Christmas in the Park

Well as you know down here in the Southern Hemisphere we celebrate Christmas in the summer.  One of the big things locally is Christmas in the Park, it is a charity concert held in the Domain in Auckland City.  In 2011 my daughter was fortunate enough to be part of the entertainment.  It was a wonderful experience not only for her but the rest of the family.  The concert is also televised around NZ so it is quite a big thing.  As I am on a scrapbooking binge at the moment I pulled out the photos and made a couple of layouts. I am enjoying getting back into scrapbooking as I haven't done any in a while, so whilst looking for some inspiration I found a blog called Once upon a Sketch.  So this page is inspired by their August sketch.  I must say there are some really nice layouts on their blog......well worth a looksee.

My daughter is the taller of the two, the other beauty is her best dancing buddy.

The paper I used is from Websters Pages and the embellishments are a selection of Websters, Prima and Wild Orchid Crafts.  The journalling is computer generated as I am still not happy with my hand writing style, It seems to take over the page and I want my jouranlling to be a little more subtle.

Go Nicky boy Go

I have been trying to complete a scrapbooked album of a trip to Australia in 2009.  Every now and again I complete a page and I really only have a few photos left to go but find the inspiration has run a little dry.  Whilst I was cruising down the google highway the other day I came across a new challenge at the Scrappin Patch.  They are inticing you to use your stash to create a layout, every week for a month.  Well hey I thought that would probably almost finish the album. There is a sketch to follow and the only rule is you must use products purchased before 2012.........don't have any of those...... yeah right?  So here is a boy racer in the making.

I have now discovered that taking a photo of a full layout is actually not that easy and yet I see them on other blogs and they look great.  May have to investigate just how they do that, if anyone has any advice please feel free to share....

I used some "old" Websters Pages paper and made the rosette from scraps.  The Winner banner is also cut from Websters paper as are the little tickets.  I added some twine and there you have it.  Can't wait for next weeks sketch and another page completed.

Do you Believe in Fairies?

Well do you?  I always did as a child and I always believed my toys had parties at night.  A child with a vivid imagination indeed so vivid thats where my best friend was. It concerned my parents greatly I can tell you......  Anyway I had to cover a little box for a project some time ago and of course you can't just buy one little paiper mache box but had to buy 4.  So these have been sitting and winking at me for a while (theres that imagination again).  I decided to have a look at LOTV to see what new stamps were about and discovered they have a "anything but a card" challenge happening.  So enter a little box and a Fairy.

This is the top of the little box the flowers continue down the front as you see from the next photo although, darn it this photo is a little blurred.  Will have to fix it and reload later but you get the idea.

This next photo is the inside of the lid as I covered the inside.  we have Angel Week coming up at work and thought this would be nice filled with some special chocolates as one of the gifts. You get to spoil a person everyday for a week with little treats and you remain anonymous.  Its a lovely make you feel special week.

I am going to also enter this into the LOTV challenge.