Cath Sheard Art

Tag: scrapbooking

  • Where in the world?

    Michelle’s latest challenge was about where all the Street Team come from. This is something I have already scrap booked. My digital camera has a flat battery, so I have scanned and stitched – hence the slightly scruffy image.

    Patea is a small rural town of approx 1,000 people on the west coast of the North Island in New Zealand. Not always an easy community; over the years it has suffered from high unemployment, closure of its main industry, loss of a school etc. but fights on, and is looking good. Most people are employed now, the businesses seem to be doing well. It has always been safe to walk the streets…and as I go about my business I know most people by name.

    It’s a good place to live.

  • 25_365 : My best girl


    One last layout (like the Tui adverts say – yeah, right!!)

    This is our beloved Bulldog Meg, who died of cancer recently.

  • 14_365 : something a little different


    Today my daily painting isn’t!! It’s a scrapbook page instead.

    As many of you know, we lost our wonderful Bulldog, Meg, to cancer last week. As part of the process of saying goodbye we received many, many messages of support, sympathy and love. I wanted to preserve these so I can look back at them in the years to come, as I look through Meg’s photo albums.

    I kept the page very simple because the whole point is the letters, not the page decoration. The photo is one I took on the first day of Meg’s chemo treatment back in April 06. She looked so good, and we were so full of hope…

  • CC06

    We cropped, we shopped, we scrapped!!!! It was GREAT.

    Okay, what am I on about? Last weekend was Crafting Connection 2006 in Wellington, run by Kiwiscraps – the best scrapbooking retailers downunder.

    I did 9 classes in all, and scrapped till I thought my eyeballs were gonna fall out LOL. Natalie, another librarian, went with me to Wellington and we had a blast. She shopped, I cropped, we ate great food, slept well, and bought heaps of new scrapping supplies. Excellent… We’re saving up for next year.

    I bought home some unfinished projects cos some of the classes were really fast paced – and have since finished most things. Which is seriously cool, cos sometimes unfinished projects kind of, well, stay unfinished…

  • In front of the camera…


    Well I did it – I got in front of the camera instead of behind it. Actually, I did the “holding the camera at arm’s length” thing! I took about 30 photos using the digital and then chose a couple I could cope with. Not too many chins, not too much of a frown…

    I printed a photo onto textured paper then painted a canvas and added layers of paper, stickers, metal etc. The cat is in the top left corner because there is usually at least one animal keeping me company while I work.

    The painted hand is pointing to my head because my hands get covered in paint while I work, and a lot of my work comes straight from my head. The words say “I love freedom” (freedom to paint, create, work hard, just be me) and “I love 2 create”.


    I also did a canvas using a copy of my first birthday photo. Dad took a photo of Mum giving me my first taste of lime fizzy drink – I pulled a face and they both laughed.

    I used the image of the baby wearing a crown because I didn’t want the overall effect to be too cutesy.

    I started to do some work using photos of Dad and I – but all it did was make me cry. It’s 15 years last week since Dad died and I guess the anniversary is more emotional than I had realised. In some ways it feels like yesterday, in other ways like forever. One of my mother’s friends said to me once that it is “selfish to mourn too long” but I’m happy to go on missing him for the rest of my life.