Where I've been and What I've been doing.

-I laughed until I cried.

-I got a package of all the new B&B stuff-YUM.
-I ate 12 largely oversized home made choc busicuts and got sick cause I ate too much.
-I got 100% in an exam.
-I spent more time writing To Do lists than acctually doing the things I needed to do.
-I made a layout.
-Getting stuff organised for a biiiggg class. ;)
-Made prints of art journal pages (ohh hint hint).
-Worked on my Art Journal.-Watched Gossip Girl. Oh the Drama.
-I made my bed.
-Got my school photos back, ahh the pain.
-Played air guitar on stage to Hannah Montanna with no audience at 9pm.
-Broke my fav pair of black skinnies thrifted for $5.
-Turned the skinnies into 3-quarter jeans cause I'm so cheap like that. eeep.

-Dreamt about buying vintage wedding dresses and taking photos in them with Talia.
-Became a webcam luvo.
-Finally published this blog post.

Boooooook.

Moreeeee of the book! (Page on the left): 'The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return' (Page on the right) is a photo of me as a lil one.. and the quote is: "Do you know what it is to be a child? It is to be so little that the elves can reach up to whisper in your ear."

And then the next page. The one on the left is what i wish for. (the wish page in the previous post was changed to a quote instead of what i wish for and was replaced with this one). ' I wish upon a shooting star"'The page on the right is just me writing about things that were happening in the now. I made a pocket and filled it with photos i took today... I blanket stitched the edges to make the pocket.ANd I have been on webcam with Kylie like alllll day. I have been having a bit of fun with it too. ;) Oh yes, that's hooot. haha. Me in my not so cool painting jumper my messy bedroom/arty area.Me and my sister haha.. so not cool

Anyways little update today, thankyou for reading. x

Recipe and a new altered book.

Okay, so many of you know about my Best Friends Art Journal right?
Assuming the answer to that question was a yes, I will continue.
I decided to start another altered book today.

If you want to do the same, please do and send me a linky! I love altered books.

Anyways. I grabbed an old hardcover book knowone wants anymore off the bookshelf today and decided to make it into my own art journal. This art journal will be unlike any other. It will be plain, simple and everything will, shock horror, match!
I won a prize at allcraftz with STACKS of delicious My Minds Eye papers. They are seriously beautiful. Anyways- using those papers I am going to alter whole the book.

Here is the front cover: (Inspired by Kara and Kim)

For this I used this paper tissue stuff that was found in a shoebox and stuck it down with PVA glue. I painted over that in gesso. Then on some of the My Minds Eye papers, I wrote in running writing Art Journal, cut it out and stuck it down. I inked the edges of my book and ta-da a simple book cover.

Okay for the pages of this book, I simply paint the pages in gesso. It makes the pages stronger.
I am not going to be adding too much paint to these pages because they can't take it and I don't want to stick the pages together for this one either.Of course, if you wanted to make one where you can go crazy with paint and texture, I advise you to stick 2-3 pages together. (i did this in the Best Friends Art Journal book)
Okay, so the content of this book for me will be a mixture of Emily Falconbridge's 52 card challenge, lovely poems and quotes that I find, scrapbooking challenges and art journalling challenges, magazine clippings.. anything that is inspiring, important etc etc.
Here is my first double page:

The first page on the left, well because it was the back of the hardcover book, I used a thick amount of paint. I then found those wings from a chipboard sheet from Bisous. (Scrapbooks 'N Stuff carry their products). So that was just a random page. the opposite page was partly Emily Falconbridge's challenge.. I altered it abit seeing as it is not the start of the year anymore... I just listed a couple of things I wish for atm.
The second double page: (- and my feet)The page on the left was quite random. My sister found this poem on the internet to go with her sketch so i printed it out and wrote it in. Here it is in type because I don't think you can read it:

astonishing forest
Where the house filled with living
The house continuously giving
Where the house filled with nature
The house filled with adventure
Anything can survive
With the nature it provides
Where the house filled with grass
The house filled with hedges, bushes and plants
Canopy trees be it rain or shine
Will be there for you at any time
Where the green house filled with fresh air
Will shelter you in the heavy rain
O the house of beauty
O the house of sound
So much variety is yet to be found
~Sehar Zaman

And then the page on the right was inspired by week 2 of Emily Falconbridge's challenge 'Are you afraid of change'. I had this quote i stuck onto an ATC piece of cardboard on my wall so I decided to use that. Here it is:

Life is about change,
Sometimes it's painful,
Sometimes it's beautiful,
But most of the time it's both.
~smallville

So I have plenty more paper, plenty more ideas and plenty more prompts to go, so you'll be seeing alot of this book!
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Now for the recipe, posting this for you, Ceci (: - and anyone else who wants it (:
This recipe is for the busicuts I made in the previous post,, here.

English Jaffa Bicuits
Preperation Time: 15 minutes
Cooking Time: 15 minutes
Oven Temperature: 190 degrees
Yield: 12 busicuts
-110gr plus 1 tsp. butter
-110gr castor sugar
-1 egg yolk
-finely grated rindof 1 orange
-220 gr self raising flour

Orange buttercream
-55gr butter
-110gr plus tbsp. icing or confectioners sugar
-1 tbs. finely grated orange rind
-1 tbsp. fresh orange juice

Method:
1. Use teaspoon of butter to lightly grease large baking sheet. Set aside.
2. Cream remaining butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in egg yolk and orange rind. Stir in flour gradually. As dough stiffens, kneed lightly.
3. Turn onto a floured board and roll out dough until 7mm thick. Cut dough into circles (I used a heart cookie cutter). Lay on the baking sheet and place in centre of oven. Bake for 15mins until light golden brown. Re-move from oven, and, cool on a wire rack.
4. To make buttercream. Cream butter, add sugar and beat unti fluffy, add orange rind and juice and beat well.
5. Spread half of cooled buscuits with buttercream, sandwiching remaining half on top. Sprinkle with icing sugar.
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Okay, long post but I hope this has helped you all in some way or another. (:
Thanks for reading! x

Art.

I have something to share. (: Notmuch but it's something.

Some Best Friends Art Journal pages: (sorry for the crooked scans)
Oh and dont worry about the page with writing, if you can read it, it will make no sense whatsoever because it is all inside jokes with me and my besties ;)

And I made some of these yesturday. I went home sick and had the urge to cook. So i got out a recipe and yeah made the busicut and all. I hate cooking so i was quite pround of myself. They are called 'English Jaffa Busicuts' and they were yummy. (:
If you would like the recipe comment here on email me and I will write it up in my next post.

Also, thankyou to those lovely lovely women who have tagged me, I truly appreciate it. I will have more things to share in the next post. I am doing Emily Falconbridge's challenge but in an altered book, like my best friends Art Journal so will share that soon. Thanks for reading x

Noah and the Whale.

Little update. (Love the song above)
Nothing much new. I am home sick again which has inspired me to tackle my to do list which has 30 things listed on there.. *sigh* one at a time..
Uhhmm on Sunday I got confirmed at church which was cool :)
Uhhmm working on Prima's teen contest, an ATC, catching up on my Best Friends Art Journal and working on some DT layouts. :)
I hope you are all well! Crafty update soonish. x

Updated.

Sheessh. It's about time I update my blog. It has been a while.
I still don't have much to share. School work is taking up most of my time.
I am home from school today with a 'cold' so I have been attacking my to do list.
I am now tweeting ;)
Uhhmm I am in this months Scrapbook Creations Mag!! (Issue 66). In Miss Ngaire's Top 10.. Birds and flying things.. here's my layout for it. :

And uhmm a new video.. It's not very exciting. The lighting is horrid and its yeah, pretty cruddy. If you have any ideas on what I should do next, please let me know, taaa.

Here's another Buzz and Bloom layout. The theme last month was 'Blue and Yellow'

Anyways I hope you guys are all well! :)
Thanks for yor comments. x

blahh.

Hey all.
Small boring post.
I have nothing to share atm.
I have been really busy acctually..
My room is a total MESS so I cannot do ANYTHING until it is clean.
Sorry for my lack of posting..
Will come back revived with something to share in a week.
Byeeee x

Scrapper in the limelight?

me me me!

Videooooo.!

Wanna see how I made the above canvas? Watch my new tutorial below :) It's for one of the challenges over at Allcraftz this weekend! Thanks peoples! x

Busy as maannn!

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It has been a busy busy weekend! I have scrapped heaps.! Why? Well, ALLCRAFTZ is having their Scrapbooking weekend this weekend on their forum and over $3000 worth of prizes are being given away. It's amazing.. There's over 10 challenges and I am having heaps of fun with them! It started on Friday night and i started working like crazy. And on Saturday, Talia came over and we scrapped... This is me concentrating hard.And this is Talia and myself... We love timer!
Here are 3 layouts I have completed so far... (: Please excuse the dodgy pics!
Hope you are all having a fabulous long weekend! x

Boooooooook.

A new purchase:

(You'll be seeing some work of mine from this in the coming weeks!)

A new DT!
I am proud to announce, I am now apart of the DT at 'Scrapbooks 'N Stuff' in Miami!! They are a fabulous bunch of people, very encouraging and talented. I can't wait to work with them all!!
Half yearlies= OVER!

Allcraftz National Scrapbook Day= this long weekend! I am so excited!
Nothing much else new! Thanks for visiting! Hopefully stuff to share soon! (: x

Handmade art journal.

Hey again!
Look what I made today! My very own art journal with a fabric cover!!!
I am hoping to make stacks more in the future (:
The edges are frayed, because i dont think I can sew very well haha- so i didn't sew around the edges and fold it over etc etc. But to keep them from fraying further I added a little bit of clear nailpolish around the edges.. The fraying will make the art journal look artier when it is finished.



And I learnt how to make it from this totally AWESOME youtube video:

Getting Organised.

Online scrapbooking classes, art tutorials, cross stitch patterns and more.

What do you do with them?

Do you save them in a file on the computer?
Read them once and forget about it?
Print them out?
Well I print them out and as you can see above, the folder I keep it all in, is full.
I have seperated each craft and organised each section.
My scrapbooking/paint/mixed media section is the biggest one.

It is so helpful. When I am lacking in inspiration, I pick up the book and look through..
It's fabulous. :)
Anyway- just a random post today.
Hope you have all had a lovely weekend!
I'm off to church (:

x

Beauty.

-Photography by Ruby Bisson-

-April 09-

Mini Albums!

Do you want to make some cheap, cost effective mini albums?

Well here are some ways to make some.

1. Hardcover novel.

Find yourself a hardcover novel. This can be from your own bookshelf or an op shop. Prep the pages by glueing 2 or 3 pages together and then gessoing each page. This is done to strengeth the page. Add paint, photos, patterned paper, stickers, rubons- anything! Paint the cover and cut out shapes from the centre!

Here is mine:

See the rest of the pages here.
2. Use up those patterned paper scraps.
Dive into your patterned paper scraps. Find pieces (or cut some to size) of paper slightly larger or smaller that 6x4 inches. Now alter each page! Add paint, embellishments, photos, quotes. You have complete freedom! The papers don't have to match. To give it a more arty look have papers that you would never think of putting next to each other. You can bind it by using metal rings, ribbon or you can just sew along the edges.


3. Use a cardboard box.

Cut up your cardboard boxes! Cut them into 6x4 inches or anything smaller or larger. Cover in paint and/or patterned paper and scrap it. You can do anything with mini albums!

Thanks so much for reading! I hope this post helps you! x