Your Footsteps Will Always Fall Here

With October drawing to a close
I thought I would quickly create something for the October Aussie Scrap Jack challenge
I chose Mandy Dodd’s gorgeous page to scraplift

I used a photo of a candle holder Megan made at Guides recently
From Mandy’s layout I “lifted” the grey cardstock, used the same rose ribbon (which I had in yellow)

and kept a similar design
although I added some pattern paper strips

also kept the white pen journaling and buttons

Loved the inspiration to create, thanks Mandy!

Supplies Used:

Jitter Varnish Finish 12x12 Peachy Keen	Fresh Apple Slices 12x12 Apple Cheddar Paper	Woodsy 12x12 Green Paper	Produce 12x12 Farmhouse Paper	Modern 12x12 Random Collection Paper
Saltwater Ciao Chip Simple Alphabet Chipboard Stickers	Organza Rose

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We've Got The Whole Wide World In Our Yard To Explore

Our weekend…
Some boat sinking fun

and some work on the backyard renovations

Dave has had different helpers with everything he’s done

and apart from that…
Jessica went iceskating for the first time today (at a birthday party and I’m told she was a natural!)
Cold and wet and not much else

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He Likes To Pirate Dance

It’s reveal time over at Cocoa Daisy
The “Bed & Breakfast” kit is just gorgeous
I’ve made 2 layouts for reveal
and am looking forward to playing more with the kit
especially for all the amazing challenges that are going to be happening at the crop in a couple of weeks
The first page is using the kit

I used  the “circle & squares” stencil add on with the “Sunshine” Maya Road mist add on

and paper from the Candlewyck Inn paper add on

oh and my trusty dymo had a run with some pink tape

The second page I made

I distressed the Jillibean Soup alpha

used my circle punch on the Barley Pearls paper
and then stamped around each using the circle from the gorgeous Cocoa Daisy Dresden Quilt stamp

machine stitched my journal lines

Such a cool kit I am sure these won’t be around long
so if your interested make sure you head over to the Cocoa Daisy store
There are also some surprises happening
Including gorgeous Tote Bags with an exclusive design created by Julie Fei-Fan Balzer
The kits and bags will be available for purchase from November 1
 
In some home news:
Megan has had the opportunity to help write, direct, shoot and edit a film for the My State Film Festival competition with her school.
The school ended up entering 4 films and she’s excited that her film is now open for voting in the People’s Choice award.
You can view the film HERE and to vote you need to press one of the share buttons, in fact you can press all 300+ share buttons if you desired to do so (?!).
You don’t have to actually share it if you don’t want to, just press a share button, but I know she’d appreciate your vote (as would the other kids who took part in the film) and passing on the link so others can vote too.
She isn’t in the film because she was behind the camera for all of it. She loves LOVES LOVES this kind of thing
both the grade 6 teachers have told me how well she did with the job and how good she is at
I just love the way she has been enthusiastic about the whole process and how much she enjoys this creative outlet
I hope she gets to do something like this again in the future because it’s been a joy to watch

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They’re Gonna Make Her Dance ‘Till Her Legs Fall Off

This week has seen me back on the digi/hybrid path again
Making me stretch and learn some new things
Been a while
but I now have a 3 month gig with the creative team for Tracy Martin Scrapbook Designs 
I’ve been downloading and printing and here is my first page

using this kit

I made a rosette

with some of the paper

doodled a border

used the acrylic alpha add on

wrote some journaling

and if you are into some digi freebies
Tracy has this cute little package available

details can be found here

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I Recommend Biting Off More Then You Can Chew

Today’s post is all about learning something
Are you ready to learn something??
Do you want to?
But to start with I have 2 things to show you
First
is this

and
Second
is this

but more on those later
The two are related
sort of
They are related because
they are both here

So the first thing I showed you…
this is the story that goes with it

and the second thing I showed you
did you see it?
here’s a little close up

more about that?
Back in June, while in Brisbane at the Scrapbook Expo,
the lovely Debbie and I were discussing the new Paper Tape that had just hit the scrappy market
I said how we could probably make our own, being the thrifty person that I am lol
Well, this week Debbie experimented with some craters tape and paper
She printed off some text and was generous enough to send me a sheet
and that’s it there, on my page.
Inspired I thought I would make some too
Here is mine

and here’s how I made mine

I used plain old everyday masking tape and a cut off piece of transparency
I put strips of tape on the transparency

and simply used Microsoft Word to print out lines of numbers

and dots

I also ran tape on the back and printed on that side too
I wondered if my printer would pick up the paper, given it was smaller than A4, but it did
I’ve found the tape comes off the transparency better than the paper
I’ve also found that the ink doesn’t dry very quickly on the tape and will smudge off the transparency
So to overcome this problem I used some paper towel and lifted off the excess ink
Still have to get the text to line up with the tape
and I’d like to print a pattern but I do like numbers
and I also have a few more ideas of things I could do using this technique

Products used:

Salsa 12x12 Indie Bloom Paper

White Lattice 12x12 Overlay

Heirloom 12x12 Memoir Paper

Black Sunrise Hello Sunshine Thickers

Amy Tangerine Garland Hi Friend Dimensional Stickers

P&C Paper Bag

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The People Walk In Crooked Lines

Won’t tell you that we’ve been busy
will just let you guess that we have

Today I went to watch Megan and Jessica at the Interprimary school swimming carnival
Jessica was meant to swim in the backstroke event but got swapped to the freestyle
You could just see her go “ooh” when she was told
I could just see her thinking… me…. freestyle… oh well! lol
Anyway it didn’t phase her too much because she swam really well and…

please don’t ask about the cap on the cap… It’s Jessica and you’re better off not pondering it too hard
It might hurt if you did!!
Megan swam in the backstroke and also the backstroke leg for the medley relay
She came second for both

and is now off to the Champions swim carnival held next month
AND she is very VERY happy to have the chance to do so!
It still has me in awe, how far she has come. Just over 3 years ago she would have got upset about going in the water
She amazes me!

Yesterday I spied a blog post about my blog post
I think that is a little bit awesome!

The other days…
I’ve been busy playing with the “Bed and Breakfast” kit from Cocoa Daisy 
I can’t tell you how cool this kit is!
I also purchased a few add ons (Wicker & Wine + Country Store), which are equally cool
and now I can share a sneak or two

the stamp in the main kit is GORGEOUS!

And if you like crops and challenges make sure you note the 11-13th November on your calendar
Cocoa Daisy is celebrating 5 years and the Fall Crop is going to be JAM PACKED with amazing inspiration
It’s my first crop and I’ll be running my first challenge
Here’s a sneak of what I have up my sleeve for you

See told you I wouldn’t tell you we’ve been busy

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