Wow, Its only Wednesday, the days are all rolling into one of late! I am still scrubbing and painting at the garage, progress is slow but sure!

In the weekend, between coats of paint I managed to flick together a quick page...just because I was worried I might forget how to scrapbook altogether if I didn't do something!

 This page is rather a quick, messy one. Lots of spray, paint and ink!

  I even managed to use my Cricut to cut out a boarder...had almost forgotten how to use that as well...had to blow the dust off it!!

Thank you for stopping by.

There's a Fairy...

... in my garden!

This little fairy is a big fairy now. I dug deep into my photo box and decided to scrap this old photo of Aimee using a piece of the lovely 'Webster's Pages paper that I received from Andrea at SBO last month.

 The background paper is called Back to School and the paper range is called Wonderfall. I have cut images from a printed sheet of vellum and from Enjoy Life.

 The little stickers you can see are called Image stickers and are from the Wonderfull range as well. I have mounted mine onto card to achieve a little more dimension.

A little more Prima

Here I am at last! Ive been super busy in my craft room, even though the weather has been beautiful and outside is calling me, just need to get a few things finished and then I can relax and enjoy summer, which hopefully will hang around and wait for me!

Here is my Boy Prima page, created for Scrapbook Outlet

This paper is soooo cute

...and once again Ive cut out many of the images. I'm right into cutting out patterned paper at the moment!

I read this on Face book yesterday (thanks Bronwyn) and thought I d share it with you...

A Birth Certificate proves that you were born

A death certificate proves that you died.

Photographs prove that you lived

so preserve your precious and irreplaceable memories for a life time.

...that's exactly why I spend so much time scrapping I guess!

Be back soon.

Prima- So Cute!

Check out the new range of paper by Prima, called 'So Cute' available now from the Scrapbook Outlet

I was lucky enough to receive some of this to have a play with, here is my 'Girl' page. The photo is of Aimee when she was just a wee dot, Cody is in the background...just a 'wee dot' also!

The paper has such cute wee critters on it! I got busy with the scissors cutting them out and building up layers to create a 3D effect.

Tonight I'm working on a Boy page using the same line of papers. I should mention that these papers are double sided, one side is in pinks, lemons and pale blues, on the reverse side you get browns blues and greens..,.very yummy for scrapping the lttle'ies in your life.

Playing with Prima

This is the box of goodies I received from Andrea at Scrapbook Outlet this month. All of my goodies are from Prima, my favorite brand, so lucky me!

I hardly ever scrap photos of myself, for two reasons, first I do not have many photos of me as I'm usually the one taking the photos, and secondly...well, see for yourself...

yup ....my face is a little bit scary!

I love Prima so much that I could not bring myself to throw out the packaging from inside the flower bag, so instead I topped the butterfly's with Glossy Accents (to make them appear 3D)
and used the packaging as a backdrop for my photo.

Here is my second page on the go. The lovely paper, quote and flowers are all from my kit. The fence is cut from the Heritage Cricut cartridge,painted and dabbed with KindyGlitz.

...and I have doubled sided tape around the edges.

The Foreground of my layout is another piece of lovely prima paper, which I have made into a mask by removing the centre. I then sprayed the removed centre with water and scrunched it up! Once it dried I tore pieces from it and attached them to the back of my 'mask' using doubled sided tape.

After this I cut out a 12 X12'" piece of card, removed the centre and attached this to the wrong side, of my foreground paper mask.

Then I placed the whole piece over the top of my background layer
.

Because my foreground paper has cardboard on the reverse side, it sits forward and creates dimension, I love dimension!

All of the papers used here are from Primas Annalee Collection, which can be found here

Thanks for looking :-)

Trash or Treasure??

Don't you hate it when the finishing touches to a lay-out go horribly wrong!

Yesterday I scrapped this photo of our daughter. Its not a great photo, but one that I made her line up for when we went to visit the Hall she was going to be staying in this year.

Aimee really did not think it was even a little bit 'cool' to be having her photo taken at the gate way to her new residence. I insisted that I would be needing this photo! Aimee's face pretty much tells me just how happy she was not about being the daughter of a scrapbooker!

My page was going okay. I tried out my Heritage Cricut cartridge and cut out the lovely street light, and based pretty much everything else around it.

...Then I added the journalling....BIG mistake...its all squashed in and almost falling off the page. YUCK, I was now hating my page and thinking about throwing it in my bin. I decided it was time to turn off my lights and go to bed.

Today, another look at my page confirmed that it was not at all looking good, but I turned on the tiny, creative thinking piece of my brain, ripped off the journalling swiped with an ink pad, added a few bits and pieces and come up with a result that I can cope with putting in Aimee's album....

The paper I have used is Webster pages - Your Life Beautiful, range
One of my favorite paper lines.
And Prima flowers, another all time favorite, especially the tiny roses!

Here is a close up of my street lamp. I popped a circle behind which i have painted with iridescent Jo Sonjas paint, and I backed the 'light' with perspex for added shine.

Thanks for looking.


Today has been super warm and sunny at our house. Andrew and I sprayed some of our weeds before the wind got up and forced us to abandon that mission until another day, and would you believe we got sun-burnt!

Echo Park

Camden is booked in for Bull Riding school in Rangiora , so that's where we will be heading for a couple of days during the school holidays....and Ive two words to say on the subject...NOT HAPPY!

Here's a LO of Camden riding his Tin bull, which I must say is quite dangerous enough for my liking!

I guess one has to pursue ones dreams though!

The photos on my second page go back to 2006, when Bull Riding was not even a factor! Camden was happy just to slide down the elephant slide and sit on the wall by Humpy Dumpty

The papers used in these Layouts are called Echo Park - Sweet Summer time.

The whole collection of Echo Park products can be found HERE

I am in love with Echo Park papers at the moment!

A little bit of Sunshine

I have been scrapping with the lovely Echo Park papers.

I'm a big fan of layers

The blue scalloped edge is an Element sticker from Echo Park's Sweet Summertime collection.

My flowers are punched hearts that I have cut in half and curled then layered, and finished off with a touch of Kindy Glitz.
You can check out the entire Echo Park Sweet Summertime range...by clicking HERE

Echo Park

Echo Park- Sweet Summer Time is the brand of goodies in my Design Team box from last month, compliment's of Scrapbook Outlet. I am very behind with my scrap work at the moment, but I'm playing 'catch up' as fast as I'm able to.

Below is the first page I have created using this produced range.

Both Andrew, Cody and myself are looking very young in these photos.

More Echo Park papers are in the process of being scrapped.

Pop over to the Scrapbook Outlets blog to check out my instructions on how to add a little more life to your photos, quickly and simply. You will find them HERE

Brights!

Just a quick post tonight to show you these wonderful bright Bo-Bunny Back to Backs papers that I have been working with for Scrapbook NZ.

Thanks for looking.

Heritage Sketch

Dianne's sketch...Done!

I have to admit I'm really no good at this heritage scrapping. I LOVE colour and the quiet subdued hues that are used for traditional heritage scrap book pages really don't inspire me much.
Don't get me wrong, I love the way these LO's look when they are done, I just cannot do them!...

I tried hard to stick to the rules, I tried for several hours in fact...but then...orange kind of jumped out at me and I was forced to grab hold and run with it!! .....

So yes, I have orange on my heritage LO !

I have used this Cameo broach, given to me by my beautiful mum in law, as memorabilia on my LO. Its very precious but has been sitting tucked away in my draw for several years now. I thought it would be perfect on this page as its such a special reminder of Muriel.

I often hear people complain about their mother in laws, but I was truly lucky to have had Muriel in my life, she was, and always will be a truly beautiful lady and I miss her dearly.
We sadly lost Murial to a brain tumour on the 8th of August 2000

Thank you Dianne for providing the inspiration to create this page, I know it does not quite fit into the 'Heritage Scrapbook Box', but who wants to be in a box anyway :-)

I've been a scrapp'in!

In my Scrap room I have been tring hard to finish my 'spooky canvas' for a swap at GGS. This spooky canvas is not as easy as I had imagined it would be! But the cool part about the swap is that our actual 'swapping' will take place at SENZ! The only down side being that Ngaere will not be at SENZ, I would love to meet this woman, she is super clever and does the most gorgeous things with mixed media.
Anyway, I have never been to SENZ before and am very excited about the whole adventure!

Other than working on my canvas I have been tring to keep up with my DT work over at Scrapbookoutlet. I still have some lovely Cappella papers left to create with. Here is what I have created with them so far....

First up is Camden...

I wanted to show off both sides of this paper, called Vanetian, so I have rolled the torn edges. The background paper is called mezzo. Both papers are by Basicgrey and from the Cappella Range.

The diamonds are cut straight from the venetian patterned paper. I have mounted them onto chipboard to create more dimension, not that I really needed more! LO

Next we have Cody...

..and more Cappella Paper

... Cappella Alphabet stickers

..and some of my handmade leaves! We have leaves everywhere here at the moment and they are truly inspiring!

Last up ...Aimee...

Buttons are once again from Basicgrey

I have made a tag and stamped and cut out leaves...hehe,what is it with me and leaves?!!

Thanks for looking xx