I Remember

I bring you another page which incorporates two challenges. I am seriously addicted to challenges atm!

First up is the ScrapFIT Workout #73, where you had to use the title 'I Remember'. The day I read about the challenge Chloe was getting into everything!! And I thought I Remember when you couldn't move, those were the days... So I snapped a few pictures and made this page:

The second challenge is a Kaisercraft Saturday Sketch August #4:

The page is made from almost all Kaiser products including:
Save the Date - Collectables
Miss Match - Bingo Cards
Konstuckt - 6" Paper Pad
Technologic - Keyboard Sticker Sheet
Timeless - Type Sticker Sheet
Mini Alpha - White & Choc
Oh and there are two PP Purple star buttons and twine.

Nicole
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Nice 2 meet You!

So considering Chloe just celebrated her first birthday, I thought I should get my butt in gear and finally scrap photos from her literal 'birth' day.
This page is about Chloe meeting her two grandmothers and great aunt still in the delivery room just hours after her birth.

I began the page using a sketch over on the Stuck?! blog which looks like this:

It ended up a little bit different to the sketch, but I think it is still there.

This page was made from only Bella Blvd products. I love there stuff, its all so fun! Most is from the first (and still only) paper pack I ever purchased, Bella Blvd Baby Girl. I have had it in my stash since I started scrapping but it collected dust because I was kinda scared to use it incase I ruined it. Silly I know.

Each photo spot is only attached by the hand stitching so that they can hinge open. I plan to ask each of the lovely ladies to write a little something about meeting Chloe for the first time and I'll put it under their respective photo.

I used some 'baby pink' paint and added some hearts plus a baby nappy pin, there were a lot more but the photos ended up covering them..

Still have many more pages of Chloes early life to do and I've already completed over 40 pages. This is going to be one very documented little girl.
Nicole
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Instant Happiness

Hello everyone.
After the worst week of my life, my bubba is finally on the mend and back to her cheeky self.
On the weekend Brenden and I took in turns having a bit of personal time out and predictably I made a scrapbook page during mine.

 Instant Happiness

This page was inspired by a kaisercraft Saturday sketch.

August #1

And made entirely from kaisercraft products:
Chanteuse Collection - Vivo
Lil' Primrose Collection - Frock
Lil' Primrose Collection - High Tea
Flourish Pack - Flourish Hearts
Flourish Pack - Nappy Pins
Miss Match - Bingo Cards
Mini Alpha Stickers - White & Choc
Alpha Chipboard #3

LOVE

Hi there!
How are we all today? Unfortunately my beautiful bubba isn't the best. She had a fantastic birthday and weekend but picked up a really big bad bug! She isn't her bright bubbly self atm but still manages to smile every now and then!
Today I share a layout with lots of dimension (well for me at least)

For the inspiration of this page I must give credit to Sketchbook365 for a sketch on their blog, a bit for Stacey at PP who also used a PP button to anchor a twine banner to her page and the rest to the 'sweet like sugar' banner title I had in my stash.

To add to the banner look and lift the page a bit, I curled up the edges of the three banner bits and used foam adhesive on the photos. To try and make the photos stand out I matted them onto folded white paper and curled the tips of it too.

I took the opportunity from the white matted paper to hide my journalling under one of the photos (really hate my hand writing and the journalling was not super important)
In case you were curious, the main back paper actually began its life looking like this:

I loved the 'LOVE' but wanted to add some flowers around the bottom without covering it at all. Solution: fussy cut the letters out and throw them up the top instead.

I also matted the letters in the backing colour and used some glue dots to lift them ever-so-slightly.
Hope you like the page and hope my little princesses is back like that real soon!!
Nicole XoXoX

Picture Perfect!

Hey hi fellow scrappers!
Apologies for my lengthy absence, I have been working a bit lately (as in, income earning work) and just haven't had the time to drop by and say hi!
Today I bring you another bright and colourful layout which uses both a sketch challenge and recipe challenge.

The sketch challenge comes from the wonderful in-person shop scrapville and looks like the below;

While the recipe challenge is from the online embellishment store Purple Pumpkin and requires:

Paint - Yellow and pink

Use a Button - Yellow PP heart button

Add some twine - weaved into the boarder punch

Include some fussy cutting - the blue bird and little pink flower with leaves

Spray ink - green, blue and yellow (to colour the flower)

A flower - green PP resin flower

A doiley - pink top right corner

Use two different alphas for your title - tick.

Hope you like it and see you after all the craziness of Chloes first birthday is over!
Nicole.
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BARGAIN!

Reading the title you may think I have another great sale or giveaway, sorry to disappoint but no that is the title of my latest page.

BARGAIN!

The photos come from a family shopping trip when Brenden sat Chloe in a big display of 'pillow pets' at 6 moths old. This kinda stuff happens all the time with Brenden around.

Again, it is a sketch challenge from the fantastic embellishment shop Purple Pumpkin. Each month they have a great sale and this month I snatched up a Girl Lucky Dip bag and can't wait to see what will be inside!

It has been a while since I've created a brightly coloured layout, so seeing as these photos remind me of the fun silly things that Brenden does with his bubba, I wanted to go full on colour!

The FUN sticker was actually an accident, I was holding the sticker over to see if it would work and got too close because I couldn't get it back again. I am happy with it but I would have tried to avoid the crease.

Once I had finished the page and stick it all down, I decided it needed something else. All the clean edges annoyed me, so I took a zig pen and doodled around everything to mess it up a bit.

I probably shouldn't admit this on the internet (and Mandy you'll love this).
I had finished the page and photoed it and began to type up my post. For some reason a little red line kept showing up under my title, go away little line.
Then I looked back at my page and the photos of it.
Oh Shit!
I spelled the title wrong.
Luckily I was able to get the sticker off with out ripping the paper and did some extra doodling to hide the wrong outline. Thank god for spell check!
Anyone else done something silly like that?

Nicole
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1+1=3

Well hi there...
A new layout to share with you today.

1+1=3

For the first time I have included photos of Brenden and I prior to Chloe. I thought it would be nice for when Chloe looks back through her albums to see what Mummy and Daddy used to look like.

The idea for this page came from Crafty Sketches monthly challenge,

 

The sketch having a love heart around two photos and a third outside, instantly made me think of the '1+ 1 =' of Brenden and I adding to have Chloe.

It took me a while to decide what the equation was going to equal, 1+1=1 with a picture of Chloe by herself, 1+1= You, 1+1= Family, 1+1= Perfection, etc.

My original plan was to make the heart out of lots of quilling. Quilled hearts and flowers. But I got lazy and when I saw the heart and 'LOVE' tapes in a spotlight store, I new I had found my replacement. One quilled heart still made its way onto the page though. When tidying my scrap-crap, I found the string and wanted to give the heart dimension so threw it on too plus a heart button.

I added a primary school rhyme which I thought appropriate as journalling;

Seeing as Brenden and I aren't married, I did toy with the idea of changing the words in the rhyme but decided to keep it as is and just cross out the word marriage as a subtle stab.

Facing Forward

Hey hi.
Back again today with another layout using Scrapvilles Monthly Pack:

This time I wanted to create an layout which was not in line with the beachy feel of the paper range, so I dug up a photo I had been trying to scrap for ages and so determined to make it work.
The photo is of Chloe in her baby seat the first time we turned it around, she was so happy that she could see us and the world while in the car now and made it alot easier to keep her entertained on the long trip.

So I actually thought I had finished this layout, even had photographed it and written the blog post, before I looked back at it and decided to change/add to it a bit. The first take looked like this:

Facing Forward

The second take was only a little different. I fought so desperately hard to try and bring the hints of red out the first time around, but just couldn't do it, I think I like the photo too much and the hint of colour it has. Although second time I brought it in just a little with the tulle photo edge.

Improvement? 
(minus the photo quality not being as good)

Oh did I mention, surprise surprise, this is a sketch challenge layout. This time from the Creative Scrappers blog, which offer a new sketch each week.

The sketch has been turned 90degrees to the left. I used the detail behind the photo in the sketch as an arrow with the chevron wood like paper (loved it!) and kept the arrows going under the title and randomly around the background.

Nicole
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Cornulla Beach

Hey guys and girls!
I'm back, did you miss me? How dare life get in the way of scrapbooking =P
Today I bring you a page that once again is a challenge entry (seems to be all I'm doing these days, damn inspiring challenges!) but not a sketch challenge.
This challenge is from a favourite of mine, Scrapville. While I was on my little break back in my country home town, a dropped by the Scrapville store and picked up a 'Monthly Pack'. As the name suggests, each month the lovely ladies put together a pack of scraping goodies for you to create anything with. And if you can make something using only what is in the pack (exception of ink, misting and large alpha) email it in and best piece wins the next pack free! Yepee!

The Pack

This paper features 5 fantastic double sided papers from Authentique, 4 cardstock papers, Authentique alpha sticker sheet, 3 brads, 2 buttons, chipboard bit, pin, some flowers and 3 lengths of trims.
And I created...

1st time at Cornulla Beach

Unfortunately the page doesn't seem to photograph well... Form these papers I couldn't go past beach photos and lucky for me Chloe had just been to Cornulla Beach for the first time just days ago.
I split the page into three sections, the sand, the water and the sky.

A did a spot of paper piecing and inking in this layout. The sand section has a paper pieced sand castle and tiny foot prints which came from a boarder punch I have in anticipation of Chloe learning to walk. All the bits in this section are inked around the edges so that they can be seen and to give dimension.

The sky section features a paper pieced kite using the ribbon and white ink blotches to add subtle clouds, I did try tearing some of the white cardstock but made them stand out too much.

The sky also has the title in it, I wish I had positioned the letters differently but they stick quick.

The water section was created by layering pieces of torn paper trying to give it waves and dimension. It was almost a shame to tear up these papers but it exposed the white core to add to the wave effect.

Do you like it? Let me know and come back tomorrow to see another layout using this great pack.
Nicole
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More Giveaway Goodness

Who doesn't like the chance to win stuff?!?!
Thats why when I see a get giveaway happening I like to let you guys know about it so that you can get aboard and have the chance to win too.
This one is happening over at Purple Pumpkin, a scrapbooking embellishment shop that provide fantasticly cute buttons that I just need to get and also run an awesome blog with one of my favourite things, a sketch challenge.
They are currently having a give away with one of four lucky dip embellishment packs up for grabs, which can also be purchased on there up coming sale night (the 27th of July)
So not only is there a give way, but there is a sale too!! OMG! Yay!
Why not go have a look, just don't win my prize =P
Nicole
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