Okay further to my previous post ... !!!

Okay time for a few questions ...

Step 1.

Take a look at this layout ... here

Step 2.

Now look at my layout ...

Questions ...

Do you think it is a scraplift?

Do you think I was just inspired by the original design? Is that the same as scraplifting anyway?

Should I or should I not submit my layout to a magazine?

Oh just to add ... the little flag at the top was inspired by Waleska Neris in this post (fourth layout down)!!

The etiquette of inspiration (title title-lifted!!)

There has been two really thought provoking posts over at Studio Calico this week.

Post 1 ... here : How shall we be inspired?

Post 2 ... here: Shall we scraplift?


As well as ...


Post 3 ... here: Where shall we store inspiration?


I would be interested to hear peoples' thoughts on this!

Do you think this information is over the top or the right thing to do???

Sandra - gone etsy

Hi Amanda



I know I said I wouldn't send in another 80's photo, but I lied ;-)


This photo was taken of TWO of the retreat goers way back in the 80's.


one is me, ofcourse...but who is the other??


Taken on 'muck up day' ..


we rode to school on a motorbike (in our wedding gear ROFL) and even had the tin cans hanging off the back!!


and we received a few odd stares on the way let me tell you!!!

And the layout also has a couple of etsy items on it.... the crepe paper and the etsy bag itself.

Inspired by Anna Christen-Larson


Well bye for now...


and I Pinky Promise no more 80's photos!! ;-p


Sandra

This photo is a classic. I can pick 'the groom' EASILY LOL.

Beautiful layout with awesome title Sandra!! LOVE LOVE LOVE that big chandelier. Inspiring work.... brilliant.

Jenny - Sue's sketch

Oh Jenny those photos are precious! What a classic 'surprised' expression in the last one. The run of photos really tell the story.

Beautiful colours in the papers look great with that black 'dymo' type of font.

Great work from our resident digi girl!

Hey, hey, hey ...

I heard a little whisper today ...

something is going down later this year ...

it involves ...

1. food

2. drinks

3. paper

4. sleepovers

5. fun

6. sand

oh whoops I meant sanding

7. fun

oh sorry I already mentioned that!!! ;-)

8. adhesive

whoops that naturally goes with paper doesn't it!! ;-)


Stay tuned for more info ...

Cant say when the information will be supplied but hey it might be worth the wait!!!

Tiff - all etsy

Hiya A.

My Etsy answer. I carefully opened the bag along the seams and used a piece of that on this LO.
Its also a colour and sketch response over at The Color Room as well.
cheers
T

I like the paper bag on there Tiff... perfect! That ribbon is delish too!

'80s Guess Who?

Hi Amanda, ok this photo isn't strictly 80's but very early 90's all ready to go to the pub, could have even been underage (eep) p.s. I'm the one on the left!!

whit wheel!! (wolf whistle) Loving that paneled jumper! Not quite as shocking as the '80s fashion though!

Hmmmmm possibly a tricky one unless you went on the 2010 retreat!

Karen - Sue's sketch

Woohoo! Another Sue's sketch entry!

This girl 'has it' in my eyes. I remember first coming across her work at our very first retreat. I had no idea prior to that who this funky chick was!

I do remember Meredith saying 'Amanda - check this girls work out' and we went over there and i was blown away with what she was creating.

So in a few words - Karen ROCKS and this is one example of why i think that.

Lauren's gone Etsy

Hi Amanda!

Hope you had a fabulous weekend.

I love love loved playing with all the bits from the goodie bags- thankyou for giving me the kick in the pants to pull them out and use them :)

xx Lauren

Oh Lauren this is just DELICIOUS! There is so much to look at here - and everytime i see a little etsy goodie it gives me a thrill! LOVE what you have done with the dress making pattern as a scrunched background - unreal!

The kaiser pearls, the tag, the crochet flower, mini labels, birdie tag, the vintage papers..........oh it is so clever.

Thanks for showing us. Brilliant stuff.

Sandra - Sue's sketch

Hi Sue

Here's my entry for your sketch challenge.

Have a great Mother's Day, hope you get spoilt rotten!!

Sandra xx

Thanks for sending this one in Sandra....i just love everything about this page, the colours are great ....so fresh with that splash of green glimmermist. I love your red stitching and also your freehand journalling!! Great page!

Sandra = '80s archives

Hi Amanda!



Look what I found in my travels through my photo archives!!


In this photo there are FOUR girls who were at this years retreat!!!


Might be fun to see if anyone can pick them out of the line up .... so to speak lol!


night!
sandra
xx
 

 
 
The only person i think i can identify is Sandra in the bottom left.... so i hope others in the photo do not mind it being on the blog. I simply cannot put any other names to faces here!!
 
This one has bamboozled me  -  i have sat looking at it for a long time and am still none the wiser!
 
Looking forward to a few guesses and enlightenments!
 
 
(and maybe some more fun '80s photos in my inbox?!!)
 
 

Tatum - gone etsy and Sue's sketch!

Hi Amanda....

I have been itching to do this since I very first looked through the goodies in that little paper bag :)

Sue's sketch challenge is first up on my scrapping agenda for this evening!


Happy Mothers day to you & all the Escape to Create mums :)


Have a great weekend!
Tatum xx


This is lovely Tatum. I love looking at all your elements. It fascinates me to see how you have used our etsy goodies! The blue is delicious and i love how you have used the tape and journalling notes! Great candid photos which really tell a great 'fun' story too.

Thanks Tatum. Beautiful and inspiring work.

'80s Guess Who?

Oh this is a classic - too good not to post!


This totally *IS* the '80s. Brilliant!!!

Loving the big hair, bright blusher and teamed with the shell necklace you could not go wrong! It looks like a very big night was about to be had by this lucky lady.

I really hope we can get a few more photos up here... they are so good for a smile! Thanks to the ladies who have been brave already and posted their fantastic fashion!

80's- Guess who?

Taken in 1983- no great fashion statements here, just a fine, flouncy, frilly frock..(now try saying that quickly 5 times!).....some of you might recognise some-one or two in this photo.....

Ali's gone all etsy + Sue's sketch!

Hi Amanda,
I tried to combine the two challenges... Loved using all the etsy yummie bits and pieces, tipped my bag out on the table and away I went. I will definately be going to those shops!! And also glad to see that there will be a 2011 retreat by the looks of the top right corner of the blog!! Can I just say... YIPPEE!!!



Ali xx

This is stunning Ali. What a thrill seeing all your bits here on the page! Absolutely adore the vintage feel this page has, but at the same time is so funky and fresh.
 
Oh i just noticed you used the little sticker tags as well! Amazing - everything looks incredible together!
 

'80s Guess Who?

This lovely lady was VERY pregnant when this shot was taken. The type of top that she has on looks so very 80s to me!

What a brilliant smile. She looks so happy! Must have been all that young love!

Even though it is a classic 80s photo, the beautiful smile and that lovely belly makes this photo extra special!

Marika - Sue's sketch

Marika always amazes me with how quickly and brilliantly she gets inspired by Sue's sketches. They are a great starting off point and motivator!

The blues and greens against the lined paper is beautiful here Marika.

Very cute photos too! Love how you have done a 'series' with the door. Lovely.

'80s Guess Who?

LOL i think this one is super easy!

She says that it was way back in 1988 and she can't rememeber the occasion for such a flash outfit. She says that she quite likes the photo apart from the massive hair bow!

Big hair and big bows were very 80s so it is a great, appropriate photo!

Classic!

80s challenge

ok there are a LOT of things wrong with this photo.

Cumberbuns + big silk sash + drop waist + horizontal lines + big ear rings + massive hair flick + salmon colour on a male + huge clown collar =

Shocker.

Sue's sketch ... Meredith

Journalling says ...
"this is the sequence of events
you start by trying to ignore me
the you realise it isn't working
then you finish off with the very cheeky look"

Kerryn - gone all etsy

Hey Amanda



Hows it going?

I always keep an eye on the E2C blog but don't really get to do any of the challenges. But I do love seeing what everyone else does with the challenges set.

Anyway, I saw the challenge about using stuff from the retreat goody bags. I've actually used quite a fair bit so far from it. I've used a couple of tags, journal spots and I'm sure there was something else as well.

I completed this layout on the weekend (for a colour challenge site) using the bag that some of the bits were packaged in so I thought I'd send it through. (oh and just in case you are wondering about the title, my DS calls Lego Le Go, like it's 2 words LOL. He is very insistent that he is correct).


I loved everything that was in the goody bag and know I'll be using all of it at some stage.




Thanks and have a great week :).
Kerryn x

 
 
Fantastic Kerryn! A great example of our goodies being put to use = in a stunning way! Those bags were 'found' by Sue on blue bazzaar and we instantly fell in love with them - they were where the whole idea of going 'vintage etsy' stemmed from!
 
The orange looks amazing with the browns of the bag, string and other kraft elements. Incredible stuff!
 
Thanks for sharing and i hope you continue to drop by!

Bazzill at your fingertips

Ever wanted a range of bazzil colours/shades/names at your fingertips without the hassle of a massive keyring of samples?

There is a new ipod app that is all that and more!

This has been around for a little while, but i thought i should let you know it is 'out' there anyway.

Here is their blurb:

The new Bazzill iPhone app puts more than 500 Bazzill cardstock colors at your finger tips! Whether you are on-the-go shopping at your favorite scrapbook store, cropping with friends, or working on a project at home, this Bazzill app will be your new best friend. Use the color matching feature to pull Bazzill cardstock color suggestions from any photo you plan to scrapbook. Find important Bazzill cardstock information like part numbers, cardstock textures, and color names. When printing invitations or scrapbook page titles, you can refer to the Bazzill app for the closest color matches in RGB and CYMK code.  The Bazzill app will help you find time to scrapbook your family's memories, give you endless design options, and bring Bazzill color to all your paper crafting projects.


Can be used with iPhone®, iTouch®, and iPad® products. Visit iTunes to download this app today!


Features:


● Browse more than 500 Bazzill cardstock colors alphabetically by name.

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● Browse more than 500 Bazzill cardstock colors grouped by texture.

 ● Easy access to RGB and CMYK values for all cardstock colors.

● Find the perfect Bazzill cardstock match for your photographs.

● Create and save color palettes from colors picked from the elements in your photos. Save it to use again and again.

● Create the perfect color palette with monochromatic, complementary, triadic, analogous and split-complementary

color combinations for all Bazzill cardstock colors.



IMO it is still a bit pricey ($12.99 au) so i can't give a personal review.  Check it out here on itunes if you are interested.

Tiff's sketch

Hi Sue.

The LO ended up a little bit different from your sketch of Maryanne's LO. I shifted the photos over to the right and added extra embellishing (the watch) in the top right corner. But the bones of the sketch is there.

Thanks for the challenge and happy tripping OS. take plenty of pics with that lovely camera wont you.

tiff
xx

Nice LO Tiff, love the colours and the apron lace punch edges.

flip album revolution!

I have noticed of late A LOT of buzz about those little flip albums that Meredith made at the retreat in her class. They seem to be popping up in blogs and displayed everywhere in the shops.

Meredith really has started a mini-craze with those cool little things! I was told by one store that they were having a hard time keeping up with KRAFT cardstock these days all thanks to Meredith's class!!

Marika sent in some examples of what she has done.

beautiful work Marika. Stunning. thanks for showing us! And thanks also to Meredith who is an inspirational teacher and clever chickie for finding such a natty little project!

'80s Guess Who?

For this '80s challenge i would like to post the pictures 'anonymously'.

Any lurkers can then 'guess' who the star in the photo is by commenting!

So first cab off the rank is this lovely lady in stripes! She loved the big earrings and loud pants of the 80s!  This photo was taken in Amsterdam in 1988 as a tourist promotion where they took a photo of you embarking and when you disembarked you had a postcard with your photo on it.

Great first example of our '80s style!

May challenges.

Sue's sketch.

This month's sketch is inspired by a page and a sketch from the latest Scrapbooking Memories magazine and one of our very own local scrappers Maryanne. And thanks to Maryanne for allowing me to use your page as our sketch inspiration. So everyone who hasn't seen her beautiful page...you will find it in the latest mag.

I have drawn it up as a 12x12 but of course you can use the sketch to whatever size page you would like....and it is a multiple photo page again. Look forward to seeing what you all come up with.



Here is my example:

Photo Challenge.

go through your photo archives and find the best photo you have demonstrating 'your style' in the '80s. We want to see big hair, ra ra skirts, large hoopy ear rings, socks on the outside of jeans, mullets.... etc. The 80 est the better!

Some very funny examples to come!

Amanda's Challenge

I would like to see some layouts that have been produced USING some of your etsy goodies from the retreat bags! We want to see some of those birdie tickets, crochet flowers, specially made hat pins ... and bonus points for the dress making pattern being used on a page!

If we packed it in your bag we want to see it on YOUR page!

Colour Challenge

later in month

Meredith's Challenge

keep watching this space!

being organized

Someone told me today that she enjoyed reading all the little titbits and links that Meredith and I put on this blog.

I said "what ??!! I never do it, Meredith does a fabbo job letting us know of the trends, what's hot, new releases, techniques and general scrap news"

(and we do love seeing what is out there i might add!)

So to totally prove myself wrong i have found something amazing. Something that i am the anti of... the complete opposite.

So grab a coffee and drool over how organized this space is!

general post about organization with amazing pantry and linen cupboard photos!

scrap room envy

of course this is from write.click.scrapbook. a great place for inspiration and this superwoman is Australia's very own Jody Dent Pruks.



In other things overheard..... another someone told me that they were looking forward to May when our challenges start again. I hope you are too!

affirmations

This was written by Ali Edwards for the 'i am enough' blog. It is quite an inspiring read and the place to go if you are wanting affirmation about yourself and your worth.

I do find Ali quite inspiring also. Even though her blog is very product driven and comercial now, her style never fails to make me want to grab for my stash and start scrapping. I love the way every single page she creates has a story about her or her children's lives. Not just the 'gorgeous' or 'i adore you' type pages that we all did when we first started scrapping but REAL journalling about REAL events.

I know journalling frightens some scrappers, and it isn't everyone's cup of tea i admit. Recently i read something that Leanne Stamatellos wrote for a recent magazine and i was totally nodding along with it. I felt that i could have written it word for word! Check out the latest Scrapbooking Memories for her amazing article.

What story are you telling in your scrapping?!

***

I guess a few people may be wondering what is happening with this blog - it seems awfully quiet lately! I wont speak for the other girls (Sue and Meredith) but personally i have needed some time away from the blog - with all the hustle and bustle of the retreat and in that lovely peacefulness afterwards it seemed like the right time to 'take a break'.

I hope everyone understands...

The desire to blog and post challenges again is starting to come back for me so i am sure things will be firing up again soon.

Remember that we get enthused to post when we know that we have visitors. Please say hello if you stop by.

Sandra - Sue's sketch

Hi Amanda

YAY!! finally got round to Sue's sketch....yes it is under there somewhere! lol


Cheers for now
Sandra..

I can see the sketch Sandra! Great job! I can also see an influence / inspiration from Lou.

Very creative!

more e2c group photos

I had a really hard time trying to find the 'right' photo to send out to the group... there were always one or two with eyes closed or funny expressions! I guess it is hard to co-ordinate eyelids with 65 women!

So here are some of the group shots for you to look and laugh at. If you click on the images you can view them much bigger.

sensible shot

and a silly shot. This one made me laugh with Michelles expression behind Tiff's head! Priceless!

another sensible one...

and then the sneeze! Dee this was so well timed!

finally another silly shot!

and just to show that i can show stupid / horrible photos of myself too...

This expression is exactly how i felt on the inside Friday morning - sky high with stress and anticipation!! Lucky i have two calming influences by my side!

Anyway i hope you get a giggle out of these. I sure did :)

A new colour challenge blog ...

The Colour Room

An international team of scrappers are involved including 3 from Adelaide!!

font lovers unite!

If you love a good font as much as i do check out this website :

they have weekly newsletter updates which have great font offers and three free fonts if you subscribe (it's free to subscribe to the newsletters)! They also have fab. instructions on how to install these fonts if you are new to the game or easily confused like me :)


click here to have a look!

School holiday fun ...

Okay so those of you who attend the retreat will be rested, caught up on your sleep and now ready to use some of that mojo that you accumulated ...

and it is school holidays ... eeekkkk ... some of these ideas might be good to get the children involved in too!!

These ideas have come via a newsletter I receive from Aussie Scrapbooking.


Some have made these bows before but the stamping takes it to the next stage!

http://bananafrog.typepad.com/bananafrogblog/2010/04/lessons-at-the-lilypad-bows-and-bling.html

next up ...

cute crepe paper butterflies ...

http://jennibowlinstudioinspiration.blogspot.com/2010/04/butterfly-tutorial-by-danielle-flanders.html

and the next one ...

creating a negative image with scissors ...

http://studiocalico.blogspot.com/2010/04/scrappy-tutorial-creating-interest-with.html

Just a little more on Studio Calico ... an American kit company

they have a great blog posting that you can subscribe to where each one is sent to your email address and they have a very inspiring gallery!
Blog
Gallery (via their home page)


If you have a link to something we could create post a comment on this post to share!

Hope everyone had a great Easter!!

retreat reviews on other blogs

I do love reading blog posts after the event when other ladies who attended the retreat do a little run down.

I have made a bit of a list here. If i have missed anyone please let me know and i can add them.

Meredith
Mel Forbes
Ali McDonald
Tiff
Sandra
Kerryn Lawson

ok i know i have missed someone but cannot for the life of me find it now!