Fiskars Craft

Layout Share- Heidi Grace Cheerful Bee Range

I was lucky enough to get my hands on this gorgeous Range called Cheerful Bee from Heidi Grace to play with.
The range just comes together beautifully and I had so much fun creating this layout.
I cut out some of the flowers from patterned paper, I used my craft knife and my Ultra Shape Xpress to do this and used foam mounting tape to give my layout some dimension.
I drew my title free hand and cut it out with my brilliant Fiskars Microtip Scissors.

Thank you for looking
I hope you all get a little creative time in your day today.
Keep Smiling
Wendy

June challenge winner....

So sorry the challenge announcement is later than usual.
Sickness in the family is big at present but I'm over the worst of it.

Well after some deliberation over the two great entries I must draw a winner.....

***DRUM ROLL PLEASE****

Christine

Thank you so much for both entries. Christine please email [email protected] to claim your prize.

BOM Layout - Things you Treasure

Another page done for my Book of Me - a page about an important heirloom that I have been lucky enough to have passed onto me. 

My parental grandparents led very interesting lives living and working in Shanghai, China from 1924 until 1937.  My Grandparents were British but moved to Shanghai when my Grandpop got a job working for the Shanghai Police Force and my Nana worked for the British High Commission.   During their many years in Shanghai they both developed a life long love for the game of Mah Jong and played it regularly.  They planned to live in Shanghai for the forseeable future and my Father and Uncle were born there, however life took a dramatic turn when the the Japanese over ran Shanghai and all foreigners had to get out fast, my Grandparents got out on the last boat and made their way to live and work in India.  One of the precious items they managed to take with them was the family Mah Jong set.

Luck was not on their side and unfortunately they had to make another decision about where to live when India went through Partition (the division of British India into Pakistan, Bangladesh & India) in 1947 and they chose New Zealand as their final place to live out their days. 

They continued to love Mah Jong and as a small child I remember them playing regularly with my Mother and Father well into the night.  I was taught to play in my teens and played regularly with my parents and husband - many happy nights of laughter and conversation. 

The set was passed to me some years ago and I am now the 3rd generation to own and love this set.  Late last year we decided our son was old enough to learn to play and he has taken to it like a duck to water and often beats us adults - something his Grandmother is very proud of.  He will be the 4th generation to own this set when its his time to have the set passed onto him and I hope he shares all the fun and laughter by teaching his children how to play and spending time as a family around the table, playing, laughing and enjoying each others company.

Do you have any important stories about the things you treasure you need to record in your BOM - if so there is no time like the present!!!.

Tools used

Fiskars template - Circles 1

Fiskars Ultra Shape Express

Product used

Ink by Steph - "Doheney" pattern paper

Heidi Grace - Clear Flourish Stickers "Forever Love"

Kimberley Poloson - Alphabet Stickers "Nature's Flora"

Kimberley Poloson - Word & Border rub-ons "Nature's Flora"

Fiskars BOM Challenge - Favourite Childhood Toy

I love this photo of me.... My parents have few photos of me from when I was little. They couldn't afford to print photos so therefore they took only a few. When my parents found this photo I fell in love instantly. I thought it was just so cute.

The story behind this photo was about the teddy that I am holding. It was a perfect photo for the Book of Me prompt for today. The teddy was a gift to me from my great grandma who lived in Mons, Belgium at the time I was born. I was lucky enough to meet her twice in my life (once when I has the aged in the photo, 2 years old and once when I was 12 years old). She gave me the teddy which was actually a pale blue and white rabbit.. though it never really looked like a rabbit. I went everywhere with it and I got upset when it wasn't with me.

Unfortunately I don't know what happened to the teddy. I guess it finally gave up after being much loved or perhaps it just got lost. I am not sure bit of a shame really.

Here's my layout about this prompt:
 

Products used:
Heidi Grace - Reagan's Closet paper range and clear stamps

I hope to scrap layouts about my children's favourite toys next. I still have all their first teddies and hope to keep them for them for when they get older as a memento of when they were little for them to look back on an remember. I think this is definitely a nice thing to remember.

Why not give this challenge a go.

Cheers, Michelle x

BOM - Favourite Childhood Toy

 

Hello there! Ready for another BOM prompt? Todays inspiration is to scrap a picture of a favourite toy or the memory you have of it. I have been wanting to document Hoppy for many years, so I am really glad this topic came up. Many of my childhood memories revolve around having (or not having lol) Hoppy by my side...so it will come as no surprise that I still have him here! I did pay someone to replicate him for Thomas when he was a baby too...just wanting to share the love, but they did not do a very good job at all. So I let him have the real deal for about 2 days! He wasn't as into him as I thought he would be (go figure!!) so back to the cupboard went Hoppy for another 8 years!

I have used the beautiful range of papers from Cloud 9 called Alyssa's Garden. Is it not just so fun and funky!!! I love it!

Fiskars BOM Challenge - Favourite Smells/Sounds

Another easy layout for my Book of Me album...

This was a very easy topic to record for me... I love nothing more than the smell of perfumed roses or flowers in my garden.

I have jasmine growing just outside my bedroom window.. despite the fact the my darling husband has slight allergies to it I love it when it wafts in at night time.

I also have plenty of roses growing in my garden too. My husband hates them due to all the thorns.. though I am the Green thumb here so he never has to have much to do with trimming them at all. I love my hybrid tea roses and also my rich blood red roses. I also have the most gorgeous peach rose in my front yard too. I think the thing that fascinates me the most is the way in which they grow with very little care at all. They seem to thrive in my garden with a few trims a year, very little water and plenty of sun.

Here's my layout:
 

Products used:
Cloud 9 - Finley's Estate paper range
Kimberley Poloson - clear stamp

Cheers, Michelle x

Fiskars BOM Challenge - Favourite Teacher

I just couldn't resist another chance to scrap a layout for my Book of Me... it has certainly helped that in the last week I have started spring cleaning the whole house.. room by room and found a pile of photos of mine.

When this topic can up I thought it would be fun to record some of my school memories. I remember one of my primary school teachers very well. His name was Mr Aistrope... though we jokingly called him Mr "Applestropp" and it would always make him laugh.. he was strict though also had a very fun side. He taught us to be comfortable with who you are and be yourself no matter what. He was also a very creative story teller and loved trying to trick us!

So here's my layout:

 

Products used:
Cloud 9 - Finley's Estate paper range and clear stamps

I loved taking this trip down memory lane and remembering what things were like when I was in primary school... It seems soooooo long ago.

Happy scrapping, Michelle x

BOM prompt- my first pet

Hi,

Hope you are well and happy this fine day :)Last year we got our first family dog :) She is sooo cute. She is a schnoodle and we love her. He name is Sally and here she is, when we first got her :)

This made me think about my first puppy as a child. She was a poodle and white- and her name was Fefe- we grew up together and she didn't die until i was about 18 - so it was a long relationship :)

Unfortunately for me my young girl photos are all polaroids - not the best and they were all in magnetic albums. They aren't any more - but aren't very good quality. I,of course am going to scrap them anyway. I have used older papers in for this one, mixed with some new embellishments those being CLoud  9 "Allyssa's garden" and Heidi Grace "Sweetest bug" range. The older range is from the Heidi Grace "Love Blossoms"range. ANyway.. here's the lo (I am loving my threading water punch :))

This lo was inspired by one Of trina's sketches as well- but it was one from a while ago, so I am not sure of the date- but thanks Trina :)

Smiles

Shellx

BOM Prompt - Favourite clothing as a Child

Hi Jo here, when the prompts went up and I saw this idea I knew exactly what I wanted to scrap....

My handmade and hand smocked baby dress and hand knitted cardigan that my mother made for me....many years ago (not giving any numbers away).  Unknown to me until quite recently, my Mum had kept a couple of special outfits of mine and my sister and brother and put them away in the attic. 

Well just this Xmas there was one last parcel under the tree for me and it turned out to be from Mum, she had got my dress and cardi out and hand washed and starched my dress (replacing the ribbon that had not survived well) and beautifully wrapped them both in acid free paper and box to pass onto me to keep. 

She told me that she had hoped to put my daughter into this special outfit one day (I had always wanted a baby girl), however as we were only blessed with one much loved child, our son Taylor, after years of trying, this wasn't looking very likely.  So now I have this special outfit and will keep it just in case I am blessed with a grand daugther some time in the future (many years down the track as my son is only currently 11 years old). 

It would be so much fun to see this outfit worn again.....obviously there would be many photos taken and lots of pages to scrap about this.....but until then I've scrapped a page with the outfit and a vintage photo of me in it....I will do a second page and record this story also.....who knows what fate might bring....

This was such a fun BOM prompt....so do you have any favourite clothing as a child, memorable clothing items, styles, fashion etc..did you have matching outfits with siblings???  Great stories to be recorded here.....

Fiskar product used:

Heidi Grace - Punchboard alphas - Reagan's Closet

Heidi Grace - Decorative Pins

Cloud 9 - Alpha Rain Dots - Peony

Fiskars tools used:

Apron Strings Punch

Threading Water Punch 

BOM Prompt - When you first learnt to drive.

I found this photo of our first car, it was a baja VW, perfect for our trips to the beach and our lifestyle at the time. We loved it. Rob (hubby) taught me to drive in it, LOL, I can remember a few arguments but I got there in the end. And yes thats me hiding in the car there.
Here's my LO using the Ink by Steph range. The papers, chipboard and raindots title are all from the range. I discovered with the embossed paper in the background if you rub dye ink over it with a large dauber sponge it brings out the embossing, very cool. Now you can see all the doodling on the paper.
I'll add a closeup pic of it when I have my camera back.

TFL lianne