merit award

The paint splatters inspo borrowed from the dot painting on the award.

new zealand family snow trip 2013

I've been pouring over a project for the last couple of weeks. I've got onto the Traveller Notebook (TN) bandwagon, with a Tiff twist.

Back in 2013 we took the kids to New Zealand to learn to ski at The Remarkables out from Queenstown. It was an epic trip, with lots of photos, video and journaling to safe keep the memories.  I had collected a lot of paraphernalia to add to the scrapbooking project for down the track.  The last two weeks have seen it all come together.

It's been a big project.  A total of 142 pages of which 49 is journaling, 120 photos of various sizes and includes 52 pages that has bits and pieces that had been collected.

I found a 6 hole punch on ebay that made it much easier to put it all together.  I'm so proud of this journal. The kids have read it from cover to cover a few times and remarked on all the memories that they remembered.

Key chains made for the best dingle dangles. I've still to attach a little usb that has all the movies I made of our trip.

The very full to bursting journal

Title page is a photo of looking down The Remarkables and across to Cornet Peak.

I collected maps, money and so many things at the time to add to the future scrapbook project.

As I can't ski with my banged up knees I made it my mission to record our time with both photos and film.

I found maps and facts of places we visited to include in the album

Magical.

I've included pamphlets in the journal as extra information of what we did, and so the journal is more hands on and interactive.

I even kept the paper bags from businesses we visited to add into the journal.

Different sized elements within the journal kept it interesting to flick through.

I kept and used the photo packages we bought of different things we did. The disc in this one shows us on our Shotover Jet ride.

And this is why I find scrapbooking so very worthy.  Memories jogged, moments remembered and the fun times relived all over again.  Memory keeping at its finest.

ho ho ho

The title began as spare cut files from a previous LO that I had put to one side and not used. I had three of them cut so all I had to do was use gold glittery embossing powder and heat set it on the top cut file, use vellum as the piece under the top cut file to create the shaker, pop in the sequins, stack up the cutfiles and glue into place. The little Christmas stickers were the perfect embellies. 

jingle bell double - annie

are we feeling it yet ... ?

I used Tinsel embossing powder on the title which had silver glitter in it, which led to the silver details on the LO.

merry christmas

Wide gold paint stripes dusted with gold glitter. Ohhh la la. 

tradition

If you don't believe, you don't receive. And when they believed, the kids wrote letters of request to Father Christmas. Of course I photographed them for scrapbooking purposes.

word

When I saw these square gift tags packaged exactly as you see them here, I immediately thought of using them as a grid on a LO.  Finding the Kaisercraft graph paper with the blue pencil was a serendipitous moment, as it fits exactly with the theme of the letter to Father Christmas.

ride

I don't seem to use patterned papers on my LO's very often, so I'd thought to challenge myself with it for this one. Still couldn't help creating my own background for it tho lol.

merry christmas

I had a near disaster with this one. I had gesso'd, done the water colour and thought about adding gold dots on the water colour via gold spray paint through a mask.  Well I over sprayed in my effort to get good coverage and there weren't any petite gold dots, I had a big gold smudge. 

SHIT. How do I fix this???  I gesso'd again in effort to dull down the gold smudge. I water coloured again as the gesso covered the first layer of that. And instead of using gold for the dots as you could still just see a glimmer of gold smudge under the water colour, I used white whipped spackle. That toned down the smudge shadow nicely.

Done. Walk Away. 

PS. something else I learned. That gold title was a cake topper from my local IGA and I used the hot glue gun to adhere it onto the mixed media. Where I ran the bead of hot glue on the back of it, it left a line on the right side of the title. I had melted some of that gold stuff. Darn. 

Its done. Walk. Away.

merry christmas

Gold and grid. A match made in heaven. And who doesn't love a sequin??

ho ho ho

Loving me those large title cutfiles. 

delight

baubles

It's December 1st and it's the month of Christmas. As it happens I've just finished off scrapping all our 2012 festive moments, so I'll be popping up Christmas 🤶🎄🎅 LOs for a while. Perfect timing hey.

It took me a while to work out how to get that black background offset on the print cut file but we got there in the end.

junior primary concert

Back in the day when you used to give me a not so sneaky wave whenever you were on the stage.

port lincoln championships

Back in the day when we were a gymnastic family. Lots of emphasis on circles to combine with the medallion. Champion. 

halloween

What a great prop for the kids to get their spook on!

jim

clean and simple

summer fun

I'm having a thing for circles at the moment. Again I used a pastry brush to get that scratchy paint background. I did try it with watercolour first and that was a fail, but it did give a nice lighter effect under the darker blue acrylic paint.

love you

Inspired by Anita Bownds. I ended up using chalk board paint with my pastry brush as that was the widest one I could find that would give me a 'scratchy' paint look. Tag pulls out for the journaling.

halloween

We dont do Halloween as a rule, but this mask was too good to resist for a photo prop. It was also an opportunity to teach the kids on the 'real' meaning of Halloween. Not the commercialised crap they see these days.

gpa's sax

We lost Gpa a couple of years ago, and now more than ever, I am so very grateful for the photos I have of him with his Gkids. Gpa loved his sax, but more than that, he loved the Gkids showing an interest in it. Nothing gave him more delight than to hear the kids get noise out of the horn.  Photos dated 28th October 2012.

year four

Following on from his photo with his teacher, is her with a photo with her teacher. 2012.

miss ryan

Those pre prepped pages by Vicki Boutin are awesome and the circular rainbow coloured one is my fave. I wanted to use it as a rainbow so I've created two half pages from the circular paper by cutting it in half. 

good days

I like using photo collages in photoshop and print them out onto textured cardstock for that canvas look when I have multiple photos to tell a story. This collage is from Katie Pertiet of Designer Digitals. She's my go to for anything digi.

glen forest

drop the mic

Capturing those special little moments.

fishing

I found the star garland in Kmart recently and the colours lent themselves perfectly for this layout.

word

I found the gift tags in the $2 shop last week and thought of how to use them on a LO as a grid. This Kaisercraft paper with the blue pencil was PERFECT to tie in the blue gift tags and the handwritten letter to Father Christmas circa 2012.

love

I've always loved the crispness of white on kraft. And I do love using Whipped Spackle through a mask as its so creamy to use, its liked whipped butter icing. It's such a clean white and perfect to use on kraft for the clean white effect.

And we love Paige. xxx

waterballs

Whilst I'm not so rapt with this version of Waterballs (one for each of the kids albums), it is done. Cellophane with glitter mesh bubbles cut with the cameo and tissue paper. 

water balls

Lots of mixed media layering in this one, even though its a bit hard to see them all. Gesso to start, impasto dots as a resist to the watercolour that came after it and, if you look really closely, you can see the  transparent bubbles cut from acetate with the cameo.  

Journaling says 'plenty of fun to be had at the Yallunda Flat show this year' and the date.

you brighten up my day

The rainbow was the jump off point for this layout as well as the title.

you brighten up my day

endless suprises

It's not very often that I do 12x12 layouts as I find the a4 size much more appealing, but when I do its because either there are a lot of photos to record the memories or the journaling of those memories is significant. Sometimes it's both. These his and hers layouts are both. Lots of pics and lots of journaling to be the memory prompts for that weekend of 'endless surprises'. 

I often use the memorabilia that I've collected from those occasions either on the layouts (those crunched pennies from the zoo and the fire station wristbands), or if I can't fit them on the front of the layout, then they can be found on the back of the layouts. (zoo and pageant pamphlets)