September Counterfeit Kit and Challenge #1

 

Really really wanted to get this kit together and being only one week from our ballet schools examinations... weeeeell, time is very very scarce..

Classes are coming out of my ears, and while I'm pretty happy with how the students are shaping up, its this big final race to the finish line.

Pretty soon though (and I'm counting down!) are our school holidays...oh sheer joy!!!

Two weeks!  Cant come soon enough!!!

 

Anyway,  last months kit kept me soooo organised in busy time, so I needed to get this month's kit together to do the same.

 

Its strange how it comes about:

I know I'm so right brained!

Each month I hop to the dt members blogs (haven't done this month's yet though) to see how they put their kits together and am intrigued by such varied thought-processes

 

I cant seem to move past colour!

You can find the main kit HERE

 

Though, more than anything, I was captured by one piece of paper:

 from Basic Grey's 'Grand Bazaar' range

 

Yes its busy - huh! 

But the colour combination is fabulous!

So I picked out the colours (or close to) and matched up a heap of old embellishments from a box I'd long forgotten about and added only a couple of newish ones.

Glad to use them again.....and here's my kit

 

"SPRING!"

 

 

Challenge One was to make up challenge criteria...

 

Weeeeeell, mine is:

 

Scrap your new season!

and

here in Australia...

its

SPRING!

 

gosh, I haven't scrapped flowers in sooooo long!

But they are in my box and I'm going to use them up!

 

 

 

xx

 



PL Week 19

 

 

Yes, yes, I'm behind... ..
and do have to make a conscious effort to catch up somehow.

 

It'll happen, just not sure when - I got this done today after being 'home-alone' this past weekend.

This is for the vellum challenge at Counterfeit Kits Challenges...

(oh gawd!  I spelt 'medicine' wrong!!! don't ya hate that when it happens....it's been fixed on my page...thanks Lizzy H!)

Had little vellum butterflies and a see-through pocket with some enamel dots...

 

oh and got named one of
August's Fabulous Five there too!!
Whoohoo!!


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The reason I was home alone was because dh took Paige and Hannah to Hobart (Hannah back to her studies) and Paige to visit 'Open Day' at the University she hopes to get acceptance there next year.
 I had to work, and had a meeting and dinner commitments so got left behind.

And funny enough... on the University site - was one photo of the open day... and low and behold of all the hundreds and hundreds of people there today..........dh with Paige and Hannah behind him... were captured in the left hand bottom corner!  Paige said it was the only time they sat down in a precinct and it was for about 5 minutes!

 AND.... talking of coincidence....
(forgot to post this.....)
A couple of weeks ago when Paige flew to Melbourne with a small school group...

'Gotye'  was on their flight!  
(absolutely love his arty video of 'Someone I used to know')
He was quite happy to have a photo taken with Paige and friend Chloe!
To say they were thrilled was an understatement...
 I promply got the  frantic phonecall...

MUM!!!! You'll never guess what just happened.............'

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YAY to the first DAY OF SPRING tomorrow!!

Goodbye WINTER!

xx

 



Off the Rails and White with 1......

 

 

Weeeell, what a mad week its been workwise!  I swear I'm going cross-eyed with analysing paperwork!

  Soooo today, I kinda had a day off - and managed some scrapping!

Weeeeell didn't really have the whole day......but.... I certainly made the most of the time I did have!

 

 

Off the Rails....

Our French exchange student with Hannah and Paige....Cradle Mountain.

 

Sketch and Mood Board..... loved playing with this!  Got the colour going... and LOOK! Another patterned paper background I've used!   Getting better with using busy stuff :)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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AND.....

 

 

 

 

Black and white with this one..... and another busy background, but somehow it works!

Maelle (from France) and Paige hamming it up in front of our lighthouse



Find the challenge HERE

 

 

 

Oh to have this much energy, I don't know where the girls get it from!!!!

 

 

That's me for now.... need a good nights sleep!

 

 

xx

 



Let's Get Shabby Challenge #58

 

 

This time, Let's Get Shabby's Challenge is about 'WOOD'

However you'd like to interpret it...

 

I thought it would be fun to attempt a 'shabby' Project Life page and love how it turned out.

The wood grain background paper was a perfect fit for the photos.....

(check out the pink 'aura' around Meaghan's head???)

 

 

 

 

Hope you can join the challenge no matter the genre.... its just got to be a bit shabby!

 

 

HERE

 

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Amiche de Scrap... PL Guest DT... #8

 

 

Love this challenge blog of Amiche di Scrap as it does actually encourage me to get my PL pages done!   The challenge is to do a Project Life page with some sort of hidden journaling...

Check out the details

 

HERE

 

 

You can see the hidden tag poking out...

Revealed a little more of the photos by cutting out the border and slipping the photos in behind..

 

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Busy weekend here...
We've taken our French Exchange student to  'Stanley' for the day - they have climbed the 'Nut' (a big volcanic plug)

Then off to Boat Harbour beach....

with its white powder sand (when its dry)

They are fun girls!

 

 

Hannah has now come home for a week and we are currently at Cradle Mountain staying the night.  We've done a small walk today... and hopefully if the rain stays away we will do a bigger walk 'Dove Lake' tomorrow.  First up though will be a hearty breakfast!

 

Weeeeell, better get off this computer and join the dh and the three girls for the remainder  of the evening....

 

 

Hope whatever you are doing... you are having fun!

 

xx

 



PL card

 

 

Its just plain fun... a little PL card doesn't take long (pretty good from me being a painfully slow scrapper!) and strangely has it has a sense of accomplishment the same as a LO or card does.

I know.... I did say it was strange.... but for me true.  I really really love doing this!

 

 

 

xx

 

 

 

 



Been Productive!

 

 

I'm back from working away, and did manage to get quite a bit of scrapping in of a night so am really glad I put together some homemade kits from Counterfeit Kit Challenges!!  (hello to visitors from Counterfeit Kit blog!!! *waving*)

 

First up is....

Scrap365's sketch

Talk about getting out of the comfort zone! I'm not sure what happened here, but the sketch was very sparce, YET,  I managed to use a very busy patterned background paper - soooooo not me!! I usually run from pattern paper!! (and I mean fast!!!)  Maybe I felt a need to fill this sketch??? so it's inspiration worked a treat if so!  And I love the result....maybe this might get me to use the fifty million pattern papers I have stashed away???? 

 





 

I found really appropriate text in print to tear out and use for Paige who has worked hard for her

Yr 12 midyear exams and also doing 1st yr uni for French as well....

 

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Unity Stamps Challenge

 

 I wanted it to look delicate....

 

 

 

The Unity Stamps used are:

'Distressed Dots'

and

'Art and Possibility'

 

 

 

 

 

Then afterwards....

                                          an afterthought....

 

I had a thought that I'd use the front of this card to go into Hannah's little antique 'Quote book'...

so have edited in this photo... cos it works a treat here....

it's nothing fussy, but plain and simple....and fits a treat!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Counterfeit Challenge LO #1

 

I was soooooo pleased to have this months kits with me while away... and managed to get this one finished also.   However, what a challenge!!!  ONE layer scrapping... the only way I think I could manage this is by doing project life!!  But not having any PL pockets with me... just did a 12x12 in a PL kind of a way  for Week 16 (oh my gosh I'm sooo far behind with this!)  so a great excuse to get another page done!   Did struggle though... and wanted to add more... but that's okay for PL... I think I added a butterfly.. and my alpha's otherwise it was stamping!

 

 

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Amiche di Scrap

Sfida Card #10

Scrap a card with two colours.... black and white...

Ohh... just what I love!

Did some stamping of leaves, as well as cut out some too.

 

 

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And last by certainly not by least is

 

Ronda Palazzari's One Little Word

 

 

'Evoke'

 

Found this wonderful quote for 'Evoke' and perfect for another page in Hannah's Quote book...

and because I loved using the blue tissue so much before, I saw the orange and went with that too!

So, with some gesso, orange tissue paper, a couple of square brads, green washi and a mix of alpa's... this happened....

 

 

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 oh.... need to pop this in too....
This prize came from 'Flourish with a Bling'
(plus I added a little to it) but how cool ....
The ladies there are just lovely people to deal with... so thanks soooo much!

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 AND..... don't forget to join into the
 challenge at
Amiche di Scraps for you PL page/s!!
There's a prize!
HERE


 

Yay, you got to the bottom!!

I know, it was a lot!

 

Busy times today.... Paige is comes home from Melbourne (she's been away all weekend on a Christian leadership camp)  Revolving doors here, I come home, and she goes!

 

AND

 

We get another French exchange student arriving tonight too. 

 

So no doubt will also show up in my scrapping shortly.

 

 

Better go get some bedrooms ready!

 

 

xx 

 



Amiche di Scraps LO #10 and August Counterfeit Kits

 

 

I've been trying to squeeze in some organisation here....

 

1.   I really wanted to do

Amiche di Scraps LO Challenge

 as I loved the criteria of 'hand-writing' 

 

 

Soooooo, here it is.....

Meaghan sent me this lovely photo of her taken this morning in New Zealand where she now lives.....  and had the urge to scrap it straight away - Amiche's criteria was perfect!!!

 

Got drippage going both ways... and flipped sideways these 'lines' inevitably became the lines to journal upon.





 

 

 

 

Anyway..... onto the other reasons for my 'getting organised'.....

 

2.  Counterfeit Kit Challenge Blog - August!

Love this blog because the one thing it does is make me rummage through my stash and remind me what I've got and some of what I've got is OLD but incredibly useful!

 

I had a ball.... the kit and add-ons being counterfeited are from Studio Calico...

Check HERE for the full run-down and links

 

This is the card kit.... (there are others)but I really like this... and as usual,

I got stuck on the colours ......

coral, blues and yellows

 

 

So here's No 1, No 2 and No 3....

 

 

there's more....

 

and my reason.....

3.  I'm off to Melbourne and catch a plane out tomorrow for work... so these kits will give me something to do in my hotel room at night! 

 

And....  while looking at the add-ons...

 this caught my eye....

yeah.... black and white....  and its appealing!

 

so here's my black and white part of the kit....

 

 

Hmmn, it looks bigger set out here than what it does all squared away in a 12x12 plasic Ziploc bag!

I thought that having these basics would cover all basis with the coral, blue and yellows when it came to scrapping - especially away from home....

 

And for a little practice,

I completed the Amiche LO challenge (first picture above) just from my plastic bags!  (though I did cheat and grabbed some drippage stuff and used my bigshot for butterflies!

 LOL... no doing that while I'm away!

 

I'll be checking in from time to time and will be back on Thursday night...

In the meantime here at home, dh and Paige will hold down the fort, look after kitty and birds,

Paige has her Year 12 mid year exams  this week too...

lots going on!

 

xx