Made With Love by Kat

This was a single-page layout and maybe the first where I really felt like I was getting to grips with designing well. It's no coincidence that it's much, much simpler than the France layout, with just a couple of Fine & Dandy stickers added, along with the now-mandatory gold glittery thickers (what will I do when I run out?!). I was really happy with the little brown craft envelope, which I had to use as packaging for my jewellery business , and which has some additional photos in that wouldn't fit on the page but I didn't want to leave in a drawer. 

This is the layout from our France holiday last year. I sort of like it, but I think maybe I've put too much stuff on the page. I couldn't get it right, and so I just kept adding things... which I don't think was necessarily the right thing to do. I do like this picture we sneakily took of a Hell's Angel watching the boat jousting - definitely not what you'd expect to see on a sunny afternoon in the South of France! I made this embellishment using my big circle paper punch with a Fine & Dandy flamingo paper and some pink glittery card from Tesco. The card isn't the posh stuff, so it will shed glitter I'm sure, but I can live with that.  Here's Luke, very pleased with himself on our big bike ride. We hired bikes - brilliant and really easy. I made the little flag embellishment and added a chipboard sticker from a Dear Lizzy set. 

Day two! This was made with some photos from our first two holidays together that I'd printed out to put in a framed collage, but I printed waaaaaay too many and so they've been sitting all sad in a drawer for more than a year. Hurrah for liberating the pictures! I don't really like my handwriting on this layout, and I went back to change it a few times. I used more of the gold glittery thicker  (which I love), plus some Fine & Dandy papers that I cut from the paper pack.  "Chopez chopez" was an in-joke between me & Luke when we were in Madrid - we were both hopeless at Spanish and so started making up our own words when talking between the two of us. One evening I told him that "choppez choppez" was definitely Spanish for "hurry up", we'd had just enough Rioja for it to be funny and it became a bit of a catchphrase. It seemed to suit this little guy well... he definitely wasn't in a hurry to go anywhere.  ...