It's day 2 today and as I look out my window it is coming down in sheets - yep it must be Floral Festival time.
08 September 2011
LSNE - 8th September
It's the annual Springtime Flora Festival and without fail it rains at some point over the four day event. Sometimes I might be just overnight, other times it may be full on rain over several days but you can bet your bottom dollar - it will rain at some point.
It's day 2 today and as I look out my window it is coming down in sheets - yep it must be Floral Festival time.
It's day 2 today and as I look out my window it is coming down in sheets - yep it must be Floral Festival time.
07 September 2011
06 September 2011
Sketch of the Week ...
It's time to upload my rendition of Shimelle's Sketch of the Week. Quite a pretty little layout this week from Shimelle.
Here's my version. Really pleased with how this has turned out. I'm continuing my theme of using pictures we took on our holiday to Coffs Harbour and surrounds in January for Shimelle's sketches.
LSNE - 5th September
He turns 13 on Friday and he squad trains twice a week (and an extra night if his sister isn't working and I don't need to drive her to her job). They average 4km each training session - that's 80 laps of the 50m pool. They do this in one and a half hours. I'm exhausted just watching him.
05 September 2011
Stuck in September ...
I'm joining in with Stuck sketches this month via Peta's September competition on Scrapbooking From Scratch. Their first sketch is quite a nice one and is open to lots of different interpretations.
I thought I'd use some photographs of my son at a friend's birthday party I was yet to scrap and combine them with a SFS kit of Teresa Collins birthday papers.
The second sketch was more formal in design using lots of little bits and pieces.
I've used a SFS kit (Sassafrass Lass - Indie Girl) to create my page.
04 September 2011
LSNE - 4th September
Today was Father's Day here in Australia - a day for breakfast in bed, a trip to Bunnings (hardware) and the love of children for their Dad.
03 September 2011
02 September 2011
LSNE - 2nd September
Woke to brilliant sunshine, birds chirping and not a cloud in the sky. By 11am it looks like this ....
01 September 2011
Learn Something New Everyday - 2011
It is THAT time of year again - the time when all good scrapbookers head over to Shimelle and participate in Learning Something New .... Everyday.
Shimelle has been doing this class now since 2006. She focuses on just one sentence and maybe one photo per day for thirty days.
As she says "Learn Something New encourages you to take each day as it comes and find at least one thing in every day that can teach you something. Something big, something small, something funny, something solemn. Some days you might learn a random fact and others might teach you something about patience, determination or reflection. Every day is a new opportunity, and we track it all through things we love: some photographs, a bit of writing and as much pretty paper as we fancy."It is truly amazing to see how scrappers from all over the world interrupt this class - there are elaborate albums, tiny mini, mini albums, digital versions and simple pages - the sky really is the limit in depth and variety of projects.
Last year I did photographs with a digital overlay and it worked really well for me so I couldn't see a reason to change the format although I have changed the overlay slightly. At the end of the month I will print these all out and then create some sort of album with them - exactly how is still being mulled over.
31 August 2011
Some Scrappy fun ...
SFS ‘Sketchaday” comp
Starts Sept 1st 2011
[tomorrow morning]
Come on over and check it out in the forum
Have you lost your mojo?
Need a hand getting those photos onto layouts?
Well what are you waiting for - this comp
is designed for you :)
Each day a new sketch will be added for you to
play along with.
Daily, weekly and MAJOR prizes will be given – lots of random draws for everyone to have a chance to be a winner.
Major Prize is a 6 month Subscription
to the SFS Designer Kit Subs
[3 kits valued @ $135]
Albums, kits, shop vouchers and more will be given away.
Including an eBook from a sketch blog
[announced later in the week]
Come on over and join in the fun
– Forum chatting isn’t a must but you will have to join to be able to load your pages.
22 August 2011
Crop time with Shimelle ...
I've been busy this week doing a number of challenge layouts for Shimelle's crop last weekend - thank goodness she gave us this week to finish them or I wouldn't have had a chance of getting anything done. As it stands I have missed a few but I'm well pleased with what I have managed to get done.
Chop Your Paper Layout - Create a project (layout, card, etc) that is embellished with paper rather than embellishments. Take a piece of paper (or two) and chop it up until you have enough to dress up your page!
My layout has been created from one sheet of Scenic Route paper.
Grid it Up challenge - Create a project with a grid as a design element! You can interpret that any way you wish! Get creative!
I've been very boring I know and done the traditional 9 square grid.
Go retro challenge - You have to scrapbook a photo from before 2011. No current pictures allowed. If you can, embrace the idea and scrap something a bit retro or something from your childhood, but I totally understand not everyone has pictures like that at the ready. So anything that is not 2011 will be acceptable!
When I think about my bedroom buy in the grim dark ages of my youth I remember the chenelle bedspread, the travel alarm clocks and the bottles of perfume (invariably the Avon variety on my dressing table.
3 is the magic number - Create a project (layout, card, etc) that includes a group of three in the embellishment. It can be three kinds of flowers like I used, but that’s not a requirement – you could use three squares, three butterflies, three things that are red, three apples, three hedgehogs… whatever group of three takes your fancy!
Terrible picture I know but this is what happens when you take photos of layouts at night. I'll try to put up another in the morning if I have time. Lots of 3's.
Half page challenge - Create a layout that only uses half the page. It can be whatever half you would like, but somewhere around half the page space needs to be breathing room!
Although not strictly a 6x12 or a 12x6 this layout really only uses half a page.
Signature accent challenge - create a page with a product or a technique you love so much you use it relatively often. Maybe it’s become your signature accent! Whatever it might be, put it on show and share it with us!
I love kraft cardstock and using buttons and if I can do this on the one layout I'm a very happy little bunny indeed.
Butterflies and bingo cards - all you have to do is create something inspired by the video. It can be very similar to the page if you like, or you can take inspiration from any element you like – the colours, the photo placement, any technique – whatever takes your fancy. Then upload your project to your blog or a page gallery like Two Peas or UKScrappers and leave a link to the post (not your blog’s main page) in the box below.
No guesses for what inspired me.
Chop Your Paper Layout - Create a project (layout, card, etc) that is embellished with paper rather than embellishments. Take a piece of paper (or two) and chop it up until you have enough to dress up your page!
My layout has been created from one sheet of Scenic Route paper.
Grid it Up challenge - Create a project with a grid as a design element! You can interpret that any way you wish! Get creative!
I've been very boring I know and done the traditional 9 square grid.
Go retro challenge - You have to scrapbook a photo from before 2011. No current pictures allowed. If you can, embrace the idea and scrap something a bit retro or something from your childhood, but I totally understand not everyone has pictures like that at the ready. So anything that is not 2011 will be acceptable!
When I think about my bedroom buy in the grim dark ages of my youth I remember the chenelle bedspread, the travel alarm clocks and the bottles of perfume (invariably the Avon variety on my dressing table.
3 is the magic number - Create a project (layout, card, etc) that includes a group of three in the embellishment. It can be three kinds of flowers like I used, but that’s not a requirement – you could use three squares, three butterflies, three things that are red, three apples, three hedgehogs… whatever group of three takes your fancy!
Terrible picture I know but this is what happens when you take photos of layouts at night. I'll try to put up another in the morning if I have time. Lots of 3's.
Half page challenge - Create a layout that only uses half the page. It can be whatever half you would like, but somewhere around half the page space needs to be breathing room!
Although not strictly a 6x12 or a 12x6 this layout really only uses half a page.
Signature accent challenge - create a page with a product or a technique you love so much you use it relatively often. Maybe it’s become your signature accent! Whatever it might be, put it on show and share it with us!
I love kraft cardstock and using buttons and if I can do this on the one layout I'm a very happy little bunny indeed.
Butterflies and bingo cards - all you have to do is create something inspired by the video. It can be very similar to the page if you like, or you can take inspiration from any element you like – the colours, the photo placement, any technique – whatever takes your fancy. Then upload your project to your blog or a page gallery like Two Peas or UKScrappers and leave a link to the post (not your blog’s main page) in the box below.
No guesses for what inspired me.
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