The Venetian - a few scrapbook pages from me

Well I don't seem to have much time for scrapbooking lately but these are a few pages I started at a National Scrapbook Day workshop. The blown glass flowers are magnificent in real life & the garden sculptures made out of fresh flowers daily are also amazing. I was sent to Las Vegas in 2006 to a Focus on Fungal Infections meeting. Everything you've heard about the place is true - it's kinda unbelievable the sheer decadence & opulence in the casinos. These glass flowers are twice the size of me - unbelievable!

For those that know me I not a fussy scrap booker; I'd rather the pictures speak for themselves with a few embellishments to enhance (rather than them being the focus of the page). So I black embossed a few stamped images, used my blender pen to colour up & cut them out.

Personally I also think it's easy to do a title with stamps - so quick & easy.

Stamp set/s: Unfroggetable, Winged Things (retired), In Full Bloom (retired), Warm Words, Collage alphabet & numbers (retired)
Other: Black embossing powder, dimensionals, blender pen, various inks

Jacque I love my layout from last night - thank you

My very talented upline Jacque at class last night created a beautiful page layout - I just love it as it works beautifully with this lovely picture of my mum Noleen as a young girl, I can see where my sister Faye got her good looks from! Mum tells me she was 10 years old here & yes the dress was hand-made. I think I remember her making me dresses like this too!

Stamp: Leaves a la Carte (jumbo wheel)
Ink: So Saffron, River Rock
Designer paper: Le Jardin
Card stock: So Saffron
Other: Jumbo eyelets, hodgepodge hardware, rhinestone brad, crop-a-dile, soft sky DS ribbon, always artichoke grosgrain ribbon, very vanilla tafetta ribbon, always artichoke marker

Some scrapbook pages from me

Have decided that I can not take pictures of scrapbook pages they're so big (12x12) & probably need to remove the page protectors, but thought I'd better publish something. Will try & improve the quality of the images. I hope you agree that my wee boys were rather cute when babies too!!!

An official scrapbook class

Finally a night at home what bliss (even though the wind is howling & summer seems to have turned into autumn overnight). I've had rather a hectic week to put it mildly & have had to drink copious quantities of coffee to keep me awake.

So catch up time with me, mid January the Braeburn Paperkrafters (that's Judy, Joan & moi) went to an official scrapbook class at NZ Scrapbook being run by Jamie Waters who was out here from the USA. The theme of the night was stickers! and like most scrap-bookers I have too many stickers (& designer paper).

The best thing of the night apart from a night out with the girls was that I achieved 3 pages easily which is also a bonus.

The blue page is some of those nieces & nephews (again) Christmas 2005. The natural page was my niece Poppy & myself on a bridge over the Avon River last year & last but not least the lime green one (& in case you didn't know lime green is my favourite colour - YES that's me with the colourful bonnet so my friends can find me in the crowds). Just a few of my girlfriends & myself at the Devonport Wine & Food festival - also 2006.

Yes I am behind with my pages!! NOTE to self - do better this year!

Summer at the beach

I was waiting until after our Extravaganza event to post my first scrapbook page. I thought it was appropriate that I use a page that I helped design using stamps predominantly to embellish.

Tracy Marshall & myself volunteered for this project as we could really see the potential of using our stamps on our scrapbook pages too.

We used Shore Things which is in the current Summer Mini catalogue - when I first saw the catalogue I thought that set is perfect for scrapbooking (& it is). Even though I don't spend a lot of time at the beach in summertime I still do & it is an important part of a "kiwi summer" according to me. This set had a co-ordinating Stampin' Around wheel Flip Flops which we used as a page border.

SU! has great wheels - flowers, leaves, butterflies, shells, presents, paw prints (says me with a smile), babies etc etc- currently 45 available. Standard size wheels are $13.95 & jumbo ones $18.75. They can be used to decorate boxes & wrapping paper as well; really versatile.

I loved the alphabet sets we used for this project too: Tidy Alphabet and Best Friends Alphabet.

The project was to design two 6x6" scrapbook pages but do it as a card. We envisaged the front of the card would be the title page & inside of the card as the "scrap book page". I loved the water mark effect that Versamark ink gave for the waves on the front of the project & the sand & shells on the inside mat for the photo (to be placed).

Card stock: Ballet Blue, Real Red, Marigold Morning, Sahara Sand, Whisper White
Ink: as above plus Versamark & Chocolate Chip (at the beach)
Accessories: 35mm & 32mm square punches, 13mm circle punch, 2mm hand held punch, 2-way glue pen with Dazzling Diamonds glitter, linen thread, mat pack (for faux stitching) with uniball Signo white gel pen & of course Snail adhesive.

Per usual the project looks better in real life but I hope you agree with me that it's rather groovey :-)

Check out my friend Judy's blog who was an attendee to see the projects done on the day.

YES Spring Is in The Air :-)

Wow I am so in love with this stamp set, punch & double dipped designer paper. We made this absolutely awesome gift/pop can with all of the above & in the past have also played with the set making 6x6 scrapbooking pages. All the embellishments make for some nice little touches.

Colours used were Mellow Moss, Barely Banana (or So Saffron), Pretty In Pink & for those that know me personally I'm not a pink girl but love it balanced out with the browns, green & yellow.

The pop can has been a little ray of sunshine for ME today - thanks Jacque for another great inspirational class!!