REWIND

This Yummy Yummy range of papers and goodies absolutely caught my eye - I think I bought one of everything. "Grannybena" is one of my favorite layouts. :-) Mist by Smooch!

Magic Mount/ Foam Tape, whatever you want to call it - I LOVE IT!

Letters - American Crafts

I wrote that a couple of years ago and I must have been feeling crabby about some comment or another I no doubt received in regards to having four boys. Some people act like I have done this to personally vex and irritate them! Sigh :-)

This is bad but in 31 years of parenting (my kids combined ages, does that even make sense? 13+11+5+3) I have NEVER attended a school swimming lesson or carnival ... bad mother yep I agree, but even worse it means no photos so I set this one up and am thrilled Luke has a record of what happened.

PRAIRIE LANE

The cake is always chocolate as its the only recipe I have in my head and I couldn't be bothered doing the whole "have we got such and such to go in the cake" thing! Brad by Heidi Swapp

Simon now aged 3.5 saw this one today and said "is that Andy?", "no, it's you", "I don't want to look like that!!!" and pointed to his mouth, I said "you were asleep" and he sort of perked up really!

OK, so cut out a framey matt, I just draw lines in pencil on the back and then use my paper trimmer, or you can use a craft knife, then scrape the edges inside and out with the blade of the scissors to rough them up, then add a touch of white paint but dont overdo it, when the paint is dry, please be patient then wrap ribbons round the edge, pop the whole shooting match up on magic mount :-)

I really think you have to hand stitch buttons on - finish what you start, glue dots just don't have the same look! BTW some of those negative letters were ON PURPOSE! I know! :-)

Oh Prairie Lane, these colours absolutely thrill me - chocolate brown with blues, really you cant go wrong with that. Well maybe you could if you added green or something, but luckily I didn't!

PRAIRIE LANE

If I may say so myself, I do love this sweet little layout - it's very very me! Simple, cute, using everyday photos. And look how I concealed Simon's rather bright trousers! (They look cute in other brighter layouts LOL). I chopped them off on one of the photos, but I really wanted the colouring book and the textas in the layout so I covered them up with one of the gorgeous tags and a little button I had floating around. I also added some spare brown ric rac.

EMPIRE

He is beautiful - What I love most about scrapping is celebrating my wonderful family and all that I love about them.

Buddies? Maybe not. Yesterday at soccer training, these guys were fighting! Oh dear! :-(

I am very sentimental about these layouts as they were my first effort on Cheryl-Lee's design team! I'll never forget this - I was up at the shop (no kids) and somehow I asked her "have you ever thought of having someone do some pages to sell some products" and she said "it's never really worked out" and I said "it might work with me" and with that she pulled out the ENTIRE range of new stuff for Empire and Prairie Lane and sent me home! I was so excited and I was really pleased with the results.

One of my focuses in this 6 page project was to use the lettering DIFFERENTLY - showcasing how what at first glance could be quite a feminine "floaty" type range can work for grungey boy layouts, right out to baby boy layouts and of course Mum with little boy layouts!  I sanded the letters, or I left them plain, or I sewed over them. And I love using the negatives (ahem when I ran out of e's as always! hehehe)

OH MY GIDDY AUNT!

OK This is it! I am totally inspired to get this blog a hoppin'!!! Two years is long enough. Plan is I am going to photograph a great big bunch of layouts and put them on here for people to admire! Awesome :-)

REALLY WANT TO START BLOGGING!

Ok, well, I am back, found my way here quite easily actually. Now I wonder how you put a photo in here?

ENTHUSIASM

Well, given the grand success of my post back in March, I thought I would follow it up right now, hey its not September so it has not been 6 months!