Brother Love

Recently I stumbled upon a new challenge blog 'Scrap Africa'. When I saw their sketch challenge I thought of this photo that I had wanted to scrap for a while now of my eldest and youngest children. I have just got the new October Afternoon Sassparilla range (I wasn't sure that I should get this one as it has a Wild West theme, but I am very glad that I did because the colours and patterns in the paper are just amazing for those teen boy, and little boy, layouts that I often need to do).
I sprayed me background with pale blue glimmer mist using my Crafters Workshop 'Cogs and Gears" mask. then I splattered dark blue and red ink over the page. My papers are Sassparilla and a little Kaisercraft (the book page print). The chippie gate is from Scrapware and the wooden ticket, flowers and mini-alphas are from Prima. I  finished off the page using some old rub-on flowers that I have had for years and handwriten journaling.
I love looking at those two happy faces smiling up from the page - sometimes I can't believe that they came from me. I am so, so lucky :)

The new sketch is up at 'Stuck' Sketches!

Here is the sketch and my take on it for the DT. Its a fun sketch to work with and there are prizes up for grabs so if you fancy a challenge head over to Stuck Sketches http://stucksketches.blogspot.co.nz/
I had fun using muslin as my background. I covered my cardstock with mod podge first so that the muslin would easily adhere. I cut out a cardstock circle to use as  mask, placed it over the centre of the muslin and sprayed with blue glimmer mist. I then sewed around the outside of the circle to make it stand out. The papers that I used are from OA's gorgeous 'Farmhouse' collection. The doily and buttons are from Purple Pumpkin. The double photo effect was a fortunate accident I dribbled glimmer mist onto the first photo that I printed out so instead of throwing it away I decided to layer it under the new copy!
I mounted the finished page onto a wood block to give to my hubby as a Valentines day gift :)))

Check out the new Frosted Designs sketch challenge!

Isn't is a cool sketch? For my DT layout I had a lot of fun spraying my backround over doily masks then stamping with my favourite brick stamp and my glue stick lid (the circles). The photo was taken in fiji - the resort where we stayed supplied free ice-cream for the kids, and Natalie, Sophie and Benji took full advantage of this each day :) Aqua and pink are my two favourite colours and I love how they match the photo colours so well.
If you are looking for a challenge why not have a go at this one yourself - there are great prizes up for grabs at http://frosteddesigns.blogspot.co.nz/

Paradise Beach

The colour combo this week at The Color Room was perfect for these photos of the beach in Fiji. I have been putting off scrapping these because I really wanted to do justice to the beauty of the beach, but I finally decided to bite the bullet and give them a go. The papers I used are again from the lovely MME 'Miss Caroline' collection. I spritzed my background with mr Hueys 'Calico White' using a couple of Kaisercraft wooden flower as masks. The flowers looked so cool covered in white mist that I adhered them to the page s well! The cute collection of birds was the perfect embellishment for this design. I had cut them from a sheet of Glitz design 'Paper Layers' for a previous project then decided not to use them. The  blue flower is from Purple Pumpkin and the gorgeous bling flourish is ofcourse 'Prima'. I really love how the page has turned out - only now I really want to go back to Fiji and stroll along those beaches again!!

Check out the latest challenge from Another Freakin' Scrappy Challenge!

Here is the challenge:

Scrap an Easter memory (preferably when you were young) using spring colours in your layout. Use this sketch to base your page on.

I didn't have any photos from my childhood about Easter so I scrapped some recent photos of Benji modeling his new Easter Bunny hat and included some of my own memories in the journaling. I used an older piece of OA paper for the background (It has a spring-like theme) and the rest of my page uses the awesome OA 'Sidewalk' collection. The cute felt banner and button are from Purple pumpkin.

Why not 'Hop along' :) to AFSC this week and have a go at this challenge yourself. There are some great prizes to be won.

Little ballet girl

Here is the new sketch challenge from Get Picky and my take on it. I found those triangles a little bit daunting but once I changed the main focus into a banner the page just fell together. I took the cute photos of Sophie last week. She has been looking forward to getting her new purple ballet leotard and character skirt for a while now. This week they finally arrived and she got to wear her new uniform to class. She was thrilled and I had to mark the moment for her. The papers that I used are a combination of MME and October Afternoon 'Farmhouse' collections. These papers match so well (lucky me since I love both of these collections). I did lots of fussy cutting and layering on this one and it ended up having quite a whimsical feel.  I was pleased to find just the right colour purple alphas in my older stash of Basic Grey.

She Loves them All!

The new Prima sketch for March is really cool. I have just bought some new Prima papers and embellies so I had to give this one a go. Natalie is obsessed with cute celebrity guys at the moment and she recently made herself a poster of all the guys that she would love to meet. Ofcourse I had to take a photo (or two) to document this stage of her life and she was very happy for me to scrap them. Almost everything on this page is from Prima. The papers are from the new En Francais collection. I adore the colours of this line - they are great for both girl and boy pages. How cute is that canvas banner and the mistable butterflies? A little bit of lace and a gauze bow finished the look.