Flowers and Celebrations

I promised more great layouts, and I tried really hard to find some, but these were the best I could come up with. As you can see, I am still really behind on my scrapping, but I am getting caught up....slowly.



One afternoon we were heading down the peninsula to Patonga and whilst passing through the national park we realised the Waratah were blooming so we pulled up, when for a bit of a hike and I shot some amazing photos of the NSW state flower. This layout, I'm proud to say, uses all scraps from my scrap bin, other than the full sheet I used for the background. All of it is Bazzill I think, it sure looks like it anyway. I cut the tag and title using my Fiskars Shapecutter and added a ribbon from my stash and some penwork using pink and green gel pens. I wanted to keep this one really simple to let the photos really stand out.

These are photos of some of the other wildflowers (or maybe their just pretty weeds) that I snapped on the same day. This layout uses patterned paper from The Paper Company and Chatterbox. The cardstock, fibres, and flower cutouts all come from my stash. The title uses letters cut out using my Fiskars Shapecutter and letter stickers from Club Scrap. By the way, we did eventually make it to Patonga that day, just a little later than planned.

This one of my MIL birthday uses some more of those fab papers from the Flea Market collection from HOTP. I added some matching Bazill card, ribbon from my stash and chippy letters I got from the bargain store. The tags and labels come with the paper collection, I just used a brown gel to journal with.

This one is of my daughters year six graduation day. All of the patterned papers, stickers, tags, labels and embellishments come from a Daisy Hill album kit I got from Big W in Dubbo, NSW over a year ago. I just loved the colours of this kit, and they worked with these pics. I added a couple of bits of yellow cardstock from my stash.

This last one documents the first, and one of the few, swimming days of the summer. Everything on the layout, papers, cardstock, rubons, tags, chipboard, stickers, etc is from TLC. The only extra bits are some ribbons from my stash.

More Layouts to Share

These are some more of the layouts I have been working on lately. I still have to get 'round to photographing some of the looming, knitting and crochet I've been doing, but I will get there eventually. All of these layouts feature my wonderful husband.



The first one uses a kit I got at the scrapbook shop in Dubbo, NSW when we were still living in the outback of NSW. I came across when I was sorting out some stuff and thought it would work well with this photo. I have no clue who makes this patterned paper, but it is really pretty. Everything was in the kit (I just punched out the flowers and cut the title using my Fiskars Shapecutter). I didn't add anything except the photo.

This next one uses yet more paper from that now infamous KI Memories stack (which just might last forever) and chippy letters from the bargain shop. These photos and the one above are still from when we visited the Japanese Gardens.

Go the Mo! (okay not really) but this next layout is all about "Movember" (no I didn't spell it wrong). For those of you who don't know, Movember is all about guys getting sponsers to sponser their mo and raising money for mens health. Hubby decided to take up the challege so, of course, I had to document the event. This layout is the result. Let's see, I used some really old Club Scrap patterned and plain cardstock I had in my stash, along with some ribbon and TLC monogram and rubons.

Since I documented the mo growing, I also had to document the mo going...it seemed the only fair thing to do. I definitely prefer my man clean shaven...I don't get whisker burn that way. This layout uses all Basic Grey papers and stickers from the Skate Shoppe collection. I fell in love with it and bought the entire collection, and I now only have a couple of sheets left.

This last one of hubby's birthday uses more Basic Grey. This time it's from the Gypsy collection, including papers and mini monograms. I also used some really ancient Provocraft stickers, Heidi Swapp photo corners and some cardstock and ribbons from my stash. And look...I'm even in one of the photos! It does't happen often because I'm usually the one taking them. Unfortunately, I kinda clash with the rest of the layout, but I had to go with the colours everyone else was wearing.

That's all of them for now, but there are still more to come!

Long Time No Blog

Well, I've been a bad blogger. I've been so busy doing stuff I haven't had time to blog about it. Now I have some catching up to do. It's going to take a few posts to get back up to speed. I still have to scan/photograph some of the stuff I want to post here, but I will get around to that....eventually. In the meantime, I will show you just a few of the layouts I have been working on. These are all from the pictures I took when we visited the Gosford/Edogawa Commemorative Gardens. If you visit the area, I highly recommend a short visit to the Gardens, they are beautiful and best of all they are free. In fact, so is the ajoining art gallery!


This first lot is part of a six (yes I said six) page spread just showing off some of the gorgeous gardens, ponds and statuary. I kept them very simple because I didn't want to detract from the photos themselves. I used cardstock from my stash, patterned paper from a MAMBI pack I got a Spotlight a couple years ago, tiny eyelets from my stash, a bronze gel pen for the journaling and I used my Fiskars Shapecutter to cut out the title. The first two-page layout below opens (barn door style) to reveal the four-page layout (further below) on the inside. I just use extra sticky double-sided tape to stick stick page protectors to the edges of the page protectors in the album to make a (or in this case two) double-wide pages that fold into the centre of the album.

This next one is a layout of my two favourite people (my hubby and daughter of course!) feed the koi at the Gardens. This one uses some Rusty Pickle papers and alpha stickers that I have had floating around my stash for awhile, cardstock fibres also from my stash, and Heidi Swapp photocorners.

This one of my gorgeous daughter hanging out in the Tea House uses a bunch of papers from that KI Memories stack I'm always on about, ribbons I got on special at Spotlight a little bit ago and letters cut out using my Fiskars Shapecutter...oh...and a gel pen for the journaling.

I had a riot doing this next one. I know it's a bit funky do dah but like it. The window in the Tea House is round, but because I took the photos on an angle, it looks oval, so I decided to use lots of ovals on my layout. I had these really cool oval patterned papers in that famous (or is it infamous?) KI Memories pack and the matching solid came from the same pack too. I used my Fiskars Shapcutter to cut all the oval shapes and the title and a gel pen to journal. I love these silhouette photos, they look so cool with the view of the garden in the background.