A new cover

I broke the hinge of my previous cover for my kobo e-reader so today I decided to make a new one.

This is made of chipboard and is basically a box with a flap that ties down.

I've got a clip on it which will hold the synopsis of the books I've got. It's very hard sometimes to choose what to read if you haven't read it before on the kobo's as you have to open the books or relook it up on the web...
So I print them off so I have a record of them....

So onto the pics...

This is the front cover...


and some details...





The inside of the flap and front of the box....


and the back...

I don't think the colour is too good on this pic...

anyway the paper is all kaisercraft loire valley and some of their gorgeous new roses...

The Amazing Race is on.....

The Amazing Chook Race of course.....
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We're all at the airport getting our passports stamped and jumping on the plane for round 1....

Wondering what I'm talking about....?
Then you'd better go here and sign up.... and find all about it!!!!

So with Round 1 up I have a layout to share...



As we were flying out we had to have a baggage allowance and this round it was ... 4 photos, 4 pattern paper, 4 flowers, 4 ribbons/lace, 4 alpha styles, 4 chipboard, 4 brads/bling, 4 tools... unlimited adhesive and ink.
This meant we couldn't add anything more and that included no cardstock or paint!
So out of my allowance I used... 1 photo, 4 pattern paper (2 used in the punched flowers and handcut butterflies), 4 flowers (1 large cream, 3 red roses), 2 ribbons/lace, 1 alpha style, 2 chipboard (the gates and flourish), 3 tools (sandpaper, distresser, punch).

Here are some detail pics for you too...




I think this is going to be a lot of fun! Keep a watch over the next few months for layouts! and if you want to know more go check out Chookscraps!

It's Autumn!

and to celebrate I would like to present the Autumn Music Box House...



which plays La Vie en Rose....
(ok not really an autumn song, but it was chosen by default...)

and here are some detail pics...






I never had any clear idea for this one up until I really started thinking about working on it...
We don't really have a fall as such with the falling leaves, etc, here in WA, so it wasn't until I started thinking about autumn being the season of harvest for fruit and vegies that I came up with this idea.
The apples and pumpkin were a lot of fun to make, messy to paint, but turned out well I think.

the hardest bit was the fence... I was going to do a brick fence but it just would not work, so I neded up with a picket fence again... a bit different to spring though and this one has a letterbox...

I still have to work out where to put the name of the house somewhere but... any suggestions?..

unless I put a sign on the fence....

I have scrapped...

lol... that sounds so.... yeh...

anyway I have scrapped besides my houses... Chookscraps had a cc last weekend so managed 3 layouts and a card






And when I finished those I felt like scrapping some more... the mojo musta been home.... so I tackled some of the march monthly challenges which I hadn't done yet.





And today I've been working on my next music box house... Autumn!

and I was asked what type of music boxes they were... they the little wind up mechancial ones that you can get from a toy shop....

Waltzing Matilda

The boys didn't know this song... now they do! I actually made them read it from a book of Banjo Patterson I have!

It goes with my summer music box house... and what's more summer than an Aussie Summer!



The roof and the windmill were the most fun. A lot of work but it was worth it. I couldn't get a windmill locally so I printed out a pic, traced it onto chipboard and then handcut it.
To get the rusted tin look, I painted the roof and the windmill silver, sprayed with leather glimmermist, dabbed with copper and black then wiped them off, then sprayed again with the glimmermist.
I think it was well worth the work.

Here are some detail pics...





And of course this one plays Waltzing Matilda!!!!

The flowers might be a bit much, but I like the colour... what do you think?

My music box...

I few weeks ago I bought some little mechanic music boxes, so i decided I wanted to scrap some boxes for them.
As I have 5 of them, I've decided 4 of them will go into themed houses... the seasons.
I finished the first this week (well most of it was done a week ago but I had some final touches to do) and here it is....

This one is Spring and plays Greensleeves...



And here are some detail pics...









Everything has been hand made... well the lightpost/sign is a kc one and the tree is a branch, but everything else I've made.
I'm very happy with this one....

Next on the cards will be Summer and Waltzing Matilda!

Sometimes...

Life gets you down... especially when you have the flu!!!!
Does anyone want it cause I'm over it.... really!

But at least I felt better on the weekend to participate in the cc over at Chookscraps!
So here are my layouts....




There's one missing but I can't upload it yet as it was a blind scrapping challenge so I can upload it Wednesday... I think!

This is my tag...

It's the first time I've tried the resist ink technique over heat embossing... happy with the way it turned out!

I also managed my layout for the challenge for guest designer for chooks as well, but not sure if I can share it here... will find out...

Now I know you visit... so would love to hear what you think of my layouts... please?????