Scrapbooking Made Simple

This is one of my latest creations. I did this as an 8 x 8 layout to go into an album recently given to me by my sister-in-law. This is the last photo I have of my wonderful mother-in-law. This was taken in Easter 2004. She died 2 months later. I've just started doing some layouts of my mother-in-law for my kids. I haven't done these before as I was busy doing the latest photos of the kids but then I found a couple of poignant photos and felt I just had to start on these. I think the reason I hadn't done this photo in a layout before was because I couldn't think of an appropriate title. Then I found this poem and just had to call the layout "Beautiful". Mind you I know she wouldn't of picked that title herself as she wasn't feeling very beautiful at this point. She had been in pain for many years with rheumatoid arthritis and then even more pain due to the tumour for the last 8 months of her life. By the time this photo was taken she'd had her bo...

During the school holidays it is sometimes nearly impossible to find time to scrapbook. But luckily for me my best scrapbuddy and I carved out some personal time this week. We set up the jumping castle (from my daughter's birthday), set out food and drink and let the kids go wild. Between the swings, jumping castle, trampoline, poly pocket and xbox the kids were happily engrossed for 4 hours of quality scrapbooking time! My scrapbuddy got an amazing three pages done but I only completed this one! This was a professional photo we had taken at my daughters childcare centre last year and seeing as how it is nearly time for another photo I thought I'd better hurry up and get this one scrapped! I'm going through a bit of an artistic phase with my layouts at the moment. I'm trying harder to produce layouts I love . And it's working if you asked me right now for my favourite layout I couldn't possibly narrow it down! I'd have to give you my favourite four l...