Golden Days - Hello Santa

While Shiloh is too old now for Santa, she's still quite happy to get a photo as long as it's with one of her friends. This one's from Xmas 2013.

I love this blingy Kaisercraft range - A Touch of Gold, and it doesn't need to be just for Xmas either.

For this page the only extras were a Maggie Holmes bow and doily, plus a small gold star.

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Scrap retreat

Yay it's retreat time!

And that means lotsa scrapping, chatting, coffee-drinking and eating!

And not to mention classes - these three layouts were all from a class by Heidi Barclay. Triangles are so in!

All 3 pages used white cardstock as a base, and then Pink Paislee Citrus Bliss papers and embellishments.

The ever patient Shiloh...

My cute niece Maddison...

And my sister's bouncy little Jack Russell, Rosie.

All in a day's work lol.

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Geek Girl

This kid cracks me up!

And she was even happy for me to take the photos....

Nothing else to be said really lol

The paper I used in this one is Amy Tangerine from American Crafts,the arrows are by Freckled Fawn, the washi is from Typo, the letters are Thickers and Doodlebug, and the wood veneer is from Papervine. I also used a Kaisercraft stencil and Tim Holtz ink.

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Steampunk HQ

While we were away down south in the middle of 2015, we stopped for a look at the Steampunk Museum in Oamaru. I'd heard such good things, and they were all true! Jenna came down with us, it was great to have her there too, she and Shiloh may not see each other for ages but they facetime each other most weekends still and can't wait to each other when they can.

This page was made using Kaisercraft's Time Machine collection - it suited the theme perfectly!

I also used some Kaisercraft texture stamps with paint, Prima wood veneers, flair and Mica flakes. The little frame has been in my stash for so may years I've no idea where it came from!

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Finnabair classes

What a full on day yesterday was!

First in the morning amazing scrapbook pages all round, and then in the afternoon a gorgeous canvas. I love Prima Mica powders!! And mechanicals, and flowers, and stencils, and glitter.....

Here are the results...

 Thank you so much for the class Anna, and to Joanna at The Paper Teapot for hosting it...ready to book in for the next time!

A Family is a Gift....

Well the title of this page may be pretty cheesy, but the sentiment behind it is true.

 

We all got together for Bronwyn and Andy's wedding in 2010, it was a fabulous day at Markovina Vineyard, plenty of laughter, with the bonus of croquet and petanque onsite too.

 

Congratulations Br-Andy :)

 

 

This is also using Kaisercraft's Provincial papers for The Paper Teapot design team and collectables (available here), WOW chipboard, Prima packaging, thread, Maggie Holmes bow, Amy Tan mini doily, Cocoa Vanilla flair, Jillibean Soup wire word, Tim Holtz distress ink, Papervine washi, Scrapaholics self-adhesive Baroque tape and The Paper Teapot flowers.

If Friends were Flowers I'd pick you

It had been a long time since I'd been to the Botanic Gardens, so it was nice to get out for a bit one day with Shiloh and Shannon.
 

 

This is the latest layout I have just made for The Paper Teapot design team, its the new Provincial range from Kaisercraft - I decided to use the blue papers rather than the green, plus the Collectables. I also used both Dusty Attic and WOW chipboard; Kaisercraft and Bo Bunny stamps; a Kaisercraft stencil;Tim Holtz inks; Bo Bunny Glitter paste; Prima Crackle Paste, Micro-beads, doily and flowers; Cocoa Vanilla enamel dots;and also Green Tara flowers.

 

You can get this range from Joanna here.

 

Hope you like it - leave a comment if you do!

Year 12 Formal

It's been a while hasn't it? I have loads of layouts to share with you!

 

Breanna was excited to go to her first formal with Aaron - so much planning! He even gave a corsage for her wrist - awww :)

 

This layout was made in a class designed by Sally-Anne Ashton  - lots of lovely soft colours, hand made flowers and pearls and using Kaisercraft Botanica.

Dear Santa...we can explain....

You would think that butter wouldn't melt in their mouths, would you??

My big brother Barry and his sidekick (my cousin) Sandra. Dontcha just love the cute coats?

 

This is the new Xmas Collection from Kaisercraft - Silver Bells. I love that's it's traditional, but without the usual red and green. I just added some texture paste, a doily, some silver thread and lace, plus some cute little Green Tara flowers and a Prima wood veneer.

You can get Silver Bells all at The Paper Teapot here
 

So time to start thinking about Xmas - I'm going to try to catch up some of my other Xmas photos now, and as you can see, I've got a few years to go yet!!!

 

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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!

 

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