365/200 Airborne.

mmm, I can see some of JB's photos from Farnborough Airshow last week coming on..just need to find them.... and there's the problem..

 

.. so I went in search of another airborne picture, found a bunch of Uncle Bill's from when he visited including a few of dandelions no less.. but then I thought I'd show you how JB captured a paintball leaving a gun when the guys were playing down the field a couple of summers ago.. You can just see the orange paintball at the edge of the first picture.  Needless to say the second picture shows they also use green paint!

Zac and my SIL Tom love to play but with Zac away and small children at home Tom doesn't even get much chance at the minute..but at least the kit doesn't 'eat any meat' as my Mum would say.

Pop-up Cards!

Its's been a good few years since I was selling Usborne Books at Home and encountered the Pop-Up cards book they published.  Mmm, two kids and some time to kill, I churned out a number of can-can pop-up cards with such things as Can-can Pigs in lace doiley skirts and Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles can-canning inside Ross' card!  True, I needed rescuing from an existence where there was time and an inclination to make (or least of all buy the materials for) felt parrots.. thanks Col! 

So .... I wasn't sure how keen I was to make the 3D / pop-up layouts Linda had planned for us last week at Just Scrapbooking. But I had the perfect card to make and here it is.... dear son-in-law has been known to yawn a little at my scrapbooking habit, (though never when he or his babes are the subject I notice)... so his 30th birthday card became a token of my 'touchee' approach.. his loves of 'yawn' paintball... yes, we yawn just as much when Zac launches into paintball debate, perhaps that's why he has got the hypnotism bug, so he can use the paintball talk to set us in the initial trance eh?!

This is the outside of the layout..note the continued use of eyelets Linda, have a huge stock and challenge for the year is to incorporate on every layout perhaps?  Thanks Yvonne for the green swirl and the inside letters.. me and Yvonne have a nice symbiosis going on the last couple of scraps, we always seem to have just what the other needs.. well I hope she feels its mutual..

Here's the inside.. the stamped-on look of the inner paper was a real find and I couldn't resist using more of the 'paintball' beads I'd got for Zac's layout last autumn.

Hope your 30th was Happy Tom!

On a roll now..

.. so I may as well post the Paintball layout I did, again using beads, but on ribbons and using some of the Autumn stash Linda had supplied, but the colours fitted real well with the beads I took with Zac's paintball pics in mind!

I had a great Superdry bag which is bright orange outside with a camoflage pattern inside, and I was able to use this for matting and making the journal pocket....all in the essence of true SCRAPbooking! 

About the boys!

What a mottley crew!

Zac and his 'new best friend' Tom (who also happens to be the son-in-law!) have created a great paintball area (they tell me it's an 'arena') down in one of our fields. Days of planning, more days of digging, with and without a digger, and lots of hours testing guns and sights have taken place.

They take it all very seriously and I'm sure it is the culmination of years playing Xbox games and the base-making habit Zac had as a kid.

Rain (and hangover) stopped play last weekend, but I am assured this Sunday they have 6 players and it's going to be a full-on session. Uncle Bill took some great shots while he was here, we hope maybe this will lure his son Graham over from the States for a shoot-out! .. though Zac may be in the States soon himself if he gets the stuntman job he looks like applying for in this staged shot!