100% Girl

Hello Friends,

Just to set all your minds at ease, let me be the first to tell you that I am still around. Life in this neck of the woods picked up speed rapidly... The end of the year is nearing and the creatures in my life are gearing up for end of year exams. Makes for interesting times around here....

We even had a weekend-away experience at the Aquilla Private Game Reserve. Wow, that was stunning. I even had a 3 hour quad bike game drive... Don't think it was planned as a three hour drive but the ranger said I was travelling at graveyard speed - lol. At least by travelling at that speed we saw a lot of wild as well as four of the big five. The front runners (kids and another ranger) almost got in the way of the randy elephant bulls but came away unscathed with a tale to tell. Nature is such a beautiful place to be in.........

Well, today's layout is one that I made with the Scrap Africa sketch no. 22. We got home too late to post it to the Scrap Africa blog, but I would like to share it with you anyway.

Here is the sketch,

.......and here is the layout I made...

Well as you can see, I dug deeply into my stash. This is an old Kaisercraft range of paper. Then the photograph is quite old too. This little girl celebrated her 15th birthday this month!!

I used a circle stencil and some worn lipstick distress ink on the background. The layers of the papers are all part of the La-Di-Da collection, as well as the 6x6 paper pad of the same range. The flowers were fussy cut from a sheet of paper from the 6x6 paper pad. The butterflies and the ric-rac were cut from some off-cut patterned paper with a Sihouette machine. The butterflies were covered with distress stickels - star dust. The 100% Girl circle was attached too some chipboard and covered with dimensional glaze. I finished the layout off with a stamp, some machine sewing, a couple of small punched out flowers as well as some diamante.

Thanks for stopping by, it is much appreciated.....

Till next time

Lee

Little bird...

Hello Friends,

Spring is in the air here in our neck of the woods and it is so nice not to be wrapped in all that clothing to keep warm. Only problem is that during the cold winter months my summer clothing shrunk...lol.

Some other great news to share is that I am now the in-house design team of the Scrapbook Studio in Jeffreys Bay. I am so excited and thankful for the opportunity. It is definitely the shop for all your scrapping needs, and if they do not have it the staff will go out of their way to find it for you. So head on over to their website and have a look around.  All the products I use in my layouts are available from them.

This is the sketch challenge over at Scrap Africa,

........and boy oh boy it was a challenge, but in the end I am really happy with how my layout turned out.

This little bird came to visit me one morning and sat quite still while I snapped away, I think I took about 50 photos of it.

The background was treated with some gesso, texture paste, Mr Huey mists and Tim Holtz distress stains. The chipboard title also got some paint treatment, some fake stitching and was then covered with dimensional glaze. I used a Petaloo flower, some Teresa Collins Fabrications brads and some flocked flower brads (from my stash). Now, I never doodle on a page - do not have the confidence to do so - but on this page I thought I am going to doodle and made circles around some of the texture paint circles. That just didn't look right at all and so I cut little rough circles in left over pattern paper to un-doodle my layout. Much better me thinks....

Thanks so much for stopping by, and looking at my work, it is much appreciated.


Till next time,

New Beginnings

Hello Friends,

Wow, this month simply flew past. Spent most of it helping with the preparations for the Scrapping4Charity event held this past weekend in Cape Town. It was an awesome event and so nice to see old friends and make new ones.

This is the challenge over at Scrap Africa - Scrap Africa Sketch Challenge no.20 

The photo I used for this lay-out is of a friend and her husband. It was taken at his retirement party as they left. In this photo I see them walking into a new phase of their lives. One with new challenges and  new experiences.......... and lots of fun!!!!

Products used:

Paper Loft - Weathered Cardstock, Bazzill Basics - Faded Green Polka Dots, Kaisercraft 75 cents collection - Penny and Sovereign. Celebr8 and Enmarc Chipboard, feathers, BoBunny geometric patterns stamp and Glitz Design brown Teeny Alphas. Walnut stain distress ink. The little birdie has been living in my stash for ever!!! I also added some Mr Huey's color mist ink splats - read this sentence a couple of times and it still sounds funny but I am sure you catch the drift - LOL

The Celebr8 fence was coloured with walnut stain distress ink and then embossed. The Enmarc chippies were coloured with Tim Holtz Distress Paint - antique linen. The flowers were fussy cut from the Kaisercraft 75 cent collection -  Penny paper.

A closer look at the fence and stamping.....

Thanks for stopping by. Hope you all have a good week ahead with some quality scrapping time in there somewhere.

Till next time,
Lee