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Scrap - A sneak peek at Beckett

The August Storyboard kit, Beckett, goes on sale on the 1st...that's Sunday I think...I've kind of lost track of the date!

I scrapped 4 layouts and a mini album and dug into my older travel photos...

I used photos from Thailand in 2008, Germany in 1994, Middle of Nowhere, QLD, 1996 and 14 photos from Paris & London in 2001...boy oh boy was that satisfying!

Check out the blog for sneaks from Kim and Eb and check out the full reveal from 12 lunchtime EST on Sunday...you'll love it!

It's Tuesday night vegging on the couch for me...Australia's next top model, Packed to the Rafters, Tangle and Real Housewives NYC...love it!

Hope that you are having a great week.

Tatum xx

Sew - I've been in a bit of a sewing frenzy really!

I have been busy sewing over the last week...after scrapping so much I felt like a break/needed to tidy up my scrap room so I started sewing up some Moda precuts that I have had ideas for for a while!

I had a layer cake and jelly roll of Hello Betty by Chloe's Closet in the 1930's teal-chocolate-vermillion-grey colourway, with touches of lemon yellow...I love it.  I thought about doing something quite elaborate but stuck with a simpler plan.  I cut down the 10" squares to 8.5" squares and used the 2.5" strips to surround the squares...I'm sure that the block has a name, but I don't know it LOL!  Then sewed them all together to give me a 6' square finished size.  The placement is all pretty random and I am thrilled with how it looks.

The fabric range must be fairly old because I cannot find any yardage anywhere online so no extra border for this one, so it will be a bed topper or couch throw for snuggling.  I have ordered some of the lemon yellow solid to bind it with.  Can't wait to share the finished quilt.

Next I divided my jelly roll of Love U by Deb Strain into a pile of 'boys' and pile of 'girls'...with Sebastian's assistance :) giving me 2 lots of 20 strips.

I sewed these together to gove 5 lots of 4 strips then cut each into 5 8.5" square blocks.  Charlotte then laid them out for me...randomly rather than in any traditional rail fence arrangement....and I sewed them back together again.

With a couple of hours work I had 2 cot sized quilts

Boy Version

Girl Version

(Thanks to my assistant Lil for holding them up in random places around the backyard for me this afternoon so that I could try and find a good place to photograph them...she does have cute fingers and toes LOL)

The girl Version will get a 4" border of the red fabric...and the boy version...well that depends on what i can find hiding in my stash...I know I have some 1/2m that will be good for binding but haven't actually checked to see if there is something good for a border yet!

And...finally...to round out my weekend of sewing I spent last night cutting out an Ice Cream sundress for Charlotte as part of the Ice Cream Social...which is a 2 week sew a long where everyone is making something from the Oliver + S Ice Cream Sundress pattern...it is half way through but I only got my pattern on Thursday...and then it took a while for Charlotte and I to agree on fabric...I'm still not 100% sure if it is gooing to look good when it's finished...

In my stash most of my large pieces are Amy Butler and Sandi Henderson prints and they all look fabulous on their own or together sewn up into quilts but trying to sew more than one in a single garment it a little tricky!  The pattern has one version with 3 different fabrics and I actually found it easier to find 3 that went together than just 2.

Charlotte got no choice in the end but to just be happy with what I chose because I couldn't get any 2 other patterns to work together...as much as she wanted a dress that was half large print flowers, half strawberries LOL!

I will get on with the stitching tomorrow night.  I am having a night on the couch tonight catching up on blogs and (half) watching a movie :)

I plan on being back later in the week with a bit more crafty stuff...scrapping or sewing...well I'm not sure yet :)

Have a great week!

Tatum xx

Scrap - A couple more layouts

My latest Addicted to Craft challenge was to scraplift one of the other DT members using the beautiful Scribble Scrabble Bric-a-brac range.

I chose to lift this layout of Trina's...and ended up with this...

 

Because the base PP on Trina's LO had a large 'frame' on it I sketched up a template and cut a whole in my base paper (the orange is underneath but that's kind of tricky to see)...I replaced the subtitle with a pearl swirl and the trees with some large Prima's...I must confess that I have quite a few in my stash but (in case you haven't noticed)...I don't use flowers very often, despite having 3 girls!

The photos are of Charlotte riding a horse at Steven's sisters house in December last year...love that you can see just how much she is enjoying it...there is a big smile on that face :)

I don't enjoy scraplifting other people's layout, I actually find the process more difficult than creating my own designs from scratch, probably because it is so much more constrained.

This one was for Carlo-Lea's sketch challenge in this month's Scrapbook Creattions.  I used to love using sketches but somewhere along the line I stopped using them and now, like scraplifting, I don't really enjoy using them...again, probably due to the feeling of constraint.

However,  I really enjoyed scrapping with this one!  I adapted it into a double 8.5 x 11" to work with the photos I wanted to use, which needed to be cropped square, not rectangular :)

I used MME Paper and lots of bright, doily trims from The ChipChopShop.  I replaced one photo with a journal block.  Bubba J seriously is a grot...her face never seems to stay clean for long...perhaps that has something to do with the fact she is an eating machine!

I have been doing a spot of sewing the last few days and having a little break from scrapping for a few days after the mammoth effort over the weekend!

Right now J is a asleep and the Boy has passed out next to me...I suspect he might be coming down with something because he started coughing after being outside playing late this morning and now he can't seem to stop :(

I'm going to tidy my scraproom...I figure that if it starts out clean then I am going to have a much better chance of tacking my masters projects!

Thanks for visiting :)

Tatum xx