Project Life 2013 - Cover page & Week 1 & 2 .........

Helloooooooooo! 

Just so you know, I am up to date with my Project Life album for this year, but didn't want to overload this post with photos, so will do a week or two every couple of days until I am up to date with my blog.

Here are some pics of the first 2 weeks of my first ever Project Life Album. 

COVER/Introductory Page

(Which I WILL be re doing as I am not happy with it. I'm off on a retreat this weekend for 3 days so this will give me plenty of time to redo some pages I'm not happy with. This being one of them.)

WEEK 1....

This spread is close to my style in scrapbooking. I did struggle at first to keep my style to my PL album, but when I am a 'layers' and 'bulky embellishments ie: Prima Flowers, I couldn't add the bulk I normally do. So it has taken me a good few weeks to find my groove and style with PL.

 WEEK 2.........
This is the first week that I played with PS and putting text directly on my photos. 

 WEEK 2 INSERT.........

So thats the start of my very first Project Life album.
I can't wait to get to retreat this weekend and start on my 2012 album. Phew! That was an effort to get it organised. I will show you my process for going back and doing an album in the future.

Bec
xxx

Been far too busy...............

Wow! October 2012 since I was last here.
Oh dear!

But I'm back!!

And doesn't my blog look just devine?? Thanks to Kellie Winnell and her creativeness.

I love my new blog!

Since October I have had very little or no time to create with paper.
I found that my family needed me *a lot* more than normal and my Scrapbooking had to take a back seat for a little while. (much to my disappointment.)
I'm sure quite a few people have had to make a decision like this at some point in their lives and later on have been able to take it back up again.
Oh, don't get me wrong. I still have very little time to scrap and our lives have gotten busier, but I think I have it a little under control that I feel I can start to play with paper again.

At the end of last year I happened to notice more people around me and on my social networks were doing Project Life!
I had first heard about it probably early last year and didn't think much about it as I was really enjoying scrapping 12x12's and some smaller sizes, getting creatively dirty and messy and being able to put my creativeness into Off The Page items.
But looking closer at it at the end of last year, I found that I can still be creative like I was before, I can still get dirty and messy with paints and mists, and it's still scrapping but in a smaller scale.
What attracted me was the minimal time it needed to get all my photos into an album and not just the special events. I really loved that. Plus I could still create with paper.

I ordered all my plastic pocket dividers from Craft House , who I must say are exceptional in their service and postage.

It took me almost 3 months to actually do something with those plastic pockets. I was a little intimidated by where to start.
With a lot of procrastinating I got stuck into the first page introducing the album, at a retreat I was on earlier in the year. And from there, my PL journey (and addiction) had begun.
It did take me a little while to find my groove and my style again, but those first few pages WILL be redone. I would like to leave them as is and be able to look back and see them for what they are. But I just can't leave them.

So that is how my journey with Project Life began.

I will be sharing my Project Life pages here, (when I can find the right light source for photographing the pages in their plastic pockets. Grrrr! Really struggling with that at the moment.)


So, welcome to my gorgeous new look blog and I look forward to sharing my pages and processes of my Project Life album.

Bec
xxx

Bonnie Doon, Scrapping and the Gold Coast........

WARNING: Picture Heavy Post

           

I will be quick as I'm almost out of the door heading to the Gold Coast for 2 days for work, but had to get these pages up before I forgot!!

We've been up to our holiday house in Bonnie Doon over the school holidays and I had time to scrap at night and got so much done!!!

Black With 2:  Criteria- Black Orange & Lime

Kraft It Up:  Criteria - Misting Technique

Scrap The Girls: Criteria- FLOWERS

TWO DIFFERENT ALPHAS

MORE THAN ONE PHOTO

STAPLES

Scrapbook Savvy:  Criteria- Sketch

Show Us Your Stuff: Criteria- Sketch

White With 1: Criteria- White, Yellow & Stars

 A just because. {well not really, it was for a challenge but I can't remember which one. ooops!}

Well I best go and pack seeing as I am walking out the door in an hour.

Bring on the sunny Gold Coast!!!

xx

Scrapware DT work............

These are some of my work using Scrapware products.

These are the only ones I remembered to take photos of. I still have to catch up with Ange and collect the rest of my work. 

Have a great day!!

Busy has now slowed to comfortable.............

Good Morning!! 

Yay, I am finally updating my blog AND scrapping again!!!

The past few months have been so Up and Down!

Montana had Pneumonia about 6 weeks ago, followed by a bladder infection and is now fighting her second bout of Pneumonia!!! Poor little possum is really suffering this winter.

It's been busy at work too with all the staff being sick, so I'm called in to cover.
Plus I've been training to do The Stampede!!!

How CRAZY am I!!!!
But it looks like so much fun from watching the video on last years.


In my scrapping world there have been changes also. 

Scrapware sold and they no longer have a Design Team. 

My local Scrapbooking shop closed down a week ago. That was so sad. So that design team work has come to an end. 

I haven't scrapped much at all. Except for some letters I did for  a friend last week that I loved so much that I am going to put them in my Pretty Poppies online store on Facebook. I am yet to put them in my Etsy store of the same name.

And also in the Pretty Poppies store I have my owls that I have handmade. They all have a name AND a personality.
One, Ruby,  has been donated to Bons' ride to conquer cancer auction page https://www.facebook.com/pages/Fundraising-auctions-for-the-200km-Ride-to-conquer-cancer/199489833492855





















So that's it for this post. I'm off to scrap!!!!
Have a great rest of the weekend!! 

Bec 
xxx

Mad About Scrapping, KIU, Scrap Boutique & 123 Challenge.........

Here are some more pages that I've scrapped recently.

This one was from a sketch from Mad About Scrapping.

When I first looked at it, I saw a boys page, but wanted to do a girls page {even though I should really do some more pages of my son.}
I am really happy with the end result considering I saw it more for a boy page.

Kraft It Up had a great challenge this month and this is what I ended up doing for it. 

This one is for Scrap Boutique Scrap Stash Challenge. The challenge was to use 6 or more brads on your page. I clustered them on mine and have a lot more than 6, but it was so much fun!

And the 123 Challenge which I haven't played along with for a long time, but loved the criteria this month.
Colour: Blue, Word:Change, Technique: Washi Tape

And this one is for White with 1 June Challenge. White, pale blue and flags. 

Well that's it from me this week.
I finished 2 projects today and I'll share with you in the next few days.

Till then................
Happy Scrapping!!

Bec

Scrap Therapy fun.........

I have been so busy scrapping lately and haven't popped the creations up in here. 

So here they all are. Well, what I've done with the Scrap Therapy challenges for this month. Love them!

This one was for the Room Challenge and I was inspired by Room 1. You can't see the hints of gold all that well, but I used a Rub n Buff cream and just rubbed it in small amounts over the page and the embellishments.

 This was also for the Room Challenge using inspiration from Room 2.

Thanks to Julie's sketch this month that I got this one done.

And this one I did using the A-Z Challenge using the letter 'G'

Hope you are all scrapping lots!!!

Till next time.............

Bec

Scrap The Girls..........

I didn't get much done on the retreat I was on almost 2 weeks ago, but what I did get done I was really happy with.

This is one I did for Scrap The Girls using the quote which is on my page.

Classes................

Hello Ladies!! 

Are you looking for something to do on Sunday morning??

Why not come down and do the 'Small Things' class.

Time: 10am - 12pm
Cost: $22
Kit provided.

Just bring your trimmer, glue, scissors, tape, some white paint if you have it and a mat to work your page on. 

Call the store to book your place.
Ph: 9739 7299

'A Moment' class Wednesday 9th May...........

Wednesday 9th May is the day that I'll be teaching this class.
'A Moment'
Time: 12 -2pm
Cost: $24
Kit included

Book in early to reserve your spot.

Ph: 9739 7299
Please bring along your trimmer, glue, scissors, tape, your creativity and a mat to work your page on.
This class you will be required to get messy!!! ;o)

Wanna Tissue?...................

And the last page for the month is for Scrap The Boys...................