April at the Scraplounge

Well I have been busy gearing up for the month of April at the scraplounge. The technique this month was to have white, black plus one colour. Which I chose as red. We also had embellishments donated by the wonderful Nic Create We also had to have women in our lives, so I chose my beautiful niece who had come up and visited. So I took that opportunity to take heaps of photos. It's nice to have a girl to scrap.

We also had a sketch challenge from the wonderful Page Drafts I love Emma's sketches, I find them so inspiring, and certainly makes me think out of my comfort zone.

Here is my layout for the sketch. I loved doing this layout, I thought the photos of my boys worked perfectly with the papers. I had so much fun.

Mad about Scrappin texture pack

I was so excited when Leanne told me I was getting the Mad about Scrappin Texture pack to have a play with and see what I could come up with. I had a great play, in the pack included sand paper, bottle lid, bubble wrap, gutter guard, a little sponge, and some other bits and bobs. I loved playing and being challenge by all the bits in the pack. Go to the Mad about Scrappin facebook page for flog it friday and you purchase a pack there. Here are some of my layouts that I did

Here is a close up of my handmade embellishmetns. I love doing these lollipop flowers when I don't have the right colour embellishments. For those of you who don't know how to make them, you just cut paper into different size circles, scrunch them up, ink the edges, flatten them out and then glue them in a stack. Place a button in the middle and you have your lollipop flower

I loved this phot of Jordan. We were at a friends, and there daughter who is the same age as Jordan had a pink wig, so him being the clown he is put it on. I thought he actually looked quite cute considering he is a boy. The pink kind of suits him. LOL (don't tell him I said that)

Loved using all these things, I had so much fun, and made me think outside the square for my layouts. Loved the bright colours, but I think I have exhausted my stash of girl photos. LOL better have some friends over and take some photos. MMmm or invite my niece up so I can take photos of her.

Mad about Scrappin Design Team

Yeahhhhhhhh!!!!! I am just so excited to announce that I am now a Design Team member of the wonderful Mad about Scrappin you can also find Mad about Scrappin on Facebook. I love Mad's embellisments bits and pieces at the moment, they even have an awesome texture pack, which is for this months challenge. You have to use this pack on your layouts. It came with some amazing items, I think I will have to take a photo of it and show you rather then try and tell you. I just wanted to tell you all the good news. I am just so excited.

Purple Pumpkin Sketch Challenge

I have done the Purple Pumpkin sketch for this month, geez am I on a roll or what???

I have used a template and used spritz on the backing paper and then did my layout over it. Love the shade it has given the pink paper. I loved the Purple Pumpkin embellishments which I thought were very fitting for this layout. Loved this sketch, simple but effective. It was also so nice to get to scrap my niece, and use girly type papers.

Limited Edition Layout

Now that my eldest son is getting that little bit older, I find it hard to get papers that really suit the colours that he tends to wear. So I love this paper, I also used a template and used spritz's to add a bit of dimension on the backing paper. I also love this layout as I have used my scraps to do it, which love using every bit of a range.

Love this photo of my son. We went to Perth, and I decided to get photo happy at the Park. I hadn't taken recent photos because I felt like alot of the photos I was taking were posed just so I had some new photos to scrap (you can tell I am addicted) so I was so excited to have a reason to take photos and more 'natural' photos.

Come and join me in a little Scrapping

Well as you may have noticed with my links down the side, I lost my son Harrison only after 28 hours of giving birth to him. He sadly lost his fight for life to a condition called Congenital Diapghragmatic Hernia. In his memory I have now started up a not for profit organistion, I have a couple of passions that I am working on. One is we scrapbook 6x6 layouts and donate them in a beautiful album to families who tragically lose a baby. Another one of my passions is that we are launching our practical support for families who have a high risk Pregnancy or have been diagnosed with a cogenital abnormality in pregnancy. So as a fundraiser we do a scrapbooking day, people can come along and scrap and have a great time together, by doing this you help us raise much needed funds for us to continue the work that we do and have planned for the future. If you are interested in coming please email me on melanie@harrisonslittlewings.org.au The cost is $25, it is being held at City Church, the corner of Kingston Rd and Queens Rd Kingston. We start at 9am and go to 5pm, lunch is included. All tickets must be purchased before the big day which is the 21st of April.

I really believe us women should ban together with this cause, it sadens me so much that Baby loss is such a taboo subject and nobody wants to talk about it and if it is brought up in a conversation it is very few people want to continue that conversation. Help us to ban together to smash this taboo.

Sent with Love Layout

I really love this paper range, I have gotten soooooo many layouts out of it, I decided I wanted to use my scraps and use every little bit of the paper. I am usually not a minimilist scrapper but really admire scrappers that are good at it and can pull it off. I decided to venture and use the spritz. LOOOOOOOOVE them. I love that you can dress cardstock up so much and make a blank space look flattering.

I really love the photo, it is of my niece and my 2 sons Jordan and Cody. I titled this layout Sent with Love as my niece was visiting, so I felt like she was sent up to give us some love. I had so much fun with her. I love my boys, but it was so nice to have a girl in the house and talk about girly things.