The look I love

I received a RAK I won a few weeks ago on Scrap that Poetry's Blog hop, this was from Nikki Antenello and I made this layout straight away. I love this photo of Nate looking out of the plane window when we went to Sydney last year. He was so in awe, and his shirt had the blue in it. This background paper is so bright and busy but I think everything on top of it makes the photo stand out. Sure helps when you have several papers and embellishments from the same brand. Hope you all have a great day, bit busy this end, but although I do not work at present, I still love my Fridays....Love Melxx

Just for me layout

Nate loves his bubbles so I did this layout for him just to remind him in years to come, I used some Fancy pants chipboard and some ribbon I got from the gorgeous Noel Mingon kit I received yesterday. Hope you like it. Love Melxxx

Challenge Heaven Christmas page challenge

I did this strange shaped page as the criteria was use Kraft as the base, I used a Fancy Pants Kraft Cuts piece, thanks Amanda for this, she sent me this in a RAK. You also had to have four photos and use chipboard on the page somewhere, it's an extremely busy page and I put pop dots under some embellishments to give some dimension to the page, I am not sure what I think of this one, but I know I love these photos of Nate and well he makes Christmas just so much fun now. I really look forward to seeing his little face when he opens presents.

Challenge Heaven Word Challenge

This is Nate at the "Nippers fun area" at Ipswich Railway Workshops on this funny looking bike, he just loves it there, I must take him again soon. The challenge was to use the word crazy, distress paper and stamp. I stamped a saying on the corner of the photo, I am not much of a stamper, but love them all the same, seeing so many wonderful stampers out there and what they can do frustrates me slightly, they are so clever. I loved this robot paper from Kaiser the robots are so cute, don't necessarily go with the theme but perfect for little boy pagers all the same. Thanks for looking, I actually think my mojo is creeping back this week. Yay!!

Scrap that poetry

My first ever entry for Scrap that Poetry. It was such a gorgeous poem and to me was about the bond that happens when you love someone, the unconditional feeling of total contentment. I totally enjoyed doing this layout and hope you like it.

Stick n' giggle challenge kit

This is my entry to my LSS challenge kit, you had to use a bit of everything in the kit, I struggled but then an idea came to me so I just went with it, we bought candy canes this year for the tree, Nate had more fun capturing them then actually eating them (which is good really) and I often caught him at the tree trying to get the top ones, he was a little bit young to still understand Christmas last year but this year I think will be just wonderful. He even sat on a Santa's knee when my friend's dad dressed up, still didn't get a pic with the Santa in the Shopping Santa he just didn't want to sit on his lap and just cried. I am so glad I have got these photos to look back on and am thankful the photos went with the kit.

Out of the Hat February Challenge

I just love this photo of Nate with vegemite all over his mounth, when he laughs I just seem to laugh too, his little eyes close up and well I just love him, so the title "Sunshine of my life" seemed very appropriate. This challenge you had to have some buttons and bows, a butterfly and a four word title.

Not much on today, I went to bed with Nate early last night and read the Scrapbooking Memories magazine. I am not sure if you saw the advertisement for the Scrappin Kats design team in it, but that is me, wow who would have thought my very first time officially published was going to be for an advertisement. But it was nice anyway. I hope you all have a wonderful day, relax and enjoy time with your wonderful families.

Challenge Heaven Colour Challenge

I love this photo of Nate, he is at the Railway Museum in Ipswich and being a boy is in awe at all the train things he is seeing, he is here on the little train that takes you for rides, he has just started to develop into a gorgeous little man, his attention span is longer and he actually concentrates on things, before 3, he just ran like a maniac when excited, so he is growing up, this is a good thing I know, but I still miss that little dependant boy I had. Selfish I know but time is just going by so quickly.

This challenge had the criteria "Black, White, Red and another colour, had to have a flourish and distressing (which I did on the bazzill and then inked)

Scrap the Girls February entry

This is my entry for this month's Scrap the Girls challenge, I found some covered wire in the wrapping of Nate's birthday present (it was a Thomas Train set) and I wound the little flowers and leaves around it and then tried to wrap it around to frame the photo, you had to add hearts also, but I used this gorgeous Franceville paper and cut the heart out, the title is "Dance like no-one is watching", This was taken when we put up the Christmas tree in December 09 and had the i-tunes on.

Challenge Heaven Quote Challenge

My dearest angel maxi or I call him "Master Hog" he loves to eat and I always know when he is under the weather as he leaves some food in his bowl, I make both dogs food up using mince veges rice and pasta so I am hoping this keeps Maxi around for a longer time, he is 15 this year. My first time at cutting around a photo like this, it is growing on me, I backed the treee with book paper and covered the front with pp, wowsers, this took ages. but in the end I like any layout I do of my old man. Thank you so much for looking. Hope you all have a precious day. Love Melxxx

Crafty Sketches February Entry

This is my February entry for Crafty Sketches, and this is Nate, with the useless little toy inside the bon bon on Christmas Day, so priceless considering he had received the most gorgeous presents and spent ages playing with this little plastic animal. PRICELESS!

Scrap around the Clock February Challenge

This layout is of me at 4 being flower girl at my Aunty's wedding, the criteria was distressing, glimmermist (which although I used it you can't really see it) I am thinking I might try to buy some of the new mists, they seem to show up clearer, and inking. I put my journalling on a pull out under the photo, I cannot put journalling on my layouts, I think I hate my handwriting and feel it makes me dislike my layout, crazy huh. Although I cannot remember much of this day, I am enjoying documenting these layouts for Nate to look back on in years to come. Thank you all for the wonderful encouraging posts you leave, so uplifting especially on days you don't feel inspired, have lost mojo and just tired. Love Melxx

Screen to Scrap

I have been without a computer up until yesterday, so that's why their is not so many entries, oh my goodness, how much did I miss her, my lifeline to my gorgeous cyber friends.

Here is my entry for Screen to scrap, had some tricky criteria this month, so I had to improvise, I made a sail for the boat out of onion wrapping, and used an owl for the pirate's parrot. I aptly named the title "Crawling the plank". Hope you all have a wonderful day.

Zoe & Nate

Just a layout to showcase Nate's first love Zoe, they had a love hate relationship with her being the Cougar in this relationship, she has now moved to Melbourne but before she left she said she would like to marry Nate when she is 5, so they are apparently doing the long distance love thing. He has mentioned her a few times so sounds like she is still in his thoughts.

The horse next door

Nate has a playdate with Cooper each Saturday morning, Cooper's mum and me have coffee while we watch the boys play together, she lives on property and the neighbours have horses, cows, ducks, pigs etc so Nate loves it, they were a bit pensive at first with the mini horses but now Nate sits and talks to them. I used MME paper and embellishments for this, I know, theirs flowers again on a boys layout but I still have the need to be girly so this is just the way it is.

Artistic challenge blog entry

This is my entry for Artistic Challenge Blog, the picture for inspiration was of a mother washing her baby, I unfortunately have no photos of me bathing little one as I am on my own and those extra set of hands I have prayed for have never arrived. So I documented how much Nate loves his bathtime, he was duly named Dugong at an early age because of his love of bathtime. I cut out the inside of this die cut paper and 3d'd the outside of it, I used October afternoon background paper and Fancy Pants Daily Grind chiboard pieces and Bixous bits and pieces, the Only smiles spot is from MME and the flowers are Prima. Thank you for looking and I hope you like it.

Feeding Time

Some photos that I have been meaning to scrap for ages, I only had little ones so I condensed the layout down, they are pictures of Nate at my brother's farm feeding the chickens, the little cut outs are ducks actually but close enough, they are October Afternoon papers, I found some string flowers at the op shop the other day so I used one of them also to focus on the small round photo. Just a fun layout this time, just for me.

3 in the pool

This is Jan and Col and Mr. Nate in the pool on Christmas Day, I took these photos from my bedroom window so I could get a different view, we had a great day, dunked ourselves in Nate's little pool on and off all day because it was so hot. I used Sassafrass Lass paper, Bisous and Creative Memories papers for this one, simple layout although took some time cutting out the little waves took some time.

This Dude drinks Beer

This is a picture of Nate drinking his special beer at Aunty Jan's 60th Birthday BBQ at Kholo Gardens, he is wearing his special Car Crocs and he is taking a well deserved break, he had his bike (in the background) and he played coits, soccer and was just running around all day. He had a ball.

I used Sass lass, hambly transparencies, Cossmos criket rub ons, Fancy pants bits and DCWV cutout leaves.

About a boy and his chocolates

A good friend Helen gave Nate an early birthday present, and some chocolates, his very own box, well the look on his face in the first shot says it all, he took so long to choose one and then chewed it and spat it out, he is not a sweet eater, but don't worry they won't go to waste.

I used the beautiful swirly bazzil, Rouge De Garance, Fancy pants, SassLass and AC pp's some flyscreen mesh and doodling, I tried my liquid pearls in the flower centres. Thanks for looking.

60

Just a layout for me today, this is Aunty Jan celebrating her 60th birthday at my place and getting a beautiful kiss from my old 15yr poodle, Maxi, she loves the dogs and minds them for me at her place when we go away. I just love this photo. I tried to copy a layout I had seen in a magazine, but as usual I deviate from it and this is how it turned out.

This kid loves cabbage

This is an older layout I did but have never posted it, my little boy is a fussy eater,,,,guessing lots of almost 3 year olds are, he eats the most bizarre things, loves olives, capers and yes raw or cooked cabbage, so had to document a layout about it.

Beautiful boy

This is my entry for Melody's scrapping World sketch challenge, these are some of my favourite photos of my little man, my Aunty took them with her gorgeous camera. I am not sure if I truly like this layout, something screams too much patterned paper and not enough negative space. Sometimes I love the completed layouts and other times, perhaps depending on my mood I am not sure.

Be Mine

This is a sketch Challenge for SCRAP WITH V, I love Kraft but hardly ever use it, so used a cutout of Making Memories paper and coloured the insert red, used Bisous cutouts, sasslass pp's and bella ruler paper and added a rub on to one of my favourite photos of little man, hope you like it.

It's bathtime

Another CHALLENGE HEAVEN challenge layout, this time 4 photos, 4 buttons, 2 lines journalling and 1 heart, again I tried for heaps of white space and with 4 photos used up some little ones instead, I just love Hambly transparencies so used them and cut out some Bisous pp's for the embellishments, I was happy with how it turned out. Nate just loves bathtime, always a truckload of toys go in with him, sometimes lots of bubbles and he gets water everywhere, but he is clean.