Tiff's in - Sue's challenge

HIya.

My sketch challenge for the blog. It's (loosely) based on Sue's sketch with a few different elements of my own just to personalize it.

thanks
Tiff

Thanks Tiff, for sending this one through. Yep, can see the sketch layout there...like the colours, a little bit christmasy. Those flowers are cute too!...saw you rolling them at the scrap night, they have turned out good! Great LO Tiff!

Tiff also sent along a close up of the flowers to share with us .... so cute arn't they? Love those velvety leaves too.

Trends ...

Well I am obviously not a trend spotter!!

Follow this link to this person's thoughts on scrapbooking trends from the recent CHA (Craft & Hobbies Association) show ...

http://papercraftsconnection.com:80/2009/08/11/cha-trends-by-the-dozen/

Leave a comment with which ones you like ...

I thought some of the trends she noted were actually a bit older ... see what you think ;-)

fav. blog for photo inspiration

This link is hopefully on our sidebar (off to check in a sec) so you may have noticed her work before.

I just love looking at her blog - her photography is nothing short of amazing. I am always in awe of how she captures the feeling of the moment, you can almost see the love oozing from the pores in her family shoots. A real personality catching photographer.

Tara Whitney

I know she is a fav. also of Meredith so i apologize if i going over old ground again here!

this photo session in particular really makes my heart go thump. Absolutely everything about it i am in love with.

recently she has added another dimension to her talents by teaming up with another creative soul - Michael Sandy.

Tara does still shots and Michael does a short movie.

Here is one of my favourites - Emily Falconbridge who is a fellow Aussie and scrapbooker AND lucky friend of Tara's.

here are the stills and here is the movie. If it takes a while to load for you please be patient. IT IS SO WORTH IT. Don't give up on it. Watch and be awed.

I dont even know this family but felt quite emotional while watching the movie. Beautiful stuff.

I think the thing that i love the most about Tara's work is how inspired i feel after i see her images. Her work is colourful and natural - capturing perfectly the moment without any feeling of contrived, set up images. Just love it.

Kathryn's - 07.08.09 photo challenge

4.56pm on 07.08.09

About this time on this date I was at Pt Sinclair, near Cactus Beach out of Penong, with the family, trying to catch a squid from the jetty with no luck.

Kathryn

Thanks Kathryn for sending this in, what a beautiful picture, i think we all wished we were there!! Bad luck with the squid!

Marika

is on fire!

She says :

On a bit of a roll better get back to some house work. A lift from SC No 68(vol 8 No 5)

oooh lovely! That dictionary B page is fabulous in there - and i really like how those buttons look so randomly placed but exactly 'right'. Your eye for colour is brilliant.

I agree = when on a roll .............stuff the housework!!!

Marika - pinwheels, photo text AND Sue's sketch!

boy oh boy this is sooooooooo good! Love those journalling spots - particularly the date one *wink wink*

Fantastic Marika .....although now i am not sure what you are going to do challenge wise for the rest of the month! eek!

(feel free to do more from one challenge and send it/them in though)

love the colours in this one - that yellow title is perfect.

Tiff - text on photo

I did this photo collage of my Saturday night bevies while away in Adelaide recently. So I could remember which one was which, I journaled the name of each cocktail on that pic. I curved some of them to follow the roundness of the glass as well.
Top weekend and top cocktails too!!

good one Tiff.

Amanda - Sue's sketch

Text on photo challenge - Sue

Rachel took this photo of herself and her boys....and i love it because it really zones in on all their eyes. But there is some over exposure on Evan's forehead... (she was holding kids with one arm, the camera with the other hand....got short arms etc...you know what i mean??)....so thought it was just perfect to put some text onto this one to help cover that up.

07.08.09 mini photo challenge - Sue

At 4.56 070809(pm) i was busy getting all my scrapping things together to go to the scrap night at the cottage in Cummins.

Can't wait for the 0909090909 ......(have i included enough 9's?)

Suexx

09.09:09/09/09

Hey for those who missed out on Friday with the mini photo challenge ...

next month we can do it all again with ...

09.09 (the time) on 09/09/09!!!

Cool hey!!

I will post a reminder ;-)

Pinwheel challenge ... Michelle

Oh my goodness Michelle I am loving your photos lately!!

And by the way ... love the pinwheels, alphas, your patterned paper selection and placement of embellishments ... it all looks amazing!!

Thank you so much!!

07.08.09 mini photo challenge ... Tiff

Tiff said ...

at 5.06 and 07 seconds Sean and I were in IGA. I did get a few strange looks and some indulgent smiles while I was scrabbling on the floor to get the angle in Sean's photo.

And I picked up a now not very often Ice Coffee. Still find it hard to quit it completely. LOL.

Wow Tiff didn't realise you were trying to kick the habit ... ;-)

Good luck with it!! I have found lately that I really look forward to my coffee ... not a good sign I reckon!!

Tiff - photo challenge

Flash Dance really is vivid in my mind from ‘back then’. A chick that was a boiler maker. Whoo Hoo. That impressed me. And boy could she move that body and shake that ‘thaaannnngg. Go girl power.

Pseudo Echo had the band big hair down pat. Back in their Funky Town days. And they were the first album I bought. Still on vinyl back then and it was a little one with an A side (Funky Town) and a B side. I don’t recall what that one was.

Ahhhhh. Those sexy (not) lege warmers Werent they all the rage. And fingerless gloves too!!

Tom Cruise sliding into the doorway in Risky Business with that shirt and ohhhh on those lovely legs. I don’t recall much of the storyline in this movie but I do recall this bit vividly.

Hair gel and mousse came onto the personal grooming market. And so began the era of big hair dos

Fantastic memories Tiff. LOL at all of us reminiscing!

07.08.09 mini photo challenge ... Tracey

Tracey said ...

Here are my photo challenges.
I went out at 4:56pm on the 7/8/09 and took photos of two giggling friends on the motorbike (checking to see if they are obeying the rules!!)

One child on the wall of the verandah awaiting her turn of the motorbike

and the remaining child manhandling the cat also waiting for her shot.

PS Sandra, yours is doing the driving, I hope you have nothing against motorbikes!!!

Great photos Tracey ... they really create a story ... can;t wait to see these scrapped!!

07.08.09 mini photo challenge ... Jane

Jane said ...

on the 07-08-09....at 4.05pm and 6 seconds mykids were getting off the bus and hopping on the back of Paul's ute to drive home.

then at 5.06pm they were on the trampoline as they usually are......sorry 'bout the blurry photo...

Great shots Jane ... thank you for sending them in!! The boys look pretty happy too!!

07.08.08 mini photo challenge ... Meredith

4.05 6 seconds on 07.08.09

Not a technically correct photo ... taken in the shade with an ISO of 1600 and a flash!!

But hey a different effect!! And how hard is it to get 4 kids to co-operate ... impossible!!

7.8.09 10.11am mini photo challenge ... Kylie

Here's a snap from this morning ... on 7/8/09 at 10:11:12am (well, probably not 12 seconds exactly!!)

Not very creative photography, just a photo of a typical morning in our household atm ... Bree still in her PJ's, Harry nursing our joey, fire going every day (not that you can see it in the photo - too much soot on the glass !!) ... and 2 missing - Ted at work and Charlie at school !

Kylie

Thank you Kylie for joining in ... I am going to do mine this afternoon ... at 4.56pm or 5.06pm!!

7.8.09 10.11am - mini photo challenge - amanda

This is what i was doing at that time. Going for my walk with two naughty labradors. Set on timer so i could be in the shot too :)

Can't wait to see some more photos taken today.

Trish - photo challenge

Mork and Mindy.

Pac man

Little House on the Prairie

Basil Brush
A Country Practise

The Skyhooks.

Trish says:

Now I wasn't lucky enough to watch some of these cos my mum had a word- "piffle". But does this bring back memories or what LOL. Cheers Trish

Great memories Trish! I can only just remember watching Little house on the Prairie and i know that it was a fab show - each episode seemed to have a lovely moral.

i found this little snippet of Little house on youtube. And this is the opening title here. It certainly brings back memories!