Ice Bar

Man I loved this place! 

Absolutely everything was made of ice, including the tables, chairs and the glasses we drank our cocktails from 😁🍹

A bit of a different page for me - no mixed media AT ALL! (I made up for it later lol)

This is for the August Tic Tac Toe board...

I chose the bottom row - Emoji, Brads (more emojis) and Washi Tape.

Hope you like it!

Young Wild & Free

This was taken when these 4 girls last got together back in July, up in Hanmer. They may not see each other that often, but when they do it's just as if they've never been apart.

This layout was made for the January Tic Tac Toe challenge at Scrap Our Stash.

Here's the challenge...

I used the bottom row - twine (on the button and tag), paper clips (gorgeous Paige Evans ones) and the colour blue (in the denim of ribbon and also in the background.

The background papers are also Paige Evans, the flair and woodie are from Cocoa Vanilla, the chipboard is from WOW, and the stickers are Simple Stories. I used Prima Watercolour pastels for the background, Tim Holtz crayons on the flower and there's also a 49 & Market stamp. The title is a Kaisercraft die.

I'm so happy with the way this one turned out!

Mouse Magic

Couldn't not get a photo with Minnie while we were at Disneyland!

I've used two different collections on this page  - Say Cheese II by Simple Stories and Magical Advenure by Echo Park, along with some clips and stickers that were official Disney items.

Love the way it turned out!

Class Act

Two cute little girls happy(ish) to be going back to school...

This is for the July 15th Scrap Our Stash Challenge - new for me as while I found the sketch easy to use, it was a bit harder using something from each of the lists below also...

I chose to use the Simple Stories - chipboard and stickers; twine which I have just scrunched and left peeking out; and Ultramarine - this colour is always fantastic for school photos :) I love this stencil for that reason and others too :X

 Plenty of time for you to play along too here!

Southern Selfies

As a Mum to 2 girls, finally I can do a boy layout!

I wasn't even tempted a little bit to put flowers on it ;)

This is my hard case little nephew Sam, along with his big sister Maddie and our girls, taken in Margaret and Phil's beautiful Invercargill garden. They'd just spent half an hour running madly after bubbles from a machine so red cheeks!

This was a really quick layout, using Cocoa Vanilla papers and ephemera plus my new ScrapFx title that I lurrrvve (available from The Paper Teapot here) and a few other bits and pieces from my stash.

Leave me a comment if you like it!

My Girls

This photo make me laugh - it's from a photo shoot before one of Breanna's birthdays...the classic "Yes we'll hug each other for the photo, but we can't get too close!"

 

This is Simple Stories So Fancy, most of the decoration is already in the paper which makes it so easy! I also used the matching Washi Tape and stickers.

 

Apart from that, I also used Prima Spray and flowers; Maggie Holmes bow and chipboard; WOW and Imaginarium chipboard; Creativ doilies and Cocoa Vanilla sequins.

 

Have a look at The Paper Teapot for the full Simple Stories range!

 

Don't forget to leave a comment if you like it :)

Bad Kitty

I'm lucky enough to get breakfast in bed most Sunday mornings, time to read a chapter or two over a good coffee :)

Usually I also share my space with one of our two fur-babies, Patch who always makes herself comfy at the end of the bed, but also eyeballs my bagel - must be the cream cheese lol.

This particular morning she had also snuggled under the blankie and her look was rather evil I felt, enough to make me keep my plate close at hand anyway!

 

This was my first page that I have played with my new Silhouette cutter, it took me a while to work it out, along with a few swear words when I lost everything but I eventually managed to make the circle frame with the kitty head incorporated. Hopefully I can remember what I did for next time!

 

Apart from that, it was quite a simple layout for me using mostly Snap! products, chipboard from WOW, Flair from Paper Vine and Heidi Swapp words.

 

The edging was just Versamark Ink with KaiserCraft stamps.

 

As always, thanks for looking, and feel free to comment... 

 

 

Jandalz

This really is "Summer:Summarised"to me...from the time the frosts are finished until as long as I can stand it in the autumn I live in jandals (or flip flops fr my Aussie friends).

 

So I was greatly tickled when I saw this colourful fence at the campground at Little Waihi, and of course we made a contribution too!

 

I wanted to leave a bit more white space on this layout, only using a little yellow gelato to emphasise the sun. Most of the paper and embellies are from the Simple Stories Good Day Sunshine collection, along with WOW Chipboard and some freebies from Paper Fields (Bakers Twine and the doily).

As always, leave a comment if you like this, and feel free to follow me :) and thanks for looking!

Catchin' Crabs

Okay, so I'm trying to keep things going a bit quicker with my scrapping - don't know if it's going to stay that way though!

This is from a sketch I used from Stuck?! , of course by the time I faffed around the due date for the competition was over but at least it helped get something on the page! Also it's always amazing to see other peoples interpretation of sketches or challenges.

This my younger daughter Shiloh with her cousin Kieren, at Maketu in the Xmas holidays. They spent hours wandering around the estuary collecting interesting bits and pieces. He really didn't want to leave when it was time for them to go home that night! Even though there's a location separation they still love each other's company.

Talk about a mix of product on this page! There's a whole lot of American Crafts, some Simple Stories, PaperVine, and Prima. Some is what I've had in my stash for ages, other is hot off the shelf! Fun to do, and not toooo messy :)