Hip chicks

This is my home class next week. I rarely do double layouts, but this one was a request and I thought why not. 

I have super cute photos of the girls playing fashion parade. Making them 3x4" (half the normal size) means I can fit more on a page and it won't look crowded.

The feathers are shimmery in real life, green and bright pink, but that's hard to capture. Just take my word for it.

I love this diamond mesh, it adds a bit of glitz, but not too much. 

And here's a little peacock, just for the fun of it:

Natural Beauty

Somehow I have a thing for diagonals at the moment. Look what we'll do in class next week!

photos by Ulrike Schmitt-Hartmann

Too bad the weather is terribly grey and dark today, I couldn't take a good photo. But if you look in real life, you'll see that there is lots of metallic shimmer here and there.

First we'll make our own metallic paint, it looks like gold leaf. You can do silver or bronze too.

The background has those shimmery leaves on it (looks really good in better light). 

I love rosettes and this one started out as a fence! 

Cheers!

Freezing!

Yes, it is winter even in sunny Queensland, but that's not what this layout is about. 

When we were in Tasmania, we went to the most beautiful beach, Wineglass Bay. It was quite a trek to get there and back, but so worth it for the beauty. However, the water was freeeezing. These silly photos of Greg are my favourites.

We'll do this project in class next week and we'll make these gorgeous chipboard flowers. Thanks to Linda B for the technique idea!

We'll make the little swirls too. It's actually quite easy to make this layout look elegant, if you prefer. Try adding a few paper leaves to the flowers and of course, no goofy photos...