watercolours

And so the packing and cleaning begins.....Again. hopefully the last time for awhile...we have 2 weeks till settlement and till we move into our new home. I had a bit of a tidy up in my small scrap space yesterday, and found a small bit of time for playing with my water colour pencils again. Teamed my coloured image wirh some Heidi Swapp papers.

Happy, Artsy me!!!

Yep, well, the happy and the mojo have definately returned. We have something to look forward to, a new home and more reasons to get creative. Back at work this week so not alot of time. However, I did manage to play with my new Kaszazz water colour pencils. Let me tell you ...I AM IN LOVE! WOW, The colours are amazing. Here I have used them on canvas paper and they suit this medium perfectly. They are smooth and they blend extremely well. They are vibrant, i want to play all day long!!! Take a look at my art journal page. I've also used Kaszazz stencils and some other brand stamps!!!

2 New layouts for NATIONAL SCRAPBOOK DAY 2014

CAN YOU BELIEVE THERE IS ACTUALLY A national scrapbooking day???? I just loved telling Hubby that I didn't need an excuse to scrapbook this weekend, it was an absolute must!!!!!! I worked on one layout I'm doing for a challenge, and then squeezed in two really quick pages. I'm so happy that I stopped all the thinking and looking for inspiration and just finally sat and did it. I'm hoping this means the mojo is coming back with a vengeance.
It may have something to do with the fact that the "happy" is coming back as we also purchased a house over the weekend!!! YAY TO THAT...
First layout...

I wanted to use lots of Heidi Swapp goodies on this one...So I did. Papers are from her Hello Today range. used Colourshine and the cute little sequin stamp. The only things not Heidi are the seam binding bow, but I did recolour it with Georgia Peach Colourshine, and the cardstock which are both from Kaszazz.
I was following along with Big Picture Classes this weekend as they were hoping to upload  10 000 layouts!!!! So much inspiration on their Instagram feed!!!

I enjoy scrapping in 8 1/2 x 11", and it's been awhile, so for a quick page, I threw this one together with some Amy Tangerine Papers and tags, Dear Lizzy tags, Kaiser stamps, Washi tape and Kaszazz butterfly stamp coloured with Alcohol Ink Art markers. I picked up a few cute little punches when we were in Adelaide at Christmas, love this little love heart one.
It feels good to get a few pages done!!! TFL..

Kaszazz Masterclass

This one has been waiting for a couple of finishing touches! Finally done! This is one of the classes I am lucky enough to teach with Kaszazz. It's a MASTERCLASS which makes it a bit more involved than the normal 2 hour workshops. Making your own flowers is a technique learned in this one.

I love these bright photos of my daughter. They are selfies she took with her Ipad while waiting for her dance performance. I'm glad she took them as I wasn't able to take photos in the Convention Centre!!! TFL!

Kreative Koncepts sketch challenge #24

So I went and treated myself to some new stash yesterday. Spotlight had a special on Kaisercraft, Kaleidoscope products. Yay!! So I got me some Collectables and a pattern paper kit. And....for once, I actually started creating with it straight away. I looked to Kreative Koncepts for some sketch inspiration, see below!

My little sister has been visiting Australia from London, and just spent 5 days with us here in Darwin. I have many photos but really wanted to scrap this one of just her and I together. It's been 3 1/2 years, and it may be that long again until we see each other.

Apart from the goodies I purchased, I also used Prima flowers and some Rosie's studio resin flowers. Kaiser wooden flourish and a Craftworks wooden clock. I made the most of my wooden embellies, and used some from Stampin Up aswell. There's a Flair badge from Flutterby Designs, and I used some Heidi Swapp color Shine, Smooch Spritz, seam binding, and a Kaszazz tag, misted with spray ink and a chevron stencil from Kaszazz. I hope you like and don't forget to check out the challenge by clicking on the sketch or link above!!!

Another attempt at Memory Files

I sooo love Heidi Swapp and all of her amazing products, tutorials and My Craft Channel videos!! Her talent never ceases to amaze me. When I first saw her Memory File scrapbooking it wowed me and took my craft to a whole new exciting level. I've collected a few but so far haven't made many, but i intend to do alot more of this style of scrapping, especially for birthdays and events where lots of photos are taken.
 This one is for my daughter's 11th birthday which she celebrated in January!

 The outer file is a Color Pop file sprayed with a little pink Color Shine. I've decorated with some cute banners and lovely acrylic butterfly, (part of my big Heidi haul from Spotlight. So happy they are stocking Heidi Products!!!

 These pics show the gorgeous colour I ended up with when I mixed Tropicana Teal and Pink Color Shine!!! Love it!! And love the Color Magic ephemera!

 This is what you see when you open up the file. I've used a few other brand products to compliment Heidi's products. Some paper from Rosie's studio, some washi tape and some cute stamps from Kaiser. I got myself some of Heidi's cute little stamps too which you can see dotted throughout!

 I actually traced around a photo stack and made my own, and decorated with a few stamps from Kaszazz and some Glitz roller stamps.

 Love the gorgeous tiny star stamps from Heidi.

 Think this is my favourite page. I made the smaller memory file from her new Hello today paper stack and decorated with some ephemera and a stamp. I made a little tag and banner for some journalling about all the things Taylah loves now or is doing right now!

 This is what you see when you open up the smaller memory file.

 I added a little part of a Project Life sleeve i cut out, to give me an extra flap in the photo stack!!! TFL...

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 :)