Shabby Chic

Shabby Chic, is the new theme I set the Paper Flourish Scrapbookers' Club

These are two of the layouts I created as an example of the theme.

Because I am a mother to two teenage boys, if I want to scrap a pink and girly layout, I need to scrap photos of myself and of course I needed to scrap one of my boys!

Here is the definition I put up on the Scrapbookers' club blog (according to Tracey)

Shabby Chic by definition is showing signs of wear and tear but with class and style J

Shabby Chic layouts generally use soft pastel tones, with a hint of floral embellishments for a soft finish, however you can use this style for male themed layouts too. Shabby Chic often incorporates vintage elements to bring out the worn or aged look.  You will also see a lot of butterflies used in this theme too. We are all haberdashery experts now, so keep this theme going and add in some stitching to bring some style and class to your layout.

Sweet Summer

This is a layout I did a long time ago as a challenge for the Paper Flourish Scrapbookers' Club “White Space”.

White Space is so far out of my comfort zone and so different from my usual style, I wasn’t sure how I was going to go. Well, I ended up LOVING it and did about 6 or 7 layouts using this theme. This one was my favourite and was picked up by Scrapbooking Memories and published in Vol 14 No. 4

8 Years

So this is my interpretation of the prima BAP Sketch for Jan 2012. My Goal for this year is to scrap at least 2 of the photos I take as part of the Paint the Moon Challenge I am doing.

The main photo on this layout was taken for the theme ‘Open’ and it is of a beautiful necklace I was given for my 8^th wedding anniversary by my lovely hubby!

Paper Flourish Haberdashery Challenge

The January 2012 Scrapbookers' Club Challenge at Paper Flourish is ‘Haberdashery’. I loved this challenge! We were all given a choice of Fabric Covered Brads or Buttons to use in this challenge and I chose yellow buttons.

For my first layout out I used Teresa Collins new line and the yellow papers fitted perfectly with my yellow buttons, however I didn’t think it had enough ‘Haberdashery’ on it. So I did another. My second layout was based around a piece of paper from the new October Afternoon Farm House collection. I sewed on pieces of fabric using my new sewing machine, there was a lot more ‘Haberdashery ’this time.

I have one more layout in my head, I will see if I can squeeze another one in for January J

Grown Up

Because December had been such a busy month, I decided to combine my Prima BAP & PPP challenges into one.  The photos are from my oldest son's year 12 formal, I was a little taken back with how grown up he looked. He walk down the hall in his school uniform a boy and walked back up in his suit, as a young man!

Sunday 4 March

Quick update on this post – I was lucky enough to be the winner of the Prima PPP! So exciting, click on the below link to see the Prima Blog Post :)

http://prima.typepad.com/prima/2012/02/we-have-some-winners.html

Family is Forever & Love

These two layouts were for a Paper Flourish challenge, the theme was ‘Family’!

The photos were taken at the time of my cousins wedding a few weeks ago, we headed to the park next to our house and got the kids to shoot us before we left. I was very happy how they turned out, they were perfect to use with the Prima Pixie Glen Range J

Intrigue

This is my favourite photo I have taken of Jayden! He has grown up so much this year (14 years old). I really wanted to scrap this photo before he changes even more.  I used lots of yummy Prima Product, along with a few bits from Tim Holtz which are great for boy pages, including the Weathered Clock, Gadget Gears and Vintage Trimming dies.