Getting painty and inky over the weekend!!!

Well, I needed a project, (never mind the 5 or so UFO's I have sitting around waiting to be finished!!!) So I set of in blogland to find some inspiration. I had an idea to create a mini tag book full of inspirational words to live by. The idea to look at a word a day and bring that word into my life!!! I so need it right now!
As you will see here, I have used mainly Tim Holtz Distress products, loving the paints by the way!!

I began by using my Aquarell water colour crayons to give the tags a watercolour, soft background! Then got out the Distress inks and stamps and stencils to decorate. The reverse sides of the tags got a little brighter as I used Distress inks and paints for the backgrounds.

I handwrote the words in black crayon and went over them with a water brush!. Stay tuned for the finished book and the challenge it refers to!!! TFL :)

Bragging rights!!

I am so happy when I see my name in lights/well in the Scrapbooking Mags. at least. I don't often share with friends, as I don't have alot of crafty friends, but thought I am pretty deserving of sharing on my own blog. I do have a PUBLISHED WORK tab at the top of my blog, but think it's easier to post here. In issue No. 101 of  SCRAPBOOK CREATIONS MAG. I was a finalist in the Design Diva comp. my layout is below!!!

The latest Scrapbooking Memories mag is out. You will find my PHOTOBOOTH FUN AT THE FETE, layout, in the final encore pages, right at the back.The gorgeous Lizzy Hill made the cover of this month's issue!

New projects

Well, it's been quite a few weeks since I last blogged. All due to starting a new job, house hunting among other things and running kids around everywhere! I have still managed a little crafting time in between. Here are a few of my latest projects!

QUICK BOY'S BIRTHDAY CARD!

I used Kaszazz cardstock, embossing powder and stamp, a Simple Stories 3x4" card, A punched star from some kaszazz paper. The chevron stamp was a freebie from a mag. and I finished it off with some Ranger, enamel dots in white!!

THESE GIRLS LAYOUT!

These pics are from our recent trip back to Port Douglas to pack up our home. We had a night out for Hubby's birthday and i got to catch up with some wonderful friends who i miss very much!!! The layout was based on a sketch by Kelly Purkey. I used some AC Dear Lizzy papers, Simple Stories journal card, stamps by Kaszazz and Stampin Up, rub ons from Heidi Swapp and some generic alphas. I used a Kaszazz stencil for the bubble cirlces along with H. Swapp Color shine in Georgia Peach. There's also a couple of spritzed dots of color shine and dylusions, finished off with some Kaszazz washi tape and some small punched butterflies. TFL :)

Scrapfriends Sketch Challenge # 22

I finally get to have some scrapping fun. It's been a very busy and eventful past few months, which I will share here eventually! But for now! I have joined in the fun over at the Scrapfriends Blog, for their Sketch challenge # 22.
Here is the sketch!

And here is my layout! I decided on a boy theme and used Kaiser Base coat as my background paper. Then went for a bit of stamping, misting, painting, washi tape and more! I've backed the photo with some newly found burlap. Thanks for looking!

More December Daily pages

Well, it really is a challenge keeping up with December Daily. Taking the photos is not the problem for me, just getting around to editing and printing them is the hard bit. I think there's only been one day where I haven't taken a pic, but thought about what we did, and got photos to suit. Now madness has really set in with kids on holidays, driving me crazy already, and us leaving for Adelaide on Monday, trying to get all the washing done, bills paid, queries sorted and packing, and of course printing out whatever DD photos I have!! Taking it with me, who knows I may spend a tiny bit of time keeping it up to date!These are some of  the family photos I took last week. Our traditional family Christmas photo!

DECEMBER DAILY DAYS 1 AND 2

I HAVE BEEN SO KEEN AND KEPT UP FOR THE FIRST COUPLE OF DAYS! I'VE GOT MY PICS PRINTED FOR DAY 3 AND 4, SO JUST NEED TO STICK TO THE ROUTINE I HAVE AND ALL WILL BE ROSY????????

HERE'S MY DAYS 1 AND 2!

TFL!

Playing with my new toy!!!

It’s been a long time coming, but I finally have myself a CANON 6D SLR. I have waited 7+ years for an upgrade from my 400D. So excited to get it out and play last weekend. Taylah is always up for some modelling, but Jack not so much! I did manage to get a couple of nice shots of the two of them which I like this one the best.

Then my girl decided to ham it up with a few hermit crabs!!! (At the beach across the road!)