Cherished

Flourish with a Bling - FWAB's challenge for the month of May is to use buttons and bling.  I've created a vintage page with a very special photo of my step-father (my dad) and his mum.  My dad passed away in 2008, he was the most amazingly gentle, quiet and considerate man and we were so lucky to have him as our dad.

Products Used:

Paper:  Prima Life Time Collection

FWAB:  Pearl Bling

Dylusions:  Border Stamp

Buttons:  Assorted, including some vintage

Green Tara:  Flowers  

The Trinket Track:  Alice in Wonderland Postcard

Ingvild Bolme:  Ink

Vintage Key

Making Memories:  Bookmark

Twine

Brads

Bow

His Mum

The challenge at Sketches with a Twist provides you with a sketch and the twist this month was to include something about mothers or at least have a mother on the page.  This LO is of my daughter and her son.

Products Used:

Kaisercraft paper

Flourish with a Bling:  Flourish, cut to suit

Charms Creations: Star

Prima Marketing:  Flowers, wooden heart and butterfly

The Craft Queen:  Seam Binding

Purple flower from Belinda Scott

Martha Stewart:  Scallop Border Punch

Versa Color Inks

The Trinket Track:  Mini Stars with Gems

American Craft Thickers:  Two different alphas

Twine and Lace from stash

Pion Designs Giveaway

Pion Design  is offering a fabulous giveaway so why not pop over and have a peek.  I can't get a picture but you can view their website by clicking the above link.

First Year at School

For National Scrapbooking Day at Authentique.  The challenge was to use something already created with the wonderful Authentique papers, I love them because of the thickness and texture of them, you really have to try them if you haven't used them already.

As you can see from this layout they have die cuts and also pages that can be cut and used as embellishments - the denim pocket as shown here.

Mother's Day Stall

This one's for the #69 challenge over at CSI.  

It's about my six and a half year old grandson and his plan for the school Mother's Day Stall.

Now for the journaling, I wanted to share this because it is so sweet coming from a little boy just for his mum.

My handwriting is awful but others say we should include it from time to time - my mind goes quicker than my hand, it explains the scribble!!!

My Scheme:  

Navy around the page

Turquoise Green on the crossword and the CSI co-ordinates

Cardboard colour on the photo matting

Bright Warm Red on photo matting and from the co-ordinates

Light Gray on the co-ordiantes

Mr Evidence:

Houses, Number Accents, the 'key' to our heart as something unexpected, circle graph as an ambellishment.

My Testimony:

Top 10 List, circular spot 'inner glow'

Happy Days

The challenge over at 123 challenge is to use the colour red, the word Happy and Balloons.

I've used:

Bo Bunny:My Family Is 

ScrapFx Balloons and Cloud Template

ChipboardTitle and Arrow

Kaisercraft Background Stamps

Ranger Liquid Pearls on the balloons and title, Distress Ink on background

Kindy Glitz on the title and arrow

Versa Color on the clouds

Twine on balloon

A Happy Scrapper

I'm a happy scrapper, I was on the watch list at CSI with my Silly Nanna layout, 

see previous post.