Cards, cards, and more cards.........

This year I have decided to have my own card making night. I bought a lot of cards last year for different occasions.... When I could be making them and saving myself a bit of money :)  So, Mondays will now be called MACM (Make A Card Monday)....I stole this idea from K Werner. I also used her card making tips and ideas for inspiration for some of my own cards.....her sensational blog can be found at http://www.kwernerdesign.com/blog/

Here is what I have been up to over the last two Monday nights :)

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Will you get a 'Shazza' card soon.........

TFL

Shazza

My home - mini book

Today I decided to do my front cover for my 'Mini Album', which is in the shape of a house.......I have never made a mini album before and this sounds like a lot of FUN!!

This project is from the year long FREE class on offer from Jane Howden at Scrap Begginings called 'Your Place in the Sun', you can find the site here 

My Home

and a close up

TFL

Shazza

Federation Charm

I had a chance to put together another page for my album 'My Place in the Sun' inspired by the year long FREE class on offer from Jane Howden at Scrap Begginings, you can find the site here 

In lesson one Jane talks about the front of our home....What aspect of your front yard appeals to you the most? Do you like your home entrance? etc........

Federation Charm

 

I love my home, I love the woodwork against the brickword and the federation style. Our garden is a bit overgrown atm due to the rain and high humidity over the last month or so. I love our entrance its only small but really quaint, and is kept tidy and swept. Every couple of months I gat a bucket and broom and clean the whole front of the house and double garage door as we get heaps of cobwebs.

 

 

and a close up

TFL

Shazza

Backyard Bliss

I had a chance to put together another page for my album 'My Place in the Sun' inspired by the year long FREE class on offer from Jane Howden at Scrap Begginings, you can find the site here 

In lesson one Jane talks about our backyards....What do you see out of your backdoor? Find a focal point and scrap a page showing features of your backyard.

Backyard Bliss

Journaling says..... The best feature in our backyard are the elegant female statues.

Here is a close up!

Come join in and have fun putting together a great album about 'Your Place in the Sun'

TFL

Shazza

No Place like Home

I had a chance to put together another page for my album 'My Place in the Sun' inspired by the year long FREE class on offer from Jane Howden at Scrap Begginings, you can find the site here

I wanted to make a page with a larger picture of my home and a brief discription of how we came to live at 'Parkside View' in South Morang.

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Journaling - We have lived in 'Parkside View', South Morang since December 2003. We bought this home after selling a small 2 bedroom unit that we were living in at the time. The size of the unit and the fact that it was upstairs made it no longer appropriate, we needed somewhere bigger, and on flat ground due to the fact I had knee problems at the time.

I love my home at Parkside View, especially the color of the bricks and woodwork features.I also love the bay lounge room at the front of the house. Inside the open living floor plan maintains a sense of formality and functionality.

I made the 'Home Sweet Home' sign from polymer clay and used a stamp to stamp the wording. I love the little yellow owl calling out 'Home', and the sun peeping out from behind the clouds :)



Next.......looking at the back yard and front yard......

TFL

Shazza

Enfy's is having a week long blog party!

 And we all know how to party right!!!

 You can find all the information here, including all the prizes and how you can go about winning something awesome

Heres a little bit of info to get you in the party mood............Welcome to my week long blog party, lots of fun, lots of games and lots of prizes to be won. I have arranged this to say a huge thank you to all my followers, and those who subscribe by email. For those who get an email, you will need to come over here to join in the fun, at the bottom of your email is a link to Going Buggy, click on that and come on over Each day will feature a new mini competition, and a new bunch of prizes. The comments for each competition will be kept open until midnight GMT (7:00 PM EST) on Saturday 22nd January. The winners (and there will be a lot of you!) will be announced on Sunday 23rd January. If you have a blog, PLEASE post this on there - a party is always better with lots of peeps Right, let's party. I have chosen this little challenge first, so that you have a full ten days to join in. - from Enfy's

Make a card, for any occasion, any shape, any size, any technique, but it MUST have a bug on it - I am going to be generous and call butterflies, dragon flies, bees etc bugs. You have until Friday 21st January to enter your card

Home Is Where The Heart Is

 

I have a catterpillar on mine so I'm pretty sure that would be classified as a bug.

paper pieced with a rub on quote and bow.

I got the inspitation for this card from another card blogger but just cant think atm who it was! :(

Here is a close up of some of the detail

Enfy's just letting you know that I am from Australia

TFL

Shazza

Feed the Birds

This is my entry for Justene's sketch challenge SC27 at Soul Scrappers. You can view the challenge details here.

 

Here is my entry...

I have used a photo of Jenna from 1997, she is seven years old.

Journaling says - Jenna!! You had a lovely holiday the summer of 1997. you loved sking on the lake and swimming in the pool at Mansfield Caravan Park. Best of all you loved feeding the birds of a morning.
Magpies Love Vegiemite Toast.

I dont often use feathers but this layout just called out for black and white ones...go the PIES!!

TFL
Shazza

Joy and Merry Christmas

Here are two entries for Gwens 'Recycling Christmas Cards' challenge at Soul Scrappers.

Here are the challenge details.....by Gwen. You can view the challenge here
It's that time of year when we have a pile of Christmas cards and we aren't sure if we want to throw them out, or save them.  I have started a new tradition of Recycling my Cards onto scrapbook pages either as a focal point or cut into a tag for an accent or into circles or frames as an element...
I hope that you will make time to choose a few of your favorite cards either handmade or bought that you received this year either in the mail or by hand, and use them somehow on a  scrapbook page.
THAT is your challenge! Pretty simple huh?

Joy

I have used a beautiful handmade Christmas card that Mary Steinmetz sent me for Christmas 2010. Using her card as part of my layout means I will never misplace the card.

This photo of Hasan and I, was taken in 2009......we both look very joyous!

Merry Christmas

Another card I want to keep, this hand made card was from Debi Clark for Christmas 2010. I love how she didn't use traditional christmas colors but a wintry blue perfect for a cold Snowy Christmas...I love the little chipboard sleigh she used :)
The photo is my neice Tillie on Christmas Day.

I used the 'Presto Patterns Speciality DSP from SU! and inked around the page with 'Baja Breeze'. I love how the embossing lifts off the page :)

TFL

Shazza

Just One Candle Burning Low

Here is my entry for 'Scrap that Poetry' challenge. Challenge # 31

 I used the poem -Mistletoe a Christmas poem

by Walter de la Mare

Make it Snow !
Sitting under the mistletoe
(Pale-green, fairy mistletoe),
One last candle burning low,
All the sleepy dancers gone,
Just one candle burning on,
Shadows lurking everywhere:
Some one came, and kissed me there.
Tired I was; my head would go
Nodding under the mistletoe
(Pale-green, fairy mistletoe),
No footsteps came, no voice, but only,
Just as I sat there, sleepy, lonely,
Stooped in the still and shadowy air
Lips unseen - and kissed me there.

I have used cuts outs from old Christmas cards from 2001 as my embellishments

(The christmas cards I used from Christmas 2001 were from....McConville Family, Blight Family, Lindner Family, Mark and Daniella, Nan and Pa Bishop, Pauline And Frank, Deb and Isabelle(the cat!) and my mum)

Here is a close up :)

I am also going to add this to Gwens challenge TC26 'Recycling Christmas cards'
challenge at Soul Scrappers.

TFL
Shazza

FS2S challenge January

This month at FS2S we are taking our inspiration from the movie poster 9 to 5'

Added criteria for an extra 6 Bonus Points

 1) use a red title = 1pt

 2) use a clock = 2pts

3) use a picture from the 80's = 3pts

 

You can get to FS2S from here 

 

Here is my submission called

'Looking After Baby Adam Around the Clock 24-7' 

 

  

We would love to see you join in our challenges this year at FS2S

 

TFL

Shazza

ARTastic challenge January

Hi Ladies!

This months challenge at ARTastic is the Beautiful painting by Renoir called 'Luncheon of the Boating Party'

You can get to ARTastic from here.

Diva Demand for an extra 6 bonus points try and

work the following into your layout.

1. Scrap a celebration = 1pt
2. 3 or more people in the layout = 2pts
3. Food somewhere on the layout = 3pts

 

Here is my submission

called

'Christmas Day Lunch'

Please come and join in ARTastic  and give your mojo a boost in 2011

TFL

Shazza

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

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

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

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