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Scrap - The Color Room

Have you heard about the new challenge site The Color Room?  Inspiration each week with a gorgeous new pallette and even a sketch to get you started...they have a rocking design team too :)

After spending the last couple of weeks scrapping for deadlines have have been having a beautiful relaxing weekend with my family and have been fitting in plenty of scrapping at night (and I've even snuck into my room a few times during the day while Jasmine has been sleeping).

I started with the current palette

Love love love this palatte (green+purple+yellow) is a favourite combo so this wasn't much of a stretch.

My take on it...

PP is new SEI with lots of sweetvintage78 embellies from etsy, paint and buttons. I used a white out pen on vintage music paper then outlined with black pen for the title (inspired & enabled by Lou...thankyou xx)....love how it turned out, I shall be doing that again :) :)

Next up was palette 2

and my take...

 
This palette was perfect for scrapping Steven (something I don't do enough of). I love this photo of him, taken on our easter camping trip.

I have used a combination of older papers (BG Archaic & Boxer + Jenni Bowlin Diecut), also an old K&Co metal buckle with a scrap of websters PP threaded through. The tag is stamped with one of the new prima 4x6 then clear embossed and glimmermisted. I drew inspiration from the sketch but didn't stick with it faithfully.

I have spent a fair bit of time playing with my new prima stamps this weekend.  The addicted to craft DT were set a little challenge with them and the results will be up on the blog later this week :)  In the meantime a couple of little sneakies

and

soooo much prima goodness :)

Steven has to work tomorrow :( but I am planning a bit of a cleaning blitz if the kids are in a cooperative mood.  They are all in bed fast asleep now after a huge day!  Steven & the girls went to both the dawn and memorial services with Joey Scouts, the little kids and I went to the memorial service too.  After Underbelly is finished I'm heading back to my room to  have a go at palette 1

I'm taking inspiration from the incredible DIna Wakely....so I'm going to have some messy fun :)

Have a great public holiday monday & I'll be back soon :)

Thanks for visiting!

Tatum xx

Scrap - Escape 2 Create Part 2

So after a fairly late Friday night I was up bright and early Saturday morning and right back into it!

I started by finishing of the young & in love layout from Friday night and then got stuck into my next one.

I tried out some glimmer screens for the first time recently and wanted to have another go.  I have always loved this photo of Lil and Steven, taken back just before Sebastian was born at the beginning of December 2006.  We were in the Adelaide Botanic Gardens.

I have used crate paper with a few prima flowers and buttons from Laurens 'old lady' stash.  The stitching turned out to be a bit of an unintended marathon but worth it in the end :)

I had a bit of a break midway through for lunch and a massage...the girls organise a massuse for Saturday and Sunday...she is a little lady with a mighty lot of power...I lost count of the number of knots she 'popped' across my shoulders by oh my it was good, very painful, but oh so good.  I felt like I'd gone several rounds in the ring the next day but it was so good :)

I used a combination of pink and green threads and for some of the stiching lines I combined the two.  I created my stitching lines with cutter bee piercing bugs.  I love them :)

After the marathon I wanted to do something quick and easy (I was aiming for 9-10 layouts over the weekend, I made it to 8)

I have know what I was going to call a layout with this photo for years, ever since I first printed it 4 years ago so it was nice to finally get around to scrapping it.

I delved into my new Cosmo Cricket stash and used some sweet vintage embellies (flower and doily)...there's the link for everyone at the retreat who asked about them :), gorgeous, happy, yellow ribbon from a Kenner Road kit and Lauren's $1 (from blue bazaar) 7 Gypsies journalling stamp.  I added the buttons and chippie bits later to finish it off :)

Look at my little baby Lilli, she's only 2 here.  The girls used to set up the dolls and teds for outdoor tea parties like this so often on Saturday afternoons :)

Next up is my 'challenge' layout.  I'd thrown the paint around on this piece of paper and put it to one side to dry.  I was chatting with Meredith and Sue and I challenged Meredith to set me a challenge...she picked up my piece of paper with drying paint and suggested I scrap a layout on thie peice of paper....errr...I was planning on it LOL...too funny :)  Let's just say paint isn't one of Meredith's usual go to's ;)  Hopefully I met your challenge expectations Meredith :) :)  More cosmo cricket and the trim is Sweet Vintage again.  The heart is a little 'home made' looking...I'd had a few wines by the time I punched and stitched this :)

Last for Saturday night I started this one...after a shower to...ahh clear my head and wake me up a little, and get rid of some milk....despite J's visits over the weekend for feeding she wasn't all that cooperative which left me a sore, leaking mess by Saturday night!

'Sweet Boy' was a quick 8.5 x 11" using more cosmo homegrown.  Loving the Jenni Bowlin label stickers, I came home with them in 3 colours :)

Last of all was a layout about Sebastian's current love of 'why?'  I think that he takes it to levels well beyond the girls at the same age...mind you Charlotte will pretty much out question any one any time.

I finally got around to using one of the Heidi Swapp resist papers for the background...love love them :)  Lots of layered bits, old old MM metal rim tags (prod of myself for using those LOL) and some cute AC flair.  I was struggling to find the right letters for this and Sue happened to have the right ones in her stash so we had a little swapsie...she gave me the letters and I gave her some flair buttons for the awesome layout she was working on!

Back in December I found an awesome Dr Suess dictionary (it's actually an english-french one but that doesn't matter).  I think it might have cost $4...and it has so many perfect, funny little pictures for scrapbook pages :)

So that's a wrap up of all the scrapping I managed.

I have to add that the 3 classes were awesome too...I booked into all 3 but didn't do any because after finishing off a bunch of deadline stuff I really felt like just kicking back and doing my own thing, however I still learnt plenty by keeping half an eye and ear on what was going on :)

Another thankyou to the E2C girls..it really was the most awesome weekend and I will move mountains to get to the one next year (aka move our trip to the US back a few weeks).

Also a special thankyou to Alison (sorry if I got that wrong, my memory is bad but that's what I remember your name as LOL) Starke (I know that bit is right) for the warm fuzzies....you made me feel so special with your comments and I really really appreciated it :)

So that's it...Sunday afternoon and it was back to reality!

I've been busy scrapping for addicted to craft.  Keep your eye on the blog for a feature on Prima stamps...I just got a new heat tool so I've been stamping, embossing and misting up a storm!

Scrap - Escape 2 Create

For starters...can you believe that it is nearly a month already...but I've finally had a chance to photograph my layouts (although I do need to go back and redo a few because of shadows...I apologise for that, I couldn't see any when I was taking them but I suspect that it might actually be my shadow, I've been trying out a new spot in the house for layout photos) and have some time to sit and blog about the weekend that was.

I honestly cannot say enough good things about the weekend.  It was fantastic.  Amanda, Meredith & Sue together with Val & Kathryn just did the most amazing job of putting together this wonderful weekend.

I loved feeling so pampered and special.  I waas thrilled to bits with out name tags, mugs and goodie bags...

with a name like Tatum mugs with my name on them are few and far between so this one is extra special :)  The goodie bags had lots of great bits and pieces but the thing that made me especially happy was a paper bag filled with etsy goodness...I will use every single last piece I found in there, and the bag :)

I was blown away when my name was pulled out 2nd in the mega prize draw on Saturday night and I scored myself this gorgeous jotote camera bag...delish (although Steven is not such a fan LOL).

Ali's name came out next and she put on quite a display of joy...she won herself an Amy Butler tote so her excitement was really quite justified ;)

Lauren, Ali and I sat at the table alongside Amanda, Sue, Mel & Meredith and it was great to get to know them better.  What a warm and friendly group :)

There were so many funny & fun moments....Meredith made me laugh so hard I was crying....loved her advice on 'retreat constipation'....my gorgeous roomies from the last Boxx retreat will understand why that made me laugh so much given a story I shared with them last year :)

Like Ali I'll break down my LO shares into a couple of posts so we'll start with Friday night's efforts....

 

Amazingly I more or less arrived, dumped my sleeping gear in the dorm, set myself up in the crap shed and started scrapping...I guess that's what you are supposed to do at a retreat LOL!

I had my random photo box with me I started out with a piccie of the Eiffel Tower from our trip waaaay back in 2001...it was taken with an actual film camera would you believe ;)  Lots of crumpling and layering and sooooo different to my usual style but I had lots of lovely comments about it :)  Steven was a little confused about the txts enquiring about what they call the Eiffel Tower in france, he thought we might have been doing a quiz, but it just didn't seem right to call it 'The Eiffel Tower'.

I used some of Kate Mason's paper range which she designed for Blue Bazaar, spot it there up the back, the blue and white one...speaking of Kate...did you see the GORGEOUS babushka original my sisters commissioned her to make for me for my birthday...it is here on my photo a day blog.  And if you love it anywhere near as much as I do keep an eye on Kate's etsy store she has print rights (so my sisters could at least have one each LOL) so she might have some prints of it for sale?

Next I dug into some new Sassafras Lass and used the photo I took of Charlotte on her first day of kindy back in February 2006...gosh that time has just disappeared!

Lots of nerdy bird Sass Lass with some chippie from an older range I had kicking about in a bag of 'rainbow' embellies.  Loving their banner stickers...I cut one into pieces so I could make it 'flow' a bit more across the page.

 

Last for Saturday night was a selfie of Steven and I from the same trip to Europe, this time in London about to head out to see a show...not 100% sure whether that night was 'The Mousetrap' or 'Chicago'.

MME, Cosmo Cricket, Making Memories & 7 Gypsies papers, Tim Holtz tickets, A paper doily (from the gorgeous Lou), maya rd & american crafts letters, bakers twine (mmmmm, totally loving bakers twine), afew other bits and pieces and that lovely lovely bird on a wire punch that I borrowed off Lou and have since invested in one of my own :)

 

So that was it for Friday night...3 layouts in one evening...look out!  I'll post the layouts from the rest of the weekend over the coming weekend....including Meredith's special challenge for me ;)