Proud moment

Hello,
I actually managed to do another scrapbook page this month☺︎.
I have joined in with the challenge over at Scrap The Boys, which had the theme of something new.
My page is of my son who was honoured to hold our friend's baby for baptism. He got a new outfit for the day and was a proud boy.

I have got my sketch off pinterest, yay for pinterest☺︎. I used a paper collection I've had for a while which worked perfectly for the colours. I love being able to use something I've been waiting to use for a while.

Thank you Scrap The Boys for a fun challenge☺︎.

Snap shot

Hello,
The house is quiet again, there is a routine back in place; our summer break is over and the kids are back at school. As much as I love holidays, I do love my routine back in place☺︎.
I start this month off with my DT page for ARTastic with this pretty painting as the challenge inspiration, with the criteria of using butterflies.

I love using butterflies on my pages so the criteria was easy☺︎,

I loved the colours in the painting and knew I wanted to use them, I also wanted to bring in the joyful but mystical feel that I get from the painting. I kept my page simple with a lot of white space and 'quiet' embellishments. For my background paper, I used a page out of a paper pad and kept it whole.

I hope you enjoyed my page and please hop over to ARTastic to see the other team's take on this challenge. We would love to see your creations♡.

Tough Kid

Hello and Happy New Year for 2017! I am late with my post for ARTastic this month as we have been away on a camping trip as family for our summer break. Amazing beaches and beautiful weather were the main part of our trip and hopefully I'll be scrapping some photos soon☺︎.

Now for my DT post for ARTastic this month, inspired by this painting and using the criteria of city theme.

I actually didn't have any city photos! But my son had been on an excursion to our capital city of Perth and his teacher took these photos of him. 3 Photos which he combined into one. Very clever.

I loved the 'tough' look and the graffiti of the photo so I went on with this in my background. Lots of background stamping and a bit of watercolour. Metal embellishments along with tags are always great for a male page.

There is still time to join in with our challenge, we would love to see how you are inspired☺︎.

Be True

Hello,
I finally have a page that I can share with you. I have been busy with my family, work and other crafts so it was good to sit down and join in a scrapbook challenge again☺︎.
I have joined in with the mood board challenge from Scrap the Girls.

Such a pretty mood board.

I loved the elegance of the mood board and tried to keep this feel in my page. My background is created using texture paint, water paint and mist.

The rest of my embellies are mixed from my scrapbooking cupboards☺︎

Thanks for popping by and I hope that the festive season is bringing much joy and not to much stress.

Home away from Home

Hello all,

We are in the last month of the year and busy finishing up work and school here. It's a busy time of the year, but a special time at the same time. And at ARTastic we are remembering the Christmas season is often about home and what it means to us.
This is the inspiration painting we are using this month;

For us in Western Australia, it is the summer and 6 weeks of school holidays which means camping time for our family and so I have done my page on our Home away from Home.

I love the earthy colours of the painting and went with them for my page. I used brown mist for my background and then using the way the painting place the houses across the page, I placed my background paper across my page and added a few embellishments. My photo, I first edited on my, Becky Higgins project life, phone app.

Thank you for popping by and and I wish you a beautiful holiday season.

sisters

Hello, and welcome November.
I'm starting off this month with my DT page for ARTastic which has a vintage theme this month with this painting as the inspiration.

I couldn't go past the aqua colour and used it as my base colour for my page;

I kept the background white and centred only on the photo and embellishments. I'm happy how the plain background gave it a vintage feel itself. Doilies remind me of vintage, although I often use them in my other pages, letting them me one of the main embellishments let them set the tone. Paper from a vintage range and some pretty flowers, finished off my page. 

Close up of my doilies and other little embellies.

I was a bit away from the scrapbooking scene last month as my work has picked up and I am also busy completing baby quilts. Hopefully you'll see me a bit more this month before the crazy month starts ☺︎

Delight

Hello and thanks for popping by.
School holidays are finished here and the house is quiet during the day again. I'm not sure if I like it or not.
Today I have my DT page for ARTastic which is focusing on October being Breast Cancer month.
It was only last month that sadly we buried a dear lady of our church as the result of breast cancer :-( and I know there are many of you out there who have also been affected one way or another. It is good to be able to have a month to focus on these things.

The inspiration painting by Chris Noble, with the theme of pink,

The page I have created is around one of my favourite photos of my youngest,

I have done a small amount of water painting for the background and then inspired by the roses, I centred my page around some beautiful rose paper.  I added lots of pink elements, like tags and buttons and of course some pretty flowers.

This flower I crocheted using cotton. I love using my other crafts on my children's pages, so they have a little bit of me in their albums☺︎.

Hope you feel inspired and please feel welcome to head over to ARTastic and join in this beautiful challenge or simply enjoy what other talented people have created.