HANGING OUT ON THE DECK

I am trying to get an album completed for my husbands 50th Birthday which is in 5 weeks - so all many of the current pages are all about him!

Sketch #29 over at My Scraps & More Sketches

 

worked really well for these photos

 

This is Jeff and his family visiting their Aunty Eileen in Auckland in 1970.

EASTER SHOW

Gosh where has time gone - I really don't know what happened to May but sure enough I have turned my calender over to June and I am now getting back to my craft desk.

I have just down loaded the current sketches for my favourite blogs and so let my blogging begin again.

Over at My Scraps & More Sketches they have some great sketches - so here we go:

Sketch #27

 

This is my take on the above sketch:

 

This is my husband as a 4 year old with his two older sisters, his Mum and ? at the Easter Show in Wellington

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SCRAPMUCH MINI BLOG

Over at ScrapMuch - may-4th-national-scrapbooking-day-blog I have commented on the "mini" blog, liked them on Facebook and here is my project for National Scrapbooking Day

A bit of card making - sometimes it is nice to have a quick break from scrap booking to get a few cards made.
Thanks for viewing and Happy National Scrapbook day - now I am off to work on the great sketch for ScrapMuch
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ROCK POOL FUN

Isn't it amazing what you can do with some offcuts of DSP and a sketch?

This great sketch at Lets get sketchy is a great example of just that:

Firstly I had to spin the sketch around and then it was sorting through some scraps on my desk and ........

here is my take on a fun sketch.  I am really pleased with the results.

DREAM

The week 3 sketch at Scrap Much

helped me with some inspiration to scrap these photos of my daughter

I have flipped the sketch around (something is have been doing a lot of lately) and it all fell into place from there.

I love the vibrancy of these papers from American Crafts.

FLYIN' FOX

The colour challenge at Scrap Much

 

worked perfectly for this photo of Monique on the Flyin' fox.

 The colours in her top are basically the colour range except for the grey and to add this I used some "flicked mist", grey and white twine in the button and the lettering is a silver grey.

So simple but so effect.

SUNDAY BEST

 Sketch #89 over at Inspired Blueprints

worked really well .....

....with cute photo of my husband and his sisters all dressed up and ready to go off to church. 

I flipped the sketch as this worked better with my photo.

COCKTAILS @ 8?

For challenge #24 at My scraps and more sketches

 

I had fun......

 ....doing this layout - other than the black matting behind the photos this layout is done with two pieces of cardstock - very vanilla and the DSP Rustic Track from FabScraps which I used both sides of.  I also did the title from this paper.  The cute wee bettles co-ordinated with Monique's Jacket.

I also flipped this sketch for these photos - even if I say so myself - I am really the way it all came together.

UPON A ROCK

Week 4 sketch at Scrap Much is a great sketch with lots of elements to it .......

 

.... and was fun to create.

with a splash of paint here and flick mist there....  Then i found bit of netting and some buttons and bits 'n bobs to go on the net to look like a fishing net.

THE BEST THINGS IN LIFE....

I have been having a bit of a blitz on getting my daughters 21st album finished - I want a change of subject!.

So checked out a few of my favourite blogs - downloaded the sketches and off I went.

Scrap Much have this great double layout

 

 It was just the layout I needed for these photos of Monique taken at Eastbourne Beach - these were taken by my sister one day when she was babysitting the kids for us.