2007

Day #3 for Paper Goddess' Layout a Day Challenge. I cheated a little on this one as it was a 8x8" layout (Olive Layer) from my Dashing DSP display at the Parkes Show that I have been meaning to turn into a 12x12" (but I figured that it doesn't matter if it is a layout started and finished a day or just a layout finished a day). I just trimmed another piece of the DSP down to A4 size and layered it and the original layout onto a piece of Real Red 12x12" add a bit of extra ribbon & Voila! A 12x12 layout in 10 minutes!
Now off to start work on another I have an idea for, it will probably take a bit of extra work than a normal layout so I might work on it over the next few days.

Ink: Real Red
Cardstock: Dashing DSP, Real Red, Old Olive
Accessories: On Board Lots of Letters, Old Olive & Real Red 5/8" Grosgrain, Real Red 1/4" Grosgrain, Bold Brights Buttons, Linen Thread

Images © Stampin' Up!, Designs © Zarna Gould

Blooper Reel - You can't be perfect every time!

Day 2 of the October Layout a Day Challenge over at Paper Goddess. There was a bit of a conspiracy involving 2 flat tyres and 30-something k's out of town (can I just say I love NRMA!!)that almost stopped me scrapping, but I managed to make time tonight (when I should have been cleaning up for visitors tomorrow night, but oh well! you get that).
I've had an idea to scrap some of the weird and wonderful faces that Charlotte manages to make whenever we pull out the camera, but I didn't want to do an 'ugly' layout, I still wanted it to be nice (It's ok if that's the 'Aww mum can't you throw that one out' layout, but i wanted it to still be a pretty page if you know what i mean). I especially wanted to scrap the large photo as that is the first photo we have of her, so even though it's a horrible picture it's still beautiful to us (I don't think I'd even seen her properly it was so early, she was placed on my chest straight after). She was perfectly happy at first and didn't do more than a wimper when she was born, but as soon as I said take a picture the poor thing burst into tears! And it's a face she still makes when we're about to get some serious tears, she is a master at the dropped lip.
I've used the "Live every moment" to remind us to remember the good and bad, that it's all what makes life life and that 'you can't be perfect all the time'.

Stamps: Big Deal Alphabet, Baroque Motifs (gotta love that flourish!) Short Order Alphabet
Ink: Rose Red, Elegant Eggplant
Cardstock: Rose Red Prints DSP, Elegant Eggplant, Whisper White
Accessories: Anchored Rubons, Pretties Kit, Elegant Eggplant 1/4" Grosgrain, Fairy Tale Ribbon Originals

Images © Stampin' Up!, Designs © Zarna Gould

Cute little photo game

I found this little game over on Jen... In a Nutshell and thought it was cute so I decided to play along. If you want to play along type your answers to the questions below into the Flickr's search bar an pick a picture from the 1st search result page and copy the photo URL into Mosaic Maker

1. What is your first name? Zarna

2. What is your favorite food? Peppermint Freddo

3. What high school did you attend? Parkes High (the search result didn't bring up anything from the school but this graffiti is behind the post office and it always makes me laugh)

4. What is your favorite color? pink

5. Who is your celebrity crush? Heath Ledger

6. Favorite drink? Coke

7. Dream vacation? Russia

8. Favorite dessert? Sticky Date Pudding

9. What do you want to be when you grow up? Rally Car Driver

10. What do you love most in life? Charlotte

11. One word to describe you? me

12. Your Flickr name? don't have one

Photo credits 1: meets_s9 2: avlxyz 3: triniti101 4: {laurie} 5: cute qatar 6: amy allcock 7: BudaKedrova 8: NicnBill 9: Kol Tregaskes 10: deegs 11: [mummalu] 12: cyi101

Walk Tall

I made this layout for Paper Goddess' October Layout a Day challenge, I don't know if I'll be able to do every day because Charlotte's birthday (and party) are in the middle of the month, but a girl can try, right?
The sketch is from A Scrap Addicts Sketches again, I really love her sketches and blog right now, I seem to be lacking inspiration but have a million pages and photos I want to get scrapped and her sketches always give me some sort of direction to get started. You can see here I've moved some bits and pieces around but the point of a sketch is to be a jumping point not an exact science.
This page is probably the quickest I have scrapped a photo from when it was taken, the photo was taken on Monday of Charlotte walking, (she decided to sit down straight after this and the next photo is her crouching so it was good timing) I just loved how she has her little arms out and a look on her face that is a combination of pride and concentration! The day was also perfect for getting photos, I didn't have to touch this up in photo shop! After months of dodgy inside with flash photos over winter it was nice to just be able to point and click and have a nice shot.

Stamps: Polka Dot Background, Big Deal Alphabet, Polka Dots & Paisley
Ink: Regal Rose, Rose Red, Pretty in Pink, Mellow Moss
Cardstock: Petals & Paisley, Pretty in Pink, Rose Red
Accessories: Fairy Tale Ribbon Originals, Pretties Kit, Styled Silver Hodgepodge

Images © Stampin' Up!, Designs © Zarna Gould

Happy Birthday to Us! (or should it be SU!)

It's Stampin' Up!'s 20th birthday this month so to celebrate we are giving you 20% off selected birthday sets when you spend $20 on normal merchandise!
You can choose from:
Big Bold Birthday, Pretty Princess, Crab & Company, Birthday Best or Short & Sweet.
There is no limit to how many sets you can purchase, as long as you have $20 of normal merchandise first (how easy is that? an ink pad & pack of paper and you'd be there easy and who doesn't need more paper or ink??)

Contact me zjgould@gmail.com for more information or to place your order!

Images © Stampin' Up!

Thinking of You

This card was inspired by the beautiful swap by Larisa Brown that I received at regionals (on left) I loved it so much I just had to make my own version. The colour combination was a really random one, I knew I wanted Purely Pomegranate and when I went digging through my scrap box to find a piece (It is getting ridiculously full I'm trying to take my cardstock from there first to get it down a little) and when I picked up the purely pomegranate I accidently grabbed a piece of Elegant Eggplant as well and I was just about to put the elegant eggplant back when I noticed how nice the colours looked that I decided to use them together for my card!

Stamps: Wild About You, Polka Dot Background, For a Friend
Ink: Purely Pomegranate Elegant Eggplant
Cardstock: Purely Pomegranate Elegant Eggplant, Whisper White
Accessories: Purely Pomegranate DS Ribbon, Corner Rounder with guard removed for scalloped edge

Images © Stampin' Up!, Designs © Zarna Gould

My baby is now a toddler!!!

My little baby girl is walking! She's not a baby anymore she's now a toddler!!! I was running my Christmas Card Club yesterday and Justin yelled to me that she took a step, we stopped what we were doing to see if she would do it again but she decided to make a liar of Justin (she's good at that). After the class was over 2 of my friends stayed behind to hang out (and maybe to have some margarita's...) and we sat around on the loungeroom floor taking turns calling her and after a few little one or two step 'walks' she practically ran at Karin for a cuddle taking a grand total of 4 steps!!! We were all cheering and clapping her (charlotte that is, not Karin, she was just the bait hehe) and she looked so proud of herself! It was beautiful!

She had another go at walking today but 4 steps is still our record!

We haven't managed to capture any of it on film yet because we have been too excited to think of it, but i'm going to try to get some video tomorrow.