Sunshine anyone?!

No, I can't send the little bit we had today your way, you see it is here trying so hard to melt our mountains of snow.

No I am here with some South African Sunshine in the form of Kim's kit "Sunshiney Day" I love the soft colours in this and it was so nice to NOT scrap snow!

This first layout uses a picture from my cousin's beach wedding.

And this is Robert last year tucking into his ice lolly.

And as I am really late posting this, Kim actually has another kit out "Rustic Warmth", I used this one for Challenge 4 of the ADSR5. We had to make two ATC cards (Artist Trading Cards) there were no rules other than the size of it, and that it had to honour our partner, and this is it

Additional credits

Wordart by Nikki

Back soon Jennilyn Designs has some great stuff coming out on Saturday, which I will come and show off. CU then

KimB's - Passions Blush

I love being on the site CT at DSO! I get to play with such beautiful kits. This week I got to play with KimB's latest kit "Passions Blush" (image linked to store)It is just beautiful, don't you think!

This is what I created using it.
My brother and his wife (I will be using this as their card for their wedding anniversary!)

and here my niece as a bridesmaid at our wedding in 2005

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Love Actually

I love my boys and they love me! Aww, how soppy can I get at nearly midnight? Let's see...

This is a layout that I have had in my head for a while now, but I never knew just what picture to use. When Richard was about 2.5 years old, he started this banter off with me. And he does it all over the place, it's so funny when in the middle of playing football (soccer, for all you Americans reading), he runs to the side of the field and calls "Mummy?" "Yes, Richard" "I love you lots and lots" and then off he runs to carry on playing. Makes me go warm and fuzzy all over! Sometimes we do the full routine, when he tells me just how much he loves me, and I him, finishing with "Lucky Mummy" otherwise we might go on all night!
Anyhow Florian got some good pictures of Richard giving me a BIG hug, and this is what I made with one of them and LouCee Creations new kit "Love Actually".
And tonight I did another layout using LouCee's kit, of just my boys! As Mum said "Butter wouldn't melt in their mouth"!Addtional credits on this one "Scrap Quick Templates" by KimB's Designs.

And just in case you were wondering this is the kit I used! Image is linked to the store.
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Elegant Whisper

A new beautiful kit, which was released yesterday from Legacy4life! Lovely soft colours perfect for a heritage layout, but I made it work for my niece too. So very versatile as you will see.
First this is the beautiful kit
And here are my layouts.
I love getting out the old photos, this time I used one of Mum and her family, way back when!
And here is my beautiful niece flirting with the camera at Xmas!CU soon

A fresh Start...

is the name of KimB's Designs new kit, and I got to play with it. I love the colours and all the elements in the kit. (image linked to store)The kit is geared towards New Year's but when I first saw it, I thought of a cold winters day, and got my favourite photo of the boys out and scrapped this. I managed to combine it with the Quote Challenge at DSO
And then after decorating the tree and messing about with Robert and tinsel, I remembered that there is actually some tinsel in the kit, and this is what came about then.
It's a great kit and I am sure I will be scrapping some New Years pics with it, just after, so watch this space!
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Christmas 2008

Yep, a bit behind with the scrapping, but aren't we all?!
When I saw Bunny's new templates (currently on offer) (image linked)

I immediately thought they would be perfect for all the Xmas photos I took last year!
And yep, they worked. I used Andrea Dickinson's "Deck the Halls" for it.Ooh, and spot who was behind the camera most of the day!! thank goodness for the selftimer!


Back soon! Still plenty of layouts lurking!

Santa's helpers visited

And I got two completely different layouts done about it.

First of all, I have to show you my new desktop! Charlie has posted her Desktop Challenge on the NEW DSO Challenge Blog, and seeing as I still had Octobers on my desktop it was time for a change.I used KimB's newest Xmas kit "Merry And Bright" which she RAKed me with on Saturday, thanks again Kim, it really really cheered me up!

But I think the pics need explaining. Last year we introduced a new tradition to the family, on November 30th, the boys write their Xmas lists and leave them on the front doorstep for Santa's helpers to pick up, and Santa's helpers then leave an advent calendar for the boys. Last year the helpers also picked up Richard's dummy and their baby drinking beakers. This year we didn't need to "get rid of" anything, so they only got the Xmas lists.
And in the pics on the layouts you can see them both "signing" their lists and this year it was raining so we couldn't put them on the doorstep, so we posted them in our letterbox, and put the flag up, so that the helpers knew where to find them.

I loved the pics so much, that I knew just how to use Funky Playground Designs Template (on their blog today)Credits:
Template by Valorie Brown at FPD
Funky Joy by Wendy Page at FPD
Santa from Comfort and Joy by Miss Tiina at FPD
Alpha from Spot of Color by Valorie Brown at FPD

As you can see I have been having fun, when really i should have been making my Xmas card, at this rate no one will get one before Xmas, more like Easter! OK off now, to try and get the cards made.
CU soon

More Xmas layouts

We got a new camera this week, and have been playing hard with it - a new Canon 450d with a 18 - 200 lense! (it is latest of the Rebel series for my readers across the pond). We love it, we had a 350d which we gave in part exchange, we had taken 40.000!!! pictures on it, I think with this one, we may even beat the record!
Anyhow, we played by getting some family pictures for Xmas cards and things this week. And I got to use two of them in layouts already! But first let me show you the kit I got to play with
"First Noel" by Charlie's Digiscraps (image linked to store) Btw Charlie still has a sale on - hint hintAnd here are my layouts, this first is me and Richard playing silly before the pics were actually taken. Does that make sense?
Anyhow the boys were not really interested in having their pictures taken, they wanted to play Wii, so I had to try and somehow get them to smile for the camera, being silly worked. And it may also have had something to do with the fact, that they got to take turns in pushing the selftimer button!
And this photo of Richard was just me playing with the new camera, testing the zoom and new flash (yep we got a great external flash to go with it)CU again soon, I have been working hard on a hybrid project, it should be finished soon, so check back again.

I tried a fantasy page

And I like the outcome!

The Scraplift Challenge at DSO this month lifted a layout by Benita - I'm sure she won't mind me showing you ;o)

It sort of frightened me off to start with, but when I was looking for photos to scrap with my next CT Xmas Kit, I come across this picture of my "men" getting last years Xmas tree.Going through LouCee's "Snow Ho Ho" I found a great background for the picture, and the layout just started coming together all on its own. Even easier having joined in CreativeTechs awesome PS course in the past months, cause the extracting is getting easier (not easy, but easier!)
But enough suspense, here is the finished layout.
Who knows I may even resize it for a Xmas card for this year...

I also made another layout using LouCee's kit, only back in my comfort zone.
This one is for the Lyrics Challenge at DSO. The song this month is "We are family"

How about coming to join the fun challenges...
CU there, or here again soon

First Christmases

Ooh, I got a great kit to play with this week and I got to go browsing through some of the old pics of the kids. Their first Xmases.. seeing as the kit by KimB's Designs is called Christmas First, I thought it would be good to look back at my kids first. (kit image linked to store)

Robert first seeing as he is the oldest, he was 6 months in this photo. this picture in its original colours was actually our christmas card in 2004 - I still love it.
I tried a new technique on it for this layout though, I doubled it and changed the Hue and Saturation and then deleted that where the red bits were that I wanted to show through. I love how it turned out.and this is Richard at his first Xmas, he was nearly a year old then, I had to find a picture where the dribble wasn't too obvious. I kept this layout really simple using just a mask (also by KimB) and a hint of elements, cause the paper just did the work for me!
Back soon with more pretties

Tracey

I got to play with LouCee Creation's kit "Tracey" this week, it's really really versatile. (image linked to store)First of all, when I saw it, I thought "heritage" and went rummaging through Mum's Family Tree site browsing all of the old family photos, and in honour of Armistice Day, I chose the one of our unknown soldiers, who in some way is related to me, just not quite sure yet in what way.
Then I remembered that Mia had a jumper in similar colours on whilst we were in the UK, found the photo and, yep the kit works great for non-heritage pages too!Back soon

I went DSD shopping - want to see..

what I bought?!
Of course you do...
well first off I had a Gift Voucher from DSO (made CT of the month again) and I got this in Kim's sale

And this from Charlie's B-day sale!
Then I got a voucher for taking part in a Speed Scrap at Scrap Orchard, and I got these
and then I really did spend some money. I have all these pics of the boys on the Wii, and I just had to get this kit to scrap them with...so keep watching for those layoutsAnd then whilst getting some freebies at the Lily Pad, I spotted this kit, and just couldn't resist - thank goodness for sales!
And last but not least, I went shopping at the Daily Digi. I am often searching for a stamped font, and when the Daily digi's one went on sale, I jumped at the chance
so there is my loot from DSD, lots of stuff but not too many pennies!
Link me up to your finds and new treasures
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Ready for Xmas??

Well Kim is! She has a GREAT new kit out "Candy Christmas" (image linked to store)
And I got to play with it.
This first layout is me at 6 months, my very first Xmas.
and in this one I wanted to show off some of the great papers in the kit, so I tried blocking them all. And paired them with this family photo taken just before Xmas last year. We take one every year, and have so much fun doing it. We get lots of silly photos too, but this is a good one!
Hope you enjoyed them
I'll be back tomorrow with something more autumny
CU then

Summer revisited...

well with the cold weather we are having here, I decided that I would scrap some of my sunny pictures! And what better to recall the warmth than a trip to the beach!
So I requested this lovely kit by Charlie's Digiscraps "Seabreeze" and a-scrapping I went! (image linked to store)

And you know me, I love to combine CT work (shh, don't tell anyone, but its not really "work", I have too much fun doing it) with a challenge. And Andrea's Quote challenge at DSO worked really well. The quote this month is "The world is mudluscious and puddle-wonderful!"

And then i just had to find a creative way to use the awesome alpha that comes with the kit! And here it is!Back soon
CU then

Bee My Honey!

That is the name of the kit I have been playing with for DigiScrapObsession. Its by Andrea Dickinson, and is adorable! (image linked to store)
and here are my layouts using it, this first one was for the Font Challenge at DSO. Andrea chose a fun title font called "outlaw" this month. I think it works quite well here as the title.
Robert had such fun with his paper airplane, so cute!

And here is another layout where I did some journalling, I think I am finally getting the hang of it. If you can't read it here, check my gallery at DSO, where i have it written in with the credits.
CU again soon