Jet Setter

Hello to all my foxy friends, I have a layout to share with you today using some of the wonderful travel themed perspextives ✈

My daughter recently left to study for six months in Denmark - the other side of the world from us waaay down south in New Zealand...but it's so exciting for her, and she's really hoping for a white Xmas 🤞

I snapped this photo just before she left (and before I started the tears!) which will be the first of many she has shared with me.

The Jet Setter title was just perfect - she's doing a bit of sightseeing wile she's away of course!

I'm really going to need to refresh my supply of these cute little globes as well...

I teamed them up with a cut file from Confessions of a Paper Addict and the Out and About collection from Pinkfresh - the colours are perfect together 💚💙

This was a really fun layout to put together, I hope it gives you some inspiration ...see you next time!

CSI: Color Stories Inspiration 263; This is Real Life

Welcome Scrappy friends!

Bre's boyfriend loves taking photos where there are interesting light plays - she just happened to be in the frame this time lol

This month CSI partnered with Page Maps and we were invited to join in with a sketch as well...

Here's the sketch, and the challenge...

And here's my take on it...

 It was great using a different background this time, I'm usually a white plus mixed media kinda girl 😉 I used Pinkfresh "A Case of the Blahs" for the papers and embellies, as well as a couple of stars from Cocoa Vanilla. I did take a bit of artistic licence with the colours in the mood board and brightened them a little.

I love how it turned out though, hope you do too!

Things Are Looking Up!

Another page for a Hip Kit weekly sketch challenge 😁

I just knew I wanted to use the Vicki Boutin acrylics for my background, and I stuck fairly close to the sketch for the rest...

Love this little bunch 💓

So Happy Together

This is a just for fun page I made for a Hip Kit challenge - here's the sketch

And here's the layout

 The kids were such cuties back then, and used to love playing with Shenae and Jessie just down the road 💖

How to Cat

Well I had to do a layout of our little lion for this challenge - well at least she thinks that's what she is sometimes! I just love how this photo shows her cute little pink paw pads
It was pretty easy to find cat embellies for this, but I kept it to a single flair and the cat button that's part of the charm.

But look! No mixed media at all! So unusual for me, but nice for a change 😉
Here's the challenge...

Not too hard for all you pet lovers out there!

I love the way this one turned out 💗😺💗

Friends and Brothers

I don't do boy pages that often, but here's one of my great-nephews while out for a nature walk. 

 Here are a couple of close ups...

 

Here's the sketch challenge 

From the left sketch I used the flags and the general layout (although it did mutate a bit 😆😆😆), and from the second sketch I used the circles and stars in the background.
I used dotty washi tape, but in case it doesn't count I also used enamel dots as I think I have around a million 😉

I luurrve this flair from Accent Scrapbooking too! And of course the Charm Creation Arrow is pretty awesome 💖
I also used the February boy kit from The Paper Teapot for all the great Pinkfresh, Tim Holtz and Cocoa Vanilla awesomeness 😁
Make sure to have fun with it! 

Love U2

These girls have been friends since babies, and while I had lots of photos of them when they were little, it's harder to get them now.

This page uses the March kit from The Paper Teapot, which is jam packed with great papers and embellies💖

I used Colourblast shimmer cubes to ombre colour the word, and also flick a few little spatters. I didn't want to go overboard with paint on this one.

There's a great mix of Cocoa Vanilla, Pinkfresh and American Crafts to satisfy all tastes 😍Get yours now!

Some of the little details....

 

 

And here's the  full page! 

I just 💗💗💗 that sketchy flower paper!

 

Go grab yourself a kit now!

One of the Family

I just love using these colours together, and the February Hip Kit provided the perfect papers and embellishments 💖
Distress oxides are amazing and so simple to use, one of my favourite techniques at the moment is to lay a cut file over mixed media blends...

And what a great combo of ephemera, stickers, puffys, and epoxy flowers, hearts, birds, and bugs also!

 

 

 

This is the full layout...

 

which is a blend of these 2 sketches for the March challenge at Scrap Our Stash 😄

 

Sweet Summer Days

I love this photo of Shiloh and one of her bffs💕

This page is from the new kits from The Paper Teapot, lots of yummy stuff in there! 

 

This is paper from the Pink Paislee Summer Lights part of the kit, with Echo Park stickers (LOTS of them!!), a Pinkfresh dyed tag, Some gorgeous ombre Thickers and Cocoa Vanilla puffy stickers.

Loved putting this one together - just couldn't stop adding things!!!

Love Out Loud

Wow - I only just took this photo last week and it's scrapped already!!

Mark is just a big kid always hiding and jumping out at us when we are on holiday.

This was at Cafe LÁrte in Taupo - loved all the mosaic furniture 💓

 

This page is for the SCrap Our Stash February Stash challenge, to use the movie "Love Actually" as the inspiration, include the word "Love" in the title, and use twine.

I  mostly used the October 17 Hip Kit which was full of Pinkfresh Goodness, and Colourblast Australia Artist's Inks and Colour Pastes for the layering.

Thanks for visiting!

A Handmade Xmas

Before I started scrapbooking I was a ceramic teacher and product rep for Duncan Enterprises. I loved the opening of the kiln to see what surprises there may be (and the occasional disaster) but I sold the studio when Bre was a baby. I continued making things for sale from home for some time after that though. Mum used to come and look after the girls for me once a week so that I could do it.

Blinkin' earthquakes meant that I don't have very much left of the things I made, but my Xmas things were bubble wrapped so mainly kept okay through the first few, although a couple of chips appeared on the nativity after the December 2011 one. Not too bad though.

This is the last sketch from Scrap our Stash for the year

It's always fun to play along with sketches, and this one is no exception
For the stash I used
P - Pinkfresh, puffy stickers
E - Ephemera
A - Amy Tan bow, Alphas
C - Cut file, chipboard and Colourblast ink
E - Enamel dots

Have a great Xmas, and I'll catch you in the New Year!

December Traditions

We always have a Xmas photo sitting on display right up until it's time for the next one, so here's last years photo now scrapped finally!

It was taken on Shiloh's birthday - so of course her besties are with her, and to be honest it was really the only way we were going to get a Santa photo lol.

This is for the DT Scrap Our Stash December Tic Tac Toe challenge. I was hoping to clear the whole board but it wasn't to be sadly 😞 I will get there one day!

I did end up using 2 lines though the Diagonal from top left and the bottom row. Here they all are...

This is using the new Pinkfresh December Days collection - love the blue! Plus a sequin or 500 lol.

Have a fabulous day!

Happy Dayz

Sometimes (most times) when Shiloh gets together with her friend Taylor, all they can do is giggle 😂

Once it starts, they have trouble turning it off again, and this was one of those times.

This was the second time I used this paper, it was also in the May Hip Kit. I also used  the ephemera, wood veneers and letters from this kit, I just added a yellow chevron charm, some Colourblast,  and a cut file from Paper Issues. I entered this into a monthly Colourblast challenge.

Now go finish your Xmas shopping!

Fearless

Another page of my Fearless daughter - at least she seems so to me sometimes!

I was inspired by the patterned paper to re-create it with masking fluid and inks which I think worked really well.What do you think?

Live More and Hey Mr Bird

So great to find a kit I really love! This one was from Shop & Crop Australia, and was made up mostly of a mix of Pinkfresh products. I also added some ephemera from the May Hip Kit.

This first layout was the most brilliant coloured parrot at Australia Zoo... 















And this one was when we stopped at the Cardrona Tavern last Xmas holidays. Definitely recommend a stop here 😋







 

Thanks for coming to visit me!

Koala Love

I managed to get in close at Australia Zoo when we were over there earlier in the year - who doesn't love a cute Koala?

I made this DT page for the September sketch at Scrap Our Stash

The word this month was LEARN, and I used

L - Love More collection from Pinkfresh, letter stickers and leaves

E - Embossing Powder

A - Arrow, Abandoned Coral Distress Oxide, acrylic paint

R - Resin word

N - Nuvo Drops

Have a great day!

Embrace the Detour

Sometimes the best photos are selfies ripped from the girls fb pages lol

 

I used the October Hip Kit - love love love pinkfresh, and the Shimmerz that were in the Colour Kit were perfect with it. I had the co-ordinating letters in my stash already.

Sometimes its hard to have negative space but I tried really hard with this one! 

Spring in the City

I pass this magnificent magnolia tree on my way to work most mornings, and in the spring when it flowers it's just glorious 💗💗💗

I used the June Hip Kit for this page, and inspiration from Terhi Koskinen, I was feeling a bit flat before I started but now have my mojo back firmly in place!

Together - the best place to be

For Mother's Day this year we were in Auckland and I got this lovely photo of my sister in law and my niece. From six children Bronnie is the only girl 😁

I played along with Stuck?! Sketches here's the sketch for the second part of the month...

Most of the items used were from the May Hip Kit Club, plus one of my favourite hearts from Charm Creations.

Thanks for looking!

Ho Ho Ho

And another Xmas layout - I'm on a roll!

This one is our Santa shot from 2012 - note Shiloh plus friend Shannon, no possibility of getting the sisters together for this any more!

I've used brads to make string art again, I love the look this gives!

The watercolour background, tree and prezzies are all done with Tim Holtz Distress crayons, and the paper and stickers are Oh Joy (AGAIN!) fro Pinkfresh. I don't have much of this left now!  Good old Bo Bunny Glitter Paste makes a return with the stencilling, and the cut file is from Paper Issues.