This Is What Awesome Looks Like.

Afternoon Ladies and welcome to my first post since I have

come home from the Scrapbookit Retreat. Oh and what fun it

was. Classes, scraping and awesome company.

One of the LO's I created at the Retreat was this one of my girl

friends son Lockie. If you knew this cute young man then you 

would also know the title is just perfect for him lol. 

I have created it for the challenge at Kraft It Up. For the March 

challenge you had to create a LO using a different style than you

would normally create. This LO is very different for me. It also had
to include a list. My list is on the back of my LO. The list is about
things I need to do with my scraping.

The title chippie is by Scraptopia and the Steampunked one is by

WOW. For both I have covered them with Modeling Paste and 

then with black Gesso. Over the top of this I sprayed them with 

Ranger, Perfect Pearls Mist - bronze and heat dried them.

 

To create my back ground I have used three stencils, Scrap FX -

Whirlpools with modeling paste, TCW - Mini Bricks with light 

grey ink and Prima - Cracked stencil with distress ink, Gathered

Twigs. These three stencils went well to create a boy background.

Underneath the photo I have used hessian, Gauze and cotton.

When I was creating this LO I was working alongside the very

talented Cindy Porter who also designs for Scrapbookit. I was so 

lucky to be able to get guidance from such a mixed media talent.
This is what inspired me to do the things on my list.

Thank you Cindy.

    

Building Memories.

Hello all. The title of this LO has a very big meaning to 

me. My beautiful mother has cancer and at the moment 

it feels like we are building memories one day at a time.

Holding on tight to the ones we have and being very, very

grateful for the next one. 

It is my DT layout for Scrapbookit.  Hope on over to the blog 

and check out what we have all been up to this month. 

  I have used the Limelight Collection by Kaiser Craft. They are such 

nice patterned paper and I also added the Collectables to the LO. The

title is a wow chippie and I used Kaiser brown and white ink on it. 

Distressing of the patterned papers and a white pen to journal. 

String, Kaiser tinny letters and the page is done.

I just love Harley's smile in this photo. I guess we have all been

                                            through the "Smile" OH why did I say that faze.

Love the three of you. XXX

All Dressed Up

Hello everyone and as always welcome to my blog. 

This is my DT post for Let's Capture Our Memories.

Please take the time to drop over to the blog and join 

in the fun while looking at the other DT girls awesome

takes on this sketch.

I have also placed my LO in the challenge over at
Lasting Memories. Challenge #181 is "Early Spring"
and I had to use flowers.  

This is my take. The photo is of my friend Mel's very

beautiful daughter Meghan.

I would first like to say that I know you are wondering where 

my journal is..... I could not decide where to place it to fit with 

the sketch and how I  was picturing the LO, so I decided to place

 it on the back. 

I have chose white card stock and the patterned papers are by 

Kaiser Craft - Lilac Avenue and Airy Fairy Collections. I used 

Heidi Swapp Color Shine Spray - Chartreuse on the back ground. 

The edges of the patterned paper were inked with Versa  Color Ink

- Pinecone. 

The flowers are by Manor House and I have used a die for the 

leaves. The fairy I have fussy cut from the patterned papers.

I inked the edge of the paper doily with Veras Color Ink - Gold.

I made the title from a die tag and the rubon is from Kaiser Craft. 

I placed Meghan's name just below her photo. A little hard to see

but I didn't want it to be prominent. I used Kaiser's Tiny Alpha 

Stickers for it. A little purple bling in two shades is used on the 

photo corners. The lace is off a pillow lace (yes, I cut up a pillow 

case I had because I couldn't find a lace in the color I liked. Before 

you try to guess they were new pillow cases....Opps) The Butterfly

and heart resin I made myself from my molds.

I hope you have liked my take on the sketch at Let's Capture 

Our Memories and please hope over to the blog. Let us girls

know what you think of our designs and join in the fun. 

The Wild One

Hello all and welcome as always to my blog. Today

I would like to show you my latest creation for my

DT post at Scrapbookit.

This layout as each month is set by the months Guest

Designer. This time it was Mary and the challenge she

set was to create a LO or Card that had Texture, Layers 

and the title was to be from a song or a quote. I must say

that us DT girls are very lucky as Jo sends out packs with

plenty of time. Instead of checking mine again I went in 

hunt of a photo I knew I had of my son. Found!!! Now I 

open my pizza box to begin work.....Oh....yes it had 

beautiful flowers, how did I forget. 

I was very lucky to have received the 

papers by Kaiser Craft - Limelight Collection and flowers.

Ok new plan and this one I was very happy with.

If you know your `rock and roll` you will know that this beautiful

lady with her arm around me is Suzi Quatro. Yes I was very lucky to 

get to meet Suzi in January this year and spend some time with her 

before watching her tour. She is one truly very special and lovely 

lady. It is a day I will always remember. 

 I used a small flower template by Kaiser Craft and modelling paste. 

I left the modelling paste plain this time as I thought it looked better 

with the colors I was using. I used my new Kaiser clear stamp - 

Honeycomb with green ink on top of the paste and in a couple of 

other spots as well. The beautiful flowers and golden/green vine 

are all available  at the Scrapbookit store. I have layered the Kaiser 

Craft - Limelight collection papers after distressing the edges of the 

papers. I also used the limelight collectables pack and clustered some 

of them. I used a paper doily underneath everything.

This guitar is by Kaiser Craft and I have inked it with brown and 

then I used Tim Holtz Distress Crackle Paint - Clear Rock Candy.

Please call over to the Scrapbookit blog and join in the fun. You will

also find the little button to the store and be able to get products 

through Jo that you have seen us DT girls use. While there though join

in on the challenge. It is a lot of fun and Jo will have a wonderful prize 

at the end of the month for some lucky person.

Keep coming back ladies as I have a truly beautiful photo of myself and

the ever sexy Shannon Noll. I know when I get around to doing that one 

you will love it "the pic anyway :)"   Hugs all.

Love Each Moment

Welcome once again to my blog. I have been a little slow

at bringing my latest DT post for Let's Capture Our Memories

to you on my blog. I have still been busy with mum and to cap

it off I'm in full swing with working out what secondary school

my eldest son is off to next year. :(  Yes I'm a clingy mum. I'm 

not looking forward to this change in our lives at all. But no more

crying on my blog for now. It's time for my layout.

This is the sketch for this months challenge. It's a beauty so don't 

forget to check out my fellow DT's at the blog and while there 

please join in on the challenge fun.

 

I hope you like my take on the challenge. I just loved this 

sketch and how my LO turned out. The photo is of my eldest

son Riley and a day we had together. A special day I will 

always remember. 

The patterned papers are by Kaiser Craft - Velvet Ensemble Collection.

The flowers I have fussy cut from the papers. I placed corrugated card

on my base paper. The chippie boarder, title and bench seat are by 

Scraptopia. I colored them with Copic - Moss YG67. On the boarder 

chippie I cut and stuck a piece of the corrugated card. Around the

patterned papers behind the photo I used my journal pen to do some 

stitching on each. Around the photo itself I used a slick writer black- 

medium pen to just make the photo stand out a little more.

Like always I love to fussy cut. It is great way of getting the optimum 

from your papers and I just love cutting out the papers.

As you can see I have also fussy cut my son Riley from a second pic

and placed him on a seat and colored it green to match the seat in the 

photo. It was such a beautiful day at the Ballarat Botanical Gardens.