Living a Colourful Life

Get Picky :-)

I really love the Get Picky challenge blog but haven't had time to play yet. This month's gorgeous inspiration photo made me get scrapping :-)

Even though it is a romantic photo, I decided to scrap some old (but much loved) photos of Marnie and myself. The colours really reminded me of the beautiful My Minds Eye Lost and Found range - very soft pinks and creams with just a touch of soft blue/aqua in the top right corner. I ran out of camera batteries today so have had to take the photo on a point and shoot (at night - aargh) so the colours in the photo aren't as pretty as IRL, oh well LOL

 

and a bit closer for the journalling

 

Can't wait to see the sketch when it is posted in the next couple of days :-)

Allie

Long time no blog!

what can I say LOL, very slack...

When my DT term at ScrapTherapy ended late last year it was good timing in a way because of Christmas etc but I found it hard to motivate myself to scrap without deadlines! Crazy I know but I am getting back into the groove mainly by doing more holiday layouts. My album is looking great and I'm really happy with how bright and colourful it is. The Echo Park ranges (even Little Boy!) have been perfect :-) I will also do some journalling pages and doubles with lots of smaller photos.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

 

Phew, more there than I thought LOL.

All is good here, very busy as usual. Next week is a crazy one, Marnie's netball grand final
Wednesday night, me flying to Melbourne at 6.30am thursday morning and back late that night then we are driving to Adelaide Friday afternoon for the Usher concert that night. Good but busy.

I really want to blog more, will have to commit to just doing it!

Allie

Fundraiser for flood victims - all scrappers unite...

I have been slack since getting back from holidays and not posting as I have tonsilitis but wanted to post this important info.

Sherry Mendoza is organising a big silent auction via Facebook will all proceeds going to assist the QLD flood victims.

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Your-Creative-Journey-Silent-Auction-for-QLD-Flood-Victims/169057079805593#!/album.php?profile=1&id=169057079805593

If you click on the above link and "Like" the page you will be kept updated of all the awesome things up for auction.

I have donated a mega pack of Prima & Websters pages stuff including 18 full packs of CHA 2010 release flowers, 2 sheets of glitter alphas/embellishments and 5 lots of 3 metres each of gorgeous Websters and Prima lace/trims.

 

Here is a chance to buy something beautiful and do good at the same time :-)

Will do a big update once I feel better.

Allie x

 

Sticky Stuff!!

Wow, has it been that long since I posted? Oh well I suppose all the Christmas rush is to blame, way too much to do and not much spare time. I haven't even been scrapping much :-( just  a few Christmas cards.

So sticky stuff you ask? Have a look at my little stash that I received from ScrapTherapy the other day.

 
I have always loved the EZRunners and lamented that they have just gotten too expensive to use all the time. At $12.95 - $14.95 it was hard to justify BUT Lee-Anne has just purchased some at a super duper price and is selling a set of 3 for $17.95   There are 2 tape runners and one dotty roller which is repositionable. I have used the repositional one for normal scrapping and nothing has ever moved.

I used these for many years when I worked at an LSS and my lovely boss used to give me a box at a time! They are really smooth to use and you only need a little bit on each corner and that is plenty to hold your photos or PP rather than having to go around the whole edge of something. I usually stick down gently so that I can lift it up if need be but once pressed down they are stuck fast.

Get to the shop fast and give yourself a little Christmas treat  EZ Runners are tape and the glue runners are Osmer which are also really good.

and because no scrappy order can be complete without Thickers here are the ones I got with this order

 
if you are an aqua nut like me you will know that there hasn't been the "just right" Thicker until now! The small letters on the left are perfect and I think I'll have to go back and order some more. The new glitter foam Thickers are lovely too. I was a little hesitant because the previous glitter ones weren't my faves but these are much more subtle - especially in the white, yellow and pale green.

I am hoping to squeeze a scrapping bag in our car tomorrow as we will be away for over a week and I think I might like to do some while I am away. The car is going to be totally chockers so I won't be able to take much.

I hope you have a wonderful Christmas and I look forward to a very scrappy new year.

Allie x

Christmas cybercrop at ScrapTherapy this weekend!

I know it is only November but December is crazy for most of us so it is good to get a head start on any projects and cards that we want to get done. You will find the cybercrop challenges Here

 

This month I had the Bowerbird challenge where the following had to be on a layout:

Photo/s with a child in it
One Fancy border (can be die-cut, stickers, fancy scissors etc)
Something that sparkles
Some red and some blue
A journalling block or spot
One or more stickers
The word "Christmas"

Here is my sample layout featuring a gorgeous little girl who is now a teenager!

 
I am loving Echo Park Paper Company at the moment and the Everybody Loves Christmas is perfect for a brights loving girl like me :-)

I also have added an extra challenge to the cybercrop this month. I wanted to scrap this story so my challenge is to scrap a family tradition.

 
you'll find the details Here

I also scrapped another old photo using the front "advertising strip" of the Everybody Loves Christmas kit. Amazing that something that is usually thrown out can be used to pretty much complete a layout. Gotta love that :-)

 

Why not drop in to ScrapTherapy and check out what is going on.

Well, I am going to finish off a baby album I am doing for a friend and then start the rest of the DT girls fab challenges

Allie x

More scrapping :-)

I thought I had posted my ScrapTherapy cybercrop layouts a few weeks ago, but alas I must have gotten distracted and lost the post...

I had the Blind Scrap on the Friday night and to fit in with the Art Attack theme I wanted everyone to make a monochromatic layout.  I really love my sample - all beautiful peachy pinks

 

I used pretty much all My Minds Eye, Lost & Found  and I really adore this range. Sigh, so many beautiful new products around at the moment. I am trying to scrap as much as I can so I can get through the last lot of "must haves" LOL.

This layout was for the Sketch Challenge and again I tried to fit into the Arty theme. I never think of myself as an artist but I have had quite a few comments from people lately (who aren't scrappers) that think I am - like I said in the layout "I dunno, I just like making stuff"

 
I used mainly Cosmo Cricket - Togetherness for this layout. With fab Cosmo Cricket chip and teeny letters

 
I was playing with some new Spellbinders so I thought I'd try a simple layout using a couple of different sized scalloped circles. The colours of the Bo Bunny, Peacock Lane are very bright and might be a bit scary for some (especially for the purple challenged LOL) but teaming it with white really worked.  I also adore the Websters Pages trim and I think I need to get it in every colour LOL.

This layout really was a challenge! We had put out a thread in the ScrapTherapy forum for some the ladies to challenge the design team and there were some great suggestions. The one that Lisa Pate our lovely forum manager chose was "A layout/card using only newspaper, cardstock, prima flowers and some lace, and I am adding that you need to use paint and or ink". I was a bit OMG at first but I really love my layout. I scanned some newspaper clippings, printed them out in sepia then made a wash of a light brown paint and went over the top. Here is may layout

 

I have a few more to share but I won't bombard LOL, will upload them in the next few days.

Allie x

Echo Park is in the house!!

I *love* Echo Park a relatively  new scrapping company.  Their designs are so versatile and I have been using the Sweet Summertime range over the past few days and am so happy with the results. I am rapt that ScrapTherapy has bought it all in, it has been selling like hot cakes so if you want some, get in fast :-). The prices are the cheapest I have seen too. Anyone that knows me would definitely pick this out as "an Allie range" because of the gorgeous bright colours. Here are 4 layouts that I did with this divine range:

 

 

 

 

As you can see, this range is totally perfect for scrapping our Thailand trip. Each of the layouts took only about 30 minutes - record for me.

Have been quite the busy bee with scrapping over the past few weeks - Echo Park and mojo are in the house LOL. I will post more layouts later on tonight :-)

Allie x

Cybercropping at ScrapTherapy this weekend

fantastic monthly theme and awesome challenges. Now that we have re-jigged the challenges the prizes for the cybercrops have changed. We still have the $15 for the winner but there is also $1 added for each entry. The prized have been over $30 in some cases which is fantastic.

Find the forum here I will be taking the Blind Scrap on Friday 15th so check out the "ingredients" here and come and join the fun. 

ScrapTherapy are also stocked to the brim with new goodies like Cosmo Cricket, Prima and a big stock up of my favourite - Thickers. Have a look at the What's Hot on a regular basis to find everything that has just arrived and re-stocks of the popular products.

Sharing a few published layouts

now that the mags have been out for a couple of months I thought I'd share them here.

Awhile ago Cassie from Scrapbooking Memories contacted me to do a commissioned article for their Write Stuff feature. It was lovely to be asked because I love my journalling and it was great putting together the first article with tips for non-journallers. I then got asked to do another one :-)

The first one was featured as "Journallling on Beautiful Layouts" (nice huh?)

 
The second one was tips on how to use sketches to design layouts with lots of journalling. I have had some great feedback about the articles with quite a few people saying they have tried the tips and are really happy with what they have done. Gotta love that!

 

Love this layout - of a very expensive and crazy month last year...

 
Shocked that my attempt at shabby was published LOL

 

I have quite a few coming up in SM soon so I am looking forward to that. One is of Marnie and her 8 cousins so I was rapt to get them all published on the same layout. This layout was also chosen as one of the finalists in the SM Celebrate competition.

A couple of other layouts that I don't think I have shared here

 
 

Happy scrapping :-)

Allie x

A few layouts to share...

 
Now that I am back from holidays and my hands have pretty much recovered I am keen to blog a bit more often.  So here are a few layouts that I have done recently but not shared here yet :-)

 

This layout was for a Scrap Therapy challenge in our Flower Power month. Loved using the Bo Bunny Sun Kissed range for it - perfect for my layout of my peace loving Marnie.

 

My first holiday layout using some lovely My Minds Eye papers and die-cuts sent to me by Lee-Anne at ScrapTherapy. Different colours for me but I really love the result - love being challenged to work outside my comfort zone :-)

 

Second holiday layout using the same papers as the first layout

 

I used the cool Bo Bunny Peacock Lane for this layout. I am not usually a purple fan but teamed with my fave colour of turquoise on white I am really happy with the result

 

Have loved getting back into scrapping since we got back from holidays. I haven't really done a lot since June when I had my surgery on both hands. Had done a couple of layouts each month for my DT challenges but wasn't up to much more. Now I feel really ready to scrap up a storm. I have a few more layouts to share but have to wait until Friday when our ScrapTherapy challenges are revealed for the Cybercrop. Will post more about that later :-0

Allie x