Monday 20 April 2015

Class Layouts at escape2create

Hello there!

I thought I'd pop in and share the layouts that I made in classes at the fabulous escape2create retreat last month.

There were four wonderful tutors at the retreat and I enrolled for all the classes. I loved the range of styles the teachers had.

I should point out that although I attended each class, I didn't necessarily follow the instructions to the letter. I believe that classes should be about learning techniques and that what you do with those techniques is totally up to you. So what you see here is my version of the class, which may or may not be the same as what was taught!

My fave layout that I produced was this one taught by the uber-talented Fiona Paltridge. I adore Fiona's work. I'm privileged to be on two Design Teams with her and am a huge fan.

Fiona's bright and bubbly personality shone through her class. Her beat-box demo has to be seen to be believed!


I almost never use titles like 'Dream' because I just think they're wishy-washy, but this one worked so perfectly I just had to break my own rule! Fiona had no title on her layout, leaving that up to us.

A closie of the scrumptious layers:



Chantalle McDaniel taught a cool mini-album-in-a-layout technique. All that measuring took me a bit out of my comfort zone but if you don't try, you don't learn! I love the wooden triangles in this kit and we learnt a very cool technique to make those pink puffy triangles.



Leanne Allinson is a scrapper that I have admired for a long time. Her style is nothing like mine, yet I love what she creates. Her style is incredibly clean and she always scraps in A4 size. To top it off, she is the loveliest lady you would ever want to meet.

Leanne taught three layouts in the one class! I managed to get two done before other projects dragged me away. Both of these photos have been in my pile of pics to scrap for ages. The first is of a favourite teacher when my son was little and the second is a fave photo of three wonderful Queensland scrappers. I took this photo at another retreat a couple of years ago!



And last, but by no means least, was the class I was most excited to participate in. I am a huge fan of Kim Price's work - she's up there with my most fave scrappers in the world. Kim turned out to be a lovely, down-to-earth lady with a great sense of humour. (I haven't decided what to do with the shower-cap photo yet Kim!) I also loved the way she patiently taught us all how to make the background then pretty much told us we could make what she designed with it or whatever we wanted!


My title was really long so I made most of it using white letters on a white background so it didn't dominate the page.



Not only did we have four fabulous classes but each kit was so packed with goodies that I was worried I'd go over my weight limits for the flights home!

All in all, it was an amazing weekend full of fun, laughter and friendship. Oh - and there was scrapping too!


Happy scrappin'!

Heather

18 comments:

  1. Oh all those wonderful ladies together teaching.. that would have been amazing!! I am sure you will use the tips and techniques you learnt in the future with your spin on them.. love the layouts.. looks like many varied styles and they all fabulous!

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  2. These are SOO fabulous...yours, but using the inspiration from these UBER creative girls.....& they're all scrappers I'm really 'into', too....you lucky, lucky thing.....now, did you take a class from yourself? Cos that's the only thing missing, I reckon!!!

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  3. Beautiful Heather! You did all the classes absolute justice!! You are one of the most talented designers I have the privilege of knowing. you really must give yourself more credit. you truly deserve it xx

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  4. Heather thank you so much for your lovely words. I was really excited to meet you after all this time and I'll look forward to crossing paths with you again some day soon. I absolutely love each and every one of your LO's here too. Amazing creative x

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  5. Heather you are an amazing designer and I love what you created thank you for sharing you talent.

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  6. Wow wow wow!! These are all AMAZINGLY GORGEOUS!!!! I loveeeeeeee the feathers on that first one!!!!!!!!!!!

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  7. Heather,
    All beautiful pieces - I love them all. What a lucky lady to be able to attend! Thanks for sharing your wonderful art.

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  8. Oh my goodness!!! Each and every one of these is totally amazing!! Different styles but all of them stunning!! Can see each ladies' influence but your own style still shines through every page. Love, love, love them Heather!! xx

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  9. Woww Heather, what a wonderful classes! and you did beautiful projects, You are a great artist! I love your layouts.
    Thanks a lot for your comments at my blog, you are very nice :-)
    A hug.

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  10. WOW, WOW, WOW, Heather! This looks like is was an absolutely AMAZING class! Every single one of your layouts is awesome in it's own way. Next time, YOU will have to teach a class! I love them all. Thanks so much for sharing these with all of us!!!!

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  11. Looks as if you had a very productive time at your retreat - these are all fabulous! TFS

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  12. What a beautiful series of works, fantastic :)

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  13. Sounds like you had a great time meeting and learning from scrapbookers whose style you admire. Glad you went out of your comfort zone to try new techniques...your projects turned out great. I love the happy mix of colours!

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  14. These are all fabulous Heather, you have done an amazing job on them all. I agree with you when you said it is good to step out of ones comfort zone occasionally. You have done your four class teachers proud. Thanks so much for sharing them with us.

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  15. Wow, you did some great layouts!!! I have never visit a class or give one, I just dont have the patience to scrap with a bunch. Wish I could! I like your style Heather, already before you took the classes!

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  16. fabulous pages.. each so special and great designs and fun background work

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  17. Gorgeous unique LOs..love them all :)

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  18. Aaaah these classes sound awesome and how nice to meet all these lovely ladies! Love the pages you created and totally agree about the classes...it's not meant to be an exact replica...but a version of your own styling and making! ;-) Love that last page from Kim's class and the vibrancy is just beautiful! That is definitely one class that I would have loved to attend too! ;-)

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