In This life.......

Jamiks Scrapbooking and Photography Studio Class

It has been a mad house here, I have fallen off the bandwagon the last week with my photo a day for August that I have been playing along with. I have been taking photos, but not of the prompts that Kim has been giving us for no reason other than I haven't had the time to jump on the computer check what we are prompted and them photograph and upload!! I have been painting Maddisons room, so have been very focused on doing that rather than sitting on the computer, you know, before you know it you are surfing the www and not getting anything else done, so as hard as it was i left the computer off!! Mmmm not sure what I will do there! Might play catch up or just include my pics I have been taking so I have a pic a day to scrap at the end of August. Its all about taking pics I guess and Kim has certainly managed to get me doing that again :0)

Annnnnyway.......I am off to Tully this weekend for a fun class at Jamiks Photography and Scrapbooking Studio.

Here is a little sneaky peak of some bits, we will be painting, stamping, using rubons, using our packaging as elements in our creations and generally having a good time :0)

Karyn always has a generous and very enticing kit to play with and its the little extras that really get your creative juices flowing :0) There is a couple of layouts for the class and when we chose the ribbon for the class Karyn said she would present it on a cute little dolly peg. i just couldn't resist making it into a real little dolly ;0)

A card or two including using our packaging as elements.

Looking forward to it :0)

Annette x 
  

 

 

 
 
 
 

Jamiks Photography and Scrapbooking Studio Class 19.06.10

Hello :0)

I'm sure some are thinking i have dissappeared off the face of the earth!! Thankyou to those who took the time to email and query whether I was still in fact with the land of the living!! ;0)

I have just been super busy and blogging just took a very back seat.

However I do have some pics to post for the lovely lassies at Tully who are coming to play on Saturday at Jamiks Scrapbooking and Photography studio.

and

this

and

am still playing around with this

hmmm 3 layouts in 3 hours might just be pushing it you think? We will aim for 2 and see how we go ;0).

Hope to see you there?

bfn

Annette :0) 

Edited to say: you can check out the tool list by clicking WHAT TO BRING TO CLASS please don't hesitate to email me - [email protected] or ring Karyn at Jamiks if you have any questions. A :0)  
  
  
  
  
  

Scrapping with no Photos

This is what I have been playing around with the last couple of nights, photographed this morning as promised :0) If you want to read more about what its about you can check it out over on the Fiskars blog HERE.

 

With the wonderful tools that we crafters own, making our own individual embellishments really is very simple and quite theraputic ;0)

So if you are curious on how I made the bits and pieces on this layout, pop by the blog tomorrow and I will show you how. I thought I might just adapt this layout down to a card, so i will photograph some steps and you can have a go to if you like. I will post on the Fiskars blog as well as here. 

Have a lovely weekend all

Ax :0)

I am finally crawling out of my hole!!!

 
Yes i know it has been a while, thankyou all for your emails and concern, all is well as a whole, just ridiculously busy, you know how it is right? Gina, M.Kate, Brigitte and The Tully girls, I will catch up with you all soon, sorry I have been slack!! Lee, your comment last night made me finally pull out my finger ;0)x

So I am engrossed in the winter olympics, love seeing people be the best they can at something and man these guys and girls are GOOD, no they are GREAT!!! We spoilt ourself on the weekend with a nice new 106cm plasma screen, which after watching TV on a little tiny portable is really quite a thrill for us!! So I can sit at the table and play with paper and watch and see everything at the same time - even better, everyone else has fallen asleep on the lounge, so i can channel surf at the same time and even better than that - I can eat my chocolate without having to share ;0)!! (well one block of chocky doesn't go far between six people!!)

On a creative front, I have just finished a project for Stamping and Papercraft and it is in the mail today - a huge relief for me, it was proving to be a struggle, but in the end i was very happy with it, unfortunately I can't share yet.

I created a layout last night and just finished it, will photograph tomorrow and share with you over the weekend, it was nice to do something for me and I didn't use any photos, just wanted to have a play.

Next is on to creating my class for Jamiks Photography & Scrapbooking Studio in Tully. In fact I might just pull that all out for a little look tonight to get the creative juices flowing.

If you a in the area we would love to see you for a class, just give Karyn a ring to book your seat, the next class will be on Saturday 20th March 2010.

I have been lucky to have quite a bit of work published of late and will share some with you...

 This card was one in a set I taught at Paper Possibilites last year and was published in Scrapbook Creations, just recently.

and this one was for Ngaires Top Ten in Scrapbook Creations, you were to gain inspiration from your favourite artist or style of art, so I chose grafitti or street art, whichever way you like to look at it. Had fun doing this, lots of paint and ink on the credit card to smear it on and a favourite photo of our eldest son Nick and his mates Steven and Ross, they were born 10 days apart and have been great mates throughout their lives.

 
 

I might call it a night, i have more to share but you are probably all falling asleep by now ;0)

Have a great weekend everyone and thanks again for taking the time to stop by, for those of you who blog, I promise i will stop by real soon and say hi.

Ax :0)
 

The last day of the November challenge over on Fiskars ANZ blog

I am being lazy and just posting my Fiskars post here!!:-

Hasn't it been a great challenge - thanks Lianne for pushing us all outside our comfort zone, fantastic to see so many inspiring entries in also from you guys :0) Don't forget you still have till midnight tonight to get your entries in.

So my meal was:

81/2 x 11 layout

pink, orange, aqua

cardboard

paint

4 patterend papers

plain cardstock.

As ambassadors, we are all really excited with the new templates Fiskars have released, available at wholesalers now. The "Woodland" template has the tree, the bird and the clouds that you can see in the layout. (As well as a whole heap of other shapes) For the little birds wings, i just used the bits of the tree that i cut off the lefthand edge of the layout, doubled them up - perfect, didn't even have to cut to size ;0).

The journalling semicircle is actually one of the flaps that have been cut off the envelope template, another newbie that you will see get a workout on here over the next couple of months!!

The circle scallop and little may flowers squeeze punches have made quick work out of producing lots of flower embellishments while the trustee old circle squeeze punch guides us up to what Miss Paris is thinking!! ;0)

Thats it from me, i know the other guys are working on projects using the new products, i will have 2 more projects coming using the tree in a totally different way also, so be sure to drop by daily to see whats happening.

bfn

Annette :0)

oops edited to say: the border on the right hand side is another newbie!! Its the corner/border punch "Framed in Love" PRETTY!!!
 

Jamiks Photography and Scrapbooking Studio Tully Class

Hello!!

My apologies for the lateness of this post, i wasn't having much luck photographing our class, wasn't happy so did them again, mmm still not happy but here they are!! Could do with some photography lessons i would think ;0)

So converting layouts to card and vice versa, 2 layouts, 2 ++ cards.....

 

 

 Still with me? ;0)

Still have some glossy accents to add the finishing touches.

These should come together quite quickly and easily, they did for me, miracle!!! The first layout doesn't have the photos added yet, still have to print them off.

It isn't necessary to bring photos to the class as we are concentrating on getting 4 items finished to take home and you will be able to very succesfully add your photos later!!

Hope to see you there, don't forget if you book and pay now, you receive a discount :0)

bfn

Annette

 

 
 

Fiskars Colour Me Happy Challenge - all photos scrapped!!

Hello!!

How's the scrapping coming along for the Colour Me Happy Scrappers?

I have finally finished, not at all what i had originally planned, but hey, thats how it goes!

 

These are the tools i used.....

The circle squeeze punches for all my scallops (big half circles) they were also used for my little paint palletes, cut in half.  The little guilotine is perfect for trimming photos, or in this case for cutting up little photos. My border punch also for smaller decorative scallops. Other than those tools mentioned, some paint, black zig writer, white gel pen, ribbon and paint. My title was done using paint charts for the different colours and running them through the sizzix machine with an alphabet die.

So guys you have just under 9 hours to get your entries in, looking forward to seeing them.

bfn

Annette :0)

 

Hello!!

How's the scrapping coming along for the Colour Me Happy Scrappers?

I have finally finished, not at all what i had originally planned, but hey, thats how it goes!

 

These are the tools i used.....

The circle squeeze punches for all my scallops (big half circles) they were also used for my little paint palletes, cut in half.  The little guilotine is perfect for trimming photos, or in this case for cutting up little photos. My border punch also for smaller decorative scallops. Other than those tools mentioned, some paint, black zig writer, white gel pen, ribbon and paint. My title was done using paint charts for the different colours and running them through the sizzix machine with an alphabet die.

So guys you have just under 9 hours to get your entries in, looking forward to seeing them.

bfn

Annette :0)

Fiskars colour me happy challenge - purple day 4

running late!!!

Here it is :0)

We are 12 days into our challenge and on our last day of purple.

You know what that means, right?

Tomorrow is a NEW colour!

But lets not jump the gun yet ;0), this is my final purple pic....

 

This tibouchina is growing in our yard, its such a vibrant purple, its hard to miss!!

Pop over shortly to the Fiskars Blog to check out the collages of purple that everyone has found over the last few days.

I got time to scrap yesterday, in between tapping away at this computer a share for the Fiskars blog ...

Okay so its not PURPLE, lol - but it is colourful and thats what we are looking at this month, and besides i haven't scrapped for a while so i'm doing a little bit of a happy dance that i finally scrapped something ;0)

This is what my kitchen table looks like at the moment, mmm nuff said!!

 

and under that mess is this new toy that our eldest 2 boys got me for my birthday

 

I had been eyeing this off in office works, and got such a surprise when i opened my present and this was inside, i'm a guilotine girl through and through, and this baby is beautiful!!!

 

We got some new product to play with last week, so play i did!!

 

Credit for this FABULOUS photo has to be given to Tracy from HEY HARRIET she takes these amazing Ttv photos, (through the viewfinder) that you can purchase on her etsy store. I have had this one for a while waiting to scrap it for our month of colour, so when these papers arrived - well they were perfect!

 

and

 

This new range is Heidi Grace - CHEERFUL BEE and you can get it mid August in Lincraft stores.

THANKS for stopping by :0)

Have a great night, see you tomorrow for a new colour

Ax

 

Inkurable Stampers July Challenge

The challenge over at Inkurable Stampers this month is to make a stamped project using playing cards.

I nearly by-passed this one only cause its a little out of my comfort zone ;0). Anyway i knew the kids had an icecream container of playing cards that didn't have full decks so i went rummaging through and found the one to use on the layout. It just so happens that my name starts with "A" duh!! and it had "Australian Made" in tiny little print on the card. And well i am Australian made, lol so that sparked a little more confidence in being out of my comfort zone and making something with my playing card ;0)

 

 

 

I started by stamping in black a Kimberly Poloson Nature's Flora - Tapestry stamp and after deciding that it looked yukky i binned it!! But i really don't like waste so i retrieved it and squished some red and white paint over it using a credit card, (this helped to cover the marks from being in the bin)!

I also stamped the bottom layer of white under the "a" with the same stamp. I used all urbanlily leftovers from a class I taught down at Jamiks and finished with the hand drawn border around the pink cardstock.

All in all i was pleased with the end result, when i finally got there, lol!!

Thanks for stopping by.

Annette :0)

 

 

 

 

More for you from the Jamiks class kit.....

Hello!!

Well after packing away or should i say "starting to pack away" the leftover product from the class kit for Jamiks, i decided on Friday night at about 8.30pm to see what else i could get out of the leftover product.

Here they are....

 

3 cards (I think the girls actually got 4 in their kits) I have used the leftover scraps of paper lying on the table, I have used the other half of the journalling blocks that i used on the right hand side of the layout you can see here. Because there were lots of bits and pieces i have inked everything around the edges with pinecone ink, to pull it all together.

 

 

 

 

 

Another layout ....

 

 

 

The alphas out of this kit come up beautifully sanded.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

and they do most of the time, lol!!

So not bad hey, 3 layout and 3 cards out of 1 kit and still a sheet of paper and some embellishments and alphas left over!!

Happy with that.

We had a great time at the class - as always a great bunch of girls and a very generous host - Karyn :0)

A lovely email from a class member last night to say how much she enjoyed it and looked forward to the next one - a great way to end the day, thanks N :0)

I am off to fold the washing ...sigh...

bfn

Annette

JAMIKS THIS SATURDAY.... A LAYOUT

Phew!!!!

Finally i have finished!!!

Sorry Tully girls i am really dragging the chain this week, this is what we will create.....

The title inspired by this song  can be interpreted however you see fit, and if you really don't want to take a photo of yourself girls, (but I hope you do) then you could slot another photo of kids, partners etc in.

Go on be brave, if i can do it you can, black and white hides all sorts of things, lol!! hold the camera at arms length, nice and tall and click - its that simple!! Take heaps and then choose the one you like.

We take photos of everyone else but rarely ourselves as we are usually weilding the camera, so this is your chance, after all regardless of what we think our kids will want photos of us as well as them. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

So you will need a 7"x 5" photo or a couple of photos that will fit into this measurement or thereabouts.

Your general toolkit details can be found HERE as well as any other specific class requirements for the day.

EDITED TO SAY: THIS CLASS IS EXTREMELY GENEROUS WITH PRODUCT AND YOU WILL HAVE PLENTY LEFTOVER TO MAKE AT LEAST 3 CARDS AND MORE! AND I WILL HAVE SOME EXAMPLES WITH ME FROM LEFTOVER PRODUCT.

Karyn can be contacted on [email protected] or by phoning 07 40680808 for bookings.

Hope to see you  there

Annette :0)

 

 

Made this page the other day for the ANZ Fiskars blog....

A bit of lazy bloggin here, thought i would show you my post from the Fiskars blog the other day, i know some of you do stop by there, so you may already have seen this ;0)

........

Hi!! Annette here.

I thought i would share a layout on journalling with you.

I guess we are all inspired in different ways and create in different ways and for that matter different locations.

For me this layout was inspired while i was on holidays at the beach over easter. I had very limited supplies, i hadn't even remembered to take any sort of adhesive!! I had no photos as i wasn't intending to scrap, i did however have all my clear stamps, black stazon ink, my Steadler triplus fineliner pens and some white bazzill!! I scrounged around in the cupboard and found some black electrical tape, first time i have ever used it in scrapping, but i actually did 2 layouts with it and was quite happy with the results!!

Firstly i had no idea what i was going to do, so i decided to do a heading in my own hand "journalling", and decided to just see where that took me. I then stamped over it using the little flower stamp from "heidi grace - Reagans Closet" clear stamps, then i headed off down to the beach and sat with my friend under the trees and began to colour-in and cut out.

This was my creative space, lol, how can you not enjoy the process when you are in this environment!!

 

Kicking back in my banana lounge, i was doing my title....

 

All this was happening around me....

 

 

I found it quite ironic that i didn't have 1 photo to scrap with, but the whole time i was there, i was snapping away with my camera, in between colouring in, and not moving off my bottom ;0)

Anyway, I finished and cut out the title down at the beach, and then i completed the layout that night in the caravan.

 

this is my "pretend" photo that i made using the Fiskars flip n'flop clear stamps. Do you suppose i was inspired by my surroundings, lol!! Black electrical tape bordered my "photo", oh and just to be clear, i do NOT get around in a yellow polka dot bikini of that size, lol!!

 

My bright flower power heading.

 

This was going to be my layout and i grabbed a leftover piece of cardstock to do a bit of journalling that i was originally going to stick on the back. For someone who struggles with the journalling part, i did okay ;0) so i decided to put it on the front and make it into a little door like this...

 

 

I just added the little tab this morning, had to wait till i got home to get some double sided tape!! I simply punched half a medium squeeze punch cirlce and drew the little scalloped edge, coloured and cut around and attached to the door.

 

So i hope i have inspired you to have a fun approach to journalling, just start with something and see where it takes you with no rules attached

:0) Annette

A bit of lazy bloggin here, thought i would show you my post from the Fiskars blog the other day, i know some of you do stop by there, so you may already have seen this ;0)

........

Hi!! Annette here.

I thought i would share a layout on journalling with you.

I guess we are all inspired in different ways and create in different ways and for that matter different locations.

For me this layout was inspired while i was on holidays at the beach over easter. I had very limited supplies, i hadn't even remembered to take any sort of adhesive!! I had no photos as i wasn't intending to scrap, i did however have all my clear stamps, black stazon ink, my Steadler triplus fineliner pens and some white bazzill!! I scrounged around in the cupboard and found some black electrical tape, first time i have ever used it in scrapping, but i actually did 2 layouts with it and was quite happy with the results!!

Firstly i had no idea what i was going to do, so i decided to do a heading in my own hand "journalling", and decided to just see where that took me. I then stamped over it using the little flower stamp from "heidi grace - Reagans Closet" clear stamps, then i headed off down to the beach and sat with my friend under the trees and began to colour-in and cut out.

This was my creative space, lol, how can you not enjoy the process when you are in this environment!!

 

Kicking back in my banana lounge, i was doing my title....

 

All this was happening around me....

 

 

I found it quite ironic that i didn't have 1 photo to scrap with, but the whole time i was there, i was snapping away with my camera, in between colouring in, and not moving off my bottom ;0)

Anyway, I finished and cut out the title down at the beach, and then i completed the layout that night in the caravan.

 

this is my "pretend" photo that i made using the Fiskars flip n'flop clear stamps. Do you suppose i was inspired by my surroundings, lol!! Black electrical tape bordered my "photo", oh and just to be clear, i do NOT get around in a yellow polka dot bikini of that size, lol!!

 

My bright flower power heading.

 

This was going to be my layout and i grabbed a leftover piece of cardstock to do a bit of journalling that i was originally going to stick on the back. For someone who struggles with the journalling part, i did okay ;0) so i decided to put it on the front and make it into a little door like this...

 

 

I just added the little tab this morning, had to wait till i got home to get some double sided tape!! I simply punched half a medium squeeze punch cirlce and drew the little scalloped edge, coloured and cut around and attached to the door.

 

So i hope i have inspired you to have a fun approach to journalling, just start with something and see where it takes you with no rules attached

:0) Annette

Inkurable stampers April Challenge

Hello!!

Finally i have found a spare minute to upload my challenge for the Inkurable Stampers April challenge which is:

TO USE THE INKURABLE STAMPERS BLOG COLOURS OF ORANGE, BLACK AND WHITE IN YOUR PROJECT.

Well i did have something else in mind when i was thinking about this challenge but that all went by the wayside and this is what i ended up doing.....

 

I completed this with very limited supplies on hand while on holidays at our caravan. I wasn't planning on doing any scrapping but i did take some new and old stamps down and some black stazon ink as well as my Steadler triplus fineliner pens (love these pens!!) I was intending to do some stamping, really just mucking around.

I didn't have any adhesive of any shape or form, so i scrounged around in the cupboard and came up with some black electrical tape, thats what gave me the idea to work a page for Sarahs challenge, so the black thick lines you can see are electrical tape.

 

I have been quite taken with the twinchie challenge that was one of the challenges from the Inkurable Stampers Cybercrop weekend, but unfortunately i just didn't get time to do any, you can see the fantastic entries here. So I decided to randomly grab whatever stamps were on my desk and to use them each in a twinchie. I literally closed my eyes and grabbed. Coloured in with orange, stuck down with electrical tape and the big numbers were cut from an old "Madison" magazine that was floating around. I added some stamped flowers in black, again coloured them in orange and added a hand drawn doodle on the bottom left and a bit of journaling to explain what i did.

 

the little bird is from Heidi Grace "We are Family" clear stamps.

 

this groovy flower Heidi Grace "Reagans Closet"

 

and this last one from the "we are family" stamps as well.

 

I enjoyed playing just for fun and with limited things on hand and to use non scrapping items.

Thanks for stopping by. Be sure to check out the Inkurable Stampers Blog for lots of inspiring projects.

Annette :0) 

 

 

No 8 Wired - NZ Dares

I thought i would share a few things with you as i sit waiting to do the midnight party pickup!!! My eyes are hanging out of my head,the end of the week and i am tired!

I joined in on a game of bingo over at Inkurable Stampers, which was fun, they are celebrating their first birthday with a cybercrop weekend. The first challenge has just been posted, go check it out.

I had a lovely email this week from my fellow Fiskars Ambassador Donna Meuli. Donna is a contributor to a NZ Dare site No 8 Wired - NZ Dares 09 and every fortnight they post a new dare and also invite a guest designer to participate in the dare, and this week it was me:0)

I was thrilled that she thought of me, (thanks Donna ;0) ) and well you know, i love a challenge!!  It is the traffic light challenge, be sure to go and have a look, and why not have a go, heres the Link its dare number 65 and this is my take on it.

  

And i couldn't resist taking one in black and white

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

As soon as i read Donna's dare i thought of a song that Chris learnt at preschool, actually i couldn't get it out of my head!! So that was what inspired me to do my layout like this. I used oil pastels to get the bright vibrant colours.

Its interesting to see the different takes on the same challenge, each persons interpretation is very different from the next.

Ok i have passed a little more time here, another hour and 10 minutes till i have to pick up Nick!!

Have a great weekend everyone, thanks for stopping by.

Annette :0)