January Scrapping

 Hi everyone,

Hope you all had a very happy Christmas and New Year.  Hopefully you were able to find some time to have a rest and some creative time.

My two layouts today are from our recent trip to Spain and Portugal.

We went to a Flamenco show in Seville - the home of Flamenco.  One of the benefits of going on a tour is that the tour manager knows the best places to go.  This is her favourite!

ST Retro Squares Stencil

CB6118 Boho 01

CB6015 Treble Cleffs 02

CB1205 Mini Tags 01

CB1236 Scrap Words 22

My favourite city that we visited is Porto in Portugal. We joined everyone else on the bridge for the sunset.  Worth the effort.  Another one of my favourites is Orange.  Just had to put them both together!

ST9108 Snowflakes

CB1236 Scrap Words 22

CB5137 Ornate Toppers 01

Hope you have gained to inspiration from my layouts and the fabulous Scrapmatts stencils and chipboard.

Until next month,

Happy Scrapping

Lisette 💜

Selfies

Hi everyone

With everyone busy getting ready for Christmas and the holidays, I hope you put aside some time (probably after Boxing Day) to refresh the soul by doing some creating.

In September Hubby and I did a tour of Spain & Portugal.  We then stopped in the UK to visit family.  We had such a wonderful time although very busy.

I think the only time we take selfies is when we are on holidays!

My first layout was done for the White with 1 challenge in November - yes you picked it! It was green.  What perfect inspiration for this photo of our first day in Madrid.  I just so happened to be wearing a green t-shirt.

ST5006 Circles 

CB1236 Scrap Words 22

CB6115 Assorted Words 28

CB1192 Scrap words 04

CB1159 Hearts 05

CB1024 Flowers 04

CB1205 Mini Tags 01

Another Selfie layout!  This time we are in Granada looking across to the Alhambra.  

This is quite a simple layout for me.  No stencilling, but have used a fabulous Scrapmatts title and flourish.  This was another November challenge, this time from Soul Scrappers Challenges.

CT175 This is Us

CB5189 Flourish & Leaves 01

Wishing you a very happy Christmas, however you celebrate.  Have fun with your family and friends.

Until next time

Happy Scrapping

Lisette 🎄

Retreat creating

 Hello again all my lovelies

Todays pages were completed at the November Scrapmatts Retreat at Neville.

It is always so nice to go there with my bestie Kim and catchup with all the other ladies who go.

First up is my gorgeous little  neighbour Alaina with her new little bunny, Inka.

I used lots of Scrapmatts goodies on this page, including a really lovely stencil. All the chippy pieces were inked and for the little daisy like flowers once they were a bit damp from the ink I folded them to the centre to make a lot of dimension. The background pices I also inked but then cut up and tucked throughout the page, and of course a few little bling gems were perfect for the flower centers and also on the stencil daisies.

 PRODUCTS USED

ST5030 - Flowers

CB1024 Flowers 04

CB Feathers 02

5mm Champagne Acrylic Craft Gems

CT070 Totally Cute

Next page is of my cousin Michelle and Aunt Laurel who visited from WA and spent the weekend with 

me before heading off to see other family. I have no memory of my Aunt Laurel but I have been told that as a child she came and visited us. We had such a lovely time together and managed to show them some of the lovely sights Orange has to offer.

For this page I again used a beautiful stencil with ink the same colour as the paper and the flowers on my top. The title a lovely shade of blue and the other chipboard pieces green plus 2 little cute yellow inked butterflies.

PRODUCTS USED

CT159 Me & My Family

CB5166 Leaf Spray 15

CB176 Wildflowers 03

ST9106 Pattern

Well that is it for me for the month.

Hope that you are all doing well.

Hugs and love

Annette xx

Fabulous Ladies

Hi everyone

Sorry I have been missing in action these last couple of months.  We had a fabulous overseas holiday to Spain, Portugal and London, and then some technical difficulties!

Before I show you layouts from our trip, I want to share a couple of recent layouts of some beautiful netty ladies in my life.  

I recently attended a scrapbooking retreat and these layouts were inspired from some online challenges.  I hadn't scrapped for ages and find that these challenges are great to get the mojo flowing.

ST9024 Brick Stencil

ST5084 Stencil Symbols

CB1268 Floral Spray 16

CB4069 Ornate Frames 26

CB6117 Assorted Words 30

CB1236 Scrap Words 22

ST9076 Cobblestones Stencil

CB1249 Stars 04

CB1236 Scrap Words 22

There are many online challenge sites who have new themes each month.  Its a great way to be inspired to create.

Hopefully I will now get back to regular posting!  I have some great layouts for you in the next few months - photos from our trip.

Happy Scrapping

Lisette 😊

November Creating

 Good evening my lovelies.

I am very late with my post today but considering that I missed last month completely at least I am here now.

For this month I have two very beautiful girls in very different poses, the first is my beautiful little neighbour, Alaina who looks so cute in her little overalls that belonged to her dad when he was around the same age, his Mum had kept them and bought them over when she came for a visit. Really do suit her so much.

For the page I used a leafy type stencil with some Forest Moss ink, the same color I used on the chippy pieces except for the title which was already black.

I am a big fan of putting cardboard under photos, raising them up to add some dimension and interest to the page, in this case I only did it behind the smaller pic.

PRODUCTS USED

ST9073 Leaves Stencil

CB4063 Leaf Spray 13 - White Mist

CB5189 Flourishes & Leaves 01

CB6103 Scrap Words 21

Next is a stunning pic of a friend's daughter, as soon as I saw it, I knew I had to scrap her, may have done it and then asked if I could use her pic, thankfully once she saw the layout Mum was very happy.

On this page I used some music notes which I left raw, a piece of the Doorway set inked orange to match the background behind her and some of the gorgeous little lace flowers.

PRODUCTS USED

CB6017 Music Notes 02

CB5118 Doorway 01

LM017 Set of 5 White Lace Flowers with Pearl

Well that is me for the month.

Hopefully I will be back on track for December, oh my goodness, it will be here before we know it.

I look forward to going to the Retreat at Neville in a couple of weeks, with Kim Ewins, we always have such a lovely relaxing time there, and the ladies are just so nice and welcoming.

Until next time

Hugs and love

Annette 

xx