Sunday Night Scrappin'

I love Scrappin'. This photo was lovingly restored and copied by my cousin Kim. It is of my Great Grand parents, on my mothers side, Herbert and Agnes Pike. This was a family picnic sometime after they were married.(no sign of the kids!) I intend to do a little journalling when I get the history right. 

I wanted to honor their memory with a youthful page, so there is lots of flowers and buds to represent newness. Thanks to RebelInker.blogspot.com  For the design on the Five Petal Punch Flower. The Buds are all mine!

they are made from the same punch, in smaller quantities.

Card of the Week

Bodacious again! This time I have used Cameo Coral as my base card, and added Pretty in pink with W /White flowers.

Next layer is three flowers stamped and cut in G/Guava, Regal Rose and Rose Red.  The leaves are in Old Olive. That's six colours plus white. I'm sure there is a rule about using too many colours- it was fun anyway. Almost forgot, I also added Only Orange  to the G/Guava flower , using the Rock'n'Roll technique. The base card is Watercolor Vine in W/White. Thanks for looking.

Saturday Card Making

We are really on fire now! our lovely and talented ladies took on a wallet card this month. Everyone left a winner.We had some great wallets in four different colours. Thanks to Dannie Graves, for sharing her version with the world. I added a few changes to make it an Aussie version. The Faux Suede look was achieved using Cling Wrap, and the measurements are converted to cms. I was pleased to make a card that used up a whole piece of card stock, with no waste.

Card of the Week

How's this for a bright and cheery card! My newest stamp set is "Bodacious Bouquet," and I must have stamped this flower in nearly every colour in my collection today. Hehehe! I settled on makinga card in this colour combo, as there was a scrap of this DSP from the Summer Picnic range, just sitting in my "scraps to keep"  box. The rest of the flowers will find a home over the next week. 

I will try to do something amazing  and new with them.

Card of the Week

My favourite set from the new spring Mini Catalogue would have to be Enjoy Every Moment. I could see so much potential with cards and scrapping. I wanted to design a card for our workshop that was fresh and fun, and captured the essence of Spring. 

Card of the Week

The next set I chose was Bloomin' With Beauty. I had seen this single poppy on SCS a few times, and really liked it. I also purchased the Gingham ribbon in Pretty in Pink, and was really impressed with how beautiful it was.

Card of the Week

Saturday marked the release of the new Spring Mini Catalogue

Ruth and I held a workshop to celebrate release of the spring catalogue.We chose three sets of stamps each, and worked on them for a few weeks before. We were really excited to show off the new stamps.

True Friend was one of the sets I chose to work with. It was really hard to get away from the earthy colours, as this set is so suits them so much.

Tuesday's Terrific Tips

How did I do that Back ground????

Well it's so easy, even a four year old can do it. Johnny and I had fun with the Brayer and ink pads, when we made the background papers for our last scrappin' entry.As you can see it's all in the wrist action, and the way you smile, as you Brayer away! 

John had it down pat, by the second page. You just keep going over the page with the inked up Brayer till you get the desired effect. It looks a little patchy now, but with patience it comes out as a lovely mottled "water coloured" look. After it dried , I stamped the group of trees from Lovely as a tree, along the green band to create a "Tree line" border. You can see the finished pages in my previous posts. Thanks John for the help! 

Sunday Night Scrappin'

This is page two of  my latest pages titled "Tranquil Tropics."

I still don't got the hang of posting yet. This  is the local swimming hole known as "Josephine Falls."It has a fantastic natural rock water slide, into a deep rock pool. Beyond that is fast flowing rapids, that wind on for a few more kms. The water is icy cold all year round, and makes a refreshing dip in our hot tropical summers.

May is the beginning of our Dry (or cold season) , so taking a dip in the rock pool at this time of year was extreme cold for us. I plunged into the water and and swam about 500m to the other side, climbed up, and fell straight back down on my butt. 

It must have been the funniest of sights, as I lay there giggling too hard to get up again. I had tears rolling down my cheeks from laughter, and not the pain. I think the cold numbed the pain.

My concerned family could only stare and wonder if I was hurt or not. Eventually my brother summoned up enough courage to brave the cold, and swam over to see if I was okay.

I stood up before he got to the other side and pronounced if his little sister was going to brave the rock slide , he would too. We both had a little chuckle about a time when we would not have hesitated to enjoy such fun, and went the distance several times that afternoon. What priceless memories!

Sunday Night Scrappin'

Aah! Lovely as a Tree. Here is one of those long awaited Scrapbook pages that I promised. Back in May , my family came to visit, and we did the tourist trek to our favourite water holes around our area. These pics are of "The Boulders', at Babinda, NQLD and "Josephine Falls"a little further south. My brother Bruce and his wife Sally, really enjoyed the long walking tracks through the rainforest canopy.

They took aprox 100 pics of trees, leaves, waterfalls , rocks and bugs. They were awsome shots, and I hope to continue with scrapping a few more pages of them.