Wednesday, December 29, 2010

GLEE Club at Soul Scrappers

Soul Scrappers is running a challenge series based on GLEE Club (don't you love that show!!). Lots of great challenges, quizes, competitions and best of all lots of great prizes (over $500 worth of prizes). Come on over and check it out here.....


GLEE Club officially starts on the 22nd January 2011, but you can earn some Early Bird points right now :)

Note - **The first three ladies to join GLEE Club from my Shazzacraft followers will recieve a RAK prize from me (** and must participate in at least 2 challenges)


TFL
Shazza

Tuesday, December 28, 2010

Your Place in the Sun.......

COMING IN 2011 .....

OVER THE COMING MONTHS JANE WILL BE WORKING TO SET THIS CLASS UP READY TO START A FREE CLASS IN JANUARY, 2011. I REALLY HOPE YOU WILL CONSIDER JOINING HER.

INTERESTED? EMAIL JANE FOR FURTHER INFORMATION OR TO PLACE YOURSELF ON HER CLASS LIST. (scrapbeginnings@gmail.com)

This class is open to everyone - paper, hybrid or digital scrapbookers - in fact you don't even have to be a scrapbooker to get something from this class as it could be done as an old fashioned journal or a photobook or by using photo pockets. Whatever method you use, at the end of the year you will have another album of stories to add to your life history.


Have you ever wanted to put together an album about that special place in your heart you call home but didn’t really know where to start? Would you like to produce an album to record the things you see and the places you go regularly within your neighbourhood? Have you taken for granted a large part of your everyday community life? Would you like to see the wider picture of how we fit into where we live and how exactly we interact with the people around us who share the same common ground as us on a daily basis?


Then please join Jane in 2011 for a year long free class where you will explore your own community, be it in the rural countryside, urban suburbs or in high density city living. You will soon discover a deeper understanding of the area in which you live by looking at familiar sites with new eyes. Together we will look at the history of your community, its attractions and its facilities through a monthly extensive pdf download, loaded with prompts and ideas. Each lesson will include inspirational layouts, sketches, fun facts and a series of challenges to get you started. There will be monthly prizes up for grabs and a gallery for you to share all your work. At the end of this year I know you will have a wonderful album of completed layouts which will record your life in your own community. This will be a very special project to share with your family as the years roll past and you perhaps move on to other homes in your life journey.

I joined up months ago and can't wait to try something a little bit different :) Get in quick so you dont miss out.........did you read the bit about prizes??? :)

cheers
shazza

Tuesday, December 14, 2010

Nature Brings Joy

Here is my entry for Scrap that Poetry's latest challenge. You had to use the poem.........

The Tables Turned

a poem by William Wordsworth 

Up! Up! my Friend, and quit your books;

Or surely you'll grow double:

Up! up! my Friend, and clear your looks;

Why all this toil and trouble?

The sun, above the mountain's head,

A freshening lustre mellow

Through all the long green fields has spread,

His first sweet evening yellow.

Books! 'tis a dull and endless strife:

Come, hear the woodland linnet,

How sweet his music! on my life,

There's more of wisdom in it.

And hark! how blithe the throstle sings!

He, too, is no mean preacher:

Come forth into the light of things,

Let Nature be your Teacher.

She has a world of ready wealth,

Our minds and hearts to bless

Spontaneous wisdom breathed by health,

Truth breathed by cheerfulness.

One impulse from a vernal wood

May teach you more of man,

Of moral evil and of good,

Than all the sages can.

Sweet is the lore which Nature brings;

Our meddling intellect

Mis-shapes the beauteous forms of things:

We murder to dissect.

Enough of Science and of Art;

Close up those barren leaves;

Come forth, and bring with you a heart

That watches and receives.

I used the words 'Nature brings'.......

NATURE BRINGS JOY


The journaling around the photo says...... 'Nature brings Joy'...in the form of rain to dry old Melbourne!! It's such a Relief :)
The raindrops are handcut from felt, to give the page some texture

Here is a close up....



TFL
Shazza

Wednesday, December 8, 2010

My Place in the Sun - Jane Howden - Year Long FREE Classes

This is my Title page for the pre -class assignment for 'Your Place in the Sun'.

It shows my home, the board walk around the lake nearby and the kangaroos that live in the surrounding bushland.

If you would like to join Janes year long free class about 'A year long journey of discovery about the place you call HOME' the link is http://www.scrapbeginnings.blogspot.com/


and here is a close up


TFL
Shazza