Girls will be girls

Todays layout has been made to share with the lovely ladies at Scrapping Everyday Miracles.  The theme this month is of course 'Love' and here I've incorporated the use of their layout sketch with the theme.  Now that my sister Dena lives in Australia she doesn't see much of her family still living here in NZ.  Here are some lovely photos taken with her with daughter Tessa, grand daughter Zana & niece Anaree.

 

I've used paper from my stash and grunged it up with corrugated card & TH inks.  Doilies underlay the stunning photo's, then random flowers & a Dusty Attic Corner Flourish #1 DA0628 (which I just gave a light coat of gesso) finishes the page.

Thanks for visiting, have a happy, scrappy day.

Adorable

Believe it or not with the weather being sooo hot, I'm finding it more pleasant to be inside crafting rather than outside doing other stuff.  Oh dear how sad . . . not.  That's given me the chance to make a start with the monthly challenges starting with this gorgeous page I've made for Scrapping Everyday Miracles.  The monthly theme is "Friends Forever", so I've incorporated this theme with their monthly LO sketch as well (2 entries here I think, hehe).

 

Son Troy adores his pets, and they adore each other.  Sadly Troy & his partner have moved to live in Australia, so has left his pets to live here with us.  Luckily the animals have settled into our lives well.  When Troy does come home to visit they all spend a lot of time together as if he never went away. 

 

 

I found the embellishments fitted better by using the sketch turned once clockwise.  I started with an Authentique paper which I  spritzed with a bit of glimmer mist firstly (crème de chocolate & coffee shop), inked a few random patches with a honeycomb stencil, then stuck on a bit of dry wall tape.  Background completed it was easy to place these gorgeous photos, then compliment with these flowers and painted Dusty Attic chipboard, which I softened by placing on top of mini doily's and muslim.  DA pieces used were DA0941 Adorable & DA0868 Birds on a Barb Wire.

 

It is much easier making a page when you have such lovely photos to work with I find.  Thank you for visiting my page, thank you in advance for all your comments. 

 

***WINNER***

 

Angelic . . . . NOT

Today I've had my teeth into another layout.  Here are two little rascals, Jack and Harry -  my English girlfriend's grandsons.  This photo is a real miracle as little Harry cannot sit still for more than 2 seconds, and I am told big brother Jack insists on poking his tongue out for photos.  Here they are posing for their Christmas photo, so I hope I have done the photo justice.

 

Here I used two of the same photo, the 1st in colour and the 2nd black & white.  I started by distressing my Kaisercraft paper, then started my layers.  I used old music paper, burlap, drywall tape & muslim under the photos, then added lots of handmade burlap roses, random flowers from my stash, all on top of a lovely little doily.  I've also used lots of  Dusty Attic chippies, DA0729 Branches & Berries, DA0476 Mini words #2, DA0435 Decorative Flourish, which have been finished with gesso, paint, texture paste, stickles & glossy accents.  I've finished it all off with some pearls and charms.

 

 

This is the Dusty Attic monthly sketch I have followed.  I will be entering this layout into the following challenges:

 

Dusty Attic - monthly sketch layout

Artfullcrafts - christmas layout    ****WINNER****

Lets Craft & Create - lets celebrate (xmas)

SEM - Christmas

 

Thank you for visiting, I hope all my friends in Britain like what I've done with their precious boys.  I hope you all have a very happy and safe Christmas.