Tuesday 18 June 2013

Waltzingmouse Blog Party

Hello folks,



Can't believe it's the 17th of the month - where on earth does the time go? The Waltzingmouse Blog Party has come around again and the theme for this month is 'Summertime fun.' I had thought of doing a Christmas card since, in Australia,  it's the height of Summer (so wrong!) but then decided on a layout instead:







Summer makes me think of happiness, bright colours and heaps of fun and this pic of my eldest boy with ice-cream on his nose sums it up perfectly. The background was done with the border stamp from Asian Gardens. I've coloured in parts of it with a marker, then added some sprays of Glimmer Mist. For the centre of the sun I used one of the flower images from Folk Art Medallion, together with the circle image from the same set.  To make the ice-cream cones I used the cupcake from  Frame-it and layered the images together. I then added the cupcake icing to make the ice-cream.   Finally, the journal spot is from Very Vintage Labels 4.

Anyway, that's enough waffling from me now....time to schmooze the gallery!

Enjoy the party and thanks for stopping by,

Claire x




14 comments:

  1. How fun that you made a scrapbook page...love the cute look on your son's face. This is a great take on Summertime fun.

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  2. This is a fantastic layout. What an awesome picture of sheer joy! Love the way your stamped border frames the page so nicely. So many great stamped embellishments add so much to this already fun design. Great job!

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  3. What a great memory to catch on this wonderful layout! Love your stamped background and the fun ice cream cones - and that awesome picture of such enjoyment!

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  4. Great layout and background with border stamps. Really nice!

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  5. Oh this is for sure a fun happy memory! Love the layout!
    Have you heard of the outback ...Graham for Outback Adventurer? Well if you have my sons future brother in law is one of the top finalist and he is in Australia now.... Just thought I would share that with you.

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  6. Awww...this just makes me smile!! Beautiful layout, and super fun photo!!

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  7. Such a sunny LO :) Perfect colours and Ice cream !

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  8. LOL, Claire I was homing in on those ice cream cones to see where they came from, lol, I am so impressed with those!! and your background!! wow - amazing use of Asian Gardens! I was also so impressed that you used a labels 4 as a journalling spot!! genius!! this is one awesome layout with an awesome chap right in the centre, there's nothing on this earth that is better than a happy kid!! Thank you so much for playing along with us!

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  9. A great picture and a great scrapbook page! Nothing captures summer better!

    Chris L.

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  10. What a wonderful layout - great photo (love that expression). I adore the way you've used the Asian Gardens border - very creative and the ice-cream cones are fab!

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  11. Jaw drop!!! Claire, I seriously can't wait to see your scrapbook projects every month! I can't even believe what you did with that little background strip on this layout! Love scanning around and finding your sweet stamped details which are always so creative...your ice cream cone, the Folk Art flower for the sun, the peekaboo journaling card on the stamped label. But OH how sweet your SON is!!! I just love this...love love LOVE it!

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  12. Wow Claire, this is a wonderful layout!! I love how you used the stamps esp the background - it looks Amazing!!

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  13. Oh my goodness! If this isn't summer I don't know what is! Congrats on our shout out at WM - so glad I didn't miss this - I'm smiling from ear to ear!!

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  14. Fabulous LO!! Love how you used all the stamps- the BG from Asian gardens is perfect and those ice cream cones are sooo clever!!

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