Look...whoo hoo!!

 

What about Lucy Muraca's photo for December....whoo hoo!!! Ain't this Santa something else!!

 

Hehehehe

 

So I had fun with some bling & some embellies, celebrating this sexy Santa.

 

Thanks for looking!

 

Hugs xx

 

Summer of '56..

 

A wonderful photo, although not very clear of my hubby Pete & Steve in their pram when they were babies pushed around by their older sister Susan at their grandparents property in the bush up on the northern tablelands.

 

All the farm chickens are pecking away in the forefront & the shadow of their mum, is there as wll taking the photo - a box brownie I think,

 

This is a digi LO for Pixels & Paper using My Memories, & this is the inspiration

 

 

Fabulous photo...perhaps mine is about the same era??

 

Thank you for looking!

 

Hugs xx

Card Bursts....with Scrapville

 

#1 NUMBERS – RURAL THEME OF YOUR CHOICE 1X Fence/Gate
2X Layers
3X Patterned papers

 

4X Stamped images
Don’t forget your sentiment.

 

 

#2 ANIMALS/BIRDS You must use a Rural photo or stamp of either an Animal or Bird on your Card.
The card must include greenery of some kind: leaves, flowers, branches, grass, vines, tree or similar.
This must relate to the Rural theme, so pull out those chickens, dogs, horses, cows, sheep.
Or maybe the crocodiles, alpacas, ducks, camels, the Old …..rooster (little steggler..).

What about your pet donkey or go for a few of the farmers favorite birds, cockies, parrots…… or maybe an eagle, the little bush birds, the odd emu – all sorts of stuff to choose from!

 

#3 METALS/RUSTIC Use 2 different Textures on this card
(embossing, textured papers, paint, gesso, fabric, webbing etc).
Attach a Tag with the Sentiment on it.
The card must have either Red or Orange on it, or both.

Have 2 metal embellishments.

 

#4 NATURE For this challenge your card must focus on Rural Flora.
(I will also accept crop plants/seeds/grasses as well as the flowers).
It must have stamping, a doily and one decorative edge.

Hugs xx

 

 

 

 

Playing Ladies

 

I really love Lucy Muraca's YSMY each month & definitely love this photo of the Crawley sisters from Downton Abbey - what a great show it is - sometimes I would love to walk a mile in their shoes.

 

Here is the inspiration photo

 

I also cropped the Crawley sisters faces - Lady Mary, Lady Edith & Lady Sybil, plus played with a Tattered Inspirations kit plus lovely papers, & stamping. I took an autumn theme with

my page as well.

 

 

Thanks for looking..

 

Hugs xxx

 

Feeling Sketchy Blog Hop WINNER!!!

 

 

Here is my darling little granddaughter Pippa, drawing the winning name from a big glass jug from the 19 fabulous commenters for the Feeling Sketchy Blog Hop..

 

And the winner for my blog goodies is -

 

CLAIRE

 

I apologise that I have not posted this earlier, but I was away from home at a big birthday celebration, & then travelled home today.

 

Claire - please email me your address & I will post out your happy parcel of goodies.

 

 

 

And many thanks to you all for hopping by.  I will try to hop by your blog over the next week.

 

Hugs xx

 

Feeling Sketchy Christmas Blog Hop!! Woo Hoo...

Welcome to the Feeling Sketchy Design Team Christmas blog hop!

I am so very pleased you have hopped on here!

Hopefully you've found your way here from Morgyn's blog,

But if you've only started here then you might want to start back at

Feeling Sketchy .

 I'm so excited to share my scrapbooking LO using -

 

  Feeling Sketchy sketch # 73

 

 

 

I have worked on a 8.5 x 11 page using a wonderful photo of my

late mother-in-law Garland, when she was just 5 years old. I have titled it 'Treasure'.
 

Just look at those beautiful ringlets, her mum would have added the rags to her hair to get these, especially for the photo, oh they are so pretty! 

 

I have masked & inked, & added some lovely Tattered Inspirations laces & doilies, & flowers along with pretty Prima bling & buttons.

 

 

 

 

For my next project I have made a trio of gift tags....

 

I love making tags, so again I used our Feeling Sketches sketches for these 3 small Christmas gift tags. 

 

The Feeling Sketchy sketches are fabulous to keep in a file & have on hand for inspiration!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 And lastly here is Christmas LO of my two children way back in 1984...not sure if they are happy on Santa's knee here though!! :)
 

The title of my page is 'U 2 are My Best Gifts Ever'...

For this page I used some older Basic Grey Christmas paper ranges, along with some lovely Whimsy Farm twine.  I have used Sketch # 71 for this page.

Now to thank you for hopping along to my page in the Feeling Sketchy Blog Hop, here is a fairly large & happy RAK you could win!!!

If you leave a comment, I will use the Random.org to choose a winner....

now that is easy hey!!

 

The fun doesn't stop here, the next blog to hop to is Danielle's.

When all is done, be sure and check back with Feeling Sketchy
for a wonderful giveaway on our blog.



The blog will finish on November 15, 
& the winner will be announced on the November 16.

 

Isn't it just fabulous!!

Thank you for taking the time to hop over here..

Hugs..Debi Clark

 

 

 

Yourself...

 

 

Well I have to say I had a lovely play with this page I made for

ARTastic this month...using this wonderful artwork from Jenny Grant as my inspiration -

 

 

 

Criteria - Free choice, make of this what you will!

 

 

A little about Jenny Grant  Jenny is a self taught mixed media artist that creates her art based on an intuitive process. Most of her paintings evolve as she paints and when she finds her flow, magic happens!  She works with mixed media – acrylic paint, oil pastels, ink, colour pencils, fabrics, paper, photos… anything that comes her way. Her work is very rich with many layers that add depth and texture. Her work is exhibited and for sale both in Sweden and New Zealand as well as on-line.
http://www.flowbyjenny.com/en

 

So come & join us...it will enliven your soul!

 

Hugs xx

One Big Adventure...on Norfolk Island

 

 

Here is my LO for the November challenge at Archi-scraps  using this unusual & interesting inspiration photo

 

 

 

The added criteria this month is THE SEA.

 You can use any seaside picture so long as you can explain how this inspired you.

I used the 'sea' theme here on my LO using some photos of how they launch boats from the Jetty on Norfolk Island.

It really is an interesting event to watch as a car, winch & the boat is involved then off goes the boat for some recreational fishing.

I used some hessian, & woods with my photos to sure up the Jetty and give a maritime feel.

Why not join us this month...it is a fabulous challenge.

Hugs xx
 

 

Her Heart is So Very Beautiful

 

 

I haven't joined in at 1~2~3 Get Scrappy before, but needed to clear my head with some sad news, so gave myself a couple of hours after work to work on this page.

 

So this challenge involves picking 3 criteria in a row off the board & working with them.

 

So I choose - stitching, the colour orange & more than 3 different patterned papers.

 

I machine stitched, used 2 shades of light orange & 4 pp's, plus lots of fussy cutting.

 

Because I am in such a thoughtful mood, I choose to scrap my beautiful grand daughter Tashi dressed so beautifully for her formal. Such a delightful photo my son took of her. She so wanted to wear a fascinator, so I made her this one to match with her gorgeous chiffon gown.

 

This was so lovely to work on today, thank you for this great challenge.

Hugs xx





 

Adore - Special Investigator at CSI..

 

 

Here is how I cracked the last case as Special Investigator at CSI Scrapbooking.

I feel so honoured to have been asked & thoroughly enjoyed my 4 October cases...

 

 

 

This was a beautiful inspiration & one I enjoyed cos I used some photos of my hubby & me on our wedding renewal a few years back when we reached 33 years marriage.

 

 

Beautiful colours in this palette..& loved using them.

 

I choose to wear light blue as my wedding dress way back in 1976, & when I went looking for something special for our renewal of vows, I fell in love with another light blue & blingy outfit -

such a similar colour.

Evidence - I used

paint
distressing
flowers
fabric - net
book pages
tie something
tearing

 

Testimony - I used

I created a little book to hold our story, & tied it will a ribbon.

Inspiration words: reminisce & old.

 

Journaling in my teeny tiny book reads -

33 years ago we said yes to each other, the years have past so quickly, sometimes we are good together, sometimes prickly.
But as I reminisce of times old & new,

I know that there could have only be you.

 

Hugs xx

 

 

 

ARTastic Design Team & Guest Design Team

 

 

Hi gals

Would you like to be part of the team at ARTastic for 2014....

 

 

Well this is your chance to apply.

 

 

Please see all the details here.

 

 

Heart & Soul

 

 

I have not played along with 123 Challenge Blog so thought I would have a go with this fabulous inspiration ...

 

October's challenge is

 

 

I used this wonderful photo of my Jade & Pippi that I took at Ballina recently.

I am madly in love with texture paste & Heidi Swapp Colourshine & Dylusions so used all those, along with stamping, Zig writer & lovely papers & plenty of embellies plus a clothing tag.

 

 

 

And lots of love too..

 

 

Thank you for a great challenge, & also taking a peek..

 

Hugs xx

 

 

Sitting with Pah

 

 

I just loved Sharon's October inspiration over at ScrapBoutique

and enjoyed so much scrapping this page of Pippi & her Pah...isn't it gorgeous!

 

 

 

 

 Create a Layout inspired by the colours and textures in the photo above.

* Include at lease 20 words in your journaling
* Use an everyday household item on your page

Love the greys, & used the fabulous gesso, & texture paste..plus that lovely chair from Scrapmatts...isn't that one fabulous!

 

Thanks for looking...hugs xx

My Cats....at CSI

 

 

 

 

Let's get into the fabulous challenge 94 at CSI Scrapbooking....

 

here is the case...

 

 

 

 

I couldn't believe it when Debbi Tehrani sent me this one...I had just bought this book 'I Could Pee on This' for my sister for Christmas...now that is a total co-incidence!!!  So my 3rd week as a Special Investigator, a privledge I have so loved.

 

 

So I used 2 photos of my 2 kitties sitting on my knee one cold evening...snuggling together....something they NEVER do!!

 

And then wrote a poem...hehehe - I wont give up my day job! :)

 

 

 

 

With some fabulous scrapping supplies I had a load of fun working on this page!

 

Thank you for popping along...

 

 

Hugs xxx