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.

Our Vintage Affair                            Once Upon A Sketch

July 123 Challenge......

Just one more challenge for this month. The 123 Challenge blog for July had a fantastic tutorial by Gina Rodgers that really inspired me. I am usually a bit of a neat, clean, control freak when it comes to creating, so this challenge to use lots of different mediums inspired me to 'free up', get down and get dirty.

The Challenge:

             1. Colour = Aqua/ Teal

             2. Word   = "Thing". Could be anything, something.

             3. Technique = Create a Scene:...i.e. layering, texture,decorative background etc.

I have used dyed tissue paper as my background. Then, added some patterned paper and stamped in a few places. Next, added a coat of gesso to tone everything down. I added some texture paste around the photo and attached the metal bits which had been coloured with alcohol ink ( and let dribble ) and the tiny sequins and glass beads. Added some tissue tape, coloured with texta, a piece of lace that was glimmer-misted and gessoed,rub-ons,clear acrylic letters that were stamped and foam mounted ,distressed letters.....great, inky, dribbly, fun.

Good news......since this photo was taken early last year, my daughter has stopped smoking.

Lets Get Shabby Goes French.................

The new challenge at Lets Get Shabby, challenge #26, is very romantic and French.........create a project using Toile and Ticking. To find out what these are and all the details for this challenge click HERE. You can also see the other DT girls inspiring work, and, meet our new DT member Magda from Poland. As usual there is a great prize..........$50.00 worth of beautiful Imaginarium Design chipboard.

Here is my Toile and Ticking paper.....I was lucky to have this one piece of Toile in my paper stash, and the grey and white stripe is from Kaisercraft.

My "tiny dancer", my daughter Lani

Some hand-made flowers 

Once Upon a Sketch Challenge........

The new challenge at Once Upon A Sketch requires a quote, and has this sketch below to follow. Here is my take....the photo is of my cheeky little niece Indi and I have used the very fun Graphic 45 papers.