Escape 2 Create 2014

Hello bloggers sorry for my absence of late.  March has been 

an abnormally busy month for me and to be truthful I can't honestly wait to wave it 

good bye.  

Having said that for the long weekend this month I did get some much needed

time away from my hassles and spent an awesome four days at Escape 2 Create retreat in Port Lincoln, South Australia.

So here's my E2C 2014 in pictures. - yes a lot of pictures sorry - and this isn't close to all of them!

My lovely travel buddy Raquel.  We drove to the airport together and navigated our way through

various check-ins, several explosives tests (why do they always choose me?), two plane rides, bus rides and loads of time to chat.  

The view from our retreat.  Pretty special huh?

So happy to get to meet up with Tarrah again.  

 The wonderful decorations.

My table partners - Great bunch of ladies.  So many laughs!

It was an absolute pleasure to meet this lovely and very funny 

lady Anna Allan.

A big thanks to these two gorgeous gals Sandra and Trish for being so welcoming.

They absolutely went above and beyond to welcome all the out of towners.

Collecting and dropping us off at the airport and providing bedding for us.

Thank you.

Last but certainly not least Meredith and Amanda.  Fabulous organisers

of the whole wonderful Escape 2 Create retreat experience.

I have heaps more fun photo's (perhaps I should have just done a post on them!) but 

we did do some scrapbooking on this fab retreat so I've got the class pages I did to 

share today.

The first class was by Kim Archer and focused on Project Life.  A first for me

but I really enjoyed it.  We also made a cute little mini album using Project Life 

3x4" cards. 

Natalie Elphinstone's class was next and was lots of fun with some

tricky origami techniques making our own Chevrons and the 3D stars.

Gina Rodgers taught the next class and I thoroughly enjoyed learning how 

Gina puts together a page.   

And Celeste Vermeend guided us through creating this gorgeous page.

To be honest after I'd signed up for the classes I had a few second thoughts, thinking mainly that 

doing four classes during a retreat would I have enough time to create some pages of my own?

However now I am so glad I took all four classes.  The Teachers were all so friendly and did an amazing job of teaching their pages.  And apart from my class pages I did get to create another 8 pages so there was no need to worry I still had plenty of free scrap time. 

Here's one of the pages I did for myself.

I took the picture at retreat with my Instax and it's made up mostly of the contents of our goodie bags.

I used the stickers attached to each class kit as a further little momento of a fabulous weekend away

with a group of wonderful women.

thanks so much for stopping by.

Imaginarium Designs Sneaks

If you head over HERE you can see these two pages in full.

Sassy Scrapper March Mood board

This is the gorgeous mood board challenge up at Sassy Scrapper this month.

I absolutely Adore these colours and images.

I hope we have a heap of equally gorgeous entries linked up this month on the blog

HERE

Here's my take on the mood board.

And some close-ups.

All the lovely products on my page can be found HERE in the Sassy Store.

Scrap Around The World - March

Hello.  

Sharing a beautiful mood board challenge today from Scrap Around The World.

Feel free to interpret the mood board in any way you like,

 using one image, several of them, all of them or even just

 one aspect of an image, using ANY COLOURS!

I was inspired firstly by the paint brush so I painted my background on with watercolour pencils.

Secondly the branch of blossoms inspired me and I recreated this with flourishes and lots of flowers.

I was also inspired by the lovely dress with its gauzy looking skirt.  So I coloured lots of gauze and added it under this chipboard and twined it all through the flowers. 

Here's a close up of some of the watercolour painting. 

Using up my stash with an old packet of Sassafras-Lass layered flowers,

 I never thought I'd get around to using them.  Yay, finally.

All the prizes are listed below.

1st prize - A $50 gift voucher from The Flying Unicorn!

2nd prize - AWESOME PRIZE OF METAL EMBELLISHMENTS

 from Scrap-Unlimited, Dutch Manufacturer

3rd prize - Scrapmatts Chipboard valued at $25!

4th prize - KIT BY 3RD EYE CRAFT valued at $20

5th prize - A random selection of Purple Pumpkin products ~ value $15. 

RANDOM PRIZE

***TO BE ELIGIBLE FOR THIS YOU NEED TO ALSO POST YOUR

PROJECT ON OUR SCRAP AROUND THE WORLD FACEBOOK PAGE

~ please post the image only then a link to your blog if you like,

but DO NOT POST THE LINK ONLY & PLEASE INCLUDE

 THE NUMBER OF YOUR ENTRY according to our linky tool***

6 mists from 13arts {Poland} value ~ $30

Visit their online store HERE

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The deadline for this challenge is MONDAY 31TH MARCH 2014.

Scrap The Boys - March Challenge

The Challenge this month at Scrap the Boys is a colour

challenge.  

Use a Blue, Green and Yellow colour combo.

Here's three of my boys 'Looking Spiffy'

Hope you can join in our Challenge this month.

SCRAP THE BOYS.

And that was my February Sassy Scrapping.

 Hello all I just wanted to share with you all of the projects I created this month with the Prima Anna Marie range from Sassy Scrapper.

This lovely range is available HERE in the Sassy Scrappers Shop.

Once Upon A Sketch - February

 Hi, just wanted to share a page.

It's for the February sketch at Once Upon a Sketch and it's been sitting on my desk for 

at least a week so I thought I'd best photograph it and link it up to the blog.

Here's the sketch plus journalling 'Totally addicted to you'

This is my page.

The addiction is my Husbands fascination with Instagram.

And it was me that introduced it to him!!  

He loves Instagram and is always posting and editing photo's!

Here are some closeups of the journalling.

And some appropriate flair from Finding Nana

Thanks for stopping by.

 :)

Sassy Scrapper sneaks

Hello and welcome. 

Just some sneaks for you today.

You can catch the whole page over on the Sassy Scrapper blog.

HERE

Thanks for stopping by hope to see you over at the Sassy Blog.

Prima and Hero Arts sneaks for Sassy Scrapper....

Hi, its a Wednesday so that means I've got a page to share on the Sassy Scrapper blog.

Here's a sneak of what you can see over there. ;)

Imaginarium Designs - My first post is up today!!

 I was so excited to be chosen as part of the 2014 Design Team at 

Imaginarium Designs chipboard.  

Today I'm sharing my first two projects using these fabulous chipboard designs.

Here are couple of sneaks for you. 

I'd love you to pop over to the Imaginarium Designs blog

and take a look at them.

Scrap the Boys - January Challenge

Scrap the Boys Challenge for February is to scrap about 

someone that is 'special' to the boy/man in your life.

Well I had this photo of my three boys from back to school last year that still hadn't been scrapped!  Slow aren't I?

So I put a slightly different spin on the challenge and wanted to remind them that as brothers each of them is incredibly important and special to the other.  

They are all great mates now and I hope it stays that way as they grow up.

and a couple of closeups 

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you can enter our February challenge.