First canvas

I had my first go at working on a canvas last week, and am pretty happy with the result for a first time out.

Dianne held a class, and we worked on creating the background with alcohol inks, stamping, creating textures, and embossing metal. It was a great hands on, fingers dirty session, and I loved every minute. The great thing was that everyone had such a different result!

Here is my version with some photographs I took myself a few years back now, but they seemed to fit the theme, after I grunged them up a bit.

Here is a link to Dianne's blog: http://artofcraft.co.nz/blog/

March Madness Scrap Retreat

I recently attended the March Madness Scrap Retreat in Rotorua, and I must confess had a really wonderful time. The event was filled with fun and excitement, with 3 wonderful lessons on the Saturday. I was really pleased the with the Challenge pack we received, beautiful papers. The weekend was made all the more wonderful by Shell's fiance playing the guitar and providing the ladies with some sing-a-longs in the evenings.
The first layout we did was a cuttlebug one, and great fun was had choosing textures. The amazing thing was how different everyones looked in the end. Here is my version, a photo of my granddaughter, taken as she was getting ready for a dance recital.

Then we moved on to work with one of my favourite papers of all time, Graphic 45, Once upon a Springtime. We were shown some texturing techniques and had great fun cutting out all the little images. I had recently taken some photos of my daughter and decided to use one of her for this paper. It was a beautiful shot, even if I say so myself, lol. I am still deciding on a title and the journalling.

And then lastly in the day, we worked with some Colour Wash sprays and had a great messy time. I managed to get in 2 layouts during this class, which was the greatest fun. Anyone who knows me will know that I love getting messy when working with ink and paints. :) I used a photo of my eldest daughters themed birthday party, on the Pink Paislee paper, and then "spotted" some colour wash on plain white paper for the second layout of my grandson, with his beautiful smile, munching on his much loved Chocolate cake!

And of course I managed to find time to work on the challenge pack, with absolutely gorgeous Little Yellow Bicycle papers. Just loved working with it.

My baby granddaughter in the park not wanting to do what I wanted and standing her ground! She is just the cutest!

In between times I worked on a tag. We had been given Tim Holtz tree die cuts by one of the ladies as a pin swap and I decided to make mine into a tag.

All in all it was a wonderful retreat, learned lots, achieved heaps.

Can't wait for the next one.

http://scrapbookdreamsblog.blogspot.com/2011/03/scrapbook-dreams-retreat.html



YPP Travelogue for Michelle

I am participating in the Your Paper Pantry Travelogue Journal group, that has ladies participating from around the world. I received Michelles journal recently and managed to do a layout detailing what inspires me to create in my scrapbooking endeavours. Great fun this one. Can't wait for the rest to arrive. 

Michelle's Travelogue

Some more tags that I made at Dianne's recently, forgot to upload these some weeks ago, but I just love the techniques.

 Thanks Dianne.

Steampunk Debutante Inspiration Art Booklet

I have been away from this blog for a while, but I still been scrapping fairly regularly. Life has a way of gettin in the way of the best laid plans at times.

Anyway, Shell chellenged me to a swap of a 6 page 5 x 5 chipboard booklet, bound with a zutter ring binder.

Her version was an absolutely gorgeous Garphic 45 Halloween In Wonderland book, which I received a while back and was absolutely taken with it, it is so gorgeous.

This here is my take on a Graphic 45 Steampunk Debutante inspirational booklet. Managed to catch up with Shell today and gave it to her.

Hope you enjoy Shell.




Thanks
Lynne