A Teacup of Scrapisms

Sunday, 10 July 2016

Travel Album LO and Our Beautiful World.....

It was great to actually do a full layout again for my travel album.

Its been so long since being caught up with Project Life.

Might do a few more! I've been managing to collect older Basic Grey papers, especially Phresh and Phunky and Sublime.... with a few favourites like Modica and Infuse.... Basic Grey lost the recipe after they created those! And I'm about to loose my camera for not taking clear photos! Grr!

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Our Beautiful World...

the theme is

PLAY

Paige had some fun with these two Koala characters from her childhood memories.

Thrill to bits seeing them at Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary, Paige waited in line with all the little kids to have her photo taken too!

Share your 'Play' photography stories

HERE

Tuesday, 5 July 2016

Our Beautiful World... and a PL page

Our Beautiful World...

the theme is

Bits and Pieces

I gathered the little charms from all kinds of places to make up this pin for Paige as a good luck gift when she was in the Disney's production Beauty and the Beast

with Belle

Share your 'Bits n Pieces' photography stories

HERE

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I've had a moment or two to do some scrapping in the background.

Here's a page from our trip to the Gold Coast at the beginning of the year..

Monday, 27 June 2016

Sketches in Thyme and Our Beautiful World

Sketches in Thyme
I was so pleased to get hold of a dvd taken of Paige when she was six years old dancing
in a concert full of adults performing and had very little in the way of photos to
remember it by from back in 2003.
HOWEVER, I took some photos of the screen when the dvd was placed on 'pause'. AND even though the photos are pretty ordinary - weeeell awful quality really - it doesn't matter!! These photos are a precious memory worthy of being scrapped. So into my PL album this week it goes! The dancer Paige is performing with went onto a place with the Victorian College of the Arts . Out of 500 applicants Australia wide, only 30 are selected. and she graduated as their best 3rd year student.

The sketch is really open for scope and prompted to journal over the photo:

Sketch #32

It was also lovely to get this feature last week :)

for this little card :)

thanks so much
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Our Beautiful World...

the theme is

'Three'

because

Our Beautiful World is celebrating our 3rd anniversary

So come join in the fun!

Here are three little buds

in a cluster:

And I managed to catch these little three in my back garden

a couple of days ago......all fighting over a bit of bread

Hope you can share your 'Three' photography story

HERE

Tuesday, 21 June 2016

Sketches in Thyme Project Life Style and Our Beautiful World

Sketches in Thyme

#31

Reversed it a little

Here's a top half of 12x12 PL page

When doing a couple of subjects on a page, I usually colour code it.

The other part of the page had a grey background which worked well with the orange.

LOL, and no this isn't where she got her job :)

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Our Beautiful World...

the theme is

'OLD'

This little cupid statue sits in our garden,

Its beautiful and weather-worn.

Decades ago, it was given to us as a wedding present :)

Share your 'OLD' photography story

HERE

Wednesday, 15 June 2016

Our Beautiful World

Our Beautiful World...

the theme is

TEXTURE

Left over from flooding.....

There's also a DT CALL...

check it out

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Monday, 6 June 2016

Our Beautiful World and oh boy... what a horrible weekend!

First up we'll start with the lovely

Our Beautiful World...

where the theme is

'REFLECTION'

Paige and her French friend Margot

Share your 'REFLECTION' photography stories

HERE

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You may have heard that the east coast of Australia has been lashed with rain and high winds.
Houses, possessions and lives lost.

And Tasmania is having its fair share.

Towns here have been and are being evacuated due to flooding. The Army moved in to help

One body found and two people are missing presumed drowned.

My husbands truck this morning......

It's looking rather 'jack-knifed pressed hard up against the others and

into the tanks. Lost is two B-doubles and 3or 4 other semis. The office - computers -everything have gone. It will probably 3 weeks before the office is up and running again and new trucks sourced.

Some of the other businesses in the same road lost dozens of trucks - and forklifts, containers full of products.

This is our local jetty yesterday -

I've never seen it like this before - ever!

The wind shook our house.

King tides.

We (personally) are fine, we are up on higher ground.
Though, absentees where high in my classes today - not surprising.
Probably will be for a little while.

My prayers are with the families who have lost their loved ones,

to those who have had to leave their houses, lost possessions, to the farmers already battling loses with animals and livestock swept away or trying hard to save them...

We can only imagine .....

Tuesday, 31 May 2016

White With 1 and Our Beautiful World

I cant believe I've actually completed a LO!

I haven't played with WW1 for soooo long!

Great inspiration and a chance to get another page for my travel album done!

This month White with One's colour is Tangerine...

Oh boy... I kept feeling I was reverting to red all the time...

tangerine is tricky to keep more 'orange'!

Then to get the photography colour right in cloudy ole Tasmania...

hard!

Anyways... here it is.....

Cut the photo out and made more of a 'book-like' feel for the LO. The tangerine paint underneath keep 'bleeding through the gesso... but I think its still 'white' enough :)

Yay!! so nice to play again!

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