Scrapping Boys

Hi All

Welcome again.

Playing along with Scrap The Boys January challenge today.

The brief is to use numbers on you page.

Here's what I did.

I started off with a TCW numbers stencil and some light inkpads but it got kind of buried under the patterned paper and my bootprint stencil. So, when I had finished embellishing with the gorgeous Kinder Kreations chippy stars and 'Epic' word, I added some more numbers using a Tim Holtz layering stencil with some black ink.

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Hope January is treating you well.

Clearly Catch Up

Howdy folks

The last few months have been quite distracting so my little part of the blogosphere here has been neglected. Sorry.

So today I will share with you some of my DT work for Scrapping Clearly.

Firstly, April...

 Using the Simple Stories 'Heart' range with some Colour Blast paste.

Both these pages done with Cocoa Vanilla 'Made of Awesome' range.

And a cool clear album, you can see more pics and details here.

Secondly, May...

 Details here

Details here

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New Friends

The February challenge over at K+ was 'Going Postal' so I made a postal imprint pattern over my photo as if it was the stamp. Loving how these challenges are making me think outside the box.

Still a couple of days to get yours in, click on the image below to see the challenge post.

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Special Investigator!

I was so chuffed recently to be asked to be a CSI Special Investigator as a result of this page I did back in July. My first page is up here along with a myriad of exceptional talent from around the world, so exciting! You should head on over, check out the awesomeness, and play along. 

This is my page 

From this inspiration board

I love that they give you journal prompts, I had been struggling to scrap these pics for my youngest boy because I just didn't know how to tie them together, this board made it so easy!

There are plenty of other boards both old and new so if you need a kick start head on over to their ning site or their Facebook page and have a look.

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Ooops, running late

Sorry!

April was a mad month, in the BEST way possible :-D

With a school holiday family trip to Hobart, Tasmania, and a long-weekend art retreat with my most awesome gals, I have spent a fair bit of time without screens. It has been GOOD!

I will catch you up on my fun in a little while but for now here is my Gauche Alchemy project for April. 

You can look here for more details and the amazing mood board. Then check out the blog home page for what the other Alchemists have done. There is some seriously amazing work to inspire you in your creative pursuits.

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Featured :-)

I was absolutely chuffed to be asked to be featured on a Worldwide Wednesday blog post for The Gentleman Crafter, John Bloodworth, Create and Craft TV producer, and occasional on-air demonstrator.

John dabbles in everything crafty and his widely read blog is chock full of interesting information and links, I can lose a lot of time there!

You can read my interview here 

Thank you John!

And as a thank you for dropping by, here's some eye-candy.

I did this page with Hazel & Ruby products (wrapping paper, wide washi tapes, and alpha stencil-masks) for Scrapbooking Memories Magazine Australia.

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Sitting Beside Inspiration

Back in June I went to an art camp at Lake Keepit with a bunch of fabulous ladies. I had the good fortune to be seated next to one of my big-time scrappy crushes and a huge inspiration art-wise. Lisa Oxley lives in full colour and her art is straight from her creative and generous soul.

This page was inspired by her style

 I used a TCW stencil and texture paste for the starbursts, Dylusions ink sprays, Tim Holtz stamps, tissue paper, and the lightbulb stencil from UmWow with black ink.

And this page I kept pretty simple to let the awesome photo, taken by Lisa, shine.

Again with the texture paste, this time I used a 12x12 chipboard frame, plus Dylusions ink spray, heart punchinella as a mask with Tim Holtz distress paint, a little bit of bling and some ink.

My newest pages, from Camp Mojo, are still on the camera.

I'm hoping it won't take too long to share some with you but at the moment I'd rather create than compute.

That's a good thing, right?!

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D-lish #6 - binge post cont'd

Challenge 6 for the D-lish 5th Birthday Bonanza Cybercrop

From this

I chose the first vertical line. I painted the entire background piece of patterned paper with a white-wash using Tim Holtz Distress paint. Lots of hearts in the die-cuts and on the background with a stencil. A couple of wood veneer hearts, a little stitching, journalling done on my newly refurbished 1970's typewriter and a chevron bag from D-lish.

D-lish #2 - binge post cont'd

Challenge 2 for the D-lish Scraps 5th Birthday Bonanza Cybercrop

Unfortunately I can't fix the greyness, it's on a stark white background.

From this sketch

2Crafty

Today I'm sharing a page I did with some fabulous 2Crafty chipboard I won from the Kraft It Up challenge site a couple of months ago. It's on a background I made last year when I was playing around with embossing powder and stencils.

I used The Crafter's Workshop stencils with Stampendous embossing powder, Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist, Tim Holtz Distress Stain, Scrap Matrix washi tape & 'Out There' trinket, shipping tags, a little piece of scrap

patterned paper (can't remember where from), Dymo.....

And this, this, and this from 2Crafty.

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Not much to say...

And not much creative time lately so I'm just sharing a few pages published in Scrapbooking Memories magazine last year.....

Hope you are having plenty of creative time, thanks for coming by

Little by Little

It's been a rough month in my head what with jury duty and all, so scrapping mojo has been hit and miss. I managed some solid shed time over the last weekend and got some gorgeous paint under my nails so things might be looking up.

I will share when the (awesome) rain clouds clear and I have

better-than-gloomy light for taking photos.

In the meantime here are a couple I made earlier.

A page for Sherry, at Graphic Girl Design, using her #Tuesday card

I have used my new favourite product alpha stencil-masks from Hazel & Ruby, they come in other fonts and shapes too, so delish! The background was done with a couple of The Crafter's Workshop stencils - Solace TCW331 and Sunburst TCW166, some mists and black ink, that's all. 

And this one just because.

Again I have used The Crafter's Workshop stencil this time with Faber Castell Gelatos, a few bits of scrap paper left over from a Christmas themed pad, and some punchinella from Gauche Alchemy.

Have a nice day and thanks for coming by

For Sherry

My Lovely friend Sherry Mendoza is designing and she let me play with these fab London Spots. I'm not a pocket page gal so I used them on a 12 x 12 layout.

The background is made on a gessoed piece of cardstock with

clear crackle through a Crafter's Workshop stencil

then sprayed with Ranger Dylusions spray inks.

I got the sparklets from The Paper Vine.

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Trying to find the impetus.....

to scrap!

I had a play with the Scrap Around the World mood board
(click on the image to go to their blog)

and came up with this....

Miss Mojo seems to be giving me a break right now, I'm attempting to scrap through it but the drive and excitement of creating are sorely lacking.

I think it's the summertime heat and pre-Christmas chaos

(as much as I think I'm in denial!).

I have also started the Kraft it Up challenge but it is slow going,

so it may not be ready in time, especially as I'm working on my first ever December Daily as well.

City Boy

So I broke out some flair for the very first time recently

to play along at the Kraft It Up challenge blog.

I also added some wood veneer mushies

because I misguidedly thought I had to use both on my page.

I didn't, it was a 'use one of these things' challenge :-)

These pics were taken on the bus, Nan was enjoying showing Dex the ropes.

There is still time to play along this month.

And, if you are up for it, they are having a DT call.

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Snapshot

I had some time to scrap on the weekend so I had a play with 

this weeks Skissedilla sketch by Linda Brun.

I combined it with One Little Word - want

it's in my journalling.

The background was made with The Crafter's Workshop 'blazonry' stencil,

some bubble wrap, and some Ranger Dylusions ink sprays.

Also a Tim Holtz stamp and an EK Success edger punch.

I added a chippy key from Scrapmatts, Bella! bling, a Prima flower,

a Studio Calico frame, and a black shipping tag.

Some stitching and Dymo journalling finished it off.

Thanks so much for dropping by

Yours in scrappiness

a page for a friend

A page I made for my amazing friend Lou

 last weekend at Camp Mojo

(awesome retreat organised by the wonderful Sherry Mendoza)

I used some Scrapmatts chippy's I won last month in their online challenge.

Sorry about the quality of the image,

my handbag camera doesn't do low light very well.

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Extraordinary?

That's the word for July at 123 Challenge blog.

It has to be teamed with denim and navy (colour).

Here is what I came up with

The background came out of a play session with some

Art Anthology paint and a TCW Dina Wakley stencil.

I added journalling on a washi-tabbed tag under the photo.

The blue mist is not that bright irl but

I have fixed the page so the whites are bright, not grey.

Thank you to Charmane Koch for the push to do the challenges this month.

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Remembering Crazy

Crazy is the word up at One Little Word, until the new one in a few days,

and I was inspired to scrap a page about an old Uni friend who I caught up with last year.

I don't have a photo of us back in the day, we were too busy being ratbags whenever we were together, so I just used the current one and kept journalling details fairly minimal

(don't want the teen kids to have a bad example, eh!). One day I might elaborate

with some hidden journalling on a page ;-)

Sorry it's a little fuzzy, the days here lately have been so gloomy.

I used lots of leftover little pieces from my Gauche Alchemy Color Kits

on top of a grungey background that's been sitting around for ages.

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