Finally Made It Back to Blogland!

Hello fellow crafters,

Life has been busy and stressful these last few weeks and I haven't achieved much on the crafty stakes!
I did escape for 12 days and went to visit a friend on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland and then a friend on Norfolk Island. It was a lovely relaxing time but boy have the last 3 weeks been an emotional roller coaster! Consequently my crafting mojo has vanished, I think I left it on Norfolk Island! I had every intention of entering the Scrapbooking Memories Masters competition, which closes next week, but no mojo means no work to enter!

The historic Kingston area on Norfolk Island. As you can see absolutely beautiful. 

I did create this layout using a selfie I took down on the Kingston jetty.

Tomorrow I am teaching my monthly art journal class at Made With Memories and the ladies wanted an Asian inspired page this month and this is what I came up with.

Here is a sneak peak of September's page. I had to go back and use my favourite colour, yay teal! It took a bit of effort today to get this finished but having said that I am really happy with the end result.

I did go to my friend's place a few week ends ago to create while she worked on her Donna Downey 48 Weeks' page, this is what I create inspired by what I saw.

Well that's about it folks, Happy crafting!

take care, Helen xx

Friday Night Fun

Well after the boys left for their dad's place I had the house to myself and headed to my studio to work on two canvases I had started a few weeks ago. I'm quite happy with how they turned out, very different from each other but both were loads of fun. What do you think?

 This canvas is quite long 38cm x 114cm (15in x 45in) and I'm sorry the photo is a bit dark in the top right hand corner. Here are a few close ups.

 This second canvas is 45cx 45cm (18inches square) followed by some more close ups.

I had a lot of fun creating these and I suppose they depict my mood at the moment. I would love to hear what you think, well positive constructive comments!
Night all, happy crafting,
take care, Helen xx

The Morning After . .

Hi all,

well the crafting won. I stayed up and worked on an art journal page, I challenged myself and used red, black and white oh and I chucked a bit of silver in there as well. Red is not normally a colour I reach for, having said that I like how this page turned out. Here it is:

I've also recently complete some more pages in my A3 Donna Downey inspired journal. I'm really enjoying working on the bigger format. Here they are:

Well that's it for now,

Happy crafting,

Helen

Crazy Life

Hi all,

Long time no posting, almost a month! Reason - hectic life, it just seems that all things hit at once! The house has been put on the market and hopefully it will sell soon, this will enable me to close one door of my life and hopefully start a new chapter. I have put an offer on a new place, my very own home, just the boys and I, and if it is meant to be then it will all fall into place, if not then it just means bigger and better things are just around the corner.
Here is the real estate.com advert if you would like to have a look:
http://www.realestate.com.au/property-house-wa-baldivis-117266063
And a picture of my main living area:

I have managed to squeeze in a few crafty things when I should have been writing my reports for school, luckily I got those done too just had to miss some sleep!

Here is a page that I created using some Dusty Attic chipboard, a Scrap FX stencil, Lindy's Stamp Gang Sprays and some Prima Junk pipes and faucets.

This second photo is a canvas I created for my May Design Team piece for Made With Memories. I used a Prima/Finnabair stencil, Lindy's sprays again (do love them) and loads of Kaiser Collectables from the Honey Chai range. I did create a scrapbook page as well with the Honey Chai range but the photo's not the best.

So that's about it for now. I should go to bed as it's getting late but I want to play . . . uhm which one will win!

Night, take care and happy creating,
Helen

July's Art Journal Class Sneak Peak

Hi all,

I've had a busy day today helping my friend Trisha organise and tidy her craft room. We had a lot of fun and the day went really quickly but by the time I left it looked wonderful (not sure about the hallway as that is where all the sewing stuff got dumped! Oh well a job for another day!). I've come home and looked at my messy room and have shot a quick video which is getting uploaded to YouTube right now (well when I'm writing this post!) and after I clean and straighten up I'm going to take another one to show it all nice and tidy.

I have finished my art journal page for July and will be taking the book into the shop, Made With Memories, tomorrow so it can go up in the class cupboard but here is a sneak peak of the double page.

So if you're in the Rockingham area on the third Sunday in July then this is the page we'll be working on.

I'm off to tidy!

Have fun crafting,
Helen

Sunday Crafting Time

Hi all,

I got up early today to finish off a canvas I started on Friday night for my friend Liz. She is retiring from years of teaching and I wanted to make her something unique, well a Helen original anyway! On her last visit to my house she did hint that she would love a canvas one day and well, today is that day. Her sons and their wives held her a retirement party and I gave her my canvas and she loved it. Unfortunately the pictures I took of it aren't that great, the camera on my phone has gone blurry and I forgot to take decent photos with my good camera before leaving the house. Here it is:

I used a 12x12 inch canvas, lots of Dusty Attic chipboard pieces and a few other random pieces I've had around for a while, Lindy's Stamp Gang sprays and some PaperArtsy Treasure Gold. I really enjoyed making this piece and quite happy with how it turned out.

That's it for now, happy crafting,

Helen

Guest spot on PaperArtsy Blog!

Hi all,

I was lucky enough to be asked to do a second guest design post for PaperArtsy and of course I jumped at the chance! I love their stamps and their paint and had fun creating a journal page. Here's a glimpse but to get a better look pop on over to the PaperArtsy blog to find out what I did.

Hope you enjoy it! Thanks for looking.

Happy crafting,
Helen