All words no pictures today....

I've had a rotten time with flu, first Paige had it, then I got it, now Hannah has it. I'm only hoping that dh doesnt get it too. Its the worst of the worst we've had for a long time. My scrapping mojo ran off the minute the flu hit. I'm stuggling to find it. (frown) BUT: lots has been bubbling under the surface while I've been down and out - and surely you would think this will bring my mojo home - SCRAP THERAPY HAS its November CYBERCROP starting FRIDAY NIGHT! The monthly theme has been set as 'SPRING CARNIVAL RACING' soooo thats heaps of fun - head on over here to find out more. 123 CHALLENGE November criteria has been set: 1 Lace 2 pics of scary faces 3 Monochromatic color scheme ( SCARY FACES is your OWN interpretation) Head on over here to find out more http://ourbrightstarsandus.typepad.com/123challenge/

Last but not least Julie has blessed me with this wonderful Artey Pico Award for creativity, design, interesting material, and for contributing to the blogging community.

Thanks Julie. And the moment I can really do this justice by passing this onto some wonderful bloggers and giving it the appropriate write-up also, I will do so. I must get off this computer and have some rest. This flu-bug is a stubborn thing to get rid of!

COLOR COMBO GALORE #94

This week at Color Combo the shade of lime was added into the mix! Here's Hannah looking over the pond - a beautiful day with the sun shining down.

SCRAPPING THE MUSIC #59

I've used the words 'The Sky is Yours' from the song 'Im Yours' by Jason Mraz. It was perfect for this photo of Meaghan - just love the colour - that made it great to scrap too!!

AND check out my cat! Thats his 'I'M NOT' expression! I'm not moving, I'm not happy, I'm not going outside........

SCRAPPING ACROSS THE UNIVERSE #1

Scrappy certainly has a much better life now than how it could have turned out. Poor little thing hit the glass window, pretty much fell into the jaws of the cat and I dont think my feet touched the ground until I had little 'Scrappy' in my hands. My friend grabbed her camera and took this very touching photo. This little bird soon after just settled down into my hands and shut her eyes. I'm not sure what she was shutting out, but 5 mins later she had no trouble tucking into some food! So no shock evident! Scrappy's story was perfect for the words 'Listen to My Story'

OLW 'Imagine'

Both the girls tried to IMAGINE the enormity of living the life as a child of a lighthouse keeper as their ancestors had. Here in this photo, they talked about how lonely and long each dark night would be for the light pilot. No wonder such a detailed diary was kept to pass the time away high above the rest of the land. Click to enlarge to see Hannah and Paige trying to grasp the whole idea

COLOUR COMBO #93

Trying to photograph colours true to a swatch is sooo hard! I've painstakingly matched products used on the page to justify the colours chosen by Waleska for Colour Combo Galore, yet its turned out lighter than it should especially the deep orchid. I'm not sure how it happened but those wool threads are the same colour as the 'deep orchid' coloured tulips in the photo in real life though they have photographed lighter.....hmmn. I need to learn how to photoshop better I think!

AUSSIE SCRAPJACK

This is my entry for Aussie Scrapjack, and have to say that I started a couple of different layouts only to toss it aside each time - I really struggled with the circles!! Anyway - give me fabric to use and it will save the day! (and the LO!!) The elements that stuck in my mind - were the circles and the border, the one word title and its subject being flora - so this is my take.

SCRAPPING THE MUSIC #58

The song chosen this week is 'All Summer Long' by Kid Rock. I found the words 'Splashing through' in the lyrics and thought they were perfect for this photo of Meaghan splashing through the surface to snorkell. The underwater world is so vast, colourful and layered that a collage-gy feel bubbled to the surface when creating this LO! lol. So the process was one that just 'happened'.... with fabric, netting, gold foil, alphas and embellies. That little red 'eachway' arrow was actually ON the fabric!! It indicates which way the grain runs.......however it became such a fab sign for jumping up and splashing down!!!!! LOL!

Colour Combo Challenge #92

Here's my entry into Colour Combos Galore Blog Challenge. The colours to be scrapped where 'Sunflower, Alabaster,Charcoal Grey,Silver" I love using paint, so this was a really neat opportunity, painted cardboard bits and a chance to freehand cut and mount some 3-D tulips from grey, with a black shadow underneath. Its my first entry for Colour Combo.

SERVIETTE RINGS (getting ready for BBQ season)

If you are anything like me - I LOVE A BBQ and now that weather and season is here (almost for us Tasmanians), I thought I'd brighten up our BBQ table with these fab little Serviette Rings. AND the best thing of all is that this little project uses up your scraps!! If you'd like to do follow my step-by-step........ you will find it here at Scrap Therapy http://www.scraptherapy.com.au/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5224

OLW-KEEP

Sunday afternoon was spent in tulips! (and iris') Nearby, is a beautiful cape with stunning tulip and iris fields looking out to sea. The backdrop to the fields is a beautiful commanding view of our lighthouse where my family of generations ago lived and worked in the 1890's. The LO in the previous post called 'Teen Spirit' for 'Scrapping the Music' is of Hannah leaning up against the base of the lighthouse.

Here are my family of 'great, greats' ....... and for Hannah and Paige - add on another 'great'!

Here are Hannah and Paige standing in the same place where the Lighthouse Keepers' cottages once stood and where their ancestors played.

We are very lucky to be in possession of a copy of the diary kept in the lighthouse, the daily grind and every detail possible about the children. Its written in a mix of German, French, Latin and English.

Both the girls felt a sense of history and nostalgia.....it was really something!

(and just so you know - yes I've scrapped an album on our history)

SCRAPPING THE MUSIC #57 (Teen Spirit)

Even though the song 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' by 'Nirvana' only went up on the site today - I had the perfect photo and inspiration grabbed me!

123 CHALLENGE SAMPLE LO

I've managed to use all four criteria (could choose 3 of 4) being Handstitching Purple Animal somewhere on LO Garden theme I've used part of a very old silk scarf, it was perfect for the setting! I love working with fabric! Booky has her own LO now - she usually shares with Scrappy! LOL. She is a very alert bird, constantly looking out for danger. She is very very flighty and hasnt learnt to trust us yet. Its unusual really knowing that she was an aviary breed bird, yet Scrappy is very laid-back and came in from the wild. Interesting!

SCRAPPIN THE MUSIC #56

This week's song is 'The Tide Is High" by 'BLONDIE'. These photos could have been more fab than this - if only I kept the shutter going!! I could KICK myself, but my reaction was to freeze and get ready for a 'flight or fight' situation - which didnt need to happen! In a nutshell dh and Hannah walked along the pier at Rye, reaching the end they peered over the edge and as you can see - the pier was completely dry - I was photographing them - then suddenly from NO-WHERE a freak wave rose up - I froze, they threw their arms up and quickly turned and rushed away from it AND I MISSED THE MOMENT that COULD have been one of THOSE shots!!!!!!! And as you can see - I did get photograph them the following moment - brushing of the water from their clothes! Click to enlarge photo. Yes the tide was high! (and rough)

Working with MME LOVE Kit and some Sass Lass LO's

Here is the My Mind's Eye LOVE Kit LO's. With two extra pieces of cardstock, this kit did quite well. I tried to make it as versatile as possible.

As I said before - this is MME LOVE kit - there are many other kits of various themes and colours - you can find them here : http://www.scraptherapy.com.au/products.php?cat=18

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THis is a LO for Julies CC Challenge at Scrap Therapy. I love doing this style!! This is a sketch sample I created for OCT Cyberscrap at Scrap Therapy: Hannah practicing. The Design Team at Scrap Therapy created a Kaiser Chipboard Album each (complete with Kaiser paper and Rhinstones etc. This was my creation - which was an 'Arrow' shape, so i layered it a bit so there are sneak peeks of each page. Its a ballet album for Paige.

This was a Step-by-Step LO I taught at Scrap Therapy - you can find it here:

http://www.scraptherapy.com.au/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5000