In The Pink

This layout follows on from my last one in that the photos were all on the same night. Bre's friend Malissa came over on the way to Guides. So funny, Malissa is soo chatty! Love hearing them together.

This page is for the Scrap Our Stash September sketch challenge.

From the lists I used Various manufacturers (American Crafts,Kaisercraft,Basic Grey) for the papers; washi tape - I think the neon pink washi was just made for these photos! - and the letter X in the little XO embellie at the bottom.

Thanks for looking!

Pink'd

I came across these old photos I had tucked away in a box that I hadn't scrapped yet and thought they would be great for The Paper Teapot Black+White+one challenge.

Guides were having a pink night and Bre went all out for it. So cool in the neon pink wig! And the pink Miley Cyrus t-shirt was her absolute favourite - until it wasn't lol. 

One of my friends made the cute little crocheted heart for me - doesn't it rock? The +one had to be pink of course with these photos! 

I used texture paste in a diagonal direction and then used a mica spray and Dylusions spray to bring in the pink. The paper was all Kaisercraft, and I lurrrve these Thickers! 

Everything else were bits and pieces from my stash.

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!

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!

Tiny Dancer..

Just a quick share to show you what I came up with for a class to be held at The Paper Teapot shortly...

I've always had this idea in my head, and luckily enough, Prima were kind enough to come up the products to make it easy for me!

If you're interested in the class let Joanna know! 

joanna@thepaperteapot.nz

Celebrate 17

Hi all,

I thought I'd better get this page scrapped - it was Breanna's birthday last year and her boyfriend at the time, Aaron, wanted to throw her a surprise party. (Of course it had to be at our house in the sleepout lol). He got together with Maddie and they did a great job, Bre had no idea at all...and thought they were going out for dinner ;).

After prezzies and lots of food they all ended up in the forest playing spotlight - just a heap of great big little kids :D

I used the 1 July Stuck?! sketch as my base for the layout - this is it -

and here's where to go if you want to play along too!

This was a fun "playing with new toys" layout.. I may have gone just a little overboard with the Nuvo Crystal Drops but they're just so easy to use! And did you notice that they match the Tim Holtz Distress Crayons almost exactly! You can get both of these from Joanna at The Paper Teapot.

Thanks for looking :) 

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A Brilliant Day

Hi and welcome to my very first challenge as a design team member for Scrap Our Stash!

There used to be an ad screening on TV whose tag line was

"Don't leave home til you seen the country!"

New Zealand is such a beautiful place, and while our kids are dying to travel the world, we want to show them as much as we can here in "Godzone".

This photo was in the summer holidays down at Bluff - on a good day you can see Stewart Island which is the southernmost part of NZ.

This was the inspiration for my layout...

Both the title and the colours inspired me - and Dr Suess is still one of my favourite authors ;).

I used Cocoa Vanilla "Colour Me Happy" papers - the "B" sides for all the patterned papers - 5 weren't hard to find from this lot, and the one round embellishment is an epoxy sticker inside a pressed bottlecap, plus I got a bit carried away with the circles - patterned paper and fab Tim Holtz stamps too :)

If you would like to play along with the challenge, the link is here.

Thanks for looking!

Pip

Pip - also known as Pipster, Pipsqueak, Pippy, Pipperella and Fats ;)

One of her favourite spots is outside our bedroom ranchslider curled up on a large toy dog - no irony there considering she's the biggest scaredy-cat ever!

I came across this sketch by Lets Get Sketchy for June and it gave me the inspiration I needed to get this page done and dusted.

 

Thanks for looking, leave a comment if you like it!

Smile

Once again the best bud pair Shiloh and Shannon.

That's the trouble with being so photogenic :D

This was taken when we were away for a weekend in Hanmer together earlier this year. Such a relaxing spot!

And a couple of close ups of the gels/mica...

My inspiration for this was the Blue Fern sketch challenge for June -

So pretty and feminine! 

Thanks for the look, leave a comment if you like it :)

Calm

Just a quick check in with this one...

My beautiful niece Maddison again, this time at Riverton when we went to Invercargill over the Xmas holidays 2015/16.

The layout comes form a class run by Julie Best (her first!) which was great, using a lot of Blue Fern product, sprays and gelatos, all courtesy of The Paper Teapot.

Thanks for the look!