Cole's First Christmas | Crate Paper

Day 9 of #ALCalendarChallenge2022

I'm back with another beautiful Santa photo this time it's my niece and her partner with their 1st Christmas as parents to their gorgeous boy. He is my first great nephew on my hubby's side of the family. I have 7 on my side!

My inspiration for this layout was to create a faux ribbon background by cutting strips of patterned papers. I adhered some straight on and others I sewed onto my layout. 

(I ran out of thread and couldn't find the instructions on how to replace the bobbin on my handheld sewing machine) 

I have used Crate Paper Hey Santa Collection for my layout 

Happy Creating 

Kerrie

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Cole's First Christmas | Crate Paper

Christmas Magic | Crate Paper

Day 8 of #ALCalendarChallenge2022

Another Christmas layout I love this Santa photo of my great nephews and great niece with their new puppy

My inspiration for this layout was creating tags for layers and for the hidden journaling 

I have used Crate Paper Hey Santa collection for this layout 

Happy Creating 

Kerrie

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Christmas Magic | Crate Paper

Holiday Cheer | Crate Paper

Day 7 of my #ALCalendarChallenge2022

I took my inspiration was from the stitched squares but instead of fabric I created paper stitched squares

These are my furbabies "excited" for Christmas 

Cadbury being a lab will do anything for a treat but our Sassy Sunny well she is not happy at all being made to suffer not only wearing anything strange but sitting to have a photo taken

messy stitches, I have a handheld sewing machine which I am still getting used to but I quite like the messiness of my stitching 

I have used Crate Paper Hey Santa Collection for this layout

Happy Creating 

Kerrie

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Holiday Cheer | Crate Paper

Every Summer Has It's Own Story | Simple Stories

Day 6 of #ALCalendarChallenge2022 

Another fun time at Bribie with the kiddos, this sequence of photos I saved from a video I took of Miss A getting the kids to jump off the sandbags down onto the beach

Taking videos and then capturing a sequence of photos is a great way to show movement in your layouts

as per the calendar tip I wrote out my journaling and then cut it up to fit onto the tag

I have used Simple Stories Hello Summer Collection again for this layout

Happy Creating 

Kerrie

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Every Summer Has It's Own Story | Simple Stories

Life is Good | Simple Stories

Day 5 of #ALCalendarChallenge2022 

For this fun layout of my furgrandbabies enjoying the beach at our Ives family Christmas.  

This is a tradition we have with my Mum's side of the family where early December we all meet at Bribie beach to catch up for the year before the silly season really takes off. We have been doing it for many years and we all look forward to it especially the doggos as you can tell by their smiles 

I used a selection of stickers as I have given all my rubons to my daughter for school again I have used Simple Stories Hello Summer Collection, it is one of my favs as it is so bright and fun

Happy Creating 

Kerrie

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Life is Good | Simple Stories

Summer Escape | Simple Stories

Day 4 of #ALCalendarChallenge2022 

My niece and her family went camping after Christmas and we popped up for a visit. It was nice for Dad and Mum to see their great grandkids and enjoy the great weather 

This page is super simply with me creating a 4 block center and adding just a few sticker embellishments. I layered the journal square with some stickers too and will add a journaling tag under this block 

I have used Simple Stories Hello Summer Collection for this layout which is an older collection that you may still find at your local or online papercrafting store otherwise it is available digitally 

Happy Creating 

Kerrie

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Summer Escape | Simple Stories

Be Happy Together | Carta Bella

Day 3 of #ALCalendarChallenge2022 

The end of last year we celebrated my Dad's 80th and a belated celebration for my Stepmum as she turned 80 during lockdown in 2020 and with all the lockdowns we had throughout 2020 and 2021 we could get together to celebrate. Thankfully we were finally able to celebrate them both with a family weekend at beautiful Bribie Island, some couldn't make it due to border lockdowns but they were with us in spirit and we all loved being together for the first time in such a long time and just relaxing and spending time together. 

for this layout I added a splash of colour to the blues using diecuts and chipboard pieces from Carta Bella Summer collection and framed my photo using a Celebr8 Chipboard frame  

 I have used Carta Bella Summer Collection 

I added a pull out tag for my journaling 

Happy Creating 

Kerrie

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Be Happy Together | Carta Bella

Life is Better with Friends | Carta Bella

January 2nd of #ALCalendarChallenge2022

My friend Trish and I were very lucky to feed Rosie the Giraffe at Australia Zoo for our birthdays last October it was an amazing experience and we bot loved our time at the zoo 

I have used Carta Bella Summer Collection again for this layout 

Instead of cutting apart pre made definitions I used a selection of chipboard and sticker sentiments. I also popped a pull out tag for my journaling  

I coloured this chipboard from Celebr8 using Worn Lipstick Distress Oxide Ink pad + Maya Road Iridescent Pearl Maya Mist  - see I told you there would be some classics, who still has Maya Road Mists in their stash???

Happy Creating 

Kerrie

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Life is Better with Friends | Carta Bella

Kalbar Sunflower Farm | Carta Bella

Happy New Year to you all 

I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas and start to the New and are all keeping safe as Omicron spreads across the globe

As I seemed to have lost my mojo when Covid started and have struggled to get it back I thought I Would set myself a crafting challenge for 2022

While trying to organise and tidy my crafting room last year I came across my Autumn Leaves Calendars. For those of you who have been around for a long time you may remember them, they gave you inspiration and a new scrapbooking challenge each day and there was a group on Two Peas in a Bucket where we would share our layouts. 

Well I decided not to throw them out but to use them to inspire me to create a layout each day again. 

I am going to use my own interpretation of each day and as I have three years 2006,2007,2008. I will mix up between the years so if one day in one year doesn't inspire me I will change years 

If you would like to play along please do as I will post a photo of each AL calendar page with my layout. If you do play along please use #ALCalendarChallenge2022 on Instagram or Facebook so I can follow the hashtag 

Oh one more thing if I don't do a page one day that is okay and I can catch up another day 

One more challenge I am going to try and add is to use one collection for 3 layouts

Okay here is my layout for January 1st for this layout I have used Carta Bella Summer Collection

for this layout I used a strip paper instead of cutting strips of paper and used 3 photos from our visit to the Kalbar Sunflower Farm I was going to pop the bigger photo in the middle but decided to change it up  and yes I missed the r off Kalbar with my dymo tape but ran out of tape so will change it when my tape order arrives 

All my layouts will be fairly simple and flat as I really want to complete this challenge and have at least 365 layouts completed at the end of the year

Oh and I will be stash busting with this challenge so be prepared for some old classic collections to be popping up 

Happy Creating 

Kerrie

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Kalbar Sunflower Farm | Carta Bella