The expanded layout.

I flipped Denise’s super template and did the other pictures I tried to get that day LOL to make a 2 page LO. You have to know when you are beaten, the best picture is on its own. Denise has another fabby template up in response to a request from Alyson P, for a monthly summary page. Boy is she fast, and good ! Her own layout with it is just gorgeous, makes me want to play with the So Sunny kit, but first we have to sweep out under the house and garage. I am motivated to work fast this morning LOL.
Best wishes, Erika

A great template, and my layout !

On Ikea Goddess this morning I spotted this amazing template by NeeCeeBee Designs, that I snagged immediately. I had some photos I had tried to take of my kids and two of their cousins from when they were visiting us last year. We have this gorgeous park down the road from us on the river bank with a boat theme and a little boat that the kids can play in. Perfect for a photo right ? Yeah try getting two (then) three year olds, a 6 month old, and a righteous 6 year old (telling the cheeky three year olds to behave please), to all even just look at the camera normally, never mind smiles. LOL. It didn’t work, but I still wanted to capture the moment because it was such a good laugh. So this is the layout, using the NeeCeeBee Designs template, and Ellie Lash’s gorgeous Scatter Sunshine Kit. I L-O-V-E this kit (learnt from Brooke at Ahhh Scraps to spell it out for emphasis LOL). Check out Brooke's blog for a great CU freebie also. I am going to flip the template to the other side of the page where I tried to get them all sitting under one of the big fig trees (some people just don’t learn LOL).
Oh and the noisy woisy boy-sy actually took the news of no soccer better than expected, but I still made them chocolate pancakes for breaky – I am such a bad mummy. Now we just have to explain to hubby why we didn’t save any for when he gets back from diving – I am such a bad wife LOL.
Off to do some washing (it seems to multiply overnight !)
Erika

Layout for the Sunshine Studios Challenge

Like everyone else I was having fun on the hunt for clues in Scrap Orchard and the Sunshine Studio Scraps today and picking up that gorgeous kit. In addition to the amazing freebee (how generous are those ladies) I grabbed two of Ellie Lash’s kits, and one of Lliellas. I had seen these two kits on Ellie’s blog, whilst admiring a gorgeous layout of her boys.
I’ve had a set of photos I took of my daughter at 3 months old (yes that is well over 3.5 years ago LOL), that I have been waiting to scrap. You know that photo that is so “perfect” that you are almost intimidated to scrap it, or you get a form of paralysis because it becomes too important. Well this photo was like that. What made it worse was there is a strong yellow in the background of the photo that needed the right papers and elements to go with it. As soon as I saw Ellie’s Star Gazing kit, the light bulb went on and I thought of this photo. I also grabbed her Scatter Sunshine kit, which is just fantastic, to scrap some other piccies I have been stumped by. I decided to make the layout with the word art for their challenge this week because it just fitted the photo perfectly. Aaahh serendipity LOL, sometimes you just have to be patient LOL (3.5 years patient !). Anyway, here is the layout I came up with (I know very boring to lots, but I am a conservative scrapper). Now I just have to figure out how to upload it to the gallery ROTFL.
Best wishes,
Erika

Sunshine Girl's Easter Egg Hunt Layout

Here is a layout I made with Ellie's portion of the Sunshine Girl's easter treats. The colours were perfect. This is my daughter with her pre-school easter bonnet parade. We had been asked to make Easter Bonnets for the day after St Patricks Day, when we had to send them in something green. Because really we have nothing else to do but make costumes ! Anyway work and life in general are crazy at the moment, so I "outsourced" the bonnet and bought one at Spotlight. I see it as my civic duty to stimulate the economy LOL.

The easter egg hunt at the sunshine girls was just fantastic, easy to follow and gorgeous colours and designs. I've said it before but I just continue to be amazed and humbled by the generousity of the digi scrapping community.

Best wishes,

Erika

Sunshine Girls Challenge

Aha - finally figured out how to upload the piccies properly. LOL, I am a total ludite so please be patient. I will repost the previews so you can see what is in the Bargara Dreams Kit.

Anyway - here is my entry to the Sunshine Girls first challenge check out their blog at http://sunshinestudioscraps.com/blog/ - 14 things about me. Since the piccie was taken of my and hubby at Fraser Island (Lake Mackenzie for those who know it) I figured I would use my beach stuff. The journalling strips are from Shabby Princess' Harvest Spice range (with the colour amended) http://www.shabbyprincess.com/ .

I mixed up some serious and light hearted details, all G rated Shauna don't worry I haven't let you down !

Hope everyone is having a fantastic day.

Best wishes,

Erika