Photoshop play!

This is my entry for the Week 8 comp over at Scrapbook Outlet. The theme was Maori Design and we had to include some paper weaving and?or korus (swirls). I paper weaved 4 hearts to make a flower (took hours LOL!) I then embossed them with clear. I also clear embossed the fussy cut swirls. I was playing in photoshop the other day and got this cool effect on this photo of my DS's GF and so wanted to use it. She was dressed for a friend's Arabian night's party.

 So.. this is what I came up with! I had so much fun doing this LO!

Celebrate NZ- Sports

Week 7 topic at SBO's Celebrate NZ, was Sports.

I have had this wonderful photo of Emma which I took while she was training. At the time Lloyd was working with Danyon Loader in Christchurch and Danyon signed the photo as a surprise birthday present. I have taken it out of the frame and scanned it, because I thought it was perfect for this NZ Sports challenge! Danyon was a NZ gold medal Olympian in butterfly. Em managed a bronze at NZ champs before having to give up with a back injury.

Song title

The challenge for Week 7 at Scrapbook Outlet was to use a song title or words. I chose Neil Finn 's (Split Enz, 1980) I Got You. Jeff is always acting the goat and teasing Aimee and this song had such appropiate words that I had to use for the journalling. "I got you - that's all I want." "You show me- tell me you're not teasin'." "You can see my eyes, you can tell I'm not lyin'" I added a bit of black paint in the background, some TH music tape and a handmade flower embellishment using cricut cut leaves and TH tattered flowers die.

Southern Girls Challenge is up!!

So exciting!! The very first Southern Girls Challenge has been posted here! It is going to be so exciting having a challenge that is for cardmakers and scrapbookers alike. There is going to be a new challenge posted every two weeks with 2 randomly selected prize winners, one for entries from NZ and Australia and the other prize for entries from the rest of the world. We will also post a few of our favourites on the blog, after each challenge.
The two wonderful sponsors for this first challenge are Scrapbook Outlet with some very yummy goodies for a lucky 'Downunder girl' and Wink Wink Ink (which has the coolest digi stamps) for the 'rest of the world'.
We have a very talented group of girls from all over the world on the DT, so if you havent already, pop over to the Southern Girls Challenge Blog and check them out!

This is my layout for the first challenge - Anything Goes! I decided to use the very cute 'Owlfie' stamp by Wink Wink Ink.

Birdlife in the garden

I looked out the window this morning and saw these three cock pheasants strutting around. I had to grab my camera! One thing about these drizzly winter and early spring days that I love, is seeing the birds that come out into the garden. Here are some pics that I have taken over recent days.

Another wedding LO!

The week 5 topic at Scrapbook Outlet, Beaches/water, gave me an excuse to get another wedding photo scrapped. Some may say that because I am into the second album (mostly because I could only get 15 into the first one!) that I might have enough!! But the photos taken by Aaron Lang Photography, are so gorgeous, I just want to scrap them all!

I made all the pink flowers with a Cristina Re paper that has a gorgeous sheen that went well with the shiny Bazzill. The fussy cut flowers are from a piece of K&Co paper that I have had for years. The pearls and journalling tag are Prima. I love the new Tim Holtz paper music tape that I got from Scotty Crafts! I also added a little bit of paint to frame the photo.