Sibling Love: Challenge Heaven Sketch Challenge

I love the memory of this photo. Renee was crawling over Dillon and I quickly grabbed the camera and snapped some shots of the two of them.

Looks like their cuddling.

This is for the Sketch challenge over at Challenge Heaven.

I am enjoying the challenges there and it is helping me to get my head into scrapbooking.

The paper is Daisy D which I have had for ages. Great to finally be using my paper stash.

Thanks for looking.

Mel xxx

Gotta Love Mud: Challenge Heaven Quote Challenge

Above photo: close up of distressing done to the paper.

I had heaps of fun doing this.

I love this photo of Dillon.

He was playing with the hose one summer's day

and got it a bit too close to the ground and splosh...

dirt all over his face and body.

I created the layout for Challenge Heaven's May Challenges.

This one is for the quote challenge - Gotta Love.

I love how this page came together. Simple but effective.

Have a wonderful Friday.

Swimming lessons with the kids today.

Although it's getting too cold to be in bathers.

Thank goodness the water is heated.

Mel xxx

Finally Done.

I glossy accented the heart.

Close up photos of the rolled edging.

This layout has been a major work in progress. I originally started to do it for the April challenge over at Challenge Heaven, but because I have been away and been sick the last couple of weeks I have not gotten around to completing it.

Yesterday I finally sat down and finished it... Yeah!

This is my son Dillon who is now nearly four.

It was taken when he was about 3 months old and I love his big beautiful smile. So gorgeous.

Thanks for looking.

Mel xxx

Mojo Monday 140

I have been wanting to participate in Mojo Monday for quite a while now and finally I sat down and created my husbands birthday card using the sketch.

I put it on it's side though as the bike image worked better that way.

I am really into distressing and inking my papers at the moment and I think it works well for the more masculine card.

Isn't it funny how we go through stages of using certain techniques etc.

Or maybe that's just me, LOL.

Have a fabulous Thursday.

Thanks for looking,

Mel xxx

The lovely Tanya who has the gorgeous Sweet About Me Blog

is having a Blog giveaway and the prize is the new

Kaisercraft Hey Birdie Collection (photo below).

It is the sweetest collection and perfect for little girl cards and scrapbooking pages.

Have a look at her blog here, follow her directions for the competition

and be in the running to win.

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Have an awesome weekend.

Love Mel xxx

Dahlia with Bling

I made this sweet card for my wonderful friend who I visited in Karratha to say thank you.

We had the best time together and it was so nice to have a good break away from Perth and the little ones. I missed them heaps though and my DH too.

This is The Greeting Farm image: Dahlia (Wild Sprouts).

I love the colours and the Kaisercraft bling. These are the best rhinestones I have ever used. So easy to apply and use. But I am sure you all ready know that.

The patterned paper is also from Kaisercraft: Esmerelda from their Gypsy sisters collection. Such beautiful rich colours.

Have a fabulous day and thanks heaps for looking.

Mel xxx

Surfing into 18

My nephew turned 18 on Sunday and we celebrated with the family over brunch. Yum!!

I made this card for him and chose to use this surfer image from SU as he loves surfing and got a surfboard for his birthday too.

I have had the metal letter embellishments for ages, so it is good to finally be using them.

I quite like the way this card turned out. Lots of distressing and inking edges of paper.

Thanks for looking.

Mel xxx

Bright and Cheerful

I made this card for my sister's birthday.

I love the simplicity of this card and the bright colours.

The paper has been in my stash for a couple of years now and I think it is Basic grey Phoebe.

The greeting Farm stamp is Birthday Anya and coloured her in a mix of Copics and SU markers. Still building up my range of Copic colours. Could take a while. LOL.

The buttons, sentiment and ribbon are all SU.

I pleated the ribbon to add more interest and detail.

Have a great day and thanks for looking.

Mel xxx

Four generations of Mothers and Daughters

I completed my first ever scrapbook page for my mum and framed it in a white shadow box.

She absolutely loved it. The photos represent four generations of women in our family: my nana, mum, me and my daughter Renee.

Sorry the photo is not the best. It's a bit dark so you can't really see all the detail on the page. I cut out extra flowers and vines from the paper and added them down the left side. I also punched out butterflies from a Martha Stewart punch and glittered them to add even more bling and prettiness.

I chose to use purples and pinks for the colour scheme as these are mums favourite colours.

Loving this printed paper from Basic grey: Green at Heart Kelly.

Lots of prima flowers, pretty rub-ons and bling.

Thanks for taking a look.

Have a wonderful day.

Mel xxx

Mother's Day card and gift.

We celebrated Mother's Day a week late with my mum as she was away in Broome holidaying with my sister. A tough life I tell you. LOL.

So on Sunday we had lunch at mum and dad's. Seriously though it was good to get an extra week to finish mum's gift which I will share next post.

Here is the card I made for mum. She loves pinks and purples so I chose to use mainly purples and white on this one. The image is Sarah Kay: Precious Moments.

The paper is some old SU that I had in my stash and the sentiment is from SU too.

Thanks for looking

Mel xxx