Marika's even more dotty now!

And another page from Marika. Hmmmmm i am thinking she is quite mad for this dot challenge! YAY!

She says -

my real submission for the challenge. I photographed my page and realised that
the black dots dont stand out so I went over them in white pen and it looks
heaps better.

She showed me both and i agree the white spots look fantastic. Love how they define the star outline! And what a cute little subject for your photo. Just like a mini-Simon.

my spotty story......

Ok i did some pen dots on this page....a border of dots!

This is another scraplift (i am really enjoying not thinking while scrapping and not overanalysing every move i make)

Stephanie Howell's page in the August edition of Scrapbook trends is where my inspiration came from. Love how she filled the page but managed to maintain the white space.

I took photos of this page as i couldn't scan it without losing the dots! (since that is why we are all here it seemed a bit strange to scan and show it without any LOL)

Jenny's baaaaccccckkkkk

Hiya Jenny. great to see you back on the blog.

Sorry for delaying in getting it up. Have been out since yesterday.

little birthday suits are so gorgeous in all their glory arent they.

Sandra's seeing spots

Sandra has done some pen dots around the corners of her photos, jounalling block and on some of the rub-ons!

She also says that she "scraplifted the layout from the pagemaps site...August pagemap.. layout by Cathleen La Hay."

Love the little hints of brown and teal colour. Brilliant!

oooooh do i also notice a pen drawn border around the outer edge? It took me years to work up enough nerve to do that so well done Sandra - it looks brilliant (and i am a bit of a doodle-phobe too though -----------> doodle as in freehand drawing not the other sort LOL)

Marika's gone dotty.....

love the colour in this one Marika! The bright dots against the white are so striking! We can forgive you for using paint or ink and not pen dots since it is so gorgeous!

I love how you are totally grasping the whole 'less is more' and your page looks so clean and yet so perfect. Well done!

Christmas stockings ... yes it is only 2 months away!!

Here is an email that I have just received ... some of you might be interested ... contact Ally Harris (details to be posted later!!).

Hi All
Cummins is having a Christmas stocking comp. It will be held 3rd 4th and 5th of Dec in The Cummins Hall
Finishing with a craft goods fair on the 5th.
Scrap n chat are hoping all scrappers out there will scrap a stocking for display for the comp and you will probably be able to sell them
More details later
On the 12th nov at scrap n chat I will have available mdf stockings available to scrap
I need you to let me know if your interested asap so I can cut out stockings in various sizes for you
There may a small fee to cover my time, recycled mdf with holes may be $2 a stocking but this shouldn’t matter as you will cover with paper, new mdf may be more like $5
Please let me know as soon as you can so I can start cutting away.

pajama party.

In case u haven't heard, Shabby Chic Shack are having a scrap a thon this Saturday night at the Lock Footy Clubrooms.

Scrap away the night, go for a dawn buster (I am), bring all your stash, pjs and a swag or go home when u are ready.

The girls are supplying pizza tea, the venue, goodies from the shop for retail therapy, and breakfast (toast and toppings). BYO drinkies and panadol

Email Tiff for Brigitte's S phone number to book yourself in.
I'm not sure of start time. When I find out I'll edit this post to add it in.
**edited to add 6pmish start**

Nearly my last outing before becoming a Harvest Widow, so I'm gonna make it a good one.

a huge toot toot

Maryanne is published. Scrapbooking Memories, Page 41

WAHU

congrats to u Maryanne on behalf of the E2C Team and all the bloggers in our little world.

Scrapbooking Memories Sub Call

rito chickies.
my personal challenge to all you 'heritage' chicks.
because u all do it so well I challenge u to sub it to SM for their vintage sub call.
its easy.

right click on your file on your computer.
send to
mail recipient
say yes to make the pic smaller
email address to send it is
sthomson@expresspublications.com.au

in the subject line type in heritage sub call

write to Sharryn. briefly point out any points of interest
thank her for her time.

you usually get an answer back within the week either yes or no.


nothing to lose.
give it a shot
go on
i dare ya!!
double dare to Sandra. wink wink

Just had to stop by and say WOW!!

Well girls you have out done yourselves with Sue's vintage challenge.

I have just been through to comment on them and it took ages ;-)

Thank you for joining in on the challenges and I hope we can have some fun with the new format for the challenges too.

Keep up the great work.

hot to dot

dot to dot. one i did only a little while ago and still love it. hmmmm praps I should have saved it for a bracket challenge.

oh well, I just have to do one then.

;)

t

a change - challenge 20

Ok so we have done a few challenges in the time we have been here. I have been throwing around an idea which Sue, Meredith and myself have liked.....i haven't been able to catchup with Tiff to run it past her but hopefully she will be ok with this idea. We will have a get together soon and plan some challenges and that way will have some examples each week to show.

So the challenges are going to go a bit like this......... one week the theme might be ric-rac and you must use this on your page. Fabric might be another, brackets another week or maybe even paint.

So by doing this we are encouraging us all to either try new things on our page OR pull out bits from our stash that have been sitting there waiting patiently to be used.

so this week......................

*drum roll*

it is ...........

pen dots.

Yep you heard me right. Get out your pen and start dotting up your page. This week i would like to see some dots on your page. This can really emphasise areas and make them POP!

This example of mine is almost a total scraplift (so nice to scrap and NOT think!) from Heather Bowser from the Aug. issue of Scrapbook Trends.

The She page is VERY OLD but another example of dots. You do not have to use black cardstock here - it looks equally effective on any colour. Just ensure the colour pen will stand out strongly against the background.

NOTE = this isn't a dotty paper challenge - we all know how to use that fairly well already i reckon ;-)

get to it!

have just walked in the door, given DH a cursory peck and then logged in. LOL.absolutely pooped. will catch up with the lateset tomorrow.
t

Not quite 40 years old but ....

kinda vintage :)

and another......

Sandra is loving this vintage challenge.....and doing so well with it too! Wow wow wow. The techniques you have used to age all the bits in this look awesome! Totally wow. What a fantastic photo too.

Sandra says -

Here is another vintage layout jsut finished tonight. Unfortunately my scanner leaves a dark mark right down the middle.... quite annoying.
This is Lucy May Cleaver...Garry's maternal grandmother. Love this photo... just love the hat and hair even though I feel like tucking that stray hair in! and how old fashioned is the hanky in the hand?? the layout was based on sketch number 106 from pencillines.
This was a great challenge.. great to see lots of participants... but where is yours and Merediths???

well mine is still coming. Worked on it a bit tonight. I have also had a sneak preview of Merediths and let me tell you it is fantastic and will be up here soon too.

i have to be careful here....

that i dont miss anyone out! I have been inundated with emails with pages!!! Totally awesome to see so many girls inspired by Sue's vintage challenge. Well done Sue!

The first email i got was from Karen D who has slipped in a late entry for the scraplift challenge we had earlier. She can't remember where she saw it or who the original author was (the kid looks familiar to me though...) but here it is -

and here is Karen's version-

I love how she has rotated the whole thing. That little line of stitching there along the bottom, the 'meredith' inspired heart, and the vine. Just lovely. And i know they are special photos for a total rev head lover!

Next up was Maryanne who sent in another vintage page - boy this girl has totally got the look going and does it sooooooooooooooo well. This page is very cute - and I really like how you did the journalling. It sounds fantastic.

next up we had Karen's email with a another vintage page. This is a photo of her mum on her first day of school! What was she carrying Karen? This is great - i love all the extra bits - the dymo, lace, hydrangea and pins. The tears in the ledger paper ..........all lovely. It has a very 'amanda' feel to it so i feel quite honoured Karen (even if you didn't mean to!)

finally we had an email from Lisa! This is another page from her Mum's album that Lisa is working on so it is in those same tones. The album must look amazing!

I know in your email you said that you were struggling with the 'white space' on this one but i think it is absolutely perfect. I did actually say 'wow' when i opened your email. I really do think this page is fanstastic Lisa...........you dont need to add anything more! That metal baby sign looks like it was made just for your page - it sets it all off beautifuly.

Thanks everyone for participating. I know you will agree that part of having this blog is about sharing and inspiring each other...... we can't do that without all your wonderful works so dont be shy and keep them coming.

Also if you drop by dont forget to comment on the pages seen in here. EVERYONE loves getting comments on their work so please leave a little comment - you never know your words might make someones day :)

Sandra's gone vintage again!

Oooooooooh wow. Check out the gorgeous aged tones in this. Just lovely with the lace, bits of metal, the hat pins and the old newspaper! And what a fantastic photo. Beautiful work Sandra.

And i do know Maryanne has done another vintage page......i wonder if she is going to show it here???!!! ;-)

Sandra's gone all vintage on us!

woohoo. This chick is creating up a storm too.

Everyone is LOVING Sue's challenge and stepping up to the plate with some truely awesome pages.

Sandra you are going to HAVE to tell me where you got this tape from you keep flaunting infront of my eyes - dang i love it! That purple scallop paper is absolutely perfect for a school type page! Very cute school photos too!

Great idea using the tags for extra journalling behind the photos too. Good for kids names etc that you wouldn't want cramming up the main body of the layout.

love it all Sandra!

now they are flying in.

Lisa been scrapping older photos for her Mum's Birthday album, so this vintage call has been perfect for her LO's completed for this special lady. And all Mum's are special arent they.

so ta da here's Lisa's answer to Sue's challenge.

She has worked with Basic Grey paper for the whole album and I reckon Lisa has pulled this one off beautifully. To me the lace work sets of the feel of the LO perfectly

Apologies to you all. This will be the first Challenge that I have missed for a LONG time.
Have been a bit busy (as normal) and will be away from tomorrow till late Tues night. So by then the new challenge would have been posted and I have missed this one.
I will try to catch up to it at some point down the track.
happy blogging.
tiff