My Portfolio Feature

Hi there Everyone,

I hope you are all gearing up for 3 family fun times: Halloween, Guy Fawkes and yes Christmas, my favourite time of the year we just don't have it complete down here in New Zealand, we have two options regarding weather here, either down the beach or in the back yard sprawled out under the hot blazing sun, firing up the BBQ,adorned with cold salads, guzzling heaps of water, or stuck inside cos its raining outside, but still hot and sticky... I would prefer the cold freezing snow, huggled around a fire, toasting marshmellows and having a hot dinner with all the trimmings...But what ever kind of weather Christmas Day brings to all of us around the world, one thing we do all share is families coming together , the delight and smiles on all the children's faces opening up all their presents and just spending that quality time with each other.And another good excuse to eat all that wonderful food, calories and all.

On to the next little topic, I have been accepted to have a portfolio of some of my creations appearing in the gallery of Cotton Ridge Create website, I have added the link below, please check it out and comment. There is other portfolio's of more Artist.. at this stage I.m the only one from New Zealand. Link: http://www.cottonridgellc.com/portfolio/paper-creations-by-alison-harris/

Finally, I have been making some beaded stick pins, these are uploading to my Etsy over the next few days

here's the link to my Etsy shop http://www.etsy.com/shop/creationzbyalison

Here is a photo of one

and Embellished paper Clips

Well, that's all for today, will be back with more goodies to show, more stick pins with there cover boxes completed.

Take Care all

Alison

Autumn Layout and Decorated Stick Pins

Hi Everyone,
it is labour Weekend here in The land of The Long White Cloud( or should I say Long Black Cloud) which has been around our skies since Friday..but
More time to do some more scrapbook layouts, beaded stick pins( which I got this from a wonderful crafter over in YouTube)

  https://www.youtube.com/user/Jennings644 

You can enter stick pins in the "search channel" tab 

I also finally sorted out my Facebook Fan Page, so if you wonder over to there and please add my fan page to your likes link is here
  http://www.http://www.facebook.com/papercreationsbyalison

In there I will share all the YouTube videos that really have inspired me and there are some very talented ladies that I follow quite regular. I will eventually take the big plunge and upload some videos of my own (that's gonna be a little scary for me.

Okay, up on the agenda today is one layout I have completely changed. This layout was scrap booked in 2003 and it looked boring, now I'm not the sort of scrapbooker who will take apart an entire album just cause it's boring, today's trends and your style changes over the years and as long as the photos are in an album doesn't matter if they don't measure up to your scrapbook standards of today. The reason I decided to changed it, I was entering a challenge(I sorry I did forget who's challenge) the challenge was a layout for Autumn, I knew I had no Autumn photos to scrapbook, so I browsed through one of my little daughter Alisa's scrapbook albums and found a page that kinda looked sad, missing something... so here is the updated page, and i'm really happy with it...it's a shame I didn't take a photo of the before layout... silly me!!!!!LOL

Honestly this photo I took today and I must of taken at least a dozen of them before I was comfortable with the outcome, the natural lighting changed, our skies clouded over. This was the last shot... on the bonnet of my car using a cranberry colour  piece of material.
The little ones in the photos(center) are Alisa(my daughter) in the background and my Grand daughter Natalie in the front. They were 3 here and now they are cheeky 12 year old's.

These next photos I took before the layout and the shooting conditions was perfect, the right balance.. Stick pins

I enjoyed making these and was quite disappointed when I had no more pins to decorate. Please pop over to YouTube and visit Jennings644 her videos are very entertaining and you will bound to have a good laugh, she has a real good sense of humour.
Well that's about it for today, hope you enjoyed my blog!!
Until next time, take care
Alison