Mel's Me Time

  Hey! I am so excited to be sharing with you today my second September project for CUT to YOU ! If you follow me on socials you may have seen a sneak peak of the beginnings of this project…I had so much fun creating this and just am so happy with the end result! You might remember that just recently my son was lucky enough to spend two weeks in Switzerland as part of the Australian Contingent celebrating the 100 years of the Kandersteg International Scout Centre. They hiked almost every day, up to 40km and up extremely steep inclines BUT the scenery along the way made it all worthwhile. He had the most amazing time and made some great friends. Now I am left to live out his experiences scrapbooking his photos… to be honest, happy to leave the hiking all to him…as long as I have the photos!!! Anyway, I have used the absolutely awesome  Sketchy Circles Open   cut file for this layout and have cut it from plain black card stock. However, did you see that the lovely Gwen has ...

  Hey there CUT to YOU friends! Today I am very excited to share with you my first project for the month of August and the first to document my son’s exciting Switzerland trip! I just love how it came together in the end but it did take a bit of paper shuffling and embellishment auditioning to get to the end result. Does this happen to you? There are soooo many travel cut file options in the   CUT to YOU store …I truly didn’t know where to start. Have you checked them out? Trust me, if you are a traveller…you need to check them out. They are the best and make putting a different spin on your travel photos so easy. The cut file I finally decided to use for this layout is the   Airport Background  cut file. Once I decided, I knew that I wanted it to be one of the main features of my layout. It took me quite a while to decide what I was going to do with the cut file after cutting it on my Silhouette. I loved the simplicity of just cutting it in white and I contemplated ...

 Loving my Christmas present EVERY MONTH!!! This is the best present EVER! Perfect for me as I can complete these classes in my own time,  when I have the time...late at night is usually my only option! If you get a chance to join in with an online class with Nat, be sure to do it...you learn so much and create sensational projects at the same time! Here are some photos of my May Art Journal... Check out the classes at nataliemay.com.au Happy creating, Mel xo