Tigger

I had these lovely photos of my lil boy waiting to scrap. But I have just bought myself a secondhand cricut and thought Tigger would be a good way to scrap these pics. My sister bought him the wee tiger outfit for his birthday.

 

The photo is not nice as it looks in reality. I used brown tones on tigger instead of orange.

 

Here is the sentiment.

 

Southern Girls Challenge have a sentiments and words challenge this fortnight.

Some me time.

Well its been a good year since I used this blog, Having 6 children (well 2 are now adults) can really eat into my "me time" Well my youngest started kindy and I'm slowly beginning to find a little bit of time to do the things I enjoy.

My sister years ago (16 to be exact) took photos of my family while she was doing a photography course. And a few days ago she gave me this black and white photo of my oldest baby who is now 20 years old. So I had a little play and made this scrapbook layout with it.

Hopefully now I have done one I might get the chance to do a few more. I'm entering this into Southern Girls Challenge Sparkle and shine. Thanks for looking :)

In the Pink

My youngest two girls enjoyed going to the field days, they had their faces painted as butterflies. So this is the pink layout I have created using the sketch from Artfull Crafts, flipped over to the left.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I have used washi tape to create the stripe in the background.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Have a wonderful day :)

 

I am entering this into the Artfull Crafts Sketch challenge for October.

 

 

OWL LOVE

I made this cute card for my lovely hubby. Soon we will be celebrating 20 years of marriage, makes me sound old, but I'm not really, got married at 18 years old so do the math :)

I used Mr and Mrs Owl from Delicious doodles They are very cute. So I doodled them a tree to sit in and using a song, Whitney Houston's "I'll always Love you" I made this sweet card for the Southern Girls Challenge DT Sing out loud. Added a few buttons, pearls and a bit of spotty washi tape and this is how it turned out.

Thanks for looking. I hope to see you making a card or scrapbook page or OTP project for this challenge :)

 

Please leave a comment.

 

School Ball

This is my first Layout for the design team at Southern Girls Challenge. The theme is Make Believe.

 

My son took his lovely girlfriend to the ball and they both scrubbed up so well. His girlfriend organised for him to have a matching pink tie to her dress and even a pink ribbon on his hat.

 

Here is a close up of the embellishments.

 

Please enter the Southern girls challenge: Make Believe.

 

It is a lot of fun and there are some awesome prizes to win 

Our very own prince...

Just a few days before my son's second birthday, the royal family announced that they would call their baby George. Well as you can imagine my son George was suddenly given a very regal new nickname...Prince George. Here is a layout or my "poorly" prince on his birthday. Little did we know that he would end up being very unwell with pneumonia a few days later.

 

I used this sketch from Artfull crafts August challenge.

I used the buttons as they reflected the buttons on his overalls.

 

Look at the lovely silver shine to this paper

 

I used this little tag to make hidden journaling, as I am not a very tidy writer.

 

 

Thanks so much for looking, feel free to leave me some feedback.

 

 

I am entering this in

 

Artfull Crafts Sketch Challenge

 

Creative craft cottage: buttons and bows

 

 

 

 

 

Design Team :)

I am pleased to be on the design team at Southern Girls Challenge for the next 6 months. I am looking forward to making some scrapbook pages to share. I hope many of you will join in with the challenges. Its a lot of fun :)

Painty Fun

Well how much fun can you have when you mix water balloons and paint. I made this layout to show Miss 13 enjoying herself getting Arty.

And she really is Awesome

 

Look at how much paint she got on her face LOL

 

 

 

I am entering this in Sketches in thyme #116

No Spoolin

This week I have made these ladybug pages to show off the lovely photos taken on my friends daughters 2nd Birthday, They had a Ladybug them as their little girl has been very ill for most of her life with a cancer like disease called LCH. You can read more about their story here Addie

 

 

 

Life was good today as at the moment our friend Addie is in remission

 

Thanks for looking :)

 

I am entering this in Southern Girls Challenge- No spooling

 

Motat

At Easter 2013 we went to Auckland with 3 of our children. I used the Artfull Crafts Sketch challenge to make a layout of our day at Motat.

 

I had fun playing with washi tape for the first time :)

GCC July Sketch Challenge

Well this was a fun challenge :)

This month at GrandDiva's Creative corner they are running a triple challenge.

1. Use this sketch from GrandDiva's Creative Corner

 

Here is my Layout, my youngest 2, Vanessa and George playing in their ride in car.

2. Use Rochelle's inspiration of a Celine Dion song, I used "These are the special times"

3. Use Kristi B's Add clocks or Calendar's, Here is my little clock

 

Thanks for looking :)

Blue and White

I love this colour combo and I love working with black and white photos. This photo was taken of me and my husband without us knowing, so it is candid and not posed and for once I like this photo of me (pity about the double chin)

 

And a few close ups

 

 

I Love this Martha Stewart butterfly punch my Mum bought me for my birthday

 

Little handmade white flowers

 

And I had to test my window die I just bought. I have used it on some cards too which turn out well. Such a neat die!

 

Any way thanks for looking

 

Entered in Leaves it out, Southern girls challenge

and

Things with Bling, Creative Crafts Challenge 

 

 

My Mum and her favourite colour.

I made this page for my mum. I have been trying out different styles of scrapbooking to find my own style. I havn't often scraplifted but this one I did. I found this beautiful blog A walk down memory lane and I have used her page as my inspiration.

This layout is of my Mum and her husband.

This is my first page using tattered angels glimmer mist, I love how spraying flowers e.t.c brings all the colours together. I also made some of the flowers myself. Using you-tube as a teacher :)

 

I love the little white resin flowers I found on Trade-me.

 

 

I am entering this into Southern Girls Challenge- Going Spotty dot

Tuesday Throwdown - Smell the roses

 Creative Craft Cottage  - Mothers day

Thanks for looking.

My littlest princess

Miss 3 loves to dress up and on a recent trip to the zoo she decided she would dress like a fairy princess. Around every corner it was the same story "mum take a photo of the fairy princess" "look at me, look at me, look at me"

 

 

I had a lot of trouble with todays light and the glare off the photo from the flash, so the photos are not the best.

 

Here is a close up of one of the pretty flowers by Petaloo 

 

  I won this kit from Scraps of elegance- it was their Feburary kit- Lovesong. Lots of lovely goodies.

Southern Girls Challenge this fortnight is "you can say that again" using a sentiment. Here is a close up of the sentiment on my layout (so true) "I love you so much my sweetie, can't you see it in my eyes?

Thanks for looking and thanks for your comments :)

Best Day Ever

Well when asked what my best day ever is I would always say when my babies were born, particularly my first as she is where my parenthood journey began. I was 18 years old and it was like getting a brilliant present. I was terrified when I left the hospital that someone was going to chase me and stop me from taking her home. Well now my baby girl is 18 years herself and off at university. She would kill me for this layout for 2 reasons...1) it is pink and 2) it is cheesy.

My mum gave me a Martha Stewart butterfly punch for my birthday earlier in April, so I had to use it for the first time today.

 

I used Tattered Angels glimmer mist (Mels Diner) to colour the flowers and to create the drippy background.

 

 

I am entering this in Once upon a sketch- April challenge- Best Day of your life

 

 

Thanks for looking and please leave a comment to brighten my day :)

 

 

China Blue

Today I want to share with you my OTP project using Kaisercraft Drawers

I had fun making these. I wanted to bling them up but anyway I added things made it look to busy. So I decided (at this stage) to let the papers do the talking. Beautiful papers by ruby rock-it.

I added some sparkly paper to the sides and after much decision I decided just to use white buttons. I am very pleased with my final product and am looking forward to stocking this with my little embelishment treasures.

I am entering this in Artfull Crafts april challenge- home is where the heart is

and Southern Girls Challenge -Button Up or Show Some Flair


Thanks for looking :)

40th Blog Post

Wow 40 posts, thats seems alot but compared to some people I guess it is just a drop in the bucket!

Today I want to share with you a special photo taken by my mother of my 3 year old playing skipping rope with my 90 year old Grandad and my cousin. It was so cute to watch the men playing with her...made my heart MELT. Anyway as we speak my grandad is quite unwell so that makes this photo even more special to me.

This is the layout I have created using greens and browns. I was quite pleased with the colours in the "artifical" electric light but in the day it seems a little less coordinated.

 Here is a close up of my little cluster

I am entering this into Southern Girls Challenge -Make like a Zebra (using stripey paper)


Thanks for looking :)

Living Doll

Hi

Today I have made a layout about my baby George, who is the treasured toy for all his older siblings. He is often used in their games as "the baby" What little girl wouldn't love having their own special Living Doll

 

I absolutly love this picture as it captures the truly special bond between Charlotte and George.

 

 

Thanks for looking and feel free to offer creative advice

 

<3

 

I am entering this in Southern Girls Challenge- The kids are alright