when I can paper scrap …

Earlier this month I was lucky enough to win one of the random draws at the BPS Festival and last week I received a box which contained a lovely kit from American Crafts.  I can’t do anything with them at the moment because my house renovations have not reached my craft space yet and I don’t have my stash or tools here.

I’ve had a whole series of delays as all my tradespeople seem prone to injury – really it could be written up as a farce.  So lots of waiting.  My Mum had been commiserating with me about the latest delays when I showed her my prize and she laughed and pointed to one of the rub-ons and said this is appropriate – la la la – sitting waiting, drumming your fingers on the table.  Then we saw there was a button with la la la too.

So when all the work is done and I can paper scrap I will make a layout about the delays called la la la. 

I love how elements can be interpreted in ways not originally intended.

photo a day week 34

Hadn’t realised until I put them together how many were of food.  Weather in the last few days suggest these may be the last pictures of summer.

1. apples from trees in my parents’ garden

2. paint colour tests (green and pink in office/craft room other 2 are possibilities for the living room)

3. 99 cone on the beach (is the a UK thing?)

4. raindrops on the washing line

5. Tuesday is 2 for 1 pizza night

6. using the garden as a carpentry workshop

7. masses of swans on the river – they have been moulting at the river mouth

digi art – power of words

I really enjoyed exploring what I can do in Photoshop elements to create a piece rather than a layout.  I used this as my medium for creativity bootcamp and wanted to play some more. 

I was delighted to find the challenges on Inspiration Avenue which call for a piece in any medium.  The prompt this week is ‘power of words’.  I used a photo on my sister’s cat – halfway through I realised that while his ginger parts stood out well, the white parts were more of a challenge.

challenged

I visit way more scrapping/photo/journaling challenge sites than I respond to.  I find that if I don’t get an immediate spark then I don’t return to it either.

This week the spark was there when I read the digidares challenge.  The subject was water – which I love and one component was to split the photo and I knew I had a template for that from Mel.  The other components were challenging (which is good).  The instruction was to use as least 3 blues and that is not my favourite colour and also to use a wave or splash or water droplets and I don’t usually use those kinds of elements.  Having a one word title was the final instruction and I was OK with that. 

So here is what I created

the journaling reads

I like to walk by the sea regularly, weekly if possible.  There is something about the sea that recharges my energy and makes me feel good. I know some people get this from trees and some from mountain tops but for me it is the sea. Wild or calm I like the sea, I like the sound of the waves breaking and I like the ever changing nature of the surface.   It is this self realisation that prompted me to look for my new home in a suburb near the shore.
August 2010

credits – split photo template from I Speak Melsh (free); waves are one of the shapes within PSE; font for title is hand me down; brush behind journaling from Shadowhouse Creations (free)