Foodie Heaven

I found a pair of stray photos from when my dad was visiting us last year. They were very similar shots of the two of us with big plates of food in front of us - definitely something worth recording.

I remembered there was an Inspired Blueprints sketch for two 4 x 6 photos so I found that and got stuck in.

 

I was right in the middle of trying to use up my Block Party kit from Studio Calico. This definitely helped.

I used the grid vellum as my base paper and used up pieces of scraps from a previous layout to mat all the photos. I had a package of flags that I had no idea what to do with so I turned them into the banner. I used some large wooden bracket shapes to form the top part of the banner. A little journalling and some flair and I was all done. I was really glad to use some OA flair that I had no idea how I would use with tomatoes on. The crab sauce in one of the shots has a little tomato in it so there is a tenuous link!

The top photo is taken at one of my favourite restaurants in the world. It is not flash - check out the stainless steel plates and cups but the food there s just amazing and incredibly cheap. We usually feed the four of us for under $20. The lower photo was at a meal of chili crab that we ate in Penang. The crab was amazing! Hubby took both the photos from across the table!

My SC kit for March finally arrived on the first of April! It is a little hard to be enthusiastic when it has taken so long to get here. It came via Switzerland which struck me as more than a little odd. I have my fingers crossed that the kit I ordered earlier this week gets here much faster.

Just a random snap

I had a spare few minutes earlier this week so I grabbed a drawer of supplies and a photo from 2011 that I really wanted to get scrapped. I didn't really have a plan, I just wanted to spend some time creating.

This photo was from our trip home at the end of 2011. Scarlett and I had a lovely meet up with my old work mate and good friend, Natasha and her daughter Bethany. We met at a very child friendly cafe in New Brighton. Miss Three was very impressed with her first Children's Platter. Bethany was a star at looking after Miss Three (who was then nearly two) but I think she wore her out! It was so nice to catch up with Natasha and for Miss Three to have a big girl to play with.

I still love chevron paper as a background and this grey was no exception. I added  a few scraps from the December and January kits. The journalling card is an October Afternoon one from my stash. I used a few pieces from the new Amy Tangerine collection to embellish the page and another Pink Paislee star .

Sorry for the quiet patch this week. We are in the middle of a long travel stint for my husband and that drastically reduces my creative and free time. I am hoping to be back on top of things next week.

Have a wonderful weekend. I am solo parenting this weekend so I suspect I will need a holiday by Monday morning!

Project Life Week 8

Yes, I am a week behind but the photos are edited and some are even printed for week 9 so all is not lost!

Week 8 was a week of two halves for us. Half (well two thirds) of the family was in Singapore and the rest was in Japan. So I decided to structure the week in the same way. One side f the spread is in Kobe and Tokyo and the other half is back at the ranch in Singapore.

 

This week is the reverse of the WRMK sleeve I found useful last week and I have to admit I do like this option. I have used a mixture of my  Studio Calico bits in the main on this side. The Jenni Bowlin labels were perfect for documenting where hubby went and who he caught up with while he was in Japan.The Thank you card is a Pebbles one. I have found this set really useful. Let's not talk about our cold weather/snow envy here either!

I am continuing with my KISS approach to Project Life. Three full size shots of what S and I got up to while Daddy was away and a tiny pair of photos of S and Daddy collapsed in different parts of the house asleep at 4 pm on Saturday. This page is a hotch potch of supplies. The large title card is from my most recent SC PL kit. The two patterned smaller cards are from MME. The other 2 are also SC cards. One has just been gussied up with some washi.

 I printed most of these photos with my Selphy. I am really excited about how easy it is to use and now that I have downloaded Pic Tap Go I am hopeful that I won't be using my computer to do much in the way of editing for PL.

Have a great Thursday. Even though I am a few days behind I am linking up to The Mom Collective's PL Tuesday.

Shimelle Starting Point for Subtle Backgrounds

Shimelle posted this starting point a wee while back and to be honest I finished the layout a week or ago too. It is the first layout in ages that I have misted on or used a mask for so it is a bit of a red letter layout.

In my usual disorganised fashion I didn't take a photo of the layout before I added to the starting point!

 

You may recognise these thickers as quite old Amy Tangerine ones. I have two packets of this pattern in varying degrees of used up and am trying hard to use them before opening any of the new ones from the recent CHA. The remainder of this layout comes from scraps of my Wildberry Court add on from the Block Party kit. I adore the Crate Paper background page. I decided to draw upon the red and pink in my daughter's skirt for the background piecing and embellishment. I love these Pink Paislee  mistable hearts and while I had the pink mist out I had a go at a simple ombre mask on some white cardstock. I am pretty happy with how it turned out.

The picture is from one of our many trips to this playground. There are lots of fun things to climb on and a pond with turtles and bridges and a reflexology path for hours of fun. Like so many playgrounds here there is no shade, so a hat and sun block are a must.

Two posts in one day! There must be something wrong with me!

Cake and the missing sketch

In the lead up to Miss Three's birthday I had very limited free time and was working exclusively from sketches. This is another layout from that fortnight.

 These photos were taken at one of Miss Three's friend's parties last year. She and her friends had a wonderful time swimming, eating cake and celebrating a little boy turning two.

This layout is exclusively from my January Studio Calico kits and add ons. I love the mistable hearts and veneer arrows in this kit but decided to keep them nude as there was already a lot going on with the background papers.

I cannot for the life of me find the sketch this layout is based on. I saved this one to my reader but cannot find it. If anyone recognises the sketch please let me know so I can credit it.

Have a wonderful Tuesday.

ETA : I have found the original sketch this was based on! It was an Inspired Blueprint sketch! # 83.

Sticky Fingers A Stuck! Sketch

 

I knew as soon as I saw this sketch that it would be a great one to adapt to a single photo. I rarely scrap multiple photos or 8.5 x 11 but this was an easy switch.

 Two layouts in a  row without a person's face must be some sort of record for me. I was not intending to have Scarlett's hand in shot but she couldn't resist taste testing my breakfast. Funnily enough she is not an enormous fan of yogurt or pancakes so it must have been the honey that caught her eye.

I used my January  Studio Calico kit and an additional label from Dear Lizzy's Lucky Charm collection. I really like the star washi tape from this kit. I kept it fairly monochromatic with a pinch of pink from the berries on the plate.

Thursday is normally my Project Life day but I am still waiting on my Project Life kit from Studio Calico. I know there are some Valentine's Day cards that I would like to use so I have to wait. So frustrating. I seem to be getting my kits later and later each month.

Just a final thought. Tomorrow (the 22nd) is the second anniversary of the earthquake in Christchurch that changed my city and the lives of my friends and family forever. If you are Australia based, SBS is showing an amazing documentary called When A City Falls that will show some of what happened at 8.30 on Friday evening. I lost a good friend in the collapse of the CTV building so my thoughts will be with Matty and all those others who lost their lives. Kia Kaha Christchurch.

Sunset

After being really spoilt with hubby home for a couple of months we are returning to the joys of frequent travel. This week he is in Tokyo. He is already complaining about the cold!

In true Murphy's Law fashion, our air conditioning compressors have both stopped working. In fact this happened while hubby was still at the airport in Singapore. Of course I cannot find the number for our air conditioning people. There is going to be some random phone calling of unlabelled numbers in my cell memory later today!

I have really struggled working with my December Studio Calico kits so I have moved onto my January kits and suddenly, with the help of some sketches, the layouts are flowing again.

This layout is from this sketch by Diane Payne for Write Click Scrapbook.

 
 I kept myself fairly strictly to three colours and really enjoyed playing with some new supplies as well as the kit. I had a little spend up on some flat embellies from Amy Tangerine, Maggie Holmes and Dear Lizzy and I have added a little Dear Lizzy and Maggie Holmes to this one in the form of the labels and tickets. I am also working at using up some of my older Thickers and I love these older Amy Tangerine ones. In fact, I have banned myself  from buying any more Thickers until I have reduced at least five sets to xs and js.

I don't get to see that many sunsets where I live. Often they are blocked by buildings and I am usually cooking or eating dinner or putting a certain small girl to bed when they occur. One day last year all the stars aligned and I managed to see and photograph a sunset through the buildings. When we have really amazing sunsets here it is often as a result of forest fires in Indonesia  so although they look beautiful they really are a sad thing to see.

Have a wonderful Tuesday!