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.

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.

The photos one finds when rummaging

OMG, where have the years gone. I'm not saying how many years ago but, let's just say it's a few. It's back in the days when entertaining kids didn't involve more that some bits and pieces to 'create' with or going outside to play. This day paper plates and paint were the go.

Materials used: Textured card, Sassafrass papers, Memory Maze Chipboard easel, A2Z Scraplet scalloped banner, Sassafrass cardboard stickers, ribbon, button and string.

The mojo is back!

The last few weeks have been intensely busy getting the website back in order and somewhere along the line mojo got lost. Well, to be honest mojo had no hope of getting out so I think he just went into hiding. I have finally caught up with everything and after clearing my scrap space I found him, right at the back under a pile of chipboards I was intending to use on pages. We became reacquainted and I've put together a few pages.

The first one is what I call my warm up page. For some reason, after a break from scrapping I do a really basic page and then get deeper into the layouts after that. I guess it's whatever works for someone and that's what works for me. 

St. Kilda V Brisbane -  a couple of years ago we managed to get a footy game in Melbourne with both teams playing and on a weekend we could get there! 

St Kilda V Brisbane

 Materials used: Textured card, WOW football corner, RW Laser Cuts (now made by WOW) AFL Football title, Scenic Route paper and Lil Davis frame. The chipboard has simply been inked for color, using two colors on the title piece.

Magnificent Ape - Ok, warm up one done, now onto another. Still a simple page using a photo taken a few years ago on a trip to the Melbourne Zoo. The gorillas are such an amazing creature, so big but yet there is a gentleness about them. The male is truly a magnificent ape, hence the title.

Magnificent Ape

Materials used: Kraft cardstock, Scenic Route paper, RW Laser Cut Reeds (made by WOW), RW Laser Cut Ebony Butterfly (made by WOW) and Creative Spray. The reeds have been inked with greens and a wheat color and painted with a bit of Creative Spray to highlight them while the ebony Butterfly has been sprayed with the Creative Spray. A little of the spray has been applied to the leaves as well, just highlighting the inner parts.

The Old EH - The last one for today is a photo take many years ago - you know the ones, the kid is dressed in some daggy looking gear. Anyway forget the kid part because the page is about the vehicle. The kid I'll  scrapbook somewhere else - God love her. For this page I dug into my drawer of really old stash, I'm not even sure why I haven't thrown it out. It does show that what is old can be new again, it just needs a bit of revamping with current techniques.

The Old EH

Materials used: WOW chipboard (a new release), Pink Paislee paper and some really old bits and bobs. The chipboard has been embossed using a old rustic looking embossing powder, something along the lines of the distress powders and the like available. 

TIP - When embossing try mixing a couple of powders together, just a small quantity as not much is needed most times, and you'll be surprised at some of the fabulous effects that you can achieve.