clikchic designs Grand Opening!

YAY! I am just soooo excited.. I have been working furiously trying to get the website complete! The store was done but I wanted to have a main page and a few more features.. so I have been working hard trying to get it all done, and now it is finally done! YAY!

You can take a look if you feel like it at clikchic designs

clikchic designs digital scrapbook store!

YAY! I am so excited! I had resigned as a designer from Pages of the Heart but couldn't stand having my kits sitting here doing nothing. However, being committed to another larger scrapbooking site is just too much for me to take on at the moment. It was really burning me out as I just didn't have the time to put in to all the extra bits and pieces you have to do.

Sooo I got the bright idea to set up my own store! That way I can do as much or as little as I like.. I can create more when I have the time, or when I am having a busy week, day month.. I can scale back and then do more again when I have the time.

Anyway! Here it is!

Robyn and Adrian

I thought I would do a layout of Adrian and I as one of the scrapbooking magazines had a callout for submissions on layouts about relationships of siblings. This particular magazine seems to go for more complicated paper style layouts so I thought I would give it a go. I don't normally do paper style layouts as they are so time consuming... and this one certainly was! I am well out of my comfort zone in regards to design style but I think I managed to pull it off! :-) All the elements except for the torn papers were from current kits of mine, although some of them have been recoloured for this layout.

I have always loved this photo of Adrian and I, maybe because of the soft colours in it, which is why I chose soft colours for the background papers as well. I did do some retouching to get rid of some yellowing and I think the main giveaway now that it is an old photo is the forground and clothing. It always amazes me how much Jasmine looks like me as a child. And we thought Kyan was chubby! I think Adrian might overtake him in that department, well in this photo at least!

Princess Jasmine

I have been itching to do this layout since Jasmine was given this outfit! Of course just when I REALLY want to take photos of her she has no interest! FINALLY she decided that today would be the day! I have been designing a kit with this dress in mind (taking forever to do it!) and finally I have the photo to go with it! LOL

Kyan was rather cranky yesterday due to his teething so I let Jasmine watch her new Cinderella dvd heaps so that I could deal with Kyan and of course she then wanted to dress up as a princess!

Swimming Boy!

Kyan had his first swimming lesson on Saturday and absolutely loved it! He had great fun splashing about and was sooo tuckered out by the end of it. Jaz enjoyed watching it too and then enjoyed a swim with me after his lesson, something she doesn't get to do much anymore!

It is really great having the lessons on Saturdays because Dean can come along and can even do the lesson with Kyan if he wants to, something he hasn't much been able to do with Jasmine. Jasmine loves knowing that I did the lessons with her also when she was a baby.

11 Years!

It is our 11th anniversary today! We are not realy doing anything special to celebrate. May be we will get take away for dinner or something. I would have liked to have celebrated our 10th but we had so much going on we didn't get around to organising it. In Holland it is a big tradition to celebrate your 12.5th anniversary and I have said to Dean that I would like to do something quite special to celebrate that, maybe a catered dinner or something like that. We will see what happens in any case, it may just be a BBQ.

Above is a layout I did early this year as the start of our wedding album. I have been meaning to put together a proper Wedding album for years but have never gotten around to it. I haven't really felt that inspired to do so with our cheapie photos. However, now that I am digital scrapbooking I might be able to do something with them to make them look a bit more exciting. Of course, when I find the time in between scrapping the kids photos, not to mention photos of Dean and I growing up and heritage photos of our families! I will certainly not be lacking photos to scrap!