Postcrossing 3

Just a few of the postcards I've sent to fellow Postcrossers this year. 

I made this from a Whittakers chocolate wrapper and some washi tape. In the profile of the recipient they said they would be happy to receive postcards made of food wrappers of your country and for me Whittakers is right up there! 

Most of my postcards I've bought from Pikitia, based in Tauranga, just 20 mins from my home in the Bay of Plenty. I try hard to choose a postcard that I think the recipient might like based on their profile, gotta tell you though....it's damn hard sometimes!  

Dr Who? Sherlock Homes anyone? 

The Beehive, NZ's parliament house in Wellington

 Our national bird the Kiwi

Our beautiful Kauri trees are dying. 

I hope our scientists discover a means to 

save them before it's too late!!  

My favourite postcard to date from Pikitia

Postcrossing II

Four of these postcards arrived on the same day! 

I like the ink smudge on this, it looks well travelled! That's not to say I would like to receive marked postcards of course! 

Bronze Sculpture. 

"Let us beat our Swords into Ploughshares"

by Evgeny Vuchetich

New York

Bavaria

Canada of course! 

What about the iceberg that's threatening the little village in Greenland?!! 

It weighs 11 million tons! Freaky! 

Malaysia

Taiwan

The Paper Teapot Scrapbook Kit

 Four of the layouts I made from the June Kit. 

There are lot's of pieces left to make a few more layouts yet :D

Three Mini Albums for some lovely ladies that I had the good fortune to work with over Autumn. 

Lots of flaps to open! 

I made three albums the same but used different papers/embellishments for each. I was rapt that I didn't need to buy anything extra to complete them except for more adhesive. 

I spent a lot of time searching Pinterest for a mini album tutorial. I wanted something fun! I  didn't have a lot of photo's but I also wanted space for the recipients to write down anything they wanted. Katherine McElvain had the perfect tutorial at Bella Blvd Studio Blog. Of course there are similar albums around but this tutorial was so easy to follow! 

Bach Crop

Bach Crop

I had a fabulous weekend staying at Mt Maunganui where I got to scrap the whole weekend with like minded people. I wanted to make good use of the time I was away from home and I think I did great. I had no kits, pre plans or pre cut anything. But I did make a visit to Pinterest the night before and printed off a few for inspiration

Scrapping is still a very favourite thing of mine I like to do but I wanted to share a new thing...I'm  a member of Postcrossing and enjoy receiving postcards from around the world. Today I received this one and I love it so much! I love it because it brought back memories of my life at home with my parents, sisters and my youngest brother in the 70's! 

Stockholm

These are some of the postcards I've received since I registered with Postcrossing last year.

Japan

Vintage/Tower of London

Czech Republic

Street view/Jena
Germany

Germany

My entry for July at The Paperteapot. The gorgeous background paper is from Paperzone. It is printed right here in NZ and the chipboard pieces used in the three clusters of embellishments were created at Imagine If  also in NZ. Pretty cool hey! 

Redo's, Challenges and Scraplifts!

I love to hang out at The Paper Teapot on Facebook. 
I enjoy the monthly challenges and even though I don't
 always have an entry I like to keep note of them for later inspiration. 

A total overhaul from a much older layout. 

My daughter is almost 17 but we still freeze feijoas every autumn.

Me, last century in Perth for New Years

I'm still a scrapper :)

It's been a while since I was last here but I wanted to tell you that I still play with paper and my trimmer :D  My scrapping space is now my bedroom where my papers etc are also stored along one wall. Alas there is little room for leaving out works in progress so I use the kitchen table - where I can't leave stuff out for days on end like I use to. But I still scrap, still taking photos and creating memories to share with family and friends. 

A sketch challenge that I turned on it's side. My Mum is a gardener (I guess it runs in the family since I am one too!). This is her at one of the gardens she looks after, she does jobs around the house for the elderly owner as well as driving her to various appointments around town. 

Mum say's she's a Girl Friday :D 

A challenge to create triangles in your layout. I found this layout on Pinterest and thought it was perfect! 

A scrap lift from a scrapper whose name I can't remember. 

But absolutely loved her layout and never forgot it! 

A challenge using the Rainbow Fish story for inspiration.