Hunter's First Christmas 2010

Lasting Memories layout challenges this month are celebrating the Daily Holidays, Special & Wacky days.. We want christmas layouts based on a particular subject each challenge.. This challenge though is going to run for two weeks, as we all know how busy the Christmas weeks can be, so we reducing the amounts of challenges and will not release the next one until the end of the month to kick start off the new year..

LM #477 - Use an older photo of yourself and your family.

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Hunter's First Christmas 2010 

As I mentioned last week in the last DT release, this month I have decided to try to master Layering a bit better than what I have in the past. This one I kept pretty simple actually and didn't bother with over the top sort of layering like I have the others.. Especially next challenge in two weeks time, come back and check it out - IT IS OTT STUNNING! 

Anyway, I love to use pastels and colours like pink, even though it is a layout featuring my boys.. I love the softness it can bring to a design. 

First off I smeared white gesso on the base and sprayed with a blue mist. This just helps to give extra texture and element to a design to a boring background.  

Unfortunately, I have been unable to find any photos of my with my family on Christmas day, so I used this one of my boys instead.. It is from back in 2010, so I'm sure it at least meets that criteria... 

Hunter's first Christmas we spent in Agnes Water with family. It happen to be a year that it flooded and there was water all over the yard in any low areas. This little spot in the front was perfect for Lane to slip and slide in and Hunter to enjoy splashing while keeping safe on a body board. 

I have really enjoyed being able to use up some very, very old Christmas papers over the past few weeks.. Amazing the stuff that you stash and then decide that "oh not, must not use that. Have to keep for a special project"  and then never use it anyway.
I vowed at the start of this year when I started crafting again after my long break, that this was no longer an option and in fact I want to use up the old stuff and use it just as much as anything new that comes into my craft room.. 

What do you think?

 Thank you very much for joining me today and I'm so excited to be able to share with you all the creations for the Lasting Memories Design Team! 

I really hope that you will drop by the blog and check out the inspiration from the rest of the team members and then get creative to link up your own entry.. There is plenty of options for this challenge theme.. Do you have an old Christmas photo laying around somewhere.. lol 

Thanks again, Toni.. xoxo

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TIS THE SEASON

Welcome to December.. Please tell me I'm not the only one completely stunned by how fast the year has gone. 

This month at Lasting Memories we are featuring Daily Holidays, Special & Wacky Days.. These are based in the USA and don't have much relevance to us in Australia, but the challenges are still easy enough for us to follow along and join in. So I really hope you all do! :) 

LM #476 - Poinsetta   -  use the beautiful traditional flowers of Christmas on your layout. 

LASTING MEMORIES LAYOUT CHALLENGES 

TIS THE SEASON

This month you'll see a common theme within my layouts. I will be experimenting with laying paper under and around the photo. I have struggled with this in the past so am trying to master it a little better.   This layout features my beautiful baby boy Hunter on his first Christmas in 2010.. We were staying in Agnes Water with my family and had floods for days. Here, he is playing on a board in the yard what was water logged.. My older son Lane was slip and sliding along too. (That photo is on the layout for next week, so please come back and check then too!) 

Being in Australia, finding Poinsetta paper isn't exactly the easiest thing to do. And let's be honest, I don't even know if this flower that I cut is is the correct one of not.. hahahaha..  But you get the point and the effect is the same.. 

I started out with some beautiful paper, not sure what collections they all are as they have been mixed and several different manufactures used. I have been in over drive lately making Christmas cards and other creations, it has been so much fun as it has been many years since I had bothered.. 

For the little cluster in the bottom corner with the cut outs, I added some leaves and twine.. 

As you can see - layers, layers, layers..... 

What do you think?

 Thank you very much for joining me today and I'm so excited to be able to share with you all the creations for the Lasting Memories Design Team! 

I really hope that you will drop by the blog and check out the inspiration from the rest of the team members and then get creative to link up your own entry.. There is plenty of options for this challenge theme, we all have some  Christmas papers laying around somewhere with Poinsettas on it, right.. lol 

Thanks again, Toni.. xoxo

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L J P

L J P

This month over at the Let's Get Sketchy challenge blog they have provided quite a unique sketch. Plain but so not plain!

Easy but so not easy!

Fun, oooh sooo  much fun!

I choose to follow this sketch both as much as I can and completely opposite at the same time. lol 

I used the same sort of colours, but chose flag ends instead of the corners on each edge. 

Something else I added was the extra photos that I have included which I placed behind the main photo of the layout. 

Hope this has brought a smile to your face as it does mine while I was making this layout.. 

Thanks for dropping by today, make sure you swing by the Let's Get Sketchy challenge blog to enter your own layout.. :) 

Peace Joy Love

Believe in the magic of Christmas

A fun and fairly open challenge this month at the Scrap the Boys blog had caught my eye.. 

Hunter had his school Christmas concert earlier this week and I captured this awesome photo of him that I knew I wanted to scrap for this layout. 

Unfortunately the photo thingys were taking a long time just to sort photos today at BigW and I wanted to make this photo a Black & White, but I wasn't able to change the settings. So for now I have used it, but may change the photo in the future to B&W. 

Peace  Joy  Love

I loved being able to use this old Kaiser collection again. I still have a few bits and pieces left even after using it so many times of the years. 

With plenty of layering on the right side with strips and washi tape, it gives flair to the layers of the flakes on the left side of the photo.. 

The simplicity of this layout just makes me happy.. I love proving to myself every now and again that I don't have to overload my brain and creative process to totally fall inlove with a page! 

Thanks for dropping by, I hope you can drop by the Scrap The Boys challenge blog too to get inspired to make your own entry! :) 

Lasting Memories 474 - Floral

Lasting Memories Layout Challenge #474 - Floral pattern paper
To continue along with our pattern paper theme this month, we want to see FLORAL! Get those flowers on there girls and let's see pretty.... woohoo.. 

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Wow, it's the end of November already... I don't know about ya'll but the year has truly flown by for me! Both of my kids will be on school holidays shortly and even though I love having them home and yes, the sleep in's... I do miss getting a small break and I bet they miss being able to have a break from each other and me just as much! lol. 

For this layout I wanted to really highlight the paper and not over do the layout.. I wanted to keep it simple and just be wow-ed by those floral colours.. 

I used "Botanical Bliss" form the Cocoa Vanilla "happiness" collection. I love these papers and have been really enjoying being creative with this range.. With the pattern paper I cut off a 1" strip at the bottom to give some extra dimension once put onto the teal base page.  The pp strips are cut at random 1/2" - 3/4" and 1" wide.. I didn't measure the gaps perfectly, as I really wanted a natural feel to it.. 

On top of the paper I lightly spread some White Gesso and then some Silver paint.. This soften some of the bright colours on the paper so the photo and title could sit without being too lost or overtaken.. 

The chipboard I painted with the same Silver. I used Celeb8 chipboard and Thickers for the title. 

Last touches were a Kaiser transparent photo overlay and some tiny rose flowers.. 

I really do smile everytime I look at this layout.. 

What do you think?

 Thank you very much for joining me today and I'm so excited to be able to share with you all the creations for  the Lasting Memories Design Team! 

I really hope that you will drop by the blog and check out the inspiration from the rest of the team members and then get creative to link up your own entry.. There is plenty of options for this challenge theme, we all have some  floral pattern paper laying around somewhere.. lol 

Thanks again, Toni.. xoxo

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Lasting Memories 472 - Stripes

Lasting Memories Layout Challenges 472 -
This month we are focusing and challenging you all to USE YOUR PATTERN PAPER!!
This week's challenge is all about the STRIPES! 

LASTING MEMORIES LAYOUT CHALLENGES 

It's about the Stripes, about the Stripes, about the Stripes.. 

ok. I have to confess something followers.. I have no idea who made this striped paper as it is actually one of the very first pattern papers I ever got!!

Not joking, this paper is at least 17 years old and darn it still pops as bright as it did the day I got it! Whoa..

Using plenty of layers this layout is just one of those really pretty girlie pages... I left the layout blank of anything fussy or over the top.. This page really could be something for a beginner or for a little girl to do her own layout... It's easy tearing the first lot of pattern paper at the back. layers in top with some scraps that colours all match and just keep layering and layering..

I finished it off with only some circle punch & butterfly embellishments plus twine. Keep it simple! 

 I will actually probably end up taking my photo off and putting a photo on of a friends little girl for a gift.. 

What do you think?

 Thank you very much for joining me today and I'm so excited to be able to share with you all the creations for  the Lasting Memories Design Team! 

I really hope that you will drop by the blog and check out the inspiration from the rest of the team members and then get creative to link up your own entry.. There is plenty of options for this challenge theme, we all have some Striped paper laying around somewhere.. lol 

Thanks again, Toni.. xoxo

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Be yourself. Everybody else is already taken.

Hey Hey... Howdy crafters... Hope you're all well today and getting some crafty time! Thanks for stopping by today, I have another awesome layout that I made over the weekend during Fire Watch..

Today I'm sharing my entry into the Sketchy Boards Challenge facebook group.. I only found this group recently in the last few months and quite enjoyed creating the entry into last month, so thought I'd have another go since I feel in love with this sketch as soon as I saw it! :) 

Be yourself.
Everybody else is already taken.

As you can probably guess from the amount of times I've used this Celebr8 range over the past month or so, I'm loving it with the photos of my boys from our trip to The Gemfields in September.. It fits the country masculine vibe.. 

Making sure there was plenty of blue features and highlights on this layout to cover that aspect of the challenge requirements, I used not only the paper but blue sparkle pen and blue ink.. 

and how cool are these toothpick flags! oh my gosh, I hadn't really thought of using this before, until I tried to use a skewer and it was too thick for the page.. Remembering I had some similar with Christmas things on them in the cupboard for cupcake toppers, I had a moment f brilliance.. hahahaha.. 

I generally don't like to share my journaling until after I have taken photos and uploaded them, but I will be journaling on this layout to the right of the photo on that mat there.  

Hunter is so very much his own self... Such an incredible boy who is growing far too fast for my liking of course.. I am very grateful as his parent to know that this little rocket will never get lost and will hopefully always hold true to himself! It's such an extraordinary gift to him, he amazes me everyday! 

Righto.... That's it from me today! Don't forget to head on over to the Sketchy Boards Challenge facebook page and check out the DT layouts and the other entries.. There are some really talented crafters on there! Happy Scrapping.. 

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Toni.. xoxo