Let's Scrap Sketch Challenge

I just love this lovely photo of my great nieces Emma and Zoe.  I absolutely love the rich vibrant colours and couldn't resist scrapping it.  I decided on what I call a "soft grunge" look to the layout, but also wanted to keep it girly, so added the touch of floral patterned paper and matching paper flowers. I really like how it came out.

I based the layout on the weekly sketch of 7 August 2013 on the Let's Scrap group. 

 I just used the left side of sketch.

My kiddy layouts

I always envy those scrapbookers who have children to scrapbook.  Babies and little ones are perfect subjects for loads of photos and it is always fun to do layouts of these gorgeous little people.  I always wanted to be able to do kiddy pages, but not having children of our own has been a bit of a scrapbooking challenge.  Fortunately over the last few years, our nieces and nephews have started families of their own and this has opened up a new passion in my scrapbooking journey.  At last I could venture into the realm of doing fun kiddy pages and they have been an absolute delight to do.  I love the opportunity of playing with beautiful bright colours, young frivolous patterns and super cute embellishments. 

Here are some of my recent layouts.  (Aplogies for the photographs - still grappling with the best way to photograph my layouts)

My beautiful Parents

Just keeping the focus on my beautiful parents.....

These lovely old photos of them on their wedding are just too beautiful for words.  These were taken in 1947, when digital photos and photoshop did not even exist in the imagination.  They were taken by a huge clumbsy camera of that era, yet the quality and colour is outstanding.  I just have to admire them, because they are a work of art.  I wish I could knew the photographer, but whoever he is, he is a master photographer and surely loved his craft to have produced these beautiful photographs.

I thought to share them first here on my blog.  I plan to scrapbook them shortly as the next chapter of my heritage album.

Some of my favourite layouts

Just been looking through my scrapbooking albums and wanted to share some of my favourite layouts I have done recently. 

These layouts are of the two important people in my life, my husband and my darling mom back in South Africa.

Let's start at the very beginning

Our very existence comes about by means of our parents who conceived us and bring us into the world.

And so it is appropriate that I start my heritage album with my parents... my beautiful, gracious mother, Freda Catherine Jones and my handsome, sporty father, Dudley Leo Rogers.

And the day they got married on 1 November 1947, is the day my family started.

I wanted to keep my layout clean and simple with just a little bit of shabby chic lace and a small cluster of flower embellishments.  I really wanted to showcase these lovely photos of my young parents and did not want to crowd my layout with too much distracting embellishments.  Had to restrain myself somewhat ... but I really love this page.

Update on "My Heritage"Page

I have just set up a new page on my blog called "My Heritage". I thought this might be a good place to keep my Heritage Scrapbooking layouts together.  These layouts are very special to me, so I wanted to keep them together in one place on my blog.  So feel free to check on this page from time to time.

Update on my BW2 June challenge

Oh, how awesome!  Just checked the Black With Two blog and saw that I was the winner of the June layout challenge.  Loved doing this challenge and it is even special because I got to do this wedding layout of us.  And thanks to my hubby for photographing the page - you did a great job!  Now you've got yourself a job as my layout photographer LOL!