Stuck! Sketches April 1st

It's a rarity for my little family to have a group photo but here we are. We all went to our local beach for a walk and stopped along the way to admire the view. We tried several time to take a selfie but it was proving impossible (to many to squeeze into one shot I guess). Fortuantely a friendly stranger coming by noticed us and offered to take our pic. He was lovely actually and even suggested to pic up the dog to be included. He took some great snapshots and I chose this one to scrap.

Anna's Craft Cupboard-March Sketch Challenge

My take on the sketch challenge.
This is my Ben posing with the big cardboard 10 that I made him for his birthday. I made one for Sophie when she turned double digits and Ben insisted that he need his own. Fair enough :)

Stuck! - yep I sure was

Yippee, I have finally started scrapping again. Well yippee for me anyway. I haven't done anything craft for several months now. No sewing (did start a couple of things but didn't get far) and no scrapping. I guess it's a combo of the weather (bloody hot) and lack of inspiration, oh yeah and me being plain lazy I guess.

Anyway this is an entry for Stuck Sketches February 1st sketch. Here's the sketch. I knew these recent pics of Ben fishing were just the ticket for this layout. I have done mine on a 12x12 and swaped the elements a little but it's all there. Ok you may need a magnifying glass to spot the little bitty fish Ben is holding but it's definately there. As the journaling points out it was fun just spending time together.

Christmas/New Year Bargain

Hey there, did you manage to snap up any awesome bargains in the Boxing Day and/or New Year sales. I love the sales  and I did manage to buy myself a couple of lovely dresses reduce from $100 down to $40.

My favourite bargain was this cardmaking kit from Kmart. I got it for $7 in the new year sales. I'm not too sure if it was even discounted but at that price I thought I'ld grab one. It comes with 3 super cute washi tapes (3 metres per roll), some twine, diamontes, lots of cards (rectangle and square in white and kraft and red envelopes), some xmas themed felt shapes and some chipboard xmas themed shapes and some flimsy die cut frames. Considering the washi tapes alone would usually cost at least $3 each  thought it was quite the bargain.

Happy New Year

Whooohooo...happy new year.
Hope you've had a terrific Christmas and new year.
Our family certainly have.

My kids went to town with decorating their gingerbread houses for Christmas. This is a tradition we started about 4 years ago. The first gingerbread house we made the kids decorated together but by the second year they wanted their own house to add their own finishing touches too.
Here's Ben with his "work of art".

 Demolition followed the day after construction.

Here's Sophie with her creation.

As is typical of most peoples Christmas and new year celebrations we ate to much, went to the beach and watched lots of movies. Since it's been hitting highs of 39 degrees plus here in Perth for the last week or more there hasn't been much else to do.

Hope to start scrapping soon but this heat isn't too inspiring. Best wishes for the new year and thanks for stopping by and reading. Below pics of me and my kids. Thought I should show my face. Cheers
Natalie

Scrap the Boys

Hey there, this is my entry for the December Scrap the Boys.
The theme is to create a Christmas layout using non traditional colours. I decided to stick with a grey colour scheme in keeping with the colour of my sons Christmas shirt. I chose this photo from a couple of years ago.
In a recent shopping spree I seemed to have bought a lot of papers in these colours - never thought I'ld use them for a Christmas layout. I love how on-line challenges challenge you to change things up!

Christmas

Yay, a Christmas page. I don't scrap many Christmas layouts but was inspired by Scrap Sleuth #4 at Scrapz.biz to do one.

This layout features my Sophie proudly showing off her gingerbread house decorating skills Christmas. Each year the I bake two gingerbread houses for the kids decorate. It's fun for the kids and they love the idea of "playing" and creating with lollies.

As for my page I had a great time making my own hexagons and using up a 6x6 paper pad by Crate Paper (my favourite xmas paper of 2011) in addition to adding tons of Kindy Glitz (haven't used it in ages) and diamontes. I love this girly xmasy page. Yay!!!