Taking Selfies

Hi there,

I have managed to squeeze a page in before the end of the year. We had a quiet Christmas allowing us some catch up time at home including a bit of scrapbooking.
I did my page for the mood board challenge at Scrap the Girls.

Such deep colours which I hope comes up on my page.

I watercolored my background and instead of using the butterfly stencil for paint etc. I used it to draw around making the butterflies. I have seen this done around the scrapbook blog world and love the effect. The brickwork behind the photo I made with chipboard on my cuttlebug and then painted it red. 

A cluster of flowers with a wooden butterfly to finish off my page. I am proud that I have finally managed to complete a page with lots of white space. Normally I end up filling some of it in.

I would like to wish everyone a Happy New Year and may God bless your 2016.

See you for more Scrapbooking fun next year

Girls

Hello,

Today I have a page for the challenge at Scrap Around The World. Sadly this will be their last challenge but I must say they are leaving with a beautiful bang with this mood board,

The page I created using so many of the inspirations, but mainly the beautiful berry colour,

 I used water colour paints for my background, painting first on an acrylic sheet and then pressing onto my paper. Did some background script stamping and then layered my photo several times. 

I love this doily die cut, so dainty and pretty. I cut out the arrows from white card and then water painted them in the same colour as I used for the background. The buntings are fussy cut from a paper pad and then I tied them with some string and a bow. A few gold sequins for a bit of bling!

I also like to thank Pinterest because I found beautiful pages for inspiration; so many creative and amazing people out there.

Thank you for popping by and hope to see you soon again.

Christmas Concert

Hello December and hello to the holiday/busy season.
ARTastic has a challenge to fit in with the festive season but the painting can be used in any way you feel inspiration☺︎.

The criteria this month is Gold. 

I have concentrated on Christmas and scrapped a photo of 2 of my kids at a complimentary Christmas concert at the local caravan park my parents stay at when they come up.

 I have stuck to the colours from the inspiration painting and did a lot of inking and texture painting to create my background. I had bought gold glitter paper where the glitter doesn't come off and used this for most of my elements on my page including my title. 

Close up of my gold star and frame which I used from die cuts. I also used background paper with the negative cuts of stars which I had punched to use on other parts of my page.

Thank you for supporting ARTastic this year and I look forward to being DT for ARTastic again next year. It looks to be a good year.

Hello

I love sketch challenges and I found this great sketch at the challenge blog My Creative Sketches.

 I can't believe I haven't found their blog before but now I have; I'll be following them and hopefully joining in with a few more challenges.

My daughter Amy seems to be the focus of my photos lately☺︎. These were taken on a family and friend day out,

I am going through my paper pads, trying to use them up and for this page I used the paper pad from  My Minds Eye-The Sweetest Thing. I distressed the edges like I usually do, but for this page I also inked the edges to create a bit more of a distressed look.

Lots of paper flowers and a bit of bling to top of a girly page☺︎.

Imagine

A promised, I'm back with another layout, after I found this fun challenge at Scrap Your Stash.
A sketch and an element guide using a bingo card.

I used the line with paper clip, Doily, Glitter, Journal card and metal,

I am trying to go through all my craft products, including when I sew, which is actually quite liberating☺︎. This sketch was perfect for using up some of my paper pads and the strips are from the top of the papers. My title is a die cut which I used with glitter paper.

Thank you for popping by and I'll see you soon as I have another layout I am just finishing☺︎.

Family is the greatest gift

Hello,

I seem to have a thing for scrapbooking in the second half of the month☺︎.
I've been looking around for a few different challenges than I normally join in and came across Scrapping around the World. I love their mood board this month

and created this page for their challenge,

When I think of Christmas, I think of family. We don't celebrate with presents and commercial items but with God and family. I had these family photos taken and love this one of my 4 kids.

For the page I water coloured the background first and gessoed over some wood patterned paper which I used to back my photo. These cute little beach houses have been sitting in my paper stash for years now and I straight away thought of them when I saw the mood board. So good to use them up.

My canvas bunting I misted and added natural twine to tie together.

Thanks you for popping past and I hope to back soon with another page for you☺︎

Parents

Wow, second last month of the year, that's a little bit scary. I had a nice surprise of winning a challenge and coming top 3 in another last month which is always a nice extra little bonus of scrapbooking☺︎.
Today I have my DT page for ARTastic Challenge Blog, flowers are the criteria this month, using this painting for inspiration,

  

I have made my page using bought and handmade flowers, using the colours of the painting as my palette.

 This photo is of my parents which is special to me as they are now getting older and my Dad has Alzheimers. He is hard to take photos off, always has been which makes these extra special. I have kept the paper fairly simple and let the flowers be the focus.

 I used punches, die cuts for my handmade flowers.

If you have time this month, we would love you to pop over to ARTastic and join in with our challenge☺︎.

Family weekend

Hello,
I'm back as promised with my other 2 layouts I created, both using photos from our weekend away.

For Stuck Sketches, which had this fun sketch to use,

I made this layout:

I did a circle behind my photo and then spray misted a Heidi Swapp star for the foreground. The background was done using star punches, stencils and misting. I couldn't resist the little canvas cloud for my page, I stitched around it to give it a cute outline.

Then last but not least, here is my page I created for the 123 Challenge Blog which was to use, Lime, the word Today and Spots.

My Title is done using a Becky Higgins projects life card. Perfect☺︎. With a colourful and patterned background, I kept the papers and my embellishments around the photo low key to put focus on the photo. I crocheted the 2 circle embellishments for on the flower and with the wood veneer elements.

Thank you for popping by and for the beautiful comments you leave. I read each comment with a feeling of gratefulness for the love shown☺︎.

I can't wait to join in and share with you more challenges again next month.

Girls

Hello,

There is nothing like a scrapbook day with a friend to fix the lack of pages completed. We often get together and it always special,fun and of course productive☺︎.
Today I have 2 of the pages I created, both with gorgeous mood boards;  the first one is for the challenge at Off the Rails Scrapbooking.

I have created my page using a photo I took while we had a weekend away in the cute little town of Bridgetown which is on the banks of the river.

 I love these photos, showing the simple love of sisters and I wanted to keep that emotion in my page, so I chose to keep my papers low pattern and just went with the colours.

A little love heart I crocheted. I enjoy putting my other crafts in my pages and hopefully it will show the kids a bit of me☺︎.

I also created a page for the challenge at Scrap Africa.

For this page I still had a photo I've been meaning to scrap for a while and this was the perfect mood board to use,

 I am also using the last bits I have of the paper range Simple Stories-Vintage Bliss. I'm trying to get as many layouts as I can out of it since it's been my favourite range. For this page I did my background stamping in a soft pink, normally I stick to black or strong colours. I love the subtlety of the pink. The love hearts are from Heidi Swapp and a girl page is always pretty with a doily, this time I used a paper doily.

A close up of the papers I used, creating layers. I have been using journalling cards a lot lately to add behind photos and papers. They are quick and easy and add a nice touch.

Tomorrow, I will be back with 2 more layouts, yes, I have enjoyed putting together some pages this month ☺︎

Today

Hello,
I have sort of been missing this month because we took some time off as a family and enjoyed a weeks holiday plus some time over different weekends.
This week I joined the challenge at Scrap The Girls because I fell in love with their mood board,

Such pretty colours which inspired this page,

 We found a pretty little garden on one of our weekends away, it was fun place to take photos of the kids; this one of the girls. I have used papers from My Minds Eye-Find Your Wings and Fly. The main background paper I spread out behind the photo.

This cute little bunting was made by fussy cutting a paper that was made up of patterned triangles. I actually bought it for this exact purpose. I love to add buttons to my buntings and in this case I think it adds a nice pretty girly touch.

Thank you for popping past and seeing what I have been creating.

Caring

Hello,

I love October, it's my favourite month. The weather is warming up but still some beautiful rain showers to enjoy, school holidays and it always seem to be a month of relaxing. 

I begin my scrapbooking for the month with my page for ARTastic Challenge Blog,

It was centred around this gorgeous vintage painting with the criteria for the challenge also being vintage,

I scrapbooked a black and white photo of my daughter with her doll. She is such a doll girl and a cute little mother to them.

I first stuck lace and doily to my background paper then painted my page with gesso so that the lace and doily would become a subtle part of my background. Using mist I finished the background with splatters and a doily stencil. For my papers I chose a vintage line from Kaiser craft and backed my photo with them. And some flowers to finish the page off.

We would love you to pop in at ARTastic and have join in with our challenge.

I will be having a break for a week or two from scrapbooking while my kids are on school holidays. I'm looking forward to spending some time with them.

Till then wishing you all the best.

Cutie Pie

Hi there,

I'm having a fun month of scrapbooking, including a scrapbooking day yesterday with a friend. I created this page for the challenge at Sketchabilities.

 I first stencilled some dots around my page with modelling paste and splattered some mist to create my background.  I loved putting all the elements together.

A close up of my little cluster. I stamped some butterflies to use instead of flowers. I love how it turned out.

I also created a page for the challenge at Lessology using a book to feature in the Layout,

I have used book pages to back my photo, and to compliment the reading theme, I created a background using a script stencil and stamp. For the stencilling I coloured the modelling paint with a bit of misting ink.

I received the concertina flower on a gift I received so up cycled it on my page and of course I up cycled my girl's reading book, I hope they won't mind.

Thank you for popping by, I hope you are finding time for some scrapbooking as well.

Just Having Fun

Hello,

We have had real spring weather here in Western Australia, rain and sunshine. Perfect for being out and also scrapbooking.
I have had fun scrapping a page for the Scrap the Girls challenge. This was the sketch to use

and my page,

 This was another photo taken by my niece, this time of my eldest. Love the serenity of it. For the floral cluster around the journal card I have used muslin, doilies, handmade buttons, shells and of course flowers. The paper range I used is Amy Tangerine-Rise and Shine. Beautiful mix of papers with great co-ordinating embellishments including the journal cards.

A close up of all my elements

And my other cluster to finish off the page.

My 2 girls have dress up day this week at school so I will be busy sewing but hopefully I'll be fitting in some scrapbooking too.

Take care.

Best Buds

Hello there,

Today I have a page to share with you using the challenge at Scrap Africa which was to use this sketch,

My page using a photo of my youngest and her friend. Our 2 families spend a lot of time together  and these two have grown up best friends,

I have kept this page clean and simple using simple background stamping and clean lines. The journal cards are part of a Becky Higgins project life kit. I don't actually do project life but the kits are suitable for scrapbooking too. The cute circles are from Heidi Swapp.

I hope all is going well with you all and thank you for popping around.

Loved by You

Hello and welcome to September and another exciting lot of scrapbook challenges.
 I have my DT page for you today for the challenge at ARTastic challenge blog,  with this painting by William Knox as your inspirtation,

CRITERIA is a free scrap (anything goes) but we need to know what inspired you (sails, sand, buildings, colours, shapes, location etc).

My page for this challenge is a photo of my youngest with her much loved Daddy,

 The thing that struck me first when I saw this painting was the colours. They weren’t bright but rather olden looking and I loved the feel it gave, a peaceful, loving feeling. So I picked up those colours for my inspiration and came up with this page of my husband with our youngest. The love and peace between these 2 is beautiful. I’ve used the quote to double up as my title.

 I have created a bit of colour to my background using water colour paints. It gives a subtle look and lets the photo and other embellishments shine.

I created a matching tag to my background. I have been busy lately making my own embellishments, tags and flowers and any other ideas I find on Pinterest.

Spring has arrived here in the West of Australia and the sunshine is something to enjoy along with some spring showers. My favourite season, and especially when the sun shines into my craft room.