ROAR | SEQUENCE PHOTO SHOTS PHOTOGRAPHY CHALLENGE

This month I’m hosting the Photography challenge over at The Lilypad. It's a fun one where we are taking a set of sequence shots then framing them like a Photo Booth strip. Its one of my go-to ways in presenting multiple photos in my scrap pages and so easy peasy to do not to mention an effective way to share them!

Come join me in the Polly challenges and get your photo booth style happening!’ROAR’
INSTAFRAMES PACK | Sahlin StudioPROJECT 
MOUSE DAILY DOCUMENTING | Sahlin Studio & Brittish Designs

PROJECT MOUSE CHARACTER WORD BIT | Sahlin Studio & Brittish Designs
PROJECT MOUSE EMBELLISHMENTS | Sahlin Studio & Brittish Designs
PROJECT MOUSE AT SEA PAPERS | Sahlin Studio & Brittish Designs
LINED JOURNAL CARDS | Sahlin Studio
JOLLY OLE PAPER PACK | Sahlin Studio
STITCHING No.1 | Sahlin Studio
TAPED UP SWATCHES No.2 | Sahlin Studio
WORN TOPS No.2 | Lynn Grieveson Designs

Have fun getting your Photo Booth snaps ready!

Em x

GOT ME SOME '...me time scrappin'

Wow, I have been snowed under with DT work, which hey is heaps of fun its just you always feel like your on a schedule. However this week I managed to get a little '...me time...' scrappin into the mix and thought I'd play along with the latest Casefile #13 over at C.S.I.

Here is my submission all about yep you guessed little Master Tige.

 The Casefile #13.

 I also used a Page Draft from set #5 which you can find here.

Thanks for stopping by xox

LETS CELEBRATE!

Can you believe palette 100 is up! Wow congratulations 'The Color Room', massive round of applause. Also to the team along with all you wonderful forum members you guys rock for supporting such a great place and sharing all your inspiring creations, every week I am stunned by the talent out there and am excited to be continuing on the journey with TCR DT. Anyways there is lots to share in this post so I best get on with it. 

To celebrate this amazingly auspicious moment I have created a mini digital kit called 'Your So Purdy' and donated it to TCR for you to purchase. 

The kit includes:

4 x Papers (2 embossed, 1 gessoed and a woograin fancy)

1 x Altered polaroid photo frame

2 x Stacked Buntings

1 x Paper doiley

1 x Pearl flourish

3 x Altered shipping tags

1 x Wordart

Forget-Me-Not flower

Dainty Bow

Autumn Leaf

Bowl of Cherries Sticker and more.

[All files are saved at 300dpi for optimum printing when creating your hybrid projects. 

If your printer has a CMYK setting, use that for a true to colour result.]

All proceeds from the sale of 'Your So Purdy' goes back into TCR to help pay for the runnings of the ning site. So if it looks like something you could have a play with pop on over to the store and grab yourself the kit, there are a couple of other fabulous kits on offer too.

Here is a sample LO showcasing what you can do with the 'Your So Purdy' mini kit.

I also did a traditional page this week using the gorgeous paper range 'From my Heart 2' by the fabulous Swedish company Pion Design , they are such pretty, vintagy papers, but you know me I have to add some kind of contrast to off set that. So I used some cute miniture puzzle pieces from 'Stamp In Style' aren't they great.

They worked perfectly with the wordart I created as a freebie, just right click on it and you can grab it to use in your own projects :)

Okay so there you have it, the longest post in the world, sorry for that guys even I think I need to make myself a coffee now, tee hee...Have a great day and happy scrapping!

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

L.O.V.E

I am on a roll this week! I have created a few layouts some yet to be revealed but I am feeling like Mr Mojo is hanging around. I reckon though its mostly due to some awesome challenge sites I have stumbled across. This new layout was inspired by a site called Bird is the Word its a challenge site that sets words as your inspo. Its funny I hadn't heard of this site before and when I came across it through a new bloggy/scrappy friend Rachael Funnell I had to have a play. I always sing "bird, bird, bird... Bird is the word!" to Tige so kinda felt an affinity with this challenge site...tee hee!


Anyhoo here is the layout, its one of those photo's you snap when no-one is around to take it for you. The type that you point and shoot and hope you haven't cut off too much! I think it worked out just fine! To create the dry embossed stars I cut my own misting template using the cricut then I placed the cardstock over the top  of the template then using a paper creaser or burnisher whichever you have handy, and then I rubbed over the top of the cardstock to create the embossed indentation of the star. This adds another fun dimensional layer to your page and works equally as well with The Crafters Workshop Templates.

I also used some handmade Fimo buntings made by the gorgeous Corinne Harrison of Hand Made Halo, go check them out. Lastly I also scored some seriously purdy antique maps from my friend Kyla, cheering for that little gift of love...thanks Kyla,mwah!

Hope you have a spectacular weekend guys! xox

CUDDLES...

Here's my entry for this months challenge at Scrap the Boys just loved the inspo so gave it a go!

I used the last of my stash of Imaginarium Designs cogs and gears set anxiety has set in so am going to have to make a wee purchase for some more and here was the inspo piccie just incase you want to give this months challenge a go!

Also thought I'd share that I am published in the current August Issue of SNR Magazine.

If you have a subscription check out the Strut your Stuff-Digital Section I think there are 6 layouts in this issue :)


Have a great day everyone, and thanks for stopping by xox

ON THE MOVE!

I have been crazy busy packing up the house and cleaning it, but thought I'd quickly pop on here and add a little post before I go off line for a few days until we can be re-connected in the new abode. I have been wanting to get my digi kits up and running for weeks but with Tige and the house move everything has gone on the back burner. I have been crazily creating and learning new paths on PS and hopefully with in the month I can share some more kits with you. 


Here is a digi I created of my friend Heather using some of the elements and papers I have designed for the 'On the Move' kit...I only wish I had some sneak peeks/Quick Grabs done for the other 4 kits I have created, big bummer but I promise I will get sorted soon!


Anyways here is the LO for you to get an idea...the kit includes a Polaroid Frame, Baroque Frame, Textured papers and a selection of elements most of which I haven't used in this page but you get the idea...

I haven't done much scrapping this week and am having withdrawals but here is another past Color Room palette knocked off the list #28 and both the traditional & digital versions to compare. I have also decided to include a sketch template for those of you needing a boost in the mojo department.

So tomorrow is the big day, the day we close the doors to our old life and begin a new one. Although I am all excited about this move I'm already feeling a sadness come over me...we have lived here for almost 6 years, its were we shared good times with our two gorgeous doggies Kales and Osky before they passed.

Its also where we have created some wonderful memories, but its time to move on, time for a bigger house and time to start afresh.


Well better get motivated and pack the scrap room up and start getting organised for tomorrows big move. Catch you all in a few days! xox

I HEART WOODGRAIN!

Yep another week and another LO and a palette (#54) that I am certain will inspire you, the colours are gorgeous this week. I am so stuck on citrus combo's and as you all know equally stuck on woodgrain!  Some of you will think this is hilarious as this weeks layout is dedicated to my absolute infactuation with everything woodgrain!


Here's the glue and paper version albeit some hybrid elements using my current digi designs from my not yet launched 'LOVE ME' digi kit! I also used yet again the tried true and tested awesomeness of Grafix Rub-Onz to create the journalling and word art. Can I also say a little blurb too on the gorgeous new range of Sassafras papers called 'Starters'...OMG I am sooo inlove with this range its just so dreamy. Its full of fun, soft and vintage yet graphic layers that screams out to me actually sings out to me would be more the right description and well, has to be my fave PP range at the mo!

...and my digi version

I have plenty of ATC's to share too but haven't had a chance to photograph them so will post them some time over the weekend...TFL and have a gr8t day! xox

SCRAPPIN HAPPY!

Me again, and I am feeling on top of the world!!! Can I just say I am absolutely lovin' being a mumma! Tige is an absolute dream bubba, oh yeah sure we have some sleepless nights and he's a milk fiend but for the most part the little Tige-let is just dreamy! I was asked today online by an old school friend if life had changed heaps already and could I remember what my life was like before the little man arrived...it was an interesting question because I realised that although it has only been 3 weeks it seems a lifetime ago that I only had myself and Dan to think about. 


I guess the biggest change has been that for the past 40 years I have only had to consider me(a fairly selfish existence I am sure) but now I can finely understand how truely amazing an experience it is to be a mother to have a little person so reliant on you and that indescribable love you feel... its all so consumming. So YES!!! My life has massively changed and no I can not relate to the old me anymore I'm loving the new me much more the multi tasker, the milk maid the new mummy!


The only thing that remains from my former life is my scrapbooking and I have some exciting news that I'll be able to share very soon with you all, but have to hold off just for another week so stay tuned for that newsflash. I also have some ATC's and layouts to share with you that I have managed to get done just prior to Tige's birth and during these past 3 weeks, so here goes...


Here's 2 layouts I have done over at 'The Color Room'

Here's the first layout I've created of Master Tige called 'Celebrating Our Boy' and below is Palette#46 that I drew inspiration from.

this one is called 'I'm so Happy', using Palette#47 for inspiration.

I also managed to get some ATC's completed before Tige was born, they are all for the 'Fullsleeve Swap' This one was  for the thme Architectural Detail. I paid homage to one of my fave mid century architects of all time the fantastic Mr Harry Seidler and did an ATC of the house he built for his parents 'The Rose Seidler House'. I opens up to expose the house and a pop up of an iconic chair of the time 'The Butterfly Chair' which is pool side.

this one is also for Fullsleeve and is for the theme 'Sign's' so I thought I'd try to re-create the old bus signs but create one of the beaches along the SE Qld coastline.

Okay well thanks for stopping by, keep smiling a wide one! xoxo

LOTS OF COLOUR AROUND HERE!

Hi everyone,

Its been a dreary & wet day but not without being productive. I have finally with the help of my gorgeous hubby managed to get the spare room all sorted and organised, a task that has elluded me and kept me up at night thinking how on earth I was going to fit all our stuff in there since the nursery has been set up in what used to be my craft room. Anyways its all done and aside from some final jooshing which I'll finish off tomorrow, I think mum will be quite comfy in there when she stays for a month when bubs arrives.
Some of you may remember I mentioned joining the ning challenge site 'The Color Room'...well...the design team selected my 'Never Doubt' LO I did of my nephew Romeo-J, as one of that weeks palette feature LO's...

so very chuffed I have to say because the forum members are absolutely amazingly talented peeps. Anyways here's to you R-J for being the perfect subject to scrapbook! tee hee

This weeks palette #40 is a goodin, here's my LO called 'Dreams' which is all about my lovely mumzie...

and the palette below was the inspiration, although I think the pink tones of my LO don't lend themselves to this particular colour story which really erks me! Oh well build a bridge...lol

Okay well better scoot off and finish a couple of collages I have been working on in my Art Journal, have a great night and thanks for stopping by! xox

2 DAYS INTO 2011

As much as I have tried to put on a brave face I haven't been coping very well this past week with Osky's death unfortunately its really been stressing me out but I'm a firm believer that he visited me in my dreams friday night to let me know he is happy and in a magical place well at least it feels that way especially after dreaming we were playing together like we used to do.


Anyways Osky came home on Wednesday...its weird how even though he is in a pretty little wooden box sitting on the credenza, just having him home has calmed me. I feel like I can move to the next level of grief and that is to celebrate what a perfect little furry friend he was and try not to feel so devastated by it all. Here's another page I did of Mister called 'Angel Dog' which I think will be the last grief stricken one I'll do of him, time to do fun loving pages that really reflect his personality from now.

I have also been working on some other pages these past couple of days, its been so nice to freely scrap away my time in between hanging the washing out and sweeping the floors...this whole maternity leave thing is fantastic and in keeping with that here is a Layout all about my fruit fixation these past eight months tee hee!

This one was a page I started at the Scrapboutique retreat in November, but that I had forgotten all about until the other day. Miss Teleah looks so cute with all her friends organised on the trampoline, I just had to scrap it, how cute is she?

Then last but not least I have been secretly admiring for some time the fun colour palette challenges at The Color Room Challenge site but havent been afforded the time to participate because of other DT commitments and work...but with not having to get up early, pop the D.J's face on and go to work I have finally joined the forum and played in the #39 challenge, here's the colour palette and below that is my take on it...

Hope you've all had a fantastic Christmas and New Year and thank you for stopping by my little blog! xox

RETREAT FEVER

OOOh I forgot to mention the fun retreat I've just come back from!
I have finally caught up with everything since coming back from Arrawarra nears Coffs Harbour. Its absolutely beautiful down there, I felt like I had come home when I saw the vegetation, the gorgeous beaches and the little towns along the way... hmmmmm brain is a ticking now, could there be a move on the cards??? 

We stayed at the Darlington Beach Resort  in schmicko cabins, its a fabbo place for families as it caters for kiddies, so if your still trying to find a place for the Christmas Holidays have a snoop at the link above.

We had a great time,I got to hang out with my gorgie friend Lisa, caught up with some of the SB Babes and a long lost but recently found school friend Cindy which was an absolute blast we certainly covered a lot of ground and had a lot of laughs in my case massive belly chuckles tee hee.

Here's a few photos and pages I did over the weekend!

This first one was my take on the 

Inspiration Challenge, 

'Fonts and Elements'.

...and the poster that inspired!

This one is a page of my flower 

girl and I.

I used my latest fave scrapbook material 

the Grafix Rub-Onz film, 

you can find the tutorial here. 

This one was the Goodie Bag Challenge...

Finally finished last months Sketch Stash Stomper...hmmmm

a couple of muck around Lo's... 

and this last one that was a bit of a challenge. Cindy saw that I had not used the Budgie Stamp I bought a few months back, so she challenged me to use it in a LO at the retreat ;)think I might have achieved that, tee hee

TFL

A COUPLE OF PAGES TO SHARE

I haven't done many LO's lately its been all systems go with sorting out this house for bubba's arrival. We have managed to squeeze my scrap room into 1/3 the original space I had (I'm sharing a room with a queen bed grumphhhh) But I am more excited about getting the nursery painted before Mr Dan goes back to the mine so I can then totter around decorating the space.


When Dan got back last week all he wanted to do was buy all the big baby items like the car seat, pram and change table so, thankfully we now have a room to house them in, lol.


Other than all this fun excitement I have done a couple of LO's which I thought I'd share with y'all!


Here's one I did at a 'Girls Night In'

where the host Tash of Wise Craft Creations raised a few dollars for Breast Cancer Research. I had so much fun meeting the ladies  and as always spent way too much money! eek


I also surprised myself with actually doing this months Scrapboutique stylist challenges. I am such a shocker, I never seem to find time to do them but this month I loved the girls challenges and given we didn't have the added stylist packs to work through I thought I have got to at least attempt them.


Here's my take on the November Sketch/Stash Stomper set by the lovely Manon. Its all about the cheeky little poppet Miss Teleah.

This next one is my take on Amanda's November Monthly Challenge
the theme being 'Wet, Wet, Wet'. I figured I had to do one of Mr Osky because its been a while since I have made a page of him. I also really wanted to use up those teeny scrap pieces of paper and bits and bob's I keep hoarding.I'm pretty happy to get the old Woodgrain Hambly Prints in there...tee hee

Here is my sample page for the Stylist Challenge I set for November. You can read more about it in the right hand column and link back to Scrapboutique if your interested in participating in it or any of the other challenges...

...and finally last month I hosted the Blind scrap at our CC. The Sunday Roast was all about 'Halloween'. I got the girls to doodle or stitch on the page and create a shaped mount and photo by hand cutting.

Here's what I did for the blind roast a bit of machine stitching for the spiderrrr web and a circular mount to echo the moon theme.

Okay so thats about it everyone, thanks for stopping by hope your having a great week!