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☺︎.