anyone up for a mini escape?

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Stayed tuned ...

I think later today there will be a little bit of information posted that may be of interest to some of you.

For those of you who have been enjoying junior sport today you may already know!!

We already have our first "YES".

Oh by the way it is something this year, not next year!!

Pinwheels - Meredith

Journalling on a photo - Meredith

Sue - another text on photo

This page came together rather quickly and easily..(don't you love it when you can do a page quickly??!!)....this photo just lent itself to some text on it!!
Photo by Amanda Hall, thanks ;)

Maryanne - text on photo AND pinwheel

SORRY AMANDA..............for another cosmo cricket LO...sure youre so sick of them by now, but have had them just sitting there and havnt scrapped at all for ages, so I really had to start using them.LOL
This is a crappola page, I dont like it,but fits the text on photo and the pinwheel so sorry but youre stuck with it.lol

WOWWOWOWOWOWWOW Maryanne. I CANNOT see what is so crapola about this page - in fact i think it is bloody brilliant!!! Everything about it rocks - i so love that you stitched right through the pinwheel - fantastic. And zingo at the colours - totally right in your face and i so love that! You have a grungy style that i cannot get enough of!

A great photo also by Tiff (i think?)

Congrats also on another acceptance Maryanne - the 'not perfect' layout! woohoo!

Michelle - sketch challenge

Nice surprise in my in box last night, thanks Michelle!!

Great page Michelle and love the pretty colours you have used! Those flowers look just perfect for this one!!

Thanks for the challenge.

Michelle

Marika - text on photo

Well Marika has had a productive morning! And she is glad to be finally free to scrap! She said in her email -

How good does it feel to scrap?? good for the soul I think!

I totally agree Marika - when pages flow together and you are in that scrapping groove it feels great to get that creative release!

This page is BEAUTIFUL!! Love the big red and white dotty paper and how you have left the side black for a bit of space. Stunning paper choices (gosh we are all totally in love with those Cosmo Cricket papers aren't we!!? They are so bright and cheerful you just have to love them!)

Fab journalling too ...lol i can relate to trying to get the perfect photo of the kids! Very difficult to get 6 eyes and three mouths coordinated. Must be even tricker with more kidlets!

Sandra - text on photo AND pinwheel

This layout is a scraplift of a layout by Carrin Sofies (European)I wanted a fun layout to match the photo. Writing on the photo was quite stressful. My handwriting is Sh!# and then the pen decided to play silly games... At least the layout lends itself to bad handwriting. lolCouldn't think of an embellishment for that corner.. then the pinwheel idea came into my head.. so 2 challenges in one.

Well done Sandra - your writing on the photo suits the page! I totally get what you mean when you say 'stressful' i felt the same way too - but good for a one off challenge!

Love your hand drawn border, that yellow stuff (paint??) and that cute little pinwheel. What an awesome FUN layout.

brilliant.

Amanda - pinwheel challenge

Sandra's - sketch challenge

Hi Sue!

FINALLY scrapped! I have had no mojo lately... the ideas are flowing, but just can't seem to get any scrapping done.Here is my layout for the sketch challenge.The photo is of the kids great grand parents arriving in Australia aboard the Barrabool in 1923.Tom is the second from the left, holding Uncle Eddie, next to him is Lucy with Aunt Hilda and Auntie Ethel is sitting on the left.The picture on the tag is of the Barrabool, which I found on the net.

Hopefully my next layout won't take as long!

hmmm pinwheels....

WhooHoo...Sandra's back!!! What this about no mojo, this page is just fantastic Sandra.....just love everything about it!! You do vintage so well and i particularily love the rope and the picture on the tag!! Arn't those old photos just so precious!!

Now waiting eargerly for your pinwheel page :)

Amanda - text on photo

last week I said to Sue and Meredith that i was a bit disappointed that there had been no handwriting seen on the photos for the text challenge. In view of this i thought i should lead by example.

Everyone that knows me, knows that handwriting on layouts just isn't my thing......but this is what this blog is all about - challenging ourselves. So i thought i would step out of my comfort zone and give it a go. It still isn't my thing but at least i tried!

The journalling on the photo reads -

Winning the B Grade grand final last year meant the world to you. After so many years playing you finally had a premiership! Right now you are 3rd on the ladder. It's in the palm of your hand. There for the taking. Inspire those boys of yours and grab it.

Wishing EVERYONE good luck in the footy/netball finals :)

Sue's got another pinwheel!

Howdy All!! What a busy week, back at work and haven't had a moment to scrap! (don't we hate that!!!) Started this a week ago at the scrap night....and i haven't scrapped since then. This needed a finishing touch, and the pinwheel was just perfect (i thought!).

Hope to see some more LO's soon!

Tiff's in - Sue's challenge

HIya.

My sketch challenge for the blog. It's (loosely) based on Sue's sketch with a few different elements of my own just to personalize it.

thanks
Tiff

Thanks Tiff, for sending this one through. Yep, can see the sketch layout there...like the colours, a little bit christmasy. Those flowers are cute too!...saw you rolling them at the scrap night, they have turned out good! Great LO Tiff!

Tiff also sent along a close up of the flowers to share with us .... so cute arn't they? Love those velvety leaves too.

Trends ...

Well I am obviously not a trend spotter!!

Follow this link to this person's thoughts on scrapbooking trends from the recent CHA (Craft & Hobbies Association) show ...

http://papercraftsconnection.com:80/2009/08/11/cha-trends-by-the-dozen/

Leave a comment with which ones you like ...

I thought some of the trends she noted were actually a bit older ... see what you think ;-)

fav. blog for photo inspiration

This link is hopefully on our sidebar (off to check in a sec) so you may have noticed her work before.

I just love looking at her blog - her photography is nothing short of amazing. I am always in awe of how she captures the feeling of the moment, you can almost see the love oozing from the pores in her family shoots. A real personality catching photographer.

Tara Whitney

I know she is a fav. also of Meredith so i apologize if i going over old ground again here!

this photo session in particular really makes my heart go thump. Absolutely everything about it i am in love with.

recently she has added another dimension to her talents by teaming up with another creative soul - Michael Sandy.

Tara does still shots and Michael does a short movie.

Here is one of my favourites - Emily Falconbridge who is a fellow Aussie and scrapbooker AND lucky friend of Tara's.

here are the stills and here is the movie. If it takes a while to load for you please be patient. IT IS SO WORTH IT. Don't give up on it. Watch and be awed.

I dont even know this family but felt quite emotional while watching the movie. Beautiful stuff.

I think the thing that i love the most about Tara's work is how inspired i feel after i see her images. Her work is colourful and natural - capturing perfectly the moment without any feeling of contrived, set up images. Just love it.

Kathryn's - 07.08.09 photo challenge

4.56pm on 07.08.09

About this time on this date I was at Pt Sinclair, near Cactus Beach out of Penong, with the family, trying to catch a squid from the jetty with no luck.

Kathryn

Thanks Kathryn for sending this in, what a beautiful picture, i think we all wished we were there!! Bad luck with the squid!

Marika

is on fire!

She says :

On a bit of a roll better get back to some house work. A lift from SC No 68(vol 8 No 5)

oooh lovely! That dictionary B page is fabulous in there - and i really like how those buttons look so randomly placed but exactly 'right'. Your eye for colour is brilliant.

I agree = when on a roll .............stuff the housework!!!

Marika - pinwheels, photo text AND Sue's sketch!

boy oh boy this is sooooooooo good! Love those journalling spots - particularly the date one *wink wink*

Fantastic Marika .....although now i am not sure what you are going to do challenge wise for the rest of the month! eek!

(feel free to do more from one challenge and send it/them in though)

love the colours in this one - that yellow title is perfect.

Tiff - text on photo

I did this photo collage of my Saturday night bevies while away in Adelaide recently. So I could remember which one was which, I journaled the name of each cocktail on that pic. I curved some of them to follow the roundness of the glass as well.
Top weekend and top cocktails too!!

good one Tiff.

Amanda - Sue's sketch

Text on photo challenge - Sue

Rachel took this photo of herself and her boys....and i love it because it really zones in on all their eyes. But there is some over exposure on Evan's forehead... (she was holding kids with one arm, the camera with the other hand....got short arms etc...you know what i mean??)....so thought it was just perfect to put some text onto this one to help cover that up.

07.08.09 mini photo challenge - Sue

At 4.56 070809(pm) i was busy getting all my scrapping things together to go to the scrap night at the cottage in Cummins.

Can't wait for the 0909090909 ......(have i included enough 9's?)

Suexx

09.09:09/09/09

Hey for those who missed out on Friday with the mini photo challenge ...

next month we can do it all again with ...

09.09 (the time) on 09/09/09!!!

Cool hey!!

I will post a reminder ;-)

Pinwheel challenge ... Michelle

Oh my goodness Michelle I am loving your photos lately!!

And by the way ... love the pinwheels, alphas, your patterned paper selection and placement of embellishments ... it all looks amazing!!

Thank you so much!!

07.08.09 mini photo challenge ... Tiff

Tiff said ...

at 5.06 and 07 seconds Sean and I were in IGA. I did get a few strange looks and some indulgent smiles while I was scrabbling on the floor to get the angle in Sean's photo.

And I picked up a now not very often Ice Coffee. Still find it hard to quit it completely. LOL.

Wow Tiff didn't realise you were trying to kick the habit ... ;-)

Good luck with it!! I have found lately that I really look forward to my coffee ... not a good sign I reckon!!

Tiff - photo challenge

Flash Dance really is vivid in my mind from ‘back then’. A chick that was a boiler maker. Whoo Hoo. That impressed me. And boy could she move that body and shake that ‘thaaannnngg. Go girl power.

Pseudo Echo had the band big hair down pat. Back in their Funky Town days. And they were the first album I bought. Still on vinyl back then and it was a little one with an A side (Funky Town) and a B side. I don’t recall what that one was.

Ahhhhh. Those sexy (not) lege warmers Werent they all the rage. And fingerless gloves too!!

Tom Cruise sliding into the doorway in Risky Business with that shirt and ohhhh on those lovely legs. I don’t recall much of the storyline in this movie but I do recall this bit vividly.

Hair gel and mousse came onto the personal grooming market. And so began the era of big hair dos

Fantastic memories Tiff. LOL at all of us reminiscing!

07.08.09 mini photo challenge ... Tracey

Tracey said ...

Here are my photo challenges.
I went out at 4:56pm on the 7/8/09 and took photos of two giggling friends on the motorbike (checking to see if they are obeying the rules!!)

One child on the wall of the verandah awaiting her turn of the motorbike

and the remaining child manhandling the cat also waiting for her shot.

PS Sandra, yours is doing the driving, I hope you have nothing against motorbikes!!!

Great photos Tracey ... they really create a story ... can;t wait to see these scrapped!!

07.08.09 mini photo challenge ... Jane

Jane said ...

on the 07-08-09....at 4.05pm and 6 seconds mykids were getting off the bus and hopping on the back of Paul's ute to drive home.

then at 5.06pm they were on the trampoline as they usually are......sorry 'bout the blurry photo...

Great shots Jane ... thank you for sending them in!! The boys look pretty happy too!!

07.08.08 mini photo challenge ... Meredith

4.05 6 seconds on 07.08.09

Not a technically correct photo ... taken in the shade with an ISO of 1600 and a flash!!

But hey a different effect!! And how hard is it to get 4 kids to co-operate ... impossible!!

7.8.09 10.11am mini photo challenge ... Kylie

Here's a snap from this morning ... on 7/8/09 at 10:11:12am (well, probably not 12 seconds exactly!!)

Not very creative photography, just a photo of a typical morning in our household atm ... Bree still in her PJ's, Harry nursing our joey, fire going every day (not that you can see it in the photo - too much soot on the glass !!) ... and 2 missing - Ted at work and Charlie at school !

Kylie

Thank you Kylie for joining in ... I am going to do mine this afternoon ... at 4.56pm or 5.06pm!!

7.8.09 10.11am - mini photo challenge - amanda

This is what i was doing at that time. Going for my walk with two naughty labradors. Set on timer so i could be in the shot too :)

Can't wait to see some more photos taken today.

Trish - photo challenge

Mork and Mindy.

Pac man

Little House on the Prairie

Basil Brush
A Country Practise

The Skyhooks.

Trish says:

Now I wasn't lucky enough to watch some of these cos my mum had a word- "piffle". But does this bring back memories or what LOL. Cheers Trish

Great memories Trish! I can only just remember watching Little house on the Prairie and i know that it was a fab show - each episode seemed to have a lovely moral.

i found this little snippet of Little house on youtube. And this is the opening title here. It certainly brings back memories!

Karen - Sue's sketch AND over photo text

Karen says :

Hi Amanda,
I do believe I have done a challenge!!! WHOO HOO...... and I think it could actually be two challenges in one. This is Sues Sketch challenge and also journaling on the photo. It has taken me nearly a week to produce! Yikes. You know that you cant rush these things, LOL.
Cheers
Karen D


I do believe you have used that photo that i totally LOVE Karen........one taken at the 2008 E2C retreat i think??!!! I was blown away by your talent way back then and i see nothing has changed. Loved squinting and trying to read all your 'bits'. They made me laugh!

Great job and the paper choices are beautiful.

The numbers aligning ... mini photo challenge

After reading about this idea here

I thought hey we could do that ... obviously in America they put the month then the date where as we put the date then the month so they did this in July!!

So tomorrow it is 07.08.09 but just to give you some choice you could do it at any of these times to keep the numbers aligned!! I don't think we'll get too fussed about the seconds!!

05.06 am ... I don't think so!! as in 05.06am on 07.08.09

or
10.11 am as in 10.11am on 07.08.09

or
4.56 pm as in 4.56pm on 07.08.09

So take a photo of something, anything at one of these times!!

And hey we can do it again next year on 08.09.10!!!

Link with lots of links to free ideas / stuff!!

Hi all,

I have been following this link for a while and this girl digs out the most amazing free stuff.

Take a look ... the latest is some free tags that you can save to your computer and print out on cardstock or whatever!!

Just click on the "source" tag at the bottom of each post to follow the link!!

http://celestefs.blogspot.com/

Marika - photo text

Now i can come out of our 'crisis stay in one room and lock all the doors' situation here at home i can show you the page Marika sent me earlier.

This is for the text on top of the photo challenge and she has really nailed this one! I love absolutely everything about it - and am loving your etsy purchases with those journalling spots. Brilliant!!!

The text you have inserted onto the photo is excellent! Well done and i hope you have encouraged a few more to try it out. Marika used the computer for this one - you can also use pen and handwrite, journalling strips, sticker letters or anything else you like as long as it is ON the photo.

Fab work!

Jane - photo challenge

Hi Amanda,

hope this works.....
am loving this flash back to the 70s and 80s - era of big hair, ra-ra skirts (I never had one of those) fluoro T-shirts....

I also loved The Wombles (have it on DVD), the Goodies......., ABBA, New Kids On The Block, I even went and saw them in concert and even have their latest album on the ipod !!! ....bit sad really... cant really call them "New Kids" anymore though -they are more like "Middle-Aged Men On The Block"
Ahh Roxette - loved them too... I had front row seats for that concert...

But thought I would send a few different piccys through...

I was in lust with Tom Cruise in the movie Top Gun. This is the poster I had on my bedrom wall,

Who could forget The Famous Five books by Enid Blyton - Julian, Dick, Anne, George(ina) and Timmy the dog....I loved these books and also loved the TV series




Anne Of Green Gables was another fave...I still have my Mum's copy of the book and mine too. I also loved mini series when it came out when I was older.....

Adidas Romes - we used to wear these at Naracoorte High School for DPA (daily Physical Activity) everyday and PE. These were THE coolest shoes (besides our Desert boots) but you had to have the "proper" Romes....and yes I did have a pair. God I loved those shoes....Funny, I was only talking to someone about "Romes" the other day and she said the same thing..



Ahhh the memories......
Jane P

Thanks Jane - what great memories! I had a big giggle at the Romes - i had a pair too and they were my absolute pride and joy. I can just see me now in those harry high pants and the socks worn bunched on the outside of the jean leg. Too funny!