Week 5: Me Blog - Start an Art Journal

Well because of blogger being dumb I missed the deadline for the first time! But I am sticking to this challenge so I am going to post my entry anyway.

This week the challenge was to start an Art Journal. A chance for me to test out some techniques. Until recently I had been really 'safe' in my scrapping, so believe me this is a new challenge for me. Here are some of the pages so far.

My first Win!

The wonderful Christina P had a competition on her blog (see my side bar) to suggest a title for her layout... and I won it!

A Lesson in Laughter

I am so excited to see what will be in my goodie bag she is sending me... but also feel a little bad as I do live on the other side of the globe.

Thank you CP... :)

Rewards

OK yesterday was a tense day... you see I had a job interview for a job that I really really want. Translation, I was stressing. Now I have 3 major addictions, all of which I can call on to calm me down in moments of nervousness or stress; Chocolate, Cocacola and Shopping!

So as I was in the "big smoke" I hit one of the scrapping shops. WOW! so many new goodies since I was last there! I picked up some GORGEOUS MOD, Foof-a-La and Rhannon Farrer supplies and I am so glad I did. They are so beautiful and awesome to work with. Great to use in my art journal I've started this week as part of the ME Blog challenge. I will post some pages from it on Saturday night.

Week 4: Me Blog - Record a Parents Memory

This weeks challenge was a little harder but I remembered getting this story from my dad for my mums book I did last year... so I scrapped it.
It is the story of how my mum and dad meet, got engaged and married. An important story if you ask me... I won't type out the whole story here but my favourite part is where my poppa take my dad out for the night to play badminton in their socks all night while discuccing the fact that dad wanted my mums hand in marriage...


PRODUCTS: Basic Grey PP, Sonnets PP, black cadrstock, cream cardstock, Pressed Petals chipboard letters, Heidi Swapp Chipboard letters, Prima Flowers, Trade Aid stamp, rhinstones, white paint, black ink.
Font: TwoPeas Amys Handwriting.

The Lights of Brussells

I've been playing with my white pen. The photos that we got of the Grand Place in Brussells at night. The photos didn't come out as well as we hoped but that night was beautiful.

PRODUCTS: Basic Grey Phlordilee, black cardstock, white cardstock, chipboard letters, hand cut chipboard hearts, seafoam ink

Week 3: Me Blog - Get inspired by the cover

Againt this week I had 'issues' with the scanner so I had to have a little play to get rid of the shadows. It was as exciting as I hoped but I didn't want to take anything away fromt he photos. I love taking photos at Little Bay. It's so beautiful and untouched.



PRODUCTS: White cardstock, green acrylic paint, black Zig pen, Paua Shell PP, Lil Davis Clay Phrases, Heidi Swapp Chipboard Alphas.

New Toys: White Pen

Now a white pen may not sound like much, but it is almost like the grail.
It can be hard for a scrapper to find a good white pen, one that writes well on paper and photos too. And in a small town like ours I was glad to find anything like it. I picked this one uplast night. It's a Pentel Hybrid Gel Roller. I have a strong feeling that it will be one of those items that I wonder how I went without one for so long. I've already started working on a layout and I will post it once it's done. So far so good...

A bit of fun...

One of the girls on SJ posted this little Quiz...

What Scrapbooking item are you?

Apparently I am Stickers...
You like brightening things up in life and decorating your living space with your own personal style. You are versatile and able to get things done with a stick-to-it attitude. People love your colorful personality and personal flair! You like exploring new things and are willing to try anything once. But Stickers beware - sometimes you like to stick to someone that you like a little too much and take them into your confidence a little too easily. Your personality tends to make you a steadfast friend, but make sure the friends you choose are worth your efforts!

Week 2: Me Blog - I've got the MUSIC in Me

This is my layout... it came out OK... the worst thing is I couldn't scan it because the shadows the CD cast over the layout. The cardstock is actually pure white. It was a real challenge to scrap the music I love because there is so much! I thought it was important to put a CD in with it so there is one song from each artist on the CD.

JOURNALING:Music - Language of the soul - My favourite music? ...if it moves me...speaks to me...gets my foot tapping or makes me dance around the lounge.... it's OK by me...

ON THE CD COVER: Janenne the Soundtrack - featuring the music of - Shakira, Gnarls Barkley, Mary J. Blige, KT Tunstall, Bon Jovi, Fat Boy Slim, James Blunt, All American Rejects, Panic at the Disco, My Chemical Romance, Green Day, Pearl Jam, Collective Soul, Counting Crows, Nirvana, Metallica, Guns n Roses, Bonnie Tyler, Soundgarden, REM, The Who, Elemeno P, Shihad, Pink , Fall Out Boy, Keane, Elton John, Queen, Ozzy Osbourne, Van Halen, Anastasia, Gypsy Kings, Silverchair, Crowded House, The Eagles, Aerosmith, Van Morrison, Pink Floyd, Gwen Stefani, The White Stripes, Bare Naked Ladies

INSIDE THE CD CASE:It is July 2006 and this CD contains some of the music that I consider great at this moment. I have no one set genre… if it moves me, speaks to me, gets my foot tapping or makes me dance around the lounge it’s OK by me.
Music has always been a huge part of my life… I still remember listening to nursery rhymes on vinyl records, my first tape with Kylie Monigue on it at the age of eight with my red walkman – which my brother dropped and broke, my first CD – the soundtrack from Jesus Christ Superstar. I remember being too young to go out for New Years so I’d lay in bed with my walkman going and write down the countdown of the years top 100 songs as they played on the radio. I remember bursting into tears every time I heard a Babyface song when I broke up with my boyfriend. I remember getting screaming mad at the kids who teased me at school listening to Alanis Morisette. I remember calling the radio station as a giggling 13 year old and requesting songs. I remember how much I felt like a rock star when I worked for that same radio station years later – driving around in the sign written truck and having my voice on air. I remember submitting Green Day songs as my poetry assignment in college. I remember the songs that have moved me to tears and others that have moved me to dance… it speaks to me… it is a part of me… a part of my soul.

PRODUCTS: White cardstock, black cardstock, unknown striped PP, Trade Aid wooden stamps, Heidi Swapp Flower stamp, Prima Flowers, Zig Black Pen, paint,Heidi Swap raw chipboard letters, Ice Letters and heart, foam letters, CD and case.

Scrapjazz

Some of you will know I am part of an online community called Scrapjazz. It means a lot to mean. These women are my friends, my support system and there for a laugh anytime.
It is such an important part of my life and I have even met some of the girls in real life. I really wanted to highlight this in a layout.

I used my new Trade Aid stamps... in love with them and need to get more!

New Toys: Trade Aid Wooden Stamps

When I visited my Scrapjazz friend Vicky in the weekend I commented on a stamp I saw on one of her layouts... turns out it was a wooden stamp from Trade Aid. She had about 6 of them. Of course I had to stop at out Trade Aid store on the way home last night and get some... they are not only really cute and work well with acrylic but you are helping a good cause by buying them. They are made in India. I can't wait to have a play!

Week 1: Me Blog - Who's Your Mama

When I was blog surfing last weekend I came across a site that I put in our links section. It's called "the ME Blog" and it is a site that together with "The ME Book" is designed to motivate scrappers to scrapbook themselves. I thought it was a great chance to knuckle down and commit to a challenge... They post a different challenge each week. This was week one and the theme "Who's your Mama?"... This is what I came up with... I didn't end up winning anyhing but theres always next week and I like how it turned out...

JOURNALING: My birth monther - Linda - gave birth to me at the age of 17. She had little choice but to give me up. My mother had been told she could not have a child of her own... so I found with her a new family. I am a part of them both
ACROSS THE PHOTOS: ...one woman prayed for a child - she taught me how to live...
...one woman gave me heredity - my smile - gave me life...

New Toys: MM Foam Stamps

Oh I am in love.
So glad I decided to shoot back and grab these at the craft show today. I have a plan for a layout so keep posted!