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.