My Carousel

We decided we'd have a quiet weekend, so I decided to make a start on the carousel I wanted to make.
I love the way it came out... very pretty....






Here are some detail pics...







And yes, it has one of the music boxes concealed in it and it plays When You wish Upon a Star... it screamed carousel to me... lol
Unfortunately no, it doesn't turn... I tried, but I couldn't figure it out... everything I tried didn't work. But you can turn it by hand if you want to.

And yes... it is all handmade...

and how long did it take to make.... lots of time!!!!! but it was worth it!

Finally...

I've finished my Childhood Album.
Well actually I finished it a few weeks ago, but I was going to do the journalling. Since then I've decided I might put the stories I remember into it's own companion album as this is pretty full. Well very full actually!
I will have to add a little journalling like dates, etc but I might just add them to the pages. Most will be guessed at as I don't have definate dates.
But that was the times I lived in. These photos were all taken off slides and go from 1968 through till I was about 8, so 1976.
I do have some more photos but not many. A lot of photos just weren't taken. I do have some school photos (horror of horrors) so I might add them to the companion album with the stories as most of the things I remember are from this time period, not from when I was little.

So here you go... a blast from my past!




























Lots of pages isn't it!
Oh and the papers I've used are all from Basic Grey... I've had some 6x6 pads sitting here for ages and got to use them.

Another CC

It's another chooks cybercrop this weekend so of course I'm scrapping layouts.... I am meant to be doing journals....I'm decorating them on commission to sell in the shop. there'll only be 6 so I will share a pic when I'm all finished....

but onto the layouts...

Challenge 1



Alliteration in the title; stitching in some form either hand drawn, rubons or stitched; a photo smaller than 6x4 and distressing.
I'm still thinking this layout needs something but I'm not sure...

Challenge 2



Add something to the photo (I used rub ons); combination of flowers, buttons or brads (I used flowers and buttons); Black and brown colour scheme; and have something partially hidden.

Challenge 3



And this one we had to scraplift one of the lovely Niq's layouts as she is guest dt member this month at Chooks. I ended up lifting her challenge 2 layout, but I don't have a link.... but you can see it here...


Can you tell I'm really loving the Bo Bunny new Timepiece range.. perfect for heritage layouts.

Now I really should get those journals done....

Visiting New Zealand...

In Round 2 of the Chookscraps Amazing Race competition....

And I decided to take advantage of a free afternoon and scrapped!!! woohoo...



This round's criteria was... Black cardstock background for the base, a bird as a feature on the page and we had an image of a Maori mask to use as inspiration for the doodling.
Want to see more, then go check out Chookscraps! http://www.chookscrapsscrapbooking.com

Maybe I'm mad...

But I've decided to apply to the Kaisercraft Design Team. I do love their products, especially otp stuff and being an Australian company all the better...

Part of the criteria is a dedicated blog post containing examples of my work...

So without further ado here we go...

Here are some layouts using the Kaisercraft paper ranges...






Even though these layouts aren't using Kaisercraft papers, I still love them and think they show some more of my style (though I still don't know what my style is...lol)



But I especially love the home decor products at Kaisercraft... and even though I've used other papers, I still love them...




I think this is really going to be a long post... here are some projects I've done using the Kaisercraft ranges with detail pics....

Namely my Advent Calendar... I so love this one!




And then there's my E-reader cover which uses Kaisercraft Loire Valley and some of their new flowers...





And of course one of my music boxes... even though it's made with different materials, there's still a Kaisercraft wooden signpost! The autumn music box has one of their trees on it... I think something of Kaiser ends up on everything...








And then here's a mini album I did using the Kaisercraft Esperance range... appropriate really as I live in Esperance!





There's so many pages so I've only shown a couple...

And cards... I'm not much of a card maker to be honest, but I have dabbled but here is one using a kaisercraft pattern paper background...


I think that's a fair representation of my work.... so wish me luck...