CSI #66 ~ LEAVING PAW PRINTS ON OUR HEARTS

Hello
I wasn't going to do the challenge #66 over at CSI as the colours didn't appeal to me, but what did appeal to me was to do a layout of my little dog. Sometimes I think the trick is to just start and then your love of the story/subject you want to scrap takes over and before you know it you are lost in your page.


I am glad I did the challenge now, as I have the story of my beautiful little mate down

This is probably the best photo I have of Scruff, as being quite a highly strung little character, he is not a fan of getting his photo taken

I kept the negative of the hearts I punched out and put over the paw print stamp to signify his paw prints on our hearts

The journalling is on the take note tucked in the side and reads ~You came into our lives nearly 15 years ago and right away you had us wrapped around your little paw. You came when I was going through a tough time & you brightened my days. You have been by my side, you wag your tail and are so happy to see me, you give me comfort.
Now you are not well. You have little eye sight and you are deaf and your bones are old and sore. They think you have a tumour and you are even more clingy, just wanting to be near me for comfort. It is to sad to think you not being here, but I will give you all the comfort and love possible everyday. I will spoil you and every day I will look in those big brown eyes and tell you "You are the best dog ever, the best dog in the whole wide, world. My Scruffy, just a little person with fur, who leaves paw prints all over my heart every day.

I always try and use the bottom strip of the PP that gets cut off if I can and this one was perfect, with words, such as love, cherish, journey.
Thanks for looking, hope you let me know you called.
It is a glorious Autumn day here today. I know I take this photo a lot, but I see it most days ( its where I work) and it always looks beautiful to me in different ways



The leaves are all turning golden and orange here at the moment


Hope you are enjoying your day
Love and Peace
Mary x

SPRING IS A GARDENERS DREAM ~ SCRAP YOUR STORY CHALLENGE

Hello :)

Late yesterday afternoon I was looking for a challenge to do and thought I would do the ScrapYour Story  Spring layout challenge, but now I think I have missed the deadline, but never mind, I have a layout done of my Mum and some of her flowers. Its a pretty bright layout. My Mum's standard Azaleas . The centre of the orange flower is Perfect Pearls that I brought at the Penrith Paper and Craft Fair, how gorgeous is the colour. The Butterfly button is from Annette 

Some stamping

The stamps I used for "A Gardeners"  are a gift from Kim 

Mum also loved birds so have to sneak one in and some washi tape

The journalling tucked in the side, Says how Mum loved her Garden and that once my Brother said that Mum could put a stick in the ground and it would grow. Mum had a beautiful garden and lots of beautiful roses

Thanks so much for calling by and don't forget to join us in the orangepaperie challenge this month  and also the colormescrappy challenge
Love and Peace
Mary x

SMILE AND TAKE PHOTO'S

Hello

Or alternatively this layout could have been called the day I snapped a carrot! 
When you pull on the ribbon behind the photo the tags come out to reveal the journalling and the story.....
We were driving to the Leaning Tower of Pisa, along a lovely freeway, all signs leading to Pisa..... The Navman (which I had a Love/hate relationship with....mainly hate) instructed us to turn off the freeway and we ended up in a little Italian town, driving around in circles, down VERY narrow streets, why Oh why would you get off a beautiful freeway for this! The last straw ..... a little old Italian man just walked straight out in front of us pushing his bike, he never turned a hair or even noticed us I don't think, Me.....  I yelled stop the car I want to get out! I just felt I had to get out and breathe. Luckily my husband who remains very calm when I am not, just ignored me and kept driving calmly (bless him). So... when we did eventually get to the Leaning Tower of Pisa I was a grumpy soul, He just said Smile and keep taking Photo's! Sorry a bit of a long winded story, so if you are still with me this is my layout. Love my Dear Lizzy Camera stamp. I have used the Martha Stewart Bird Punch

Some Bo Bunny Stamping and its a bit hard to see but I have   
Modge Podged tea bags on and stamped on them, see the face and the word Rome? Some gorgeous vibrant turquoise  dylusions ink spray splatters

The brown flower is made from a brown paper bag.
Thanks for popping by and just realized I haven't taken a photo with the journal tags slipped in the side, whoops, well all you can see is the ribbon tag anyway.Please let me know you called
Love and Peace 
Mary x

NEW CHALLENGE AT ORANGE PAPERIE AND NEW DT MEMBERS

Hello 

The new challenge has been posted at Orange Paperie and our lovely Guest Designer for the month is Belinda Lowe , so pop over and see what BB has created for us. Also we have two new Design Team Members the gorgeous Cheryl   and Jo  . We are saving Cheryl's layout along with Annette's  till later in the month to share with you, but pop over and see Jo's & Kim's  gorgeous take on the challenge. And talking about Challenge this is the challenge

To use this image from Pinterest to create what inspires you. The only criteria is to add some stamping and punching somewhere.
This is my take

I was obviously inspired by the pictures on the wall and the chair. This is a photo of my Dad and my Grandson. I called the layout "Always watching over you" as we used to joke that Jedd had his own personal body guard as Dad used to follow Jedd around and made sure he was safe and kept a watchful eye over him, now he guards him from Heaven.

The gorgeous washi tape is from Craftqueen  and the newspaper Also the inspiration from the photo of the wall is from a Nathalie Kalbach class I did awhile ago

Love both these stamps

Love my Dad and Grandson

Thank you for popping by and hope you can join us in this challenge.
Enjoy what is left of the weekend
Love and Peace
Mary x

LOVE IS SWEET

Evening,

Just popping in to share a layout of my DD when she was at Playgroup (many moons ago now)
For my upcoming class I had a couple of requests to do the Moments heritage layout that I posted on here recently, but I also wanted my class to know they could adapt that to suite a girly layout , as one of my lovely ladies is only scrapping pics of her new baby girl understandably. So I have used the Kaiser Sweet Admirer Range for this layout

I have to tell you I am kin love with this lace that is peeking out from Marally Craft .

Gosh isn't she sweet ~ says a bias Mum :)

Thanks for popping in
Love and Peace 
Mary x

CHALLENGE #35 COLORMESCRAPPY & SOMETHING I MADE CHALLENGE

Evening friends, well a new month starts! and that means new challenges :)
The new challenge is up at colormescrappy  and it had me putting my thinking cap on and persevering with my layout. This is the sketch

and these are the colours to use

So I  used a dark room door stamp for the windows and my banner is only small, I have added a some old pearls from a necklace across the top of the banner

I have used the A4 Fairy Belle Prima collection PP . I had been playing around with this photo of my DG and the Paper for awhile trying to make it work. I fussy cut the photo as the background was all black in it, but it was getting lost in the layout, so I decided to place it on another piece of PP and then mount it on Black Cardstock.... much better. I also realized the colours went with the challenge so I persevered and fiddles some more until I was happy with the end result.

She flies with her own wings

Also Kylie  set a challenge over at the Boxx  to scrap a layout of something you made . Well I made these three adorable little souls ( now big souls) and they are the best think I ever made or ever will

This was Chelsea's first day of school. Joseph was in year 5 and Christopher year 3. Even our old dog Podge got in on the photo shoot, surprised he is sitting there, he usually took off at 1oo miles an hour when he got out the front !

Chevron tape from Craftqueen 

I think the button is either from Scrapfriends http://scrapfriends.com.au/or A piece of Cake Designs, both have gorgeous buttons anyway, so you can't go wrong.

Thanks for calling by, don't forget to have a go at the colormescrappy   challenge, love to see what you come up with and pop over and check out the Guest Designers layouts, they rocked the challenge and the other Design Teams inspiration as well.
Back to work for me tomorrow :(
Love and Peace 
Mary x

SKISSEDILLA CHALLENGE ~ DREAM BIG

Evening, two posts in one day. 

I didn't intend to post this layout tonight , it was a just because layout I did this afternoon, as I love the photo of my Granddaugher, and then whilst leaving some blog love tonight I came across the sketch at  Skissedilla which I really liked from Ali's  blog and thought I might like to do it, THEN I looked at this layout and realized I could use it as it fits in with the sketch, even down to the flowers on the tag, freaky but a  bonus! Gotta love it when that happens and now I have found another great site to find inspiration from, so I am now a follower. So after all that rambling here is my layout

And the sketch

The gorgeous little flowers and beaded bow  and loopey lace are from Craftqueen ,  how divine are they , the bigger lace is from Marally Craft  and I am loving it at the moment as well 

Beautiful washi tape from Craftqueen, Date stamp from Scrapfriends  

Stars are from Scrapfriends as well 

Once again thanks for calling by 

Love and Peace 

Mary x