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😊.

Together is the Best

Hello and welcome to July; we are into the second half of the year, yikes.
What a better way to start the month with the challenge at ARTastic. A fun challenge using this painting by Shirley Charlton, as your inspiration,

CRITERIA is to use water (liquid) in some way on your page (ink spray, gelatos, paper crumple, watered down paint, make handmade flowers etc).  Just tell us how water was applied.

My page for this month:

 I was inspired by the colours and 'layout' of the painting. I have split my page using similar colours at the top and bottom as the painting with my photo and embellishments across the centre. To create my background I painted clear acetate with water colour paint and placed it upside down on my page transferring the paint. My friend recently taught me this technique and I love it.

 Close up of my background and my flower cluster. By pre painting it, it's easier to get the right colours before placing it on your page.

The other colour I have used at the top, along with some of my embellishments. I love making my own embellishments. The love hearts are a die cut and the arrows I made using a chevron stencil.

I hope this has inspired you to try our challenge at ARTastic and have some fun using water on your page.

Enjoy today

Hello,
Today I have a page to share with you using the wonderful sketch challenge from Sketchabilities.

 How I have used the sketch; using a recent photo of my youngest,

I like the simplicity of the page I created using a few new goodies I purchased ☺. Cute little photo frame, ribbon flowers and a new misting stencil. 

My embellishment cluster for the top of my page.

I haven't been much on the blog this month, but my girls are keeping me busy, needing help as they have found the fun of misting. The flu bug is taking us down one by one so there's no rest here as a mum. Today they were all back at school and the house was quiet again ☺.

Take care and happy scrapping.

Family

Hello,
I have been missing this month because I have been very busy with my other craft love of sewing. I actually had another page completed but didn't get it linked up in time so I'll save that one to show you later. Instead I have this page done for the challenge at Off the Rails which had this great mood board.

And my page using a family photo we had taken just a couple of weeks ago, on a day out.

I have used a Webster page for my background paper. This page was perfect for the colours of this mood board. I have picked up the orange and red for my main colours to back my photo. 

I wanted to create a bit of 3D on my page so I have used some paper flowers on top of the flowers printed on the paper. I also used a paper flower which my girls had fun making at a friend's house.

I have had a number of days feeling very flat with no energy, but hopefully I will get over it soon as there are some very nice challenges this month, that I would love to join in with☺.