Welcome to round 3, the third and final round: Meet
Leanne;
Hi! I’m Leanne and I am from the beautiful Hunter Valley, NSW. I am 41 years old, mum (shared care) to Riley, 6 and partner to Steve. I have a great career as a full time secondary Technology teacher, specialising in Food Technology/Hospitality at my local school. I have always been involved in creating and still enjoy embroidery, patchwork and mohair teddy bears, however, one home can only contain so many of these objects!! Unlike all these past pursuits, scrapbooking preserves memories and documents our lives for future generations. My scrapping subjects are primarily Riley and Steve, my three nieces, extended family and some close friends and their children. I don’t often scrap about myself, but am making a conscious effort to change this situation. I would best describe my style as I would best describe my style as eclectic. Depending on the photo, the challenge and the products I would like to use, my style ranges from clean and simple to shabby and excessive. I love embellishments, but try not to be over the top, therefore ensuring the photo/s and journaling to tell the story. I love challenges as they make me work outside my comfort zone and also encourage/promote trying new techniques. I really enjoy learning new techniques and incorporating them into projects. Challenges and new techniques keep my work fresh. My favourite products at the moment include patterned paper, everything chipboard, especially alphabets, flowers, ribbons, paints, and inks, whilst my most often used techniques include: inking, sanding (pp and photos), stitching, (machine and hand), stamping, journaling.
Hi! I’m Leanne and I am from the beautiful Hunter Valley, NSW. I am 41 years old, mum (shared care) to Riley, 6 and partner to Steve. I have a great career as a full time secondary Technology teacher, specialising in Food Technology/Hospitality at my local school. I have always been involved in creating and still enjoy embroidery, patchwork and mohair teddy bears, however, one home can only contain so many of these objects!! Unlike all these past pursuits, scrapbooking preserves memories and documents our lives for future generations. My scrapping subjects are primarily Riley and Steve, my three nieces, extended family and some close friends and their children. I don’t often scrap about myself, but am making a conscious effort to change this situation. I would best describe my style as I would best describe my style as eclectic. Depending on the photo, the challenge and the products I would like to use, my style ranges from clean and simple to shabby and excessive. I love embellishments, but try not to be over the top, therefore ensuring the photo/s and journaling to tell the story. I love challenges as they make me work outside my comfort zone and also encourage/promote trying new techniques. I really enjoy learning new techniques and incorporating them into projects. Challenges and new techniques keep my work fresh. My favourite products at the moment include patterned paper, everything chipboard, especially alphabets, flowers, ribbons, paints, and inks, whilst my most often used techniques include: inking, sanding (pp and photos), stitching, (machine and hand), stamping, journaling.
Tracey;
My name is Tracey and I am 44 years old. I live in North Nowra NSW, with the best husband in the world and my four beautiful children- 3 gorgeous daughters and a handsome son !!!! I work full-time as a retail Fashion Manager for a national brand, and yes still manage to sneek in some scrapping hours on a weekly, anytime of the day,
time, that is ME time !!!
I have been scrapbooking now for 10 years, and it really is my most FAVOURITE and LOVED hobby/obsession !!! I am very fortunate to have “my” own room that is filled to the brim with lot’s of bit’s and pieces that I can’t resist - well what scrapper can ??!!
My style could be described as varied, I don’t tend to stick to any one particular thing, however at the moment I am loving stitching, ribbon and flowers, and my absolute favourite would be rub on’s. I also cannot resist paper, if I like it I have to have it, but I always buy more than one piece and have to add co-ordinating pages too, one doesn’t wan’t to get caught out!!
The most important thing to me with scrapbooking, is the story that it is telling my children, and how it allows me to truly express my feelings for them !!
Looking back over the last 10 years, I wish I had discovered this fantastic art many years earlier!
My name is Tracey and I am 44 years old. I live in North Nowra NSW, with the best husband in the world and my four beautiful children- 3 gorgeous daughters and a handsome son !!!! I work full-time as a retail Fashion Manager for a national brand, and yes still manage to sneek in some scrapping hours on a weekly, anytime of the day,
time, that is ME time !!!
I have been scrapbooking now for 10 years, and it really is my most FAVOURITE and LOVED hobby/obsession !!! I am very fortunate to have “my” own room that is filled to the brim with lot’s of bit’s and pieces that I can’t resist - well what scrapper can ??!!
My style could be described as varied, I don’t tend to stick to any one particular thing, however at the moment I am loving stitching, ribbon and flowers, and my absolute favourite would be rub on’s. I also cannot resist paper, if I like it I have to have it, but I always buy more than one piece and have to add co-ordinating pages too, one doesn’t wan’t to get caught out!!
The most important thing to me with scrapbooking, is the story that it is telling my children, and how it allows me to truly express my feelings for them !!
Looking back over the last 10 years, I wish I had discovered this fantastic art many years earlier!
Vicki;
My name is Vicki Sturgiss, and I am a 32 yo single mother of one gorgeous 6 yo girl. I try to be a hands-on mum at my daughters school and volunteer for whenever I can, and in my spare time....I love to take photos and scrap!!
I was first introduced to scrapbooking about 8 years ago, but at the time I was busy with other things. Then when my daughter was about 2 years old a friend invited me to a Creative Memories demonstration and I caught the bug. The very first layout I created was the story of the loss of my first pregnancy, and I found it so therapeutic. Now its four years later and I have converted a lot of my friends and family to the craft as well.
I love scrapbooking for a number of reasons, it gives me a creative outlet, it tells our story (wherever that be happy or sad), and I also find it something that my daughter and I can both enjoy together, (she has already finished an album!!)
I like to experiment with a lot of different styles, however I really love more rustic, layouts. I love using reds, and autumn type colours. I also love the bling stuff...I have a girl so anything that glitters is gold to us!! By nature I am not really a planner, so that is also how I scrap....my pages just sort of take shape as I go, if I try to plan them the never end up looking the way that I thought anyway!!
My name is Vicki Sturgiss, and I am a 32 yo single mother of one gorgeous 6 yo girl. I try to be a hands-on mum at my daughters school and volunteer for whenever I can, and in my spare time....I love to take photos and scrap!!
I was first introduced to scrapbooking about 8 years ago, but at the time I was busy with other things. Then when my daughter was about 2 years old a friend invited me to a Creative Memories demonstration and I caught the bug. The very first layout I created was the story of the loss of my first pregnancy, and I found it so therapeutic. Now its four years later and I have converted a lot of my friends and family to the craft as well.
I love scrapbooking for a number of reasons, it gives me a creative outlet, it tells our story (wherever that be happy or sad), and I also find it something that my daughter and I can both enjoy together, (she has already finished an album!!)
I like to experiment with a lot of different styles, however I really love more rustic, layouts. I love using reds, and autumn type colours. I also love the bling stuff...I have a girl so anything that glitters is gold to us!! By nature I am not really a planner, so that is also how I scrap....my pages just sort of take shape as I go, if I try to plan them the never end up looking the way that I thought anyway!!
Rebecca;
Hi, my name is Rebecca Wild and I am a mother of one, Mitchell who has just turned four. My wonderful husband is very supportive of everything I do.
I am a Family Day Care Provider four days a week and provide care for up to 6 children at any given time. I love my job as it keeps me busy and Mitchell loves having all the children to come and play. Brendan and I would love to have more children of our own, but we have been diagnosed with secondary infertility. This was quite heartbreaking news for us as we always wanted a large family.
I have been scrapping for over a year now, ever since I moved back to Brisbane. My mum got me addicted. I never realised how popular scrapbooking was until I got into it. I would consider myself to be a freestyle scrapper. My favourite scrapbooking items are flowers, ribbon, buttons, doodling, chipboard letters and having the right photo.
I am not currently on any design teams but would one day love to be chosen for one. I believe that I could bring a creative and modern style to the design team. I always give my layouts 100% and try to incorporate new ideas into each one. I have really enjoyed the challenges that have been set before us by Mel at Lets Scrap. The materials we had to work with are not what I would normally use but I am glad I gave it a go as it made me think outside the square.
Hi, my name is Rebecca Wild and I am a mother of one, Mitchell who has just turned four. My wonderful husband is very supportive of everything I do.
I am a Family Day Care Provider four days a week and provide care for up to 6 children at any given time. I love my job as it keeps me busy and Mitchell loves having all the children to come and play. Brendan and I would love to have more children of our own, but we have been diagnosed with secondary infertility. This was quite heartbreaking news for us as we always wanted a large family.
I have been scrapping for over a year now, ever since I moved back to Brisbane. My mum got me addicted. I never realised how popular scrapbooking was until I got into it. I would consider myself to be a freestyle scrapper. My favourite scrapbooking items are flowers, ribbon, buttons, doodling, chipboard letters and having the right photo.
I am not currently on any design teams but would one day love to be chosen for one. I believe that I could bring a creative and modern style to the design team. I always give my layouts 100% and try to incorporate new ideas into each one. I have really enjoyed the challenges that have been set before us by Mel at Lets Scrap. The materials we had to work with are not what I would normally use but I am glad I gave it a go as it made me think outside the square.
Rebecca also took out our 'Scrapper of the Month' title so Congratulations to you Rebecca.
