Born to be a Dad

I have been very patient about starting to scrap some of the photos from our photo session in New Zealand. I received a great set of new supplies recently and they included some beautiful Glitz Designs papers. I grabbed one of the black and white photos from the day and whipped up this very simple layout.

I knew with all the action in the patterned paper I needed to keep everything else pretty simple. I added a couple of additional heart embellishments in the form of a paper strip and some stickers to go with the paper I mounted the photo on.

Here is a close up with the journalling.

I love this photo and it was the last shot of the session, taken as we were heading back to the car. We had a wonderful time having the photos taken and there will be a number of the images appearing in layouts in the future.

It was a bit of avoidance working on this layout. I had received 14 weeks of Project Life photos and they were a little overwhelming. An unrelated layout seemed like a much better bet.

I should give fair warning that I am working hard to catch up Project Life. I have completed a couple of weeks worth already this week and this blog could be PL heavy over the next couple of weeks.

Love: A Stuck?! Sketch

I had a hot streak of scrapbooking time this week and managed to get another layout completed. I had just over an hour for this one so I decided a sketch would certainly be helpful.

Here is the sketch I found on the Stuck?! site.

 

And here is my take.

I had this photo enlarged with the thought of framing it but I had not managed to get round to that. Instead I decided to use it. It is one of my favourite photos of my husband and daughter together. They really do adore each other.

I used my February SC kits for this layout in terms of paper. I love this cross hatch styled background paper. In the interests of continuing to reduce my stash I grabbed an older unopened pack of thickers and some 2009 Sassafrass flowers! I also added in some Websters Pages buttons and a selection of more recent SC arrow stickers and labels. I love the white space in this layout. I can see me repeating this sketch.

In other news Spotify has finally arrived in Singapore and I am so excited! Constant streaming of music that I like. What's not to love? I am working at fine tuning my channel and having so much fun doing so. I had forgotten how good great music makes me feel.

Have a wonderful weekend. We have a few things planned over the weekend so I hope to have some fun photos and events to share.

 

Busy Days

December is nearly upon us and life is getting a little more frantic. There is a lot of change being signalled at hubby's work early next year and with that comes uncertainty about where we will be living by the middle of next year. We would love to remain in Singapore but odds are we will be elsewhere in South East Asia or perhaps we may even have to return to New Zealand. It makes for a challenging time. Thank goodness for blogging and scrapbooking where I can get some of that stress out in the open!

We have a surprise for Scarlett this afternoon. Hubby is taking a half day and we are off to see a Disney Live Performance at the Marina Bay Sands this afternoon. She is a great fan of all things Disney so we hope it will cheer her up. She is still sick but definitely brighter than yesterday. Mean Mummy made her rest most of the day yesterday and it appears to have paid off.

I have another simple layout to share. It used my favourite paper of the last year. I am a big fan of MME but this muted chevron paper really captured my heart. I kept the layout pretty minimal so the paper could sing.

I am still a big fan of the MME enamel dots and maybe went just a little overboard with them! Can you have too much of a good thing? The photo is from Tet's work's family day. I love the way it captures how he holds Scarlett and the lovely location  the event was held at.

Right I had better sort out some lunch and we need to be all ready so we can snatch one of the booster seats at the theatre, otherwise Scarlett will be on our knees all afternoon! Enjoy your Thursday!