Send in the Clowns - By Crece

Hope everyone has been having a wonderful weekend. Today I would love to share with you a Double Page layout I created using some old Echo Park papers and Purple Pumpkin Embellishments.

My boys were in the same class in 2010 and the theme for the term was "circus" so on one of the days they had to dress up as clowns, and what mother wouldn't take photos of their kids when they look so cute??? 

 This is the left hand side of the layout, i have used a vinyl circle/star embellishment, a doily and a orange spotted button...

This is a close up of the circle/star embellishment sitting on top of a folded rosette, it adds dimension to the layout. 

 This is the right hand side of the layout, here i have used doily, Large Monkey Button, yellow vinyl tag and some spotted buttons.

Close up of the Large Monkey button, doily and yellow vinyl tag.

My boys go back to school tomorrow, and they are so excited...they are going to a NEW school...if your children are going back to school this week I hope they have a wonderful first day back.

xxx

Savvy Quote Challenge by Sar

Tara's Quote Challenge in the Scrapbook Savvy forum inspired me so much this month.

The quote 'Wherever we are Together, That is Home' just led me straight to a photo of my husband & I...and as my journalling reads 'It started with us, it ends with us, we are are what makes our family'. I believe this with my whole heart - we are in this together, our babies wouldn't be here without us and our marriage...so we need to do our best to keep our world together and make our world a wonderful place for our family. Its work, every day, as anyone in a marriage would know...but its also such a blessing, a gift, something that should never be taken for granted for one day. We are lucky to have eachother, and I can still proudly say I am madly in love with my gorgeous hubby. Bit soppy huh?! Sorry, will move onto the scrapping now... ;)

My layout, using two gorgeous Purple Pumpkin buttons and the twine which just gets used over & over again on just about every layout I complete!


A closeup of my journalling and the large tree button.


A closeup of my title as well as a small tan spotty button & twine.


Thanks for visiting, hope you have a scrappy weekend!

A Bit of Lime Here and There...

As a scrapper, i like to have a go at a few challenges which usually are posted at the start of a month and you have until the last day to complete - plenty of time..LOL

And one of my fav's is White with 1. Of course you have to use the colour white plus one other colour. But then there is always a technique or embellishment which you have to include on your layout.

You know i love bright and funky, so when i saw that this months criteria was lime and buttons, i knew that i wanted to have a go and not miss out.

Look at these fantastic buttons from Purple Pumpkin. And a bonus was that is the embellishment which you have to include on your layout.

The twine i decided to swirl around my page:

Hope you enjoed my post and the holidays with the kids.

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spots on spots

I dont think it's any secret that I love spots, and lots of them!!

I love to layer them on top of each other, and have done that on this layout.

I have the spotty background, with the orange spotty tape on top of that, and then a cute spotty green button on them both.. I then have the banner underneath with the stars on it. I love the effect all of the similar patterns! Other Purple Pumpkin embellies include the blue ticket, that I have used as a date label, the pink twine which has also added some extra interest to the button, and that gorgeous doilie!!

Just a close up of the spots on spots, and the looped twine

ticket and doilie

Tutu Cute Mini Album

Hello Purple Pumpkin Fans!  It's Tracey blogging today with some fun ways to incorporate Purple Pumpkin goodies into a mini album.

I am all about dangles so if you look carefully at the top binding ring, you will see one of our vinyl tags hanging from a pearl clip.

I have been saving this deer button for so long....I finally found the pefect home, nestled in this flower cluster.

Another fun forest critter here on a vinyl tag.

And one of my two ballerinas just loving every moment.

Another vinyl tag used here.  I used the entrie set of hearts/tags vinyl in addition to the buttons, tickets and twine seen throughout.  For more details on the inside pages, you can check out my blog.

Thanks so much for visiting!

Tracey

The perfect button... :)

Hello! I have developed quite a love for buttons on my layouts in recent times. The top of the pops for me are any Purple Pumpkin fabric buttons. They have that lovely tactile quality and they really pack a punch on your page! Spotty Dotty buttons tend to be perfect for any layout. They come in so many colours and they match any theme!

Here is my latest example layout for Get Picky called "You Put the Bounce in My Day"...


For the large circle in the background, I used a dinner plate as a template on the cardstock and drew around it lightly with a pencil. Then after I had finished scrapping my layout I added buttons along the centre of the pencil line. It was fun and it really went well with my theme of bouncing around!

Here's a couple of closie shots...


I've used black paint pen to outline my patterned paper strips. Now I really love the "pop" factor of this Purple Pumpkin Spotty Dotty button. Red and white is one of my fave combinations... for these kind of buttons and lots of other stuff too! The lovely button stands out heaps, even though it's on similar coloured patterned paper. It almost looks as if it's bouncing into the photo... cool!

I've also used some PP tickets on there too. Just two actually, but when cut in half and kinda tucked away... voila! They then appear to be four! :)


I've used lace on this layout (shock!) which is unusual for me, but I thought they'd serve as nice clouds and it looked pretty cool in a bow with some ribbon bow buddies. :D

Thanks for looking! Don't forget about this month's sketch challenge! I hope you are able to play along with us!

Cheers,
Chantal
xo

Backyard Fun

Is it really summer???

To pick a hot day this year has been hard to say the least. But when it was warm on this particular day, i made the most of the photo opportunity's. Emma just loves to play around the most out of my 3 girls. So i can capture the most fun & play pics of her all the time.

This layout is based on a new site called Sketches with a Twist. You can check them out here.

I love the variety of coloured tickets. They match perfectly with any themed layout.

How BIG is that spotty button???
I adore these colours - they are so bright and funky !!

Hope you enjoyed looking at my creation.

Have you checked out our Jan Sketch????

Why not take a look see while you are here....