Week two 2012

I have been meaning to scrap these photos of Braedeo and I at Batemans Bay at the beginning of this year.  We went down just after New Year, it was nice to get away for a few days.  Nice quiet walks on the beach and just taking it easy and really do not much of anything. 

Technically some beaches don't allow dogs, but what harm could this lil doggy do.  We put Sienna in my red carry bag and walked onto the beach with her.  She's not big on the beach and was quite happy to sit in the bag for a while.  

Braedon's sole purpose of going to the beach was to hunt for crabs, he didn't catch any.  There were plenty there, - in the end I told him not to be cruel and stop trying to poke them out with a stick. 

He got the message.... lol - next venture was to catch the blue tongue lizard in Nans garden with a bucket and spade.

 And of course a quick game of putt putt golf (or mini golf) - of course I let Braedon win, but only by a point or two.

Mixed Media

I must admit I have been dabbling in mixed media for a weeks now.  A nice little kit is now available in the store here.  This is the kit here.

 

This is what I came up with  -I used a little photo I have of Tia 

I started with a canvas base 6 x 6 inches

Used my own home made seambinding

Prima and Green Tara flowers

Fabric flowers 

Scrapware Chipboard

Book paper

Elle's Studio tag

Cabochon

Button and twine

Prima paper

Off the Page Christmas House

What could be cuter than a Santa Chipboard Shadow Box
House complete with a little pack ofcards for play such as snap or memory.

The little house is a Scrapware Shadow box house available in the shop here.I painted the house pieces with white gesso then glued it together with Helmar Quick Dry Adhesive glue.
To make it easy I also used some tape to hold the pieces together while the glue set.

Papers uses were Pink Paislee Father Christmas .
I used the 6 x 6 paper pad which is really handy for this type of project.
To make the front I measured the border around the house and cut the centre from the PP Special Delivery paper including fussy cutting around the Santa Sleigh. The sleight needs to sit on the bottom right of the front of the house.

The centre piece is the 6 x 6 Christmas Airmail and my roof is a combination of the reverse sides of the Special Delivery and Santa Sleigh. (stripes and dots).

The side of the house was decorated withPink Paislee Artisan Tape which was a perfect fit.

I cut up the PP Christmas postcards to make the cards and laminated them and tied them up with some red Jute Cord. I did need the whole two sheets of this to make 24 cards.

The christmas message is also from the PP Christmas Punchouts.To give the 3D affect I used Scrap Dots which is a Helmar 3D adhesive (no messing around with sticky tape anymore). I just love this product. I don't know how many pairs of scissors I have gunked up with 3D tape. This is one product I will be continuing to keep in my stash of adhesives.

Now my tiny manilla folder was decorated with the '25 Days' cut from the corner of the Christmas Air Mail. The lil' manilla folder is available from the Journalling Spot section of the store. Inside I have written a personal christmas message. The Kaisercraft Sparklets added a touch of bling to my roof.

Last but not least my metal Ho Ho Ho
and the christmas bells were from our christmas decoration stash.

Layout Braedon

 I don't think I have posted this layout of Braedon I did some while ago. Was actually in a cooperative mood with the camera

I used the rest of my Fancy Pants  Daily Grind Papers.Plus lots of other products in this layout, all of which I have tried to list below.    I love the MME Diecuts and thought they would go very nicely with the pictures of Braedon - the circle diecut I thought was appropriate and stamped the arrow pointing to "sitting", which is very unusual for Braedon.

You can also see the layout in the gallery on the Soul Scrappers website.  They have some great challenges

Soul Scrappers Challenge

One of the challenges over at Soul Scrappers this weekend is the Song Lyric challenge.

Gave me some much needed inspiration to scrap a photo I have wanted to scrap for a while. The song  is Celine Dion "Because you loved you" I may end up removing the 'd' from this layout as it sounds like its in the past tense..lol

Now I must admit I did use a few products on this layout and I wanted to keep it simple and basically use black and white with another colour. I chose a soft torquoise blue. 

Products used 

Pink Paislee Mistable as my base, (its nice and thick no need for cardstock)

Black and white paper is Bella Grace 

Flourish with a Bling Black Jack

Glimmer Mist Trunk Bay, Jazz Blue and Midnight Blue

Ranger Distress Ink Tumbled Glass

From my stash

Corrugated cardstock

All letters

Hand stamped tag 

Printed music sheet

LYB Decorative edged tablet - Fresh Clothesline

White Muslin fabric (Under the flower)

And of course my own hand dyed seam binding ribbon. Using the glimmer mist colours listed above,

Think that's about it. Pop on over to Soul Scrappers and check out all their other challenges, plus lots of chat, swaps, inspiration and more