I haven't managed to take part in the
Daring Card Makers challenge for a few weeks, mainly due to making scrapbook pages!! This week I've used the theme to make a Mother's Day card for my Mum, I decided not to put Happy Mother's Day on the outside but put it inside instead.
We have arrived at the start of another month which means it is a colour theme based on the birthstone of the month - Aquamarine.
Its an interesting stone as it comes in various colours - aquamarines come in sea blue; sky blue; blue green and sea green which is a lovely broad sea/sky palette. The crystal structure is hexagonal. It is also associated with the properties of faithfulness, courage and friendship.The image is from
The Graphics Fairy and I was inspired by
Caroline's card featuring punched lace on the Fiskarettes site.
And here are another three scrapbook pages. This one features little punched out photos of all the close family, including some who are no longer with us.
My son is a talented musician, but there are not many photographs of him playing. I converted the three photos to black and white to create this monochrome page.
He is also an artist and recently returned to college to study art, most of his work is not at home, so I was somewhat limited in what I had available to use, so lots of my doodling too. I also managed to fit in the 'Stitch' stamp from Stampotique. This is probably my favourite page.
There are another couple of pages which I'll post up tomorrow.
Here are the last of the scrapbook pages, they've got a little out of order but you get the general idea! This one above is Andrew with his girlfriend.
I wanted to scrap this photograph of the boys with their Dad taken on holiday in Germany. I've also had that 'grape' paper for a very long time and it matched the theme perfectly.
I've posted this LO before, but it was the final one in the album so no apology for showing it again.
And here are another three scrapbook pages. This one features little punched out photos of all the close family, including some who are no longer with us.
My son is a talented musician, but there are not many photographs of him playing. I converted the three photos to black and white to create this monochrome page.
He is also an artist and recently returned to college to study art, most of his work is not at home, so I was somewhat limited in what I had available to use, so lots of my doodling too. I also managed to fit in the 'Stitch' stamp from Stampotique. This is probably my favourite page.
There are another couple of pages which I'll post up tomorrow.
Here us the first page from Andrew's scrapbook, I've covered the details of the journalling on this one.
This picture is from Andrew's baptism, with his aunt and godmother, Brian's sister Isabel. The fabric is not from his christening gown it is from a vintage underskirt but is reminiscent of the gown both boys wore, made by my mum.
This one is from when we went to Florida with my mum and dad, it was really hard to find photos of Andrew on his own, but lots with his brother!
We went up to Glasgow to meet up with my son and his girlfriend to celebrate his 21st birthday (which was last week). We met at La Vita Pizzeria on the corner of George Square and had a really nice time.
I also gave him the scrapbook that I made for his birthday and he really liked it. He thought it would be full of embarrassing photographs and was pleased that it wasn't! I'll blog the pages throughout this coming week.
Now that the birthday is past, I thought I'd show you the card I made for Andrew. I had all kinds of ideas about what I would do, bought a new Stampotique stamp and then never used it!
Here is the digital image.
It seems appropriate for this week's Friday Photo Flashback that I should feature my DS2, Andrew, as it is his 21st Birthday today. This photograph is from his 9th Birthday and you can see by his big grin, just how much he was enjoying his birthday tea of crisps, sweets, chocolate fingers and the 'Gameboy' birthday cake which I made for him. 
Here is Andrew (on the right in the stripy trousers) playing with the Velcro Quartet.
