Taking a Card Class, and Travel Album Pages 6&7, Plus 'Our Beautiful World #8

 

My friend Tania's Card Class..

 I'm no cardie (weeeell, not to this talented extent)

And always being a sucker for Christmas anything....

fell in love when Tania showed me her samples for the class...

 

 

Soooo here's my result of her fabby teachings...

 



 

 

Isnt this card just gorgeous!!!

 

 

 

 

Arent they wonderful!

Guess what!.... there's a KitKat in here!!!

 

heehee - YUM!

 

 

Little Card...

 

And little gift wallet

 

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Our Beautiful World #8
'Birthdays'

Here's Hannah's 18th....

the joy of unwrapping a present!

 

 

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Project Life - Travel Album

Page 6

Some more of our trip in China -
Hannah and Paige's room... they loved it!
Authentique  Lively Alpha

 

 

 

adding stamps to a Simple Stories patterned card gives added interest.... 

 

 

Prima Stamp 

 

 

as does layering with some chipboard stickers and buttons too! (Teresa Collins Far& Away decorative buttons)

 

 

 

 

Page 7

Full of anticipation.....

 

It's nice to have an have uncluttered pages too.

Cards like these from the Project Life 'Jade'  afford this...

And the girls played up to their camera!

Other products:

MME Lost & Found Decorative Buttons

Prima Flutter Bits Doodle Dux

Prima Lifetime Brads

 

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Our Beautiful World Challenge and Scrap Therapy Project Life Weeks 15 & 16

 

 

Our Beautiful World #7

This is a lovely photography challenge blog.

I only found it for their #6 challenge - had my photo ready to go, and went away to a place where there was no reception for my computer and couldnt upload it before the deadline... nevermind.

But the GREAT thing about this site is that it will keep  me taking photos each week - and that could be good for my subjects for  my PL weekly too!

 

So with that said....this challenge's subject is

'Wonder'   

On Friday just past, we had the arrival of a French Exchange Student come stay with us.

So we took her to our local Wildlife Farm, for the weekend and she met all sorts of Australian animals for the first time.  She was so amazed and became completely at home with them...

Here is a kangaroo who very gently played with her, with ulterior motive -he wanted her paper bag! 

It did have wheat in it!!!!  She couldn't believe it!

 

 

 

 

 

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 Tuesdays around the World

Found this wonderful photo sharing blog too.. how fabulous!
So, once the kangaroo was successful in grabbing the paper bag of wheat.. he munched away!

 

 

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 Tuesday Muse
Another fabby photo blog.....
A little kangaroo with her joey peeking out of her pouch...

 

 

Scrap Therapy

Some of my Project Life Weeklys and Travel Album are going to overcross a little bit as the weekly instalments will have some of the travel pics in them.... but 'oh well' lol!

 

 

Project Life

Week 15

I just love the orange in this and it suited all the pics

 

 

using THIS Page Insert

( I love having many different page inserts to choose from!!)

 

 

 

And by picking out the 'orange-y' cards from

WRMK's Albums Made Easy 'Webster'

and setting them out on top of the page insert to see how they would look, and to see which ones I'd use for  the titles etc...  yep some I used sideways :)

I think what I try to do, is find a solution to keep unity, colour or balance somehow... not on purpose, it just kinda happens.....

 

 

And because of this... when placing the photos they somehow seem to fit 

 

 

When looking at the balance of the cards- changed the dotty card with the 'details' card and it worked well.

The  bigger black title is Tim Holtz Word Play die

and the smaller one is Tim Holtz Alphabetical die

Teresa Collins World Traveller Stamps

Teresa Collins Far&Away Decorative Tape

Black Cardstock

Becky Higgins Black Pen

 

 

 

 

 

Week 16

This week SO much happened... We had flown to London, and the many, many things we did - I needed A LOT of photo spaces!

THIS Page Insert was PERFECT!

 

 

And because there were SO many pics to fit in here

(just imagine.... arriving, Hogwarts, Downton Abbey tour, going up the east coast to Meaghan's house... way too many.....in that week....

and thinking all the photos/journaling/patterns/titles would get lost and overwhelmed...

 decided to go with one colour in cardstock as the background and let the photos and titles do the main work....

Becky Higgins Project Life Jade 3x4 Cards

 

 

So now.. not so overcrowded (weeeeell, maybe a little bit)

 

 

 

The sewing 'look' is just by black pen around the outside of each card and also the top and bottom line of each title. 

 

Echo Park Photo Freedom Alphabet

Teresa Collins Far&Away Diecut Accessory (Black Plane)

Simple Stories 100 Days of Summer Stickers (Red Alpha)

 

I think when I do my next page(the reverse to this page)when I turn it over,  that I'll stick to plain cardstock again

(big smile)

 

ColourCombosGalore.....#249 Flashback 2013

 

I'm thought I was a bit late doing this challenge and loved the colours, only to find that the very same day Colour Combos uploaded a challenge called flashback.... where we could pick any challenge from the first part of this year!
SO... luckily then could put this in as one of the previous challenges - lol - the last challenge that I nearly didn't get to do !   

 

The due date is well over.... but here it is anyway

 

 

You can find it HERE, it is a Ning site so will need to register.

 

 

 



Scrap Therapy's August Sketch.....

 

 

Here is Scrap Therapy's August Sketch....

Use the elements wherever you like so long as they are there and/or flip it to make it your own ...

 

 

 

I've changed around a couple of the elements from the bottom to the top...

Products:
White Cardstock
Echo Park Beautiful Life Collection Element Stickers
Becky Higgin's Project Life Honey Edition Kit cards
AC Thickers Flakey Red Alpha
Authentique Peaceful Elements Stickers
Teresa Collins Far & Away Washi Tape
Spray mists found here and here and a hint of colour with pearl-esque feel here

 

 Go take a look at the rest of the DT's interpretations...

and hope you can join in

 

HERE

 

 

 



July White with 1

 

 

It's been such a long time since I've played along with WW1

and as soon as I saw the criteria thought... I can do that!  Love navy and white!!! 

Arrows are a bonus!  Love them too!

 

 

Hannah got a very special surprise for her 18th birthday...

Grandma arrived without her knowing..

Her face says it all!

 

 

xx

 



Project Life Travel Album Pages 4 & 5

 

I've finally had some time to scrap some more of my Travel Album which is being done in the Project Life Style ...

 

Here is page 4

Plastic insert refill found HERE

Its pretty straight forward - I've put my written diary notecards (the little cards I wrote on while away) both cut out and put into a little PL card section and also concealed behind the first card (saying Shanghai) with the ribbon poking out from behind.

Love the travel brads, they can go in all sorts of places... like a 'pretend' holding the page back (the red part below)  and as the lense in the camera...its a bit of fun

 

Products for Page 4:

Simple Stories Urban Traveller Journaling Card Elements (Landscape)

Simple Stories Urban Traveller 12x12, 4x4 Quote, 6x8 Photo Mat Elements

Simple Stories Urban Traveller 4x6 Vertical Journaling Card Elements

Echo Park Today's Story Photo Freedom Element Stickers - Alpha

Teresa Collins Travel Ledger Travel Notes Paper

Teresa Collins Far & Away Sticker Accessory Kit - Alpha

Teresa Collins Far & Away Work Labels Paper

Teresa Collins World Traveller Sticker Sheet

Teresa Collins Far & Away Decorative Brads

Tim Holtz Alphabetical Die

 

 

 

Page 5

Plastic page insert found HERE

 

 The bathroom looks 'mouldy' in a really bad sort of way from this pic, but it was a plant, rest assured I'd never step into it otherwise!

 

Page 5 has some quirky bits to it...

 

Loved the instagram-look of this particular little card but didn't want the title in it...

 

 

 

Soooo filled it with a photo....

 

 

 And rounded off the corners

 

 

 

 

One of the aspects that took shape on this same card  was that the first hotel we were taken to by our guide and driver at 12.30am (yes we were exhausted!!!) and after dragging our suitcases for ages up a skinny little street that couldn't take the width of a car was the wrong hotel!  A tired little Chinese hotel man appeared bleary-eyed and said 'No reservation'  UGH... drag the bags back down the skinny street and after some confusion found the right hotel!  So with that thought - I got creative with the work 'No!' on the photo of the wrong hotel (took a pic of it a few days later so I had one...lol the things we do to make a scrapping page! rolling eyes)

 

 I love these 'Wise Words' by Jillibean

Do you recognise the word 'No!'??

 Weeeeell, its the word 'joy' - its had the loop cut off the 'y'  to make the 'n'  then part of the loop of the 'j' has been removed too - that makes the exclamation mark!  Still not sure?  Then turn what's left of the word upside-down... and there you have 'No!'  hee hee....

  

  

 

Again I used my own travel diary cards which when writing them, they were scribbled, drawn on and  at most times with messy-ness!  So I wasn't 100% sure that I'd use them in my album, but at least they were great for logging events as the days/weeks of travel happened to us - some were okay for being shown and they fit with the LO, or they were hidden behind so at least the day was documented somehow. 

 Here's the hotel's business card  that has been slipped into a slit made with a craft knife into this little journaling card that has a picture of notepaper on it - that makes the notepaper look a bit more 3-D  It also had a picture on it that was covered by bits of my diary cards

 

 

 All done!

Products for Page 5:

Simple Stories 24/Seven Vertical Journaling Card Elements

Simple Stories Vintage Bliss 4x6 Vertical Journaling Card Elements

Teresa Collins World Traveller Die Cuts

Jillibean Soup Yellow Happy Wise Words