Derry Walls Layout - Amanda's Scraplift Challenge

Very quick post from me today as time is fast running out to play along with Amanda's Scraplift challenge and I wanted to get my layout entered before I have to go to work this afternoon!

Amanada challenged us to "scraplift" her layout.

Here's my layout, which kept fairly close to the original design but I moved my title to the opposite side of the page.

The photos are from a few years ago taken on a day trip to the city of Derry.

A few close ups:

I used some gorgeous papers from the new Simple Stories "Life Documented" collection and added various stickers from my stash, cork thickers for my title and the little green arrows are from a pack of  Heidi Swapp Puffy stickers.

Thanks for a great challenge, Amanda - look forward to the next one!

"Granda's Tree" layout

Another of the layouts I made on the November Scrapbooking Retreat!

During one of our trips over to stay with my hubby's family last year we visited his Granny and as it was a beautiful Spring day we were all out in her garden when I snapped this photo of my daughter stood by this beautiful tree. Sadly his Granda had passed a few months before but he loved this tree and tended it carefully for many, many years. We all said how the tree had never looked so good and was in full bloom in his memory! My daughter loved "Great Granda's tree" saying how pretty it was.

Some close ups:

The gorgeous floral paper and the puffy heart stickers are both from Heidi Swapp's Favorite Things Collection. The "Life is Good" card is from Jennifer's "How Refreshing" collection from her "Happy Scatter" Etsy Shop. If you haven't yet had a look in her shop, do pop over as she has some lovely items.

I also added a Basic grey tag, resin flower and stamped some arrows and phrases mixed in with a few phrase stickers!

How is your 2015 crafting going?

I was at my first crop of the year last Saturday and managed to get a couple of layouts finished!!

Thanks for stopping by today.