Inspired Crafts DT share

Hi All! Well I am back from holidays (gosh Broome was FABULOUS!!!) and I have ooooodles of photos to scrap. First though, I would love to share some great news with you – I was recently accepted onto the Inspired Crafts Design Team! YAY!! - along with Jane, Tracey, Amie, Kaye, Anita and Mandy - all fabulous and inpiring scrappers. Inspired Crafts is a local brick n tile scrap store here in WA...click the linky on the pic in my sidebar to visit their facebook page. Here are my creations from my first kit... a layout and some cards.

The Layout: Young Beautiful Free

Young Beautiful Free - this is a pic of my eldest daughter and her friend having a picnic tea on our front lawn on Boxing Day 2008.

Materials used from kit:

• American Craft papers Blue Skies – Good Vibrations, One Fine Day, Walking on Sunshine

• My Little shoe box mini alpha stickers

• Kaiser rhinestones mixed square – orange

• American Crafts Blue Skies Fieldhouse glitter flower

Extra materials:

• White cardstock

• Prima say it with crystals flower colourful

• Doodlebug design cardstock alpha stickers Loopy Lou

Don't you just love these Prima Say it With Crystals flowers?

 

  

And now the cards made with the kit leftovers...

Live Laugh Love trio cards

Materials used from kit:

• American Crafts Papers Blue Skies – Good Vibrations, One Fine Day, Walking on Sunshine

• Bazzill cardstock – bling lip gloss, sandbox, lagoon, London fog

• American Crafts blue skies ribbon – white satin with tree print

Extra Materials:

• Carolees Creations Adorn It Tiny Pink alpha stickers

• White ink

Happy Birthday Banner Card

Materials used from kit:

• American Craft Papers Blue Skies – walking on sunshine, one fine day

• Bazzill cardstock – lagoon

• My little shoe box mini alpha letter stickers – brownie

Extra Materials:

• Doodlebug design cardstock alpha stickers Loopy Lou

• Tea dye distress ink

• String

Adore Flower Card

Materials Used From Kit:

• American Crafts Blue Skies Paper – one fine day

• Bazzill cardstock – London fog

• American Crafts Blue Skies ribbon – Caribbean satin with velvet edges

• American crafts blue skies flair badges – so fun

• Bazzill paper flowers 3in gerbera – creamsicle

Extra Materials:

• Carolees Creations Adorn It Tiny Whoopsy Teal alpha stickers

• Martha Stewart deep edge lace punch

Hope you like my new stuff! Will be back with some piccies of Broome AND our two new beagle puppies :)

Little Mr B is Seven.. and a Card Class Sneak Peek..

Hi all... well things finally slowed down here a little this weekend (whew!). Just have Little Mr B's 7th birthday party to get thru this afternoon and all will calm in the burrow. I will post pics of his cake (hopefully) when it is done - I am making  him a Volcano complete with T-Rex standing guard out of chocolate cupcakes so I can't finish the assembly until we are at the party gym. Fingers crossed for me!
EDIT: here is the cake...LOL!!

Making a wish! My gorgeous boy...and whose fingers are those Max???

I've been asked to teach a card class this month at Scrapbooks From The Heart so I thought I would share a little sneaky peek of the four cards I have made:

These cards have been made from two card sketches I designed for the class. In this class you will learn to use the two sketches to make 4 cards - a masculine and a feminine version of each sketch. If you want more info on the class then contact SFTH and the lovely ladies there are more than happy to give you the details.

Ahhhh what a beautiful day outside.....now back to cake making.... and I must remember to pack the panadol for the massive headache I am about to get once all the kids are there LOL!

Hugs C x

Relaxing...

Ahhh relaxing -NOT!!! Hear that *thump* thump* thump* sound? That's me frantically running through this week with my hair flying about in all directions! Just trying to get some direction going this week has been a challenge. So I made a big long list...so I am now up to the list point: Blog entry for My 2 Angels April DT Tutorial Project...so here it is.. (check).
Firstly, here is the page I did for the Colouring Chipboard Using Inks Tutorial (clicky here if you wish to see the tutorial). It's called Relaxing.

This Layout is one of myself and Wendy drinking some Midori cocktails that my wonderful husband made for us on Boxing Day. It was such a lovely day - warm weather and good company and great cocktails!!

The gorgeous Bo Bunny paper was just too beautiful to cut ink or tear so I left it whole and used it as a main focus. I inked the buzz and bloom chipboard piece and finished it with a touch of Rock Candy distress stickles. I couldn't resist the fabulous new Twinklets Diamond Dust so I applied glue to the bottom half of the title and dusted with twinklets.

What I used:
Papers: Bo Bunny Sophie's Notebook, Autumn Leaves Sweet Whispers
Title and Journalling: AC Thickers - Jewelry Box, Carolee's Creations Adorn It tiny black.
Embellishments: buzz and bloom chipboard - arboretum: up the garden path, doodlebug braddies jubilee butterflies
Materials: Twinklets Diamond Dust, Distress Stickles Clear Rock Candy, Versacolour inks
Tools: machine stitching, Martha Stewart border & corner punches - Loopy.

And here is a cute little card I did for the Colouring Chipboard with Watercolour Paints tutorial (clicky here to see that one...)

What I Used:
Scrapware Geisha Girls chipboard
Watercolour Pencils
Crate Paper Paper Doll Lizzie paper
Black and white Cardstock
My trusting little sewing machine.


Hope you like these tutorials! They were certainly fun doing them!

Stay tuned as I will be back in a couple of days with a sneak peek of my next card class I will be teaching in May....

AND a big HAPPY BIRTHDAY to our gorgeous little Ben.... he turns 7 tomorrow...*sigh* my baby is growing so so fast!!

Ciao Lovelies!

Hugs C x.

Some cards - coz I needed them!

Hey all... just flying thru again at a million miles an hour (I swear things never seem to slow down around here!) with a couple of cards I made. (coz I had to, needed to, wanted to be scrapping instead!) Seriously though, how many birthdays can there possibly be in one month???? March seems to be population boom month around here...anyway,  the buzz  & bloom chipboard and the patterned papers were from My 2 Angels (clicky clicky linky linky)...

The first card I started from the paper and worked my way thru colour schemes to match. The 2-4th cards  had a bit of theme going with the purple and green and cupcakes so I kinda ran with it (very handy considering I was extremely time poor and needed these 3 cards like yesterday, and as they were for 3 people who knew each other I couldn't cheat and copy the one card LOL!!)

Roll on holidays, I need to breathe!

Hugs C xx

P.S...should be back on soon with a LO I've nearly finished.... :-)