Color Combos Galore 182

This week over at Color Combos Galore we have hit the catwalk at a nice easy pace with lovely monochromatic tones. As soon as saw them I thought vintage and its another good excuse to work on my old family photos. This picture was taken of both my Great Grandma and Grandma who unfortunately passed when I was 6 months old. I loved how everyone used to dress up in their best and head to the city where you would also be lucky enough to photographed. My Great Grandma also used to make their clothing so I thought it was a very fitting photo for this weeks challenge.

My layout photo is throwing a little blue on my grey colors, I assure you they are definitely silver grey. The background is a very old Sweetwater paper and the punched centre is MME Lost and Found scrap I had. A MME vintage frame was cut in half and tucked behind at the top and bottom of this. I cut a dress shape from calico and adhered this to a Dusty Attic dress form. The bow was made from seam binding and spritzed with Silver Sugar from Tattered Angels. I distressed some twill and stitched down using the machine and a green cotton. Flowers were cut using Tim Holtz die from some of the leftover twill. Other products used are: Making Memories metal frame, October Afternoon stickers, Prima flowers and pearls, Websters letter stickers, pins and some unknowns.

Thanks for looking and hope your inspired enough to come on over and try the palette yourself, before you know it you will be addicted to it.

Color Combos Galore 181

Loved the beautiful soft colors in this weeks palette, so I decided to use one of the rare pictures I have of my mother when she was a baby.

I decided to go into the archives this week and retrieved some old Chatterbox Apple Green Big Dots and K & Company Embossed Story Time. The turquoise paper is the reverse side of a WR Memories old valentine range. I used a QK die for the background mask and some olive TA mist. The newest paper used is a small die cut heart from Websters and I used 3 different border punches and some old lace, once all this was layered I stitched down both sides of the borders.

The film strip die is T Holtz and the little picture are an old Pebbles Inc sticker. Elements have been cut from K & Co Story Time, Websters and Kaiser. Flowers are hand made. Thanks for looking.

The Color Room 47

This weeks color room colours where a little tricky to say the least. On screen the yellow/orange color looked like a deep mustard color yet when printed out onto photo paper it came out more a deep orange. Looking at the Design Teams layout didn't help as they seemed to have had the same confusion. So this in the end is my take on the colors. My






Papers used for this layout are Karen Fosters Chalkboard, Cosmo Cricket Circa 1934, Crate Papers Honey Pie, Crate Paper Die cut and Hambley Doily Transparency. Elements are cut from Sassafrass, Circa papers and Theresa Collins. Stickers are Pink Paisley and K & Company. Other elements are rubons and flowers.

Thanks for looking

The Color Room Palette 46

This week has been such a busy week, I almost thought I wasn't going to get any pages done. Silly me thinking life would get easier when mine kids be came teens, all that happened was the gears shifted me into a full time taxi.....

So its Wednesday afternoon and I've only just completed the color rooms challenge. Hopefully I will get another one done tomorrow, that is. unless kids ring me needing a lift because they have knocked off early. My DD is totally enjoying these half day work day, wouldn't we all.

This is my take on this weeks palette, I have used a lot of cutouts and 3D most of them. I also used a Melissa Frances frame that I broke into pieces to frame the photos. I decided to make the photos black and white as the pool water was clashing with the blues in the palette. Other products used were scraps of paper in my stash, magic mesh, transparency, glimmer mist, chipboard and rubons.

These photos are of my DD, we have a beautiful pool and she refuses to go swimming because she hates her hair getting wet and the feeling of chlorine afterward's, go figure..... Once she did get in she did have some fun...lol

Thanks for looking and hope you enjoy.

Another Websters February Challenge

It has been an extremely hot weekend here in Brisbane, so the only thing I could do was hang out in the air con. This was a great opportunity to get another page scrapped for the Websters February Challenge. I must admit I love, love, love Websters Designs, their range is so versatile.

Anyway here is what I created and thank in you in advance for any comments you may leave.

This photo was taken of my DD on her 15th Birthday, she was opening her presents and doing her usual facial expression when she saw me pull out the camera. Between her and the bad lighting this was the best shot I could get of her. So the challenge for me was to some how make this every day shot into something special. In years to come I want my family to look through these albums and remember that moment, rather than a contrived moment without any real meaning.



Products used - Websters Hollywood Vogue. 2 x Shine a Light and 1 each of the Double Feature and Foo on Film, Dusty Attic - Brick wall & Alpha Stickers & Blooms, American Craft Glitter Stickers. Other products are Fancy Pants rubons, MM rubon letters, Prima. MME Paper flowers, micro beads, TH dimensional pearls and Tattered Angels mists.

Color Combos Galore 179

The Inspiration on this Challenge was loved ones, after all it is February and what is celebrated in February, VALENTINES!!!! I left this one until last simply because my husband and I don't celebrate it. However he did bring me home a heart lollipop...hmmm must of been a freebie that he was given sometime during the day. Oh well its the thought that counts.

The pictures here are my DH taken on my DD 16th, I think the words I found for this were quite fitting. I found them in my stash and they are from Kopp Design called Fabrications so I cut and ripped them so that they frayed a little more.




Other products used are: Theresa Collins 8" transparency, Jenni Bowlin co-ordinations cardstock, Dusty Attic, Tattered Angels Black Magic, Tim Holtz dimensional pearls & stamp, die cut, Prima, Digital Frame from two peas that was printed on a transparency.

Thanks for looking.

InspireMe February Challenge

Was checking my email this morning when I found notification letting me know that my Layout Wishful for the February Trims and Bloomers Challenge was made feature today. I was pretty happy to say the least, since this layout was probably the first I've completed from start to finish in a couple of hours.

Thanks everyone who checked it out and left a comment.