Jo's New Tag Book

Well here is my 2nd attempt for Jo's art doll chipboard tag book. If you read post http://paperjourney.blogspot.com/2009/08/pictures-found-joannes-tag-book.html

you will hear the saga of the missing first book and see my 1st attempt.

Anyway I am much, much happier with the 2nd one. Thanks to JVO for the inspiration from her display at the ACTSA Canberra Stamp Camp.

The first 2 photos are close ups of each page and the bottom 2 photos are the entire pages.

Enjoy your new book Jo. I'm glad I could be part of you receiving some actual art work for all your efforts in everyone else's books and especially in mine

Pictures Found - Joanne's Tag Book

As you have seen I have been in a round robin tag book swap last year into this year (don't ask). Anyway, one of my friend's (Joanne) book has gone missing. I found the pictures of what I did just yesterday. Because I took them on my camera and didn't scan them like I normally do the pictures were filed differently on the computer. So Joanne, here is a bit of a look what I did in your book.

Last Tag Book - finished in Feb

Here is the pics of the last tag book from the round robin swap. This is Teresa's book and her theme was Vintage Children. I decided to go with the seaside theme.

More Tag Books

Here are some more Chipboard Tag Books done last year. The Colours of Nature pages were for Nikki's book themed "Colourful" and the Dragonfly pages were for Diane's book themed "Wings".

Tag Books

Here are some scans of recently done tag books pages in the Arty-Oz swap. The first 2 are in Ness' book. I always wanted to have a go at beeswax and Ness gave us permission to try something new in her book. I had only has the beeswax for 2 or 3 years!

The 2nd lot of pictures are for Kylie's book on women. Sorry for the blurred scans towards the middle of the books

More Creating Time!

Now that swimming season is over, and the kids are only doing some training - instead of bulk training, carnivals and club nights - my creating life is starting to appear from behind the fog.

Isn't it weird how you get out of the habit of creating, and then find it a struggle to make whatever you are working on to go together in a nice composition or finding that right element. I'm sure I've forgotten half of the things I own in the craft room!

Anyway these pictures are my attempt in Gail's Chipboard Tag Book. Her theme is "Birds" and I found it a real challenge. I had to buy images online and other elements to make it work. You would think with a room full of stuff I would be able to do this theme. The image I ended up using was from an old fashioned paper I bought at Susannah House, in The Rocks in Sydney at the end of last year. If you ever get a chance to visit this historic building - do it - it was fantastic.

Chipboard Tag Book Swap

I have finally finished my opening page for the round robin Chipboard Tag Book swap that is being run through the arty-oz group. I had in mind that I wanted it grey scale only. I often do colour based things and find it hard to introduce a totally different colour. This time I kept finding embellishment that were prominently black and white but had a little bit of colour. I had to keep turfing them aside. The book is now winging (ha! the theme is angels) it's way to Teresa