I'm a little lost...

Well not really, but I want to scrap, but I don't...
And I have all these ideas rolling around in my mind....
It's just I don't have the motivation to actually scrap!
I've been like this for a little while now so I think I'm still a little burnt out after Kaisercraft. That was a lot of work!
So any ideas on how I get back into it...
I'm thinking of doing some online tutorials, and learning some new stuff....

Who's up for a holiday?

Well at Chooks we're having a Chook's Run Around Australia!!!
We're starting our run off in Collie and will be heading off to several towns and states!!!

The criteria is being kept very simple due to the quick turnaround we'll be having, but if you're interested head on over and check it out!!!!

Here's my sample layout for the first challenge....

Best I get the rest of my samples done up too, as I'm preparing the stopovers for everyone!!!
Come and join in the fun... we're travelling first class!!!!

Keep Calm & Create

We all need a good quote in our studio I believe, and I loved this one!!!
So out came an old canvas which was then painted, papered, sprayed stamped and embellished and this is what was produced...

I committed sacrilege with an Oxford Dictionary giving up many pages to create the background! What a sacrifice....
I then cut up a piece of Websters Pages paper for the roses....
I then wanted to gesso it, but due to the fact it was Easter, and the shops were closed so I couldn't get any gesso, I had to make do with what I had which was a cheap white acrylic paint. At least I didn't have to water it down... :)
Add some texture paste, gold netting and muslin for some texture...
From there I then played around with some of my Ranger Colorwashes, watering them down to get the pale yellow, pink and green that I wanted and then sprayed the whole background!!! Very subtle, but very pretty I think!
When it all dried, I then ran a black ink pad over the top to pick up the texture and add some shadow.

All of the chipboard around the edges of the canvas have been painted with a pearl paint and then sprayed with the Colorwashes. I used the same colours I sprayed the background with, but these ones weren't watered down. Because I used the pearl paint, the chipboard all shimmer...

The words were all painted with pearl paint, but they weren't going to stand out on the background, so I then painted them black and sanded them back, finishing with a coating of dimensional magic.
I tried several different techniques on the 'create' but nothing worked, so I painted them black with the higlight of the pearl, followed by dimensional magic.
That worked!!!

From there it was a case of deciding on placement of flowers (after I sprayed them with gold mist!) and glueing everything down...

Overall I'm very happy with it... the only problem is the frame of the canvas is a bit skew-iff... so the words look crooked, and they might not be quite centre ... damn!
I'm sure something will come to me to fix that as I doubt very much I can pull the letters off and restick them.
I'm also not sure if it needs something on the left hand side... any ideas?