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!

LA Vacation

This is the first of what will be many, many, more layouts from our trip to LA and Anaheim in the May school holidays.

One of the first things that struck us as we left the airport were the palm trees - they were everywhere! Possibly not 59 million of them, but I wouldn't be at all surprised!

This was done for the 1 August Scrap Our Stash challenge, here's the book cover and instruction that was the inspiration - 

I used Cocoa Vanilla Hello Sunshine papers and ephemera, Pink Paislee and Recollections stickers, Kaisercraft wood veneer, Shimelle flair, Nuvo Crystal drops, thread and some ancient circular clips.

Thanks for looking!

The Best Days

This one is Shiloh with her buddy from school Fran. She came away on holiday with us to Nelson last year, and they both had so much fun, more time was spent on the water than on land I think!

This page uses all papers from Cocoa Vanilla's collection "Hello Sunshine", available from The Paper Teapot here, - and I love all the cute wee "woodies" that are included this time round! I also used a cut file from The Cut Shoppe, and a stencil and light paste from Prima (also available here from Joanna at The Paper Teapot).

Remember to comment if you like it, and feel free to share as well :)

Hello SunShine

Another page in mainly using the Hello Sunshine collection from Cocoa Vanilla - it's just so great for these sort of days!

This was just a hot summer day with nothing better to do - so I took the Shiloh and her friend Shanae out to the lake at Pegasus for a dip.

As well as the Cocoa Vanilla papers, flowers, puffy stickers, diecuts, wood veneers, and flair which are available at The Paper Teapot here, I also used a Heidi Swapp stamp, Doodlebug doily, Freckled Fawn arrow and an Amy Tan enamel heart. The hashtag and heart diecuts are from Kaisercraft.

As it I write this it's piddling down outside - just the right sort of weather to scrap sunny days!

Hope you like it - please share and comment if you do :)