Colour Combo's Galore Challenge #159

This is my first COMPLETED challenge layout for the Colour Combos Galore scrap site and I am so pleased with myself … and I stress the completed because I have started multiple LO’s for their challenges and these LO’s begun with much excitement are still languishing in my UFO pile.
My real life gets in the way of scrapping so often… You see, I don’t really have the space to scrapbook at home, and I often have to work at a moments notice so my best laid plans regularly go by the wayside.

But here it is… and it came together like a dream… I’d been wanting to have a go at this kind of LO for a while and when the new challenge was posted, I knew it was exactly the right fit for the photos.
Course, life did again get in the way, and it wasn’t submitted on time, however, it was submitted and thus I am classing this one as a win.
Briefly, the LO is about my son’s very last first day at school. Like most mums, there was always the obligatory ‘first day’ shots but this one was different - his last first day and my first child finishing school. The last year of Zach and Billy riding to school on their bikes before life got infinitely faster on four wheels.
Entirely constructed from my stash ( but for the little homework book chip on the paperclip - thanks Leonie ) I used paint to stamp the clocks at both his start and finish times, a transparency, papers and ribbon from LYB GenZ range that I love so much. Brushed a little navy paint on the background, and attached the transparency frame with silver star eyelets. The bicycle transparency strip is from Hambley.

The photo is a bit dodgy, I know, but time is defeating me at the moment, so I went with 'the one I have' option.



Thanks for stopping by and happy scrappin’ …. :)

Lisa.

Heading in the right direction ....

I LOVE bling… I guess that is no surprise when you see the title of the blog, but let me clarify… Bling for me started out as just crystals, but has steadily expanded to mean anything with any kind of pizzazz or wow factor - from glittered anything, to a spectacularly constructed flower, right down to a humble shell I picked up on my favourite beach. Its become a verb rather than just a noun.

A doing word.

I add embellishment to almost everything - I even scrapbook my Christmas trees.

So when it came to making a header for this blog it was a no brainer that I’d raid my stash of sparkly things and throw as many on there as possible… which in this case, is over the top even for me. But I love it in all its glittery glory.

And that’s the joy of scrapping… permission to play with pretty stuff.

So why did I not just do a trendy header with digi scrapping elements? I guess I could have and there are some wonderful ones out there, I just love to touch the paper and placing the elements with my own hands holds delight for me, so I did it the old fashioned way and built it from the ground up.

So there you have it… my first creation for the blog is actually a part of it…

I’m looking forward to adding more of my creative folly as time permits.
Thanks for stopping by ..

Happy scrappin’

Lisa. :)

Oh no... not ANOTHER scrapping blog...

I’ve been meaning to find time to do this for what seems like forever. The trouble is, I spend almost all my available time planning, purchasing and then playing with paper and the associated embellies that I have put off the sharing part of it … until now.

So here I am, and what scrap blog would be complete without a tiny ‘who do I think I am’ in a scrap related, overshare kind of way before I start loading photos and talking about my latest greatest scrap find.

Well, it all started with a magazine… (ok, I can see eyes rolling already… stay with me now) and I honestly couldn’t tell you which one because in the ensuing 10 years since then my life has gone topsy turvy in lots of good and bad ways. I started scrapping in 2000 and have been a total addict ever since. Living hundreds of miles in any direction from capital cities at the time made it all the more challenging, so I started out learning all I could from magazines that cost me a small fortune brought in from the US.

Sadly, I only started taking photos of my kids/family/pets from a scrappers perspective from then on, so much of their early years are confined to ‘event’ shots… birthdays, weddings, the obligatory family Christmas shot, etc,… And of course, it was a pre-digital age so they’re all on film which I’m finding costly to convert ( when I actually find the negatives, after moving to the sunshiny end of Australia).
But, such was ( and still is) my enthusiasm for photography, I thankfully have more photos that I could ever possibly scrap in a life time already so the hardest part of the process remains the choice of photos.

Ok… well, I’ll put it out there… I’m a stuff scrapper… I like loads and loads of ‘stuff’ on a page… and the more it sparkles and glimmers and shines, the happier I am. And bucket loads of colour… I struggle with monotone…
Amongst my ‘scrapping family’ I am well known for wanting to always add a bit more bling… White space just makes me fidget.
I hate stitching with a passion, but weirdly, its on the great majority of my LO‘s… so I suffer for the cause.

Since moving to the shiny part of Australia a few years back, the very first friends in my new state were my scrapping family. And this needs to be said… You guys ROCK!!!

I’ve taught scrapbooking classes in two states now and have the honour of being on the My Scrappin’ Shop Design Team, there isn’t a day that passes when I don’t think, talk or do something scrap related, so I can’t see this obsession going away any time soon.

I plan to add lots more 'stuff' to the blog as time permits... the first being a new header... mostly because my penchant for embellishments doesn't end with scrapbooking. ;)

So without further ado… thanks for stopping by and I hope you enjoy the scrap journey with me from where ever you are in the world. Feel free to leave comments, feedback is the only way I’ll know I’ve got it right or not.



Lisa