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 :) 

Leave me a comment, or follow my blog if you want to see more!

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!

Exciting news!

I'm finally allowed to share my good news... I made it on to the design team for Scrap our Stash - a fab challenge site with two challenges every month!

Woohoo!!! :D

Take a look here, and have a go at a challenge - you might be surprised at what you can come up with!

Wonder...

This page is titled "Wonder" as that's exactly the expression on Shiloh's face....facing a new year of challenges at school, wondering what path to take, where life will take her.

And a couple of close ups of that texture....

I had two challenge sites that I used for inspiration for this page - 

Firstly the sketch is by Laura at Stuck?! Sketches, I love how it makes it easy to put my own stamp on things. If you would like to play along you have until the end of the month - just have a look here.

And this is the sketch I used...

Secondly thank you to Another Freaking Scrappy Challenge for the title inspiration, this challenge is also open to the end of the month - have a play along with this challenge too - go on, you know you want to! Have a look at it here.

Also, I have to say - I'm a major fan of Bo Bunny texture paste - a really nice effect and so simple to use. 

Thanks for having a look, leave a comment if you like it ;;)

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.