Seattle layout

Scrapbook layout

                                  A page scraplifted from this page by Wilna Furstenberg for a challenge on Shimelle’s blog Photo taken by Julie Melton in Seattle Public Library Supplies were largely from this month’s Studio Calico kit, with a camera sticker by [Read On]

Ochibi-chan

scrapbook layout

                                This was Thing 2 as a baby. I was flicking through my pics and when I spotted this one the voice of one my favourite anime characters, Kikumaru Eiji, rang in my head: ‘O-chibi-chan~’ That’s Japanese which roughly translates [Read On]

Hello. A layout.

scrapbook layout

  Layout for the challenge ‘mix three of more paper collections‘. I actually do this a lot, so I decided to find several very different patterns and colours to combine and to use some old ‘saved’ embellishments. The prima crystals attached themselves a bit too far to the right but c’est la vie. I’m just [Read On]

Sleeping bunnies

scrapbook layout

                  A layout for Shimelle’s online crop challenge based on this layout by Jaime Warren. Crappy light and phone pic, but it’ll do :) I used predominately My Mind’s Eye / Rhonna Farrer ‘Enjoy the journey’ products. Ironic given my journalling is about how much my kids [Read On]

Using up scraps.

a handmade thank you card

The thing is about scraps is that they mount up so fast, sometimes they threaten to overwhelm my desk as if vying to start a paper-based coup and form the Paper’s Republic of Relly’s Craft Room. I have had enough of this paper based insurgency and so I have instigated a new Monday Regime – [Read On]

Online crop fun.

Relentless, layout details

  So one of my favouritist scrapbookers and all round awesome person Shimelle is holding an online crop at her online pad Shimelle.com. First challenge is up, and it’s trying out some simple hybrid scrapping with some custom made printable elements (by Mary-Ann, and made to match the Stella and Rose papers seen here). I [Read On]