Michelle - sketch challenge

Nice surprise in my in box last night, thanks Michelle!!

Great page Michelle and love the pretty colours you have used! Those flowers look just perfect for this one!!

Thanks for the challenge.

Michelle

Marika - text on photo

Well Marika has had a productive morning! And she is glad to be finally free to scrap! She said in her email -

How good does it feel to scrap?? good for the soul I think!

I totally agree Marika - when pages flow together and you are in that scrapping groove it feels great to get that creative release!

This page is BEAUTIFUL!! Love the big red and white dotty paper and how you have left the side black for a bit of space. Stunning paper choices (gosh we are all totally in love with those Cosmo Cricket papers aren't we!!? They are so bright and cheerful you just have to love them!)

Fab journalling too ...lol i can relate to trying to get the perfect photo of the kids! Very difficult to get 6 eyes and three mouths coordinated. Must be even tricker with more kidlets!

Sandra - text on photo AND pinwheel

This layout is a scraplift of a layout by Carrin Sofies (European)I wanted a fun layout to match the photo. Writing on the photo was quite stressful. My handwriting is Sh!# and then the pen decided to play silly games... At least the layout lends itself to bad handwriting. lolCouldn't think of an embellishment for that corner.. then the pinwheel idea came into my head.. so 2 challenges in one.

Well done Sandra - your writing on the photo suits the page! I totally get what you mean when you say 'stressful' i felt the same way too - but good for a one off challenge!

Love your hand drawn border, that yellow stuff (paint??) and that cute little pinwheel. What an awesome FUN layout.

brilliant.

Amanda - pinwheel challenge

Sandra's - sketch challenge

Hi Sue!

FINALLY scrapped! I have had no mojo lately... the ideas are flowing, but just can't seem to get any scrapping done.Here is my layout for the sketch challenge.The photo is of the kids great grand parents arriving in Australia aboard the Barrabool in 1923.Tom is the second from the left, holding Uncle Eddie, next to him is Lucy with Aunt Hilda and Auntie Ethel is sitting on the left.The picture on the tag is of the Barrabool, which I found on the net.

Hopefully my next layout won't take as long!

hmmm pinwheels....

WhooHoo...Sandra's back!!! What this about no mojo, this page is just fantastic Sandra.....just love everything about it!! You do vintage so well and i particularily love the rope and the picture on the tag!! Arn't those old photos just so precious!!

Now waiting eargerly for your pinwheel page :)

Amanda - text on photo

last week I said to Sue and Meredith that i was a bit disappointed that there had been no handwriting seen on the photos for the text challenge. In view of this i thought i should lead by example.

Everyone that knows me, knows that handwriting on layouts just isn't my thing......but this is what this blog is all about - challenging ourselves. So i thought i would step out of my comfort zone and give it a go. It still isn't my thing but at least i tried!

The journalling on the photo reads -

Winning the B Grade grand final last year meant the world to you. After so many years playing you finally had a premiership! Right now you are 3rd on the ladder. It's in the palm of your hand. There for the taking. Inspire those boys of yours and grab it.

Wishing EVERYONE good luck in the footy/netball finals :)

Sue's got another pinwheel!

Howdy All!! What a busy week, back at work and haven't had a moment to scrap! (don't we hate that!!!) Started this a week ago at the scrap night....and i haven't scrapped since then. This needed a finishing touch, and the pinwheel was just perfect (i thought!).

Hope to see some more LO's soon!

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!!