Mummy, Daddy & Sandyman

The left page was a class I attended, but added a subtracted a few things, then I made the right side to match with a few changes. I made a little book to hold the original photo and journaling, and I was really pleased with the old worn look the I aimed for, its great when a plan works. I love the paper range and colours on this LO, and I really enjoyed working of this.

Party

The last LO of my cousins Christening. I use more of the Lost & Found with stamping, tearing, etc. I made an envelope for the original photos. It doesn't look much like a party, but as I can see the odd glass of beer, and a smoke in my Nannies hand, and it was in the back yard of my Grandparents Hotel, I feel the party may have started after the formal photos.

Halloween

I have just been looking at some of Glen's great Halloween ideas, I now can't wait till next year. We had a party, which was lots of fun. I enjoyed all the planning and making decorations and food, but I was very tired the next day, so we took Miju Japanese exchange student out Yabbying, which was fun, but not god weather for Yabbies, very windy & .cold therefore we only got 2, but now Miju has seen and tasted our famous Yabbies. I am off to the class tonight, which will be good, then I now hope to do some Halloween LOs over the weekend or at least put some photos up for you to look/laugh at.

Christening

I enjoyed woriking with Lost & found again with this LO, I complete this on the 11th of September so I can't remember all the details of what I did, but nothing new, but I am happy with the end results.

Family

I like this page because it has the only photo of my family when I was little. I would have been about one when these photos where taken. It was taken on my cousins Christening day, in the backyard of my Grandparents Hotel. The papers are My Mind's Eye, Lost & Found, I am just loving using this range, I bought some of the flowers and made some, I did some embossing, inking, etc. I made a small envelope to keep the original photos in so they will always be safe, (I have scanned the originals for sharing with others, and a back up). I also translated photo heading into French & Italian just for something to do.

SEW GOOD

Well this was one of the hardest LOs that I have attempted. The colours & patterns in the paper and the emblishment were really different from what I usually work with. So I have struggled big time, hence the time it has taken. I didn't have any photos that really suited, so I finally choose photos of Annabelle's 1st quilt, which had lots of colours and patterns. The paper range are from Bo Bunny "Vicky B", I couldn't use all the different paper as there were so many, but I have use about 6 plus the buttons. First I sprayed onto bubble wrap Spritz Sea Kiss then stampped onto the 2 base sheets of paper, then I used the same colour cotton that was used in the quilt and sewed around the edge. I added a Kaiser Craft sewing model and stuck the material to the back of a photo of the quilt and then drapped it around the model. Raised a couple of flowers, used inks on edges and left strands of cotton hanging around. Cricut Mini Monograms was used for the heading, then with my lovely hand sewing I went aound the letters etc.

Sisters

I am just loving doing these pages. This one is of myself about 5/6 months early 1958 with my big Sister. I loved making some of the flowers, and have found an old doyle to use, made a little envelope to hold the original photos.