Siblings too far away - featuring Indian Summer

We had professional photos done last year when the kids half-brother came to visit from Germany.  I haven't yet scrapbooked them.... until today! This was the first time that I've been scrapbooking since summer, I've been spending so much time outside on my deck enjoying the summer I haven't wanted to be down stairs when it was so nice outside.  Well Fall is in full swing now, and this is the result!

I loves the colours in the Indian Summer collection from We R Memory Keepers, combined with a page from Lemonade Stand from Bo Bunny (Block Party) its a herringbone wood grain sheet that I used on the background of the second page.  I also used Prima flowers and alphas, gems from Queen & Co. and an overlay from Jillibean Soup

The kids miss their brother, and only get to see him once a year, and on Skype.

 

Let me know what you think!

July ... its still July isn't it?

Wow - summer is just flying past me this year.  I can count on one hand the number of hours I have spent scrapbooking or crafting!  Aside from a couple of birthday cards I haven't done any crafting.  I did manage to squeeze out this one layout while at an all day crop at Auntie Em's in Cornwall.  I did this from the Build-A-Page sketch challenge at Prima for July.

 

 

Traveling in Time with Prima ....

Have you seen the Time Traveler collection from Prima?  It is fantastic, rusty browns, mustard yellows, and black.  What an amazing colour combination.  The embellishments for this collection are just as spectacular. I do believe that I bought the whole collection .... parts of it in triplicate!

I've been busy making layouts and a mini album with the collection.

 

 

 

 
 

 

 

 

 

 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Prima Marketing - Engraver mini-album

Prima's Engraver line is very distressed and grungy and right up my alley.  I love the browns and blacks with this line.  I created this 10 page album with chipboard.  I used a few sheets from the Ledger pad too, the browns and beige really worked well.  The prima chalk ink in Dark Bark was the perfect choice for distressing the edges.  I created many pockets and flaps with this album, plenty of places for hidden photos or journaling.  Of course I used lots of prima flowers and Vintage Trinkets.  The tickets are Tim Holtz.

 

 

 

There you have it folks - be kind and leave a comment!

 

More from the Mega Challenge - En Francais

Um yeah, I'm not writing this blog post En Francias - but it's all about the Prima paper line En Francais collection!  This is part three of my projects created with this line - and I'm still not out of paper or inspiration.  It truly is a versatile collection.

Lost A Mitten

 

 

I used some gesso to create white space then stamped over the gesso with the script stamp from this collection. Some Tim Holtz tickets in the corner, and a combination of Prima alphas and Thickers for the title.  Sepia photos are particularly perfect for this line.

 Mr. Serious

  

 

I used a Prima mask on this layout with modeling paste and Pan Pastals to give texture to the feather in the corner.  I used another mask and tinted gesso with gelatoes and then painted with gelatoes for the bricks.  You see that folk - more BOY layouts, LOL and flowers on every single one of them too *grinz*

Projects from Prima's En Francais line

So the Mega Challenge has proven to be pretty big for even me.  Emma provided two members of her Design Team with 8 sheets each of patterned paper.  My collection is the En Francais line from Prima.

I still have heaps of it to get to, I think 8 sheets is a lot.  This line is great for boy photos, and if any of you watch my blog, you will know I tend to scrapbook my daughter way more than I do my son.  So, here is perfect opportunity for me to scrapbook The Boy!!  I love the rust browns and the greys and blues in this collection.

So here you go ... so far ... more to come, so stay tuned!

 

 

Little Miss - by Bo Bunny - 3 layouts

As soon as I saw this collection from Bo Bunny I knew I wanted the whole thing.  Last time that happened was with the Et Cetera line.  I adore this line, the muted soft colours of moss green and coral with undertones of brown.  So girly, and flirty. 

I've made 3 layouts so far and have plans for many many more, I could do an whole album with this collection!

See the hand-made flower on the photo there - I wanted to add dimension to the photo - I loved this photo but it needed something.

Texture paste to give some height.

This layout was a challenge to use up 'spare letters'

As yet untitled - may call it "on the Hill" as she is sitting in front of Parliament Hill.