Leonie's Life

A Golden Wedding Anniversary gift

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This may be the only card I make for 2012! I'm so not a card maker but as it was my parents Golden Wedding Anniversary last friday I decided to make a card for them.

I got this idea from a friends Facebook wall she'd done a similar thing for her

fathers 70th birthday. Here's a link to the blog that inspired the idea.

My sisters and I wrote, emailed, rang, and pm'd- relatives, friends, neighbors, and

old work mates of our parents.

We asked them to send us memories they had of our parents during the past fifty years.

Then we presented these to Mum and Dad on their anniversary.

We received back some beautiful, funny and heartfelt

accounts of peoples memories, Some people even sent

photo's to us which was wonderful.

There were tears and much laughter.

The grandchildren read aloud their memories of Granny and Pa,

and we took turns in reading out the others.

It was a great surprise and they loved hearing from family and friends some

of whom they hadn't seen in years.

I used a Bellah bloom from the D-Lish scraps shop

I also used the pearl spray, kraft tag, resin flower and paper doiley.

I also cut out the white tag from some of the D-Lish packaging which is part of the shops logo.

I added a tag I made using some one of those Kraft tags and journal spots from D-Lish.

The metal birdcage and wooden button are also from D-Lish.

Here's how we presented our gift.

Of course on Saturday night when we celebrated their anniversary with

some family and friends it rained most of the evening!!! But we did manage to catch this photo

of Mum and Dad with their 4 Daughters, Sons-in-Law and Grandchildren. And several umbrella's!!!

Glad you liked it Mum and Dad. xox

Thanks also to everyone who sent us their memories. It was

very much appreciated.

Colour combo for SFS

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Scrapbooking from scratch

have a colour inspiration challenge this month set by their newest DT member Deb Alexander.

Congrats Deb!

You can see the colour inspiration here

Blue, Yellow, Orange and white and/or cream.

This is what I came up with.

A little layout expressing my thanks to Mum and Dad,

who are celebrating their 50th Wedding Anniversary

this Friday! Congratulations.

Happy Golden Anniversary to both of you. xx

Lots of Stamping and Misting on this layout and i've wet embossed with a crafters

workshop template and clear embossing powder.

Lots of yummy D-Lish embellishments on this page including the washi tape,

forget-me-not flowers, and kraft tag which I've stamped on with

a Kaisercraft texture stamp.

How gorgeous is this flower, from D-Lish of course, one of the

Bellah Blooms available in the store and some cherry blossoms.

and just catching up on my photo prompts for the last few days.

Feb 6th-Dinner

Celebrating my husbands birthday.

Feb 7th -Button

Well lots of buttons actually from my stash.

and Feb 8th - Sun

from my back yard late this afternoon.

Cheers and thanks for looking,

Leonie.

photo-a-day

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Just posting my last couple of days pictures for February photo-a-day.

4th Feb - a stranger

Well...he didn't use to be a stranger but this is my childhood favourite

soft toy named 'Mervin the Monkey' I came across him recently

in a bag of old toys.

Hello Stranger!

Feb 5th

prompt -10am

After working a 10hour night shift, by 10am this morning

I was catching some serious zzzzzzz's

under my gorgeous handmade Liberty quilt.

An engagement gift from my Mum 13years ago.

And of course I do have a layout to share.

the Stuck Sketch for February 1st check out the sketch here.

I tipped the sketch on its side and added some Lil Red Rocket buttons

love these little kraft quote spots by lil red rocket

thanks for dropping by,

catch ya later. :)

Leonie.

scrap the girls-February

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When I found out the Criteria for this months Scrap the Girls challenge I was so excited to get

scrapping.

LOVE in the TITLE

TURQUOISE as the DOMINANT COLOUR and

CHIPBOARD

I'm not sure why but lately I have been loving anything turquoise coloured.

I chose these photo's and built my layout around them using Prima paper as a base that

had turquoise as its main colour.

I added the chippie birdcage and bird which I'd altered with inks and crackle paint.

A close up of my journalling.

The canvas Prima flowers were white but I altered them with paint and inks to match the colour

criteria.

I hope you're inspired by these criteria too,

brought to you by

our Guest Designer this month at STG, Agnieszka Bellaidea.

You can see all the other CT examples here.

There are some fab sponsors this month too, even more reason to participate!

D-Lish Scraps

A lil Somethin'

and

Charms Creations

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This is my photo for yesterday - the prompt being 'hands'

No I wasn't driving when I took this photo, the engine was turned off!

The main reason I took

this picture was because I wanted to document the fact that I'm wearing my wedding band.

I took it off seven years ago when I was pregnant with Maggie. After loosing 18kg in the last four months

I was finally able to get it back on my finger. It was one of my weight loss goals achieved!

Still I long way to go but this has certainly sweetened the journey.

Cheers, hope you're enjoying your weekend.

SUYS February Sketch, Photo-a-Day, School and a little SD card disaster...

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Whoa I think that's the longest

post title i've ever had!

I've got lots of things to share, bare with me though as I get through them.

SUYS Sketch

My take on the sketch at Show Us Your Stuff.

February's sketch is Sara Noendengs last as part of the DT at SUYS.

So I hope we get lots of entries to show her how much we have loved creating with her sketches.

I had loads of fun creating this background.

I started out with some pink paisley resist paper and added

distress inks and at first I didn't like it at all so I just kept adding mists and stamping and

then distress stains until eventually when the paper was very soggy indeed it- began to grow on me-

well actually I think it's one of my faves now!

This is the sketch

My hand made items were some of Charms Creations lollipop's.

Do you like my messy tangle of twine, it sort of matched the messy background and the

the messy little darlings in the photo! ;)

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Feb photo a day

OK next up- February photo a day, I decided to follow the prompts on this blog

Feb 1st prompt is 'your view today'.

This was my view for several hours on Wednesday as I was

re-staking and retying our tomato plants. And In the background little

Miss Maggie had a picnic with assorted dolls under her very PINK

beach umbrella. Not a bad way to spend a sunny afternoon!

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Back to school

Well Februarys photo prompt was 'words' and being back to school day for my kids,

reading, learning an' all that

I've used the traditional group pic of them because....alright I'll admit it I forgot about the word

prompt til it was too late.

Great start i'm off to, day 2 and i've forgotten already!

All Six of us posing

of course it usually degenerates into these sort of

pictures fairly quickly

I love these sort just as much though. x

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So if you've made it this far -my little disaster with the SD card.

After dropping the little darlings off at school I come home for coffee, in the peace and quiet

and began to upload all the photo's i'd taken.

Take the Card from my camera to put into the

computers card reader slot and accidentally insert it into

the CD Drive on the Computer instead.

Arrghh!

My computer ate my SD Card!!!

$50,

five hours later,

and

two trips to the computer tech on the other side of town

to retrieve the card!!

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OK that's it.

Thanks so much for reading all this, hope it was worth it!

Cheers, be back tomorrow.

With a much shorter post! :)

Savvy Cyber Crop

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School's back tomorrow! Yay! Had a great 6 weeks holiday but I'm so

looking forward to getting back into a school time routine.

There was a Cyber crop at Scrapbook Savvy this last week and I did two of the challenges.

The first is a puzzle challenge which had to include; a heart, paperclip, flower, splatters and a flag.

I used some gorgeous D-Lish embellishments on my layout including the forget-me-nots, the reindeer bottle cap (he's so cute!!), and these Kraft Christmas Journal spots.

The Second Challenge is a colour inspiration challenge based on this picture

The picture I scrapped is a couple of years old taken on my phone.

Andy bought and ate his first Chiko roll at the local swimming pool one

hot summers day. He thought it was the best!

I promise he's not as sunburnt as he looks! haha!

And More D-Lish magic on this layout in the form of washi tapes. Amanda has a huge variety to choose from in the shop

go and check them all out. You wont be disappointed.

I wanted to make a feature of the tapes so I've chosen colours to suit the challenge and layered them under

the photo.

The cute lil wooden flower button is from D-lish.

And some Kraft shipping tags also from D-Lish, how cool are these?

Cheers, hope you like.

Thanks so much for stopping by and thanks

in advance for your comments. I love to hear what you think of

my work. :)

last minute layouts

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Well not quite last MINUTE - who can scrap a layout in minutes, certainly not me.

But the last weekend for January I got to spend away at a retreat with some scrap booking friends.

I had a lovely time thank-you; Malinda, Melissa and Jasmine, it was just what I needed at

the end of the school holidays to recharge the batteries before the beginning of Term 1.

I managed to scrap 10 layouts, two of which were for january challenges.

This first one is for Daring You To Scrap- a brand new challenge blog and the theme for january

was to use 'paper scraps to create a background'.

I used lots of scraps of an Echo Park paper range I had all but used up. Then I gessoed over the top of it all. such a quick easy method to create a background. Then I added some bubble wrap stamping with paint and some Dylusions border stamps (love those stamps).

And this layout of two of my gorgeous boys holding their footy trophies, is for Anna's Craft Cupboard

January Sketch.

I used some of my recently purchased Washi tapes from D-Lish scraps. Oh I love all the colours and

patterns available in the store. How gorgeous are these red dots and checks?!

I'll be back to share some more of my layouts later in the week.

Cheers. :)

finally scrapped some challenges...

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I Scrapped yesterday! A layout for the quote challenge at Scrapbook Savvy.

I love the bright colours in this.

a cute lil telephone button from my stash, the resin roses are websters and the large button

is from Catie's Craft Corner- Catie's having a big sale starting tomorrow so

if you want to grab some gorgeous handmade items check it out here

31% off storewide!

For the background I used a crafters workshop template, distress inks, paint and

a woven plastic drawer liner for the texture in the paint.

This one is for Scrap the boys - January challenge about

favourite summer activities. Which I actually did a couple of weeks ago

but hadn't photographed til now.

A twine bow ala the gorgeous Chantal. Been seeing these on your pages

lately and think they look fabbo!

And the last is for stuck sketches 1st January sketch.

I've used some Lil Red Rocket buttons on this layout.

And guess what Lil Red Rockets January sale is on tonight.

OMGosh the sneaks on facebook for this sale look

COMPLETELY Awesome!!!

Bye for now. :)

More D-Lish

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Wow it was a bit hot here today, still is actually.

Maybe some snow will help cool me down, well some pictures of snow play at least!

Here's my latest D-Lish scraps later that I have to share. Some pictures of my daughter throwing snowballs during her first trip to the snow.

Let me tell you the snow was very, very thin on the ground!

But it was still her first experience of snow and all the kids had a ball on the toboggan run at Mt Buller.

Hopefully next time we go there will be a little more of the white stuff to play with.

The products I used were;

Pearl sprays http://d-lishscraps.openstores.com.au/c/63/Sprays.html

Roses http://d-lishscraps.openstores.com.au/c/110/Large-Roses.html

Forget-MeNots http://d-lishscraps.openstores.com.au/c/90/Forget-Me-Nots.html

The pearl sprays reminded me of tiny little snowballs so I thought they matched well on this layout

and the roses were originally pale pink but I wanted some blue tones so I just swiped a blue

versa cube ink across the top of the rose.

and the little forget-me-nots are so cute, love them.

resin flower http://d-lishscraps.openstores.com.au/c/123/Resin-Flower-Packs.html
And then there was this lovely resin flower, I love it's heart shape with just a touch of glitter to it.

Hope you like :)

cheers.

Leonie. x

D-LISHiousness

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Hi all, we're back from our holiday. We spent two wonderful weeks camping by the Murray river in NSW. The weather was warm to hot- yay! We swam and lazed about most of the time, in a hurry to

do nothing at all. Of course i've spent the last week washing all the clothes and bedding we took with us

but thats ok-all part of the camping experience. Like having to wash my hair 2 or 3 times before I could get rid of the campfire smell, hehe.

Before I left I managed to find some time to start creating with a fabulous pack of D-Lish goodies

sent to me. This is the first layout I created.

How gorgeous are these ribbon carnations?

There are also cabbage roses, and camellias among others available here

I used a diecut shape as a mask and gesso to create the butterflies and added rhinestones for the bodies.

Here's a close-up of the metal birdcage, so sweet and there's a whole range of metal embellishments in the store.

Now that I'm getting on top of the washing I promise to start back visiting all my fave blogs.

Can't wait to see what you've all been up to. :)

Be back tomorrow with another D-Lish layout.

and lastly a little pic of the beach we spent our days at on the Murray, can't wait to do it all again next year.

Other products I used were:

rhinestones http://d-lishscraps.openstores.com.au/c/80/Adhesive-Rhinestones.html

paper doilies http://d-lishscraps.openstores.com.au/c/1/Paper-Doilies.html

washi tape http://d-lishscraps.openstores.com.au/c/92/Washi-Masking-Tape.html

wooden buttons http://d-lishscraps.openstores.com.au/c/95/Shaped-Wooden-Buttons.html

SUYS - JAN

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This is my Show Us Your Stuff sketch sample for January.

STG-JAN- monochromatic

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This is my Scrap the Girls sample for January.

Happy New Year and some Super Duper Exciting News!!!!

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Happy New Year to you all. I hope everyone had a beautiful Christmas surrounded by family and friends and lets hope 2012 is full of new challenges and opportunities for us all to enjoy.

Things are working out quite well for me in the opportunity department so far. In December I was given an awesome opportunity when I applied for a position on a Design team of a most fabulous online scrapbooking store.

I am so happy to part of the D-lish design team for the next 6 months.

If you haven't seen the D-lish store you seriously need to check it out. Amanda's store specialises in embellishments for scrapbooking, cardmaking and other crafts.

D-Lish is here on facebook too so go like that page to be kept up to date with all new stock that arrives.

I've already been having some fun creating with some gorgeous D-lish products which I'll share in the coming weeks.

Cheers. :)

My last post (I think) for this year...

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Gosh time just seems to move way too fast. The days are ticking over and

soon it will be Christmas, thankfully i'm on track with Shopping etc but

sadly Scrapping has taken a back seat the last fortnight and so I think this will

be my last share for this year. Unless I'm lucky enough to discover a few extra

days and am able to participate in some challenges this month....sigh.

I'm sorry to those lovely bloggers that I haven't visited and commented on lately, I'm sure I'm missing out on some awesome scrapping but it's just been, work, kids, school, housework blah blah. You get the picture.

In Amongst the chaos this past week I needed to organise gifts for the

kids teachers. My Daughter actually gave me this idea when she suggested to me that she would like

to do a Christmas 'She Art' ala Christy Campbell Tomlinson.

It was the spark I needed to create these Canvas'. They are on 8x6" canvas panels and

apart from my time constraints the Teachers were lucky to get them because by the time I'd finished,

I loved them so much I wanted to keep them for myself!!

So here are my Christmas Nativity canvases;

Mary and Baby Jesus.

The Wise Men -sorry this pictures a little blurry, I was in a hurry when I photographing them.

Surprise, surprise!!

The Angel

The Shepherds

and another little Angel

I had such fun creating these

and now as soon as School finishes Tuesday, I've promised my Daughter I'll help her with her

Christmas She Art. Can't wait! One of the boys has asked if he could do a 'He Art' (hehe cute hey?)

And I've bought some more Panels just in case I find time to make our own Nativity! ;)

Cheers all you lovely readers and commenters.

Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas. x

Show us Your Stuff - December Sketch.

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Show us Your Stuff blog this month has some fabulous sponsors

and I was super lucky to get a gorgeous bag of goodies from Carol Mead

of Tattered Inspirations.

You can check out all her lovely embellishments in her ETSY store.

The goodies I received were all lovely soft pink tones and romantic vintage images

so I decided to scrap a couple of my wedding pictures in a

distressed vintage style.

I just love this beaded trim and I used it to recreate the diamond pattern in the sketch.

I had such fun playing with all the Tattered Insprirations Embellishments and

incorporating them on my Layout.

Lots of cute little tickets and stamps and this gorgeous butterfly button which

was actually the centre of a bottle top which I removed.

Vintage seam binding and cabachon flowers,

crochet doilies and pins and a pretty pink organza flower.

I decided that Core'dinations cardstock and some Prima patterned paper

suited the Tattered inspirations embellishments and I also fussy cut some butterflies from the Prima Paper

to add to the other handmade embellishments.

this is the sketch you need to follow for our 1st December challenge

at SUYS.- designed by SUYS DT member Sara Noendeng

Remember to include a include a handmade or hand dyed item made by either yourself or someone else.

And here's my take on the Sketch.

Head over to the SUYS blog to check out all the other DT samples.

And Decembers Guest Designer is Trudi Harrison her sample is divine, you must see that!

Cheers, I hope your week is off to a great start. :)

http://showusyourstuff.blogspot.com/
http://tatteredinspirations.blogspot.com/

scrap the girls- December

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http://scrap-the-girls.blogspot.com/

Hello Bloggers and welcome to the start of another Super

Silly Season.

I really wasn't getting into things much, well I guess it was only November!

I'd made a start on my presents but it was all sounding like too much hard

work and constantly rushing here and there.

But today, the 1st of December, after picking up the kiddos from School, my youngest asked

me if we could put up the tree? We always put up our tree the 1st couple of days in December anyway

but I just wasn't feeling festive.

But how can you refuse an enthusiatic 6 year old?

So I got the ladder out and pulled down the boxes in the garage

and the kids all helped decorate the tree, and for the most part they were

really enthusiatic about it. Even when I made them stand still for photos!!

I stood back and

let the kids jam all their many kindergarten made ornaments on the tree, they laughed with each other

over their crafty efforts, they Danced to Christmas Carols and messed around with

Santa hats and reindeer antlers.

It was.....special.

And all of a sudden Christmas is here and I don't care

that it'll busy and hectic and lots of work.

I'm looking forward to cooking Christmas treats and going to

sing carols and wrapping presents. It's all worth it to

share these times with my children.

(I'll remember to think of this post again tomorrow morning

in the middle of that crazy breakfast, getting ready for school and out the door on time routine, when

they are all driving me batty!!!!) haha

OK better get on with my Scrappy share!

Scrap the Girls Challenge this month is all about Babies.

December is after all the month we Celebrate the birth of Christ.

I decided to continue the December theme with my sample and scrap some

Christmas photo's of my baby girl.

I used Jilly-Bean Soup, Making Memories and Purple Pumpkin embellishments.

lots of distressing and misting added to my Christmas paper. I love the effect created when using

the lid off a glimmermist bottle to make these circle stains.

And the enthusiastic 6 year old I mentioned above, well

these are some pictures of her first Christmas and helping to

decorate the tree even back then. :)

I hope you're inspired to get scrapping some baby photos' - Remember Girls only for Scrap the Girls

Challenges.

Make sure you check out all the other CT layouts over here.

Cheers.

some last minute challenges

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For Crafty Sketches

and the Puzzle Challenge at Scrapbooking from Scratch

just a quick one today gotta go finish assembling my

December Daily.

Catch ya Later

Purple Pumpkin and Stuck Sketches

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Novembers Purple Pumpkin sketch layout.

This Rocket Age October Afternoon range was a great match

for my photo's of Hamish dressed as

'Zac Power 'for Literacy week at school.

Love this spotty button!

And my oldest son went dressed as a zombie.

This is for the 1st Nov Sketch at Stuck Sketches

I made the circle of dots with red acrylic paint that has a very fine and pointed tip,

and the papers are a Crate paper range.

thanks for dropping by. :)

Polly Scraps Give Away

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How gorgeous is this new Basic Grey range?

LoVe it!

Polly Scraps is giving away one whole collection kit

and 3 mini kits

How fantastic is that.

Go HERE for all the details.

You can see Polly Scraps kits on their

Facebook page aswell

https://www.facebook.com/pollyscrapkits.

Some old Postage Stamps..

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Amazing what you can do with some old Postage Stamps!

I saw this great Challenge on this talented chickie's blog and was inspired to

create a layout using postage stamps.

It was for a challenge on the Do More With Less blog.

Sorry Chantal, I left it a little late and didn't finish my layout until after the deadline,

but I'm so happy with how this one turned so I hope you don't mind too much.

OK, so the challenge was to create a background using postage stamps.

Well quite a few years ago my Mum (who is a collector of many things!!) gave me

a storage box full of stamps-with the intent that I could sort them and put them into albums.

Ummm well I didn't quite get to that stage- 4 kids = busy life.

So when I saw this challenge I unearthed said storage box from

my laundry cupboards and looked at these 1000's of stamps.

The ones that caught my eye were the older ones from the early to mid 1900's.

They are all in lovely monotones, blues, browns, greens, reds.

Most of them had Queen Elizabeths' head or her Mummy's and a few

had some King I can't remember which one!!!

I'm sure the Philatelic Society would keel over at the thought of gluing and throwing

ink over old stamps, but hey a it's all in the name of....scrapbooking. ;)

Next I found a photo to scrap with. Me at about 2 1/2years with my Grandfather.

I may not be as old as the stamps!!!! haha but this Photo is

taken off a slide and is fairly faded so it matched the theme I was going for.

My embellishments are from Prima and D-Lish Scrap flowers,

resin cabachons from Lil Red Rocket, and doilies from

My Minds Eye.

The clock is Heidi Swap.

My plan was to create a Layout that looked like an old parcel tied in string.

The Airmail bakers twine was perfect for this, along with all the old stamps.

Lots of distressing, inking, misting and splats.

This is what I came up with.

The journalling is all about the things I remember most when I think of my maternal

grandfather. He died aged 67 the year I was 12. Some of these things I had forgotten

and they came back to me as I was doing this layout. Gotta love a craft that

can do that for you.

I just love these Prima resin shapes, I rubbed some glimmermist on it to

add to it's weathered look.

Thanks so much for stopping by and if you happen to want to leave me a

comment, I thank you too for your kind words. :)

Cheers.

WW1 and out of the Hat

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Hey bloggers just have time to do a quick post, before the boys cricket game this arvo.

The First is for Out of the Hat

1. Spots or stripes

2. 2 different punches

3. Make a flower

I made the flower with the the cricut, two different martha stewart punches and some EP stiped paper.

The Second one is for White With 1

White + 1 bright colour + flowers

I love this textured white cardstock. It came up a treat with some

bright pink paint scraped on it. And several different flowers, Prima, a sticker flower, & crochet flowers

Cheers all have a fab weekend. :)

Savvy Nov. Challenges

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These three layouts are my takes on the November challenges over at Scrapbook Savvy

This first one is for the 'wordy' challenge set by Sara Noendeng, which simply involved

including the persons name on you layout.

Here's my boy Hamish Flynn and a bit of his writing I discovered

one day early this year. I think it's a pretty good description of him actually and

I love his misspelt 'especially'. Not technically the best design scrappy wise or anything but I'm so

happy to preserve not just Hamish' handwriting but his view of himself at 8yo. Hamish sometimes exhibits

a low self-esteem and is extremely hard on himself when he fails at something.

So it's even more lovely to see him writing about himself in such

positive terms. I love you Hamish. xox

The quote challenge set by Tara Scobie.

"Enjoy the little things in life.... for one day you'll look back and realise they were the big things"

Beautiful quote and showing some more of my Crafters Workshop template obsession. Actually the brick template is

Prima. So I do sometimes use templates other than CW! ;)

And the sketch set by Anthea Peterson.

I usually scrap in Chronological order, I'm sort of scrapping

August/September photo's at the moment. the other day I realised I had

completely forgotten to scrap any pictures from

this years Easter. So I printed a few off and here's one of them. :)

Cheers and thanks for stopping by. xx

Once upon a Sketch.

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I think I'm just squeaking this one up in time.

Deadline is tonight for this sketch at Once Upon A Sketch.

I actually did the layout 2 weekends ago but just hadn't added the

journaling. So I finished it off today.

I rotated the Sketch clockwise.

and cut this flower out with my cricut.

And the jouranling is all about why and when I started

scrapbooking.

Scrap the boys-Nov

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The November challenge at Scrap the boys is a beauty.

"SHOW US YOUR COLOURS"

"We have recently had the AFL & NRL grand finals, the Rugby WorldCup, the US Open etc so this month we want a layout of your boys or men showing their colours.
Please note that it does not have to be limited to footy or rugby, it can also include soccer, Touch Footy, Cricket, Tennis and sport that your child or hubby loves but you MUST make sure you have a photo of them in their colours!"

Well with quite a few sports mad boys in this house I could have scrapped

at least five pages with this theme.

But I settled on these photo's of 3 of the aforementioned boys.

Celebrating Geelongs' Win in the AFL Grand Final.

Haha I think Hubby is a little embarrassed about me capturing

him in such a frenzy. Hamish thought it was hysterical to see

Dad so excited and Andy was in as big a frenzy as his Dad!

I used the Chevron CW template and distress stains and inks this time and the black circles

are made with the wonky circles CW template which I stamped with black paint rather than

using it as a stencil.

And a few blue and white (just to tie in with the team colours the boys are wearing)

embelishments.

Thanks for looking. :)

Get Picky Inspiration

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A couple of weeks ago I came across a heap of photos from 2006 that I hadn't scrapped. Amongst them

were these cute pics of my daughter playing at the park. So sweet to look back at these toddler pics, holding her favourite doll at that time and she always used to roll her tongue when concentrating. I'd forgotten that (and am planning a layout about it!).

I guess this is exactly why I love recording all these little things from our lives.

So, I put together this layout using some of these pictures and because there were

several pictures it suited the Get Picky inspiration challenge.

Totally loving my crafters workshop templates at the moment.

The one I used here is the mini-herringbone. Along with some paint, distress inks and stains.

The Black bubble wrap stamping was a nice contrast against all those bright colours.

(Thanks Jas for the big bubble wrap:)) I love it).

As you can see I was inspired by the colours of the quilts in the

picture and the touch of black.

Extra criteria were to use fabric

I added a calico bow and some fabric trims, and Prima fabric alphas.

I also used these Studio Calico Fab-ribs to make a boarder

around the whole layout.

If you haven't seen them they are sticky backed fabric strips.

Love these too lots of fun.

Cheers everyone, and thank-you so much for all the lovely people that take the time

to comment. I love to hear from you all. :)

Have a great week-end.

sketchabilities #58

2011-11-09T20:56:00.000+11:00

This is one of the layouts I completed on the weekend.

It's for The Sketchabilities blog.

I love sketches that have lots of stipes, great chance to

add lots of different papers. :)

These papers are October Afternoon.

and some close ups.

lots of layering.

Cheers, thanks for taking the time to stop by my blog.

November Anna's Craft Cupboard Sketch

2011-11-08T18:59:00.000+11:00

A quick share of the Sketch challenge this month

at Anna's Craft Cupboard

Some Purple Pumkin embellishments, the little mushroom button and the red flower.

And a Charms Creations lollipop

This is the Sketch.

I only had the one photo so I used a

tag with a quote (from the Wizard of Oz) on it, in place of the second photo.

And heres the whole layout.

Some gesso brickwork and then

I gave the base a rainbow effect with mists.

There's also some rubbons on there to form

the border.

Show Us Your Stuff- Nov 1st challenge

2011-11-03T17:58:00.002+11:00

Hi, I've been busy packing today. I'm going on a retreat this weekend with a girlfriend.

I'm sure I've got loads more stuff than I'll need but I'd rather have too much than get there

and wish I had that particular paper or embellishment or stamp.

Lucky there's only two of us in the car!!!

I'm so looking forward to it, just need to print some more photo's tomorrow and

we're off!

Before I go though I'm sharing my layout for SUYS for the 1st of November.

This is the sketch by fellow design team member Sara Noendeng.

The Sponsor at SUYS this month is Scrapware.

The Design team received a gorgeous package of scrapware chipboard from Angela Connolly, the owner of scrapware.

Here's my take on the Sketch.

I used crate papers 'Random' collection of patterned papers.

All the little butterflies are Scrapware and i've inked them in a variety of colours. Cute!

The leaves are stamped with rubber Dylusions stamps and I painted them in with

Tim Holtz Distress Stains.

Sometimes when the Bunny ears in photo's are driving you crazy,

well you may as well just join in and have some fun too.

the rules at SUYS are pretty simple-

"Each submission must include a handmade or hand dyed item made by either yourself or someone else. You may enter a layout, card or OTP as long as it fits the requirments for the challenge."

My handmade items are the Charms Creations lollipops and stamped clay buttons which I've coloured with ink.

You have the whole of november if you want to take part in this challenge so go check out the other samples and our fabulous Guest Designer here.

Cheers. :)

STG- November

2011-11-01T19:20:00.000+11:00

Wow! November already, and the kids are into the 4th week of term four.
My eldest asked me today if he could do his Christmas list!!!
Better start thinking about Christmas!
But being the 1st of the month there are loads of challenges being announced, Yay!
Great time of the month for lots of inspiration.
I have the Scrap The Girls challenge to show you today, and it's a goody. :)

the challenge is to use Pink as the dominant colour
Polkadots
and multiphoto's

Here's my take on the challenge,
-Polka dot patterned paper as a base from Making Memories.
-The canvas tags are Maya road and I added some cabochon roses to them

-Some pink paint and stamps and the journal tag is Prima

Here's the whole thing, oh and there are some yummy pink lollipops on there from Charms Creations.

Pretty easy challenge hey? I'm sure you want to give it a go.

There are some gorgeous more samples on the STG blog here.

Cheers. :)

creative scrappers -sketch

2011-10-29T14:16:00.000+11:00

Hi, hope everyones having a good weekend.

I just have this sketch layout to share based on a sketch from Creative Scrappers.

I used some distress stains and the 6x6" chevon stencil from crafters workshop.

My new favourite I think.

and a little scrapware gate painted white and some glossy accents .

The papers are Creative Imaginations.

Cheers, have a great weekend.

just a quick share :)

2011-10-27T20:50:00.001+11:00

The layout I had on my desk that was nearly finished...well it's done

This one was for the savvy challenge by Kerryn to choose any layout from the savvy gallery and
scraplift it . I chose a lovely layout by Lisa Kamphuis.

Savvy Cybercrop

2011-10-26T18:44:00.001+11:00

This past week-end there was a Cybercrop at Scrapbook Savvy.

so I decided to take part

I used some really pretty Echo Park papers 'Victoria Gardens' that I've had

for a while. So I used these for all but one of the challenges.

I also used some pictures of my daughter

taken in July in my Mum's garden.

There must be something special about a grandparents garden,

there are always such wonderful places to explore and discover.

I remember playing and having grand adventures in my own grandparents

garden.

This first one is Sara's sketch, with the extra

criteria to used patterned paper as a base.

The second challenge is set by Renee and the criteria was

simply to use dots somewhere on your

layout.

I used some polka dot paper and added

some larger dots with a Heidi Swapp mask and some white paint.

I have some hidden journalling on here about the story behind all

the initials carved into this tree.

Anthea's challenge was to include, distressing, paint/mist and layering.

I layered the journal cards under these photos and used a

crafters workshop stencil and pink mist to

create the background.

This last one isn't actually for the cyber crop but it's for

Kerryns monthly manufacturer challenge which for October

is crate paper.

I have one challenge left to do, the scraplift which is sitting on my desk almost finished.

So I'm off here now to go finish it off. :)

cheers.

playing catch up...

2011-10-25T20:09:00.001+11:00

I've been a bit slack with uploading challenges I've done lately

so I apologise in advance but here is a heap of layouts

I've done over the last few weeks.

The first one is for Stuck Sketches 1st Oct sketch.

This one is for the 'wordy' challenge at Scrapbook Savvy.

Using the word Special somewhere on your layout.

This one is or rather WAS for Sassy Lil Sketches send off event,

but as I said I've been slack and totally missed the deadline on this on. Whoops!!

And this one is for the Sketch at Anna's Craft Cupboard

Hehe! I loved telling the story behind this photo.

Kids say the funniest things.

I usually write them in the notes section of my phone whenever

one of the kids says or does something that I want to remember.

Then later I can hopefully scrap about it.

the most recent one I put in was last night

when Miss Maggie (6yo) asked me

'Mum, are Daddy Long Legs always a Dad?'

haha so cute!

when I said no and explained she went onto to

tell me all about seahorses and how the male seahorse gives

birth to the babies.

Unfortunately I don't have a photo to go with this story,

but there you go something but something new I learnt from my six year old!

123 and how I was inspired...

2011-10-21T11:23:00.000+11:00

It's funny how inspiration for layouts

sometimes just sneaks up on you and after initially thinking there is no way you could manage to create something all of a sudden things just fall into to place.

When the 123 october challenge was announced I really thought

no sorry I can't make any of those criteria work together.

1) Gold

2) 'You'

3) Leather/suede and lace

For starters I have very little gold products and the other criteria

leather or suede and lace, well i didn't have any of the leather or suede either.

The word 'YOU' was probably about the only thing I could manage!

So it went on the back-burner and simmered away with me thinking

I'll probably just not do this challenge this month because

it seems too hard.

I remembered I had this gorgeous butterfly with gold glitter and rhinestones.

Is it Prima, I'm not sure it was in a RAK?

Great, a butterfly at least it's something but hardly enough

for a whole layout! So it sat on my desk for a couple of weeks and occasionally I

would think about doing this challenge, maybe some gold paint on white card stock?

Nah that didn't appeal.

Then I got my Scrapbook Nook kit

and it was filled with sparkly gold My Minds Eye lost and found papers!

but I still didn't have a firm idea of how to use any of it.

So it sat in it's 12x12 ziplock bag for a week or so. All alone and unused :(

until I pulled it out earlier this week.

I liked this striped paper it reminded me of

some decadent Victorian or Edwardian wall paper and I remembered a previous layout I had done using MME

paper that was set out with randomly placed frames. It just so happens

that at the crop I went to last weekend I got a packet of Kaisercraft picture frame rubbons

as part of our welcome gift. Perfect!

Everything was coming together to give me

the inspiration to create a layout based on a wall covered with picture

frames.

I used some gold elastic cord I found in my stash to hang my picture to the

'wall' using a Brad to anchor it, scattered the rubbons around.

Painted some raw chipboard gold for the title, added my butterfly and

a flower. Then came the lace. All done!

Well nearly!

I was still missing the leather or suede and while searching through

some things I found an old pair of denim shorts I had once used for the

denim and the tab on the back was made of suede type fabric.

so I ripped this off and added a layered sticker quote to it and I had another

picture for my wall.

And the moral of this story - umm apart from me being completely obsessed with scrapping!! lol

No?! how about if at first something seems impossible give it time and

you just never know what you can achieve.

Have a great weekend!

Leonie.

something a little different

2011-10-19T21:18:00.000+11:00

Hi, I still have a a few scrappy layouts to share from

my weekend away in Barwon Heads but I felt like sharing something

a little different but still crafty...of course.

so while I was away I also did some little mixed media canvases.

I used a crafters workshop template to create the bird shapes

love the bright colours.

and the quote, well you can't go past

Judy Garland lyrics.

These are 4"x4" canvases and they look cute all

lined up together. Eventually they'll go on the wall in my study but for now

they're sitting on the Dado rail in our front room.

My second share is another mixed media canvas, this time on

a 12x12 panel.

I did this one last weekend at an all day crop-for-a-cause.

I Love these crops, been going to them for a few years now and they

are always lots of fun.

It's all about butterflies,

lots and lots

of butterflies. And a Kaisercraft wooden flourish. :)

Hope you like my something different. :)

Cheers, Leonie.

Scrap the boys- oct

2011-10-16T21:10:00.000+11:00

Hey bloggers, I'm sharing a layout today for the STB challenge.

the challenge for october is to

"use HANDMADE BOY EMBELLISHMENTS on your layout, you may use purchased handmade products, however please feel free to make your own!!!"

I used some embellishments from 'a lil somethin' (the flags) and a 'Charms Creations' lolloipop.

I used this cute resin

Prima mushroom i got last week. Just dipped it in some distress stain

to colour it. Those tags/tickets are from 'a lil somethin' aswell.

and the cogs are from 'purple pumpkin'.

Not bad, I used three different types of handmade embellishments. :)

I also used this brick mask from Prima, a Tim Holtz mask, and some punchinella

to achieve the background texture. Last weekend I saw the super talented

Kerry Murray use this fabulous

technique where she layered her masks and stencils.

I wanted to try it our and here it is. I'm pretty happy with the

end result.

Cheers everyone, hope you all have a great week.

thanks for all the lovely comments you leave me.

some oct sketches

2011-10-14T19:26:00.001+11:00

Some layouts i completed last weekend

Purple pumpkin sketch

Lil Red Rocket Sketch

I don't have any of these gorgeous buttons but Lil Red rocket is having a sale

next Friday 21st oct and I am definitely going to purchase some of their

cute products.

Handmade by Suzanne

Yes they're all sketches, but I've always said sketches were my fave.

Cheers have a great weekend.

Once upon a Sketch.

2011-10-11T20:47:00.000+11:00

Hi, I've had the most fantastic weekend away last weekend, with some gorgeous scrapping ladies.

We scrapped up a storm and talked and laughed, it was wonderful.

I managed to get a heap of October challenges done and even

some canvases!

Here's one of the layouts I scrapped, it's for Once upon a Sketch.

the journalling criteria included writing about

noteworthy events with at least 1 sentence about each event.

A fairly simple layout but I love the story it tells about my daughter.

that's is, short and sweet tonight. Kids went back to school this week

and I think I' still catching up on lost sleep from the weekend.

Cheers :)

New 'Show Us Your Stuff' DT members

2011-10-10T10:35:00.000+11:00

Exciting announcements are happening over at Show Us Your Stuff.

I was so happy to be asked to be on the Design Team!!!!

I'll be starting in November.

If you haven't done any challenges there before it's blog challenge site all

about showing off handmade embellishments.

There are two Challenges each month.

You can see Octobers first challenge here

It's a fab Sketch by Sara Noendeng who is also on the Design team, plus

lots of other inspring Scrappers, so go have a look at all

the new announcements, there are some great sponsers this month.

Cheers, Leonie.

October Scrap the Girls

2011-10-05T19:50:00.001+11:00

If you're looking for a great challenge this month try this one

at Scrap The Girls

the challenge this month is to

Create a layout with the word ‘love’ in the title and to use ‘distressing’ on

your layout.

Always more than happy to break out the edge distresser and inks

this challenge was perfect for me.

I've inked the butterfly above and added some

distress crackle paint and iridescent gold glimmermist.

I've had this prima flower vine in the stash for a while and it was perfect for this layout.

I also added the packaging from a prima florish and some

corrugated cardboard for some more distressing.

The base of my layout is a Co'ordinations embossed cardstock

which i've sanded and added some walnut distress ink.

For the word 'Love' i've used a quote as my title

"Cousins are like the sisters you never had that will

love you forever"

A perfect quote for my only Daughter.

Having 3 sisters myself I realise now as an adult how

blessed I was and am to have these beautiful women close to me. So although Maggie has no

sisters I am glad that she has these 3 lovely young women

as cousins that love and adore her.

So if this challenge tempts you and I hope it does, head over here

and check out the awesome layouts by the other Design team and this month we have a fabulous Guest Designer, Marelize Frisby. A most awesome scrappy lady

you can check out her fabulous scrapping here.

Cheers :)

Sept 123, and Sassy sketch

2011-09-30T16:45:00.000+10:00

Hello blog friends. :)

I have my take on Septembers challenge at 123 blog to share today and the 4th Sassy lil Sketch for the month.

First up the 123 challenge was to use one main colour - WHITE.

I gesso'd over some lightly patterned paper and then waited for it to almost dry before laying a big piece of bubble wrap over the whole page then lifting to reveal the bubble wrap imprint. I did this a couple

of times and ended up with this really cool texture as my base.

The second part of the challenge was to use the word 'ON' so I made up this little quote

starting with 'ON'. I used some dusty concord distress stains to cover the white alpha's.

This and a couple of brads and the transparent tag were the only items of colour I

allowed myself due to the 'white' criteria. gosh it was hard not to add

any other colours. But I'm happy with how my layout looks.

And the third and last criteria was to incorporate white space on your layout.

So i cropped my photo small and added very little else to the page.

Just a white Prima flower, a white pearl flourish, a white tag, the brads I mentioned and some stamped

hearts.

This second layout is for the fourth sketch at Sassy Lil Sketches this month.

I used Jillibean soup papers. I used this Layout as an opportunity

to document about my second son's passion for Aussie Rules football.

He absolutely lives and breathes it, absorbing in some fairly obscure statistics about the

game and the people that play it. He watches any games he can on the

T.V., even games from 10 or 20 years ago!!!!

He definitely takes after his Dad regarding his memory of stats.

And as luck would have it

his beloved Cats are playing in the Grand final this weekend and boy is he

looking forward to that.

thanks for stopping by and

Go You Mighty Catters!!! :)

some more for SFS Sketchaday

2011-09-27T20:13:00.001+10:00

Here are a few more layouts i've done this past month for the sketch a day comp over at

Scrapbooking from Scratch

This is the stuck sketch for the 15th Sept

there was some extra criteria for this one which

was to use spots somewhere on your layout.

this one is an older Sassy lil sketches sketch

from Feb this year.

And this is a current Sassy Lil Sketch

that's it for now, I think i'm going to be a little lost at the end of the month when this competition finishes

It's been great to get a layout done each day with some

fantastic sketches as inspiration.

Cheers, Leonie.

Scrap-It-Lah

2011-09-22T20:16:00.001+10:00

Hi, i've been having some fun!

What with you ask well i saw this challenge

at Scrap It Lah on Helen's blog and knew i had to give it a go.

Having been dabbling in some mixed media canvases lately and having lots

of fun i thought it would be cool to try the same on a Layout.

this is what i came up with.

I used a crafters workshop template and gesso to begin with on some Teresa Collins music paper.

the challenge criteria was to

"Create your own mixed media background, using printed paper as a base. Be sure to include at least 3 different paint colours in whatever effects you fancy. This can be using stamps, bubble wrap, etc etc - its all up to your imagination.

Also ensure that you have at least twelve words on your layout, which can include the title, date (if you want to include one) and the journaling (or even be one REALLY long title if you like!)"

I got to used my new Dylusions stamps for the first time! Love, love, love!!!

I also decided to keep my embellishments all neutral in colour because my background and photo's were

heavy with so many different colours. A cream peta-loo flower, some pale pink Prima

butterflies, white buttons and a book-print banner from 'a lil somethin'.

A heap of different coloured Adirondack colour washes, water sprayer and some liqutex inks to achieve the background colours. The paper was so wet by the time i finished I thought it was going to tear-haha! It took quite a bit of drying!~ I also sprayed the whole thing rather generously

with a copper Maya Road mist- it has the most awesome shimmer of any of the mists

i've used. Shame i couldn't get it to show up in the pictures i took

but trust me it has a very pretty shimmer!

And ta-da this was the end result.

I think it's my new favourite layout!

All about my out of control life! lol!

The journaling reads

"Under control?! HA!

Who am I kidding!

Most of the time my life with four

kids feels like an out of control train, destined

to crash. Just when I think I’ve got it back

on track….watch out!

This is it! This is me!

Just a Mum doing what Mums do everyday.

Some days it’s good, some days it’s

not. Sometimes I feel like I’m on top of it all

and other times I feel like a gibbering mess.

I’m not sure what gets me through

those days???.... But, I do get through them I come

out the other side hoping, praying I’ll feel a

little more in command…next time

the train threatens to derail."

If you want to take part in this Scrap-It-Lah challenge

you have until Sept, 30th so hop over here and check out the

DT samples and the fab Studio Calico prize up for grabs.

thanks so much for visiting, and if you feel like leaving me

a comment it would make my day. :))

more Sketchaday inc Sassy, Savvy and SUYS :)

2011-09-16T19:53:00.002+10:00

Here's a heap more layouts i've been doing for the SFS sketch a day competition.

sorry for the layout overload but i've been having a blast with this comp.

Love these pictures of my gorgeous boys messy about.

this Layout is for the September Savvy Sketch check it out here

using MME lost and found papers

A SFS september sketchaday

this is a Layout for Show us Your Stuff.

And this one is an older sketch at Sassy li Sketches using Jenny Bowlin papers.

and here is a layout based on one of the current sketches at Sassy Lil Sketches.

Cheers everyone, thanks for visiting and i hope you have a fantastic weekend. :))

my GiSt class canvas

2011-09-14T18:29:00.000+10:00

I recently did an online class by Giovanna Scott, a very talented mixed media artist.

Giovanna created the most amazing tree in her class

which i attempted to replicate.

My tree ended up with one very large overhanging limb and

trying to put my own spin on things it just looked like

it was begging for a swing. I remember the swing

we had as kids hanging from a pussy willow tree in our backyard.

so I added a little swing with some twine and chipboard.

I was going to stick it down but i liked the idea of it

dangling there, just waiting for a child to start swinging...

I love how my canvas turned out, thanks for a great class if you're reading this Gigi. :)

So if you're looking to try something a little different creatively

I highly recommend this class by Giovanna

look at this fab give away..

2011-09-12T10:38:00.000+10:00

Raquel is having an awesome give away on here blog

Included in this giveaway pack are papers from October Afternoon, Studio Calico, Cosmo Cricket, My Minds Eye and more!!

Embellishments include Crate Paper stickers, two packs of thickers, Sassafras month cards etc...

Easily over $50 of retail value!!!!!!

So....want a chance to win this kit????

find out all about how to win over here

sketch a day-5, 6, and 7

2011-09-11T07:53:00.001+10:00

thought i'd share some more of my sketch a day

Layouts from the competition over at SFS.

I'm really, really enjoying getting a new sketch each day

and getting at least one page done a day.

Here's day 5, using some Authentique papers, just love the quality of these

papers so thick and they have an awesome textured finish!

this is day 6 and I used MME embellishments on this one.

the base is white cardstock that I've gesso'd with a prima

mask and then once it was dry I sprayed with Adirondack colour washes

(gosh I love those sprays they have such vibrant colours)

and if you add a water spray the colours blend beautifully!

here's a close-up

Haha i seem to have a theme going with most of my

layouts for this comp. they are all back to school photo's.

I scrap mainly in Chronological order so...

Ahhh here's something non school. Sketch number 7, my twins

on the morning of their 8th birthday. I scrapped this

one with some more MME.

This layout is based on one of

the sketches at Sassy Lil Sketches this month.

Love my little banner made out of the MME chipboard and cardstock tags

that came in the Rosey kit .

that's it will share some more 'sketch a day' pages during the week.

cheers, thanks for visiting.

Scrap the Girls - September

2011-09-07T21:30:00.001+10:00

a product challenge is the go this month at

STG, have you seen it yet?

you need to use CLIPS...paperclips, bulldog clips, and clips...

the DT were sent a little package of bright coloured paper clips,

as well as various bull dog clips.

They all come in such a variety of shapes, sizes and colours these days.

I used these lovely lime twist papers from MME.

nice bright colours to match the clips.

Look a star shaped paperclip!

How cool is this peg clip I love it and it holds up my banner perfectly!

I scrapped this picture of my daughter and her friend holding aloft their

Little Athletics medals.

Head over here to see all the other fab DT samples for september.

Guest Design Team- From Screen 2 Scrap

2011-09-05T20:12:00.000+10:00

Ever done a challenge at screen 2 scrap?

I've done a few and find them lots of fun.

Shazza asked me to take part in the september challenge as their

Movie extra aka GDT.

If you're unfamilar with screen 2 scrap challenges it's basically using movie posters

as your layout inspiration with some extra criteria thrown in.

Septembers movie poster is the movie Rio!

the extra criteria are-

For an extra 6 bonus points :)

1) One word title = 1 pt
2) Use Blue, Yellow and Red Cardstock = 2 pts
3) Add a Bird = 3 pts

Now, the bird and the one word title were not a problem.

but let me tell you the red, yellow and blue cardstock proved quite a problem for me!

Normally i use white, Kraft or patterned paper.

That's why a few months ago i had a huge clean out of all my old papers and

coloured cardstock and either gave them away or replenished my daughters craft drawer.

So of course i had to raid Maggies' supplies (luckily she hasn't noticed yet, hehe).

So what do I do with them now? Well I stamped on them with a script stamp and made

some grungy looking flowers.

For the design of my layout I was inspired by the triangular shape of the bird in the movie poster

and used this in the placement of my photo’s.

I’ve have the felt bird in my stash for ages so that covered the bird criteria, knew it would come in handy one day, it looked a little crazy so it matched the them of

the layout with my son pulling funny faces!

And lastly my journaling imitated the style in the movie poster.

So if you want to join in this fab challenge head over here and have a look.

the design team have created some great layouts.

Sketchaday Comp

2011-09-03T20:27:00.001+10:00

Hi, coming to you from sunny Sydney!
Today is our last day and it was a gorgeous day weather wise. We drove to Chatswood for a Yum Cha lunch. The twins missed out on a chinese museum school excursion while we've been in Sydney so we thought this might compensate in some way to experience some chinese cuisine, haha. They had a good time and tried some new things so it was all good.
Afterwards because it was so sunny we spent a couple hours at the beach and i took a couple of hundred photos. Future scrapping pages hopefully.
But what i'm really here for is to show you some scrapping pages i've done.
there is a great competition started at Scrapbooking from Scratch. It runs for the whole month of September. There is a sketch posted each day which you scrap and upload to the gallery here to be in the running for heaps of fantastic prizes.
To tell you the truth though I was sold after the mention of sketches, my all time favorite challenge
and the first three have been great.
Here are my takes on the first 3 sketches for the month long comp.

The one above is going to double up as

Septembers WW1 and below is going to double up as the stuck 1st sketch

if you want to join in head over here and check it all out.

Thanks for visiting and

sorry to all the bloggers that i haven't visited recently.

i'll be back to checking and commenting on all your gorgeous blogs early next week.

Savvy Cyber Crop

2011-08-31T15:38:00.000+10:00

Hi, my family and I

are Holidaying in sydney at the moment! Spending a relaxing week

with my Husbands parents.

I'm glad we drove up so i could pack some scrap supplies in the car.

The August Scrapbook savvy Cybercrop is currrently on

so i did a couple of the challenges.

this first layout is Renee's Challenge-Distressing.

Lots of sanding here on my photo's and

on the background paper, paper scrunching, Inking and paper tearing.

edge distressing and some texture stamps aswell.

Surely that qualifies as a theme of distressing.

I've got some hidden jounaling on here about

one of my boys and he's obsession with

rubbish bins when he was a toddler.

Gosh did he love carting the bins out to the roadside everyweek,

from the age of about 2, everything revolved around bins.

Very handy having a kid around the house

who is eager to put things in the bin.

Of course now he's eight and things have changed!

And the second layout is a Sketch.

Same child in this layout, Hamish managing to finish half his tryathalon with one shoe on and one shoe off. haha! Boy the kid has some determination!!!

Thanks for stopping by.

123 August

2011-08-28T20:21:00.000+10:00

It's been quite a few months since i did a 123 challenge.

So i thought i'd give this months a go.

1) black

2) Multi-photo

3) the word What!

I finally managed to find some studio calico mist. I've been trying to get the white one for ages but it's always sold out everywhere. I found this cream one - next best thing to white I guess- haha!-

at Handmade by Suzanne.

Thanks for dropping by :)

Show Us Your Stuff

2011-08-26T18:00:00.000+10:00

This is one of the challenges for SUYS for August

this Challenge was to use the quote by Danny Kaye.

As you can see I kind of took the quote quite literally.

And threw/flicked/sprayed/ the paint onto my cardstock ;)

Cheers, thanks for taking the time to look at my scrapping.

Beyond the door August

2011-08-24T11:50:00.000+10:00

Beyond the Door have a gorgeous room each month to use as inspiration for your scrapping.

Augusts room is a lovely green room.

Check it out here

This is my take on the room,

why don't you check it out, there's still plenty of time to join in here.

Authentique pages

2011-08-23T11:34:00.000+10:00

I mentioned in my previous post the kit

i bought from Scrapbooking from Scratch.

well the papers are so gorgeous and i think yellow is becoming a new favourite

colour of mine.

I've done four layouts with the kits so far and i think

i might get another one or two layouts.

Here are the three other layouts i've done.

I did this Layout for the 'Wordy' challenge

at scrapbook Savvy

the word for august is Sweet.

He really is the Sweetest Kid

My sweet little boy Andy.

This next layout is for the august sketch at Savvy.

and the last one is for the monthly sketch at SFS

I Love the Lil' Somethin' banner and hearts that were in the kit,

so cute.

sorry about so many layouts in one post trying to play catch up before

a little getaway to Sydney later this week.

be back tomorrow with some more shares :)

thank you for visiting and your comments. very much appreciated!

cheers!

August KIU

2011-08-21T16:09:00.001+10:00

Here's my Layout for the August - KIU challenge.

A gorgeous multiphoto sketch this month.

i used some mists and stamping to jazz up the kraft.

and the die-cut elements are from one of the Authentique kits at Scrapbooking from Scratch.

some photo's taken last mothers day with my babies! xox

August Purple Pumpkin and Anna's sketches.

2011-08-18T16:00:00.000+10:00

two Layouts to share today. The first one is for the august sketch at Purple Pumpkin

I've also used a purple pumpkin babushka button and the white doiley is from Purple Pumpkin

as well.

almost to the end of my october afternoon 5 & dime stash after these two layouts.

and this layout is for the August Sketch at Anna's Craft Cupboard.

cheers that's is for now.

I have some more layouts to share another day,

using some of the gorgeous Authentique papers.

bonus Aug-Stuck Sketch

2011-08-09T20:43:00.002+10:00

yay my first challenge for the month.

I did a Stuck sketch

I got a gorgeous kit in the post yesterday from scrapbooking from scratch -lots of yummy Authentique papers. Couldn't wait to get stuck (haha excuse the cheap pun) into!

I used a technique with gesso and paint that i saw by Dyan Reaveley - gosh what a talented lady she is!

It didn't work out exactly how i wanted probably because i didn't have the right colour mist, so i tried inks guess what wasn't happy with that either! So i tried watering some paint in spray bottle, still no good!!!! Finally i settled on straight paint and mist over the top. Not too bad but i've already started another layout just waiting for gesso to dry and i'm going to try the technique again.

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I'm sure you've all heard this quote/poem before. It usually does the rounds of email fairly regularly

but i still like it!

thanks for visiting, off to see if the gesso is dry ;)

Cheers, Leonie

Scrap the Girls-August

2011-08-03T20:36:00.000+10:00

This months Scrap the Girls challenge is a quote

by Harold Hubert-

Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it.

Pretty easy Hey?

The quote MUST be used either as the title or in the journalling is:

I thought this picture of my daughter suited the quote to a T.

this my sample page.

I used some OA 5 and dime papers and embellishments.

and a lil flag from 'a lil somethin'

Why don't you head over here and check out the

fabulous layouts the rest of the creative team have made.

I sold a canvas.....

2011-08-01T21:15:00.001+10:00

Wee bit chuffed with myself.

I sold my first canvas!

Well I should tell you it was to my sister ....but it still counts right?

she wanted a gift for a friend who has just had

twin girls and said she would pay me

to produce a canvas especially for her friend.

I used a Crafters Workshop template and texture paste

to create the birds in the blossom tree.

so happy with how this turned out. love the colours and

the little girls dresses, so cute!!

thanks for visiting.

CHA Layouts

2011-07-28T22:00:00.001+10:00

I was completely amazed, astounded, excited and grateful to be asked recently to make some Layouts

using Kaisercrafts new ranges to be displayed AT the Craft and Hobby Association's

Summer show in Chicago!!!!!!!

Here they are

Love this range of papers "Miss Nelly"

And 'the 13th hour collection'

I'm so grateful to have had some of my little old layouts
displayed at such a prestigious event.
thanks for visiting.

Savvy July CyberCrop

2011-07-26T14:30:00.005+10:00

Hi, i got busy over the past weekend and scrapped a heap of layouts.

This first lot are for the scrapbook savvy July CC

Anthea's Sketch

OA rocket age papers

Renee's challenge- use stitching on a layout.

I hand stitched the title for this one

and used papers from pink paisley

Kerryn's shape challenge - use the following shapes on your layout

butterfly, oval, flag, flower and an arrow

Used more pink paisley papers

and Sara's colour challenge.

thanks for stopping by my blog.

LIme Tree give away

2011-07-20T21:43:00.000+10:00

Lime Tree Creations have this fab give away during July.

aren't they gorgeous?

would you like to win this pack of goodies?

Head over here to check out how to win

top 50 cyber crop

2011-07-15T11:54:00.000+10:00

Hey all!
i have a couple of layouts to share for the Scrapbooking top50 Cyber crop!

the theme this month is 'Lights, Camera, Action'
the first layout is a close up so the challenge is to use a 5x7 close up photo.

Love these sass papers!

and the second is the action theme.

Using of course action photo's and the word action in your title

and more of the 5 and dime range from October afternoon.

i've been busy but i'll leave it at that for now.

thanks for dropping buy.

Cheers, Leonie.

scrap the boys - july

2011-07-14T20:52:00.000+10:00

here is my scrap the boys entry for july.
the challenge was to use tape on your layout and the word Play.

I used two types of tapes the Tim Holtz tissue paper and then the Prima barcode tape that i overlapped
on the edge of the layout to create a transparent border.

And a few layouts i did last saturday

using the OA five and dime collection.

stuck sketch 1st july

2011-07-10T12:03:00.000+10:00

Haven't done a stuck sketch for a while so thought i might have a go

at this months.

I used October Afternoon papers 'Rocket Age'

and made this layout,

based on the sketch

this is the cool hand drawn sketch by

Crystal Goulding.

a Charms Creation lollipop and a bottletop from

d'lish scraps

and another super little embellishment, a denim covered cog from

'a lil somethin'

And this is a just because layout, a very blurry photo.

but i had to document this story about

my son and how sad he was when his little

soft toy he has had since birth went missing.

Man, i turned the house upside down searching for

Jacquesy!!!!

used lots of Sassafras papers on this one.

Thanks for stopping by and thank you for your comments,

much appreciated.

beyond the door- July

2011-07-08T19:36:00.000+10:00

Hello everyone.

Well week one of the school holidays are over and we've survived intact!

I have a bit of a love - hate relationship with the holidays, at

the same time as i love them for their lack of routine

I also struggle at times keeping all four kids

happy and occupied!

Anyhow here's some scrapping.

i was asked by Catie from beyond the door

to be a guest designer and create a layout for the july challenge

This is the room to take inspiration

for your layout.

What a great kitchen. That is some ice bucket!

Could do with a glass of champers right now actually!!

Here's the layout i created, using all Kaisercraft -Nan's kitchen

range.

And of course some extra criteria to spice things up

a little.

1x photo or picture/drawing of a favourite food/meal/cafe/restaurant

2 x flowers

3 x kitchen related embellishments (e.g. spoons, cups, forks, crockery etc, which can be stamped or die cut or chipboard etc)

plus, some baking twine somewhere on your project.

Thanks for the invite Catie i enjoyed this challenge.

If you're looking for something to do why not give this

challenge a go. Here it is.

and just one more layout, i created for 'show us your stuff'

except i realised i didn't have a handmade item on there. Oops!!

ok that's it for now.

Off to crop4acause tomorrow!

Yay! 12 hours of scrapping.

Just what i need to get me through the next week

of the holidays ;-)

Cheers, Leonie. xx

purple pumpkin give away

2011-07-04T18:20:00.001+10:00

HUGE Purple Pumpkin GIVEAWAY!!

Purple Pumpkin are having a HUGE GIVEAWAY to celebrate their first birthday, with not one, not two, but FOUR PRIZES up for grabs! First prize will be a $50 VOUCHER to spend in the next sale. Second prize will be a $25 voucher, third prize will be a $15 voucher, and fourth prize will be a $10 voucher.

The winners will be drawn on the 22nd of July - just before the next sale!

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Check out how you can enter

Purple Pumpkin

Scrap the Girls - my first as CT

2011-07-01T15:00:00.001+10:00

oh so happy to publish this post! Still excited to be on the Scrap the Girls creative team and this

is my first layout with them, plus the challenge is set by moi!!!

So this is the july challenge

scrap a Layout using this album cover by ‘Pink’ ‘Greatest Hits….So Far’ as your inspiration.

Choose the colours, design, words whatever grabs you

and use them to create your layout, girls only of course.

AND you have to choose any song title or lyrics by Pink

and use them anywhere on your layout,

either as a title on your page or in your journaling.

I used Basic Greys' 'Hello Luscious' range for this layout

of my daughter.

I took my inspiration from the split title

and the large alpha's used on the album cover.

and i used the lyrics from Pink's fantastic song "perfect"

for my title and journalling

I hope i've inspired you to get creating!!!

check out the blog for all the other

fab Layouts by the creative team.

can't wait to see what everyone comes up with.

Cheers, have a great weekend!

Leonie. xx

beyond the door -june

2011-06-30T18:43:00.000+10:00

Hi been a week or so since i shared any scrapping.

Yesterday i did this layout for the Beyond the Door Challenge blog

This is the room to draw your inspiration from

i used the OA rocket age collection,

and drew my inspiration from the circular decorations

hanging from the ceiling.

I decided to create my own little solar system.

i used some photo's of my twins and one of their cousins involved in one of their

favourite pastimes, Wrtestling!!!!

They Never get tired of it, i do though!! lol. Usually because it invariably

ends in tears!

Cheers, Leonie. xx

june sketches at Anna's and SFS

2011-06-20T19:30:00.000+10:00

Anna's Craft Cupboard June Sketch.

I had to think about this one for quite awhile,

but eventually came up with this

I used some tim holtz masks and distress stains (love these, must buy

more colours!)

And finished it off with some Lovely Lollipops by Charmane Koch

and the cogs and heart are from 'a lil somethin' by Wendy Smith and Susan Longman.

two places to buy fantastic handmade embellishments, check them both

out!

These photo's of Andy crack me up. He may be a cricket

freak like his dad but the box had him confused at first!!!

He's what the journalling says-

And this second Layout is for Scrabooking from Scratch by Malinda

Gardener

Really happy with how this one came together, those

Sassafras Lass foldies are so cute and easy to use.

and that's all for now folks.

Thanks for stopping by, hope you liked my little creations :)

Cheers. x