Paper Haus projects

Here is one of my pages from the Spring issue of Paper Haus ezine.

If you haven't had a squizz yet make sure you do, it is so full of prettiness!

I also have a step-by-step on making this teeny tiny album in there.

Our very own Aussie Stacey Young along with Maiko Kasugi and Lisa Gregory

are the amazingly talented featured artists, you really need to see their work!

Happy reading!

Thanks for dropping by

Home on the range

Word up #69, 'Home' is the current challenge at One Little Word.

Here's my page, head on over and checkout the inspo.

I used a 12"x 8" photo cut into 2 pieces, top and bottom, to get a panorama feel.

A couple of Gauche Alchemy supplies (punchinella, ouchless cardboard), some old

Pink Paislee chippy letters, Dymo, twine, Maya Rd chippy houses and some doodads.

Thank you so much for dropping by

Mixed media scrapbook pages with Gauche

Hope you all had a wonderful Easter break

and celebrated all that it means to you.

I was lucky to get in some much needed creative time.

This page went up on the Gauche Alchemy blog in march,

a result of my mojo-boosting process, you can read all about it here.

There were loads of fab ideas on kick-starting your creative process

by the girls in March so make sure you have a browse around

while you're there. I used some stuff from the colour kits, punchinella, lace,

and washi tapes. I also used up some leftover Christmas tags,

those are the 'naughty' bits lol. And do you see the background stamp?

It's the Day of the Dead stamp from Viva Las Vegas Stamps

I love it so much!

If you're not yet signed up for the awesome newsletter

(you can do that on the left side-bar of the blog here)

you might have recently missed this one too.

Lots more Gauche goodness, 'ouchless cardboard', paper napkins,

lace, punchinella, and doodads from the colour kits.

See the little teddy there next to the photos?

That was a wee toy stencil that I filled with Dimensional Magic and

GA gold beads then filled in any holes with Kindyglitz, cute!

Just so you know, the Gauche Alchemy shop is closed for the moment

while Gauche Mama Chrissy relocates with her family to Japan

but will be up and running again very soon,

keep an eye out here.

Thanks so much for dropping by!

Yours in Scrappiness

Finn-tastic!

I had the best time last week thanks to a whole bunch of wonderful people!

Rae organised for Finnabair to come all the way from Poland to teach mixed media classes, this one in Sydney was organised by Eunice. My gorgeous friend Diane and her family accommodated me and Diane came to the classes too :-)

My darling hubby stayed home with the kids and #1 son ferried them to school and activities.

I am blessed!

I also got to meet up with some wonderful Aussie scrapbookers - Nadia Cannizzo, Kim Price, Di Garling, Julene Matthews, and Kim Kendall from SWAT. There were 50 of us in the class and I talked with lots more lovely ladies but alas cannot remember names.

Here we are

And here are my two projects

Firstly a layout with lots of luscious metal grunge and prettiness.

And secondly a mixed media canvas. 

I must be a little more careful misting near the photo next time.

(This is the one that gave me the blister ;-)

The products we used were from the gorgeous new ranges

from Prima that Finn designed - Sunrise Sunset and Mechanicals.

The entire experience was absolutely brilliant,

I am so grateful to all the ladies who made this happen!

Thanks so much for dropping by,

yours in scrappiness

More washi fun!

My layout for Sketches with a twist this month was so much fun,

I discovered a new technique which I love!

I laid overlapping strips of coordinating washi tapes on a sheet of baking paper and then cut circles out of it to emulate the circles in

Julianne's gorgeous sketch.

Here's the sketch

And here's my layout

Hope you can come and play along with us here

Thanks so much for dropping by

Yours in scrappiness

Winner in the Haus!

Thanks so much to everyone who hopped along with us,

I hope you all had a blast and loaded up on inspiration.

Be sure to read the new Paper Haus issue cover to cover,

it's an absolute beauty! 

 Now to announce the winner of my RAK

from the Blog Hop

Drumroll.....

Come on down.....

Monica!

 

Congratulations Monica, your parcel will be winging it's way to you very soon.

Thanks so much for dropping by

Paper Haus Hop and Giveaway!!

Hello!

and Welcome to the PaperHaus Spring Fling Blog Hop.

We are excited that you're joining us in celebrating the

release of our Spring Issue of PaperHaus Magazine.

(Click on the image to follow the link.)

We love sharing with you all these amazing projects and inspiration.

To ensure you don't miss a thing,

please take some time to Like PaperHaus on Facebook 

This is a page I did recently of my little travelling man...

My giveaway (for a randomly chosen

Follower of mine who leaves a comment below)

is full of vintage goodness....

It contains - April 1963 Sports Afield magazine  

- July 1954 Woman's Weekly magazine  

-Graphic 45 Flowers, Trim, and chipboard Buttons.

Perfect for mixed media, cards or scrapbook pages!

    

Now for the awesome hop!

Most blogs have a giveaway so be sure to stop at every one.

We are hopping until March 7 so you have plenty of time.

PaperHaus Blog 

Frank Garcia

Ivana Camdzic

Trina McClune

Jodie Lee

Lisa Gregory

Stacey Young

Maiko Kosugi

Fun Stampers Journey

The Piece by Piece

Corri Garza
Shellye Proctor McDaniel

DeeDee Catron

Audrey Yeager

Sabrina Alery

Patricia Roebuck

Jess Mutty

Anna Sigga

Susan Tutt

Rommel Okuma

Bente Fagerberg

Izzy Anderson

Jennifer Grace

Christina Heeren

Gina Rodgers

Lori Hairston

Paper Issues

 You are here ----> Peg Hewitt

Georgia Heald

Leah Crowe

Jodi Baune

Heather Leopard

Diana Fisher

Kate Vickers

Sarah Andreotti

Leah Farquharson

Cathi O'Neill

Missy Gener

Marilyn Rivera

Julianne McKenna

Vivan Keh

Jelissa Mei

Sara Zenger

Emilia van den Heuvel

Linda Brun

Lisa Duke

PAPERHAUS FACEBOOK

Enjoy the eye-candy and thanks heaps for dropping by!

Yours in scrappiness

Spring time at Paper Issues

Just sharing a bright page for the new theme at Paper Issues

Thanks so much for dropping by

Yours in scrappiness

Always challenge yourself :-)

Last weekend DS2 had a 12th birthday sleepover party with 4 mates in the shed.

With the excuse of supervising the ruckus I got some extra time

in my art room (also in the shed) :-D

So.... I had a play with the most recent One Little Word challenge

(one of my favourites) - Always

I love the effect of the inkpads with the chevron TCW template

(Chunky Chevron - TCW322)

combined with my new Kaisercraft dictionary stamp,

and the colours went so nicely with my new washi tapes from

Lowri at The Paper Vine.

I cut the title with my MM Slice using the Music & Dance card,

and used a Carl punch for the leaves.

Thanks so much for dropping by

and for your lovely comments, they make my day :-)

Yours in scrappiness

Paper Haus Spring Fling

The new Paper Haus ezine is coming soon and to celebrate

we are hopping and rak-ing again :-D
Make sure you join us for oodles of giveaways
and inspiration to kickstart your mojo.

This was one of my pages from the December issue

I'm looking forward to getting out my Spring colours now,
even though it is coming into Autumn downunder.

Yours in scrappiness

Love is in the Air

I recently won a lovely prize from 7 Dots Studio,

a pack of their new range called 'Love is in the Air',

full of soft pastels with a hint of distressed type patterns.

I'm not much of a pastel gal but this is really pretty!

Here are the two pages I have done so far...

Both things I love, in honour of Valentine's Day today :-)

The background on the next page was done with a TCW template 

and a mix of leftover light brown/yellow mists.

When my mists are getting too low to spray properly

I pour them into each other and mix similar colours,

it makes them go that little bit further.

You can keep up with new releases and what people are doing with their papers 

here on the 7 Dots FB page.

Thanks so much for dropping by.

Yours in Scrappiness

SWAT with texture

Are you going to play at Sketches with a Twist this month?

It's a gorgeous sketch designed by Julianne McKenna-De Lumen 

and the twist is 'texture paste'

This is my page, I flipped and turned the sketch. 

The chevron is done with texture paste and a TCW stencil

then misted while still wet. For the splats I used Tim Holtz

distress stain -tarnished brass, it's awesome!

The picture I took when I was in Darwin last year

my first sunset over the ocean, so beautiful!

So come along and play with us,

check out the blog for some DT inspiration.

Yours in scrappiness