Together is where I like to be

Just when I thought it was warming up, I find myself spending another Sunday indoors, too chilly to venture  outside for any length of time - except to the clothes line of course. However, I did manage a short, brisk walk through the park today as well.
I've had this MME paper that I've been wanting to use. I love the look of grey timber as a background & the hexagons are fun to play with too.

I've also used a Pink Paislee Mistable flower, chippie flourish from WOW, tiny doily & tile from Tattered Inspirations & the owl button is from Purple Pumpkin. Brads are from Stampin' Up! Here are a couple of closies.

I "popped" some of the hexagons with foam mount to give some dimension. Thanks for dropping by, have a great week :)

The Paper Players Colour Challenge #108

Happy Hump day again! They seem to come around very quickly.
http://thepaperplayers.blogspot.com.au/ is a blog I quietly follow but this time I thought I'd give their current challenge a bit of a go. This is the criteria:

Seeing as I have these lovely colours in my stash I dived straight in.

I've used the pretty "Happiness Shared" & "Perfectly Penned" stamp sets, Framelits dies, Cherry Cobbler, Crumb Cake & Not Quite Navy inks & cardstock, Cherry Cobbler Seam Binding & a button from the Neutral collection. I also hand coloured the flowers with Not Quite Navy & Cherry Cobbler markers, glossed them with Crystal Effects & added Liquid Pearls to the centre.

Thanks for dropping by again, it is much appreciated. Feel free to leave a comment :)

Orange Paperie & Co Aug Challenge

Hope you are all enjoying your Sunday. The lovely Kim Ewins over at the http://www.orangepaperieandco.blogspot.com.au/  has posted a lovely challenge this month.

Together with my love of this colour of late & the fact that I love taking photos of interesting/pretty/unusual doors & windows, I couldn't wait to get into my creation station & play. So after struggling with the after-effects of a big Saturday night, I finally finished my take on this challenge.

The other shutters in this photo were yellow & pink which didn't match my colour scheme so I de-saturated that end of the pic & left the beautiful aqua/blue shutters as the focus. I then place a matching border around the photo in my photo editing program.

The pretty pp is from Kaisercraft, flowers by Prima & Chippie from Twiddleybitz.  Have a great week!

Kraft It Up! August Challenge

Here I am back again with another challenge page. The girls over at Kraft It Up! set a fantastic challenge for this month with Kraft (of course) + a sketch + lots of layers (dimension, texture etc). So here is the sketch:

And here is my take on it:

I love the look of corrugated cardboard especially for beach themes. And as you may have noticed I'm a fan of the colour aqua/teal as well. I've used these pics because they are of a time when I was at my most relaxed & this was a perfect holiday. It is where I snorkeled for the first time and totally chilled out & immersed myself in the total isolation of being on a tropical island where there were no day-trippers, cars, shops, phones or TVs. And I've never had a whole beach to myself!

I really got into this with the Gesso & Glimmer Mist. The flowers & birds nest are from Prima & Manor House, leaves are from Craft Queen. Chipboard is from Twiddleybitz & Imaginarium Designs.
I don't normally spend as much time on a project as I did with this, but I really wanted to take my time with it, so I tweeked it quite a bit as I went & sought some feedback from an outsider (thanks my sweet girl). Anyway this is the end result.  Thanks for looking :)

Ahhhhh.....the simple things

Hello again!  When not watching the Olympics I've been working on a page which I was going to enter into a challenge. However, I got a bit carried away & it no longer fits the criteria. I've scrapped this photo previously but because I like it so much I thought I'd do it again (only because I found this lovely Jillibean pp with the bikes & red polka dots to match). But I do really like this pic of DD taken last Summer. I love the colours & it reminds me of the carefree summer days of my youth when I used to ride my bike everywhere.

Plus I had this lovely Twiddleybitz penny farthing & a matching Purple Pumpkin button that matched perfectly.

As you can see I've left plenty of white space on this, very unlike me & what would be a girly page without a flutterby or two :) Sorry about the dodgy photo, there was a bit of shadow coming through the window at the time - it is a lot brighter than this IRL.
Thanks for dropping by  :)

And time for a couple of cards as well

I'm on such a role today! Thought I'd get a couple of cards done today as well.

I've used the Big Shot a bit on this card & I've also used the "rock & roll" inking technique for the motorbike & then I popped it into an embossing folder & then through the Big Shot. The next card is a technique I've been wanting to try for a while now, making a cloud pattern as a background. It was easier than I thought as I just cut out a my own hand drawn cloud to use as a template & then sponged around it. I love this little stamp set called "Up, Up & Away".

It's a bit hard to see in this photo but the balloons have foam dots behind them to make them pop off the page. I know that I've had a good session when I have inky fingers at the end of the day. It makes me very happy :)

White with 1 August challenge

The daffodils are blooming, there a buds on the trees, Spring is finally on its way! Unfortunately the frosts still insist on making an appearance on a daily basis. But it is nice to see the sun even if it is on the chilly side.
So now that July has passed I'm feeling a little bit more motivated & made a start on some challenges. This one is for the White with 1 August challenge of White + a map + travel embellishments. And its not like I have a shortage of travels photos, so I dived straight into this one.

I found these film strip frames at the Brisbane Expo which I thought would be perfect for all the photos I took of the changing of the Guard at Prague Castle.  I love the way they curve & give the page some interest.

I've also used some clear acetate travel embellies from Kaisercraft & a flower from A Lil Something. I copied the map from one of my travel guides, scrunched & inked it. The most difficult part of doing this page was printing the photos to the right size. Otherwise is was only a matter of a couple of hours & it was done....gotta love a quick page :)
Thanks for looking & I hope you enjoy the rest of your weekend :)