My sweet girl

I am having a lazy day at home today with my little one and so while she was playing with playdough I managed to put this page together for the mood board challenge at JOT magazine.

 I concentrated on using papers for this page so I left the background clean. Once again I used the paper range My Mind's Eye-the sweetest thing. I'm so in love with this range. ☺I distressed all my edges but didn't ink them to give them dimension while blending in. 

I added in these cute flowers and a chipboard banner which is from the range of My Mind's Eye-find your wings and fly.

Here is the fabulous mood board to use as inspiration.

Makes me want to go shopping☺!

We have a long weekend this coming weekend, which we are spending as a family and then we are into March. Amazing. So I'll see you next month.

Memories

Hello all,

It's been busy here with my husband doing a lot of night work of harvesting wine grapes, leaving me to run the household more on my own but I managed to take snippets of time to complete this page for the challenge at Scrap Africa. The challenge was to alter chipboard and use it on your layout. I love chipboard so I couldn't leave this challenge☺.

 I have had this chipboard tree for ages, waiting for the right page. This photo from 2 of my girls walking their dolls down a beautiful bush path, which is just down the road from our house, made me want to use the tree☺. I have also used and covered some chipboard butterflies. The paper range I used for this page is My Mind's Eye-the sweetest thing.

 A close up of my tree which I painted with gesso, stamped it with a script stamp and added buttons using string and twine.

These butterflies I covered with paper, sanded the edges and couldn't resist a bit of bling on each. 2 of the butterflies I left raw, just inking the edges a little bit.

When scrapbooking there are some pages that just work so well, and this was one of them. It all came together really well.

Summer

Hello ☺.
I have allowed myself to have a week of basic housework and the rest of the day crafting. Bit of sewing, crocheting and of course scrapbooking. I joined the challenge at Scrap Africa this month, I always love sketch challenges because it prevents me from scrapping in the same layout all the time.

 I machined stitched my circle element and used them to centre my clusters of flowers and a cute sticker cloud, which I had to add a button and a little rose☺.

A mix of products to make up my little cluster and journalling which I have done on the computer.

It was an easy and simple sketch to work with, just the way I like them. Hope you are all well and keeping safe.  

JAI challenge #201

Hello there,

Sadly I had to make a card for a mother of 6 who has been diagnosed with breast cancer. I used the colours from the challenge at Just Add Ink. They were peaceful with a bit of brightness.

Hopefully this will brighten her day and encourage her to stay strong.

Also I would like to wish anyone who is going through illness or have loved ones unwell, all the very best.

My parents

Hello and welcome to February. It's always a bit of fun at the beginning of the month to see the new challenges come out. This month, ARTastic is asking for work with paint and ink using the below painting for inspiration.

I did a scrapbook page using a photo of my parents. I realized my kid's albums were missing a photo of their grandparents and I felt it's important to include this. I used the colours of the inspiration painting for my page.

 I 'stamped' using texture paint and then using the same stamp used black ink next to and over top of the texture paint hearts. To back and embellish my page I have used a range of papers and added a straight edge of a doily with some fabric flowers.

A close look at my hearts.

We would love to see you join in at ARTastic challenge this month and be inspired by our challenge.