Travellogue 2C (2)

I received and have finished working on Michelle's travelogue journal. Her theme "The Divine Feminine" caused me to do some deep soul searching and on the whole it was a cathartic experience for me.
I absolutely love the idea of these circle journals, as they cause one to reflect and think outside the normal safety zones of our lives.

Her journal is absolutely lovely and I am only honoured to be able to share a little of myself with her and the other woman around the world, to whom this journal will be travelling.



Thank you to the ladies in the Your Paper Pantry Travelogue 2C group.

Playdate with Dianne

I had a playdate with Dianne and Jill today and we worked on a variety of tags, inspired by Tim Holtz new dies and goodies. We played with a number of techniques and my, did the time fly. First we made some stamp pads, and as I do not have any TH Xmas stamps yet, I made a colourful pad for a Arty stamp.
I was completely fascinated by the fun Dianne was having with the haunted house and rickety fence dies, and so I just had to have a go at working with that.

My little summer house by the beach/lake.

I then went on to playing with one of TH's paper ribbon flowers and built on something around that using a few of his products. Great fun!

My colourful stamp pad behind the new sticky tape flower, and using the film strip ribbon, and a muse token. I also used a sticker for his salvage sticker booklet.

Then last but not least, I got down to a  Christmas tag, which I absolutely adore. I used the TH faceted fragments, the Pine tree die, playing with putting the snow on the tree and some of his new velvet pleated ribbon. Yummy stuff.

Halloween in Wonderland - an Inspiration

I attended Carol's retreat in Tauranga over the weekend and my friend brought along a mini that she had made for me. We had made a pact at the previous retreat that we would swap minis made for each other, not for photographs or journalling, but purely inspirational. Well, I was the very lucky recipient of my mini over the weekend. It is absolutely gorgous, Thanks Shell.

Shell: http://scrapbookdreamsblog.blogspot.com/
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PS: Sorry for the wobbly video, I was in a hurry, lol.



Thanks Shell, this is just so aewsome! My grandkids will love looking at it.
:)

Travelogue Second Stop - awsome to be part of this.

My travelogue has reached its third destination, and had a going over by Kaytee. I find this journey of my travelogue to be so exciting and inspiring. Isn't it great when a plan comes together? Thanks gals, love your work.

Calendar Girls weekend

I have just had an awesome weekend away with a bunch of scrappy ladies in Waihi Beach. What fun girls, thanks for a most inspiring and wonderful weekend. Pushed some boundaries that would otherwise never have been considered. :)
I spent most of my scrappy time catching up on an international travelogue or circle journal that I have subscribed to and for the first time in a while, I found my mojo.
My travelogue was entitled "Inspire, Create" and it is about what words, colours, shapes, designers inspire you to create the way you do. I have also used mostly recycled board for the book. The option is there for my fellow creatives to use whatever materials, mediums, styles or designs that they may wish to.
For postage and handling purposes I am keeping the journal tied with leather string, but the final version will probably be finished with TH chain.

My next pages were notes to my travelogue partners on what was required for this journal and then I did a page journalling a story that had been very inspirational to me in my life and the making the decisions that I have in the later part of my life.

Then I go on to show some of the style, and people/designers that inspire me the most at the moment.

Last but not lease we have a sign in page where each contributor gets to sing in their details and hopefully attach a picture of themselves or some other identifying trademark on the tag.

Here is one of the tags in my journal using some of the new TH dies.

I have really had a great time putting this all together, now for the next project...

I did have time to fit in one layout with some of the goodies, received in the goodie bag. It is still unfinished in that it needs a title and some journalling, but will get to that soon and then post the pic.