Prima Sketch

I'm really liking Prima's sketches lately.  Check out the drippy paint on this one.  Love it!

Check out the Prima blog to see what the Prima Designers have done with this sketch.

And the Prima Educators blog for a couple more layouts using this sketch.

I'm going to check through my photos tonight, and find a couple that would work for this sketch.  And pick paint colours.  I really like that drippy effect!

Little creatures everywhere

The photos were taken in Beacon Hill Park, Victoria.  We used to have to search the side of the water for the occasional turtle until some clever park employee thought to put out a sunning log for them.  Now they are lined up for all to see.

I used some scraps on this page.

The music paper is Teresa collings.
There are lots of different woodgrain designs by different manufacturers available in Unforgettable Memories ~ this one is Karen Foster.

The title numbers are Tim Holtz grunge numbers.  I sprayed them with ink mist and edged with Pinecone ink.
'Turtles' is the felt Prima stickers.

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I love the paste mushrooms Prima puts out.  Word of caution ~ when pulling them off the packaging be very careful.  They break.  I glued the two pieces together and you can't tell at all, but I'm more careful now.

I've got lots of animal life floating around this layout. I punched 3 dragon flies and glued them in a row. The wood bullrushes is by Kaiser.  There are lots of different designs, perfect for outdoor layouts, in Unforgettable Memories.

 I used a photo of the sign for part of my title.  And another creature ~ One of Prima's rub-on velvet birds.

Love, love, love these sticker owls by Sandy Lion.  You get a bunch in a package.  This is my 3rd or 4th layout with on of these cuties on it.

So that's my turtle layout.  There are lots of little creatures in Unforgettable Memories to add to your layouts.  Stickers, rub-ons, punches, stamps...

Add something cute to your next page.

Heather's Smash and Mash

I was at the Smash and Mash last night.  So fun to see everyone's pages and scrapbook along with the ladies.

I managed to almost complete 3 pages in my Smash Album. I snapped some photos of them while they were on my desk.

The first page is of my two boys, hamming it up for the camera in their Grad tux's.  Such handsome boys :)

I used Smash tape ~ it comes coloured in funky blocks like that.  And a couple of Smash tabs to hold my photo in place. The brad is Crate Paper and the chipboard button is My Little Yellow Bicycle. 

I also stamped the date using my new Smash stamper.  It has a bunch of cute sayings on the same rotating date stamper.  Really neat and reasonably priced.  They are tucked in with the Smash display.  Check them out.  I know I'm going to be using my stamper on many layouts.

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This next page is my family with my parents.  It's been over 7 years since we've all been in the same place at the same time so it was wonderful of my friend Lilia to bring over her camera and get us all to pose for this photo.  Thanks, Lilia!

I used Prima leaves and flowers, Smash polka dot tap & journal tab, green MM paint and Prima sticker letters. 

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This last page is a picture of me that isn't too, too bad.  I hate photos of me and most of them end with a tap of the delete key.  I see a 25 year old me when I look in the mirror,  why do I see such an old me in photos? 

I punched a butterly shape out of some cardstock and used it as a stencil with the MM green paint.  Then I outlined it with my black pen and put a gold jewel on the body.    

The paper is out of Ang's scrap bag. Thanks, Ang!

I used some more Smash tape and some Smash journal pages ~ still have to do the actual journaling. 

The brads are Crate Paper. Clock is Prima.

I hope you'll join us for the next Smash and Mash.
These albums are really a fun way to scrap.

Smash and Mash

We are having a fun night being creative and inspiring each other. Here is one of my pages to help inspire you! I used some scrap paper and left over Echo Park This and That embellishments.

Scrapbook desktops

I like to change my desktop every month.  A couple of my favourite scrapbooking manufacturers provide free desktop calendars each month.

Basic Grey uses their pretty paper designs for their monthly calendars.  I love the July one.  Very rich looking with reds and greys.  It's the one I chose for my work computer. Check it out here.

BoBunny also has a desktop calendar to upload.  You can personalize it with your own photos.  Follow the instructions to insert your pictures. Very neat.  If you are a camper you will like the July desktop. Find it here.

If you just want pretty pictures for your monitors screen check out National Geographic.  They have some stunning photographic wallpapers. 

If you know of any others leave us a link in the comments below.

Graduation 2012

My boys graduated this year and we got soooo many photos.  Friends, family and myself all snapping pictures at every opportunity.  For once there are a few with me in them :)

The Grand March was Wednesday night.  I uploaded the photos to Unforgettable Memories the next morning, and Mum and I were scrapbooking them that evening. 

I started with white Bazzill paper and sprayed red mist over a 12 x 12 mask.  The corner is a Glimmer Screen mask with mustard coloured ink.  I used a piece of felt with my Tim Holtz applicator to apply the ink so I had some control where it went.

The patterned paper is by Karen Foster.  I used a border punch and black paper to put the fancy edge on it.

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 The stickers are BoBunny & My little Yellow Bicycle.  The chipboard apple is Crate Paper (found in the school section at Unforgettable Memories)

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 I cut apart a grey Prima pearl swirl and placed it around my big black flower.  I tucked a couple of leaves underneath for a little colour.  I love how dressy the black and grey is. Perfect for these photos.

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 I used another Prima black flower with grey pearls arranged in the center as a topper for my journaling block.  The journaling block is from a pad by My Little Yellow Bicycle.

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The A+ Brad is Crate Paper found in the school section.  The chipboard scalloped circle is by Kaiser and the wood circle is from a Prima package; as is the wood clock in the top left corner of the layout and the wood 'Remember' pennant below the middle photo.

If you have grad photos to scrap get in to Unforgettable Memories ASAP.  The product is going fast.



This and that

If you have school-aged children...today is your first official full day of summer vacation. About ten minutes ago, I heard the first "I'm bored...". But we are waiting for dad to get home to go camping, so I think it's just impatience. Hopefully. Just wanted to share some layouts with you. The store has kits in by Simple Stories and they make the quickest little layouts...love the colors too, of all the kits. There are quite a few different lines to choose from.
Let's start with 14 photos on a one page layout:

This line is called Year-o-graphy.
Another called Aweso{me}:

 

and a few recent stories from our daily life:

 

I made a "mix tape" for the teachers at school and had an extra liner printed out, so i thought i'd keep a copy for myself and include the list of songs on the layout. kinda fun! took the photos in photo booth on the mac and printed them out - a super quick layout and i kinda dig it.

I hope you are going to have a fantastic summer everyone! So short around here - soak it up!!

 

Mixed media

I love to play with inks, mists, paints and stamps on my layouts but I often feel like I'm not 'brave' enough with them. I stop before I really build up lots of layers because I don't want to muddy my colours or create too much of a mess. So I'm always on the lookout for tutorials and how-to's from other creative ladies.


I thought some of you might be interested in this one I enjoyed.

Gabrielle Pollacco put together a gorgeous canvas using paints, sprays, hand drawing, chipboard and cheesecloth for the Websters blog. She did it all on camera so you can see how she created her canvas here on her blog.

I hope you enjoy it.

Fancy Pants sumnmer papers

I used the new Fancy Pants summer line on this layout.  Messed up the background paper with some stamping and misted over a chipboard bird.
 

I love all the bits and pieces with this line.  The banner pieces are fun to mix and match...

Prima has some gorgeous big blooms, like this white one.
The cheesecloth is sprayed with blue mist.

I punched out some black butterflies from some scraps and then used the negative spaces as another element.

The letters are Prima.  When I spotted them I had to snap up both sheets that Unforgettable Memories had in stock.  There is red and brown in one package; green and black in the other.  Loads of letters of each colour so using all those vowels in 'sightseeing' isn't a problem.  I'll be using this set on many more layouts.

I also used some smaller Prima blooms and the package backing from one of Prima's flower packs.

Get ready to scrap all those summer vacation pictures and pick up some Fancy Pants today!

Schools out...

Schools out...  

It is for me, anyway.  My kids still have a few days to go, but my last exam is done. Tonight I intend to venture into my scraproom for the first time in far too long.  I think I might start with the June Prima Build-a-page sketch.  This one is right up my alley.

Check out the Prima blog for their designer's inspiration. There are some gorgeous pages based on this sketch.

So pick up some Prima at Unforgettable Memories and play along.