Scrap the Boys

Just scraped this one in by the skin of my teeth.
Love my (just turned 12 years old) boy and his expressions. He watches a lot of You Tube and I guess that's where he picks up his lingo.
I love that pp by Crate Paper so much but found it overwhelming for a background so I matched it with classic white cardstock. I made the little speech bubbles on Word and cut them out by hand. It was a bit of work but worth it to remember all his words. I will probably add more as I hear him say it.

Stuck Sketches Nov 1st

Another great sketch for some brand new photos. Ben has started a new hobby - go karting. I took these photos of him on his first day of practice. He needs to get his lap times to under a minute to qualify for a rookie licence and then he can start racing. I'm so excited for him. He looks awesome in that racing get up.
There's a lot of journaling that goes with this layout so I may either turn this into a double page layout or add my journaling to the back. I haven't got that far yet but I had better get a move on.

Stuck Sketches October 15 Sketch

I have been taking lots of photos of Cooper lately. The weather has been nice so I have been taking my phone with me to the park and instagraming a few choice pics.
I wanted a photo of the two of us rather than him on his own and this is what I got. I love it and since Cooper turned 14 years old last month I wanted to get a special picture of us.
For my hexigons I chose to use washi tape rather than paper as I really wanted to use these new tapes I scored at BigW recently. They are from a new range and even though it's not so clear on the photos the  tape has the most amazing gilt stars and chevron pattern. Love them.
As for the stickers they are from a recent purchase, EP Capture Life by Alison Kreft.

Stuck Sketches 1 Sept Challenge

I have used the Sept 1 sketch for this layout.
Instead of using strips of washi tape or paper I have used the Heidi Swapp arrow pp to represent the strips. It works for me. This layout is all HS with the exception of the camera stamp (Amy Tangerine) because I love her products and I sure do have quite the collection these days. LOL

This was a fun afternoon activity and I think I have picked up some good ideas from this course that may help me better represent the cakes, slices etc that I bake.

Love the silver glitter stickers by Heidi Swapp have been looking for just the right spot to put them. Looks a bit lost in this picture but in real life it's much bolder.

 

 If you're interested in reading the text. this might just be zoomed in enough.

 These are the original photos of the yummy cakes before Instagraming them!

Anna's Craft Cupboard August Sketch Challenge

Yay, it's been a while but I've finally created a new layout. I have been caught up in Project Life at the moment. I have just completed a terrific class held by Kim over at Jot. It was a six week course for those new to PL or those just struggling. I was both. I bought all the stuff (album, pocket pages, cards etc) earlier  in the year but just couldn't get started. I'm really pleased with what I have achieved so far and hope to continue through to the end of the year.

For today I am posting this layout about me and Ben. We were in the middle of doing his homework but things weren't going right and to lighten the mood I decided to take a selfie. As the title says, it started off fine but ended up in a lot of very silly faces and a big giggling fit. I'm glad I had the idea to keep snapping photos because I love all of these but especially the last one. It just shows us having a good old belly laugh.

Scrap the Boys - June

I printed this photo up as a 5x7 and had it half scrapped for around 6 months. I love this pic of Ben and my mum laughing in the background. For some reason I was never able to finish this page. I think I was over thinking it and was never happy. The current challenge (yeah, I know it's a bit last minute on my end) was to use a photo larger than the standard 6x4 so this page came out for another run. I ended up pulling the original to bits and went with this simple format. I'm glad I've finished it and now it will be displayed on my wall until my next favourite layout comes along.

This is the first layout I've done in some time where I haven't used any Heidi Swapp products. I'm kind of obsessed with HS at the moment. She has released so many gorgeous products.

Here's a recent HS heavy layout about my daughters 13th birthday cake.

Jot - March Mood Board

I'm a huge fan of Kim Jeffress and was thrilled to see that she had chosen this months mood board for Jot. I like her style and I love her use of colour.

I'm currently going through my stash and trying to get rid of stuff I haven't used in a while but some things I just can't part with even though I have no idea where I'll use it. These rub ons are one example. I bought these years ago (in a sale) and have only partially used them. I have never considered/tried using an entire pack of rub ons on one layout (I always think you should spread the cost out over several layouts) but with the mood board showing that great text wall and me with an almost unused packet of rub ons I figured well why the hell not and I went for it. Once again I've surprised myself and I love it. You know the saying use it or lose it well that's what I'm going for. Considering how much I have spent on my stash in the past why not use it.
Thanks for stopping by.
Here's hoping for some cooler weather.