Well what a cutie patootie surprise my hubby gave me this week :D

We have been looking for a little cocker spaniel to keep Rolo company for a while with no luck.............then my hubby, on the pretence my Mum wanted to see me, took me to see this little sweetie :D

Apologies for the quality of the pics, but its very hard to capture anything good on a phone camera of a squiggly jiggly 8 week old black puppy LOL :D

Well for the LO I used Cosmo Crickwt through out.

I distressed the edges of the largest piece of paper and inked with TH wild honey ink pad.

I then used a TH mask and spritzed with a combo of cosmic shimmer mist and diluted distress ink in a mini mister.

I tore a piece of paper from the same range and inked with Crushed olive distress ink pad, stuck to the base and added my photo.

I then used the negative part of the mask over the photo and spritzed again.

I gave it a blast with my heatgun to dry the inks off, then folded back the bottom corner, stapled and added a piece of contrasting paper behind to re-form the corner of the LO.

I used TH alpha masks to create the title and randomly outlined with a fine tip black marker pen.

The question mark was hand cut from the patterned paper and stuck on with foam pads to create some layered depth.

I thought it would be fun to add the names that had been suggested or we were considering because of the fun we are having trying to decide.

That's the fun part of scrapbooking - preserving the memories of things you will undoubtedly forget :D

So what is my new furbaby's name???

I really love Ollie, but having trouble convincing the other half LOL

Lastly I have to share this pic with you because my other furbaby, Rolo, was just too funny on the way home this afternoon :D

Hugs'ncutie snogs,

Julie xx

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Yes, Moira from Happy Daze contacted me today and asked me to be part of her new design team :D I'm so proud :D this really cheered me up considering I have had an awful week bogged down with a horrible snotty cold fluey type icky thing :(

SLYMI challenge this week was to scrap using your handwriting - not my fave thing at all, which I suppose is what made it a good challenge LOL - plus I'm terrible at journalling!!

This is a LO of Rolo, our rescued retriever who was very troubled when we
got him. Nearly two years on and he is a totally different, utterly
gorgeous dog!!
When he arrived he was incredibly naughty and very protective of his tail and anything that belonged to him, and he was a mare to get in the kitchen where his bed is LOL!!!

For this LO I used K& Co que sera sera paper sprayed with copper cosmic shimmer
over Tim Holtz masks
Tim Holtz word key, ornate frame and sprockets,
Prima Homespun Bittles, Essentials and say it with stud centres
Skin tones promarker for the journalling

All of the above are available to buy from Happy Daze :D

I also used Making Memories brads and cork letters, Bazzil cardstock and MLS letter stickers.

Hugs'n'happy snogs :D
J xx

Happy Campers :D

Waiting for Dad.....









Still waiting LOL









He's here :D







and the rain, rain, rain came down, down, down LOL did it not!!!
We postponed and only went on Saturday in the end as Friday was a bit of a washout.
We had to do two runs because we couldn't fit the dog in!!!! LOL it's a good job we are only half an hour away or he was Home Alone..... only kidding :D

Managed the new(ish) tent no probs - in fact it was a doddle,and just got it all set up before it rained:D
Paul returned and we headed off for a little walk...... NEVER AGAIN!!! I thought my heart was going to jump out it was beating so fast LOL when did I get so unfit??? I climb ladders at work nearly every day :o
Saturday evening was nice but was eaten to death by midges, and left the brandy hotchoc a little bit late to start and was scared of waking peeps up with the whistling kettle.... so we had brandy "warm" choc instead :D
Paul had to wake the dog up because he was dreaming, then felt the need to wake me up to let me know it was raining :o what was that about??

Sunday, the heavens opened again, so we left the tent up, took the dog and some stuff home and went back for it when the sun had kindly dried it for us :D

Still happy campers though :D
Hugs and midgey snogs,
J xx

Marley and me....

Well it was a beautiful day today so we took Rolo for a trip to Ennerdale, one of my fave places as it's so unspoiled :D just a tiny village, a campsite and a beautiful lake and scenery :D
The carpark was quite full today and by full there was aroun 50 cars - it's a hidden gem away from the tourist track so shhhhh don't tell :D
Rolo had a fab time swimming and met a few new friends, the main one being Marley, a one year old retriever - they got on like a house on fire and were so cute runninga round and playing together. Marley isn't a swimmer yet so Rolo swam out for the sticks followed by Marley as far as he could wade then Marley would bring the stick in LOL - kinda like a relay race haha :D


It really made us think wouldn't it be nice to have a friend for Rolo.....hmmm????
There wasn't a single bark or snarl between all four dogs :D

Sunny hugs 'n'snogs :D

Julie xx

Action shots!!!

Just gotta love this pooch :D look at the size of that flippin tongue!!!
DH took him for a good run about and this is the result hahaha :D

I had forgotten DH had taken the shots below last summer on his phone - he has a multi burst shot function on his phone :D How funny :D

Have to scrap some of these :D