Picture Perfect

Double layout

 Hi Everyone

What a wonderful weekend its been, but can Monday be almost here already?

Morgan starts a new school tomorrow. She is going from a small creche, with about 5 kids to a schoolwith 100, not sure she understands what i've told her!

Here is my latest effort. A double layout using stunning pics of her and some paper from my stash.



Prima flowers, Enmarc chipboard, prima swirls




American Crafts ribbon, cricut cut title, Tim Holtz tab die cuts

 I designed this layout and was so pleased with the way it came out. We went to Knysna in August and had a lovely time as a family. When we went up to Knysna Heads we encouraged Morgan to sit on the rock and  pose! first time ever that she agreed to do anything like this. I was pleasantly surprised with the way the photos came out!

The American Craft ribbon is just gorgeous, gorgeous, gorgeous! I think it really complimented the page nicely. The paper I used is all My Minds Eye, Bohemian Range (that i've used a hundred times over but can't get enough of it!) The flowers are an old Prima range and the swirls are also Prima.

I cut the title - Picture Perfect, with my Cricut (Opposites attract cartridge) and the tabs on both pages were cut with my Tim Holtz tab edgers, on my Cuttlebug machine, also with the MME Bohemian Range offcuts.

This layout is special to me and i'm so thrilled with the way it came out!

Hope you all had a stunning weekend. Thanks for stopping by.

Happy Scrappin'

Zoe
xxx

Emotional time

What a week its been. we had to put our dear Brandi dog down on Tuesday. We knew the time was coming, but when my husband called me at work on Tuesday to say be at the vet at 3.45pm I was quite overwhelmed. My poor doggie.

She would have been 12 years old in April, and being such a big dog (boerboel) that is very good going. Her brother went in February and she hasn't stopped pining for him since.

We love you both, may you guys be together in doggie heaven. My husband and I got our dogs a year into our relationship and it was just the 4 of us for nearly 10 years!

here is a pic of our babies:



Brandi




Knox

Pets are wonderful additions to any family and they sure do leave pawprints on your heart.

xx

Final thoughts

so today was a day of finality, a day of closure - but I have a silver lining!

Even though i knew the day was coming, and we have been preparing for a month for it - it was harder than i thought! Scrapaholics stopped trading last week, Wednesday, 29 September. We have spent the weekend cleaning up, boxing the last of the stock (which thank goodness isn't too much!) repainting etc. But when i gave over the keys today it was a bit of a surreal experience. That is MY building, MY space - just can't imagine not going in there anymore!

I had some great moments at Scrapaholics and i'm not sorry that i took the journey. I have met some extraordinary people and made friendships that will last a lifetime.

One of which is becoming a new venture. I am so excited about this new venture and can't wait to share it with you all. Not much longer now and all the details will be ironed out.......

I also managed to get some scrapbooking done this weekend and I am LOVING the time i can spend on it again. I have also designed so many sketches for layouts, and have started on my kits already. I am hoping to have them available and in store this month for you all. Watch this space to keep posted

Happy Monday Scrappin' everyone

Blessings
xxx

Kaisercraft October Sketch 1

Good day scrapbookers

I love looking at sketches for inspiration. The Weekly Saturday sketch from Kaisercraft is usually a hit and i love the Prima ones too. Gosh there are so many out there to choose from, and its a great start to get your creative juices going!

Here is this weeks Kaisercraft Sketch

Here is my take on it. The colours are really out of my comfort zone as i usually use more subdued colours and never ever make it so colourful!

But i am really pleased with the way it turned out.



Playful - single layout




The embellishments were cut out of paper




Title is made from old alpha stickers I had



I used Kaisercraft Party Animals Collection  - Hooray and Kaisercraft Fun Fair - Big Top for the background. The coloured cardstock is a Bazzil shape.

It took me ages to painstakingly cut out the animal tower and the flags. I used dimensional glaze on the flags to give them dimension. The animal stack is raised with foam tape to give it depth.

The tickets are from the Kaisercraft Seashore Collection and the circular jounalling spot is a Jilly Bean Sprout Journalling sprout.

I hope  you enjoyed my take on the sketch.

Thanks for stopping by

Happy Scrappin'

xxx