Tag and flowers

I attended a tag techniques class over the weekend, and was most impressed with what I learned. We played with tim holtz inks, stamps, alcohol inks, and metal work. It was a wonderful experience.

I also made some flowers for the Crafting Passionz Halloween flower swap. The colours needed to be black, white, gold, green, orange or purple. It was quite a challenge, as I am not into Halloween that much. The first flower is purple and not blue. :)

All in all a productive weekend. Thanks Shell for making it so exciting. :)

Cards from scraps

Here are some cards I made from some left over scraps of a mini that I made. I was about to throw them out then I remembered seeing something in a magazine, and still did not have the right papers, but this is my version.

Crafting Passionz Flower and Tag Swap

Shar has uploaded a vid on You Tube to showcase the September Flower and Tag Swap. She also goes on to show us her gorgeous Alice mini album for her daughter.
Thanks Shar for all your hard work.

Bugs & Butterflies Retreat

I have just had the most wonderful weekend at the Bugs & Butterflies retreat held at Waihi Beach, NZ. The food was wonderful, the company was great and the layout and technique classes just kept us all really busy.
The first 2 layouts were done with the new Lost and Found papers and I managed to get a theme going with mine, with which I was delighted.

So my first one was of my daughter at 14 months who is now in her 20's. I have always treasured these pictures of her.

The second was of her daughter at about the same age. Our little treasure looks so much like her mum, it is almost quite scarey. I love her to bits.
The next layout class we did was a school type layout and I chose to do my eldest granddaughter on her first day of school last year, encouraged by her little brother. This is what mine ended up looking like.

 I found the challenge pack papers were excellent to work with and managed two layouts with mine. The first is a self portrait I did at dawn of new years morning 2009.

The second was of a special member of our family who passed a couple of years ago, but is still so fondly remembered.

And lastly a pic of some of the final product of our techniques sessions throughout the weekend.

I had the most awesome weekend, met some wonderful people, caught up with those that I only knew online. Thanks Gals.

A 12 x 12 flyby

Hey everyone,
I just thought I would have a play today with some of my layouts, keep a record, and also to show my family who live so far away. I haven't been scrapping for very long, but the bug has bit, and I am becoming a serial scrapaholic.
Most of my scrapping is done on a Friday evening at our local scrap shop, Bookem, with a lovely bunch of fun loving ladies.
Anyway here is a little collection I have put together.