Loads to share today :)

HAPPY MOTHERSDAY TO ALL THE MUMS OUT THERE!!!


First off, thanks so very very much to Jennifer for awarding my blog with the

Arte y Pico Award

Here are the rules:

1. You have to pick 5 blogs that you consider deserving of this award for their creativity, design, interesting material, and also contribute to the blogging community, no matter what language.

2. Each award has to have the name of the author and a link to his/her blog to be visited by everyone.

3. Each award winner has to show the award and put the name and link to the blog that presented her/him with the award.

4. The award winner and one who has given the prize have to show the link of "Arte y Pico" blog so everyone will know the origin of this award.

5. To show these rules.

So here are the 5 blogs I am giving this award to:

* Nic Howard - My all time favourite scrapper, just love what she can do with paper and layers!!

* Karen Day - I admire her braveness to experiment and create new awesome fun techniques that we can use!

* Anne Jo Lexander - I totally adore her colour combo's and her distressing and scrunging abilities rocks!

* Liz Weber - I totally envy all rounder scrappers, people who can scrap, create cards and also do up awesome sketches! Tonnes of talents this girlie.

* Nicole Heady - I get totally and awesomely inspired by this girls' awesome tutorials!!! Such awesome fun and easy ideas!

More and more photos :) These were all taken yesterday, I know they aren't perfect and I of course had an awesome time editing them in photoshop, but I love all them for various reasons!

Me and Katie in front of a water wall feature. It is a bit noisy so Katie was a bit scared of it, which is why she is pulling down my shirt haha. Just loving the light and background in this one :)

Same place, just a slightly different angle, love the way Leon has his arms wrapped right around her to protect her from the 'evil' noisy waterfall haha. Love his facial expression too!


Just couldn't resist using the pathway as a leadin for the eye, just had to use the free Totally Rad action here to dreamify it up a bit :) Think I kicked out a few layers, and fixed up the opacity of the desatured one to suit a bitter better :)


Just totally couldn't resist this awesome wall background. Loving that a I'm picking up interesting features to photograph against instead of just the same old same old :)
(can you all see I'm loosing a bit of weight? hehe, another 0.5kg down this week woohooo )


More action magic on this one :) Me and Katie blowing kisses to Daddy, trying to get her to look at him, but nope, didn't work, still love the piccie though hehe.


Same wall as before. My cute two :)


Looking down at my two, more blowing of kisses from Katie :)

Looking up at these two sitting on some stairs, just had to bump the colour with Maggies colour pop actions :)


Loads of sun coming in from behind, together with a soft edges filter (just a normal filter with some clear nail varnish around the edges) So got this gorgeous sunny and hazy lazy look of Katie.


More soft filters and totally rad actions here.

Loving the background contrast against her gorgeous pink hat, still not looking at mummy though, think she is over photos already doh!


Same wall, a more willing participant hehe, got some cute gorgeous poses out of hubby for this one.




And sitting in a cafe with lots of natural light :) Bit of the dreamy action from Totally Rad, loving the washed out background :)


A bit of tuscany :) with some warm sun on us :)


Just couldn't resist the sweet tippie toes with a bit of sun in the left, so cute!



Got around to photographing some layouts I did a while back! This one is for a pink and brown challenge over at Top50. I added loads of glitter dust to this one, so the HS fuzzy rubon words are all glittering, flower edges and also the dotty paper edge. Very noice hehe.

Playing with some scraps of papers to create an interesting background for this one. The bottom one is the MM glitter one, so all the dots are glittered, I also glitter dusted the butterfly and all the edges of papers again. It is an addiction I tell ya!!!


And more Action sharing. A 70 action pack download. Loads in there than I don't use, but it is FREE and there are some awesome ones in there, espesially love the sharpening ones and the depth of field one for the landscape shots. So if you are loving actions, but can't really swallow the exxy price of the cool packs around, this one has some fun things in it to play with ;)

have a gorgeous day everyone!!!

xoxo
Jolene