shoe tree mkII

There's many a time when a his and hers LO is created for their respective ablums because the story is important to both of them. Such as these two. Design concept is the same for both and the journaling is the same.

yours

I just can't seem to resist the circular LO's with the beautiful Cooca Vanilla ranges. Every time I see a circular bouquet/swag/wreath I know I have just the pic that would suit it. I've added crystal leaves on this one that I've had in my stash since forever. And looky looky, its a 12x12 LO. I've not done one of them since back in the day :)

tumby

Shameless lift from Steffi Ried. I've been crushing hard on her work and she's my go to for inspo, design and white space.

social distancing

All of a sudden social distancing has become very relevant again. This LO is based on a photo taken in 2020 when the kids visited their Great Grandpa during the beginning of Covid19 in Australia.  LO inspired by Terhi Koskinen

 

#scrapshack2021 - june

#scrapshack2021 june edition was all about the rainbow. We had the blowup rainbow, rainbow tableclothes, rainbow tassles, rainbow lip balms, rainbow erasers, rainbow notebook and the best of all was Mel's cute as personalised rainbow goodie bag.

LO inspired by the amazing Steffi Ried

 

covert activity

 

embellish

A grid layer gets a lot of pics onto the LO. The delightfully summery range Sunkissed from Cocoa Vanilla Studio had the perfect little puffy cocktail embellies. 

Journalling says: scrapshack is as much about embellishing the cocktails as it is about embellishing the layouts. 5 March 2021

 

caution : teen years ahead

 Upto 8 background layers in this one to grunge and texturize it. Improvised a peace hand to a bird hand lol. Love it so much.

leap

Failure is an option whenever you take a leap of faith. In every risk there can be success or a lesson. - James Cameron. 

 

B grade Closed Champs winner

 It's been a good day.

I've come home with the 2020 EP Golf B grade Closed Championships trophy. The day was hosted by Port Lincoln Golf Club.       105 gross. Nett 75. 30 handicap.

 

follow your arrow

Its a bit hard to read the journaling : Archery was something different to try out and give it a go.

26 July 2020

 

international scrapbooking day - insd 2021

 Spent the evening with these creatives after spending the day strapping, icing and on the oils for my local footy/netty club. Full day has filled my bucket of life. 

today

So very grateful to have been able to supply photography our our local area for the new library cards of Cummins Community Library back in 2013. 

 

8 months and 8cm later

This is why I take photos. This is why I scrapbook to forever record the details of that moment the photo was taken. How else would I know that in 8 months there was an 8 cm growth spurt that these two photos pictorially puts the growth spurt of a teen boy in perspective.

I have flipped the bottom pic so Mr S is on the same side as the top pic to really show how much he's shot up recently. Needless to say Miss A is not terribly impressed by his new height status. 

bakerman

Instead of taking the time off during school holidays and kicking back, Mr S was on voluntary work experience at Five Loaves Bakery.  He loves to bake at home, and anything with dough rocks his socks.  

Work experience normally happens around here in year 10 and when they are 15 for school insurance purposes. Since Mr S isn't here next year as he's in college and he's already 15, we thought we'd get one in while he's still living at home as it was a lot easier logistically to get him to the 3.30am starts than it would have been in Adelaide.

To my surprise he loved the early starts and really got stuck into the jobs allotted to him. When he was home after his shift he stayed awake all day to his normal bedtime and was up at 2.45am to start work again. 

He impressed me and he still loves to bake.

play

Who doesn'tn love a large title layout. A pinch of chain stitching, a dash of Cocoa Vanilla Midnight with a serve of journaling. All done.

 

merit

Keeping it simple and sweet to showcase the merit award from way back in the day.

 

splash

I totally swooned when I saw Anri's LO on insta and asked her if I may unashamedly scraplift it. Like Anri's I too used the Sunkissed collection from Cocoa Vanilla. The Monstera cut file was Paige Evan's from the Silhouette Design Store which has been sized down to suit A4 size.

 

sweet moments

Mothers Day 2013 was all about plating up the Tim Tams. I still have the large yellow envelope full of Mr S's little messages which goes will go in the album next to this LO.

 

my son

Large photo format with minimal embellishing, letting the words and the photo shine.