Little friends

April is a very busy month for our family with 3 birthdays and a wedding anniversary, plus 2 weekends of trips away and school holidays. With all this, scrapbooking has taken a back stand. Before we went camping the last weekend, I finished a LO for Artastic. Instead of squeezing a LO in for their challenge this month, I've done it first!
The challenge is centered around a painting, with the extra theme being food.

These 2 little girls love being together and think morning tea and lunch are grown up things to do together. It's very cute to watch. I have used the colours from the painting as my base colours.

I found some vintage tags, this being one of them, from Free Pretty Things for You. A website full of beautiful little things. For the journalling I used a paint pen. It was my first time using one and I love the effect it gives.

A close up off my bunting, love heart and stamped title.

I'm off to watch the Mary Poppins show tomorrow with my eldest daughter. We got tickets for her birthday and so I'm looking forward to a girls day out with her. I don't know how much I'll see my craft desk this month but hopefully a bit more.

My quiet project

As promised, here are the other 2 canvases that I have made for my very good friend. I had so much fun making them, but the best part was to give them and see her reaction and her kids reaction at seeing themselves as part of artwork.

Eldest:

Second:

 This canvas I did for the March Sketch challenge at Handmade by Suzanne. Be sure to check this months sketch for a chance to win a voucher for her online store.

Youngest child:

I did this canvas for this months challenge at Let's get Shabby. See the previous post if you would like more details.


I humbly love how they turned out and I thank my friend for letting me post her precious children so I could show you my work. I'm hooked on doing canvas now, just wish I had more wall space☺.

Beautiful girl

 Now for the scrapping I have had to keep quiet till now. For my very good friend's birthday, I've made a canvas of each of her 3 children. It was the first time I've done canvases and I'm hooked. 

I've always loved the Let's get Shabby challenge blog but it's been a long time since I've joined in. The colours from the inspiration photo and the fact that my friend had mentioned she loved spring when the kids could walk around bare feet again gave me the inspiration I needed for this canvas.

I first glimmer misted and stamped the background then using a range of papers and rub ons added the elements around the photos. Not to forget the pink doily strip that set the perfect background for the little photos.

I loved the greens and pinks from the photo and have used them as my main colours. I stamped the shipping tag with the beautiful butterfly background stamp from Kaiser craft. Butterflies are what I think of when I think of spring and I also love adding them to girl LOs.

My little of cluster of flowers with some pearls. I love the extra touch pearls and rhinestones give to a LO.

My friend absolutely loved her gift(s) and I'm really pleased to give her a homemade gift she can treasure for a long time. I will post the other 2 a bit later today when I have a bit more time.