Scrap Around The World..........August Challenge #4

Another beautiful moodboard and sketch have been created for this months challenge at Scrap Around The World.

Hop on over to the Scrap Around The World blog HERE for ALL the details on how to play along as well as all the fabulous inspiration from the DT.

 Reveal # 4 from Scrap Around The World Designer Eila Sandberg together with 

an unusual sketch from our resident sketch designer, Jules McKenna-De Lumen!

The beautiful hair piece with the leaf shapes & the little twig with pink buds & pale blue & peach coloured feathers were what I noticed first on the mood board. I've used a feather mask with texture paste and a Prima blossom twig to partly circle my photo along with canvas mistable leaves. The sketch, with all it's circles, was wonderful to work with & opened up so many possibilities! I interpreted it with paper circles, chipboard and a gorgeous Prima clock!!

Our challenges are open to everyone, anywhere in the world

 & all this month's prizes include FREE INTERNATIONAL SHIPPING!!

♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥

This month our merit winner will receive this huge prize pack from Green Tara!

2nd place will receive paper collection 'Special Moments' from Polish company Studio 75!

See their full range here in their online store.

3rd place will receive a $25 chipboard prize-pack from

Scrapmatts Chipboard in Australia,

containing a selection of their latest releases!

4th place will receive a $15 prize-pack of your choice from Purple Pumpkin!

       

They are an Australian based mother/daughter team & create wonderful additions to your pages, 

which can be found in their online store HERE.

Our random winner will receive an electronic gift voucher 

to the value of US$25 from "A Cherry On Top" courtesy of Eila!

{Yes they ship internationally!!}

Hope you can play along with us this month. Thanks for visiting today....hope your weekend is full of fun and hugs.

Lets Get Shabby Challenge #48

The challenge at Lets Get Shabby this month is about GREEN. Not just about the colour tho, but also FOLIAGE, LEAVES, TREES, VINES and any PLANT FORMS you can dream up. You can see what the rest of the team have created and get all the details on how to play along HERE.

I do love blossom. This photo is what I originally had as my first blog header and is what my current header is based on....ha, I've certainly got my moneys worth out of this one simple photo taken so long ago.

Inky dribbles, canvas leaves, velvet flowers and delicate die-cut foliage all make for different textures.

Mask, texture paste and ink.

Chipboard coloured with ink and then 'crackle medium' applied.

Today, I also want to thank every one who left a comment for me on my last post and my mixed media journal page. I have been away for all of last week with no computer. When I got home this morning and read all the truly wonderful comments that so many of you had taken the time and effort to leave for me I was so touched, thankful, and of course, as we all know, comments make us happy :))

I was fortunate enough this time round to be featured, so I had a double whammy of happiness. If you are interested in mixed media challenges pop over HERE and join in the fun. The colour challenge here this time round is red, so after creating HERE at Lets Get Shabby with green, you can compliment it HERE at A Mixed Media Color Challenge with red.

Thank you for visiting me today. I hope your weekend is full of fun, colour, warm hugs and good coffee. 

Mixed Media Color Challenge #3

Had some more fun playing along with A Mixed Media Color Challenge again this week. I have to be honest and admit that my background had already been done, it was a reject piece of craft paper that I had created a background on for something else using a diamond mask and inks, but didn't end up using. It was too pretty to throw away so kept it just incase and as it happened the color scheme for this  challenge was pale blue and turquoise. So, I stuck it into my journal and played around with it a bit more adding some texture with paste, some stamping some more gesso and paint and a pretty little floral die-cut.

Thanks for dropping by today, have a great weekend.

A Mixed Media Color Challenge.

Just for fun this week I've played along with a challenge that is all about my favourite thing, mixed media. Be guided by the color palette and include two mixed media techniques. All the details are HERE if you want to join in.

My page has been gessoed, papered, painted with acrylics, embossed with a mask, stamped, inked using a mask and some distress stain applied..........so much fun. 

Mask and ink

Embossed mask

Fibres are always a great thing to add into the mix.

Thank you for visiting. Hope your week ahead is a fun, productive one.

Scrap Around The World.....July Challenge #3

This month at Scrap Around The World we have a romantic, very beautiful Mood Board created by DT member Keren Tamir. Please visit the SATW blog HERE and you will find all the details you need to join in the challenge, as well as the inspirational pages created by the rest of the Team....all very different and all beautiful.

This is this months beautiful Mood Board and sketch.

And here are this months prizes thanks to our very generous sponsors !!

This month our merit winner will receive the June Kit 'Dreams in Pastel' 
from C'est Magnifique Kit Club, full of Maja Design's new papers, '
'Vintage Spring Basics' plus lots of Prima loveliness...

2nd place will receive paper collection 'Vintage Memories' from Polish company Studio 75!

See their full range here in their online store.

3rd place will receive a $25 chipboard prize-pack from
Scrapmatts Chipboard in Australia,
containing a selection of their latest releases!

Australian Made Laser Cut Chipboard to compliment your scrapbook pages, 

cards & paper-crafting projects. Scrapmatts has a Ning site that showcases an 

amazing talented international design team who post daily on the blog there, 

a Gallery, customer challenges & an online store. Come join in the fun here!

4th place will receive a $15 prize-pack of your choice from Purple Pumpkin!

Purple Pumpkin manufactures high-quality embellishments of a fun & funky nature!
They are an Australian based mother/daughter team & create wonderful additions to your pages, which can be found in their online store HERE.  They specialize in fabric buttons, handmade flowers, resin, twine & washi tape.  They have a great blog that is constantly active & they hold monthly challenges open to all, with Guest Designer positions up for grabs as well as awesome prizes of Purple Pumpkin loveliness!!
If you are not yet acquainted with their awesomeness check them out HERE.

Our random winner will receive this prize pack of assorted goodies kindly donated by Keren!

The deadline for this challenge is midnight EST Thursday 25th July 2013.

My Page   "Daydream"

What inspired me with this beautiful mood board was  the fabric with all its soft folds. So I have included tulle, muslin and lace on my page. The distressed frames in the last image on the board prompted me to use part of an ornate picture frame & the metal keys inspired the use of metal flowers that I embossed for extra texture. The sketch is perfect so I followed it exactly.

I've worked directly onto chipboard. Applied gesso, textures, papers, paint and inks.

Metal flowers embossed with Stampendous Shabby Blue Embossing Enamel.

Thanks for visiting me! Have a fun and creative week.

Lets Get Shabby Challenge # 47

The new challenge is up at Lets Get Shabby. Choose a piece of china and create a page, card or otp. project that has been inspired by your chosen cup, saucer, plate, vase etc. Head on over to the Lets Get Shabby blog HERE to get all the details on how to play along.

It's pretty obvious how the above image has inspired me. I've used an olive green and pink colour scheme, used doilies, birds and bird cage images. The birds and cages suggest a theme of "freedom", or lack of it, so have included a beautiful quote from Nelson Mandela. 

This page started out as a piece of grey chipboard.It's then been gessoed, painted, papered, gessoed again, painted again, stamped, inked, masked, embossed and sprayed. Finally the images were added, the resin embellishments and doilies and finally ( as is my way) lots of cut out flowers.

Thank you for visiting today. I love and appreciate hearing from you. ( unless you are one of those creepy anonymous people ) and may you find some "free time"in what's left of this week to pursue what ever makes you happy.

Golden Paint Journal Page

I love using paints and inks on my pages. Last weekend I did some experimenting in my journal with different brands of paint, and Golden Artist Colors are now my favourite. I really love the intensity of colour they provide.

Also played with lots of masks, some paste, some stamps and as is my way, I had to add some "cut out" flowers.

Thanks so much for visiting. Have a great week.

Pure Beauty

A short and random post today.

This morning I woke with the radio news telling me the horrific number of lives now lost in Syria: the financial woes of a once great and proud country that was Greece and the pathetic, nasty bickering that dominates our own politics here in Australia.

Indeed, it is a cold, wet, bleak and dreary Friday.

I then saw this pre view of a collaborative work with the Sydney Dance Company and the Australian Chamber Orchestra.

It's called "Project Rameau"

There is still so much beauty in this world. It is always found in the 'arts'.

The music, the movement, the skill, the creativity.

Oh, how I love Rafael Bonachela and this brilliant dance company.

Thanks so much for dropping by. Wishing you a great weekend, and hoping that you can all find 'beauty' some where in your life.

Instagram "nerd"

I am a self-confessed Instagram "nerd". I'm not so much obsessed with taking lots of daily photos; I am selective of WHAT I photograph; but I am addicted to "editing". I can't stop!

I have 19 different editing apps. on my phone and I play with every single one of them. I take a photo and then I have this urge to alter it, until, sometimes it's unrecognisable. I realise that this is probably not a good thing...socially I am excluded from conversations, my meals go cold, I get left behind on walks and people think I'm being rude, (which I probably am).

Is it crazy to take a perfectly good photo, a beautiful photo even, and turn it into something, that when shown to my (usually supportive family and friends), has them all asking, "what the hell is it"?

Any way, loved this YouTube clip sending up Instagram users. Sadly, it so relates to me. 

Here is the link to the video.

http://youtu.be/Nn-dD-QKYN4

This little collage of edited Instagram images was of course made on one of my many, simple, photo editing apps.

P.S. For all you scrapbookers, the very creative Rhonna Farrer of rhonna designs is about to release a photo editing app. that will include fonts, frames, stickers, backgrounds, filters and masks. So exciting.

Thanks for dropping by today. Am I the only 'pathetic' that loves the immediate, personal, gratification of sharing what I perceive as interesting or beautiful on Instagram ? I'd love to know your thoughts.