18 September 2008

Just thought I should update this - I have been terribly slack - she has turned 18 months old - seems like such a big gap between when she was born and now. I am also a month away as of yesterday to having our second child. Feeling really tired. Have entered the sketchbook olympics - so far out of 4 challenges I have only completed 1 or is it 2? I have been leaving it til the Monday its due and this week when she was sleeping and wanted me beside her and then woke up crying and my 2 Aunts were arriving and we were having dinner I thought I would still get it completed but was so tired it just didn't happen so it is still in pieces. Here is my one that we had to do using no more or less than 10 elements - I can do simple but am trying to expand on that and try other things. The photo is taken 10 April 2007 so she was almost a month old - I used the quote SHE just has this way of brightening the day - celebrate her radiance was the rest of the quote by Kobi Yamada that I didn't use.

29 August 2008 Moving in a sense

Today my parents and brother moved house. This is the house I had lived in since I was 3 months old. I feel really sad and find it hard for it to seem real yet - I can't imagine someone else living in it that isn't our family - our daughter loved it - loved the garden, loved the neighbourhood. Hard to let go - but sometimes you just don't have a choice. I think part of it is that we don't have our own home and the entire time we have been married we have moved about 10 times so this was one stability in life - this was where our girl spent her first month or so and this was theoretically her first home. She seems unfazed by thing at the moment - I am worried if I go tomorrow to the house that I will get too upset. So many memories - nothing feels like home like that place did but I am hoping one day that it will. Here are some shots of her taken on Wednesday - 27 August. We went with mum and dad out to lunch and she fell asleep on the way home. The first photo is her dancing to the music in her car seat. The next photo is when she got into the milk powder and shook it around and got it on her face.

SYTYCS your own style

These were some ideas Meeks posted to help when defining your own style.
Write up a new list of favourite things if it helps...here are the prompts I gave to help you define your style at the beginning of the comp....write it up again and see if its changed...

What size photos do you like to scrap...
who or what sort of subjects do you usually scrap....
what colours do you tend to use the most....
do you like to mix up the pattern paper or use complimentary patterns and colours....
whats the first thing you reach for when you start a layout....
how do you journal....
are you a embellishment girl...do you like a lot or a little....
Simple lines or lots of detail....
What size layouts do you do the most...
Do you like to scrap single photos or multiple photo's
You need to do a title...whats the first thing you think of....alphabet stickers, computer, free hand, stamps, chipboard....
Paint or ink?
Whats your favourite trend or technique?

Meek

SYTYCS challenge 7 - last one - Sleeping Beauty

Friday 11 July 2008

This week you are scrapping in YOUR OWN STYLE!!

For the last 6 weeks you have tried on the different scrapping styles of our DT but now we want you to dig up that piece of paper you defined YOUR style on at the beginning of the comp and go for it with no restrictions…total freedom….there is no theme, no elements set by us….we want to see a totally original layout by YOU!

At first I was wondering what am I going to do - then I found this photo sorting through papers and chose it and ended up keeping it really simple - which could be my style (???? who knows?)

SYTYCS challenge 6 4 July 2008

Welcome to the Gorgeously Grungy, Shabby Chic with an Edge style of Louise.

Louise cleverly mixes her graphic designer skills with a love of shabby chic, giving her pages their own unique twist.

She embraces Hybrid scrapping, seamlessly mixing digital elements onto a traditional paper layout…sometimes altering her photo, maybe printing digital embellishments or often using the computer to journal the story.

She likes to draw you deep into her layouts creating intriguing dimension with shadows of chalk, ink or paint….creating a well loved, care worn look in the process.

Louise gets rough with those richly coloured papers, tearing, ripping edges, folding down, scrumpling…its all about creating texture and contrast. Her signature is to layer up her embellishments, grouping together items she loves in fabulous clusters bursting with swirls of foliage and flowers.

Louise is all about attention to details…If you look very closely you will see the carefully layered up strips of patterns and trims, the sheer or clear elements….gauzy ribbons, transparent overlays, the sprinkle of bling and brads or a sweeping swirl of hand stitching that appear effortlessly beautiful but which have been created with much care and thought.

Ahh ha..yes.. so you think you can Scrap!! Well we KNOW you CAN!!! We have seen the amazing layouts you have come up with in previous weeks so dive on in and rock out a lovely layered Louise masterpiece... Heres what you need to include on your page…

Distressed paper
Ink and/or chalk
Layers…at least 3!
Rich colours
Digital – (this could be a printed embellishment, journaling or altered photograph)
Leaves
Clear/sheer element
Brads

If you havn't already...(come on out from under that rock !!) you must check out Louise's galleries and blog....

Blog
http://louisewilliams.wordpress.com/

SYTYCS challenge 5

This challenge was set by Lisa at Scrapbooking by design (Friday 27 June 2008)
A whole piece of patterned paper as background
birds and/or butterflies
foam or chipboard alphabet
fabric
pink or teal or lime (or use all or a combo of 2 if you wish)
And no matter what it is .. include on your LO the newest, scrappin supply you have bought recently

I really enjoyed this challenge with the colours although could have been more adventerous

SYTYCS challenge 4

This challenge was set my Heidi
Black and white with bursts of colour/s
Doodling
Bling
5x7 photo
flourishes/swirls
rubons and/or transparencies
cut work from pattern paper
flowers (either in pattern or otherwise)

I really enjoyed this challenge. Used a photo that Amanda Haynes, photographer frm Rangiora took - wondered afterwards if that was okay as it never said it had to be a photo you had taken and I don't really have many other 5x7 photos