My Very First Video!!

My First Video.... about my first December Daily!! 

I thought i should venture out and have a trial run at making video's ... and what better way to do it than with my December Daily Album.  Thanks Nic Pomeroy for the video inspiration.  :))   The album was far too big to try and photograph every page, get them all in focus and edit... nope, wasn't keen on that idea - video was the way to go.  So... i dragged out the slr instruction booklet and started playing.  I'm so glad i did... i think i'm hooked on video's now though!!  :))

I really LOVE my DD album and so do the kids {they are always dragging it out and flicking through it}, although it really did take over a bit during December and i kind of felt like a slave to my album.  This year i might change the actual process a little.

There are some obvious 'technical issues' in the video ... lighting being one of them!  It's all part of the learning process... and ummm, if you view it at fullscreen, you may want to sit back from the monitor a little... lol.  Hope you like it:

Back with some scrappy shares really soon...

jules

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Cyber Crop Challenge

It's happening right now!!  The Boxx Cyber Crop is on... so grab that mojo by the scruf of the neck and give it a stern talking to... LOL!

Seriously, the Boxx dt have done an amazing job and have welcomed you all into their home and given you a right royal tour from room to room!  Don't miss out on the fun....

This was my prompt for the messy 'Boys Bedroom', and it really does reflect that particular room in my home that i don't normally open the door to and allow any of my guests to enter.... but here goes! :))

{boyz}

more details:

For this challenge I don’t want to see neat and straight!

I want to see mess and ....

1. Scraped and/or flicked and/or splattered paint

2. Inking in some form

3. Torn or ripped pp and/or photos

4. Stapling and/or stitching

5. Sanding/distressing

I really couldn't go past some of the goodies from the Bo Bunny Cambridge range for this lo... as well as some Scrapfx chippy cogs and Tim Holtz stickers.  Perfectly grungy, messy boy stuff.

Go and check out what fabulously grungy stuff has already been entered into the boys bedroom challenge... and all the other challenges/rooms too!! It's been a lot of fun..

I know i've been a bit absent lately... slack blogger!  I have been busy with a couple of really exciting projects that are on the boil at the moment.... did i mention that they are really exciting!!  :)

Gotta run, but will be back with more to share really soon... x

jules

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Play Time!

First of all... i just wanted to say a big 'HELLO' to all those lovely people who have added me to their list of blogs to follow over these last few days.  It' so nice to have you here and i appreciate all the amazing comments that you have ALL left during TCR blog hop.  It was clearly a resounding success and i am so proud to be with such an amazingly talented team of ladies.  Just unbelieveable!  {make sure you pop over and check out palette #50 and give it a go!}....

I had a fun time playing this weekend.  DH was off camping with DS#1, which left the girls and i at home to fend for ourselves...  ;-)  sorry Lachlan! 

Claire had a friend over for a night of Harry Potter, Maddi studied for exams {and mum kept throwing her off facebook to continue said study}... and mum played!! Lachie alternated between us all, but i'm sure he would much rather have been running around in the bush keeping his dad on his toes!!  hmm... I guess those apron strings are still firmly in place with that little guy!  lol...

Here's a peak at what i got up to:

I had so much fun with these little lovelies... and it's given me an idea for a bit of a project!!  ;-))))

Just a reminder too ladies of what's going on this Friday night!!!

Be there, or be doing something nowhere near as much fun!!! hehe

cheers

jules
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Hello Colour!!!!!

Wow!!  Hello everyone!  So good to have you here! Welcome to the Colour Room's First Annual Blog Hop.. continued!! 

I hope you had fun over at Julie's place !!  I have no doubt she would have completely blown your socks off!  If you have just entered this hop at my place, you'll need to go back to the start for the full experience... :))

As you are no doubt aware by now, we are celebrating our 50th Colour Palette this week!!  How amazing is that?  You are in for such a treat from our Design Team.... as always, I am in awe of their work.

[Part One] of this post is the introduction to Palette No 50.... and my sample layout. 

If you haven't seen it yet, pop here for a look at this week's palette.  This is what I came up with for this Whitewashed Boys Room palette:

{storm chasers}

I was lucky enough to have that photo on hand as it was just perfect for the palette.  It was taken while we were holidaying after Christmas a couple of years ago now.  All the kids LOVE storms and have never been frightened of them.  They could stand and watch the rolling black clouds and lightening for as long as I let them... which isn't long!  I bascially built the layout around the photo.  I did however have to go through a process of elimination before deciding on the oval shape!  lol ...

None of the others seemed to work.... not even the strip photos in progressive exposures unfortunately, which addressed every colour in the palette perfectly!

Now for [Part Two] of this post:

You are now Up Close and Personal with me: JulieWinks :))) 

...  and here are a few little snippets about me that you may not already know...

   
I am currently designing for:

TCR 

The Scrapboxx

Kraft It Up, and

Stuck?! Sketches

I live with DH, DD x 2 and DS x 2... and the overindulged staffie 'gus'... the 7 of us live in relative harmony in Central Queensland, Australia!   :))

On my desk now, you will find:

1. A tonne of Basic Grey Curio chippies I am putting together for a current Scrapboxx Dt layout,
2. Heaps of December Daily stuff I am unsuccesfully ignoring {it just continues to stare at me!!}...I really need to finish it!
3. Heaps of stickers I am trying to catalogue for my new Ikea storage unit that is yet to arrive! {so very excited} ... prima, basic grey, tim holtz, hambly..... you name it, its in the pile!

My favourite colours to work with at the moment are blue and orange... I can't believe how many layouts have those two colours in them lately....  I don't even know I'm doing it until I'm finished.  Even I didn't realise the extent of my obsession until I put this mosaic together:

Yep... there is blue and orange, in some form, in every one of them! lol

... and I just realised what colours are on my desk right now in the previous pic too!!

What types of themes do I scrap?  Every now and then I scrap about my husband or myself... but it is quite rare!  I almost always scrap about one or all of the kids and the relationships between them.  I love depicting them in everyday moments, preferrably completely unaware that i am capturing them... but I have to admit that it is becoming more and more about the 'art' for me... telling a story more through visual impact than with words.  Sometimes I think the picture is more than enough on it's own and other times I have more of the story that i need to tell.

Where do I scrap?  I am in the most unfortunate position of having to scrap at the dining room table.... lucky for me it is a BIG square table! :))  With 4 kids and a 4 bedroom home, i just don't have a dedicated room for all my 'stuff'.  I am right now waiting for my Ikea Expedit furniture, so that I can at least have everything stored away neatly and, I'm hoping, make it much quicker for me to scrap as I won't have to spend the first hour of 'my time' looking for what I want. 

yeah, ok that was cheating....

this photo was taken before all my scrapping supplies took up permanent

residence along the back wall under the window!!  hehe

I promise to post an update as soon as all my Ikea furniture

is installed and packed full of supplies!

Funnily enough, I invariably end up migrating to the kitchen bench with my layout anyway, so I can stand up and get a better perspective of my page!  For that reason, I'm big on baskets.  My portable 'go to' supplies that can come with me as I migrate and are also easy to move off the table for something as mundane as eating! lol. 

oh, and I always paint at the kitchen bench too... far more practical for the clean up afterwards.

My scrapping 'process' can sometimes vary quite drastically from layout to layout.  Sometimes I've got a certain product or products that i just can't wait to use and i start with that, fiddling and moving things around, before i've even given a thought to the photo or the story.  Other times I'm completely driven by the photo and the story that I need to tell.  Usually though, I get the overall design planned before i decide on the size or number of photos I want to use.  I make the photo fit the design, rather than the other way around.  I'm also quite partial to using multiples of the same photo, often in a photostrip effect.

My favourite food is fruit!  Seriously!  I'm a bit of a sweet tooth.. and it gives me the sugar hit i love without the calories... :))  If we are talking naughty.... bacon is my weakness!  Breakfast, lunch, dinner!  it's so versatile, and so yummy... :)