Delight

Hello and thanks for popping by.
School holidays are finished here and the house is quiet during the day again. I'm not sure if I like it or not.
Today I have my DT page for ARTastic which is focusing on October being Breast Cancer month.
It was only last month that sadly we buried a dear lady of our church as the result of breast cancer :-( and I know there are many of you out there who have also been affected one way or another. It is good to be able to have a month to focus on these things.

The inspiration painting by Chris Noble, with the theme of pink,

The page I have created is around one of my favourite photos of my youngest,

I have done a small amount of water painting for the background and then inspired by the roses, I centred my page around some beautiful rose paper.  I added lots of pink elements, like tags and buttons and of course some pretty flowers.

This flower I crocheted using cotton. I love using my other crafts on my children's pages, so they have a little bit of me in their albums☺︎.

Hope you feel inspired and please feel welcome to head over to ARTastic and join in this beautiful challenge or simply enjoy what other talented people have created.

Dance with Your Heart

Hello,
I had a slow day scrapbooking today, while recovering from the flu☹. My two girls also have it and it's been couch days for the last week. But we are getting there and today I felt like achieving something, even if it was a scrapbook page and not the vacuuming☺︎.
I loved the sketch challenge at Show Us Your Stuff and have actually been wanting to make a page like this for a while so it was perfect.

My page;

I did a lot of stamping for my background and then concentrated on the 'strip' photo background. I had just bought a scrapbook kit so it all came together nicely. My handmade items are the crochet trim and handmade buttons. I love the height and texture they give to a page.

Thank for popping by.

Love for Fishing

Now that I have my computer back, I can post the page I made for the sketch challenge at Scrap The Girls this month.

My page;

I first splattered water colour paint on my background before using a flower stamp over top. Then to add a bit of texture I included texture paint chevrons.

I backed the photo with papers and homemade tags and embellished with a flower cluster☺︎.

Thanks for popping by.

Special Dad Moment

Hello. I am running late this month with my DT page for ARTastic as I lost my computer for a bit, but, today I'm here with our special challenge for ARTastic. A tribute to the Dads out there, with September holding Father's Day here in Australia, and using this painting as our inspiration;

For my page I chose the colours from the water and boat and couldn't resist using back and white spot paper from the dog.

My background was created my spraying my page with water and then spraying blue ink on top and letting it run dry. After it was dry, I smudged purple water colour paint before using background stamps to finish off my page. With a busy background, I kept my papers and embellishments to a minimum.

Wishing everyone another month of fun scrapbooking and please feel free to join in the ARTastic challenge this month.

Salmon Fishing

Getting a page in quickly before the end of the month. A page for the challenge at 123 challenge blog, which is using these 3 criterias;

I scrapped a photo of my husband and eldest, at one of our beautiful local beaches, beginning of winter, fishing for salmon. We love spending time at the beach as a family and each season brings it beauty.☺︎

I went with a simple background of modelling paste and mist and then with black pen drew in some squares to tie the journalling words together. A mix of papers to back my photos with a pop of colour with a red peg.

Thanks for coming past and I'll see you in a few days time with a new challenge page ☺︎

Best friends

Hello,

I can't believe we're half way August already. All my best intentions to scrapbook this month has been out the window so far. But I managed to complete a page for the scrapbook challenge at Scrap The Girls  using this wonderful mood board;

And this is my page and how I used the mood board,

I've water coloured the background and also coloured some modelling paste with mist, and then used it with a chevron stencil. I used a nature photo to reflect the leaves in the mood board and also the beads inspired me to use beads in my cluster along with sequins on my page. I've used a photo overlay for this page, I have had them for so long but never know when to use them. I love the effect it has on this photo.

Close up my little cluster showing the use of beads and sequins.

Hopefully the second part of the month will provide me with more opportunities to get to my craft room☺︎

Sisters

Hello and welcome to August. For me it's the last month of winter and I'm looking forward to the days becoming longer especially in the morning.
As usual my first post for the month is my DT page for ARTastic.
It's a fun inspiration painting this month and can be used in so many ways as we have found out as DT.

The criteria is to use black pen on your page.

For my page I went with the inspiration of the girls enjoying themselves outside,

 I loved the bold colours of the painting so did the same on my page also going with a little bit of a vintage feel. I used black pen for my background circles, the corner borders and also to colour the chipboard word sweet and the arrow.

A close up of my cluster with the sweet crochet flower. I like to bring my other crafts to my scrapbooking so that the kids will see a bit of me in their albums.

Hopefully August will bring some scrapbooking time and I'll see you soon.