Love Scrappin' Easter Projects.............................

I have had the pleasure of working with the Jillibean Soup Easter range of papers to create Easter projects. Jillibean Soup, available from Love Scrappin, is a relatively new company and I haven't used this brand before, but the papers were gorgeous. Lovely head weight, double-sided papers with adorable patterns. I decided to make a series of Easter treat bags:

I downloaded a series of Easter images and printed them cardstock to create the embellishments. Full instructions for the bags can be found HERE on the Love Scrappin' blog.

Wishing you all a Happy Easter........................

Cheers............................Leanne

Hippity, Hoppity.............................

Easter is on it's way and that means 2 weeks holiday ~ WOOHOO!! Nothing much planned except some "ME" time. We are heading to the Sydney Royal Easter Show on Staurday ~ crazy I know, but every kid needs that experience. I will have plenty of school work to do, but I'll pace myself.

Cheers..........................Leanne

Hand Cutting #2..........................

a second take on the Technique challenge at Scrap Pile :

Head on over to Scrap Pile and check out the challenges.

Cheers............................Leanne

Love Scrappin'................................

blog challenge for March is to 'scrap your space'. The added twist was to use Basic Grey papers and to feature a photo of your favourite scrapping product. I used Basic Grey Ambrosia and Offbeat papers and featured Prima blossoms, and the result:

 Head on over to the Love Scrappin' BLOG and give the challenge a go.

Cheers.................................Leanne

Knock Me Down..............................

with a feather ~ I won!! or to be more precise I shared 1st place in the ScrapDango Crowned competition. The prize ~ GDT in May!!

Spent today in Sydney at the NSW Teachers Federation Council meeting ~ long day, but lunch at a local pub was very good. Next one isn't until May, so a bit of a break.
Planning on doing a bit of scrapping tomorrow, haven't done anything much this week and next week I'll be away at Year 7 Camp for 3 days, so next week will have limited opportunities.

Have a great weekend, what's left of it..........................

Cheers.......................Leanne

March DT Projects......................

at Scrap Pile are in the gallery. This month I have had the pleasure of playing with My Minds Eye papers and embellishments and Smooch inks. I loved the colour palette in the papers and they were perfect for my beach photos. The coordinating diecuts and tags were perfect accompaniments:

I used the Smooch inks to add flourishes to the frame and to highlight the centres of the flowers:

That's all for now. Need to work on Karen's sketch challenge.

Cheers............................Leanne

Scrap Pile Challenges..................................

The march challenges are underway over at Scrap Pile. This month I was responsible for the Inspiration challenge and the Technique challenge. This gorgeous image is the basis of the Inspiration challenge:

 

I saw layers, lace, pink, chandeliers and blossoms and my interpretation:

The technique challenge is all about hand cutting, sometimes known as fussy cutting. The Bella "Sarah Jane" papers were absolutely perfect for this technique and my interpretation:

 

I have a second example for this challenge, but I wasn't completely happy with it. Have done a little rearranging and will post shortly.

All challenges are due in the relevant gallery folders by midnight 31st March. Have fun creating.

Cheers...........................Leanne

Crowned Week 4...................................

despite my rough week, I decided to finish what I had started with the Crowned comp over at ScrapDango and completed my final layout yesterday. The challenge was to select one of the February Pagemaps sketches and create a layout with at least three techniques from the list provided. I chose to add hand cutting, inking, stamping and misting/masking on my layout, which turned out like this:

 

I'll be back tomorrow with the challenges for March over at Scrap Pile. Tonight I'll be concentrating on my DT layouts for Scrap Pile. I have some yummy MME boy themed bits and pieces to play with.

Cheers.............................Leanne