Here comes - another

yep, another retreat - are we getting excited??!! Oh and another page from me, WITH.. another rubon too!!!

I have been meaning to scrap these photos for awhile now.....and now that i have, i can't wait until 10 days time to see everyone again and to SCRAP....oh, so much fun!!

Oh, and can you spy a little rubon there too - the 08 and the florally tiddly bits :-)

it's getting CLOSER!

as Meredith pointed out earlier - wowee not long at all until our retreat!!

I have been very busy during the past two days retreat wise...... finishing off 3 fairly major jobs that were hanging over my head.

finished off these -

and did a lot of work with Meredith today on these, so that they are now FINISHED yay!!! -

and yesterday Meredith and I packed 50 odd of some things that are hiding under this sheet in my scrap room (formally known as the Heidi Swapp room - for the colours - but now known as 'the retreat storage room'). It is to the point where i can hardly get in the door and that is saying something considering it was a GARAGE in it's former life!

hmmmm i wonder what is in these 3 big boxes marked 'fragile'??

Getting excited yet? :-)

Just on another thing. I have had a few quiries on my class which is on the Sunday and involves two layouts. Most of the questions are in regards to the photo for the birthday layout. The photo i have used is one of myself (try out your timer!!!) and NOT a photo taken of a birthday party. A nice photo of yourself OR the person that you would like the page to be about. It is NOT a layout about a particular birthday celebration.......but more about what the day signifies for you.

As with all my classes you can interpret it how you want and change things so as the layout becomes more you and less me.......but those types of photos will suit the theme much better.

Just adding that both my photos for both pages are black and white which will cut out any colour matching issues that may come up if you decide to use a colour photo instead.

back after tea and kids bedtime to do some layout commenting as you have all been super busy!

Ten days and counting ...

Oh my goodness has anyone checked the counter lately???

It is coming up fast ... I think I should start checking the weather and thinking about what clothes to pack, what beverages to buy, what scrapping supplies to take, wow, wow, wow!!!

Amanda and I have been busy preparing our class presentations today ... well Amanda was busy and I was a hopeless assistant!!

I know that Val has been busy buying up supplies to nourish us and consulting with her very able Kitchen Assistant, Lorrae!!

Tiff has been away for some R & R in Adelaide over the last few days.

Sue has been busy working and thinking of those little extra, very important jobs that we need to do in the next week or so.

So, soon we will all be enjoying a fun weekend.

Marika's layout ...

"Hi Meredith,

Just sending you my rub on challenge wasn't sure if it was you I should send it too.

Thanks Marika"

That is fine to send it through to me!!

Oh wow what a beautiful photo!! The rubons look very effective around the photo and the buttons and brads are very effective in creating a flow effect in the layout.

Jenny's layout ...

"I hope this has worked. I had all sorts of trouble scanning the other which was on textured grey card, so I hope this doesn't have too much missing, but you should get the idea. "My hands", Sandra, did the rubbings for me. I 'stitched' it with 'paint' so there may be bits missing or not quite matching.
Jenny F"

Great layout Jenny ... the "sparklers" look excellent! Don't kids love them!!

Sandra's rubons and embossing ...

"Hi Meredith
Here is my rub-on entry.
Tried something else new with this layout, embossing.... what a mess!!!
I am glad no one walked into my scraproom while I was using it... there was white powder Everywhere! They might of thought I had a drug problem! You can't see it very well.. (bloody scanner) but I embossed the xmas tree.
The title is rub-ons (note to self... no more rub-on titles!.. look how wonky it is!) and the 'believe' in the middle of the template.
Have a great night
Sandra"



Wow Sandra you have been busy ... must be the white powder helping with your speed!!

The tree looks gorgeous, I love the look of the title and the "believe" rub on is beautiful! Great photos to have of this special time!

Rub on frustration ...

"Hi Meredith,

Rubons, well I have come to the conclusion that I do not get along with them!!! I don't know whether they were dodgy or if it was just me? But the whole packet just wouldn't work, so one whole LO went in the bin, along with the rest of those rubons. (frustration plus!!!!!) Do they go off?

I managed to salvage the photo and so here is my lame entry, if you look hard enough the little bird is a rubon. Bring on the next challenge!! LOL

Cheers Karen D"

Well even though it was frustrating Karen it is a great layout! Love how you have done the title. Really like the cluster in the bottom right corner too! And your designer clouds!! Very nice! Oh and I have some of that fabric paper (the tree one with the cream background) ... should pull it out and use it!!

Rub a dub dub ...

"Howdy Meredith,
Attached is my layout for the 'Rub on' Challenge. The rub on at the top of the page says - One of the blessings of old friends is that you can afford to be stupid with them. The word 'cherished' is also a rub on.

Underneath the photo it reads -

"We had won the A Grade netball grand final this day and Ivko proposed to you amid celebrations after the match. At Heather's later in the evening the girls decided to dress us up as bride and bridesmaid.

I love this photo as this reminds me of all the fun times I have with you, being ridiculous, acting silly and laughing until our stomachs hurt. I treasure your friendship Zan, it is priceless to me".

Hope you are having a great weekend.
Cheers,
Tracey"

What a special layout Tracey ... very heartfelt words too. Love the bright colours, the rub ons and the photo!!

Challenge 28 - rubons

Challenge time again....and i challenge you to use rubons.

i love them , one would never guess as i have a whole tub full of them :). There are all kinds about - alphas, words, birds, florals, swirls ....whatever you like. And i don't use them anywhere near enough.....



Hopefully you all have some to splash about on your pages too.



Here's my page

There are rubon swirls, journalling, and a few word etchings under the black tape.

So good luck and look forward to seeing what you come up with.

Amanda's hand

When i first started writing my handwriting looked a lot like Mums - very rounded. Then at Uni I started scrawling to get notes etc. during lectures and so i hate my lowercase writing. When i started working i began to write in uppercase all the time as i found it looked A LOT neater. This is kinda weird in a way as my Dad has always written in upper case. So i guess i have come full circle with it all.

I dont mind my writing but it isn't really scrapbooking type of lettering.

Here it says -

It's been amazing since Georgia broke her arm. Kelsey has been carrying her school bag (at times) and Piper has been kind and gentle. I wonder if it will last?

PS. i really did try and bugger it up many many times BEFORE i got to the handwriting bit - stamping, date stamp and paint!!!

LOL.

Jenny's layout ...

"This is my attempt. I tried several ways of handwriting it, but in the end this is how I really write things and I'm still using my hand, so technically, it should still fall under 'hand written'.
This is a photo of my eldest and his cousins after playing cricket on christmas day 1992ish, and we have played 'Christmas Cricket' every year since then. Only now we play on the Cummins Oval to save my garden and the boys hit so more powerfully now and it's hard to get the ball back so many houses down. It also makes it easier for other families to join in, it has become quite a group event.

Jenny F"

Thank you Jenny ... love the torn edges and the tag with the journaling. What a great memory to document!

Hope we get to see a few more layouts with handwriting!!

tiff's template

had a bit of a trip down memory lane with this one.

Between Amanda and I, we had a number of pics from E2C08.

So the template challenge was perfect.

I used this template from here .

LOL. trust me to pick the busy one. Its an 18 photo blog collage.

so after fiddling a bit and reminiscing this is what I came out with. This prints out to an 8in x8in I think so I can use it for hybrid scrapping.

talk to the hand 'writing'

You got to HAND it to Maryanne. She's pretty HANDY with the scrapping. And she's getting a HANDle on her new camera. Hence the LO. Oh, it also has her HAND writing.




Maryanne says "heres my handwriting page. [yep its there in a stamped journal box].looks s**t.scraplifted from moira http://lifeephemera.blogspot.com/ although her LO is fantastic"

templates.

http://my.scrapbooksetc.com/bettertv/?cid=507869917&lid=742311669&tid=987399562

Thanks to Sandra I reckon everyone will be doing lollipop flowers and templates.
I have included a video tutorial link for drag and drop templates, courtesy of Scrapbooks Etc.

This is based on Photoshop CS3.

It would be a good idea to take notes to save watching it twice (even tho I did notes, I still watched it twice LOL).

enjoy.

how about we make that a bit of a mini challenge for those who have done the handwriting one. Email them to me and I'll post them. Amanda and I will be away as of Friday so email your creation to Meredith please.

OMG

wow wow wow wow wow wow wow wow wow wow wow wow wow wow

submit submit submit submit submit submit submit submit submit.

Sandra. You have absolutely out done yourself.

I know you have done these cards to give, but I would strongly recommend you submit these and see how you go. Nothing to lose.

The website to check out Cardmaking, Stamping and Papercraft is here. I reckon you should sub these to all the mags.

In case you cant tell, I lurve these very very much. Before anyone else asks, where did u get those lace leaves and rose.??

Sandra's Lollipop flowers

I have just watched this on line You Tube video of how to make the flowers that Sandra made on her layout ... here.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=AU&hl=en-GB&v=PqV6ebNzpe8&feature=related

I think I'll be making some of these soon!

Oh Sandra ... why oh why??

Quote Sandra ...

"Oh you are SO SO cruel Meredith!

Here is my entry for the handwriting challenge... needless to say I will be covering that mess in the corner up somehow a little bit later! lol

I have set myself a challenge this year.... try and do something new with each of my layouts... and with this layout I have done a digital photo collage... Leanne Stamatellos uses them and they look fantastic ... thought I would give them a go!

Thanks to Tiff who helped me out! ... otherwise I will still be pressing that blasted file ... open ... button!!!

great challenge Meredith ... I think a few of us have been taken out of our comfort zone!
night
Sandra"

Wow Sandra ... love the colours in this one, love the title colours, great photo collage too!! And I hope you don't cover up that writing ... It looks great!!

My next door neighbour!!

Sorry about the delay in posting this one ... between circuit class, work, a very, very desperate haircut trip to Port Lincoln, getting tea and a glass and a half of Sauv Blanc I just remembered that I hadn't posted!!

"Howdy Meredith,
Attached is my layout, this is a lift turned sideways. I found this really hard as I don't collect journaling spots and therefore don't have much of a selection. I also tried using colours I don't normally go for. Note the absence of PINK. Pink is so me and with three girls they have no choice it seems to be so them as well. I have done journaling on other layouts but I though I should get off my butt last night and do a new one. Cheers Tracey"

Tracey ... beautiful flowers, gorgeous photo, love the spotty background paper, great journaling "spots".

Great work all round!

Irene's Christmas present.

Hiya Irene.

*waves*

Irene showed me a couple of pics last night at Scrapworkz in Port Lincoln of her Christmas present.

Her very own creation station.

Irene had an area in her home fitted to exactly her requirements. She says that her very dear DH had enough of Irene's nagging (Irene's word, not mine) and finally got his bum into gear.

I asked Irene if she could send in the pic so I could post it, as we had a 'show off your scrap space' a while back

http://escape2create.blogspot.com/2008/09/lost-in-space.html

http://escape2create.blogspot.com/2008/09/sues-scrap-space.html

http://escape2create.blogspot.com/2008/09/lisas-room.html

http://escape2create.blogspot.com/2008/09/my-space.html

http://escape2create.blogspot.com/2008/09/maryannes-scrapspace.html

and just to top it all off, have an good look at her outer scrap space. How divine. Esp with the wine glass. All class.

if any of the 'newbies' ;D would like to send me a pic of their creative space pls email me and I'll post it for you.

have a great weekend.

ps 3 weeks today, 3 weeks today. hip hip hooray.

t

Zan's on the blog

yeeehaaaa.
great to see you here Zani. U have provided some very upbeat banter in the comments.
We LOVE it.

Zani dropped into my inbox her LO in response to the Handwriting Challenge. Your style of writing is so neat. You should be proud of how tidy and clear it is.

Great layering and nice and bright.

I spy ric rac on this one. Your title is very eye catching

Great to see you showing off your stuff.

For anybody else who wants to send in your LO for the challenges, (current or past) this is how you do it.
1. save your pic off your camera or scanner as a JPG on your computer.
2. go to that file on your computer.
3. Right click
4. Send to
5. Mail recipient
6. Yes to make pictures smaller *this is an important step*
7. Your email window should appear with the pic already attached.
8. Type in one of our email addresses (find them on the right hand sidebar on this blog)
9. Type in your blurb and Send