My Sixteen year old Baby

This is the start of the LO, I bought a lot of the pinkpaislee Parisian Anthology, and the paper on the right is how it looked before I got to the 2 pieces of paper with paint, I was going to use kaisercraft Teal stamp pad, but I found I had paint that would be ok with some white added, well... it match pretty good, but I would have liked it a little paler, but I have moved on, "the sun will come up tomorrow".

so this is the finished LO, a bit loud looking at it here now, I did try and spray it with spritz, to tone it down a bit, but I didn't have enough, anyway I must move on. I made flowers out of the gathered material and then added some bling, I also found some bling & rub-on florishes, which I think blended in with the whole LO.

I had to dust of this bling florish, bought them sometime ago for a special LO, and this was it.

I had to find a needle and cotton for this part.
So that is the 1st LO using the new paper, not sure what I will do with the rest, possibly heritage, which I think will really suit it. But this was fun and a learning experience.

Advent Calendar 2010

Organised chaos!!! Beginners are grinners!!!

Sheer concentration & determination!!!!

Chocolate time!!! Who can go past Cadbury Roses Everyone look at the camera, oh well, I will if nobody else does.

To be continued.........

Firstly it has reached the 100 days till DD comes home, boy I will then be snowed under with LOs, she has become a wonderful little photo taker, and keeper of all things scrapbookable. I have taught her well. I often say don't forget to take a photo of this or that or keep this or that, and she has already done it. :)

Well now all about today, well we ladies got together and by 11.00am we were into serious cutting, inking, sticking, laughing, eating, gluing, making mistakes, fixing mistakes, discussing, embossing, masking, painting, attaching micro beads that run every were, decision making (we all know who has trouble with that, but did cope well today) and packed up by 6.00 and on our way home. And after all that time we still have the little boxes to cover and add the numbers, but that's a Melbourne Cup day, more good food, and lots of laughs.

It doesn't look like we did a lot today, but we were busy for the whole time, lucky we aren't doing them for a living. Thanks for a great day Floss, Trick & Treat & Rosepetal.

I am now planning my next LO, using the new pinkpaislee Parisian Anthology, I just can't wait to have a go tomorrow. I have photoshoped some photos that I think will suit the papers, and I hope a ink that I have will do the trick, so fingers crossed that it makes it onto the blog by tomorrow night.

Sweet 6 teen

I haven't used any new techniques on this LO, but I did use all the left over from the 1st LO, so that is a bonus, and I didn't spend all day doing just one LO, another bonus, had fun with the cricut, Graphically Speaking cart. so another bonus, and have loved using the Spritz another bonus, but its nearly empty, so I will have to buy another, don't think I can live without the Spun Sugar now. So all in all I have had a good day and thats a bonus, so sorry if anyone was wanting to learn a new technique from this LO, but it might just remind you that LOs can turn out pretty good with not a lot of embellishment, or different papers and lots of brain drain, sometimes less is best, and it was for me on this LO.

Sweet Sixteen

Breakfast with Tiffany & Co, & Mum.well my little girls is growing up so fast. I wanted to surprise her with something form Tiffany's as it was such a special birthday. I did enjoy doing this LO, it was really hard to find paper to match Tiffany's colour. I bought the base paper, which is the basic grey urban prairie, bluebird. But I just needed something else, so back down to my LSS, and I found another range of kaisercraft that I didn't think I would use, being "Child's Play". But just to tone it down a bit, and to match the base paper, I sprayed it with "Smooch Spritz", "Spun Sugar". For the base paper I cut letters out on the cricut then sprayed it, removed the letters, then I printed the other words over the top, thank god for A3 printers. Stamped a few words to tie in with the words that I found in the "Find a Word" paper. Then I cut out the letters to spell out the girls names. So I am really happy with this LO. I must now do the 2nd page that goes with it.

Hogmanay

Scotlands New Yesars Eve. But we celebrated in traditional Aussie fashion, eating & laughing. Georgie joined us this year so that was great. Fairly basic LO again, but some times it just happens that way, and with photos that aren't that exciting its a bit hard to get excited about the LO. Will have to try harder for better photos this year, but I won't have DD with me, so could be very very boring NYE. I used a new ranged that I haven't used before (not that I can remember) Collage Press, Knave of Hearts, there wasn't any embellishments to go with it, but thats OK, it done and in the ablum, so I am happy with that. LOL

Men @ Work, Sun up to Sunset & Finished

These LOs are very basic, in fact the only good thing about them is that they are in the albums and have dates & journaling. I used Kaisercraft papers and the cricut to cut out titles, so very boring, but with millions on LOs still to do, some just have to be plain and simple, so here are the 1st of many.

Time Flies

Well what a great day at the all day Crop, with lots of laughs. I complete this LO while there, the photos were taken on my birthday. It was hard to get papers for this LO, I finally found the "PinkPaislee", which I think worked OK with the photos. I used the cricut to cut out the flower, clock, clock hands plus the title. I found a transparency which I though I would add, I then did some stamping of some clock faces, did the journaling and it was completed. But I have just noticed that there are shadow from the grass across the photo of Rose & myself, to late in the day to do anything about it.

Beach Belly

The left hand page of this LO was designed & but together by Helen & Karen for our latest Friday night class. We were warned about the amount of cutting to be done, but it was relaxing, and I think the results were worth it. Then with the leftovers I completed the right hand page, but only just today, I thought I only had to add a heading & journalling, but I kept on playing and cutting and adding, (hate to throw or waste anything) so I have ended up with a fairly busy LO, but I like it, & I think DD will like it also. I did give her a preview while we skyped today, and she is a bit worried that she may not look quiet the same in her bathers when she gets home after all the American food!!!. I can't tell you all the products that were use, because it was a mixture so you will have to go into Hobbysew and ask, but I do know that I bought the "Smooch Spritz"

and I used it on the ...but fun... and the .....Beach Belly...just to make them stand out a little, but not to much, plus I was dying to have a go with it. Plus lots & lots of foam mounting tape, just have to love that stuff!!!! :)