Layout Share – Book Bombed

I have to admit that this Basic Grey range of paper “Lime Rickey”looked real nice when I was ordering it. I waited for the preorder to arrive and the day it came Michele took some and did a fabulous extension class with it (remember that “You’re the Coolest”page she did?) so the next day we re-ordered enough stock to do 50 classes with plus extra. Then it was out of stock. The very next day.

Everyone liked it. It was in hot demand.

But I wasn’t so sure. It seemed just that too “far out” for me. Especially those wierd ones, the papers that looked like the designer had been hallucinating at the time.

Michele then challenged me to use some in a layout, I managed to do it, but still felt it was too loud, although the page looked good. I need a bit of prodding sometimes to get out of my comfort zone.

So this is the left over of my favourites from this range. I just love the stripey one and those wicked circles.

Layout – Cute Pooch

Living in a coastal town you’d think we’d go to the beach often. Nope. We do love the beach, and as a teenager both the King and I were beachlovers, the surfie dude and his chick on the sand. I’d go to work sunburned and my boss would tell me off for not using sunscreen (we sold it there) and the makeup lady (Bronwyn) would tsk tsk tsk at what I was doing to my skin. What did I care? I was having fun and far too lazy to cover up.

There was me, lying on the sand, dreaming of my future.

I imagined my children, little brown athletic babies, running in the waves. I thought they’d all know how to surf by the age of three. I thought our Kelpie /Labrador – water loving energetic dog, would be with us forever (R.I.P Zoey) and I thought life was going to be one big long holiday.

Boy I was wrong.

Our first born is no surfer. He doesn’t like the heat, the cold, the sand, the sun. In fact he doesn’t like most things. He burns in 10 minutes, this raises his temperature (on top of everything else he also has a condition called ‘thermoregulatorydysfunction’)and when his temp rises.. well you know what a fever is like.. he cries… then it goes up more… then heat rash… and so on… for hours. Not fun. So, number one rule – do not get burned. How do you do this in our beautiful land? You don’t go outside.. and you certainly don’t go to the beach. That was a hard adjustment for us.

 Occassionally when he is in care we might venture to the beach, so this day we decided to take the 3 little ones and the 2 pooches to the sandy shore.

It was Jaxsons’ first time braving the water. He learned to catch a frisbee! Even better he learned to bring it back. Now this is a huge acheivement, or little fluff ball is not too bright. He didn’t like the water too much, but had a great time running about getting sandy.

Just love that wet face. What a fun day.

Layout Share – Imagine

The challenge was

• the word “imagine” in the title
• red
• cream
• black

This challenge turned out easier than I thought it would. I just grabbed a heap of leftovers in the challenge colours and then figured which photos I would use. These were perfect. Pity it takes me so long to put together though.

The title is cut from the Cricut (welded with the Design Studio).  I cut two; one from black and the other from chipboard to layer.

i ♥ scrapbooking

Layout Share – Silly Goof Balls

By Natalie Perks

Love these photos of Mother/Daughter being silly, this is such a fun layout.

Just noticed that they have knicker hats on ! How funny!

Base inspiration

We all get our inspiration from somewhere.  I thought I’d show you a few layouts that my friends Nat and Michele did a while back. I found the pics on my camera as I was formatting it ready for a new disk.

Often when we scrap together we challenge each other in different ways to create a page. Sometimes it’s an idea, sometimes it’s a new range of products, sometimes it’s just plain old copying of a layout. That’s my favourite, I love to reproduce a layout in different colours, with different photos.

These layouts were all completed in the same night from the same idea source. It was a layout in a magazine somewhere, I can’t even remember which one now, but it was one we all liked the composition of.

See how we all created something totally different, but when you put them side by side you can pick that they are the same layouts?

Nice huh?

Why dont’ you give it a whirl? Grab a photo and a few papers that go together and see what you come up with.

Cricut Club Class

 We are running the Free Demonstration Night again for the Cricut Design Studio next Friday night, followed by an easy Cricut Class on Saturday morning.

Click here to see other pages by our customers in past classes.

Friday 18th – Free Demo Night

Saturday 18th – 10.30 – 12.30- Cricut Class. Suitable for Cricut, Create and Expression users.

Layout Share – Make a wish

This is my version of Nat’s class last term, which ended up as a double page. I loved doing this one..  the colours were just great! Not your average pink/lime girly page.

Even the cutting out wasn’t so bad… there were plenty of stickers too.

Look at those cheeky girls poking tongues at me!

Layout share – 10 Wonderful

This is an oldie.. but it’s the only photo I have of a layout to share tonight. I took a photo of it before I put it away in the album as it’s been up for a while.

This is one of #4’s favourite layouts. I think because it says lots of nice things about him.

But of course there are more than 10 really wonderful things i really love about him.

Layout Share – July

Nat’s Calendar Class is half way through the year. Those who signed up for this class, (and waiting for this image to hit their inboxes) are just loving it.The pages Nat continually comes up with are awesome.
Here is July.

Those signed up will recieve your emails as soon as I get back on track. Soon. Fingers crossed.

Layout Share – Always Nice

Layout I completed the other night when out scrapping with a friend. Somehow I seem to be more likely to finish  a layout when I am in company, at home lately I struggle to finish anything…

I used the some old Basic Grey, they never go out of favour, and new Websters paper, the butterfly is a dead giveaway (although it was blue, I reinked it with some of the distress ink, Michele loaned me her “Peeled Paint” and a now I think I need that colour too – oh no)

Delish Wedding Album Class

We are running this album class again. This is a BIG class. You will need all day, and you will be exhausted… but you will get it done. All 20 pages.

Imagine that. A whole  20 page album completed in one day —  and it’s beautiful.

The next date set is Saturday August 22nd 9am – 5pm.

The album is on display at the shop, along with a full student supply list so you know what photos and tools to bring along.

Layout Share – It’s a Girl Thing

Flat out – as usual, so I thought I’d post another layout from slower times…. Easter in SA. Ahhh… relaxing on the couch. That’s seems another dimension away to me today.

This is using the Basic Grey Wisteria range, love those purples. Pity I don’t have more purple photos to scrap.

Now I am off to go scrap with a friend, finish my extension classes and  I might even try the challenge she has set me for one of my own.

Enjoy your day.

xxx

Layout Share – Brrr

As you can imagine I am still scrapping photos from our South Australia visit earlier this year. I am so behind I have almost given up hope. Ah well. Such is life. As I always say, a busy life is a full life. I’d hate to be bored with nothing to do. (or would I… mmm)

Simple layout using Cricut snowflakes for some skating photos. It was difficult to chose just 3 to use for these pages. I still need to scrap the rest, there are even some of ME on ice skates… talk about scary… one would think the ice would crack! The manageress assured us she had a direct line to the ambulance so it’d be ok. That’s  reassuring. Not.

Layout Share – Bake

It’s been a couple of days and I haven’t posted… oops, time got away from me.
It’s always busy here at home, and the first week of classes at work are always hectic. It’s so great to see everyone again as we swing into our class routine. We started a new class this term, our cardmaking group, which expanded into two classes (there’s still room in the afternoon session if you want to join us) and the first class was full on! I spent too long talking (can you imagine? Me? Talking?) but I was so happy at the end as the girls seemed to enjoy it… some even found renewed love of stamping like me. Next week, we are Cuttlebugging.

 

 

Layout Share – Life is in the Details

Here is my version of Peta’s class last term, with lots of distressing.

Layout Share – Recharge

This is one I have recently completed from a sketch in a mag. Nat and Michele had their versions and they looked so cool I thought I’d give it a go too. The sketch was quite simple, with 4 squares, but Nat of course loaded hers up with all sorts of textures and embellishments that I took most of my inspiration from hers.

The letters are those bright pink ultra glossy ones that I thought I’d never use again… found they were perfect. Don’t ya just love that? The finishing touch for me was borrowing Michele’s Heidi Swapp Clock stamps and stamping one last image on the page where my letters didn’t go low enough.

I’ve been stamping a lot lately. Funny how life turns around. I started “crafting” about 15 years ago, and stamping was my first love. I still have the box that ALL MY SUPPLIES used to fit into. Its smaller than a shoe box. Can you believe that? It’s a perfume gift box. I have a thing about boxes. I do love them. I can’t bear to through it away, and through it’s life it’s had many uses, all important and meaningful to me. Right now it’s between jobs, but I will find another use for it I am sure. Sure as eggs it wont fit my stamping supplies anymore – I have my Tim Holtz tin box for that. Big smile. Told you I loved boxes!

It’s a sickness.

Delish Album Class

What a great bunch of girls we had to do this class this weekend, dedicated to finishing the whole album – no matter how long it took! They all did a superb job and their albums all looked so beautiful, nearly everyone choosing this album to be their Wedding Album.

Luckily they were all such good sports too as we went WAY over time. I had taken weeks to plan this class, and hadn’t done a “trial run” to see exactly how long it would actually take. Let’s just say it took longer than I envisaged.

Committed to the end.

This is what the workroom looked like as I was setting it up in the afternoon.

It looked so nice.. and tidy… but not for long.

The packs went out on the tables. Glad we didn’t have any real champers, we would never had made it as far as we did. It was caffiene and chocolate for us.

Delish-ious products to play with.

 

Thanks girls for a great night xx

Challenge Winner

Congratulations to Lisa M for her winning entry in the Scrapbook Challenge last month. Little Miss Chloe is her favourite subject right now to scrap… you can see why!

Layout Share – Friends

Michele’s layout using the new Crate papers and Twiddleybitz chipboard is  so sweet. She’s used the versamagic chalk inks on the chipboard to give it great colour.