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?????

No photo today... but I did scrap some more challenges!

This one is based on Groundhog Day, so the criteria was 6 photos/pattern papers or flowers (I went with photos!), a shadow on the title, and a repeating shape.



Challenge 5 was a word challenge... love



And finally I did the second sketch challenge...

Did you hear the silence???

Cause I did.... the kids are back at school and dh went off to work so I had the house to myself today and for the next 2 days!!!! This is why I took a week off work!
I love them.... but sometimes I really need the quiet!



So in my year of learning to relax what did I do today.... scrapped of course!!!

These 4 monthly challenges from Chookscraps...

This one had to have Blue, 2 photos and a reference to friendship



This challenge was based on the legend of the snowdrop, had to be on a white background, contain wings and a teardrop shape.



One of the sketches...



And a word prompt challenge... the word was sacrifice.



There's 3 more challenges and another sketch, so depending on what I feel like doing I might work on them tomorrow.

I hope everyone in Queensland stays safe.

Yeh I've been slack...

well I have and I haven't...

I've cleaned house, done the washing, scrapbooked and what I really wanted to... relax!

So there's been no photos... you get that!

But scrapping... yes...

I've been working on 2 whiteboards for the last couple of days. I've done them up so that they can go on the wall above my scrap space, and I can put layouts on them on display and be able to change them.

So here is what they look like...



Each board....





And here are some details pics...









And yes I know one board is darker than the other... I was hoping it wouldn't be noticed, but it is... but there were problems on the creating side... the question is, how noticeable it is, and whether I should try to fix it or if it will make it worse...
I will wait and see...