Scrapbooking Made Simple

As usual everything is so busy around here. DD2 has just cut two teeth while DS1 has just lost two teeth... and the tooth fairy was a day late cause I'm so busy with stuff (oops!) But I have had time to do a few crafty things lately.... here's a digital batch I've been working on: I'm so excited about these! Can't wait to pick them up from the store! Both my kids will be doing swimming at school next term and I had a brilliant idea to help them easily find their bag amongst all the other bags (and help the teachers and helpers assist them) by designing their swim bags. So here are the digital designs I created using the kit "Twirl" from the Shabby Princess online store (LOVE THEIR DESIGNS). This first one is on a red bag: and this second one is on a green bag: I think these will be really easy for the kids to find....LOL!

Of course as I'm such a miser ...... not only did we use rubbish to make gifts we then used every last scrap of patterned paper we had to make up cards for the kids to buy.... These were very simple cards as they had to be made into take home packs for the mothers to take home and just glue together...... so even the least crafty person could put them together. Here are a few examples:

Hi Everyone, Sorry I've been unavailable for a while now..... I've been busy organising the school fathers day stall at my kids school. I was very lucky to have some wonderful mum's and dad's making some of the gifts and even some of the kids at school pitched in. We ended up with enough gifts for 850 students to buy a few things for their dad's. But now I can't wait to get back into some scrapbooking. Of course my scrapbooking skills did come in handy .... turning rubbish into gifts.... Like my seed raising kits, my desktop zen gardens and money boxes as well as the photo thingys for the fridge... I loved the soap on a rope (the saying by Bill Cosby made it: " Fatherhood is pretending the thing you want most in the world is soap on a rope) or the cool shaving brush kits that say: "Fatherhood is like shaving. No matter how good a job you do today you still have to get up and shave again tomorrow".... Or my washing powder scoops filled with '...