Monday 22 April 2013

Nieces and Nephews

I'm so lucky to have a fantastic collection of nieces and nephews. Some are blood and some aren't but they really are the most gorgeous group of kids you would ever want to meet. As my kids have got older and less co-operative in the photographic department, I have found myself turning to the younger kids to satisfy my photographic urges! I just wish I'd had those same urges - and knowledge - when my own kids were small.

Of course, those photos make it onto my layouts and here are a few older ones that feature some of my nieces and nephews.


This layout is a long-standing favourite of mine. My nephew Harrison has the world's loveliest smile! We had a day at the beach with some of my extended family and their extended family. Don't ask me to explain the relationship between some of us! This is one of those layouts that I felt really captured the feel of a great day at the beach in summer. And I still love that Echo Park paper.


Here's a bright and colourful one for you Chantal V! To create the background I stitched the patterned red paper onto white cardstock in random loops and swirls then ripped off the top layer around the edges. Here's a tip if you want to scraplift this idea - use thin paper on top. This paper was quite thick and was really hard to tear without damaging the stitching.


Talk about one extreme to another! This one is all about softness and beauty. My niece is only one year old in this pic and she's gorgeous. I wanted the layout to reflect the sweet softness of a little girl. There's a bit of fussy cutting here and lots of Websters Pages loveliness.

You can be sure you ill see more of my lovely nieces and nephews in the future!

Until then - Happy Scrappin'.

Heather

14 comments:

  1. Wowwwwwwww! These are all gorgeous!! I am LOVING that stitching on the second one!!!

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  2. Wow! What fabulous creations! LOVE all of them!

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  3. Stunning work Heather! Such fun kids layouts!

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  4. Oh Heather, you warm my heart. I too scrap my nieces and nephews. They're still small enough where they will sit still before they realize I'm an annoyance. Very pretty work and details. I'm a new follower. :)

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  5. They'll all nice Heather! I love the ledger paper and twine, the white fence and the creative designs!

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  6. OMGosh you have been busy Heather. Stunning pages all of them!- and so different too :)): Oh, and your photos are just beautiful!

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  7. They're all so different! Your nieces & nephews, too!!! LOVE Websters - I always feel like I don't 'scrap' because I don't want to do much to spoil their beautiful pages. Silly, huh? LOVE the beach one up top...that twine looks fabbo:):):)

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  8. Oh I just love that freehand sewing (do you have the special foot or just twist the paper?) Gorgeous layouts

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    1. No special foot Chantalle - I just move that paper a lot!

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  9. All fabulous layouts and all so different
    Mary

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  10. These look fabulous.. love how versatile you are in your designs!!

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  12. ( I need to do a spell check before posting lol) these are all stunning Heather.. The stitching looks amazing, and the bottom LO is beautiful xx

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  13. your layouts are beautifully done, especially love SILLY with the crazy quilt stitching on it.

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