Untitled layout of my brother

Hello my lovely creative beauties. 

I have been rather quiet due to studies but I am slowly trying to find a routine to include some scrapbooking time. I have found it is something I miss terribly when I don't get to play with papers and paints. 

Today I am sharing a layout I did of some photos of my brother taken by a good friend. 

I had no chip board to mount the final layout of to which unfortunately meant that the piece is a bit curly.

I used more paints and sprays and texture pastes than I have used in a long time. 

I found a few embellishments in my stash that I felt works rather nice in the over all feel. As the photos were a lovely high contrast, I opted for a complimentary high contrasting orange over the black crackle in the back ground. 

Down the Rabbit hole Layout

I released my first independent collection in May titled Down the Rabbit Hole which is my take on the immortal Alice in Wonderland.

Today I want to show you a layout I have done with the collection.

To see the reveal of the collection head over to my youtube channel.

To print the digital paper out to a layout size I went to my local copy shop which is officeworks here in Australia and chose the paper weight I wanted which was 200 gsm. A nice heavy weight that can handle having texture paste and glue being thrown at it.

I really do love how the colors in this collection came out and I look forward to using it for future projects

The Family Record Conclusion...for now.

Hi there, great to have you here again. 

A few weeks ago I published the introduction to a year long project I have been working on. The Family Record. I combined my love and interest of genealogy and scrapbooking and created a massive project. Here are all the videos of the project including the final 2.

The Family Record, more files.

Hi folks.

Ready for another installment of Family Memory Files?
Here are the next two videos.

The Family Record Introduction

HI fellow crafters.

a couple years ago I started a project that brought together two passions: Genealogy and scrapbooking. Many scrapbookers have done this, and created some wonderful family trees and heritage scrapbook albums. I wanted to do some thing a little different and after doing Heidi Swapp's memory file class via on line I knew this was the direction I wanted to take.

Now many of the layouts I have already showcased on my blog which can be seen HERE.

Instead of doing photos of the memory files or Family record, I did YouTube videos of all of them. Here is the introduction and the first couple files.

Remember to subscribe to my channel to get notification on the rest of the videos.

Correspondence The traveling mans brother

Greetings to all the bloggers out there.

This dashing young man is my maternal grandfather, Adriaan 

Back 2006 mother and I arranged for a large suitcase of family photos to be sent to us in Perth, Australia.

I was amazed at many of the picture mostly because they showed my mother parents younger than what I knew them as. It was like being introduced to total strangers. My grandparents were well in to their late 70's early 80's by the time I was born, so I never saw them as children or young adults. My grandfather would be in his mid thirties in the portrait.

So for this layout I wanted to combine the new Correspondence Collection with some of the previous Meg's Garden collections and some French Writing Ephemera. The Hot Air Balloons were a nice add to the photo and the feel of the layout. 

Family Album Speed freak and The one of all of us

HI there crafters!

I have been adding to my massive family album that I created and finished not to long ago. I will be doing a video of all the files soon so that you can all see what I have been doing. 

I found some wonderful pics of my older brother when he was a littl'in, They were standard prints but I love using those Kaisercraft polaroid frames, which I had a few left. I didn't want to make the layout too complicated, so I kept it simple with a few embellishments. 

This was a family shot taken back in 2001. My dad decided before he left to go live in the UK he would head down to Walpole, Western Australia to surprise my brother for his birthday, who was living down there with my mother at the time. Well the Lada 4x4 broke down halfway and the surprise was a bust as we had to get my mother and brother to come rescue us at Manjimup. For various reasons it wasn't the best of trips and the photo kind of captured that. By the time this photo was taken we were all very independent individuals and the idea of family unity was a very much over with.

That may seem like a sad story, but it is at least an honest one. I feel as a scrapbooker, it is unrealistic to expect there to always be happy moments to memorialise on the page.

Meg's Garden: Correspondence vintage layout

I found a lovely old photo of my great aunt (my paternal grandmother's sister) and thought it would go perfectly with the Meg's Garden new paper collection I created called "Correspondence". I wanted to create a collection with vintage paper and old script handwriting and was able to find some photographed textures by Evelyn Flint that I played with digitally to get the finished look I wanted. Meg's Garden also has some fantastic flowers and charms I wanted to use and this was the perfect opportunity.

The flowers I have used are the Oatmeal Colour Flower and the Ivory Heirloom 6.5cm and then the beautiful charms from Finnabair trinkets from Prima   for the leaves I also popped a Tim Holtz Pen Nib in there as well. The is some lace I had lying around behind the photo and the Sage Burlap 38cm worked really well. I just had to finish things off with the grey Vintage brad  on top of the metal embellishment.

Correspondence Vines and Bird Cages

The Correspondence collection works really well with vintage photos as I have found yet again. The photo is of another distant Great Aunt, this time of my mothers side. My grandmother was the last born out of 9 children in 1904. This has to be one of my favourite layouts because of the colours. 

Once again I have used the Correspondence collection for the background and the tiles of paper in the background. The flowers used are a collection of Azaleas, Cream and White Gardenias and the Small Blue Paper Roses with the Copper Paper Leaves both medium and small.   

As I have used those lovely blue roses I thought I would add some more of that turquoise to the layout by using the Blue Vintage Brads and then some gems down the right.  Behind the Kaisercraft bird cage is a fantastic product I have been getting used to working with called Dodo Vine Wire. The clockface is also from one of Meg's Garden Elements papers called Old World Time.

I hope you like this layout as much as I do.  

Meg's Garden DT: A wedding day

I mistakenly ordered some flowers but thought I would use them with Meg's Garden's new paper collection: Damask Garden. Using the Blue Belle Jardiniere P6380 and some old music script paper I had in my paper draw I put together this. 

The frame is a Silhouette cut file which I ended up misting with Vintage photo ink and a bit on bronze over the top to give it that aged look. The Fairy Viola Pink flowers came as a sprig, one of which I pulled apart to frame the photo a bit more of my paternal grandmother on her wedding day. I really love the blue grey and pink. 

Family Album: School days

This is an old photo of my father and his younger brother in their school uniforms. I did this layout mostly to keep busy and to add pages to my father's memory file as it was a little on the thin side. 

Family Album: Capture life's moments

Lately I have been playing with mixed media a little bit. This is one I am pretty happy with so far. I recall the moment well. It was June, we were down at Walpole where my mother and brother lived and it was COLD!

I used a lot of different elements but they all work well together. 

Another page for the family album finished.

Brother & Sister

Another photo of my brother but this time with me. I used the G45 Steampunk Debutante paper again and added some washi take just to break up with background. Imaginarium Designs chippies are so great and as I mentioned before I love their titles. Had to play around with the colour  of the chippies a bit because it was too light to begin with. the brick wall chippie was from Scrapbooking N Craft. The piece comes as a 12 x 12 chippies which I cut a portion out of. I also found some fantastic metal charms at Seriously Scrapbooking the other day which works in perfectly.

Moments In Time

With my brothers recent visit I made sure I got as many photos are I could while he was here. The last photos if seems I took of him were over 5 years ago.

The two weeks he spent here were great, adding to this was the bond Danial and Rod established. They were as thick and thieves by the time Danial departed. It was like dealing with two 13 year old boys the entire time but it was a blast.

I got to use more of those lovely Imaginarium chippies. They are just SO versatile and take anything you throw at them. I love the designs too, great title pieces and gears. Trying to figure out that paper to use was the killer really, but I eventually settled on G45 Steampunk Debutante's ledger page. I loved the colour but it needed something to break it up which was why I did the burnt orange clock piece with my Silhouette Cameo. 

The rest all just came together in the end. I had to do a little bit of fiddling with the gears to get them sitting in the right place and the final touch of adding the clock hands just consolidated the layout.

This will be added to my file in my family tree file boxes that I haven't been working on for months now. I plan on getting back in to that project and completing it soon.