Sunday, March 31, 2013

Attempt at a Canvas

Today I thought I would have a play with a canvas using some of my art journaling techniques.   I must admit I lost interest when I found other embellishments that went together better than this one so in the future I'm going to try another small canvas.

Skissedilla #203

This great sketch is from Skissedilla, I love it and hope to use it again.  Here's my entry for this one.

Products Used:
Kaisercraft: The Lakehouse Patterned Paperand Collectables, Title, Rose Flower
The Crafters Workshop:  Mini Circle Explosion CW278s
Prima Marketing:  Zip, Flower and Ink
Green Tara: Small Roses
ScrapFx:  Butterfly Circle Frame
Pipe Dream Ink:  Embossing Powders in River Rose and Sandstone
Seam Binding from Craft Queen
Viva Pearl Pen:  Cream
Tattered Angels Glimmermist:  Pearl
Tuille, Gauze from my stash
It's hard to see the stencil on bottom left and top right hand side of page and I don't think I let it dry long enough before taking the photo.


Thursday, March 28, 2013

Border stamps

Thanks for all the lovely comments on my previous post.  The border is a stamp from Dylusions that I purchased for the lovely Georgia Heald at Paper Stories.  I've used it before and always had comments and it comes with six other border stamps.  It's called 'Around the Edge' - DYR34421.
Lizzy I cut a circle and crossed across the middle then rolled it back before securing with staples and brads.
Sandie I smiled when I heard we had Slinky and Malinki.



Wednesday, March 27, 2013

CSI Case #64

My scheme:  
Grow - matting around photo
Sprout - flowers and colour around the word 'create' and triangle stencil
Transform - also matting around photo, circle 'hey you' and leaf flourish
Expand - back layer and word title etc
Attempt - background of bird and patterned paper (doesn't show very well)

My Evidence:
Bird on canvas, top right
Random washi tape birds (hiding)
leaves, pen, diamond stencil

My Testimony:
Verbs in title, free handwriting for journaling

Hat Parade

I've been busy today making a hat for my grandson's Easter 'I Like or My Favourite' hat parade tomorrow.  He wanted some of his favourite toys from under the sea and he was adamant that we shouldn't see the actual hat. Here's what I came up with trying to make the blue satin a bit wavy like the sea and glued so we couldn't see any hat.

I found a free template for the shark, cut it our, painted and then glued it to the hat.


Monday, March 25, 2013

Laurie's Giveaway and Challenge

Laurie is having a giveway for her own birthday and she created a fabulous sketch for us to attempt and submit for her challenge.
This is my grandmother 'aka Ma' dressed up for someone's wedding.

Sunday, March 24, 2013

March 15 Sketch

This is my attempt at the March 15 Sketch at Stuck.
This is me at age 36 when my friends baby was born two days before my birthday.  Ahh it was 20+ years ago!!!

Sunday, March 17, 2013

White with 1 March Challenge

This challenge is to use White, Brown and Doodling.  I thought the Kaisercraft Basecoat range had lots of brown to use so it was my choice for this challenge.



Friday, March 15, 2013

I'm Very Lucky




I have been so fortunate to have been awarded another Leibster Award  from a very sweet, generous and inspirational lady from The Netherlands, her name is Amy Voorthuis http://amyvoorthuis.blogspot.com.au/.  Please take the time to visit her blog, you will be inspired and she loves Graphic 45 papers as do I.

The Liebster Award was designed to be a blog award in the pay it forward fashion. It is awarded to blogs that have fewer than 200 followers to encourage new visitors to them. Once you have been nominated you award it to five other blogs.

The rules are: Post the award to your blogs, give the award to five bloggers who you appreciate that have fewer than 200 followers, then leave a comment on their blogs to let them know that you have given them this award.  Thank the person who gave you this award.

Now I would love to pass this award on to five other ladies who do such beautiful work and who totally deserve something special and these five ladies are:


Please take the time to visit these ladies and become a follower of their lovely work, I'm a new follower to some and its always great to see what others are creating and to share some encouragement.

Tuesday, March 12, 2013

Sassy Scrapper

I think this is the first time I've entered at Sassy Scrapper, I decided to enter after seeing the sketch and also after a purchase I made recently that was delivered within three days, I was so impressed.  Take the opportunity to pop over and have a look in their store, they have heaps of stuff. 
I think that this is another first for me, not including people, this was from our Australian holiday in 2008, we saw so many beautiful birds and lizards (I was fascinated by the lizards so you may see some of them in the future).
Products Used:
Bo Bunny C'est La Vie range using, Nouveau, Voila and Panache
Prima Marketing Cameras and Tiny Birds
Flower Soft, Koala Grey
Kaisercraft Stencil
Bottlecap from Belinda
Green Tara Flowers
D-Lish Leaves
Versa Color Pinecone Ink
Jo Sonjas Paint
Liquid Pearls, Hot Cocoa, Peacock, Baby Blue
Ribbon
Sharpie Pen


Monday, March 11, 2013

Another Leibster Award


I have been so fortunate to have been awarded the Leibster Award for a second time from a very sweet, considerate and inspirational lady from South Africa, her name is Cathy Lane http://a-stroll-down-memory-lane.blogspot.com.au/.  Please take the time to visit her blog, you will be inspired.
The Liebster Award was designed to be a blog award in the pay it forward fashion. It is awarded to blogs that have fewer than 200 followers to encourage new visitors to them. Once you have been nominated you award it to five other blogs.

The rules are: Post the award to your blogs, give the award to five bloggers who you appreciate that have fewer than 200 followers, then leave a comment on their blogs to let them know that you have given them this award.  Thank the person who gave you this award.
Now I would love to pass this award on to five other ladies who do such beautiful work and who totally deserve something special and these five ladies are:


Please pop over to these blogs and I promise you will be inspired.

thank you Cathy for my award.

Friday, March 8, 2013

Pearlex and Perfect Pearls

Can anyone tell me if these products work in the same way, I have one type and don't want to buy others if they're the same.  Thanks in advance.
JAC1693+JAC1692 Pearl Ex Duo Colors        
A couple of websites I found that might be interesting:
flickr
ranger ink

Thursday, March 7, 2013

Scrap Friends

My attempt at the fabulous sketch over at Scrap Friends, this was a challenge to me because I didn't know if I should add absolutely everything but anyhow here it is. It's my youngest grandson at Kindergarten last year.
Products Used:
Authentique Papers
American Crafts Cardstock
Kaisercraft Brads and Doily Card
Prima Marketing Camera Chippie and Small Alpha
Tim Holtz Key Chain
Scrapfx Template
Crafters Workshop Circle Template
Dylusions Ink
Purple Pumpkin Washi Tape
7Gypsies 'Wish' Card
Brilliance Ink
Twine


Tuesday, March 5, 2013

Paper Stories

This is my take on the challenge over at Paper Stories where they have an amazing sketch.  This was so hard for me to chop into a photo so I looked for ages for the perfect one that I didn't have to cut through faces.
I sort of set myself a bit of a challenge to use some older papers that I had so I picked out some bits and pieces and had my own little kit to work from.  I also haven't plaited anything for years so decided to plait the twine for my banner.

Products Used:
Basic Grey Archaic Paper and Sticker Range
Dylusions Around the Edge Stamp (from Paper Stories ages ago)
Stampin Up Ink
Twine
Sharpie Pens



Friday, March 1, 2013

Liebster Award
Today I was thrilled to be awarded a Liebster Blog Award from  Mary

Thank you Mary I was honoured, I've met so many lovely ladies through the blogging world and it's nice to be recognised as well.

About the AwardThis award was designed to be a blog award in the pay it forward fashion. Once you have been nominated you award it to blogs that you like that have fewer than 200 followers to encourage new visitors to these blogs.Rules for AcceptanceThank the person who gave you the award and link it back to their blog.Post the award onto your blog.Give the award to 5 bloggers who you appreciate that have fewer than 200 followers.Leave a comment on their blog to let them know that you have given them this award.
The people I would like to give the award to are:


I don't know how I've mucked up my text and background colour so please forgive me............