Our August guest designer ...

  Please welcome our August guest designer, Jackie Edwards with her wonderful take on our challenge this month.

Burgundy with flowers

Hi!  My name is Jackie Edwards and I live in Southend-on-Sea, Essex in the UK.

 I am a widow but have a wonderful daughter and three beautiful grandchildren who are mostly the subjects of my layouts. 

 I have been scrapping for over twenty years now. I discovered scrapbooking when I was on holiday in America, and started when my first Grandchild was about a year old and my style has changed many times over the years.  I am very lucky to have my own craft room and because I am now retired, I can scrap all day and not have to clear everything away!

 

I have always been involved with craft in some form – sewing, cross-stitch, cards, altered art and mixed media but seem to return to scrapbooking every time.  My best buy many years ago was a Craft Robo, and I have a Cameo too now which means I can now cut 12x12 and titles etc and not buy alphas (although that is hard and I am often tempted)  !!

I very much enjoy entering challenges because they give me the starting point for a layout, whether it’s a sketch or other criteria……..although the end result doesn’t always reflect the original design or intention! LOL

 

I don’t know what I would do now if I didn’t scrap!!!

 

I was very pleased to be asked to be GD this month and hope that my layout might give you some inspiration for this month's challenge!

Thank you so much for joining in with us this month, Jackie.  It has been such a pleasure.

There is still plenty of time to join in with our challenge for August - entries close midnight on the last day of the month. We'd love to see your entry.