Embellish your World

Sigh, the man is awesome!

Nuff said really! The very awesome Matt Cardle who I was lucky enough to meet again this evening after the switching on of the lights at Regent Street. Saw performances from Matt, Kelly Clarkson, the cast of the West end musical 'Thriller' and the beautiful sounds of the West End Gospel Choir.  Jamie Theakston and Emma Bunton presented and there was  a brief visit from Bill Nighy and Ashley Jenson from the upcoming seasonal movie Arthur Christmas.  Much seasonal cheer in the air,  good tunes, fireworks and confettii too! Did I mention I met Matt Cardle again? AND got a cuddle and another photo (gotta love my daughter who spotted him walking by as we waited to see Kelly Clarkson!)

 

Matt Cardle @ HMV London

So maybe I look a little happy in this photo, but then who wouldn't be? Met the very lovely, very talented Matt Cardle this evening at HMV Oxford Street where he was doing an album signing wristband only event that also included a short acoustic set. Sounded wonderful, managed lots of nice photos, got to chat with him as he signed my album sleeve (from Matt #2 cos hubby is #1) and a photo with him too! Tonight I am one very happy bunny! If you've not heard any of the new album I urge you to go check it out on this album stream. It's not poppy main stream nonsense nor a product of the X Factor show at all but has Matt Cardle written tracks throughout showcasing his awesome vocal range.  I adore Starlight, All for Nothing and the title track Letters too, and I got the limited edition cd with additional acoustic tracks and the Letters version on that is just breathtaking.

Happy bunny now off to sleep!

Too lovely for words

 

And I for one will be doing my best to get tickets this Friday to see him at Koko London next month. Sigh....off to watch it again!

And I think to myself, what a wonderful world

 

Sharing my layout created before Christmas for The Scrapbook Magazine issue 52 for their designers music inspired section. I chose the title of a song for this layout of me and my boys, something I often do when scrapbooking. Again for my second layout I chose another song lyric to scrap a photo of my moody teenager. Papers and embellishments for both pages are Basic Grey Marjolaine.

 

Need to print some photos for a crop tomorrow and see if I can find some mojo to pack too. I'm full of cold and feeling a tad sorry for myself at the moment & my inspiration seems to have abandoned me. Hopefully it'll return for the morning!

Creations from last weekend

A quick blog post as it is way past my bedtime and I should be heading to sleep. Thing is I have just watched the final episode of Season 4 of Dexter and I'm shaking and won't be able to sleep for a bit!! Had one cup of tea to calm down, think a baileys hot chocolate may be required next!!  Anyhow, I ramble, here are my creations from the weekend.

First up, my take on Clare's Fancy Pants class, I altered the background paper to one I prefered (there was plenty of choice within the kit to allow this) otherwise I pretty much stuck to the class and I was really happy with my choice of photos to go with the papers.

 

Next up a layout I did for the music challenge. We were challenged to create a page inspired by one of the hits in the current Top10 music chart and I picked "Just the way you are" by Bruno Mars (though you have to love Matt Cardle's recent version of this on XFactor UK too!) I was pleased also to be able to use the chipboard YOU which came in our goodiebags (amoung a massive chipboard collection!)

 

My sketch challenge layout next and if you want to have a go at this sketch from which this layout was inspired, pop over to created by atdml blog for details - you could win a £10 voucher!!   I twisted the sketch 90degrees and scrapped my pizza loving small people!

Debbie's Sunday afternoon class was a double layout using October Afternoon papers and die cut tags. I'm really happy with my version of this though I may have gone a tad overboard with the banner stitching (oh and the kite tail!)

 
 
I also particpated in a scraplift challenge over the weekend and the following layout using the scrumptious Crate Paper SchoolSpirit papers, October Afternoon Schoolhouse stickers and some Basic Grey paper trims was born from a layout of Suzanne's. Both of these products were used in my pizza layout above too.  I literally drew my own sketch from Suzanne's page and then created my layout around in and I am really pleased with how it turned out, geometric enough to start with, but with the right amount of deviation I feel obliged to inject!!

 

 

Plenty more to share another time, but for now, I need to go get the hot chocolate and Baileys!!