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.