I love doing little projects for around my home. Hubby often leaves his ugly box of epsom salts lying around the bathroom so I decided it was time to make a prettier storage solution. I had a few spare minutes today and two spare little jars lying around so quickly sat down to pretty them up. One is of course housing the epsom salts and the other is holding cotton buds (another neccessity according to hubby); it makes my heart happy to see something prettier sitting in our main bathroom.

Until next time x

Scrapbooking Memories Honourable Mention

2014 resulted in my second entry into the Scrapbooking Memories Masters competition. Whilst winning is a dream for I'm sure many of us scrappers, the fact that I got an honourable mention was the best consollation prize! I was incredibly excited to see my layout whilst flicking through the magazine. To the other ladies who recieved honourable mentions, and especially to the Masters themselves, a huge congratulations. So many talented ladies in the scrapbook world.

Favourite 2014 Layout

Whilst looking for something in my craft room tonight I came accross this layout that was published last year in Scrapbooking Memories. I *think* it's probably my favourite layout from last year so thought I should share!

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Until next time x

Scrapping Imperfect Photos

If you're anything like me you tend to scrap the better photos, even though you have stacks of not-so-good phone photos that really capture the memories. The best photos, the ones on my DSLR, make for the best scrapbook pages. BUT scrapping is all about memory keeping, so this year it's my mission to scrap the most imporant moments, whether they be great photos or terrible ones.

I got started with two memories I was yet to scrap for lack of good photos: the first of New Years Eve on our cruise and the second of our first night in our very own home.

OUT FOR 

PUBLICATION

Until next time x

My wonderful grandparents

My grandparents are awesome, I can't even tell you. I'm very lucky to be 28 with both maternal grandparents still in my life, so I wanted to dedicate a page to them. I kept it simple, I really wanted the photo to be the focus.

Hope everyone's 2015 is off to a fantastic start.
Until next time x

First Post For 2015!

Am I the only one who cannot believe it is now 2015?! The older I get the more time seems to fly.

I spent most of the day scrapping today, here are two layouts to share for now. The first is with a lot of the Maggie Holmes Open Book collection embellishments, it's possibly my favourite collection ever. I just adore the flowers and frames. I'm actually considering stocking up on the flowers!

And the second is with a background cut from my Silhoutte, I'm so in love! With the machine that is, not my own scrapbook work ;)

Both are photos from our first cruise at the end of 2013, going into Jan 2014. I absolutely adore holidays and travelling, I love to go back and scrap them. Particularly when I have no immediate plans for another one.

Until next time x

My new Silhoutte!

My posts have been few and far between in a long while, I have hardly scrapped unfortunately! But I finally, after years of desperately drooling over cutting machines, got a Silhoutte Cameo for Christmas! So today I sat down for the first time in months and scrapped, with the help of my new machine friend.

And this page is one of my new favourites. I'm in love with the Silhoutte already.

OUT FOR

PUBLICATION

Until next time x

A wedding Layout

We had quite a few weddings at the beginning of this year so I thought it about time I documented more of them! This one was my cousins wedding. Her Greek fiancé had only recently moved out from Greece after a long wait so it was an incredibly special day!

A little publication excitement!

Last months issue of Scrapbooking Memories included my first OTP project publication. I was super excited to see basically two pages with pics/instructions of my project. Definitely a 'whohoo' moment for me!

Here's some terrible iPhone shots of the mag the night I recieved it!

Scrap Around The World

I've been working on my Masters challenges the last few weeks so haven't done much other scrapping. I did manage the below layout for the August Scrap Around The World Challenge (check it out here: http://scraparoundtheworld.blogspot.com.au/2014/08/august-2014-challenge-16-elegant.html?m=1 )

The moodboard:

At first I wasn't sure what to do with this moodboard but I adored the top left picture, with the beautiful long, flowing, turquoise dress so I decided to start with some watercolours to create a similar effect on my page. Next I added in some cork elements as inspired by the cork board on the top right. The middle picture on the bottom row reminded me that I had some blue feathers in my stash so I quickly added that in, plus some gold accents to suit the general moodboard theme. (Oh and a handcut flowing title, no cutting machine here!)

In the end, whilst it took me a minute to decide my direction with this challenge I ended up loving this moodboard as it was so incredibly versatile yet inspiring at the same time!

Until next time