Good Morning Vietnam

Just to change the scenery a bit. This pic was taken at 11a.m. our first morning in Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh City, it was already around 39 deg at that time, so very hot. Picture was taken in a beautiful restaurant we visited for lunch prior to travelling south to Vung Tau where my husband was stationed for some of his time in Vietnam.

Grandchildren are things dreams are made of

A couple of multi pic pages highlighting my dear grandsons cute faces as he grows.

Proud Moments

I was so glad to finally be in America and to be holding our first grandchild, he arrived early and we were still touring Ireland on our way to Virginia for his birth.

The Journaling on the bottom of this layout says; My greatest joy in life was having children. My second greatest was to see them happily married and happy in life. A grandchild is the icing on the cake and the dream.

This layout was done using a sketch by 'Julie Bonner' for the October Sketch Challenge on 'that Scrappy Girl' site.

Henry with his beautiful mum

This picdture taken on Erin's 31st birthday, Henry was just 3 wks old, I love this picture Erin looks so beautiful and full of love for her son.

Our Beautiful Murpy

This picture taken in October 2009 and it was so cold but Murphy likes to think he can catch the seagulls so went for a swim, his efforts were in vain as they hover above him tormenting.

Henry and his Dad

Well my blog is going to feature a lot of Henry, he is going to grow up on this blog I think.
This one I love the picture I took of him with his dad when we were visiting them, Jarrod was dressed in his 'Dress Uniform' for a formal event.

Slide Show

ALL WEEKEND LONG CROP

Yes, that's right, all weekend over at PAGES IN TIME -
Are you ready to crop the weekend away?????

Nikki is hosting a National Holidays Mini-Crop at Pages In Time and would love for you to come join in on the fun with us. What can you win????

How does the September Pages In Time Kit sound???? Yummy, right???? There are already sold out so this is your only chance to get this awesome kit in your hands.

The National Holidays Mini-Crop starts at 9am Friday, September 11th and last until Sunday 9pm, September 13th. There will be lots of challenges and some fun games and our top winner will get that yummy kit shown above. Second and Third place winners will get some goodness from my personal stash.

Beautiful Vietnam

Just to mix things up a bit I have started scrapping our latest holiday. This first one is from Vung Tau in South Vietnam, when my husband was based very close by during the war, this was all scrub, now its a tourist mecca. A very beautiful country and the people in the majority are really humble and lovely.

Couple more...and this is just the beginning

These pics were taken at around 2 wks when Henry was a bit unsettled and loved to lie on his tummy on his mum or dad.









And a beautiful peaceful picture ;

Well this is it - the start of Henry's Album

On this one I have cut the frame from the Cricut Cartridge 'Accent Essentials'. The furry little blue elephant ' too cute' is from Martha Stewart and the 'Moment in Time' wording is from FX essentials, Australia.



















I decided rather than start with my favourite picture of Henry, I would start at the beginning, so these first 2 pages are a couple of many, taken shortly after his birth with his 'hospital' cap on, doesn't he look cute.
The Punched left edge and frame are both done with Martha Stewart Punches, the pale pp is Creative Imaginations. Decided to do a mix of blues with a hint of green for the album, although I'm sure I'll be tempted to vary that a bit when some nice new pages are released.

Crop on the 29th

Well those of you that follow my blog will know that at 'Pages in Time' we have regular crops which are a lot of fun with games and challenges.

This month's crop is going to be wet and wild, it is on the 29th of this month, and we are going to have a blast, hope you can join us. Come get all the details and so on!http://www.pagesintimestoresite.ning.com/

Of course - more of Henry

2 very proud grandparents
grandma and poppy Walker

Meet my very special little man

This is HENRY born 5th July 2009



Oh!! how I love this beautiful little person

Back to the Real World

Well after 7 wks travelling to various parts of the world, namely Vietnam, Ireland and the USA, we are back home, missing our new grandson terribly but settling back into 'normal life' as we know it.

Taken a while to get everything organised to the point where I now feel I can throw myself back into my scrapping, my great love and enjoyment in life outside of my family.

Stay tuned for lots of pictures of 'HENRY', yes starting his album today and can't wait.

Online Mini Crop Saturday 13TH JUNE

Join me at 'PAGES IN TIME' for my online mini crop on Saturday 13th June. On line tutorials, challenges some for points towards overall daily winner, and some for a RAK.

Commences 7am East Coast Time America, for those in other time zones I will take your 7am time as the first hour for you, so you won't be penalised for being an hour or two behind, this only applies where points are awarded for challenges completed within the hour they are posted.

Look forward to seeing you there, just check under Forum/Mini Crop

New Family - DT PAGE for PAGES IN TIME

Pre wedding pic taken the night my SIL's family arrived from America for the wedding of dd and her dh. Big family gathering and first time we met most of his family.

This is for the DT at Pages in Time
I must admit to cutting the paper quite a bit it is Prima and the darker blue areas are flocked the lighter blue shading in it matched Jarrod's top so I decided to use the apricot with it as he had underneath in his T-Shirt and liked the match.

I stitched around the edge using the Bazzill 'In Stitch'z' template 'silly stitches' then used 5 strands of Anchor Embroidery cotton.

Birds were stamped from a Stampin Up Stamp on to the rough side of Acetate
Butterfly's stamped from an unknown clear stamp set

I then coloured them both on the rough side with Marvy Markers and added bling.

title cut using Cricut Cartridge Cursive 101, and the scalloped circle using Cartridge Accent Essentials

Life's Little Memories

Youngest daughter Katie, this pic is 20 yrs old and didn't have much going for it in the background so I cut around the pic when I spotted this paper and thought it so suited the look on her face. If only I knew what she was thinking at the time.

Paper is Sassafras Lass Woodland Whimsy collection, and the green background is Cosmo Cricket Mr Camper Collection pack, caravan and bird are also added from that kit.

Wording on the cloud 'Mmmmm' Life's little moments was cut using Graphically Speaking Cricut Cartridge

Happy

This layout was created for the DT on Pages in Time

I love manipulating paper, the more I can do that the less embellishment is needed in my mind.
For this reason I love to purchase matching paper sets.

The papers used here are from Prima, ' Spotlight' and 'Kabloom' these are available from Karen's store at Pages in Time; as well as the pale green b/ground paper I have used.

The frame is cut from 1 piece of Prima paper the base of which was a dark red that I have used to cut the title.
Vines and flowers around the page were cut from a separate piece of Prima paper with was brown with the pink and a few green flowers on it, the remainder of that is being used to make a card.

The Title was cut on my Cricut using Cartridge 'Cursive 101', and the lattice work was cut using Cartridge 'Graphically Speaking'. The vines top right corner, bottom left corner and across the lattice are from plain cardstock and cut using Cartridge 'Home Accents' then covered with Eucalyptus Stickles to blend it more and to match the other vines and leaves all of which came already glittered.

Used a Fiskars Finger Knife to do all the paper cutting. Flowers bottom left are adhered with 3D dots.