A Couple of Scrap Layouts

Hi There,

I have actually done some scrapbooking in the last week and managed to get 3 layouts done.  I used 3 of Kaisercrafts February ranges which you can get from Scrapbooks from the Heart now.

 

 



This range is fantastic.  It has brincks and weathered planks, some look painted, there is sand and rocks.  I love this range.  So Our New Home isn't so new now, it's 3 years old but I have been waiting for the right paper to come along.  The picket fence is chipboard and it's from Twiddlebitz that I painted with white crackle paint about 3 years ago, thats how long I've been waiting for that perfect piece of paper.  And I cut the tree out on the cricut off the Serenade cartridge.

This next layout is the view from our hotel room on the third floor at the Shangri-la Rasa Ria Resort in Kota Kinabalu.  We went on a family holiday there last November.  We stayed for 3 days in Kuala Lumpur on the way there.  We had a great time and the kids loved going on a plane for the first time too.

The black cardstock pulls out and has journalling on it.  It rained everyday from about 4pm until through the night.  But it was a nice change from the humidity and we got to do lots of swimming during the day.

And lastly, this photo is of the house my Grandfather grew up in when he was a little boy.  I've had this photo for a while too. 

Thats it for today.   All of these papers along with their full ranges are available at Scrapbooks from the Heart now so pop in and grab a few.

Thanks for stopping by

             Danielle

Just 2 Scrap Pages to Share

Just a quick short post to share a couple of scrap pages I did for samples at work (Scrapbooks from the Heart here in Perth, Western Australia) the other day.

The first one is using the new Bo Bunny - Apple Cider range.  I absolutely loved this range when I first saw it, I LOVE the colours.  It does have the words 'fall' on it and has pumpkins for halloween, I just covered those bits up as we are now in Spring in Australia and we call it Autumn, which falls from March until the end of May for us.  And we don't really celebrate Halloween here either.  But still, the papers are fantastic and like I said, I loved the colours

The photo was taken with my phone, so it's not that great.

The next layout is from the new Simple Stories Summer Fresh range.  This range has lots of really nice patterned papers too. 

 

 

Thanks for stopping by

 

Danielle

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I'm still here..

 

I'm still here, have been neglecting the blog lately, but I wanted to share this exciting giveaway that Kellie Winnell is having over at Give a Girl a Blog.  She is giving away a Fuji Instax Camera 7s. 

 

 

How cool would it be to win one of these??  I would so love one to take on our trip in 3 weeks. 

 

So head on over to Kellie's blog and enter.

 

Thanks for stopping by

 



Danielle

Mucking Around with the Kids

A couple of days ago, Luke came and asked if I could take some photos of him and I have to say, I jumped at the chance, because lately, he has been going through the ‘I don’t want my photo taken’ and ‘don’t take photos of me’.  So I grabbed the camera and took some photos.

Here are a couple that we came out with

And then when Chloe came home from school, it was her turn and Luke took this photo of the 2 of us

Not too bad a shot for little hands using a big camera!

Thanks for stopping by

Danielle
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I Finished an Assignment, So I scrapped

I was given some of the new Timeless paper from one of Kaisercrafts new May ranges by Nicole at Scrapbooks from the Heart, where I work.  I knew straight away which photos I wanted to put on this paper.  They are of my Grandfather when he was in the Navy, in the war.  The bottom photo was taken in 1942 and he is standing in a bomb crater. 

I started this page at work the other day but didn’t get to finish it.  I wouldn’t allow myself to do anything creative until I had finished an assignment as I have been putting them off and telling myself they were ‘too hard’.  But today while both kids were at school, I sat and did it.  No noise, no distractions, just me and the books. 

As soon as I had finished I grabbed this page and finished it while I still had the ideas in my head.  I have cut the anchor out on the Cricut from the ‘Pack Your Bags’ cartridge and then crackle painted it and finished it off with a bit of gold rub n buff. 

I loved putting this page together.  I have some things from the other 2 May ranges for Kaisercraft to play with, so let’s hope they go together as easily as this one.

Thanks for stopping by

Danielle

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Back from holidays

Hi there,

I hope you have had a great Christmas and New Year and that the kids are enjoying the holidays. 

We have just come back from nearly 2 weeks of camping down at the beautiful Bremer Bay.  It is right on the coast and we just love it there.  We try to get there at least once a year, but last year we just didn't make it, so it was great to get there. 

We spent a lot of time relaxing, which we needed after the year we had last year, catching up with friends we hadn't seen for a while, going to the beach, I think we went to a different beach each day and I even got in the freezing water and swam too!  We went fishing and for a few drives down tracks to beaches.  We all had a fantastic time.  Brad managed to catch a stingray that took 40 minutes for him and his mate to reel in and they had to take turns!!  They just cut the line and let it wash back in to the water, they weren't going anywhere near it.  If I can get the photo onto the computer, I'll post it for you.

Brad bought me a new lens for my camera for Christmas, so I got to have a play with it whilst we were away.

I took this shot at Dillon Bay, where we were fishing one day.

I love photos of the ocean splashing against the rocks. 

Well thats it for now, have to feed the kids! 

Thanks for stopping by.

Danielle

A Post.....finally

Well hello there.  Sorry I have been away for quite some time, but we have had a lot of family illness over the last 6 months and I have been studying trying to get my course finished and well, life in general and I just haven't had time to do anything.

I am nearly finished my course, I just have 3 assignments and 7 days of Prac to go and I will be finished and hopefully a qualified Education Assistant.  Yayyy, something to cross off my bucket list.

But I thought I would just come on and wish everyone a very Merry Christmas and a fantastic New Year.  I know we are hoping for a much better 2012.

I have been doing a little bit of scrapping and card making over the last month or 2.  Working at Scrapbooks from the Heart during the week seems to have helped me find my inspiration again.

This is a layout I did using one of this months Kaisercraft - Sweet Nothings range.  This photo is of my Great Grandparents on their Honeymoon.  I cut out the flowers and birdcage from another piece of the same paper and used foam tape and scrap dots to raise it up.

Well, hopefully I will be able to keep up with my blog a bit more next year.

Merry Christmas

Danielle

Some more Exmouth

The Lighthouse

Thanks for stopping by

Danielle

A few Exmouth Pics to share

Today I thought I would share a couple of photos from our holiday to Exmouth in May.  I had only been there once when I was about 15 and it was only for the day, so I didn't get to see too much.  This time, we saw a bit more because we were there for a week.  But I thought Exmouth was a lot bigger town than it is.  But we did manage to find a really nice beach out at Turquoise Bay, which is part of the National Park up there.  Brad taught me to snorkel and I loved it, I can't believe I was so scared of it.

It was so beautiful here and the water was about 3 shades of blue on this day.  The photos don't really show it how we saw it.

Chloe was having a great time swimming and collecting shells.

 Luke thought he might have a go at snorkelling too, but he looked more like Darth Vadar.

Well thats it for me for now.  I might be back later with a few cards I made last week.

Thanks for stopping by

Danielle



Chloe's 6th Birthday

Our little Chloe turned 6 two weeks ago.  I have to say that I was a little sad.  It feels like only yesterday that she was so little and just learning to walk and do things.  But, now she is a big year one girl, who is learning to read and count in twos and all sorts of things. 


I thought I would share a couple of photos from her birthday.  She had such a great time.  She asked for a Barbie ice cream cake from the Woman's Weekly cake book. 

It doesn't look exactly like the book, but she loved it anyway. 

And, of course, the presents were the best part of the day.

She was pretty happy with her new DSi that she had been asking for.

She had a couple of friends come over after school for afternoon tea and birthday cake and we covered some notebooks and they decorated them with butterflies, flowers and some shiny rhinestones to take home, which they all loved doing. 


I'm off now to go and make 2 Thank you cards. 


Thanks for stopping by

Danielle

A Tattered Teddy Card

Hi there,

I'm still here.  I had 2 assignments left to finish and I wouldn't let myself have any play time until they were finished and posted off.  Well, I sent the last one off last Friday, YAY, so this week I have had a little play time. 

Yesterday, I played with a new Tattered Teddy stamp Mum got from a magazine and he is sooo cute.  I was a bit scared of using him at first because of all the detail and what colour to use and I'm not that great when it comes to stamping.  But, he actually turned out and I'm pretty happy with him.

Isn't he cute??


Well, I'm off to find a hot cup of tea as it is freezing and my fingers feel like they are frozen.


Thanks for stopping by

Danielle

10 Minutes From Home

About a month or two ago, I said I was going to have a go at a challenge that was on a photography site just for my own benefit and out of interest.  The challenge was to go 10 minutes exactly from home either walking, driving, on a bike, roller blading however you choose to and take a photo of whatever was at that 10 minute point.  And it had to be a black and white photo.  Well today, I actually got to it.  With our computer dying on us and going on holidays and then everyone being sick, I just hadn't had the time to do it.  So today I went for a walk and Luke rode his bike and we kept going until it was 10 minutes exactly, which happened to be at a park we go to regularly, I just kept walking a bit past the play park part, and yes we did go back so he could play.

Remember I am still learning how to use photoshop.  Here is what I came up with.

And this is the original photo before I played with it..

Thanks for dropping by.

Danielle

I'm back/We are back

We are back from holidays and also have our computer back after the hard drive died and had to be fixed as it had somehow been corrupted.  But it's all fixed and working very nicely now.

I can't believe how quickly it got so cold.  Although, it may have gradually moved in while we were up in sunny, warm Exmouth and Coral Bay for 2 weeks.  The beaches and coastline up there are just amazing and I loved seeing the beach every day.  The kids loved being able to go swimming most days and the caravan park we stayed in in Exmouth had movies on every night for the kids at 7pm.  It was great and they loved it.  The movie screen was right next to where we were camped so we could see the kids from our site.

Since coming back we have all been sick Brad and I with tonsilitis, Luke had a nose and eye infection, Chloe has been coughing for the last week and a half and I now have a cold.  Bring on the warm weather again I reckon.   I love winter for the rain, but not for this cold weather and sick season that it brings us.

I didn't take as many photos while were away as I would have liked to, because Brad and I were both sick while we were away too, but I did manage to take a few, so I will share them over the next few days so I don't bore you with too many in one go.

But here is one I had a play with last week.  I love how the colours turned out.

This beach is one in Coral Bay that we drove to on a four wheel drive track to do some fishing. 

This photo was taken at a lookout near the Lighthouse in Exmouth.  These are the friends we went away with.  We all had a fantastic time and Brad and Kieren have been good friends since high school.

I also managed to finish an assignment last week, so now I have 3 left to do.  I have been doing Prac at a school nearby and am loving it.  I'm in a Pre-Primary class and working with a fantastic EA who is teaching me lots.

I scrapped on the weekend too.  It's been such a long time and I think I lost something to help me create.  But I think it's back again now.  Here is what I did

This photo is of my Nan's Mum (in the middle) and sisters.  I'm not quite sure when it was taken, I will have to find out.
I have used TPC Studios - Grandmas Attic Embroidery paper for the background and the dresses are cut out from Scribble Scrabble's Simply Stylish - All Dressed Up/Black Polka Dot paper and I have used kindy glitz to jazz them up a bit. 
The title is cut out of Brown Bazzill and cut on the Cricut using the Gypsy Font.  It's one of my favourite fonts to use.    The label was cut out of cream cardstock and I used Spellbinders Nestabilities Labels Four die to cut and emboss and then inked it with Pinecone ink.

Well thats it for now.  I wasn't meaning to write such a long post, but it has been a while. 

I'll try and share some more of our holiday photos during the week.

Thanks for stopping by

Danielle

Computer says NO!!!

Hi there,

I'm not going to be posting for a few weeks as the hard drive on our computer has a few issues and is dying, so we can't use it until It gets looked at, just in case we need a new hard drive before it dies completely.

Also we are heading off on 2 weeks holiday on Saturday up to Exmouth and Coral Bay camping. We are all so excited and I promise to share lots of photos when we get back. I'm really looking forward to playing with my camera while we are away and hopefully I might be able to get some nice shots to blow up to get framed and put on the wall.

I haven't forgotten about the 10 minutes from home photo, might see if I can get it loaded quickly tomorrow.

A off now to do a bit of studying, I have 4 assignments to do.

Thanks for stopping by.

Danielle

More pics from yesterday....

Don't fall off your seats, I'm back for a second day in a row...oh my god!!!

I thought I would share some more photos I took late yesterday afternoon playing with the White Balance 'cloudy' setting.   Not sure if what I'm doing is right, but I'm learning as I go.

Chloe went outside to jump on the trampoline, so I thought I would see if I could get some action shots of her jumping as I'm still trying to get the gist of action shots.  I managed to get a few, in focus too.  It's actually quite difficult to get a good shot of someone jumping up and down on a trampoline, especially with a net in the way.

She looks like she is floating in mid air.

And below is a feet shot in mid jump.  I love this one.

And I think her face just says it all in this one.  She just couldn't stop laughing.  I'm not quite sure what was so funny, but obviously something was.

Hopefully later on or tomorrow afternoon I can go for that 10 minute walk to get that '10 Minutes From Home' shot.

Thanks for stopping by

Danielle

I got the Camera out!!!!

Ok, so I know it has been quite a while between posts and I'm am failing big time with my 365 Project and my Project 52, but, I just haven't had as much time as I thought to participate in these challenges.  And with it being so hot for so long here in Perth, it was hard to get out and get some decent photos.

But, this morning I decided to get the camera out and have a play.  Yesterday I got an email from Learn Digital Photography Now and they had a free report on shooting digital photos like pros, which I read about using some different settings on your camera. Well, one that I didn't know about but was keen to learn about was White Balance. I learnt that if you put it onto the 'Cloudy' setting, especially outside it makes your pictures colours a bit softer and clearer and better. So, this morning, I have had a play with the different white balance settings.  I like the cloudy one the best.  Here are a couple of photos I took of Luke messing around.



I love this photo of Luke.  He was playing with one of his Chuggington trains.

I have also been getting emails and reading this website too Digital Photography School, which is a website with all sorts of information on how to use your camera, different hints and tips, some challenges and lots of other stuff. This weeks 'assignment' is to go 10 minutes from your house and take a photo of whatever is there. You can walk, ride, drive, rollerblade, whatever, but it has to only be for 10 minutes. I'm thinking I might just give this a go. It could be interesting just to see what is 10 minutes from my house!!


Hopefully I will be back soon with my 10 minute from home photo to share.


Thanks for stopping by

Danielle

Scrapbooking

Hi there,

I am still here.  I have been a bit slack with my blogging for a while, but I have been studying and Luke had 3 weeks of swimming lessons every day and other things have just come up.  But I am here now.

I managed to go to a scrapping day with some friends on Saturday and had a great time.  Was nice to just sit and chat and scrap and stare into space on occasions!! lol

I managed to get a few pages done and a birthday card.  I haven't loaded the birthday card onto the computer as yet, so I will share that once I get it loaded as it's on the other camera.

This first layout is of my Nan when she was a nurse in the Army in the War.  She was only about 21 - 22 years old.  She has had this photo in a frame on top of a bookshelf since I was a little kid and I have always admired it and as I got older, I really wanted  a copy of it.  Now I have one, thanks to my Uncle in Melbourne who has kindly burnt a lot of old family photos onto discs for me to print out and scrap so I can put their stories and history for my kids when they get older. 

The papers are My Minds Eye - Union Square - Beautiful Day 'Journey' Glittered Paper and Moments, Green Tara rosette flowers, all from Scraptique.  Adorn it mini alphas, muslin fabric from spotlight and the Fob Watch stamp is from a really great stamp set from Delish Designs that I got from Scrapbooks from the Heart the other day, there are heaps of stamps in there.

This next layout of Chloe is a photo a I took at the park in 'raw image'.  I was playing around with some settings on my new camera and then did a little bit of editing at home.  I really like how it's turned out.

The crystal butterfly on the flower is a Green Tara crystal.  Isn't it pretty.  I have had it for a while because I didn't want to use it, I just wanted to look at it all the time, but I finally decided to use it.  I have used a blue American Crafts Cardstock and the patterned paper is from the Imaginisce - Enchanted range and is the Fairy Trails page.  A Martha Stewart Large Monarch Butterfly punch and a Dusty Attic Decorative Frame set that I sprayed with Suede Glimmer Mist.  And a bit of stitching to finish it off.

Here is a close up of the crystal butterfly.

This is my Mum when she was about 2 and a half.  I just love this photo, it's so cute.  There is a story behind the cordoroy dress she is wearing.  Aparently, each time it's colour faded, my Nan would get it dyed again, sometimes in a different colour, sometimes the same colour.  My Aunty had one too and they both say that they had these dresses for ages....

For this one I have used My Minds Eye - Lost and Found - Madison Avenue range - Happily Ever After.  I sanded the edges of the photo.  Adorn it mini alphas and Kaisercraft mini alphas.  Maya Road flower ribbon and Collections acetate butterflies.  Not much to this one.

And lastly, another photo that I have always looked at and admired on my Grandparents bookshelf, is this photo of my Grandfather (in the front) sitting on a bomb shell in Japan in the war when they went to sign the Peace Treaty.  And thank you to my Uncle in Melbourne for putting this picture onto the disc for me.

For this layout, I used My Minds Eye again....  Lost and Found - Portobello Road range - Buddies flannel paper, Family First Class and Boy papers.  Dusty attic Decorative Frame set, the larger one of the 3 and inked it with a cream ink and then a bit of pinecone ink on top.

Well, I hope you have enjoyed looking at my layouts, I enjoyed making them.

Hopefully I'll be back tomorrow with a photo of the birthday card I made too.

Thanks for looking.

Danielle

A Couple of Snaps to Share

Hi there, hope everyone is well and surviving this awful humid heat we have been having here in Perth lately.  It's been horrible.

We have just had a long weekend here and we decided to go camping down in Busselton.  The kids LOVE camping and it has been nearly a year since we had our last trip, so as you can imagine, they were very excited. 

I did take the camera, but didn't really get too much of an opportunity to take many photos as we were away with 2 other families, so I didn't want to be going off to take snaps.

But I did get a few.

Here are 2 I thought I would share

This little guy was just sitting on some shadecloth at the bottom of the fence next to our tent when we were packing up to go home.  He wasn't frightened by 6 kids crowded around him or by the noise or people moving around packing up.  He stayed for quite a while just watching what we were doing.



We took the kids for a walk out on this little jetty as it was hot and they were tired, so we didn't attempt the big jetty you can see in the background.  I'm hoping next time we will get to walk on the big one and that I will be able to get some photos of it when there isn't lots of people around.

We all had a great time and can't wait for our big camping trip up north in May to Exmouth and Coral Bay.

Well, that's it for me for today.  Am off to have a rest as I have managed to get some sort of a flu.

Thanks for stopping by.

Danielle

Some Scrapping

I'm back.  Two posts in one day...I have some catching up to do.

I thought I would share this with you.  I started it yesterday and finished it off today.  I'm pretty pleased with how it turned out as I'm still learning how to do Heritage type scrap layouts.  The photo is of my Great Great Grandparents, there isn't a date, but I'm thinking it may have been very very late 1800's as there is a photo of my Great Grandfather in 1916 and 1920 and he was in his Army uniform.

I have used Basic Grey Cappella Paper (from Scrapbooks from the Heart) as the background.  Adorn it mini alphas for the journalling, a paper doily sprayed with Olive Vine Glimmer Mist, Muslin sprayed with Old Lace Glimmer mist, Collections Butterflies that I have added Diamond Dust (that I got from Scraptique) onto their wings, flowers that have also been attacked with Diamond Dust and Deep Purple Glimmer Mist.  I have embossed white Bazzill cardstock with Tim Holtz Alterations Texture Fade Embossing folder - Postcard and then inked with Tim Holtz Distress Ink.  The cute Charm badge is from American Crafts Dear Lizzy - Enchanted range of embellishments (also from Scraptique).

I'm off now to do some studying.  I missed it over the holidays and was a bit excited to get my books yesterday so I could get started again.

Thanks for stopping by

Danielle

xxx

I'm Still Here

I haven't posted for a while, so thought I would just do a quick one to show that I am still here.  I haven't been doing so well with my photo a day.  It's just been so hot here in Perth, that I don't want to go outside anywhere to take photos and there is only so much you can photograph inside!!

Chloe is loving year one at school and they just started up Edu-Dance there yesterday.  They do it for one term and at the end of the term they put on a concert. 

Luke passed his Stage 1 at swimming lessons the other day and he was so proud of himself.  He got a 'Big Ticket' Certificate that he loves looking at.

I have actually managed to do some scrapbooking after a long while of not having any inspiration to do anything.  I went and got some photos printed the other day, so that got me going again.  I did a double page of the U2 concert we went to in December, I'll put some photos up later of that.  I also started a page of a photo of my great great grandparents.  My Uncle put a pile of old family photos and marriage certificates and army discharge papers and other cool stuff onto some discs for me.  I'm going to scrap an album of a bit of our family history with all the old photos and the stories behind them so the kids can have it to look at.  There are a lot of interesting stories that I have been hearing about, so I can't wait to scrap it all.

I do have a couple of photos to share.  I bought what I thought was a white flowered frangipani, but to my surprise when it flowered it wasnt' white at all....

This is the plant below and it has nearly doubled in size in a month!!!  Must all that good fertilizer Brad brings home.

Time for me to go, Luke has swimming lessons now.

TFL

Danielle