What a Pearler!!

Firstly, I'd like to share with my fellow scrappers, that we have just become grandparents again....to our 5th Grandson!! Mace Jadran Lukin arrived safely on Wednesday 8th April, weighing in at a grand 9lb 3ozs!! Rach and bubby doing well. He is an absolute pearler!!

AND..I also do have a page with some pearls on it to share. I like embellish lightly with pearls, centre of a flower or a just 3 or so for a little added something. For those who may remember, at the retreat i began a 2009 journal, so this is one of the pages from that, using pearls.

And i also wish everyone a Happy & Safe Easter.....enjoying this glorious sunshine with family and friends.....and hope to see you all back here ASAP sharing all your lovely scrapping with us.

Suexx

Marika's made it.

Hi there Marika. What a lovely LO. Even tho they are rhinestones I reckon that will fit the bill.

What a gorgeous choice of PP. Basic Grey is so right for this one. Of course the circle with the rhinestones is a focal point.

I'm not sure if a new challenge is being posted by the team tomorrow as people head off for the Easter weekend. I hope so but I will be away so I would like to say Happy Easter to you all now as I wont be able to otherwise. Have a great family time, lots of photos, and stay safe.

Sandra's crabs.

LOL. I just know you took that the wrong way. tee hee.

Sandra dropped this little gem in my inbox a tick ago.

Look closely. You will spot her crabs. They have tiny little pearls for bodies.

Just how cute are they. And handwriting to boot. Excellent one Sandra.

Karen

WOWEE.

Thanks Karen for listening to my call out in my last post to send in anything new that you have been working on. We love looking and anything you want to show us is inspiring (talking to everyone here!)

Karen says -

Hi Amanda,
I've been a bit flat out at the moment, not getting time to scrap any time soon! :( Anyhow on the Tuesday after the retreat I did this little album, it was simple and easy and I love how it turned out. Just thought Id post it as my "something I've been working on" :).
Cheers
Karen

oh Karen i would love to see the rest of this - i bet it is stunning. Love the colours you have picked, the OA papers are so funky and ideal for our retreat. What a fab momento of a great weekend!

what a pearler

I tell you what. this chick is on the ball. I got a sneak peak via the mobile over the weekend. fits the pearl challenge beautifully.
pearls on the veil and a little pearl flower on the waist line of the bridal gown.

You may not have realised it Tanya but having the placement of photos and the journalling from left to right helps the eye to travel easily across the page. This is called flow. Well done. You have mastered a fundamental rule in scrapping. applies in real life too. You'll start looking at things in a whole new way and think 'hmmm, that's a great idea I could scrap!!'

:)
t

flutterby

look out. this butterfly has a pearly (cough) after burner LOL. I think I mean flight trail. Or is it flight path.

A pearly card ...

Hi all!!

Thanks for the reminder ... well, nudge Amanda ... had forgotten about the pearls on the card!!

Using the gorgeous new Cosmo Cricket Girl Friday papers.

Maryanne.

She says it has been a while since she scrapped and boy oh boy have we missed her on here!!

Love the grungy look teamed up with the bright papers - brilliant. The pearls you have used on here look great - the black ones look excellent on a boy page!

What a cutie Jaxon was........i bet he loves seeing all these pages with his little bubba face on them!

Great work Maryanne. So glad you picked up the scissors again.

Hope to see a few more pearl pages. I do know of a FANTASTIC card out there that 'someone' made using peals to highlight scalloped edges - it was very clever so hopefully she drops in and shows it off.

some interesting reading

Hi girls.



Things have been bit quiet in here!!! Where are all the pearl layouts - i hope to see some soon :) Dont forget this blog isn't exclusively for blog challenges - we would LOVE to see anything new you have been working on. If you would like to show us ANYTHING please forward it to one of us (emails on sidebar)


I spent a very interesting day today infront of the computer collating all the info from our retreat feedback forms.



Just some interesting facts that we can share with you.



* 43 surveys were returned from 50 retreat go-ers

* 43 ladies said that they had a great time on the retreat (YAY)


* 43 ladies said that they were happy with our onsite (Val and Lorrae) catering


some improvements we could make were listed -

• get rid of the mice


• 50's and 60's music


• change dinner format for Saturday night


• keep having retreats


• make the weekend last longer /more time!


• have a photochopy of the finished class project on each table


• option of not having to stay the night


• more instruction on class photo requirements prior to the retreat


• needing more free time to scrap.


• get two masseusses (not sure if that word even comes as a plural!)

And basically the vast majority were pleased with the setup (some stating it was a better vibe/atmosphere because of the table placement).

There was not one negative comment about the classes being run in the shed and everyone who did a class liked the powerpoint display as an extra aide.

This is great news for us. I thought the retreat went so well in 2008. The feedback we recieved then was also very very positive. For us to actually IMPROVE on something that was good in the first place is brilliant. Thanks to all who took the time to fill out their surveys. These responses help us to know what the attendees are thinking and what we can work on changing.

The main two problems for 2009 were the hotel tea and the appearance of Stuart Little and a few mates. Rest assured the format for Sat. night tea WILL change for 2010.

Here is my answer to Tiff's challenge. Technically they are not pearls - but Kaiser make them and they are called droplets.....and are fairly new on the scene. I am not a pearly or bling-y type of person so this is my page. (yep it is 6x12 inch - i didn't stretch out the image!)

Challenge 32 - pearls

It's Friday.
wahu.
bring on the weekend.
Bring on the new challenge.

I would love to see what you can do with pearls.
Since KaiserCraft released them a while ago in so many colours and oh so cheap, they have become very popular. I have seen black pearls recently. Very masculine for little fella's pages.

Let's be creative. Lets see how many different ways to use pearls.

looking forward to lots of response to this one.

this is one I have done for the challenge. Pearls in the centres of the flowers and pearl ribbon slides.

Kate.

A warm welcome back to Kate.

She sent me this page which damn near broke my heart. Last week Kate had an unfortunate incident with their pup Sid. Basically cars and dogs are bad news........they dont go together too well. Sometimes these little pups dont realize this and in a very quick second things can go very very badly.

I know that Kate loves her pets and that she has cried buckets over this. Chook - it isn't your fault. It is just one of those bad things that happens to us all at times. Dogs are so faithful and forgiving. He loves you all and I am certain that he is so thankful that you all gave him a second chance and got vet help for him.

The emotion in this page is obvious. Love the colour choices, the buttons and the journalling strips. And the long title is just so sad.

Hope you are all doing ok Kate.

Introducing Tanya C

TA DA.

we have a new scrapper on board. Tanya started scrapping 2 hours ago. Literally. This is her first ever LO.

And wowsers. Not bad for the first creation. Not bad at all. Noice stripes and journal strips. And I see you have mastered the art of journaling with the computer and printer already.

Well done chick. I look forward to your next masterpiece.

t

tiff 2

hiya.





A long title for the current challenge. This challenge has certainly got the juices flowing for everyone.

Any new faces out there who would like to say hi or have a go at a challenge?? We are friendly mob here and we don't bite. If any previous ones grab your attention (categories on the right side bar) give it a shot. never too late for sub.
;)
tiff

Sandra's no. 2

I think i may well be in shock - the layouts keep pouring into my inbox for this challenge! I never in a million years thought people would actually do so many pages with really long titles!! (although i admit it is really fun - am so OVER one word titles LOL )

Another gorgeous one here from Sandra - using one of my fav. peices of BG paper ...that red is divine. I really really adore your cluster of elements and the different fonts / alphas you have used. And Ryan has an amazing smile that does totally light up his whole face........he is a lovely, happy and friendly boy!

Beautiful work Sandra - and loving seeing everyones take on a long title!

Marika aka - scrap machine

This chook is on fire!! Pumping out the layouts ....

She says that she is so enthused since the retreat it is hard work trying to keep herself out of her scrap room/office.

This is great news for all of us. Firstly because it means that us, as organizers managed to get some mojo happening for some people ......being in a big room full of scrappers it is kinda hard NOT to feel inspired to create! And secondly it is great news as we get to see her fantastic layouts!

LOVE the blue in this. The big monogram is perfect as is the gorgeous blue combination with the craft. Love that tiny sliver of ribbon? or paper down one side - stunning.

And Noahs eyes ARE amazing. A very cute little boy.

Keep those long titles coming girls! This page is another great example of the challenge.

My longish title ...

Hi all,

Apologies for not commenting lately ... have had no computer for the last week. Oh my goodness how did we cope before computers and the internet!! The hard drive went but luckily we didn't lose anything, just have to re-install a couple of programs that the computer guy didn't have!!

Anyway here is my layout ... great idea Amanda, I have wanted to do a long title one for a while and this was the push I needed!!

The title isn't crooked, just my photo taking!!

Marika

Just look at this one!

1. nice long title

2. gorgous spots

3. adorable baby

4. fab. journalling

5. great colours

6. retreat give-away thickers!

7. paint or inky edges

8. date stamp!

great work Marika! Great memory too.

Sue

Well this challenge had me thinking!! I have incorporated my journalling and title together, and using different alphas to form the title was fun!! So with a couple patterned papers, various alphas, bit of stitching and a few buttons, all was complete!!

Trish

Trish has done very well with her long title.

She says -

Hi Amanda, this is looooooong but its not BIG. It has a grand total of 9 words though.
And for those without 'pointy eyes' , as my once 2 year old son told Nanna, it says "you really enjoyed painting the cobra model with Ian."

Cheers Trish S

I love those squigley black dots - they look fantastic! Are they hand drawn? They compliment the papers fabulously and the lettering 'cobra model' look like it was just made for your page!

Great work Trish - i see a bit of Meredith style in this one - craft, little letter stickers and a very big wow factor!

wonderful.

Amanda

I wanted to use the title to actually tell the story - so the title and journalling are combined in a VERY LONG sentence about our muching mutts.

and yes that is a bit of my FAVOURITE chewed up jacket on the layout :(