Holiday scrapping...

Can you believe it's October??? Haha I know I say this each & every month, but seriously....!!! In a blink, it will be November...& then arrrgh, December! LOL!
I didn't manage the amount of scrapping I would have liked over the holidays...haha I never seem to have time for the 'ideal' amount of scrapping I'd like, but am very grateful for the time I had to do these...
A beautiful & generous friend gave me this 'Save the Date' Kaisercraft pack...lovely papers & embellishments to play with! I had a lot of fun creating this.

This same friend let me borrow her Crafters template & while playing I thought I would select 'key' words to use with texture paste. I kept the layout fairly simple so I didn't lose the focus on those words.

 

Again, I kept this layout simple as the group photo already makes it rather busy...I used the gorgeous 'Dylusions' ink spray, well the left over spray as a stamp!

 

 

September marked 20 years since I lost my dad to cancer...I've been thinking of him a lot lately, so felt the need to scrap a layout. I had this photo printed as I had shown it to my brother, who's about the same age as dad is here...they are freakishly alike in so many ways!

I've had this photo for a while...loved the effect created in a photo editing program & have been mulling over what to do with it. When I saw Natalie's beautiful layout here...an idea began to form. I was initially going to use glimmermist, but ended up using 'Distress Stains' hehe a bit more control & the colours matched perfectly ;)

Thanks for stopping by! As always, a huge thank you for all the lovely comments...they really do make my day, I appreciate each & every one of them x
Happy scrapping!