Homespun Scrapbooking

Saturday, January 7, 2012

Crafty Linby : New Beginnings Candy

Check our Crafty Linby's website for some fantastic Candy.. deadline is 4 Feb 2012

Link HERE

Let's Scrap Sketch: 1-4-12: Horsing Around

This weeks sketch at Let's Scrap incorporated cute banners.. As you all know, i just LOVE banners.. LOL.. so had to create a layout with it.. I didn't have enough nice photos left of the Circus outing in 2010 to do a double of these particular photos, but thought it nice to just use one side..

I used the Imaginsce range of papers again, still have a few left in the kit I bought...

Was so funny.. Brenton wanted to pat the horse, but when it looked up at him, he got such a fright.. I was lucky enough to get this photo of his expression as the horse looked at him.

Hugs, Mich

Friday, January 6, 2012

Life is sweet @ 40

For my 40th Birthday, I told the girls that 0 is not a number and that I was 4 years old.. LOL.. Anyhow, when I got to work they had arranged a Kiddies party for me. I had to wear a tiara and wings the whole day and had Mc Donald and party packs for lunch. Was the most awesome party ever.. Loved it !

Layout created using a kit by Juliet Corbellari. I changed elements and photos around to suit my requirements. Also added a few things.

Full Layout

I have also decided to start using up all my scraps that are left over once you finish a layout and make cards out of them. These get thrown into a box and when I need a card.. voila.. it is done.. everything is there while you do the layout anyhow and it all matches.. quick quick.. These are just 2 that I have made so far..

I used scraps from the above layout to make the first card.

and... Inside the card:

thanks for looking.. Mich

New Tutorial posted at Let's Scrap..Tissue Flowers

Want to learn how to make these awesome Tissue Tape Flowers and tape.. check out Let's Scrap latest Tutorial.. HERE

Hugs, Mich

Lets Scrap Sketch - 10-13-10 - Best Show Ever

Cannot believe how much my kids have grown since Feb 2010.. found these photos that I hadn't scrapped and saw the most amazing single layout in a Magazine with the Circus Tent, so had to lift that.. used sketch 10-13-10 for the right side of my layout ... not as busy as my pages normally are.. But I'm happy with it.. amazingly enough it was the WORST circus show I had ever been too.. but the kids enjoyed it.. LOL

Paper: Imaginisce - Animal Crackers range and embellishments

Hugs, Mich

Lets Scrap Challenge 126 - WANTED: A brain

I just loved this challenge.. and boy was it a challenge.. I have had this Graphic 45 paper for months and knew I wanted to do something special with it.. this was just the chance... I even got to play with all my distress Inks and Kraft Resist papers from Tim Holtz... loved it..

Challenge:
1 photo - DONE
3 Flowers - DONE
3 Brads - DONE
1 Metal - The bookplate
1 Title in paper - Cut the paper up and took the title out of it..
1 subtitle - In the bookplate
7 x papers - Graphic 45 range (x4 in the Wizard of Oz range) that I have never used before and Tim Holtz Ideology Kraft Resist papers (x2) that I distressed and inked to give the colors green / black to and lastly a Kaiser Winter Wonderland Let It Snow (x1 - Red paper) for accent .. I didn't have 7 from the same range.. but i have never used any of these ranges before..
Ribbon - On the Wanted sign
Button - black/white button in the bottom cluster.

Phew.. all done.. have made it into a double.. will post that now too.. had too many photos.. but this side is for the challenge. Thanks Jeaunes.. Awesome challenge

Sketch 10-6-10 of Lets Scrap used

Close up Left

Close Up Right

Thanks for looking.. Hugs, Mich

Let's Scrap Challenge 125 - No more Mr. Nice Guy

We were fortunate enough to go to an Alice Cooper concert recently. We were 7 rows from the front.. was the most amazing concert. He has a local radio show here in Australia and is actually the nicest person ever. I never used to like him until I heard his radio show.. he is such an awesome person. As he says, his stage persona is totally different from who he actually is. So when tickets came on sale, I just had to go see him.

I used the name of the Concert and his latest song No more Mr. Nice Guy as the title of my page and I printed out the lyrics and attached them behind the main photo. The main photo also is a booklet for more photos inside.. I took about 100 on the night.. still have about 20 to scrap as I took his Frankenstein sequence (he has this huge monster thing on stage.. awesome)... to scrap..