Nee Naw...

Oliver is currently obsessed with 'Nee Naws'. That's any type of emergency vehicle to you and me. If he hears a siren he gets so excited he looks like he may combust! His new favourite toys are the fire engine and ambulance that he got as Easter presents. He spends hours putting the men in and out of them and pressing the buttons to make the sirens come on.




I decided to use some Cosmo Cricket papers to go with the vehicle theme. I cut out the cars and covered them in glossy accents to make little embellishments. I used some tickets as bases for these cars and also one of my new favourite products: Pink Paislee Artisan Tapes, which I pleated across sections of the layout.

To create the title I used a chipboard 'n' as a mask and sprayed onto the kraft card with brown and cream mists. I went around the outline of the letter with a pen to make it stand out more. Some white acrylic paint was applied and I used a set of lego wheels to make some marks in it to add texture. (I also repeated this in other parts of the layout to break up the colours). I then stamped the rest of the letters over the top. I used the lego wheels again, this time dipped in some black acrylic paint, to make the wheel pattern across the page. The wheels took quite a bit of cleaning up afterwards but I'm sure Evie won't notice that I borrowed them!

Thanks for looking :)

My Mother's Day layout..

...was featured on the 'Scrapbook & Cards Today' blog today :D

http://scrapbookandcardstodaymag.typepad.com/scrapbook_cards_today_blo/2010/05/mothers-day-readers-submissions.html

It put a little smile on my face, especially to be featured alongside Lisa Truesdell who is one of my scrapbooking idols.

His favourite toy...

The April sketch on the Sarah's Cards blog inspired me to create this:



I have used loads of old bits and bobs, including some 'Love Elsie' Christmas stickers which I used to embellish the swirly pattern on the paper. The paper felt quite 'flat' so I also added some white doodled circles to add a bit of interest. I also used a white pen to add tiny dots to the blue paper behind the photo to tone it down slightly. I added some horizontal machine stitching across the paper strips to help draw the eye around the page.

Evie chose this Postman Pat van for Oliver last summer and ever since, it has been his favourite toy. When I added the date, I was trying to show the years '09 and '10 but it looks more like Sept 10 so I think I'll have a play with that bit of the layout to make it clearer. There's a distinct lack of journalling on this page for me but I think the picture and title say it all and I went for the less is more approach this time.

Thanks for looking :)