Jordie's fishing

 Who says you can not use flowers on boys pages. I do and I love it..... The beautiful cut out is a Martha Stewart punch- Garden Gate. 
Butterflies are sourced from the following sites. Just print and cut out, embellish how you like and hey presto! done...
 http://www.swirlydoos.com/sd_plugins/forum/forum_viewtopic.php?838 and this fabulous website http://what-a-beautiful-mess.blogspot.com/ Which both have really inspiring work featured on them.

The little black leaf is fabric and you can buy this by the meter in many colours. I love it as it is versatile and can be treaded through delicate paper work to look like a vine...add some flowers and it looks like it is creeping over the page! Perfect!

Brother and Sister

Sometimes simplicity can produce the prettiest end result. I love the end product of this page due to the simplicity of it. When you have a series of photos, scrapping them onto separate tags can give a beautiful end result. I used Tim Holtz astamp set "mini classics" for the postage stamp. The butterflies are using Grace Taylor "Inspire" set.

 The third tags is using a preprinted clear overlay. The swirl is cut using Bostick" flourish die" cut in the cuttle bug

Family photo shoot

Here is another page that I took a lesson with Trina McClune http://www.trinamcclune.typepad.com/.   It was on layering your page, and the end result was beautiful. The Background paper is a Pink Paislee. Using a butterfly from another page to embellish and there is a wee angle at the top of the photos cut from another page in this series.

We used Dusty Attic brick chip board and removed some of the "bricks".

It must have been one of the things of the show as we coloured and scrunched up muslin in this class too. We stuck it down using a glue gun, scrunching as we went, and added the two little pins at the bottom.

I really loved this class and Trina was doing several classes over the week, however the rest of the classes were booked out and this was the only one I got into.Shame  really, but a good excuse to go to some of her classes this year.

Family fun

I was lucky enough to be able to go to the annual scrapbooking show in NZ last year (SENZ) and attended a couple of classes This was a fun class to go to ( messy fun too) by Jill Geraghty-Groves  http://jillgg.typepad.com/.   A very talented Australian lady who came to NZ to run several classes . We cut our background paper into 2" squares then distressed with ink and then applied them all jumbled up onto another plain background page. We then added our photo, text and embellishments. I used distress inks by Tim Holtz ( vintage photo and faded jeans), spritzing some of the faded jeans onto the paper as well to help lift it as originally the idea was to use one colour only, however the vintage photo was a little overwhelming. On the right side we coloured muslin cloth and scrunched this up to add some more texture to the page

Happy New Year

I seemed to miss the boat when it came to getting Christmas cards in the post due to a very busy and stressful 4 months leading up to  Christma. I just did not get any time to sit and make cards, so thought that I'd make Happy New Year ones instead.
I used the Tim Holtz bird cage and cut it down  to fit the card. I found the pretty lace stencil in the local shop. It is a "Marianne design" Creatables, and it produces a fabulous cut out. This one you could thread a ribbon through too,but I did not want to hide the pretty wee flowers

Welcome Baby

Welcome Baby, a wee card made for a work colleague who has become a first time mum. Bird cage cut with Cricut  and distressed using inks from my stash.Stamp by Stampin Up. I added some little roses to the bird cage.