Girls

Hello- I hope you are well. It's been quiet on my blog and will be for a few more couple of weeks. This Saturday, we have a fundraiser and my friend and I have a homemade stall, so I have been busy creating for that and then we are shifting house! I will need to pack up my craft room so scrapbooking will be out for a few weeks.
Today though I have the new challenge at ARTastic, which is a great painting and you're free to choose how to use it for your inspiration.

I used the background of print and butterflies as my inspiration and I couldn't go past some twine after seeing the hair ☺.

 The background page had some print but I added lots more by stamping and also layering papers around my page. It's a great way to use up scraps ☺

I wrote my journalling to blend in a bit with the page. And my little love heart twine ☺.

It's amazing how the CT have all been inspired differently which you can see at the ARTastic site.

I will be back at the beginning of December with the next challenge for ARTastic and hopefully by then we will be settled in our new house. Till then I look forward to visiting your pages when I need time out from packing!

ARTastic CT call

Hi all,

ARTastic is having a CT call. I have enjoyed this team so much and if you would like to join us here are the details:

ARTastic is looking for monthly Guest Designers for 2014 and a yet to be determined number of Creative Team members.   Could this be you?

I don’t care if you have been scrapping for 8 months or 8 years or where you live in this big wide world of ours.  I don’t care what your style is or how much design team experience you may or may not have and I don’t even care if you use paper or your computer to create your work. Everyone is welcome to apply!

What I do care about is your passion for the craft and your commitment to being part of the ARTastic team - be it for a one month guest slot or for many months as a team member.

I would ask you to create one layout/project per month using the inspiration and criteria provided.

I would ask for your commitment to post your work with a link to ARTastic on your blog/FB once your work has been revealed on the blog and promote us when and where you can.

I would ask for your commitment to comment on all entries as they are submitted for each challenge.

At the end of the month I will ask you to submit your votes for the winning entries.

You will need to have an active blog and it would be preferred if you are on FB so you can access our private group where we interact with each other.

Initial term for new Creative Team members will be 1^st January to 30^thJune 2014 and will in all likelihood be extended.  Guest Designer positions will be allocated on a monthly basis throughout 2014.

Please email your interest to jjjustjane@bigpond.com byNovember 6th, 2013 indicating if you are applying for a team position or for a guest designer spot - please include a link to your blog and a little about yourself. 

Please don't be shy, we are very friendly :).

Card by Justine

Hello,

My girls are enjoying the school holidays and have been busy sewing and card making. My eldest girl, Justine(13) made this card for her cousins wedding which is in a weeks time.

Justine has embossed the background page and for the love heart has written the word in glue covered with fairy glitter. She has also inked the edges to blend it in with her card.

Justine has made the card for the challenge at The Pink Elephant using anniversary or wedding theme.

I'm always so happy seeing my girls busy crafting, it brings much joy.

Bush Masterchef

We start another month! And with it a new challenge at ARTastic for you to try.
This month the inspiration piece is by Mia Taninaka.

The criteria to go along with this piece is feather and/or wood.

And here is my interpretation:

A cute page showing my son's(on the left) and his friend's bush food. I have used some of the colours from the inspiration and have used twigs to frame the photo.  

 I love journalling on the computer and putting a border around it.

A close up of my twig border, I was surprised how nice it came up.

We would love to see your pages this month at ARTastic, it is always fun to see what people come up.

We have school holidays here in the west which is always nice. We plan little day trips for our holidays and some crafting time at home. Hope you enjoy your holidays if you have them too.

Trampoline fun

Hello, it's been a quiet month on the scrapbooking front for me. I have been busy sewing a quilt for my daughter and having fun with making cushions with a little bit of crocheting on the side. But this week was an easy week on the home front so I managed to fit in a page too☺.
I did this for the challenge of using washi tape and twine at Scrap Africa; a new challenge for me.

 These photos are of Ella's first jumps on her new trampoline. They look a bit grainy but it's the netting of the trampoline which she really does need otherwise she would be the one to fall off. I have used washi tapes to create strips for a background to my photos.

 I added twine behind my cluster of prima flowers and along the top of the background papers. This cute little chipboard banner is from October afternoon.

I did my journalling on the computer and backed it with some texture paint which I then stamped over top using a Kaiser craft background stamp.

It was good to do a page and try a new challenge. We are heading towards school holidays in a week so the dynamics will change again here at home. Hopefully I can squeeze another page in before the end of the month.

Sweet together

I have created another page using photos of my husband with our youngest. I don't think I have many photos of her and I, just because she is always with her Dad ☺.
This page is for the 123 challenge this month. The challenge is:
COLOUR: PINK
WORD: SWEET
TECHNIQUE: FLORALS

 Well I definitely used pink ☺, I used all scraps from my ever growing pile of scraps. I have done texture paint with a birdhouse mask and made more texture with the pink doilies.

My words using Sweet and some of my flowers.

It would be nice if you could join in this challenge as they are thinking of stopping if they don't get more entries. I always find this challenge fun and will miss it if it stops.

Picking flowers

Good morning,
It's spring here in Australia, my favourite season. I thought I'll start spring off with a fun and bright page of my two girls picking flowers. It is my DT page for ARTastic which has a cute painting for inspiration this month by Michael Cartwright.

The criteria to go with this painting is whimsical and fun.

And here is my page:

 I received a great pack of papers at a scrapbook retreat and had fun using them for this page. It makes it easy when the background page is so bright and cheerful.

I have added little rhinestones to the flowers and around my page. The love, strike a pose and laugh words are rubons  that came with the papers. I fussy cut around circles from the papers and used buttons to finish them off.

I had a completely different idea for these photos but these papers lent to the page and I love the finished look.

Don't forget to go over and look at the ARTastic blog for more inspiration from the DT and maybe join us for this great challenge.