LESSology Challenge #29: Creative inspiration of Helen Tilbury

The birthday party continues today with a fabulous project by our guest designer Helen Tilbury. 

Shall we check out her inspiration for LESSology Challenge #29: Birthday Party?

I created this page with a rare photograph of me with all 4 of my children together. This is an unusual thing as I am normally the one behind the camera J As such any photos I have of us all together are very precious to me. So I journaled my thoughts as they came to me when looking at my children. My greatest achievement in my life for sure!

I used a kit from 13arts that came complete with lots of lovely things like string, a zipper tab & feathers, that are all recycled in a sense. But I also added some of the negative areas from my Ranger pop dots that work great as a layering embellishment & saves them from clogging up the waste bin! 

I had a wonderful birthday party that went on all weekend long as my birthday fell the day before the Easter weekend this year so we headed down the South Coast of Kwa-Zulu Natal, South Africa & enjoyed a lazy beach weekend complete with lots of rest & seafood J

Thanks to Yvonne & all my lovely friends at LESSology for inviting me to join in their birthday fun!!

LESSology Challenge #23: Guest Designer Helen Tilbury

Hello friends! Today I would like to introduce you to our guest designer Helen Tilbury. Helen does amazing work and was the winner for LESSology Challenge #19: Mirror, mirror on the wall. Let's meet her shall we?

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Hi everyone!  I am totally STOKED to be invited to LESSology as a Guest Designer this month!!  Thank you SO much LERSSology girls!  I can’t wait to see what everyone will create & look forward to visiting your blogs & checking out what I’m already sure will be awesome creations J 

My name is Helen Tilbury & I discovered scrapbooking quite by accident 10 years ago.  I’ve been at it on and off ever since & have been blogging about it for over 4 years now & been on many different design teams & had layouts published in magazines in Australia, America & England.This year I’m working for a few design teams, namely ‘My Creative Scrapbook’ Kit Club in America, and ‘Scrapmatts’ Chipboard Company in Australia, and Purple Pumpkin embellishment company, also in Australia.

You can find my blog at http://helentilbury.blogspot.com under the name of SCRAP ADDICT.  I call myself that because I do love to scrap, although time does not permit me to scrap as often as I would like this year unfortunately. 

I am married to that cute guy in the photo {and have been for a very long time!} & together we have 4 awesome kids & a few sweet furballs in our family.  We live in Durban, South Africa, where it is really hot & humid but air-conditioning is my best friend J

As well as scrapbooking I like taking photos (well they go hand in hand really...) am a Picasa (free editing software) lover, adore cats & monkeys {strange combo but here we have a huge Vervet Monkey population & they are regular visitors to my home & the sweetest creatures ever}. 

I love watching movies, reading magazines and organizing.  Yup I am a storage & container addict & everything in our home is labelled & categorized!’

Eye-catching with loads of graphic details and amazing textures, don't you think? Please leave a little love for our guest Helen!

P/s: Come play along with LESSology Challenge #23: What's in your toolbox?!