Deb Ball

Materials used: Bella letters and Dusty Attic chipboard. The chipboard is the outer part of the bracket set, painted and overlayed onto the paper. The theme of the Deb Ball was "Phantom of the Opera" hence the masks.

The Bike Ride

Some years ago my daughter while my daughter was doing her Bike Education course in Primary School, she was entered into (by her school) a competition to win a bike and was lucky enough to have her name drawn out. Part of the conditions of the competition were to be available to collect the bike and to do a lap of the course on which the Bendigo Madison was ridden. She was excited and nervous, the weather was hot but she proudly rode her new bike around the course and has never forgotten the experience.
Materials used: Cosmo Cricket papers and stickers (Get Happy), WOW inc RW Laser Cuts chipboard word, small tree and letter R, Glossy Accents crackle finish, Tim Holtz Distress stain and inks, Martha Stewart punch and random elements from the stash.
Technique - The title - Bike Ride - has been inked using Tim Holtz Fired Brick Distress Stain and glazed with a layer of Glossy Accents Crackle finish, the small tree has been inked using Tim Holtz Distress Stain Picket Fence and the letter R (cut from another RW word) was colored with Tim Holtz Distress Stain Chipped Sapphire and a dab of Picket Fence for a mottled look. This letter has been sealed with the Glossy Accents Crackle finish. The letter U is a chipboard and simply covered with paper.
All these products are/will be available (the Tim Holtz products will be in Monday or Tuesday next week) on our website An Invitation To Scrap I've been extremely impressed with the way these products work on chipboard, the distress stain in the white gives an excellent coverage and the dabber bottles are brilliant to use.

Bugs

Last year we had locusts everywhere, a plague of them and the size of them astounded us. My daughter, the 'wannabe' entomologist would collect them comparing the sizes and found this large one for her collection. A collection that was strongly encouraged to be disposed of regularly.

Materials used: Cosmo Cricket Get Happy paper and elements, Twiddlybitz bug set, SEI chalk inks.  The chipboard has been inked and mounted onto the frame that the bugs come in - waste nothing :)

Bugs!

Beach Bum

My son thought sitting on the edge of the water line waiting for the water to come to him was the way to get in the sea. Unfortunately for him, he was mistaken and the expression on his face indicates that the water was a little chilly on the sensitive parts of the body! After getting wet and warming up it wasn't quite so bad, after all it was Summer.

Materials used: White card, Creative color spray, RW Laser Cut by WOW chipboard title, string, dymo tape, a fish charm and some course weave ribbon. I have given the card a quick squirt of spray and also distressed the photo and mount edges. The chipboard has also been distressed and roughly painted white, very roughly so as not the get it too white. Then I used some metallic rub and just highlighted the edges.

Bike Ed

The kids have all done bike ed at school, my youngest having done it twice when she changed schools and they did it a year later. She was lucky enough to get both the rural and residential experience, each being quite different to the other. The year pictured was during the drought years, hence the dryness of the roadside. The page I scrapbooked is very simple.

Materials used: SNC chipboard bikes, paper from stash, textured card, Bella alphas and SEI chalk inks. The chipboards have been inked using cayenne.