Scavenger Hunt Sunday

This weeks Scavenger Hunt Sunday photos................

Stairs

Macro

Clouds

Abstract

Smile

Guest Designer at Manor House Creations.............

I have been busy working on some projects for a new scrapbook company. Excitement mixed with fear took over when I was asked by Manor House Creations to be their very first Guest Designer. I said yes, of course, ( love a challenge ), and next thing I know a very generous package of papers and beautiful flowers arrived for me to work with. They asked for 2 LO's and 1 OTP creation.

The first LO has been done using The Scrap Cakes' Little Monsters range of papers. These papers were definitely not my style ( not a flower or flourish in sight ) but they were very cute, great colours and little love hearts every where. The beautiful flowers are from Manor House Creations, plus some hand made tissue paper ones.

This second LO has been done using the very delicate,soft colours from The Scrap Cakes' Spring Awakening range. The beautiful flowers of course are from Manor House Creations and the chipboard frame is from Imaginarium Design.

The OTP project is a little 'thank you' box. My friend works for a hearing aid company and every time a client comes in and has a new hearing aid fitted they never want to keep the box, so, she passes them on to me. They are quite sturdy and just the right size for keeping 6x4 photos in, jewellery or small treasures or for filling up with chocolates, sweets or home-made biscuits. I have used paper from The Scrap Cake Spring Awakening range, the flower is from Manor House Creations and the chipboard is from Imaginarium Design.

I have loved doing my Guest Designer challenge and am very thankful to Nerrida for giving me the opportunity. It was great fun and an honour to work with the beautiful Manor House products.
 Thanks for dropping by and have a great weekend everyone.

Looking, Looking, Looking........

 If you love things vintage, soft, pretty and a little rough around the edges, and you love to create with paper, paint or mixed media, then maybe this is for you. The Lets Get Shabby Challenge blog is searching for 3 new Design Team members. Hop on over to their blog here to find out all the details.

Photographs are from Pod norweskim niebem

New Color Room Palette.......

These are not my favourite colours but I did enjoy following the sketch.....sort of, and the photos of my daughter are a few years old, but I loved the "moodiness"of them and they were the exact colour in this weeks palette. I don't know how well I have pulled off the overall colour scheme, the pages always photograph differently, but I've had fun as always. I really admire those people who get the colour exactly as they appear in the inspiration photo, it's not that easy.

Scavenger Hunt Sunday

I am a very novice photographer, but I am keen to improve and the only way to do that is to practice, right? So I am being brave and have taken some photos for Scavenger Hunt Sunday, a photography challenge run by Ashley Sisk each week.I have no idea how to use Photoshop so apart from simple photo editing like 'crop' and 'straighten' these are pretty basic I guess, but I did have my camera on manual instead of auto. so that has to a step in the right direction, hey?

old and new

night photography

music

cheesy

sun

Lets Get Shabby #27..............New Challenge

The September challenge at Lets Get Shabby is to use inspiration from one of TallulahBelles beautiful Etsy product packs for your creation. This was a really fun challenge to do, so hop on over to Lets Get Shabby for all the details on how to play. I chose Woodland Whimsy Petite Pocketful of Whimsy.

Firstly I have to admit to a love of all things 'vintage',so all of the product packs that Kris makes for her Etsy Shop appealed to me.....it was really hard to choose. In the end I chose this pack as my inspiration because of the colours. The turquoise beads and the brown and white spot jumped out at me. Turquoise would have to be my favourite colour. Next it was the whimsical little deer with the bird sitting on it's back ( and I knew I had paper with a little deer on it ) and lastly the doilies, who doesn't love the vintage girly look of these pretties. I have used Martha Stewart ones, crochet ones and ones cut from the packaging of a Prima flower pack ( sadly they look a bit shiny in the photo ) 

Thanks for dropping by. Have a great weekend every one. xx

Colour Room Challenge...........

This weeks palette at the Color Room is just beautiful.........

Detail of texture paste used with a stencil and Glimmer Mist.

Tea on Tuesday.........in Melbourne

Last week I was lucky enough to have 7 days in wonderful Melbourne catching up with my daughter.Melbourne has a fantastic cafe / food culture. Every place you go to is busy and the competition is fierce, so the coffee and food is always innovative, edgy and excellent quality. My morning ritual would be to go to the Hot Poppy Cafe for a freshly made juice; I pretty much always had the #6.

Then I would walk down the road to this old warehouse, Auction Rooms for my coffee. Beautiful coffee that they roast on site.

For more info and some great photos of the Melbourne cafe scene go visit What Katie Ate here.

Thanks for joining me today and hop on over to Kimmies blog to catch up with the other girls having tea.

I've been away............

I have been away for the last 8 days...........

So much fun........


Can you guess where...........?


AND : I have just discovered that two challenge blogs have chosen my recent LOs as winners. I am amazed and of course very happy. Thank you to the DT members at Our Vintage Affair and Once Upon A Sketch for voting for me. It is a huge confidence boost to know that these very talented people see my work as worthy of their votes.

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