much th at I had to use it again. This was the sketch
and here is the second page I made with it, very masculine.
I now need to sort out photos for my other pages, but right now I have to get ready for work tommorrow.

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Unknown said…
Love this! The gears are awesome and the colors are great!
28 May 2011 at 22:38
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