What did I agree to do???

Yes it has been rather quite around here as we went away for three weeks for some well earned holidays to see our family. One week on the farm in Qld to see my family, up to the Sunshine Coast for just under a week to see the in-laws, a wedding in Warwick then onto Canberra for six days just because. Whilst on the Sunshine Coast I agreed to do something for my Mother-in-law Oh my!!! I have never felt so nervous and anxious and all in between!!!! My mother-in-law asked me to redo her wedding album. My In-laws were married 40 years ago on the 1st of April (April Fools Day...), besides the fact that the photos are discolouring and the album smells I am really worried that I will not do the photos justice!!! I have never scrapped a page for anyone else but myself... The fact that I have thought of not much else since I have come home from holidays says a lot. I will share as I go!! The first page that I had done I pulled apart and threw in the bin to restart!!! The second page looks so much better! So far I am completing pages with more pink and white but shall add other colours in as I go. My Mother-in-law is paying for everything that I do which is lovely as I don't have to worry about the cost which I never do for myself anyway but can work it all out per page and finalise it at the finish! Till I upload some photos I hope you get some time to scrap for yourself!

March has almost come to a close...

I don't know where this year is going but it is definitely running away very fast - March is almost over and giving way to April... I am finding that the time is just going too fast and I suppose this is why I am finally flitting between layouts and not actually finishing any at the moment and that is rather annoying but I am dealing with it by just going with the flow...I have started four layouts and normally finish each single one before starting the next but these need just that little extra something, so I shall wait till I find what I need to complete them...

On that note though I have finished five layouts over the last few weeks and here they are;

A large photo on a page which I wanted to take centre stage and not be overloaded with distracting embellishments etc. So just a few little items on the page and the photo not straight to add just a little more interest.

This photo was taken a month later...I was playing around with my glimmer mist and some chipboard mesh and I love the look! Journalling will come a little later - decided to soften this page with lace, pearls and ribbon underneath. Stayed with two colours which just seemed to work so well for this photo.

I had so much fun with this page, one large photo and five smaller ones - arranging these was difficult to start with as I didn't know what to do but then just started and they fell into place. Our daughters show and tell was her baby sister who was just 15 days old...Daddy was there too as he had to drive mummy to and from school.

Many people just love celebrities from hollywood well we are just a little different - I try to teach our girls to look up to people who are down to earth and happy with their lives. These guys here being just that sort of people. This page I actually scrap lifted (Australian Scrapbook ideas issue 11 pg 27) but changed to suit my needs. Chipboard is from Meant to Be here in Australia - love this chipboard.

Lastly another scrap lifted page (I don't usually scrap lift but these were just what I needed to get my mojo flowing again - from Australian Scrapbook ideas issue 7 page 50). Mine is a lot simpler that is for sure.

I hope you enjoyed and can find some inspiration from the pages that I complete...Until next time enjoy your days with family and creating for that time out that you need!

Birthday Cards

It has been awhile since last posting we have all been sick on and off for four weeks - in that time I have managed to get two birthday cards made for our dad's... been too sick to contemplate doing anything else as I type this my ears are crackling and it is not a nice feeling. The girls and I are on antibiotics for whatever cold this happens to be.

I really want to scrapbook tonight and I have two pages in my head and eight to finalise but since vacuuming and mopping the floor I don't feel up to it, will see how I go though. Might just chose the papers and embellishments and see what takes my fancy - probably bed will call first!

Used Copic markers for colouring Fizzy Moon (the Bear)...he is just so perfect!!!

Until Next Time...

Layouts completed last night!

It is Sunday morning here in Australia, was up late last night watching NCIS on my new computer and iMac - very nice piece of gear! Plus I also finished three layouts and started on another two. Considering the week we have had it is a wonder that I was able to complete anything. Everyone in this house was extremely sick at the start of the week and we are still not 100% better but at least we are moving and eating now.

Firstly a lovely turquoise layout of Princess number one this worked out better than what I had imagined - three wallet sized photos cropped to fit into the chipboard filmstrip. The filmstrip has been embossed using Opals, also stamped the grid onto the background and used some glimmermist to for the splotches.

This next layout I played around with last night wetting my paper and allowing to dry under the air conditioner, I then inked it with two ink pads and then ironed it so it was just a little flatter. Working on photos from my husband when he was younger.

This was the first layout I completed last night - not fully finished yet but pretty much done just have to get the Mr & Mrs details and record who was in the photos when I get the information from my in-laws as yes this is my husbands parents when they were married on April 1st (April Fools day) almost 40 years ago. Chipboard works that I inked with two inks then clear embossed. Rubons in black and stickers too. All photos were originals that I had to trim down to fit as they were going discoloured around the edges of the white frame.

Hope that you enjoyed what I created! I also hope that you find sometime for yourself today.
Chow for now.

Another School week has begun,

Well Monday is here and the second week of school has commenced I am sitting here listening to Hillsong Kids so the our littlest Princess is happy but really she is about to go to bed...As of last night I found out she has four teeth coming through at once - poor little thing.

So last night I completed my challenge for White With 1 and I really love this one using the colours White with Lemon and three photos - well my photo sizing worked out rather well I think...

I used glimmermist on the page with a Stamp from Kaisercraft that I embossed over in clear. I love these photos she was trying to crawl so we knew it wasn't long before she got going.

On that note our littlest Princess is 20months how the time passes so spend time with your loved ones as it goes in the blink of an eye.

Wonders will Never Cease...

It is Sunday morning and I am about to get my shoes on and go to where my hubby is currently trying to finish cladding a house. I will be putting in a full day just to help him get finished - and I hope we do! At least today is nice and cool, was working with him two weeks ago and was blacking out cause it was SO hot 40degress.

Anyway at Scrapbook Boutique I had all the intentions of joining in with this challenge of Purple, green & white, but I actually missed the deadline. I was going to make a page but it was the perfect excuse to make a card for my cousins wedding in April. I made it anyway and for a gal who doesn't make cards I was pretty impressed with this one and I like it.

I used Glimmermist to colour the Fizzy Moon - Wedding Bells teddies. White Pearl Liquid pearls for his top hat and finely painted it onto the roses in her hair and the ribbon holding onto the horseshoes. Green liquid pearls for the heart and horse shoe confettie. Horseshoes were even glimmermisted and the veil has glitter glued to it. The work Celebrate is from The Stamps of Life I love these stamps and this one saved me as I didn't know what to do!

I hope you like as much as I do it is really special to me. This card is about love...So I hope you find time to give the ones you love a kiss and cuddle.

Last one...

Yup that is correct I have done my last layout for January 2012 as today is the last day of January for another 12 months. This layout has been entered into 123 Challenge where the criteria was

COLOUR: SILVER

WORD: JOY

TECHNIQUE: SPLATS {PAINT, INK, MISTS}

So here it is... I used Making memory paints specialty Glaze - silver, sky & rose petal for my background with some marbles inside a box, love the ideas that come home from school and can be used on my own layouts. I used Silver ribbon and the word Joy in Silver. This photo is of our girls on Christmas eve 2011. I just love it since we had just been to church and took some lovely photos in front of the christmas tree.

I hope you find some time to scrap as I have set myself a challenge for the year to follow my favourite challenge blogs and play along.
Happy Scrapping