Nan's Chooks

November is nearly done and Christmas is on the doorstep. Where has the year gone? I have has a busy month and I am just squeezing in a challenge for  Show us Your Stuff blog. The challenge was NO PEOPLE. Well back to the photo stash to see what would be appropriate  for this. Amongst the pile of photo's I found one that was taken in Nans chook yard. All the chooks are called Penny (alias Henny Penny) so that when you feed them and call them by name they all come and you can mistakenly believe that they are answering to their name. I am sure that these girls don't count as people   The theme I have tried to create is rustic. I have paper pieced some chooks to finish the page.  

Nan's Chooks

  Happy Scrapping. Cheers. Heather B

Guest Artist for Scrapping 123

This month I was delighted to be one of the guest artists for Scrapbooking 123. The challenge was Pretty, Peach and Pleats.This was interesting....what to do for pleats. After much thought I decided to try pleated fans. A border punch gave a sweet finish to the edge which I then inked. Some pretty flowers in the peach colour theme tied the page together.  

I hope you enjoy my version of the challenge. Happy Scrapping. Heather B.  

Live Colorfully

The Attraction for me with this challenge from Show Us Your Stuff was the colours. I was inspired by the beautiful colours from the dream catcher  and the bird and I also used the black and white from the zebra for shadowing the butterflies. I inked, stamped  and die cut the butterflies and also die cut the skeleton leaf. I brought out some of the beautiful colours with the spray of flowers and the twine. By keeping the page fresh and clean highlighted the happy and summery look of the photo.  

While appearing simple the page has a lot of elements in it. I hope you enjoyed looking at my page. Happy Scrapping.  Heather B.

Adventure

This months challenge for the 123 Scrapbook challenge is to use the colour olive, distressing and the word Adventure. I have a lovely series of photo's of Chloe's wonderful adventure in Asia. As a three year old she backpacked for six weeks through various Asian countries with Mum and Dad. This photo is when she looked at the local Fishermans hand made "boat".....I am sure that there is a more proper name that the locals call them. Olive is an unusual colour but once I started to work with it I really enjoyed the contrast against the white background  that I like using. A bit of distressing and inking around the edges roughed it up. I am a flower lover....both on my pages and in my garden....so just a couple of daisies that I spritzed was my allowance  and then I used green leaves to add further embellishment. In the middle of this my beautiful grandson came in and presented me with a flower from my garden. How beautiful! "Here you are Grandma. I thought that you might like it." Anyway back to the page. I also used a Kaisercraft stencil to add a little detail to the background using Jo Sonja craft paint in Olive. I then used the same paint to colour a die cut. And then I gave a light spritz all over. And done.    

Adventure

I think that I may actually be getting the hang of this I Pad thingy.  Because I have just managed to do this blog with only one little hissy fit. No tearing the hair out, no tantrum. All good. I hope you enjoy my page and Happy Scrapping. Heather B.  

Exquisite

This has been such a busy month but I couldn't let the month finish without doing the 123 challenge which was Violet, exquisite and stencils. I hadn't realised how little I used the colour violet until I  started looking in my stash. So I just had to work with what I had.

 This photo was perfect and was almost made for the challenge. My daughter had made the photo black and white and had highlighted her t- shirt which was violet and had then sent it to me in a batch of photo's. How perfect was that!

 

 

Taking the photo late at night is not a really good idea  but this is the only opportunity that I will have. I hope you enjoy my page.

Happy Scrapping. Heather B.

 

Edit. I have changed the photo from the original post. I just didn't' think that the photo gave  the lovely colours on the page the true benefit.   Hb

Explore

The 123 Scrapbooking Challenge for August was to use squares the colour chocolate and the word Explore. The photo I chose was delightful snap taken at Fletchers first birthday. I mixed a mid blue with the chocolate theme to soften the chocolate. Around the edge of the page I used a square patterned stamp to continue the theme.  

I hope you enjoy my page.

Happy Scrapping

Heather B

What a great idea from Scrapbookit. An open book challenge to do what you like. I hope that this is not outside the guidelines but I would like to share a page that I have put on my blog a while ago. This page has a mix of hand sewing, pretty flowers, twine and some cute photo's. It is pretty and simple and just how I love a perfect page to look. 

Because I love this page so much I really would like to share it again. What is your favourite page?

 

Happy scrapping.

Heather B.