100% BOY

I have been hanging out to share this page with you for the past 6 weeks, and finally I can he he...Its probably one of about 5 traditional pages I have created so far this year...I know crazy hey! I have been asked to guest design with 2 Crafty for the whole of 2013 which has been awesome. I do miss getting my fingers all inky and let me tell ya I have getting some serious mess on, before I share that page...

...some of you may already know that my process of creating a traditional page almost always starts with a digital version. This is where I can nut out the composition, colour and content before committing to paper and glue. Its how I work and to be honest I love that process. I feel like I am creating a well thought out and planned page which also enables me to get a hybrid one done in half the time. Taming my toddler is hard work and I really don't have a lot of patience fighting off little reaching hands for the stanley knife every 5 secs hence why the digi version is my starting block. I can then whip up a trad page almost as quick as you can say 

'Watch out Tige is grabbing for the scissors again!' lol

Below is the digital version.

'100% Boy' Digital Credits: Sissy Sparrows

Just My Type Mini Art Journal Kit

Dear Darling Mini Art Journal Kit Tuesday Template Wk 47 by Megan Turnidge ...here is the traditional version using 2 Crafty Chipboards to embellish the page. 

I love how it turned out and if you would like to see some of the techniques I used to create this page especially the negative photo strip you can head HERE to read all about it ;) Thanks for stopping by! xo

BEAUTY & GRACE

This past few days I have not been well so have been a bit slack in the blogging department but I am on the mend and am doing a bit of a catch up. 

If you have not heard already there is some exciting news over at TCR where we now have 5 new design team members all amazing artists so am really excited that Ayeeda, Christin Gronnslette, Geraldine Pasinati, Louise Nelson and Maiko Kosugi are joining us and recently Nic Howard and Czekoczyna became DT too. I would love to give you all the warmest welcome, can't wait to be inspired by your amazing talent ladies exciting times and am smiling widely xox.

Okay so here is this weeks palette and my page for The Color Room.

This is the final palette for this months sponsor Feature Art and its one I had a bit of fun with. I created the background by gessoing muslin and plastic doileys onto the cardstock, very simple way to add that little extra something to plain old cardstock. You may recall this paper in a couple of my digital pages, if not you can have a squizz here and here.  

Oh and yep I did another page using the photo of my Grandmother and will probably do a few more as I only recently got this photo so its like I am reacquainting myself with her. The journaling is a bit hard to read so I'll transcribe it here for you.

'Grace was incredibly beautiful. She possessed the kind of beauty that was akin to a 1940's siren. I often imagine her as a Hollywood starlet rather than the Port Kembla girl that she was. Such a shame she went undiscovered in the steel works as she loved to sing and perform.

I never met my beautiful grandmother but her memory will be forever cherished.'

Thats not entirely true I did meet my maternal grandmother however sadly she was in the final stages of Alzheimer's and passed away not long after our reunion. Thankfully we have a huge extended family that shared many many photo's with us and of course stories about her and her life and this photo was the one that stood out for me, I just love her natural beauty. 

Okay so thats it hope your having a fabbo weekend, I plan a day at home today still feeling a bit under the weather so think a few vids, some soup and a snuggle with my little bubba on the couch will be on the cards, thanks for stopping by xox

YOU COLOUR MY WORLD

The new word 'COLOURS' is now brightening up your scrappy challenge at BITW. I love this word prompt, it was just what the doc ordered lending itself to lots of bright colours and loud patterns.

So here is my digi page, featuring none other than Master Tige and yep his ever so clever face pulling brilliance, he takes after me in that department.

The base paper is actually a section from one of the pages I have created for a circle journal I am currently involved in and love how that can be used in a digital page too, gotta love bridging gaps tee hee.

Anyways hope you'll come and join in on the fun over at Bird is the Word for the latest word reveal and be in the running for a great gift voucher from our sponsor Scrap Locker.

Can't wait to see your entries happy scrapping everyone :)

1950's FAMILY PHOTO...

OMG its Friday already I am losing days at the moment, I need for time to slow down just by two days then I can get on top of everything its madness here. Anyways with Friday comes a brand new Palette from TCR and this weeks #114 is a fabulous selection of brown and gold hues. I was so struck by Dells page this week [it was her layout that sold me on the palette as its not one I would normally go for], so I decided I best play along and use some more of the PP's supplied my this months sponsor Feature Arts. 

Here is my page using braided rice papers from Feature Art, some fabulous Tissue Napkins from my friend Kyla's FB page Left of Centre and a few cute embellishments like the Glass Mushroom and the Cherry Blossom from D-Lish Scraps all of which worked perfectly into the palette. I also created the background by simply inking the 12X12 Circle Grid by TCW and then roughly gessoing over the top. and then collaged some papers and finally machine stitched some crazy stitching.

Here is my digi version which I created after photographing the base of the trad page and rendering it on PS to create a digital paper, not sure which one I like best!

Okay so thats it for today no more blogging I promise, my gosh this is my third entry between the two I have lol...sorry 'bout that! ;) Have a great long weekend everyone and TFL.
P.S This is my 200th post so am very excited and not surprised I still have something to babble on about tee hee :)

BE FREE

This weeks palette #98 released at The Color Room is a gorgeous combination of lovely lilacs and a dash of sage green. The combo is not one I would normally give a go but I'm always up for a challenge and in the end it proved to be a fun palette to play with.


Here's my page of my sis in-law and of course the pretty palette so if your interested in checking the gallery out to see more inspo pop on over to TCR and say hello.

TFL xox

I AM...???

The new word reveal for BITW is 'TRUST'. This word prompt got me thinking about who I am and how I would describe myself, certainly a hard one to pinpoint for me, I guess 'I am...' so many things so how do you chose the perfect word to describe yourself or someone else for that matter? 


Anyways, I was reading all about one of my all time fave artists Rosalie Gascoigne although kiwi born she resided in Canberra, Australia and was encompassed as one of Australia's very own. I had the wonderful opportunity to actually meet her many moons ago when I was an art student and she a resident artist with the Canberra School of Art. Not only was she an inspiring person but her work is spectacular I love it and have always found her work impacting and stimulating. Here's one of her pieces its so very urban and bold and so very me one day I'll have my very own Rosalie G tee hee...

and here is a link to one of her galleries just incase your interested in seeing more of her sculptures and mixed media.


Now because its not likely I'll ever have an original I thought I'd play around with the idea of collaging lots of adjectives that describe me drawing from Rosalie's idea of cutting up the common road sign. So I printed a tonne of adjectives in bold black text on yellow cardstock then inked the edges before gluing them together to form the base cardstock! 


So Here is my LO for BITW using the word prompt 'trust' and trustful in my design. Hope you like both it and the digital version too :)

Thank you for stopping by my blog and I can't wait to see what you come up with using this word prompt. Mwah

BESTFRIENDS...

Its Friday which means its time for the reveal at TCR. This weeks palette #84 is a yummy whitewashed one using colour from brown and sandy tones. Its such a scrummy palette, which lends itself to using all those woodgrain pp's in your stash ;) If your a card maker or OTP fanatic The Color Room would love to see your designs in the gallery so come on over and share your gorgeous designs we'd love  to see them.

Here's my digi page of one of my dearest friends Shanthe with her daughter Tegan on Teegs 21st birthday. It blows my mind that Teegs is 21 it only seems like yesterday when I got the call she was born and scooted off to hospital to see an 8 week premmie bubba and then in a blink of an eye she is grown up, at uni studying Criminology and is a gorgeous young woman. 

I created the digital paper base by photographing a paper I had made using gesso, The Crafters Workshop Circle Grid template and masking tape then converting the colour to work with the palette, here is the original paper design.

Thanks for stopping by everyone and hope you have a fantastic weekend xox

TIME TO SHINE

The Color Room palette for this week is a beauty. I am inlove with the colours and decided to create a shabby chic-esque (is that a word)style digital page for this weeks release all about moi!

The digital base paper I created by photographing a piece of cardstock that I had gessoed and then collaged the border with lace, masking tape and cheesecloth in between each layer adding more gesso. Here it is before I played with it on PSE. 

I love how it turned out so will be making more of these for sure maybe to add into kits, what do you think? I would love some feedback on this as some vintage train tickets I made sold in minutes over at Mad About Scrappin on their FB page, you can see one of them in use here both in a digital and traditional format. 

Thank you for stopping by guys and would really appreciate your feedback on the handmade paper :) Have a fantastic weekend xox

ITS SWELL!

Phew I finally did a catch up on my hybrid versions of past TCR layouts. Here's 'Sweet Serenity'from palette #75 and 'Be True'below that from palette #71.

To create the diagonal stripes on this layout I hand cut a screen from stencil sheeting, its a very affordable way to customise your designs and lots of quick and easy fun. All you do is draw up your design using a sharpie, mark the areas you want to cut out with a 'C'for CUT this helps keep you on track and then carefully cut out your design using a scalpel or stanley knife. 

Oh and almost forgot to share some piccies from the weekend. We went on a little family outing down to Currumbin to introduce Tige to the wonders of sculpture and art. The Swell Sculpture Festival is an annual event up here and is well worth a look if you ever in town during this time. Here were some of our faves and a couple of piccies of Tige to throw in the mix!

Little Tig-let holding the bottle on his own!

Tig-let trying to suck his thumb and drink at the same time.

a little hot and bothered...

 having some fun with daddy!

and a cool entry/vestibule into a block of units tucked away in one of the streets we were walking around. I had to stop and take a piccie I felt like I was transported elsewhere to some far away exotic land!

Now back to dreaming of travel, oh to just jump on a plane! ;)

SWEET SERENITY

Hi Everyone, just wanted to share with you that The Color Room is celebrating its 75th palette this week and we have a very special offer for you to mark the occasion. Recently Lydell Quin and I joined forces and collaborated on creating a digital kit called 'Sweet Serenity' for you to purchase. The DT at TCR were given the kit and all created incredibly beautiful hybrid and digital pages, so we thought why not make it available to all the TCR members


Here's a little preview of whats in the kit, not everything is displayed but its chocka block full of prettiness.

and here is Palette #75 that inspired the kit...

and here is my page created using the 'Sweet Serenity' Digi Kit.

and here is the traditional/hybrid page ;)

So if you are interested in purchasing the kit for a teeny tiny donation of $6 pop over here and click on the donate button located on the left side bar of the TCR home page, you may have to sign up first to be eligible!

Also if you are already a TCR member you can grab yourself a free .jpeg or .png printable sheet of selected embellishments all saved at 300dpi for premium printing quality so you can get started on those gorgeous hybrid pages straight away...tee hee

We really hope you enjoy 'Sweet Serenity' and if you do make a page or other project using the kit please let me know we would love to have a look at your creations :)

Hope you have a wonderful and creative weekend...mwah

SUCH A CUTIE!

Hi everyone,
Its that time of the week again...the Friday palette and sketch reveal at The Color Room, and I am so excited by this weeks colours they are right up my alley. The Sketch is actually my very own but re-drawn in Lydell's style so I'm twice as excited to see my sketch on a Color Room palette, woot woot!


Anyhoo, here is the Digi page for palette #69 reveal. All elements are my own except for the curled string which I credit the fabulous Lydell Quin for! :)

Here is the ridgy-didge/hybrid version which I am absolutely chuffed by how it worked out. 

I spent most of the week procrastinating on how I was going to replicate the diamond repeat pattern on the background paper of the digi version and decided that since I didnt have a diamond pre-cut stencil at hand I would make my own using some plastic sheeting and a steady hand...gosh I was transported back to my Art School days as a screenprinter anyhoo here's the stencil that I used along with Tim Holtz Barn Door Distress Ink...both are my new favorite scrap booking tools of the moment! tee hee

...and here is the palette for this week if your in need of some seriously awesome inspo then pop into TCR and say hello!

Okay well got a pot of Chicken soup on the stove in preparation for a scrap & chat night I'm hosting tomorrow night so had better taste test that and ice the cupcakes I baked as a little treat for the girls...can't wait bring on tomorrow woot woot!


Hope you have a fabulous weekend and thank you for stopping by! xox