Karen - photo challenge

Hi Amanda,
As I was doing this challenge I thought "Gee it looks like all I did was watch TV!" I did read alot, I was going to put Trixie Belden up there but thought I'd stick a few different ones in.

1. I loved Dr. Who, sorry if its a bit nerdy!! Never liked the new stuff, has to be the original!

2. I loved "The Wombles", this may be where my love of stop animation comes from.

3. The Goodies rule!! these guys were SO clever, I have bought a few DVD packs and my kids now watch them and roar with laughter!!

4. Weren't Smurfs so cute, we used to take them to school and all play with them in the playground making houses for them, this photo is of my Smurfs that I had WAY back, some a bit worse for wear, but I still have them!

Im loving seeing what everyone else is posting, such a fun trip down memory lane!!!
Cheers
Karen D

Fab Karen! Love your smurf photo!! Brilliant! And omg i was the biggest Goodies fan too. They still make me laugh!

As for stop motion - if anyone is wondering what that is check out what Clair Bremner made (yes that very clever girl has done this as well)

http://vimeo.com/2568780

Basically it is taking a whole heap of photos and stringing them together to make an animated video. The amount of photos is often in the high hundreds just to make a 3 minute movie.

very clever stuff.

Thanks for sharing Karen!

August sketch challenge

Fianlly finally i am sitting down and scrapping.....

.... here is my sketch challenge for this month. It is optional to use one or two photos, i love to use a couple photos on my pages to help capture the story or moment, but as i said it is optional.

Hopefully i will see some buttons or brads, and some ribbon

Here is my example:

Hope you all have fun with it and i look forward to seeing your layouts!!

Marika - photo challenge

Marika's blast from the past:


1. Roxette: Loved this band had both of their albums


2. I watched this first at about 11 and still love it now can't wait til molly is alittle older to watch it.

3. I had everyone of these books that I loved, mum has them can't wait til molly is a bit older I hope she loves them too.

4. Just loved this show as a reception child spent many hours pretending to be princess does anyone else remember.

Well done Marika - yeah we loved Roxette in this house too, still gets us all into song. And Rachel loved the Baby Sitters books too.....now i am showing my age!! eeek

Marika's- pinwheel challenge

Marika is quick off the mark, she says:

My page for the pinwheel challenge hope it is right I didn't look at the instructions. Pretty basic page and two years behind Noah is nearly 3 will get there one day.

Wow Marika love this, those papers are gorgeous and loving your free-hand doodle around the inner edge....and the pinwheel is just perfect, looks great!!

Sandra - photo challenge

Hi Amanda

Here are a few of my memories from the past...

1. The Wizard of Oz.This was the first the thing I saw on a coloured TV. I remember it so well. It was on September the 5th (my birthday) in 1975. I walked around to my cousins house and I can remember how excited I felt walking there. It just blew me away!

2. Winky DinkRemember this little ball of pink fluff on Saturday Mornings?? Loved all the cartoons back then too.

3. Hey hey its Saturday.And Saturday night was spent watching Hey Hey. Loved watching Red Faces.

4. AbbaCan you keep a secret?? I loved this band! My cousin and I used to have the hair brushes out and sing along...hmmm I think I will stop there ... lol

5. Charlies Angels.This show was one of my favourites...still remain in awe at how they could run in those heels....

6. Trixie Belden series.Spent many hours curled up reading these books.... so many mysteries!

These are just a few... My brain went into overload when I started to think back! Cheers for now.Sandra

fantastic memories Sandra! and check out that price on the book!! $1.50 LOL. I could identify with so many of these!

August photo challenge ... Maryanne

Maryanne said ...

Quite funny actually as only a week or so ago the kids were watching some of their childhood shows on youtube and talking about shows and toys they loved when they were little, and asking what we had watched when we were kids.

1. KISS.
having a brother 5 years older than me, both my little sister and I listened to his music.This was one of his favourite bands, and we all just thought they were sooo cool.With songs like "I wanna rock and roll all night" I Still love them, in an old nostalgic way!

2.The smurfs
How adorable were these little guys.LOVED watching them.
3.Barbie
Oh I was a barbie girl through and through! had the house, the car, several dolls, huge amount of clothing and accesories, and the SHOES,lots and lots of barbie shoes.A new outfit for my barbies was a MAJOR treat!

4.Enid blyton books.
These were when my real love affair with reading began.Any money I saved was immediately spent on a new one.How I loved these.
While most of friends were off playing I would be glued to my book, and would have trouble putting it down.

5.Archie comics.
My mum recently gave jaxen an old comic book, and he has actually been reading it [he dislikes reading], so it reminded me of how much I used to enjoy "archie"comic books.Again these were something I used to spend my hard saved money on.

6.Not too many TV shows I remember really loving, as think I was reading most of the time, but I did actually really like "monkey" on abc.

Wow Maryanne that was a blast from the past!! I remember all those very clearly!! And most of them featured in my childhood, except probably KISS!!


Thanks for being so quick off the mark with this challenge!

Aloha August

Hello yes it must be the first of the month again! Fancy us already being into the 8th month of the year! Hard to believe that Xmas is a hop step and jump away AGAIN!

without any further ramble, let's get into this months challenges:

Amanda's Challenge.

This month i would like you to either handwrite, journal or place your title ON your photo. Yes directly on the photo.

The best way to do this is to pick a photo where there is a lot of space on one side of the photo - ie. your subject is off centre and nothing much is on the opposite side.

You may like to handwrite on the photo. In my mind there is NO better example of a scrapper who does this handwriting on a photo as Clair Bremner. They always look so damn cool.

layouts by Clair Bremner.

do it via computer like this:

or do journalling strips.(another awesome page by Clair Bremner)

or you might like to pop your whole title on the photo. Here is another fav. scrapper of mine - Fran Tynan.

note: the title is OVER the photo.

Here is another example by Clair Bremner - this is either stamps or rubons for her title on the photo.......... (i told you that she totally rocks at this)

email your finished creations to me to pop onto the blog.

Sue's Sketch.

Stay tuned for Sue's sketch. Coming to you Monday-ish.

Meredith's challenge.

PINWHEELS!!!

Not too long ago Meredith did an awesome page but i cannot show you as it has this sign on it:

what a clever chook she is.................luckily for us she has done another since:

go here for a tutorial on how to make these awesome, hip, and in embellishments. Pop one or two on your layout and email the finished page to Meredith for display on the blog.

or there is another tutorial here which is a step by step with photos and examples of layouts.

Photo Challenge.

Try to think back - we might be talking a young kid or a teenager here. Who or what did you think totally ROCKED. Did you have an idol? Someone that you collected bits of trivia on, or maybe even sticky taped to your wall?

Now this photo challenge is not tricky at all. No need to even get the camera out of the bag.

go to google images and see if you can find an image of your idol. Right click and 'email picture' to me. Then tell us WHY you thought this person/band/group/TV show was awesome. Soooooo easy!

It might have been these guys:

or this one:

or these:
or maybe these people?

or who remembers this guy? Maybe you were his number one fan?

ah ok. No wait. I have found the number one ALF fan.........

jeez lousie what a *ahem* stunning tatt :-

.......anyway back to the challenge....

If you don't want to do it on yourself = tell us why Dora / Thomas / Postman Pat / *insert name* is so important in your childs life.

Email the image and your reason for being a fan to me for display on the blog.

don't forget our colour challenge is still on the go from last month also.

We can't wait to see what you create this month!

Grateful photo challenge ... Meredith

Grateful for ... all this rain to make our crops grow.

Grateful for ... my iPod ... we now dance and sing and have lots of laughs listening to music in our kitchen, dining room and lounge room!!

Grateful for ... a wonderful husband, who does with Hannah what he does with the boys ... even a trip to Port Lincoln to get fertiliser!!

Grateful for ... Rural Care so that I can go to work and give John and Wendy a little break!!

Grateful for ... healthy children.

July colour challenge ... Meredith

Marika - colour challenge

wow! How cool does this colour combo look??!!! I am so impressed by this Marika - the green stitching looks awesome! The yellow letters just pop right off that dotty paper and the photo looks like it was taken especially for the challenge - totally fabulous.

Amanda - music challenge

This is the second go at the music challenge. For this 'page' i wanted to try and think of something different that inspired me from the film clip. I wanted to also try something different.

I had no idea how this one would end up - i just went with the flow and it has been a long flow as i really haven't touched this for two weeks (just too much else happening and too busy to scrap)

I liked the whole 'pop up' idea from the music film clip - the little girl sitting in the bed is looking at a pop up book, and thought that it shouldnt be too hard to make a layout into a pop up type effect.

So this is what i came up with. This is it all folded up - a 12x12 sheet of cardstock.

and opened up.

The trees, grass, mushrooms, clouds and Piper all 'pop up'. The dimension of it all is hard to see here......it just looks like a busy mess!

Maryanne - colour challenge

well Maryanne is right out of the starting blocks very quickly with this one! In fact it was half started already when she saw what the colours for this challenge were - what a great coincidence!

I know that i was 'talked into' buying the Cosmo Cricket papers in that range - i really didn't think i liked them when i first saw them but OMG they are just delicious and i feel a strong urge to use them on every page i do at the moment LOL. I am loving that collection - so bright and cheery!

The photo that Maryanne has used is one from Meredith's grateful photo challenge and a strong favourite from us all here in blogland. It is nice to see that great photo being used again!

This is one fantastic page!