Fun in the Sun - Bailey & Brooke

I used a sketch for this layout idea - not sure where it came from, so am not able to give credit to the person who created it.

This is my son and niece Brooke playing with some friends on the beach.

Fun in the Sun

I wanted to challenge myself to use patterned paper as my base and old embellishments etc from my scrapbooking stash, this is the result - am not 100% convince I like it, jury's out on that one.

But I do love the photos - the memories of watching my niece play at the beach - she just loves the water & sand and had such a great time, it was cold but it wasnt going to stop her.

First Hugs & Dressing Up

My son meeting his cousin for the first time.

I had two copies of the layout one for my niece's album and one for my son's album.

This is my niece Brooke & her friend Laila, they love dressing up everytime they have a play date.

These layouts were inspired by Nichol Magouirk from Two Peas in a Bucket - I love her layout designs.

Sports Day

Bailey's sports day at Primary School.

I often struggle to select just one photo from an event for my layouts, therefore I often find myself doing multiple photo layouts, this layout has 9 photos. But I think I love the challenge of trying to make it both fit and work together.

Payton - 6 months

Payton 6 Months This layout is a lift from Megan Hoeppner in Creative Keepsakes. This layout is great for using scraps from previous layouts. I am going through a stage of "squares" in my layouts. I loved Payton's eyes in this photo and stand out everytime I look at the page.

Remembering Kashin & Auckland Zoo

I absolutely love the layouts created in the "From Start to Finish" YouTube videos from Nicole Magouirk from Two Peas in a Bucket. I have been inspired by a number of her videos in the past couple of months and these two layouts are lifts from her. Remembering Kashin - a layout about an elephant we had at our local zoo. I loved visiting this elephant as a child and my son also did as a child. The pasting of Kashin was very sad for our city and country as Kashin was an animal favourite for many New Zealanders who visited the zoo. The Sunday following Kashins death they had a free open day at the zoo where we could go and see Kashins resting place which is now off limits to the public - Bailey and I wanted to go, it was raining out but worth braving the cold and wet. Auckland Zoo - a layout with photos I have had sitting in my stack for a long time.

A sisters love

This is a photo of my two nieces. Brooke (aged 3) was so excited she was becoming a new sister and I think the 9 months of waiting almost became to much, while we were worried she wouldnt cope with a new person taking away the attentional she had as the baby of the family.

However, from the minute she first saw her sister until now (7 months on) she has shown unconditional love and admiration from her sister ~ I think they are going to be great friends.

Papers: Echo Park's "Life is good" Collection