A little Cummins thrill ...

I was just flicking through the latest copy of Scrapbook Creations (No 71) and got to the section called Quick Grabs "Simply Awesome" ...

flicking over each page ...

first there was Tiff ...

then Amanda and Maryanne ...

then little ol' me!!!

All in one article!! Felt a little bit excited about us all being in one spot together!!

There is also an "Artist in the Spotlight" article about Amanda!! Along with 3 more of her layouts.

Yay Cummins!!

Sue's October sketch with a twist

Today i have just spent the Parsons' boys here at the farm with me. After lunch Ethan said "Granny can i do some scrapping with you".

So out in my scrap room we went, rummage thru many photos until he found one of him that he liked. I gently directed him with papers, he chose from various colours for the background. He found my punches that he wanted to know what they did....so we punched the border. I got out various thickers and he chose which colour. He wanted to use the hammer....so i showed him the eyelets, he chose the colours. He saw pin wheels sitting on my desk, and he told me he had made some at school, so he wanted to make some of them too. And i thought well we need some of his own hand written journalling....which he did, and isn't it just beautiful?



Now, that they have gone home.....i thought that this could make our October sketch challenge....a basic style page....but the twist is.....with school holidays still on, you too could get you kiddies to scrap a page like this. Kids love to create just like us grown ups....and Ethan's face when it was finshed and he showed his dad with the " it's proper scrapping Dad!" comment, was just priceless.



So here's the sketch....have fun!!

Here's Ethan's page.....as you can see there was some granny help....but he loved it!!



Can't wait to see them,

Sue xx

Michelle's September colour challenge

Just got this one in my mail box from Michelle....for the Septmeber challenge!

Wow, Michelle, Thank-you for sharing with us....a beautiful page!!! Love your way of doing the colour combo....just looove the cream background....and the patterned paper with the distressed edges. Love the rubons and the elements that you have added. All looks just perfect!

World Card Making Day

Hi Amanda!

Have just seen that it's World Cardmaking Day....
Well I think I can say I have done my bit...lol


Take care
Sandra


Great job Sandra - wow you have been so super busy cardmaking. Well done for being so pro-active on this special day!

Sue's September Stamping!

The aug/sept issue of Scrapbooks etc.. has a section on stamping techniques,...so when i saw Vicki Boutin's page, i was inspired to get out my circle stamps too!!... As well as using the Kaiser ReWind stamps from the new Q2 range, and do some masking (arrows) and stamping!!!

October challenges ...

So another month has flown by and now it's time for some new challenges ...

1. A hand cut title ...

Check out this link for one way of creating your title ... http://studiocalico.blogspot.com/2009/09/tutorial-handcut-titles.html

Here is my example ...


I would love to see lots of different techniques - if you use an idea you have found on the Internet send us the link along with your layout!

2. Your favourite drink or food documented on a layout ...

Over the last few days Amanda has been enjoying the sights of Clare and I am sure trying a few cold beverages along the way!! She may even have found a new favourite!!

Sue is heading away over the weekend so I'm sure she may be enjoying some nice drinks and nibbles!!

In our house we have a "birthday week" ... it starts when you want it to and includes the day of your birthday!! (To be honest it is usually John and I that have the birthday week!!) It's my turn right now!!

I have been choosing a few yummy meals to eat this week - Smoked salmon and asparagus with angel hair pasta, stirred mussel risotto, Madras beef curry and tonight I think one of my favourite steaks - Porterhouse with mashed potato and haloumi cheese and maybe some home grown broccoli!!

So record your favourite/s on a layout!! Recipes optional!!

3. Sue's sketch - to come


4. Amanda's choice - to come

Looking forward to seeing some layouts in the Inbox soon!!

Stamping more than 7 times - Meredith

Well it isn't very exciting stamping but I have achieved a lot more then 7 stampings!!

Colour challenge - Sue

There's mocha brown, burnt orange, olive green , some cream, and a little bit of pink. On boys pages i struggle to put pink and flowers....and on this one i have both....eeek.

But at least i have scrapped....a rare thing of late!!

Kitchen inspiration - Marika

Just sending this layout nothing fantastic of my kitchen inspiration



... traced around 3 plates to make my circles of patterned paper.



Didn't come out that great as I scanned it and it was a bit bumpy and therefore shadowy.

Wow Marika ... love it - great way to get perfect circles with plates! Lovely colours too! Oh and you used the felt ... I must use some of mine!!

A great layout to remember the event - you are very good to take your children, I didn't get organised enough!

Photo challenge - Meredith

On Amanda's suggestion!!

Hannah's birthday - 1/2 served - not sure how much cake was eaten as it was really dry - the recipe said to cook for 1 hour ... I think it was way too long.

Need to remember ... don't try a new recipe on a special occasion!!

Kitchen inspiration - Meredith

I think this might also qualify for the stamping challenge!!

Karen - stamp challenge

Hi Amanda,
I am sending a layout I did at our scrap night last week, I thought Id send it in for the stamp challenge. II scraplifted it from Kerry Lynn Yeary out of the Scrapbook Trends magazine (Jan 2009), I loved it that much I bought the exact stamp and the photo was taken by Tiff (thanks :)
Cheers
Karen D

oh Karen this is so cute. Love the owls and also the colour that you have stamped them in (teal). The mix colours work so well on here too! Great job stamping!

Amanda - more stamping

This one has 9 lots of stamping on it.

Inspired by Piper and her use of my versamark inks :- The little squares are the inks pressed directly onto the cardstock. (Five colours there)

I have also stamped the word FAIL (Four letters)

The scan is a bit blurry due to bumps with the buttons sorry!

Maryanne

Maryanne is sharing a fantastic new layout with us. This is brilliantly done...i am oohing over every inch!

She said that it isn't really fitting any challenge themes we have going but i say that it is nice to see something on the blog here whatever it may be!!

and this is FANTASTIC!

you do grunge so well Mary!

Marika

Hi Amanda,

hasn't been much on the blog lately just finished this one which I was pleased with how it came out.

Thanks Marika

ooh this looks great with the jumbo sized photo! What a very blustery day!! The red alphas totally pop on the green grass!

lovely and thanks for sharing your work Marika. Any pages welcome I say!

Retreat email list....are you on it?

Not only have the E2C girls been busy with the scrapathon in October but we have been thinking and planning our big March retreat also.

More news to come on this - soon!

In the past, the way we have opened registrations is by sending out a group email and blogging the details on here. This will be how details are circulated again this year.

I would like to ensure i have everyone's email address WHO IS INTERESTED in coming or getting retreat news as it breaks. Please note that this is NOT a registration to attend. I do have a list already but would like to double, triple check that you are on it.

If you are not on my mailing list for the retreat you might miss the breaking news! !

Last year our retreat was totally full, sold out, all seats taken within 2 days. In fact it was a frenzy of bookings in the first 24 hours with the bare minimum seats available on that second day.

Please ensure you are on my retreat email list by dropping me a quick line on ga.hall@bigpond.com . I would hate anyone to miss out by not having your name down!

Details for our major March E2C retreat will be revealed soon........ and registrations will be very soon afterwards.

Don't miss out!

Amanda - colour challenge

ok... not a lot of action on here and i haven't been feeling much desire to scrap either............



so i decided to scrap lift just to get the mojo and creative juices flowing! It worked for me so if you are feeling a bit scrap flat why not give it a go too?!



This was inspired and loosely lifted from the September Scrapbook Trends - a layout by Linda Sobolewski (page 65)



The journaling says :

We are lucky enough to have a wonderful bakery in our little town. It has the yummiest coffee in super, gigantic mugs.

Many lazy afternoons are spent in there with friends, sipping coffee, chatting and laughing.

I love my skim cappuccino so much i could have one 5 days a week!


I am definately going to scraplift again soon. I need a bomb under me to get motivated / inspired to scrap at the moment and it might just have to be a special scraplift bomb!

Kaboom!

Amanda - stamp challenge

Hello yes i am back in the world of the www and computers - woohoo!

I finally managed to scrap this afternoon and it sure felt good!

This is for the stamping challenge. The circles are stamped (four of those), the big letters are stamped (another four) and also the date (two numerals)

A bit boring but at least i know that i *can* actually still manage to scrap!

Okay ... confession time ...

So I was thinking the other day about scrapbooking products that I have bought that I really

haven't utilised as much as the quantity I purchased ... get my jist?

Bought a bit but have hardly used any??!!

Mine is felt lace ... you know the stuff, really hard to peel off the backing and then even harder to stick on to your layout!!

So here begins the confessions ... post a comment on your guilty over exuberant purchases!!

1/2 and 1/2 Photo challenge - Tanya

Tanya said ...

"Couldn't resist putting this pic in for the photo challenge of Half & Half! Stella, today - Half dressed!!!".

Oh Tanya what a beautiful photo! Love how the colours under the tulle circle around Stella! And her eyes look great too! Very cute!