Summer Fun.. Chloe

This is a special day in Australia. We are celebrating ANZAC Day which means we pause to think of our diggers who fought for the freedom of our wonderful land in numerous incursions in other lands. We have our dawn memorial sevices and many return soldiers and current serving members and their families march in parades around the country. We think of our family members who made the ultimate sacrifice and we are also thankful for those who returned We thank them. We appreciate them. LEST WE FORGET.

On a lighter note Scrap the Girls challenge this month is to  scrap a girls page in a boy theme. It feels like you are doing something left handed. It sounded easy. Mmmmm.... only sounded easy. I have chosen a blue theme( blue for boys) but I have added dashes of pink.I have also deliberately chosen pink themed photo's ( pink for girls) to give me the balance I was after.

I loved these photo's and in the end enjoyed creating the page.I hope you enjoy my page.
Happy Scrapping.   Heather B.

Forever Beautiful

I have just spent an enjoyable Sunday scrapping and chatting the day away. This is a great way to relax and exchange some good ideas and also share some of  your stash. The page I was creating was looking ok but just needed that extra something and lo and behold my friend said "why dont you try this". And it turned out to be just right and the catalyst to spur me on for the rest of the page. Scrapping friends are special.
This is the page I created. Scrap 365 have an interesting challenge at the moment with lots of layering. I enjoyed this because I love using leftover pieces of patterned paper and mixing different ranges. I love the flowers that I have used. I have been waiting to use them on just the right page and this is the one.

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I hope you enjoy my page.

Happy Scrapping.

Heather B.

Our Favourite Boy

While blog hopping I was thrilled to find the Scrap 365 blogsite.This  site is based in England and it made me think about being here in Australia with temperatures at the moment of approximately 40 degrees while in England it is freezing with snow storms.I am scrapping with the airconditioner on and not venturing out until the evening when...no guarantees...the temperature may have dropped a little.
They have a lovely challenge with three photo's. I love being able to do a page with multiple photo's because it tells more of the story of the photo. Sometimes it is hard to choose just one photo when you have a lovely series of  the same time when the photo was taken. When I first started scrapping I always did double pages to be able to  use a number of photo's and looking back it is very nice to look at the variety within the one page.

Anyhow enough rabbiting on. I hope you like my page and my version of the sketch.

Happy Scrapping.  Heather B :)

Rubber Ducky

Wow! I can't believe how long it has been since I last blogged. Life has taken a few twists and turns but hopefully I will now be able to keep  a regular date with my blog. In my Autumn blog I was waging a war with the parrots in my almond tree. Well suffice to say I think that this round was well and truly won by the birds. I think I have the fattest and most well fed parrots in the neighbourhood, but they are really beautiful and cloourful.Ah well, next year I will have to try harder. If any one has some good ideas let me know.

The team at White with One have a December challenge and the colour to use is banana with white.
I love yellow tones and had a lovely photo of Chloe that I thought would work well with this theme.
I used yellow paint for the masking and stamping and overlayed this with more stamping and then added a flower spray and some twine. I really love using twine. I also added some bling.

 

 I hope you enjoy my page and maybe get some ideas.

Happy Scrapping. Heather B

Cute'cumber.

The challenge at Kraft It Up for August is "Your Own Style". Well that got me thinking ..what is my style? I love lots of white space. I love flowers. I love machine stitching and I love my grandchildren. Also I like the photo to be the eyecatcher on the page.  Apart from that I'm not too sure that I have a particular style. Having said that my friends will often say " I saw a particular paper or embellishment and immediately thought of you". So maybe there is some sort of style there within my many pages.
So. I have done  a page of my grand daughter and everything I did I questioned, "is that my style?" In the end I thought what the heck and just did what I thought looked good and I think in the end that this is my style.
A Tip: When I machine stitch on my page I often put black thread in the bobbin and the  colour required  for the page on the top. This way the black creates a shadow in the stitching holes and makes it stand out more.
The title "cute'cumber" was  a suggestion from DD1. Which I thought was a great play on words.

Thanks for looking. I hope you enjoy my page.
Heather B.

Let's Explore Autumn.

Autumn this year has been beautiful. My almond tree is the first blossom out and this year I am going to try and beat the parrots to them. I have a plan. I hope it works. I like to encourage the birds in my garden, the blue wrens,the parrots, the finches and the honey eaters. But I also like my home grown fruit. So we need to draw a line in the sand, it will be interesting to see who is the victor.
I had these lovely photo's of Chloe taken at the Mt Lofty Botanical gardens in Autumn. This was her first experience of Autumn. She loves the outdoors. I enjoyed fussy cutting the leaves and the little critters amongst them.
I decided to use it for the The Bird Is The Word challenge.

I hope you enjoy my page.
Heather B.

Celebrate Turning 2.

The challenge on the Bird is the Word blog is to use the word Celebrate and use their sketch as well if you would like. I have based my page on the sketch and I have used some lovely photo's of Noah on his second birthday.I loved the little cars on this My little Shoebox paper and because Noah is so attracted to all things car and any thing mechanical I thought it was a good theme. He will walk around with a lid off a bottle and pretend it is a steering wheel and that he is driving it. He always brings a smile to your face.

I hope you enjoy my page.
Heather B