OUAS June layout

Gave this month's sketch at Once Upon a Sketch (http://onceuponasketchblog.blogspot.co.nz/) a go, finished it last week but haven't had a chance to upload it yet.  At the beginning of the week was living Abi's stress with NCEA assignments due then Thursday had 13 for dinner.  Yesterday was Claire's 13th birthday party so she had a few friends over and watched a couple of classic movies... not too hard a party, but still busy!


This layout is of Abi though, in our backyard in Lara in 2006.

This was the sketch


Hope you all like!

CSI 125

Have been very busy today - baked brownie, apple spice cake and afghans as well as doing a lot of house work, washing and ironing.  So am a bit tired, so not sure whether I am making a lot of sense right now. But I did manage to finish the layout for CSI 125! I love this site, (http://csicolorstoriesinspiration.ning.com/) and this particular colour combination is great, I often seem to use teal and lime green...



Here is my layout of the girls with their cousins from my side of  the family...

Thanks for looking...

CSI S365-5 Challenge - Ticket to Ride

This layout was inspired by the S365-5 challenge at CSI (http://csicolorstoriesinspiration.ning.com/). Elements used were buttons, paint, scallops and tying something.  Journalling includes the words fun and show and sort of has a ring around it!  I loved the colours in this challenge and felt they worked quite well with these photos.  The top photo is a little blurred and Abi's face is obscured but I just had to include it for the expression of joy on their faces.  I can remember feeling a little worried when I let them go on this ride all by themselves... but was really pleased they enjoyed it.  I love roller coasters!

Last day of holidays...

This is a post I started to write a couple of months ago, but had some problems with uploading to my blog.  So am finally trying again!

Today is my last day of the school holidays, back to work tomorrow.  I had the best intentions of updating this blog and making it a little more exciting but have left things to the last minute once again!  I have done some scrapbooking over the holidays though

There are a couple more to come another time...

Back again, with a Scrappin' Patch Challenge

Haven't been here for a long time!  This is a layout I have created for the October recipe challenge over at Scrappin' Patch.  It is of my youngest daughter Claire when she was about 6.  She is now 12 and was away this week for her first school camp - I missed her!

 

I've used the 3 patterned papers (Basic Grey and Simple Stories), masking, doily, layering, two brads and ribbon (in the flowers I made) and a staple.

Another challenge...

 

Finished this layout today for Challenge Me Happy - I am really happy with the colour combo in this one and used a few scraps of paper, made an organza and tulle flower and punched the little butterflies with my new punch. The alphas and big butterfly are Pink Paislee.

Hope everyone is having a good Anzac Day!



Back to it at last...

Finally got to do some scrapbooking (yay for the school holidays and time off work) and get back to this blog which reminds me of  a piece of scrap paper at the moment.  My best intentions to get something up once a week just don't seem to be working out to well so far, maybe one day! And I would like to have it looking a bit more professional one day but I am still learning how to do this...

So this is a layout I have done for the Scrappin' Patch blog based on this sketch

 

Still back in 2007 with Claire getting ready to go to school, but remember it well as I had a few tears that day with my baby growing up! I've used some very old Basic Grey patterned paper in the background and som October Afternoon rubons and tag, some random stamping and chipboard circles.