Blog hop time again. Has anyone guessed yet, I just love participating in blog hops! Today’s blog hop involves members from the "Art with Heart" team which is managed by Claire Daly. Only a small number of us are participating in todays blog hop but there is actually over 90 demonstrators in the “Art with Heart” team and we are spread all over Australia. If you wish to join the “Art with Heart” team, e-mail me for more details. We have a fantastic team forum, a business building club not to mention lots of friendly and supportive fellow demonstrators.
The "Art with Heart" team are running blog hops each and every month. (They are to be held on the last day of the month.) Keep this in mind to come back and visit if you are not a regular visitor.
You may have just come from Kathryn Lowe's blog but if not, there is a link at the end of my post (and each post of those involved) and you will be able to make a complete journey to all of those demonstrators participating. If you leave a comment on all of the blogs, e-mail Nikki at [email protected] and you will be in the draw to win some lovely blog candy.
Note: There is a deadline of 72 hours to enter for the blog candy, (finishing at 6am AEDST, Monday 3rd of May, 2010) and only non SU demos are eligible to win. Please don’t feel discouraged to comment if you are a fellow demo or if the blog candy contest has closed as I love comments from all my visitors.
For Art with Hearts fourth blog hop, we are celebrating the women in our lives. I originally had a mother's day layout planned (which wasn't finished) but then my eldest daughter said a little gem at the dinner table tonight which I thought captures the main women in my daughters day to day life. Her prep teacher and myself.
The style of this scrapbook layout is called a progressive layout. It begins as a 6" x 6" page and then you add to it to create a 8.5" x 11" and again onto a 12" x 12" page. However, I only took mine up to a 8.5" x 11" page.
6" x 6" page: A drawing of myself and my daughter. She took great care with it including coming to check my eye colour before drawing. Hand stitching reads "Mum and me" which Nikki wrote out for me before bed.
8.5" x 11" page: Added a few more layers and colours of cardstock including the journaling where Nikki called me Miss Bennett (her teacher, Miss Mum and finally Mum.
Materials list:
Cardstock: Summer sun, pumpkin pie, tempting turquoise, whisper white, basic black
Accessories: Pink flamingo designer series paper
Other: DMC cotton, sewing machine cotton
Take your time to enjoy all of the lovely creations that everyone has created for your viewing pleasure. I hope it is an inspirational journey for you.
Click here to stop by the next blog on the tour, the lovely Nikki Sadler from Aspendale Gardens, VIC.
I am including a list of all the lovely other 13 demonstrators participating in the blog hop so if you run into any trouble viewing pages, you can still move onto the next person.
For those who have never viewed a blog hop before, there is no beginning or end, it is a full circle so you can begin anywhere!
Nikki Sadler http://www.inkyart.com.au/inkyart/2010/04/art-with-heart-team-blog-hop-women-in-our-lives.html
Tanja Westwood http://www.tanjawestwood.typepad.com
Kristine Thompson http://www.inkspotcreations.com/ink-spot-creations/2010/04/art-with-heart-team-may-blog-hop.html
Sue Madex http://www.madexcreations.com
Gayatri Murali http://scrapawayg3.blogspot.com
Christine Blain http://www.christineblain.typepad.com
Di Dunk http://www.stampartbydi.typepad.com
Judy May http://www.judymay.typepad.com
Tina Gillespie http://scissorspapercard.blogspot.com/
Kathryn Mangelsdorf http://klm55.blogspot.com/
Alisha Watson http://www.ratherbstampin.typepad.com
Nicole Rouillon www.simplymade.typepad.com
Kathryn Lowe www.katlodesigns.com
That's cute Ros! Love how clean and uncluttered the layout is - and isn't Nikki a gem?
Posted by: Kathryn Ruddick | April 30, 2010 at 08:19 AM
Love your 'out of the box' thinking, and the style of this page. I think kids have such an attachment to their prep teachers that the 'lines' are a bit blurred between Mum and teacher ... both my boys did. Great collaboration between you and your angel, Ros.
Posted by: Christine Blain | April 30, 2010 at 08:58 AM
Fantastic layout Ros. I love the way you incorporate your children's artwok into your layouts.
Posted by: Tina | April 30, 2010 at 09:06 AM
Love how you captured the overlaps that happen with those two important women - mum and Prep teacher. Love that progressive layout idea!
Posted by: Sue Madex | April 30, 2010 at 09:08 AM
I love this Ros. Not only is your daughter talented but you are just so creative to bring this memory to life.
Posted by: Kristine Thompson | April 30, 2010 at 10:28 AM
Love the simplicity of the layout Ros and the 'progressive' concept.
Posted by: Judy May | April 30, 2010 at 10:55 AM
Love that comment - and I can hear the giggle *grin*
Posted by: Fiona | April 30, 2010 at 02:04 PM
That's so cute Ros.I love how you are capturing these everyday moments with your children. Your pages are always fabulous and I'm very proud to have you on the Art with Heart team!
Posted by: Claire Daly | April 30, 2010 at 02:31 PM
Love the clean and simple layout Ros. Turquoise and black are one of my fave color combos. Thanks for sharing with us
Posted by: Nicole Rouillon | April 30, 2010 at 03:46 PM
Ros, that is just so so sweet and gorgeous..now it will be remembered forever
Posted by: Alisha Watson | April 30, 2010 at 06:13 PM
That is so precious Ros. I still have some of the works from my 4 (now adult) kids and wish I had thought to do something like that. Fabulous.
Posted by: Di Dunk | April 30, 2010 at 07:22 PM
I love title...and the story and the picture. Just a super cute and fun layout. You are so talented at making a clean crisp layout.
Posted by: Tanja | April 30, 2010 at 11:04 PM
What a lovely memory you have created. Must get into scrapbooking with all these lovely layouts.
Posted by: Kathryn Mangelsdorf | May 01, 2010 at 07:03 PM
How lovely to be able to capture that moment in your lives and frame it so well....
Posted by: Kim Colborne | May 02, 2010 at 08:07 AM
wow, what a wonderful and sweet way to capture a young childs work, i love
Posted by: sharna | May 02, 2010 at 05:23 PM
I love this layout, it focuses on the most important parts and how even more wonderful it will be in years to come! I am so taken with the sewed version of 'mum and me', please tell us the secret, it looks fabulous!
Posted by: Anne-Marie Stephanides | May 02, 2010 at 06:47 PM