New Tim Holtz Sizzix Dies

Hi all...just a really quick fly by today. How typical is it that the Postman comes bearing goodies on the day when I don't even have time to stop and breathe let alone play? Well, yep, my new Tim Holtz Alterations Sizzix dies came yesterday - oooh I can't wait to have a proper play with them! Here is a really really uber quick card I threw together using Fanciful Flight and Scallops (sorry about the pic but I snapped it with my mobile phone as the card was being stuck onto a present bag -  running out the door to whisk another one of my children off to yet another birthday party!) And no, I don't use envelopes...I just stick cards onto the front of the present bag as decoration - why hide all your hard work ?

The flower consists of layers of old fabric flowers that I made up way too many of for a project many moons ago, and keep the spares in my "need an emergency flower" stash.

No play for me today... I'm the mum taxi all day today. *sigh*

Hugs C xxx

Easter DT Project

Hi all! Easter is just around the corner (literally) so it's time to get a hippity hop on if you are going to give some handmade goodies. I would like to share with you two cute little Easter Gift Boxes that I have made for my Easter DT project over at My 2 Angels. The cute little boxes are decorated Chinese Takeaway Noodle boxes. These would be sooooo cute filled with chocolate as a present (or filled with buttons or little embellishments for your favourite scrapper!) for Easter.

Blue flower Easter box:

This box has some machine stitching through the middle of the paper detail. The little rabbit is a quickutz die cut. The large flower is a cuttlebug die set that both cuts and embosses and is called Build A Flower.

PRODUCTS USED: Paper: Kaisercraft Christmas Spirit Joyful, blue coredinations cardstock, yellow coredinations cardstock

Ribbons: yellow ric rac, baby blue spotted, yellow spotted, white organza.

Embellishments: Scenic Route chipboard button, quickutz die (peek a boo bunny), cuttlebug die (build a flower)

Garden Scene Easter box:

This box has loads of die cuts using quickutz, sizzix and bosskuts dies. The grass strips are all handcut at random heights, and the eggs and grass are layered in to give the illusion of depth.

PRODUCTS USED: Paper: blue coredinations cardstock, yellow coredinations cardstock, pink coredinations cardstock, white coredinations cardstock
Ribbons: yellow ric rac, blue velvet ric rac, general scraps of ribbon from desk.
Embellishments: all die cut...(quickutz: peek a boo bunny & 4x4 tree; sizzix : fence; bosskuts: Easter Eggs) embossed with cuttlebug embossing folders: swiss dots, Victoria.
 

 

I hope these little boxes give you some Easter ideas. Thanks for stopping by...

Hugs C xx

Girls of Summer

Hi all...Now that summer has officially turned to autumn, (HEAR that -it's AUTUMN so quit with the 30+ degrees days already!!! and a bit of rain would be nice!!!! )and I thought I really should get myself into gear and sort out some of the summer beach photos I have taken of the children. The photo in this layout isn't the most artistic or skillful - I don't think it is even entirely in focus - but I really loved the colours and the feel of it. I snapped the girls on their boogie boards while they were chatting and looking out for the next big wave. It gave me a feeling of vibrant colour and youth, so I reached for the wonderfully colourful My Little Shoebox papers and this was the result...

I really wanted to keep this page feeling clean and fresh so I put down the inks, put away the paper distresser and hid the kindyglitz and sandpaper. I did a little doodling along the edges of the page though, as it looked naked to me LOL. The circular diecut is MLSB from the Imaginary Friends range. The backing page is the reverse side of a piece of Crate paper (peacock). The flowers and butterflies are handcut from a piece of MLSB All in a Flutter - Flutterbys paper. Underneath all that handcuttness (LOL) are some Prima say it in Crystals. The acetate strip is a piece of Screen Prints Vintage Plaid that has been die cut using a sizzix scallop border. The title is Carolee's Creations, and the journal box is a Kaisercraft stamp Journal Boxes.

I'll be back in a couple of days with an Easter OTP that I have done for the M2A DT so stay tuned folks!

Thanks for stopping by... Hugs C xx

2 Quick Cards and a Make n Take

Hey all...again the weekend thief snuck up behind me and stole it away before I can blink!!! Not a lot of 'me' time this week - I completed a couple of DT projects which I can't share yet :(  so I thought I would post a couple of quick cards, and a make n take project I did at my LSS Scrapbooks From The Heart (SFTH)

First, the cards:

This features my new quickutz 4x4 monarch butterfly die (I sooo have a thing for butterflies!!!), quickutz curly flourish border die, and basic grey paper.

This one has a handmade flower, and hand stitching all the around the card (that was probably one of the most time consuming decisions I have ever made!!) The paper is cosmo cricket.

This is the make and take I made at SFTH. The lovely Jenae had the basic design all ready to go, using sizzix sizzlit dies and a cuttlebug embossing folder. I took it home then had a weeee little play with it, inking up some collections butterflies and adding some kindyglitz (yeah, I know, I'm a glitz addict).

And a quick kissy for my friend Wendy who has had her first LO considered for publication *mwah* well done chicky!!

Hugs from Me x

My Gorgeous Children

Howdy! Well, I've been a busy girl - getting my layouts for My2Angels ready for February...I love how they have turned out...but you will have to be patient just a little longer to see them (sorry x). In the mean time, I've managed to squeeze in a page of my gorgeous children during the summer of 2008 (I know, 2008, but there are some photos I've just not managed to scrap yet!)

Aren't they cute...? I used Three Bugs in a Rug Playtime Stripe double sided paper, a piece of Bo Bunny Back to Basics piece that I glimmermisted. The cute little mice are scrapware chipboard mice that I inked. The hearts are sizzix primitive hearts diecuts, that I inked and/or embossed. the circle is a quickutz die 4x4 circle tag. I used a fiskars border punch - apron lace - to add a little interest to the dotted side of the paper. The word Family was a freebie chipboard word that came with a scrapping mag that I inked and coated with dimensional magic. The metal love embellishment is a making memories word tile.

Close up of details:

The embossing die I used was by quickutz in the blossom shapes set.

And...of course....the card from the leftover pieces of paper:

This has a gorgeous little robot chipboard piece by 2CRAFTY that I watercoloured, highlighted with kindyglitz crystallina then coated with inkssentials crackle accents. The happy birthday is a Creating Keepsakes birthday accent. I love this little guy!!

I hope your week (and the weather) has been good to you...Happy Australia Day!

C xxx

Take one flower hairclip.....

....and rip it apart!!! I am beginning to think I am a little nasty to my scrap bits and pieces sometimes. Anywhoo this is what I did, in fact, do. I had these beautiful photos of my daughter taken when she did an arty photo shoot. And I really wanted a kind of whimsical feel to the page....then I saw this icy blue organza flower hairclip in my hair stash (yes I have all sorts of stashes LOL) and thought....hmmmm...I have this gorgeous piece of Imaginisce paper that I haven't had the heart to use yet (too pretty to cut) and this hairclip is fabulous.... anyway..I based the layout on sketch 39 on Inspired Blueprints January sketch challenges...here is the result.

The flower detail can be a little hard to see so here is a different view:

The dragonfly is an iron on patch that I stuck onto black card then cut around - I did this to give it a little more stiffness to make the wings more 3-D. The flourish is a twiddleybitz border flourish that I inked and embossed with a pyschedelic sparkle powder. The scallop border was cut using a sizzix scallop border die out of coredinations black magic cauldron cardstock (black on the outside blue hidden inside until you distress it). The title is a combination of Adorn It lettering, and quickutz dies - Central Park and Uptown Girl.

Close up of flourish detail:

AND, of course, the omnipresent card made out of the leftovers:

The edge of the card was cut using a Martha Stewart border punch. The flourish is a quickutz flourish border die and the ostrich fibre peeking out from under the imaginisce paper was EXTREMELY fiddley and frustrating to glue in there !!!!

Thank you all so much for the lovin' and congrats on my Angel Design Team spot. *mwah*

Hugs Cx

So Far So Good...

Well, so far so good... I have made the time to scrap a couple of photos that have been laying around my desk for eons - ones of my son Ben at his friend Jack's pirate birthday party. I used  a piece of Rusty Pickle Boots'n'Bones paper from the Captn Jack range, the left over half of a Collage Press 12 inch scallop circle (which was a brown colour but I altered it with Making Memories ruby glaze), a fabric iron-on patch skull, my quickutz revolution pirate ship die, a quickutz 2inch journalling circle die, quickutz waves border cookie cutter die, and a Twiddleybitz arrow from their basic arrows pack. The title - AHOY matey - was cut using my Silhouette electronic cutting machine (gosh I love this gadget!!!!).

and here is a close-up of the bottom detail:

And, true to my resolutions (so far) I also made a card from the leftovers:

AND  a quickie quickie Christmas card for the box:this card was made using a sizzix bigz XL die to cut the A5 card, cuttlebug D'Vine Swirl embossing folder, quickutz REV christmas tree die, and quickutz cookie cutter Christmas word die.

Thanks for looking take care for now. Cx