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!

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.