Design Dollies Scraplift challenge

This is a scraplift of the wonderful (mommyscraps) from Design Dollies, I actually don't know her name but it was a wonderful layout called Growing too fast dated 25/2/10 on her blog. I got this beautiful rak from the beautiful Julie Lakrose (Glorygirl) and it had these gorgeous pages from Die cuts with a view in it, and I just had to use them straight away, I know there is a lot of pink, but granny actually bought Nate this gorgeous scooter for his birthday and as it was boxed didn't notice the colour, when he opened it on his birthday he didn't look twice at its pink colour, just wanted it to be set up and to ride it, so I felt compelled to use this gorgeous paper. I also added some prima felt vines, and some basic grey bling it on embellishments. I loved the finished layout and hope you do too. Whilst Jan was over today managed to finish 3 layouts, that is a record for me, and I actually love them. Wow I wish I could have these days everyday. I also received a wonderful rak from good friend Michelle Hodges. I love absolutely everything, you girls rock, have totally made my day, thank you so much. It's 8.30pm, Nate is still up, I am going to sit with him whilst I watch Criminal Minds and he will usually fall asleep in my arms, I will carry him to bed and then read one of the many scrap mags I have accumulated, this is a routine in our house, I hope you are having a wonderful night, I love you all. Melxxxx

Design Dollies Colour Challenge

I got out the paints for the Design Dollies challenge this week, red, orange and a neutral colour, this was fun I used some photos of Nate on his 3rd birthday in January, it was just wonderful watching his face, priceless, doesn't matter at all to him that he had roary on top or that it was a chocolate mud cake, he was just interested in the candles, we clustered 3 groups of 3 for him and had to light them about 3 times also as he enjoyed the blowing out so much. I used some bazzill swiss dots, added masking tape to the corners of the photos then painted them a bit, used some old Creative Memories paper (not sure where I dug this up from) painted some of the yellowy colour out with paint, used an old syringe to spit the paint over the page and added the title. Wow I know paint is messy but their is something about it that makes me feel happy. I have my friend Jan coming over today to do some scrapping so looking forward to catching up and doing some creating. Whatever you are doing I pray you have a wonderful day and you are all healthy and happy. Love Melxx

A2Z Scraplets sketch challenge

Went a bit psychedelic with this one, well the background, but really wanted to try something different this time, I used the gorgeous Bisous pp's again and a Jenni Bowlin spot and of course an A2Z chipboard piece with says "Cool Dude". Not much happenning here at home today, cleaned the fridge and a few neglected cupboards, sorted out some items for a friend's garage sale, you know my motto is if I haven't used it for 12 months I really don't need it, I live a lot simpler this way and by golly the house stays heaps cleaner, of course this does not mean my scrapping supplies, boy I have stuff in my box that is 3 years old and you never know, I may need it, funny hey..I hope you are all having a wonderful day. Off to put little one down for a nap, overcast here but a nice fresh day. Love to you all. Melxxx

Sweet Dreams

I really love this phot of Nate when he fell asleep at the kitchen table, I used sass lass paper and Bo bunny too, I 3'd the embellishments, I guess this is what they call whimsy, I had so much fun with this, just enjoyed the cutting out and it was a just for me layout, so no expectations. We have a home day planned today, washing, gardening, and later on ironing, so nothing at all exciting for me, but it has to be done. I hope whatever you do you have a great time doing it. Love to you all, Melissa and Natexxx

Design Dollies Sketch Challenge

This is my entry for the Design dollies Sketch challenge, I used some older photos that I really love of Nate whilst cleaning up after the flood in December 08. He had a ball, as kids do in mud and rubbish. I loved this sketch and turned it to suit. Used Basic Grey and College Press pp's. Cosmo cricket strip sentiment, handmade embellishments, and prima flower.

I just have to add after all the wonderful comments about the paint in the top half that little man was beside me with the paint brush and accidently got some on the page, so this is why the swipes and the little roses, but he is an inspiration because I really like the result.

Design Dollies Lucky Challenge

This is my St Patrick's Day entry for Design Dollies I am so lucky for having Nate and this gorgeous Hoggy (my 15 year old dog) I call him hog because he is always hungry (in particular after I got him desexed which is apperantly normal) thank you for these gorgeous creatures animal and human in my life, I love them so much, thank you so much for looking, I am going through a rough time in my life at the moment, if you feel you would like to know more please email me at mel_o68@hotmail.com I will gladly tell you what your comments and continued support does for me. I love you my dear friends, Love to you all, Melxxxx

Challenge Heaven Quote Challenge

For this challenge you had to use rub-ons, use the title "A special love" and use a decorative edge, I love this photo of Nate, although it is old now, I am going back through the photos and using the photos that are very special to me, I love this gorgeous paper, I got this in a RAK just this afternoon from my dear friend Amanda Taylor, thank you so much Amanda, the card you made me was just beautiful too, I think you will know what this means to me at the moment, I just love that gorgeous little creature paper, they are so cute, thank you dear friend. I hope you like the layout, hope to catch up with the blogging in the morning, Love Melxxx

Choo Choo

This is a picture of Nate on one of the trains at the Ipswich Railway Workshops Museum here in Ipswich, he usually has a couple of rides but just loves pretending to drive, I used some Hambly overlay and Sass Lass papers and the cutouts are from Cosmo Cricket papers, I used the paint to add some different colours. Today is overcast again so I am glad that we did the mowing and trimming of the shrubs yesterday, looks like rain is coming yet again. I hate it being cooped up inside when it rains, but Nate and I usually do lots of crafts, he loves playdoh, and he loves painting in his colouring books and is making some Easter paintings for family and friends at the moment so this keeps him very happy, he just loves it when we play, so basically that's what we do, he is growing so fast, and when he says pleeeessse who can resist. I love him so much, he had a bad night last night, woke up from dreams and I just held him, this happenned about 6 times during the night, it was terribly hot last night so maybe this was annoying him too.

Just $2.00 mum

I bought these beautiful papers for a song at Scrappin Kats website, she has unfortunately had to close her doors due to family committments and some of these papers were 30cents each. I wish they would ban these rides in the supermarkets, because causes so much stress to mothers, Nate goes crazy for them, but do pop along to www.scrappinkats.com to pick up some wonderful bargains from her closing down sale. Love to you all. Love Melxxx

My boys

This is a layout done on the KI memories clear acetate, you cannot really see it that well because I have photographed it on a brown coffee table, Stanley is on the left, and Max (my old hog) is the cutie on the right, at this very moment, it is almost 9am, Max is asleep at the end of the bed with Nate (he is such a sleeper) and Stanley is on his back, legs in the air on the spare bed, it is definately a dogs life here, I love these two, Stanley is Max's biological father and so funny to watch Max dicipline him from time to time, Max is now 15 and stan is 8, Nate funny enough gets along famously with Max and they play all the time, Nate is so rough with him and he just accepts it. These 2 are so special to me, just like kids to me.

Still the two of us

This is my friend Jan, for this layout I cut (using a dinner plate) around the Creative imaginations die cut and backed it with Jenny Bowlin pp, used Daisy D's faux stitching roller for the outside, added some bling, flowers and some mesh, cut out the birds in some JB pp, and cut out some petals from some Kaiser papers and just a few other embellishments I got in a swap recently. I enjoyed making this one, but I so have to get some sleeves for all the layouts I have piled up at the moment, well in my other post this morning I said the sun was out, but now it is overcast and spitting rain, so who knows what the day is going to bring. Hope you all enjoy your day. Love Melxx

The two of us

For this layout I used some older Kaiser, Fancy Pants and my beloved Scenic Route pp's and fancy pants transparency, HSwapp sticker A2Z scraplets, and Pink Paislee chipboard. I had this idea in my head and this is how it came out, not much else to do yesterday but scrap with the rain all day, but sunshine here for the moment this morning. I just heard Rusty Pickle has now closed, wow some bad times out their but guess doors will open for others. Time for a big cleanup this morning Jan came over yesterday and we watched "Nights in Rodanthe" - Richard Gere is still gorgeous and "Jane Austin Book Club" both were good girly movies, Nate occupied himself by pulling out every toy from the room into the lounge and I said, I am watching these movies so go for it, so this morning this bomb site has to be cleaned up, well in the middle of the movie he was in the room and then ran out to grab the broom so I knew something was going on, I went in and well he had glitter all over the floor, lounge, himself and poor old Stanley so we did have to pause for interval at this stage. But we had a lovely day, I got to scrap and watch some good movies. I hope whatever you are all doing you have a wonderful day. Love Melxx

Artistic challenge blog entry

This is my entry for Artistic challenge this month, had to be Art Nouveau style, I wasn't sure with that one, had to use a cut out photo, this is the only one I felt I could do this with, flourishes and a halo. Once the challenge is set I usually stress a bit and then things seem to fall into place, a bit like any immediate "hard basket" thing. I used some of the gorgeous papers and embellishments I got from last months Noel Mingon kit. Nate and I are travelling to Walloon to see a friend who recently had a baby, so he gets to play with Cooper and his mum and I can catch up, I can nurse little Lucas and hopefully the rain will stay away, Nate will then come home have a sleep and I can scrap.....Yay! Well that is the plan, hope you all have a wonderful day. Love Melxx

Screen to Scrap March Entry

This is my entry for Screen to Scrap, you had to have a white and blue layout, Feet in the title and have penguins on the layout, so this photo of my old feet seemed appropriate to me, these are my favourite Corelli wedge shoes so I am glad I took this photo a while ago, hope you all have a great day, overcast and showery here again. Love the rain, but a little sun in between would be nice, I don't want much hey. Have a great day. Love Melxx

Black with 2 March layout

This is my entry for Black with 2 this month, Majority black with cream and burnt orange is the colors you needed to use, stitching and lace and a chipboard piece was the criteria, I used some older photos I have been meaning to scrap for ages and used the title "You know your a scrapper when you see this" with an arrow pointing to Nate's flower covered nappy. Just showed me how much he has grown, too quick, I hope you like the layout, needed some boost today, raining here all day and a little bored, played trains with Nate and he did some painting, but although I love the rain, I think I am motivated more when the sun is shining.

Challenge Heaven Word Challenge

This challenge you had to use 4 pp's, use the word "mummy" and "blue title" and my example comes with rather funny photos of Nate in socks, and no clothes (tasteful I think though) and playing his new electric organ, his music and singing isn't quite worthy of a talent quest but he sure has fun, this was a rather warm day, so not sure about the socks but guess this put him in the mood. I think he will laugh at his 21st party when I bring this one out.

A True Reader

A Photo of my little man, having a bit of choc and reading the morning paper, must have been interesting as he is pointing to something on the page, guessing it was probably a bike or a car, not the all ords index lol. He has a chocolate in his lap but as he doesn't eat much chocolate, he more enjoys just unwrapping them and leaving the wrappers and half eaten bits over the house, can anyone else relate. I had some old Upsy Daisy papers with the paisley's on, and I used Scenic Route Backgroud paper (gee I am going to miss this Company, I love their papers)and I actually painted the background around the photo frame but most of it eventually got covered. I mounted the photo onto corrugated cardboard and framed that with sass lass borders, gotta love the bottoms of the sass lass paper, comes in so handy, put some Heidi Swapp brown dot stickers in the corner and some of her acetate brown embellies a fancy pants flourish and a couple of flowers, the butterfly came in a RAK. I like the finished result although I started with a pic in front of me and it turned out absolutely nothing like it, but got me started anyways. Love to you all, Melxx

Adore

I did another layout for Amanda and I know she has seen it and likes it so I thought I would share it, her son has the cutest little smile and it wasn't until after I compared this layout to the other one I did for her I realised that they are similar but different colourings, co-incidence hey...Well it is overcast with showers predicted here today so looks like after I go and pick up some necessities from the supermarket, I am going to scrap today, all going to plan that is. Hope whatever you are doing today, you have a fantastic time with your families. Love Melxx

Beach dreams

I captured these gorgeous photos of Nate at the Redcliffe Lagoon last year on a trip away for the day with Col and Jan, he had a wonderful time, got so wasted I had to carry him back to the car and he slept all the way home. (actually I think I fell asleep in the back also). I love the way he is just watching people, the water and is in awe of his surroundings. I love showing him new things and watching his face, when Nate goes quiet you know he is taking it all in (you know - he has the man thing, cannot talk and take it all in at once). Going to get the sizzix out today and try some new things, Jan is coming down as she is feeling a little better - she is even walking down (she only lives 8 houses up the road) but she has been so isolated at home whilst she has been sick, she really wants to walk. Then after lunch Nate is having a sleep and then has a party at Lollipops for his friend Cooper who is 5. That starts at 5.30 - 8.30pm and is a disco party, can you believe a 3 year old is attending his first disco, I think I was 14 before I went to the school discos. Life has certainly changed, the things he has seen and places he has been too, blow me away, they certainly have it different today than I did. Hope you all enjoy a wonderful day whatever you are doing, catch up with you on your blogs soon.

Buddies

Nate had a playdate in January and a friend brought her children around to play, Thomas is a yr younger than Nate but they had a ball together, he is a rough little tiger just like Nate is when he gets going. For this I had some cardboard wrapping off some product I had bought and I used my versamark water stamp pad to stamp the letters on then cut around them, I think it looks good. The journalling spot is also the packaging. A simple layout but I like the result. Hope you all have a fantastic day. Love Melxx

60 today

My good friend Jan had a surprise 60th b-b-q at Kholo gardens this day and well it was hard to keep it a surprise as she is very good at picking up on things, her husband and I arranged to take Nate to the gardens for a picnic, she seemed to believe it but I think she somehow knew. We had a great day, Nate took his bike, we played coits and totem tennis, ate way too much and all her family was their to help her celebrate.

No tea for me tonight mum

If Nate doesn't have his afternoon nap, by tea time this is what I find, he just falls asleep at the dinner table (around 5ish) so by 1.30pm I coax him into the bed after his bath and after I read 6,000,000 books to him and play with his book with the cat puppet in it, he tells Elliott the cat what he did for the morning, and then he goes off like a rock, mind you on hot days, I feel like staying in the air-con with him, but the couple of hours I get free is when I do my scrapping, or cooking the dogs their dinners, or house cleaning, or blogging. I used a cut out picture, something I never usually do, and added all sorts of ribbon coming out from him, another thing I never usually do. I hope you like it and have a great day. Love Melxx

Just for me layout

Some more of Nate mowing, I just love how he awakes everyday and wants to mow, we have a non motorised push mower too that he loves, but he just mows till he drops with exhaustion, I know when this is because he says "Mum you go now", isn't he adorable.

Photo and Layout swap with Amanda

I did this layout for my good friend Amanda Taylor, her little boy has the cutest smile so I cropped this photo and enlarged it, I used Rose Moka, Bo Bunny, Pink Paislee PP's, Fancy pants embellishments, and I just hope she likes it, it is fun to do someone else a layout, but also daunting at the same time. Went to the Handmade expo, took Nate to Granny and Grampsy's and then he had a big sleep, terribly hot here tonight, Bewitched (the movie) is on here, I hope you all are having a great day. Love Melxx

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