'Dear Santa' Scrapbook Layout

Im not normally one to do Christmas in July, but for my next workshop, we will be scrapping our Christmas photos. I have created this one to scrap Christmas morning photos, but it could be used to scrap a Santa photo or a school Christmas concert.

 

I love Santa falling down the chimney. This image has been created using punches and my husband's sketching ability for Santa's sack. There is lots of daubering to give the image shading and definition. It should be fun to create! Oh and not to forget the Envelope Board Punch to create our letter to Santa.

Merry Christmas!

This year I made a Santa Sleigh layout as my Christmas gift to my lovely scrapping ladies. Here it is, using the Top Note die to make the sleigh out of Stampin' Up! glitter red paper. The stars are punched out of Stampin' Up! silver glitter paper and my new Chevron punch made a small debut as well.

 

Hope you like! And of course, Merry Christmas!

 

 

 

Modern Melody Layout 2

This is my distressed layout, very different from the layout I posted yesterday, but using the same paper pack Modern Melody.

 

I love the crumpled distressed look and think it really suits a boy layout. What I really LOVE about this layout, is it is so easy to match it to your photos by just changing the background 12 x 12 colour. I have used Cherry Cobbler here, but any colour would be fine. Turn the newspaper print DSP over and it is a black background with a vanilla polka dot, making the layout even more versatile.

 

So, here finally, is Ben's 2012 Book Week photos scrapped. DONE!

'World Spectacular' Layout

Next fortnight's layout uses Stampin' Ups! new DSP World Spectacular. The papers are just gorgeous and this is the layout I came up with using three of the papers out of the pack. I've matched up the Scallop Circle punch and the Scallop Circle die with these papers.

 

I think I might scrap my son's soccer presentation photos.

Thursday Night Workshop 31st May 2012, 'Oakvale Farm'

The inspiration for this workshop is Oakvale Farm @ Bobs Farm. I tried to work with earthy colours and ended up with So Saffron, Old Olive, Chocolate Chip with a little Cherry Cobbler and Night of Navy thrown in.

I wanted the layout to have lots of room for lots of photos and I hope I have accomplished this.

Just Boy Stuff

I bought 'Frightful Sight'. YUP! When Stampin' Ups! catalogue came out last September, it was the LAST designer series paper pack I was planning on buying. But now I have it, I really love it.

Here is my first layout I made with it (and I have to tell you I CASEd a very cool card layout from Carolyn Bennie and used it as an embellishment on my page. When I saw what she did, I just loved it and made the layout around it.

Im not one for distressing, but now I've completed the page, I wish I'd distressed the paper even more.

This layout would suit halloween, nature, picnic, camping, playing in the garden, at the park, there are heaps of ways to use it.

P.S. I think I've talked hubby into a new camera for my birthday... Only 4 months to wait!

Cheaper Than Therapy Submission # 13

Here is my submission for # 13. There was no sketch remember, but we had to follow certain guidelines. I initially had in mind photos from the zoo, but Rach had guessed I was doing my photos from our Fathers Day weekend at Muscle Car Masters @ Easter Creek, what a top idea! So, zoo photos have gone on the back-burner and this is what I came up with.

I choose Baja Breeze, Cherry Cobler & More Mustard and I love this combination. I also got to use Stampin' Ups new Stamp Set 'Need for Speed'. Here it is:

Be sure to Blog Hop over to Rach and Adele's websites and see what they came up with for this challenge.

Cheaper Than Therapy Challenge # 3 Submission!

Here is my submission for this week's challenge. I hope to use photos of my messy two painting at home when they were little tots, hence the title 'Messy Monsters'.  I've added Crumb Cake cardstock to the mix of colours, to allow the little fellas to show up a bit better. Be sure to have a look at Adele and Rachael's blogs to see what inspiration their monsters gave to them!