LO for Sketches in Thyme and Tic-Tac-Toe

This gorgeous, wee treasure, is our newest grandie. She is now 3and a half months old, sleeps all night and is so peaceful and easy!! But, she is rolling around and pushing herself backwards, far too soon, so maybe that is a sign that she is saving a strong will for later!!

I have used the January 15th sketch at Sketches in Thyme and the Tic-Tac-Toe board from the Scrappy Friends Challenge. I used the bottom row: Border punch, Journal card, Colour Gold.
Both these great challenges were designed by the very talented Rochelle Spears!
  

We are enjoying an extra day's holiday this weekend as its Auckland Anniversary Day. Gotta love an extra scrappy day!!

Cheers,

Sue :)

Lo for Stuck!? Sketches and Pixels and Paper

I love the vibrant and fun colours and "Downunder" ( New Zealand and Australia!) feel of this moodboard at Pixels and Paper! Jandals are totally our summer footwear.
I have used the January 15th sketch at Stuck!? Sketches for my starting point.
Beautiful Miss M turned 2 this week! I cannot believe how fast the time is going! Scary!!

  

Talking of summer, we are melting here up north of Auckland!!! Weeks of clear blue skies! Perfect for school holiday families though.

Cheers,

Sue :)

Sketchabilities #131 and CSI

I havent done a layout CSI for a while, but really loved this colour scheme in Case File No. CC-4.
I used Karan's fantastic sketch #131 at Sketchabilities

 Evidence at CC-4: Hearts, loopy font, texture paste, numbers

Testimony: Document a birthday (journalling, around the circle:) Today is Madison's 2nd birthday and we are going to have a special treat - a fuffly. (Under banner):Heading to Chocolate Brown, Madi took Blake's hand. So cute!

LO for LGS Wk2

I am finding it hard at the moment to keep up with all the photos that I want to scrap!!

I used the Week 2 sketch from Let's Get Sketchy for this layout of my happy, gorgeous little grandson!

On to my next  photo while I still have some scrappy time left!

Cheers,

Sue :)

Scrap Our Stash with D-lish

The moodboard at D-lish scraps this month really is delish!! I have combined the sketch and moodboard with the challenge at Scrap Our Stash - to use the letters in the word TWINE.


  

Our little granddaughter is getting her very first taste of fresh peas! Last summer she was too young to be given peas, but at nearly two, this season Pop's garden is a yummy place to be!

T - Transparent embellishments

W - Washi, Wooden embellishment (sun)

I - Ink (handwriting)

N - Numbers (calendar frame)

E - Ephemera, Epoxy dot and heart

Cheers,

Sue :)

Wonderful Magical Christmas Moment

The January tic-tac-toe board is up at 123 Get Scrappy!! And check out the current Friday Challenge at Frosted Designs

For my layout, I have used the bottom row of Rhinestones/gems, 3 different patterned papers and a Stamped image. My daughter took this gorgeous pic of the grandkids on Christmas Day.

I was also inspired by the current challenge at Frosted Designs: White as Snow (to use snow, snowflakes or mostly white on the layout). Not much snow in my part of the world, so I went with the mostly white on the layout!

Have a great weekend

Sue :)

Dream Big

I love this little cutie, when he is awake, but there is something extra cute about seeing him asleep!! (Possibly because he is not big on sleeping!!)
I am a real patterned paper girl and seldom use a white cardstock background. Even when I use mixed media, I usually start with a pp. It is lacking a bit of depth I think... Maybe needs more layers...
Anyway, for this layout, I was inspired by the January moodbooard at Off the Rails Scrapbooking:

I love the colours in that fun photo! It was actually the colour palette that made me want to try the white cardstock background!

 Have you checked out this new challenge site! Picture This! Challenge Blog? The challenge this month is to use 1 photo, a sunburst and paint. (the paint is the yellow circles)

I love rosettes so this layout worked well to include in the challenge at 123 Challenge Blog: lemon, paper folding and word, appreciate.

Cheers,

Sue :)

Pretty for SATW and Stuck! Sketches

Scrap Around the World has a beautiful vintage moodboard to start off 2015! I have combined it with Stuck!? Sketches Jan 1st sketch, to do a layout of my newest granddaughter, on Christmas Day, wearing a gorgeous vintage playsuit that Em bought on Etsy.

   

I was inspired to use a bit of lace, an ornate frame of roses, a tab with little keys and hopefully give an overall vintage feel.

I hope everyone has enjoyed the holiday break and have safe trips home!

Cheers,

Sue :)

You are my Happy for Sketchabilities

My first challenge for 2015! I havent done a layout since November, but I did enjoy doing my second December Daily. It is so cool to go back and see how the Grandbabies have grown over the last year!

Anyway, what better way to get the layout mojo going again than a Sketchabilities sketch!

The sketch:

My layout:

It is great to be back in blogsville! :)

Cheers,

Sue :)