Birthday Boy

I love making my girly layouts for my girly girls :-) But how fun is it to branch out once in a while and do something quite different with your scrapbooking style (which for me means making a boy layout!)

Luckily I've got an obliging nephew who's well used to being behind the camera, and of course a family celebration for his 1st birthday means plenty of photos taken that require scrapping!

I'm really digging the challenges over at Scrap-it-Lah recently... they're just my style. Take the current one for instance which says I must include 'at least 6 layers, stamping and journal tags'. Well that could describe pretty much any of my layouts lately! But I'm entering this one :-)

Love the idea of using at least 6 layers, especially when I'm trying to use up my stash! So there's lots of bits and bobs on here from the Studio Calico Boardwalk kit. I've stamped the 'toilet man' in the top right as well as those round frames on the Pink Paislee mistables. And tucked in some American Crafts journal spots around the place as well.

HHHhhhmmmm.... makes me want to do more boy-scrapping!

In the Beginning

I'm constantly amazed at the way my children's minds work. They surprise me with saying the funniest things as they try and figure out the way the world works.

I'm not sure if it's because Munchy thinks her Daddy is really old (!!) or if she was getting confused about the Creation stroy, or where she got this idea from, but out of nowhere she asks him, "When did God make you? Were you the first person God made?" What a funny little Munchkin she is :-)

I cracked open my Boardwork kit from Studio Calico and made this layout to document these crazy everyday moments. I made sure to add some book paper, fussy cutting and hand-stitching with embroidery thread because that's the criteria for this month's Scrap-it-Lah challenge.

You know I always add sewing to my layouts - if for nothing else I feel more confident that my pages will hold together! And whilst I love the look of hand-stitching on pages I'm generally too lazy to do it myself. So thanks to this challenge for pushing me in the right direction :-)

And I couldn't resist this happy smiling bright and fun photo of Munchy which captures her personality perfectly. Yes, I'm still working my way through a bunch of holiday snaps! More coming soon I promise.

Come back on Monday for a real treat. Scapz.biz is holding thier very first blog hop and I'm up first!! There'll be plenty of inspiration and a tonne of prizes along the way so make sure to mark it on your calander.

Spare a minute?

Another day..... another challenge blog entry! And this one was right up my alley (pun intended!!)

My fellow DT'er from Once Upon a Sketch Helen Tilbury is a Guest Designer at Scrap-It-Lah this month and she has issued the best challenge :-)

Create your own mixed media background, using printed paper as a base.  Be sure to include at least 3 different paint colours in whatever effects you fancy. Also ensure that you have at least twelve words on your layout, which can include the title, date and the journaling. How fun hey? The challenge ends September 30th and they have a gorgeous Studio Calico RAK up for grabs so I thought it was only fitting that I use up a few more of my old SC kit bits and pieces for this page.

Of course I just revelled in the idea of creating my own background and went to town with a whole rainbow of colours and a Pink Paislee stencil. Then added more drips and splats and....... general fun-ness!!

Then I cracked open the typewriter and started typing my thoughts until all the space was filled. I didn't really want to make this a page just about bowling - there's only so much you can write about that hey? So instead I made it a letter to Munchy about facing obstacles head on and such things.

I'm actually enjoying this page so much I'm thinking of scraplifting myself. Have you ever done that? I just picked up the Tim Holtz Picket Fence distress stain so I might try experimenting with that :-)