Fairy Princess

This layout is all about a day we spent down in Sydney visiting Aunty Vonnie, when Soph created her own fairy princess outfit.

I've had these photos for quite some time and been meaning to put them together on a layout. I ended up throwing them in with a stash of goodies I was taking on my visit to Queanbeyan on the Country Link train.

It was quite a funny story  of how this layout came about, you see Whilst we were on our 4 hour train trip I decided to pull my stash out of the backpack and see what I could come up with. I had only been scrapping for 10 minutes or so and when I looked up I was surrounded by a group of ladies.

One lady quickly said "oh don't stop were all very intrigued in what your doing and would love to keep watching if that's OK" I told them that it was fine and kept working on the layout. I spent most of the trip answering questions of "how did you do that? can you show us again?" or seeing these women cringe as I cut up these photos so that I only had Soph on the layout and not all the bulky backgrounds which were irrelevant to the story I wanted to tell.

With only 20 minutes to spare before we were due to get off the train I finished the layout and our carriage irrupted with applause and comments of "oh isn't she clever", "I never would of been brave enough to do that" etc etc.

Because of all the noise of my onlookers the security guard came wondering down to see what all the fuss was about. The ladies apologised for the noise and quickly moved back to their seats. I felt really good teaching a few new skills to some lovely women and it sure did make that 4 hour trip fly by.

For this layout I wanted the images to look like she was playing in a magical fairy land so I suspended some chipboard frames backed with opaque velum above the page with golden cord to suspend them from the top of the page to make them appear to be hanging from nowhere.

I put the first photo in the oval frame so it appeared as if she was sitting on a swing.  

The second photo was placed between the frame and the velum to give the appearance that she was in the magic mirror.

The last photo showed the wings she made and was of her back so I adhered her with the big chipboard Caterpillar behind so it looked as if she was standing there having a conversation and reading the journaling card beyond that.

I would have liked to added a title but felt it would overcrowd the whole page and decided the keep it simple approach was best.

well that's all folks

Cheers

1st Day of School Layouts

I picked up some Kaisercraft class of 87 papers and embellishments from my local scrapbook shop and had so much fun creating layouts of Sophie's first day of school.

I'm just loving anything vintage at the moment, so this range was perfect.

I love this little vintage school girl playing hopscotch. It fitted perfectly, because the first time we went to check out the school Sophie asked me "Why did they paint these numbers on the path in the playground? I had such fun teaching her how to play hopscotch.

I matted one of the banner triangles and attached a toothpick to make a flag.

The morning of the 1st day of school Soph must have asked me 12 dozen times "is it time yet?" She was so keen to get going to big school.

I loved this poem and just had to include it in the layout.

By cutting some of the squares out with my craft knife and raising them up with dimensional tape it broke up some of the hardness of this paper whilst adding interest.

This is one of those layouts which you like but just feel its missing something!

hmm... comments. suggestions?

well that's all folks

cheers

My Little Fairy

When I saw this paper for the first time I knew strait away I wanted to create a whimsical layout.

This is what I came up with.

This picture brings about images of Alice In Wonderland.

Well that's all folks

Cheers

Big Smiles

Another Pretty layout of Sophie in her cupcake dress, Jazzed up with some hot pink bling.





Well that's all folks

Cheers

Sweet Gorgeous Love Absolutely Adorable You

I seem to always spending my spare time creating, scrapbooking, painting and paper crafting for friends and family.

So I decided it was high time I started some serious scrapbooking catch up for myself.

So to start with I created this soft, pretty, feminine layout of Soph in that cute cupcake dress I made her.

Stay tuned I'll be listing lots more layouts. 

You will have to excuse the shadows created whilst photographing my layouts. I have seen that some Youtubers use a light box. I'll be investigating this idea and true to my nature I'll create my own DIY light box.

With a few of these pastel papers layered up, some gathered organza ribbon over hot pink silk ribbon, a couple of rub ons and some blingy butterflies lifted from my mums stash whilst on holiday in Queanbeyan this simple layout turned out fab.

well that's all folks

a simple layout but I love it

Cheers



Off Road Rush

Ill be doing a heap of catch up posts as we have had a lot of drama's lately and I have not blogged for ages. Sorry.

For my husbands birthday last year all the family chipped in and bought him an Off Road Rush experience. Whats that you ask?

This is a heart pumping, exhilarating adrenalin packed adventure. Whether you choose the 4wd buggies or the Turbo WRX rally car (or both).

Check out these pictures

we had so much fun and plan on going back with mates to go again.

well that's all folks

cheers

Donna

Coco Comes To Stay

On Friday when we picked Sophie up from school she was waiting on a chair for us with two bandaged knee's, a bandaged elbow and a smile on her face.

Although she had fallen over and hert her self she was proudly clutching a blue basket with a brown fuzzy little friend inside. The class pet. Coco.

Now your probably thinking guinea pig right. Well you would be wrong. Coco is a camel.

A stuffed toy, much to my delight which does not require feeding or cleaning up after. Got to love that!

We had a busy weekend and Sophie was thrilled about looking after Coco.

She played puzzles with Coco.

Made a tent and went camping in the lounge room with Coco and then turned the tent into the ocean and taught Coco how to surf.

Took Coco on the swings and explored the backyard, before reading a bedtime story and tucking Coco into bed with big ted.

On Sunday we went to Spears Point Park for a family birthday picnic. Whilst there Sophie taught Coco how to play soccer.

Next we headed over to the road safety bike track and Sophie taught Coco all about road signs and where to cross the road.

We also had to make an entry in Coco's journal. Sophie happily started going through my best scrapbooking papers and embellishments and fixated on my stash of Sassafras Lass.

She wanted so many different things included but we had to narrow it down to just a few. She had to make some flaps for her pictures to hide under and really really really wanted one of those circle things that turns around and shows the pictures through the window.