BEACH buddies

 Kraft Plus Challenge for October

I Can See Clearly Now!

I had a good time looking through my stash to find anything clear that might fit this challenge.

Velum; Flat glass Beads; Transparency Sheets used in the layering underneath the photos (pierced with little holes as a border); & also cut out wavy shapes from an embossed transparency sheet.

So I was able "to see clearly through" three different types of embellishments on this layout of photos from way back when.... The taller girl is me, when life was so simple and easy, with my sister beach buddies, enjoying sandy salty fun!


Thanks Kraft Plus for a fantastic challenge once again !!
http://kraftpluschallenges.blogspot.com.au/

wings

Art & Soul

It's so therapeutic doing their Challenges!

I am really enjoying getting in touch with the sentiments of the mood board!

I love dabbling with a bit of mixed media, although I am not very good at it!

So many creations I see on Pinterest and Blogs are just beautiful!

I hope you all like this little journal page!

Thanks

http://artandsoulmixedmediablog.blogspot.com.au/2017/10/only-by-walls.html

Remember the Day

Have lots of fun getting my fingers messy playing with Colour Blast!

Today I used the Colour Pastes Leather & Bling! They are so very versatile! I used a paint brush, a pallet knife and my fingers!

I used it neat to stencil the triangles on the background, &

I used it neat on my fingers to edge all the edges.

I used a paint brush to paint some home made chippie triangles with it &

 once dry, stencilled some more triangles on top.

I lastly watered some of the paste down and flicked the diagonal page corners with some with my fan paint brush.

My photo has special memories for me as it was a holiday we went on together with my Mum!

This little ol' Post Office is in Sapphire, Qld, which is not far from Emerald. Don't you love the names of the towns out there! We were camping in a little place called Anakie which is an aboriginal word meaning "tow hills"!  Not sure I can remember any hills BUT I do remember that it was very HOT and terribly dusty!

Thanks Colour Blast for a great Triangular Challenge!

http://colourblastaust.blogspot.com.au/2017/10/october-colour-blast-triangular.html?m=1

You can probably see that I had two more photos that I wanted to use in a layout SO a double layout was the order of the day!   See it below.

 

MY SPACE

Scrap Matrix put up the challenge and I accepted it!!

I had taken some photos recently of my craft room, and knew they would be perfect!

As you can see I printed them in a strip of black and white mini photos to add to the left side of the layout. The main photo is one, that my daughter took of me, with one of the piles of pages, that need to have photos added and put into albums!!

I love "my space" and spend a lot of hours in there, so I have lots of favourite things around me to feel really at home and at peace while creating! Hoping you have learnt a little more about me and my space!

Thanks for the Challenge!

https://scrapmatrixblog.blogspot.com.au/2017/09/the-scrap-matrix-design-teams-first-post.html

 

Everything at my finger tips in front of me

Here is the collection of photos I used on the layout!  They are not too clear as they are mini black and white. So here they are below in colour!

 I love the cubes! I have two of them filled with albums, papers, inks, sprays, paints etc etc and lots of pretty bits and pieces. My scraps of paper and mini paper packs,  live in one of those little roll away trays thingies.  Sorting through my embellishments slowly but surely. Trying to get them into the one sort of box, so that they stack easier and are labelled for easy finding!

I am lucky enough to have a TV, sewing machine and computer in my room too.  I can listen to music or watch a favourite show I may have recorded!  The Computer? well I love adding bits and pieces of fancy journaling,  to my layouts and the computer is a great way!  I like to add a bit of sewing to some of my layouts so it is good to have the sewing machine set to go when I need it.

 You can see a messy table here too! that is the aftermath of doing 21 layouts for challenges in the month of September.  I do not clean up between layouts just add the stuff to the pile and clean up when all finished. MOST of my ribbons are colour sorted in boxes of their own BUT I do have a box of anything goes there too!!  Have two door fulls of dyes and the Big Shot lives close by them so that I can get straight to it when needed.

 

Mess aftermath at the end of September Challenges

Printer and TV handy and a trusty Apple Cider too

lots of fun filled cubes here to play with

A work in progress. Sorting and labelling embellishments

 

One of the cubes filled with messy fun things

Rolly trays full of scraps and mini paper packs

Three cubes full of some of my patterned papers

 

 

 

Ribbon station

 

Dye Doors!

I CAN

Love this COOL layout, inspired by a great mood board from Scrapbook Boutique.

These photos were perfect! They were taken on Christmas Day a few years ago! The weather was hot and the young ones had so much fun diving and splashing everywhere!

Thanks again

http://scrapbookboutiquenews.blogspot.com.au/2017/09/welcome-to-our-september-2017-challenge.html

CHRISTMAS JOY

Another great Challenge to complete some another Christmas Card from another of the Johnson Family friends!  Our friends are from Utah,where it snows at Christmas time BUT their card is photos of their summer time fun!  

 

It was fun using all the sprays, inks, embossing powders, paint and glimmer mists, to create this cute Christmas layout!

Thanks

https://www.facebook.com/groups/A2ZScrapletsScrapbookandCardChallenges/

love always

One of  the last 3 layouts for the month of September!  This one is 123 Challenge Blog!

I love these colours together and they match really well with the postcard Christmas Card from our dear friends from across the seas!  Every year we receive a lovely card with uptodate photos of the family!!! 

Thanks

http://123-challenge-blog.blogspot.com.au/2017/09/reveal-123-challenge-september-2017.html

The first!

I wasn't sure how to go with this Challenge!

Thanks for the Challenge Soul Sisters  

Love makes everything go round and Love heals all mind & soul

So Apologise! Forgive & try ever so hard to forget!!

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Steam Punk Punkers

Off the Tails Scrapbooking, a BIG THANK YOU for such a fun Challenge!

It was fun getting all grungy, gluey, painty and also reminiscing on LONG TIME AGO! when my husband Kerry and I, dressed up as a couple of punks, back in the 80's!!

I had some ideas in my head and after an hour of Private Messaging back and forth to Tracy Keilty I had the plan and procedures set in my mind!! Thanks Tracy for the feedback and prompts!

YAH for Steam Punk, it's so COOL! and

https://offtherailsscrapbooking.blogspot.com.au/

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SCRAPBOOKIT

Scrapping with Style

What a nice mood board and Sketch for this months Challenge!

I've used some more photos from our weekend away at the Toowoomba Carnival of Flowers which fit in with the colours I think!

Nothing nicer than FLOWERS!!

Thanks  http://scrapbookitblog.blogspot.com.au/

Sweet Lovely Story

I had so much fun doing this Challenge! 

We had just been to the Toowoomba Carnival of Flowers for a long weekend, so it was the perfect Mood Board and Sketch to use for a couple of my 100's of photos taken on the weekend!  The little paper dolly was perfect to tell the story of another of our Annual Traditions! I had I had  

So THANK YOU Scrapping Clearly

 http://scrapping-clearly.blogspot.com.au/2017/09/september-challenges.html