Jessica loves to create
Anything that involves paper
And she’s a happy kid!
So when she saw the Jot Kids challenge she was keen as mustard!
She pulled out the water colour paints and her paper quilling kit and got to work.
Love the pops of colour that she created.
I think she did too!
There is still time for your kids to enter the challenge too.
It ends on Friday and you can see all the details HERE
Yesterday we celebrated a birthday
Yesterday Megan turned 11
As usual the girls were up early
and eager to get the present giving underway
We gave Megan a camera
I think she was excited
as she should be because it’s got more Megapixels than mine!
She had 3 friends over for her birthday lunch
there was much chattering, giggling and they even got to scrap a page each
and we gave them an 8x8 album each to take home with them
I think they enjoyed it and made some pretty cool looking pages!
oh and yeah there was cake, with extra cream like Grandma requested (or so Megan said :) )
Today we had another early start
Headed to the airport to say bye to Dave
He is heading to Thailand for work
we filled the rest of the day around home
Megan started painting the canvas that Grandma gave her
and because Lucy had been asking to scrap, since yesterday, they all scrapped this afternoon
and on and off through the afternoon I did too :)
someone, a rabbit, has broken my sewing machine
so I found out when I went to sew on the page
So I will be taking that to Mum and Dad’s tomorrow in hope Mum might find out what they have done
I love the Maya Road stick pins
and their mist, which I used on some hearts I made from scrap cardboard
and the journaling :)
Did you notice the new banner up the top there??
I had an email from the lovely Michelle with the new one attached
I love it and am grateful for her generosity, thanks again Michelle!
Speaking of generous people
Another Michelle is having a giveaway
Head to the Lil’ Red Rocket blog to find out how you could win this
said Elizabeth, talking about when she grows up
Now that made my internal smile light up
More on that later
Yesterday, before we got Jessica, I took the girls to visit the recycle shop
I found 2 packets of gorgeous OLD buttons
1 packet contained covered buttons and I had a play with them last night
While I waited for Dave to arrive home from soccer training
I was also itching to have a play with some new stamps I had found on Etsy, from seller Pretty Tape
Love the doily pattern
Would love this pack of stamps for that reason too :) :)
I also got some of the yummy paper tape, but more on that later too :)
See the flower??
I see that Prima have released the same sort, with the frosty/glass glaze, I bought these from Lincraft lastyear and they are distributed by Sullivans, wonder if they are actually the same flower… just wondering :)
Also yesterday I picked up this tag, also from the recycle shop, it was a little more weathered than the ones I had so it seemed perfect to take home and put through the trusty typewriter :)
The alpha stickers are Studio Calico :)
So back to the Elizabeth’s When-I-Grow-Up comment
This morning all the girls scrapped
I had printed off a few photos for each of them and we took over the dining table
I even had the chance to start a page while they did their thing
They all made 4 pages, except Lucy who did 3
I was amazed at how well this scrap session went
I think that they have all, finally, got the hang of the whole paper/sticker thing and were quite happy to do their own thing without any help
I’m happy with that too :)
So the page I started, and then finished later
Yesterday we found a lizard in the sunroom
It was one we hadn’t seen before so I did some googling and found out what type it was
A Mountain Dragon
Pretty cool name!
The journaling
is on some of my new orange paper tape
And you can also see the orange spotty tape I used, here
and final photo, lol
The other half of the doily I used a while back on the Baby Shower Day card, doily from Jodie on etsy :)
Today we also had a visit from a friend and her 2 boys
She also stayed for dinner so it was good catching up with her
Today is also the 2nd last Friday before school goes back
Which means it’s the 2nd last weekend
Boo Hoo
and I want them to too
Megan had a friend stay over last night
So today they got to scrap
Jessica and Lucy did too
Elizabeth didn’t want to, so didn’t :)
So her and I sat and had a cuddle while the other 4 got scrappy
This is Lucy’s page
the only thing I did was the journaling, stitching and the title
She did all the rest
Jessica’s page
Megan’s page
and her friend’s
Jessica went to their place for the afternoon
When we went to pick her up we were greeted with more scrapbook pages
We had inspired Megan’s friend, her sister and Jessica to pull out some crafty things and scrap
The friend already had an album, packed away in the back of some drawer, and by the time we got there she had already filled 4 pages and did more while we were there
Jessica came home with 2 pages, using some zoo and animal photos that they had
Not a bad way to inspire someone is it??
Love it when kids scrap
Love it when you can show others how easy it is to keep those memories and to put them down on paper
Love it :)
