I just wanted to pop in and share a few sneakies of the upcoming kit. Not much time left already till its release - which is to say a very big day because not only will the November club pack be released on the 20th but also the New Moon movie which I am absolutely dying to see lol!!
Anyway, here are some sneakies -
And thats it for now - I need to get back to my report cards which I am very behind on atm!!
This week the challenge was to create a page that featured one predominant colour - from our wardrobes!! I chose to use a photo of my daughter and therefore her prefered colour with it.
Not much to chat about atm - I've been busy with reports and marking and the November Club stuff so my head has barely seen the light of day. I just can't wait for the holidays to start in a little over 4 weeks time - oh and the New Moon release in a fortnight too lol!!
I am very tired so this is definately a short one - the challenge this week was to create a page that included a photo that was cut into 3 sections. Here is mine -
Thats it for me for today lol!!
Today is the official day for the release of the November Scrappit packs. Here is the one I created -
I really loved this kit and found it perfect for my recent photo of Sarah in her kilt!! All the dots were created using this awesome pen I have called a Velvet marker, it marks everything just like a white opaque marker but when you add heat to it then the white puffs up to create dimension.
Well I have officially made it to 40 Xmas cards finished - yep 40 done and another 30 to finish for our Xmas list!!
Here are some quick ones I created using a Making Memories base card set, word art pieces, Basic Grey Doilie and that good old Kaszazz swirl stamp which I love!!
I also have been working on this kind of floral ball thing - no idea what to call it - I saw something similar in the Kaisercraft magazine using punched flowars and had the idea of using some of my old prima flowers instead. I got crystal facetted beads to use for the centres and just pinned the lot to a large styrofoam ball then sprayed the finished ball with a Glimmer Mist to glitz it all up. Pretty Huh!!
Well, thats it for me for tonight!!
This week the challenge was to punch out 30 or so shapes with a shape punch and to use them to frame a photo.
I chose to use a scalloped oval punch, I inked the edges of them all then attached them around the edges of the underside so that from the top the punched shapes would give the effect of a deep double scalloped border -
The whole page was created with one of the Kaszazz paper ranges - I am in love with Kaszazz products lol!! The title was cut using my cricut, stamped with a Kaszazz swirl stamp and embossed. Oh and I finally found a way to get more out of my Cricut Expression. I hated the idea of having to cut to 12x12 ALL the time which is why I just didnt use it so much BUT I got one of the older 6x12 mats and cut off the tag bit at the top so it fit in lengthwise and now I can use a 12x6 mat and save all that stressing about waste!!
The best part is ... it actually works!!
Ever since going to the Zoo last school holidays for training, I have been slowly making up a digi book with all the photo's I took. I didnt want to make just any old photo book though, I've used photo images of the animals feathers, skin and pelts to add decoration to my page rather than the standard type embellishments.
Here it is -
Phew!! Just making this slide show was more work than the book!! On a lighter note - my TV officially blew up today!! Yep, one great big smoking gun - smoke definately not optional.
It;s been going for quite awhile now but its definately gone now - the house still smells of electrical burns. We have a loaner TV for now until we can decide on which of the new fangled TV's we want which is pretty cool.
I tell you though, I pretty well freaked when it happened. Not because we now have to get a new one but because I had no idea how to redo the cable connections since our now blown TV used Euro cabling which are different to the loan one BUT I got there and the foxtel is working along with the TV!!
This week brought the release of the October Club pack. It was my week to have a break from the newsletter although I still bought a pack to work on. The papers in this pack were just so pretty and cute and very textured with all the glitter going on!!
Here are the 3 pages I created -
In addition to these 3 pages, I also created a mini album with photo's and journalling about my recent holiday in Melbourne. This I guess was my favourite project since I added so much to it.
I began by using a set of Kaisercraft wooden covers and covered the front of each in the patterned paper from the kit. The underside of eachI painted with a pink painted before coating with a transparent pink Glimmer mist. Once dry I then stamped a flourish image onto the painted surface and embossed with a teal coloured embossing powder -
On the front cover I also added some Prima roses which I altered using a variety of pink Glimmer mists and then some darker coloured pink paint to enhance the flowers centres.
Well thats it for me - time to go finish off the dinner!!
This week is the last of the Typewriter 2 course already. Well actually yesterday was the last day but since I still havent finished yesterday's work - I'm sticking to it being the last week!
It's been a pretty busy fortnight with writing and creating but its also been fun dredging up those memories to write about.
Here is the most recent pages done during the course -
Then there is this double page (I saved it in two halves)
Last but not least is this one -
And thats it. Hopefully I will get the last project finished tonight and will share it with you tomorrow!!
Hello anyone out there. Last week I was pretty busy with the whole back to work thing and making things for Scrappit. This week I have had a bit more time - not much more but a bit lol!!
While blog surfing I found a link to a gallery on Flickr that featured this awesome tutorial on recycling your plastic bags to make into a useable material. The lady who wrote the technique actually sews the stuff together to make items like bags and purses!!
From the moment I saw it though, I thought of the scrapping potential!! So of course I had a go, went nuts and played and absolutely love the stuff. It is such a versatile and effective technique.
Anyway, here's the catch - you have to visit the Scrappit blog to get the link. Yep, I closed my puter for a second and boom it restarted itself and I lost what I had on my screen. I know I could go and get it to copy here but I think this would be much more fun since you could check out what Scrappit has to offer while you were there.
As a peace offering I will share a photo of one project I created with this material -
If you can remember the beach page I shared last week, the one with the plastic yellow strip on the bottom? Well I created this cover using the leftover plastic material from that. To get the aged effect I simply washed it with 3 different coloured alcohol inks the smeared gesso over certain places then applied more alcohol ink.
Since it was so grungy, I gave it a Tim Holtz style makeover to finish off the cover.
There's nothing inside atm, am thinking about keeping it for Sarah to use as a farewell for her teacher since he is leaving this year.
Well, thats it for me - things to do and not much to say!!
