'Greatest View' the cutest badges & a Giveaway!!

A few weeks ago I came across a great Etsy store called 'Greatest View', they have the cutest Chevron (YUM!) badges and all sorts of bits and pieces. I purchased a few items and took an Instagram pic when they came in, about a week ago

How cool are they?! Well, here's an opportunity to try out some of these super cute badges etc too, they are having a giveaway to coincide with their new product release in 5 days, here's all the info! and link to the blog - Greatest View

21/08/2012
Greatest View Giveaway

***The giveaway details will remain at the top of the blog, please scroll down for more posts!***

I'm really excited about this next release of goodies. And I want you all to be excited to so it's time for a BIG sneak peek and giveaway!

Would you like to win a $25 voucher to spend at the release? I'm going to give one away and to be in the running, I need your help to spread the word - here's how:

Post the details of the giveaway on your blog,
Share this post on facebook.
Pin the photo above to Pinterest



Or all three for three entries :) Be sure to include the picture above and link back to the Greatest View blog. Leave a comment on this post to let me know!

Entries will close 9am (AEST) on Monday August 27th and I'll announce the winners shortly after, in time for the release on Monday night!

Good luck!

Collage Journal entry & homemade stamp

Time for another Collage Journal page. Kept this one a little simpler this week, my only idea initially was I wanted to use a new stamp I had hand carved myself last week. I love arrows and chevron patterns and for ages I wanted a stamp with that style. I have seen many people carve their own stamps using the proper stamp carving gear, but I don't have any of that atm! So, I went with the alternative option and got some cheap erasers and using my Cutterbee craft knife I made my own stamp, I'm rapt with it, I love it, it's my first 'handmade stamp'!

This pic shows the stamp and an example of the impression on a partial created Journal page...

Here's what I came up with using the stamp for my Collage page, hope you like it:)

supplies used:

Music collage journal, homemade rubber stamp, washi tape, 7 gypsies gaffer tape, kaisercraft paper (words), distressed circle stamp, october afternoon abc stickers, gesso, permaball pilot pen.

Instagram

Instagram is probably my most favourite app on my iPhone. I love it.
It's gotten me inspired again to taking pics and with the added bonus (my fave part) of snazzying them up with different filters and other cool things like borders, text, masking tape!!

If you are not familiar with Instagram, I came across this recent post by FatMumSlim - How to use Instagram

There's a bunch of different photo apps that let you get a cool look every time. It's great to be able to capture those spontaneous moments & special memories in that old Polaroid style with a modern twist.

The other day I came across this article and I was like OMG!!! How stinkin cute is this, I hope this comes out, at a good price lol

The pictures in Instagram, as with the old Polaroid, are square, which at the moment photo printing booths aren't set up for, I asked in Kmart and they are apparently hoping to be able to include printing Instagram size pics in the near future!

I did, however, come across a site Printstagram which will print your Instagram pics in not only 2 different sizes but also as stickers and other fun things! If anyone knows of anywhere in Australia that can print them, please let me know!! Thanks for looking :)

Pink Bloom

I took this pic a few weeks ago of one of my mums camellia flowers, it's such a gorgeous shade of pink, it makes me very happy :)

Collage Journal entry

So....it's been a week since my last post! After last Tuesdays lovely sunny (but still cool) day, the weather did a downhill and so did the kids and me with colds and yukky stuff.

But, luckily, we are all feeling better, the kids had a curriculum day yesterday and my partner even had an RDO so it was a nice relaxing together day yesterday.

Today was back to school and work and for me, well I did some catchup grocery shopping this morning and then I was able to play, first time in days!!!

Because I missed last weeks collage journal entry, that's what I got messy with. I had some new washi tape come in the post yesterday and some other bits and pieces, so I used a few of these on my page. Hope you like it!

products used:

printed paper kraft bag i received as packaging, gesso, washi tapes, jute, stamps, spray, paper scraps.

Sunshiney Day

It's a beautiful sunny day in Melbourne today, can't wait for Summer to come!

Collage Journal entry

I'm back with my Collage Journal page for this week. This page is perhaps a bit non traditional 'collage', but it was something I've wanted to try for ages and it is using a minimal amount of product!

I haven't titled it as I think it really looks cute as is. I'm definitely going to be doing more birdies in the future.

products used:

Various Tim Holtz tissue tapes, Decoupage, Faber Castell TK4600 retractable pencil, pilot permaball pen, winsor & newton compact watercolor paints.


Thanks for looking :)

Progress - Art Journal page

Just for something a little different, I thought I'd share a couple of progress pics of an Art Journal page I'm currently working on.

The first pic is of my background, I gesso'd both pages then using a Prima brick stencil, i sprayed the background using tattered angels glimmermist in walnut. Next I sprayed both pages with helmar fixative to prevent the glimmermist from smudging, then I randomly added some gesso to add a little texture and interest and sprayed some tattered angels glimmermist in olive vine.

The second pic shows a selection of elements I am currently deciding on for placement so nothing is stuck down as yet. I've got some fabric tape there which I would like to add but still trying to work out where lol.

I hope to finish this page by the weekend after which I'll share the finished page. Also, my next blog post will be my weekly collage journal page which this week I used my watercolors so look out for that! Thanks for looking :)