Flourishes

This week we have been going through a whole heap of home movies from when my kiddies were toddlers. After a lot of laughing (mostly my Hubby and myself), I thought about all the pics I have of the kids that seem to be not that important but are really part of there life stories and precious moments.. So on finding this photo of my 2 eldest kids now 12 and 10 (1 and 3 in the pic) with their great Ninny, my Nan I thought it would be a perfect chance to do a special layout... My Nan has since past away and this is something very special that the kids and her shared..
I have entered this LO in Frosted Designs latest challenge to use flourishes.. go on over and check out all the amazing work over there...
Before I share the layout I just wanted to say that even photos that don't seem that important at the time can sometimes end up being very important, I love that fact that my Nans room is so much part of the pic as it really helps bring back all the wonderful memories..
Hope you Like, Happy Scrapping
Tracy xxx

Guest Designer !!!

Well I have to say that I am thrilled, honored and a little nervous about being a guest designer for Frosted Designs.. I absolutely love this blog and all the wonderful challenges they put out..
why don't you pop on over to the Frosted Designs blog and check out their latest challenge and also check out some of the amazing work done by fellow Scrappers..
Below are some pics of my project that I submitted for my Guest designer spot this week.. This is a project I have been wanting to make for a while, a funky phone number book for my eldest daughter 10. I have made it using the Kaisercraft Antique tags.. I used Scrap within Reach The Cottage Collection paper, Kaiser paint and all sorts of chipboard lettering and embellishments out of my stash..
I hope you like it and Happy Scrapping..

Tracy xxx

Sweet Dreams

Ya I have my Mojo back !!!!
I have done this sweet lo of my youngest daughter when she was only 4 Days old.. So I thought I would enter it in the latset Frosted Designs Fabulous Friday Challenge which is to use a medium of clouring eg. pencils textas ect.. So I have used shimmer chalk and a water brush pen to colour in the clouds and rainbow.. The end result is very sweet and soft I think..
Tracy xx

I'm Back...

Ok So I have to appolagise I have been a little slack on the up dates in the last couple of weeks.. I do have a very good reason for this though.. I made the decision about a month or more ago to quit smoking.. and I have done it I HAVE QUIT ... so as you can imagine I have kind of been a mix of crazy emotions and my poor family have been really fantastic to put up with my crazy mood swings... Any way it has now been 2 and a half weeks since I quit and I am feeling great..
I will have to Admit thought that unfortunately you will have to wait a little bit longer for some scrapping layouts as My Hubby and I are off on what I think is a well deserved holiday to Bali in a couple of days. So not only am I packing for us but I have to get the kids all organised to stay with their Grandma and Grandad for the week...
I hope you all had a great Easter and you and your families have stayed safe..
All the best

Tracy xx

Monster Munch....

Over at Sketches in Thyme they have heaps of great sketch challenges.. this Layout of Luke I am entering in their Thursday Sketch layout Takes #42... I used to think that doing layout from sketches was a lazy way of doing pages but boy has my mind changed.. I LOVE using sketches it gives you the idea and then you can just flow with it from there..

Anyway enough rambling here is a Pic sketch #42

And here is my interpritation of sketch #42  MONSTER MUCH!!!

Tracy xx

Stage 1 Veggie Patch

Ok so to some this may seem a bit crazy (especially to the people that know my gardening skills haha!!) but Hubby and I have decided that we are going to, as a Family, try and grow a veggie patch..

To make  this idea work we do of course have to remove a large section of garden.. Now when I say garden I mean bushes/shrubs that are prickly and have been growing in this spot for Approx 30 years..
So Phase 1 of our grand plan has begun.. Yesterday as a Family we got stuck into clearing Our veggie garden sight.. Hubby with the Chain Saw in hand started hacking away at the bushes while the kids got on the gloves and started dragging various sized branches up to me so I could put them in the pile (will maybe burn off not quite sure yet it is rather large and I don't want to be responsible for half the street burning down..).
Now of course half way through the girls started getting worried about any wildlife that might be left homeless, like the bees and the snails or ants.. so we had to deligate wildlife nature preserves, that if they find any insects of animals we can find another home for them..And of course they were worried about the plants we were cutting down so we also had to remind them that remember we are make a veggie garden so that is a good thing because we will be able to eat all the things we grow, and that will be Yummy.!!
Well after 3 hours of hard work we had finally made a great start and cleared the designated area, ( no wildlife was found except a cricket a lady bug and a whole lot of tennis and golf balls)..
So here are a few pics of Stage 1 of our Veggie Patch adventure...

I hope you will follow our Great Veggie Patch adventure and Hopefully Fingers crossed we will have some great home grown veggies soon..
Tracy xx
P.s no wild life was injured in the making of this Veggie Patch... But my Arms are very sore today.. HEHE!!

BLING

What a great excuse to do a really girly page.. Frosted Designs challenge for this week is Bling..

So with this in mind I thought I would do a cute page on My youngest daughters favourite Teddy Elly Belly.. It was the perfect page to add some bling too and cute it up.. Hope you like it...
Tracy xx