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.

Precious

Hello Monday,
A great way to start the week is with some scrapbooking.
I have completed a page for the challenge at the 123 Challenge Blog. The challenge was to use kraft, the word precious and fussy cutting.

 I used kraft for my background and backed my photo with different patterned papers. The black card I used was the backing from some flowers I bought. I love it when products come with cute packaging. I have used different buttons, flowers and butterflies for my embellishments.

A close up of my fussy cutting of my butterflies, then I then added a bit of bling to them. Perfect for a girl's page.

Thank you for coming by, I'm hoping to be able to complete some more scrapbooking for the last week of the month.

Enjoy your week.

Sisters

Hello again,

As promised I'm back with another page to share.
This page is for the Jot magazine challenge using this beautiful mood board

I have created this page using another photo taken by my niece,

 I created the background by sponge inking, using a doily stencil. After the ink dried, I covered the background with gesso to give it the white wash effect to fit in with the mood board. I love how it came up and it made the rest of the page come together easily. The lattice die cut behind my photo is a new one I bought from Kaiser craft. I have a feeling it will be well used.

A close up of my background and some of my embellishments.

This was a pretty page to make and I loved using the different blues.

Thank you for popping by.

My Girls

I gave my craft room and desk a good clean and couldn't wait to scrapbook in my clean, organised area. I love mood boards and the one for the challenge at Scrap The Girls, is just gorgeous.

My niece took family photos for us and they are beautiful, so I'm sure you'll see plenty more as I scrap them. This one is of my 3 girls and I.

 I love pages where I can also use some scraps. This is because I have a lot of scraps since I have a hard time throwing papers out.  Paper doilies and background stamping fill in the white areas. For the mason jar, I used a free printable and printed it onto a coloured paper, then cut it out, added some twine and a flower. 

A close up of my flower cluster and I added some twine to give the cluster some more 'shape'. 

Take care and I will be back tomorrow with another page I have ready. 

Little Mother

Hi all,

Firstly my apologies for disappearing off the blogging and scrapbooking world last month. I had school holidays, a trip to Adelaide with my husband and sickness to fill my month.
I am back with my DT page for ARTastic which has a wonderful challenge focusing on creating a background using this painting as your inspiration

Painting by Kirra Jamison

My page of my youngest taking her 'baby' for a walk. 

I have used a floral stencil which I have first stencilled with gesso and when that was dry, I then used mist, spraying and splattering it. From there I have layered papers to back my photo and then used little embellishments around the page. 

 Close ups of my floral background and element clusters using paper flowers and die cuts.

Thank you for popping over and having a look. We would love to have you join in with our challenge at ARTastic this month. And I will definitely be pulling my supplies back out this month to complete some pages😊.