Lucky Catch!

This photo is from years ago when we stayed up in Picton over the Xmas holidays. It was Bre's first catch, off the wharf at Waikawa Bay. Don't you love the look on Shiloh's face too?? Just hilarious!

I made this page as inspiration for The Paper Teapot DT September challenge, which is to use this book cover as your inspiration...

The background paper is a very  old Amy Tan one, but apart from that it was all Cocoa Vanilla Colour Me Happy, and the flair was from the Hello Sunshine range. The cut file is from Silhouette Studio.

Thanks for looking!

No Smile

Hi, today I'm sharing this layout of my gorgeous little great niece Imogen. She was so smiley but as soon as the camera came out the smile disappeared lol.

This is for the current challenge at Stuck?! sketches...

...and uses Paige Evans Take Me Away paper - I love that it almost seems like there are two different ranges within one - one with these beautiful warm colours, and the other with lovely natural soft colours. I used watercolours in the background - my first real go at it - and I love how it ended up looking :). Of course my Nuvos made an appearance once again lol!

Thanks for looking!

A Brilliant Day

Hi and welcome to my very first challenge as a design team member for Scrap Our Stash!

There used to be an ad screening on TV whose tag line was

"Don't leave home til you seen the country!"

New Zealand is such a beautiful place, and while our kids are dying to travel the world, we want to show them as much as we can here in "Godzone".

This photo was in the summer holidays down at Bluff - on a good day you can see Stewart Island which is the southernmost part of NZ.

This was the inspiration for my layout...

Both the title and the colours inspired me - and Dr Suess is still one of my favourite authors ;).

I used Cocoa Vanilla "Colour Me Happy" papers - the "B" sides for all the patterned papers - 5 weren't hard to find from this lot, and the one round embellishment is an epoxy sticker inside a pressed bottlecap, plus I got a bit carried away with the circles - patterned paper and fab Tim Holtz stamps too :)

If you would like to play along with the challenge, the link is here.

Thanks for looking!

Summer Days make me Happy

I love the warm days, miss them so much at this time of year - even though I get more time to scrap the photos, and we have a cozy fire going.

We stopped at Jester House near Motueka on our January 2015 holiday, it's a great place to visit...tame eels to feed (although the resident cat probably got just as much of the food as the eels lol) and this great garden full of Wild Animals. And the elephant was pretty cool as well haha...

I used this sketch from Stuck?! Sketches which I rotated to suit the photo...

And once again I've used Cocoa Vanilla papers, this time the Colour Me Happy collection, so cool because it's double-sided, one side black & white, one side colour. You can get it at The Paper Teapot.

I've also used a Tim Holtz die and the amazing distress crayons, Doodlebug and Recollections doilies, Prima flowers, a brad and bow by The Paper Studio,Documented Faith washi, American Craft Thickers and Freckled Fawn wood veneer.

I hope you like my page - if you love it leave a comment! - and there are still a few days left to play along with the sketch challenge.