Snip, Snap, Crop

I had some lovely My Mind's Eye papers to play with in my DT kit for August which was quite different to the challenge that I had with the template for July. I made some cards and two layouts which also use some Bella shapes and alpha from the kit provided. The August Cybercrop at Scrap of Difference had a theme of "Blast from the Past". This enabled us to use not only vintage photos but any photos that haunted us... from our past, our children's past or catching up with old friends etc. This was the sketch challenge from Belinda that I rotated to use this gorgeous photo of Keelan and Ethan in the bath at our Perth townhouse in 2001. Weren't they just cute little boys?..... Whatever happened to those little fellas? Jo challenged us with the colours of brown and lilac which made me go for a hunt..... brown was okay but the lilac came from some old packs of Me and my big ideas papers that I had from when I first started scrapbooking. The photos are of my Mum in...

Well my DT kit from Scrap of Difference for July contained a bottle of glimmermist and a Crafters Workshop Cherry blossom template. Hmmm.... what to do with it all. I looked at it for a couple of weeks before I was game enough to play but once I started and got the hang of it I really enjoyed it. I decided to use the whole template rather than just sections of it and figured it was a waste of glimmermist if I did not make the ultimate use from it. So, with one spray session of the template I got three backgrounds to work with and below are the layouts I produced from it. Now, if you place an order with Jo over at Scrap of Difference for a template or the glimmermists and mention that I sent you...... then you may just be able to request the instructions for how I created these layouts from one spray. There was also a card to go along with them. Now, if you have the template and would like to try a Free Online Class to make a layout then visit the forum here: Melissa's online cl...

Well I dropped by my blog to do some more posts the other day and lo and behold I had lost my blog layout. So, I dropped over to the "Ettes" and company.com where the lovely designers from the previously known TLC business I used to consult for, have their own digi business now and have a lovely range of blog-ettes to choose from. I hope you like my choice of layout as it is very different to the previous one. It has been a busy day for me as Ethan fell and hurt his wrist yesterday at school and was in so much pain that I decided to take him to the doctors today. This was followed by x-rays then back to the docs to find out that it thankfully wasn't broken but maybe some ligament damage. He is not allowed to play footy for a week or two until it does not hurt anymore though in case there is more damage than it seems. Seems alright to work a mouse on the computer but hurts to write and eat spaghetti bolognaise..... go figure! Well back to some more layouts and cards from ...

Unfortunately my computer has been causing me grief over the last few weeks gradually losing battery power and not charging properly so my time has been limited which has led me to complete lots of scrapbooking and card making. Too much to share all at one time so I will do it little by little over the weekend. Or at least that is the plan. We have had school holidays too so the kids have been around a lot and no quiet time for me until this week. Last month our CC at Scrap of Difference had the theme of "Sing a Song" and required us to create layouts using song titles as the title or journaling of our layout. I used some zoo photos as you can see and found lots of suitable titles for my photos. Technique challenge was to use at least three different stamps on a layout, so my tags, some background and part of my title was stamped. I created the card challenge to use bright colours and gave a list of titles to choose for the theme of the card. They also had to use at least o...

Not much happening here this weekend although I did have a crop on Friday night and even managed a sleep in this morning. Looking forward to a BBQ with friends tomorrow night before back to school on Tuesday. Managed to get some DT layouts completed this weekend too. Jo sent me some Prima, Shabby Chich papers - way out of my comfort zone. I am actually quite happy with the results so I hope you like them too. On the baptism layout I used a tutorial by Debbie Buckland to create the rose. See here for the video on how Debbie does it. Instead of using the Heart template from Fiskars which I do not own yet, I used my Cricut and cut several different sizes of heart from the Plantin Schoolbook Cartridge. I did mention in my last post that I went to a Fiskars crop a couple of weekends ago. Here are a few of the cards and the two beautiful layouts that Michelle taught us. Visit her blog here to see the other cards we had to create. I haven't added a greeting to this one yet as I'm n...

Since my last post ever so long ago, I have been on three camps. The first at the end of April with Ethan for 3 days and 2 nights to Victor Harbour, the second with Mitchell to the Adelaide Zoo and the last with Keelan, again to the Adelaide Zoo. All three saw such different experiences with the beach and Granite Island as well as the whale centre, Botanical Gardens, Parliament house and the bio-diversity gallery at the Museum as well of course studying enclosures at the Zoo and visiting Funi and Wang Wang the lovely pandas. May also saw the start of my DT role with Scrap of Difference . Jo sent me a 6" x 6" KaiserCraft pad of Rewind papers and clear stamps to play with and here are a few of my favourites: I created four layouts and five cards and I have still got plenty of papers to play with. If you would like to see the rest of the creations, feel free to visit my DT gallery and let me know what you think. I dug into some old photos that I found of the kids and tried to...