Circles, Squares, Diamonds, Triangles...............

Get out your compasses and set squares,the next challenge is up at Lets Get Shabby and it's all about Geometric Shapes......they appear to be the "in thing" at the moment,especially the hexagon.

Hop on over to the Lets Get Shabby blog and check out all the details for challenge #34

It was amazing to see how four people in the DT created with 'diamonds' so differently.I'd love to see what you can come up with too; it's a great challenge so I hope you can play along.

My choice of diamonds was an easy choice for me; I love them, and have used them a lot in other projects, but the other thing that influenced me was the diamond pattern on the sleeve of Indi's jumper:......doesn't she look like a little Eskimo.I love the diamond pattern that the buttoning on the chair makes and the beautiful Kaisercraft paper I've used for the background.

Products Used

paper: Kaisercraft,Charlotte's Dream "Fantasy" and "Daze".

Prima,Songbird "Title-it"

Websters, Your Life Is Beautiful"Garden Gala"

My Minds Eye, Stella & Rose "Hazel Papers"

Kaisercraft lace, Prima button and flocked Alphabets, Tim Holtz, mini paper clips. Stamps: Paperinspirations and Papermania, Chatsworth Vintage Collection.

Glimmermist and Gesso.

Thanks so much for dropping by; have a great weekend everyone. xx

Playing with foil.....

Playing at CSI again. Beautiful colour palette and had the opportunity to drag out the aluminium foil from the kitchen again, it doesn't photograph well but it's fun to use and it's definitely shiny.

Doily cut from aluminium baking foil

Thanks for visiting me today, hope you have a great week of happy creativity. xx

A Boy Page....

I never do 'boy pages'.....probably because I have two daughters. But, I have nephews, and this is Mali, cute as a button and growing up fast. I loved the colours last week from CSI Case File #13 and made a real effort to not let the page get too 'pretty'.

Used the wonderful Graphic45 Le Cirque Collection of papers.... you can have so much fun with them.

I had 4 quotes written on the tags;  my favourite.....  "A boy's best friend is his mother".

Thanks for visiting, and I hope you all have a productive and creative week. xx

My Favourite Colours...........

Beautiful shades of teal and green. These were the colours at CSI last week.

A background of gesso, texture paste, stamps,inks and glimmer mist. Some fussy cut flowers out of paper from Meg's Garden. Other paper used was designed by Michele Singh especially for CSI.

Some pretty Prima Crystal Palace Flowers.

I really try not to use the same photo more than once on a LO, but as my girls get older we aren't  together as often as I'd like,  and photo opportunities become rare, so I apologise for the 'repeats'.

Enjoy what's left of this short week and have a safe and happy Easter. xx

Lets Get Shabby...New Challenge

                                   

Lets Get Shabby's challenge #33 is up.

Hop on over to their blog and be inspired by the beautiful photo and get the challenge details  with a Spring and or Easter theme.

I have recycled another one of my little boxes, added a hand made flower and a tag.

Head on over to the Lets Get Shabby blog for all the details and inspiration from the other DT girls. I'd love you to have a go with this challenge; Spring lends itself to so many beautiful ideas and it could be a page, a card, or an OTP project. 

Oh, and I have to thank zeus and zoe for the cute little chicken and rabbit free down load image.

To Tell or Not To Tell.......?

It's always a great feeling when you have some of your work acknowledged.....it's NOT the reason we do it, but having people publicly show their appreciation for it, gives you confidence that you are doing something right and that the creative path you're  on at the moment is the right one. I never know whether to share these little successes or not on my blog....it's only a little thing, it's not like I have found a cure for cancer or an event which is life changing for me or for any one else...it's just a little bright spark in my day and has put a smile on my face, so I guess it's a good thing to share personal happiness...or is it ?

Featured at CSI

The Swing By Gayle Price

Gayle's background is amazing ! At first glance, it looks like patterned paper, but we found out she created the background with texture paste and gesso over a stencil. We love how she intertwined the kite strings among the branches and thought it was so cute how she silhouette-cut her photo and made her swing from the tree. Once we looked from the marvelous design, we noticed her journaling. We loved how she used the kite and swing as metaphors for her thought-provoking story.

Meg's Garden "Style" and CSI Challenge...

It's good to be back. Two projects today that I absolutely loved creating, but both very different.

The first done for Meg's Garden using products from her online shop. Pretty much every thing on this page was supplied by Meg....all the papers, ribbons and flowers, pins and paper lace. You can find a detailed list of all the different papers and other pretties used, here on Meg's blog.

The page has a Victorian theme with a twist. I love the opulence of this era,ruffles, bows, flowers, chintz and velvet and have put these with a photo of my daughter from 2 years ago when she was a hair model for a national competition; I love the contrast of the extravagant old and the very slick new, but both so elegant.

"Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new"  Henry David Thoreau.

Beautiful Organza Lace Flower with Diamante

"Fashion is made to be unfashionable". Coco Chanel 

Beautiful silver and pearl Emperor Pin

This second project was done for the CSI Challenge. These are so much fun. There are basically 3 things you need to think about when creating your page......using all 5 colours, incorporating some of the evidence asked for and including the journalling in 1 of the styles suggested.

This is a photo of me aged about 4. I had a wonderful childhood, I can not recall one sad moment,but I'm sure there were some,but I feel very fortunate that I was loved and given lots of opportunities and am very thankful for that.

Now,having children of my own I think about the things I didn't do as a child and now regret; like learning an instrument, a language or how to sail a boat. The point I make is controversial................how much should we push our children to become involved in different activities and experience new things? maybe the word "push" could be replaced with "encourage". I do know tho, that ultimately our children make their own choices whether we like them or not. 

My journalling is a reflective thought on my childhood. It reads:

I have begun to wonder, that, just like kites and swings, how high we fly in life often depends on who's pushing us and how many obstacles get in our way.

I've used a mix of paint and gesso over a mask for my background.

Incorporated string and kite elements.

MIA for a while...........

I have not had time to scratch myself, let alone put gesso, ink and glue to paper, so have just left you with some images that have inspired me today, hope they go some way to doing it for you too. If you love movement, colour, texture and creative genius, I hope you like this. It came to me via my daughter's FB. She is studying dance , her boyfriend is studying animation, I guess it inspired them too.

My favourite band and some great moves.

A little culture and family time in Melbourne, be back soon. xx 

CSI #9.....Color, Stories, Inspiration.

Joining in at CSI again this week. I love the prompts given out....they really spark off my imagination and get ideas flowing.There is lots of symbolism used in this page about my youngest daughter. During the past 12 months she has travelled a long way emotionally. She has made mistakes, suffered serious consequences, experienced loss and found strength. But through all this I really hope she never gives up on her dreams.

My evidence details include a bird accent, hot-air balloon, mesh, definition tape and I have used a six word memoir as my journalling.....

"Dream with your eyes wide open".

Thanks for dropping by. We have a long weekend here in South Australia so we're heading to beautiful Robe for a few days via the Coonawarra so there is the bonus of picking up some wine on the way. Hope you all have a wonderful weekend what ever you may be doing. xx