AmiraInOz

Hello crafty friends! Love & Art !! Yup!  Valentine's Day is right around the corner. And speaking of love, can I just say how much I LOVE the Carta Bella 'Hello Sweetheart" paper collection in the February Kit!! I loved the flowers in this paper so I knew I wanted to fussy cut them out and use them somehow. I loved a few elements from this journaling cards paper- namely Zoro and the salt and pepper shaker. Loved the ombre hearts here and I wanted to incorporate them somehow. The VIKING!!! And the striped black and white!! No more needs to be said! And since it's almost Valentine's Day, I thought I would do a memory keeping layout of my own resident Viking (shhhh don't tell HIM that!). I started off in a DIY Traveler's Notebook Insert that I made myself. I choose a page that picked up hubby's blue shirt as a good starting point. Next, I created layers underneath the picture using the...

Hi everyone, I have been wanting to evolve my memory keeping this year and I thought I would try a new style which I am sharing with you today. I printed 2 x pictures of my son wearing these ridiculous panda and unicorn animal heads from Kmart  and I wanted to scrap a very fun and very colourful layout incorporating papers and die-cuts I picked up in my latest haul (check it out HERE ). I am working in my DIY TN Inserts. If you are interested in making one yourself, check out my tutorial HERE . I loved this 3" x 4" journaling card which pretty much describes the advice I raise my boys by. The right hand side of my double spread layout contained stamping, die-cuts and journaling. It also has THE MORE PERFECT sentiment which I made the title of this layout. Had to add some Converse to denote 'teenagerism'. The left hand layout contained that journaling card and this fab 'WHAT' cut out and this cu...