Sisters And Besties

I was really excited to be invited to be part of The Paper Teapot design team, and this is my first official project as part of the team :) All the papers and the wooden veneers are part of The Archivist collection from Prima (available here) and the stencil is from Prima also (here).

 

My mother and her sister Mollie became more and more inseparable after Dad and Uncle Bert died. Although they always looked alike, and sounded somewhat alike, they even began to take on each others mannerisms. The photo on this page was taken in Invercargill at my brother's, while they were down there for Uncle Tom's funeral.

 

I used a really cool sketch from Scrapping Our Stash Challenge for March, this is it...

 

plus part of the challenge is also to use gold, which I did by brushing gold wax over the stencilled pattern, and wrapping gold thread around some embellies.

 

I hope you like it!

{Love this} Biker Chick

I've got to say I was more than a bit nervous when Bre wanted to take Flossie out for the first time this summer. I paced round and round the driveway for a couple of minutes then went and got my camera and waited for her. And waited. And waited some more. I think she took the scenic route on purpose. Finally she arrived home with a big grin, and has taken her out again a few times since.

 

 

I loved playing with this layout - probably the only chance I'll ever get to use pink on a layout with number one daughter!

 

I used the March sketch from Stuck?! Sketchs - I just love the multi photo sketches as you can tell a whole story in the pictures. Here's the sketch

 

 

I started off with a home made stencil and some texture paste mixed with acrylic paint. The patterned paper is an old favourite Amy Tangerine from American Crafts. The chipboard and wood veneers are WOW, and the flair is from Paper Vine. I've been waiting to use that little pink scooter sticker for about 5 years, and good grief - there's also vellum, left behind from when I used to use it on nearly every single layout!

 

Hope you like it!

 

 

Blue Bay

We recently went to Mark's cousin's wedding in Blenheim. It was a beautiful yet quirky wedding - we had a visit from Mr Whippy (yum!) and the wedding cake was a cheesecake - real cheese!

Thank you Cathi and Chris, we had a great time, and the wines were fabuloso :)

 

 I've been trying to use up my stash, so once again I've mixed old with new. The paper is the wonderful Blue Bay from Kaisercraft, and on the background I've used Liquitex Sand, which I then lightly rubbed over with Gelatos once it dried. I also love the acrylic word title from WOW. The larger flowers are Green Tara, and I couldn't find smaller flowers to go, so I sprayed some white Prima ones with Glimmermist.

Hope you like it, feel free to follow my blog or comment :)

Twisted Sisters

I love these photos of my girls - the top one's currently my wallpaper :) They were taken on Xmas Day 2013 and I waited for the perfect paper range for them, which I think this is!

 

I was inspired by the new mood board at Scrap Around The World as well as the girls' clothes...this challenge fitted my photos PERFECTLY! 

 

This is the mood board..

 

And here's the link if you would like to have a go too.

 

The papers are Kaisercraft Shine Bright, the acetate is Kaisercraft Art of Life, the flair and Washi are from Papervine, and I used a really cool wood veneer. I also christened my lovely new IndigoBlu stamps.

Thanks for looking, feel free to comment!

Canine Cuddles

Hello! It's been a while, time for a catch up again...

Last year we made a new friend...well a family of friends actually.

Shiloh and I arrived at Mum's one Saturday afternoon, and as we came in the door one very quick wee daschund slipped past us and raced inside! He was so cute and friendly with the most adorable little skin folds on his legs, we thought he was still a puppy and he was obviously lost. We went up and down the drive to see if anyone knew where he had come from but no one did, so we ended up ringing the council as we were worried he'd get hurt on the busy main road.

The next week Mum had a visit from his owner, along with our friend Harry, and his adoptive sister Emma. We were invited to visit their house to see the rest of the family too, so we went round the following weekend to meet all four of the little ones.

It turns out Emma was 3, Harry was actually 5, Henry was 16 and Indy was between Harry and Henry. Harry was well named for Houdini, apparently it wasn't the first time he'd snuck out, and we'd heard later it wasn't to be his last!

I caught this photo of Mum and Emma, and just love it.

 

I've actually used watercolour paper as the base for this layout and a soft wash of colour so as not to detract from the photo. And look - a slide mount! I've had that in my stash for about 12 years I think!

Plus my favourite Kaisercraft stamps for the edges, some pretty washi and vinyl hearts.

 

I love this look - what do you think?

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!

Casey Binser - Duke of Ed Tramp

When the lovely Joanna from The Paper Teapot rang and asked if I would like to Guest Design this month I nearly freaked out - deadlines?? I can't do deadlines!! Especially when it was to be for Kaisercraft's new line Outdoor Trail, a hiking/fishing/hunting type paper, when I have 2 teenage daughters!!

Then I remembered that Breanna had recently been on a 2 night tramp on the Casey Binser track for her Silver Duke of Edinburgh award. Phew!

But actually when you look at the papers, there's plenty you can do with them, and cool stickers to go with the range too.

I also used one of my favourite Kaisercraft Crackle stamps in heavy gel which I coloured with GlimmerMist, and added Wow Chipboard and Prima wood to the mix.

 

Here's a closer look at the texture..



 

 

So thanks for giving me a push Joanna - and another page done (and with time to spare) and that's what it's all about :)

 

 

Feel free to comment or follow :)

 



Pretty Leah

This is my cute little niece, she's a girly tomboy if there is such a thing??? We don't get to see her too often sadly but love to see how she's grown each time we do :)

 

 

It just happened that I'd bought this gorgeous My Minds Eye Jubilee paper just before I saw the August challenge on the 123 Challenge Blog , and even the photo overlay is also from MME but very old.

Here's the challenge

 

 

Couldn't have been more appropriate really!

 

Hope you like it, thanks for stopping by.

Dive Bomb

Summer may be a long way behind us here, but looking at these photos made me remember the heat of the day all over again...Jellie Park is a great place to cool off on a hot day.

 

Shiloh and Shanae spent a good time just lining up and jumping in again and again!

The layout is my take on the 15 August Stuck?! Sketch Challenge - perfect for this series of photos!

Here's the sketch..

I'm loving playing with different media at the moment - this one uses soft gloss gel, which I mixed with Gelatos for colour, plus Gesso.

I've also just found a new (to me anyway) challenge site frosted designs - which asked for chevrons - I've used a Kaisercraft chevron stamp and WOW chevron chipboard.
There are also some fantastic tutorials on this site :)