Jot Kids Mood Board Challenge 1

One of the awesome things happening at Jot Magazine is the Jot Kids section.
They even get their own mood board challenge!!

HOW COOL IS THAT?!?!
If you head over HERE you can find out all the info
And even find 2 pages free printables!
Yesterday the girls got all creative and Lucy came up with this page, inspired by the challenge.

She kept asking me for things to add.
Sadly (??) she knew what she was doing and what to ask for.
It reminded me of when she was younger.
She’d sit next to me while I scrapped.
Back then she would ask for things too.
Not to use on a page.
Just to play with.

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Your Mother Should Know…

Today Lucy and I attended our very first cyber crop
We had fun!
She enjoyed seeing people from the other side of the world
and I think they enjoyed seeing her too lol
She made this page, the one on her left

and I made this page

It was raining when I took the photo so excuse the water drops :)

The journaling

I tried my ‘pleating phase’ with a doily off cut

 

Chipboard buttons from Such Sweet Tierney
Oh and today I spied

 

the first of our greengage blossom
Yay :)

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I Don’t Like Naggers

But when this one nags me to scrap
Well, I usually cave at some point

I think it’s funny
She gets time to scrap
I get time to do the washing

Sigh
Something just isn’t right with that equation lol
I am looking forward to when things slow down
When I don’t have to schedule my blog posts and when I can stop and scrap too :)

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I Dream of Mermaids

4 of them
4 little mermaids all in the pool
All enjoying the water
Well almost all enjoying the water
Lucy went better tonight, at swimming, but was still a little unsure about it all
Hopefully next week there WILL be 4 little mermaids in the pool and lovin’ it :)
Lucy also wanted to scrap today
She nagged me yesterday too
So today I gave in ;)
She choose this photo and made this page
I just did the stitching and helped with the spelling ;)

  

Oh and the other news is she had a nap for me today!!
That hardly ever happens
But she has a cold and with swimming tonight I knew it was needed
While she slept I started on this page :)

So what can I tell you about this page??
I used the Baker’s Dozen kit from Studio Calico 
I used some scraps too
Here you can see the cut-off-throw-away strip from the My Minds Eye paper
I used the promo card for the Anthology line from Studio Calico
Oh and the gorgeous doily stamp that came with the kit

I used some of the new buttons (chipboard and altered) that I received from Such Sweet Tierney

 

They are just gorgeous and I am having fun playing with them

Oh and the journaling
Must tell you about the journaling
I thought I would be clever, ha!
I used some Washi paper tape
I put it on some scrap paper and fed it into the typewriter
The typewriter went on it like a knife to butter, perfect
Then came the clever part, ha again!
I thought I would peel the tape off so I could just use that on the page, and you’d be able to see through it
But where the typewriter had letters like o or a or p, where there was a centre, it decided to rip
But I used it anyway
You can see some of the print from the pattern paper between some of the missing letters
But I think I like the raw, rustic look lol

So that was our day :)
Today in the mail I found the new QTea kit
I had a flick through, YUMMMMMM
But can’t play with it till Thursday
Tomorrow Lucy and I are hanging out with some friends, yay :)

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I Dream Of Exploring The World

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

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“I Want To Tell My Kids About Scrapbooking”

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

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