First March DT

This is my first DT for March for My 2 Angels (click the linky to see what the DT have started off with this month)  I found these photos of our cat Lily when she was a little kitten and thought they were too cute not to scrap...

This very naughty little kitty had a bad habit of stealing prima flowers off my desk and eating them, and one night I caught her in the act!!! For this layout I used the fabulous Kaiser Waterberry Delicious paper and the Kaiser Waterberry Enticing paper to create the layered flowers. I took a strip from the Enticing paper and curled it ion a corkscrew and placed next to the largest flower. I stamped the little butterfly onto white cardstock using versamark watermark and embossed it with clear powder. I coloured it using watercolour pencils and a waterbrush to get the resist effect. The antennae are beading wire with seed beads. The main photo is mounted onto chipboard then I have painted around the edge and onto the edge of the photo with picket fence crackle paint.

Ahhh she was so little then! She still steals the odd flower... and piece of ribbon... and seems to be really fond of my bucket of buttons!

Materials Used:

White cardstock,

Kaiser Waterberry Papers - Delicious; and Enticing,

Tim Holtz crackle paint - picket fence,

Tim Holtz Crackle accents,

kindyglitz,

Carolees Creations Word Play - Tiny Retro,

AC Thickers - Jewelry Box

Versa Color Ink Cubes - Rose Red & Sage,

Versamark stamp pad - watermark,

sparkle embossing powder

Kaiser Clear Stamps - Flourish Journals,

Stampendous Perfectly Clear Stamps - flutterfly friends,

flower stamp,

silver beading wire,

green and red seed beads

a piece of scrap tulle.

 

 
Thank you for having a mosey on thru and for all the lovely feedback I have been receiving...it's great to know you are out there :-)
 
Later C x

Happy Birthday Jessica!

Whew! Hot hot hot it is here. It's my middle child's birthday this week and I have been busily prepping for her party (so glad she chose a pool party, it is scorching over here at the mo). So, instead of scrapping I've been making her card, her lolly bags and a table decoration.
Jessica's Birthday Card:

I used a lovely imaginisce paper, a large Heidi Grace chipboard heart (painted and distressed then coated with rock candy), Prima flowers and Prima lace. Happy Birthday sweetie pie.

For the lolly bags, I cut boxes using the silhouette (great gadget that is!!!) and used a quickutz 4x4 pop up flower die (the lollipop flower idea was posted on the quickutz blog recently), and the centres are chupa chup lollipops. For the food table, I made a chupa chup tree so the girls can pick their own lollipops... 

I always wanted my own lollipop tree as a kid LOL!

Now for an award.....

The gorgeous Jane over at Scossie Jane has honoured me with this award, and I am delighted to receive it.....

The Rules.....

* Put the logo on your blog or within your post
* Pass the award onto 6 bloggers who are followers of your blog
* Link the nominees within your post
* Let the nominees know they have received this award by commenting on their blog\
* Share the love and link to the person from whom you received this award

Thus I pass it on to.....

The Wonderful Wendy at My Creative Outlet
The Lovely Marelize at My Creative Footprints
The Creative Chantal at Girls Just Wanna Scrapbook
The Terrific Tracy at My 2 Angels
The also Terrific Taryn at Scrappy Days
And the also also Terrific Tracey at My Scrap Dreams
Pop on over and check out these lovely and creative ladies!!

Can't wait for the weekend! The party will be over and done with, it's a long weekend and I can scrap some more YAY!!!

Hugs  C x

A Leap Of Faith

Hi all...Just wanted to share this LO with you. It is my son (aged 5) leaping off the end of the Kalbarri Jetty. It was one of those photos...you either capture it or not - no do overs with this sort of moment. I was so happy that I happened to have the camera on a fast shutter speed and snapped at the right moment to capture this little step towards manhood - overcoming his fear to jump.

The papers are Basic Grey from an older range - Recess. The bird and branch are both Scrapware that I purchased from My2Angels. The title is a mix of stickers from the same Basic Grey range, and the word 'faith' is die cut from my new Quickutz Heidi Swapp Handwriting Exclusive font. I love the mix of vibrant colours in this!

Thanks for looking x

C x

Happy V-Day Bloggers!

Happy V-Day everyone...just a little post to spread the love and share my Valentine Day Design Team LO's for My2Angels...

Firstly, one of Me and my DH...

Papers used: Rose Moka Equinoxe Baroque, Carolee's Creations Adorn It XOXO paper, Making Memories Mistletoe Pattern Stripe. Ribbons used: red velvet ric rac, black velvet with silicon swirls, black cotton lace, thin red satin ribbon. Title: Buzz and Bloom Chipboard - Be Mine, Love silver rhinestone bling words. Embellishments: Red scroll felt hearts, SBL cuts chipboard - Black Long Stemmed Bud, Stemmed Star Flowers - red, small metal heart charm.

I distressed and inked the XOXO paper and tucked some black lace in there for a more romantic feel to the page. The Be Mine title was inked with red ink, coated with red kindyglitz, then finished off with a coating of dimensional magic. I adhered it at the bottom with PVA and foam 3-D tape at the top to really make it stand out on the page. I left the black chipboard Long Stemmed Bud untouched, and layered some gorgeous stemmed star flowers along it. The Love silver rhinestone bling word will stick to just about anything - I stuck it over the top of velvet ribbon on this page.

Now this LO is one of my gorgeous little son when he was four, at a kindy concert...

Papers used: black cardstock, Crate Paper Cottage Collection Path, Carolee's Creations Adorn It XOXO paper, Making Memories Mistletoe Pattern Stripe. Ribbons used: wide black ric rac. Title: Buzz and Bloom Chipboard - Be Mine. Embellishments: chipboard butterflies, prima say it with crystals photo corners, mulberry paper flower, heart from Buzz and Bloom Chipboard - Be Mine pack.

The title is from the Buzz and Bloom Be Mine pack - I inked the pieces then coated them with Tim Holtz crackle accents. The rhinestone photo corners are ready made, but you can make your own using a flourish stamp and versamark or hand drawing your own design, making the dots lightly with pencil, then adhere rhinestones. The butterflies are chipboard that have been inked with red ink, embossed with the cuttlebug script embossing folder, then inked again with black ink. The grey mulberry flower was stamped with a flourish stamp and black ink.

I hope you all had a lovely V-day, whatever you did. Off to have V-Day chinese for tea - and Gung hee fatt choi to all my chinese friends for the year of the Tiger. :-)

Don't you just love birthday parties..?

I do. I love the whole kit and caboodle - from making the invitations to decorating and putting together loot bags. My lovely daughter's birthday is coming up soon (too soon! they seem to be growing up waaaay too fast!) and I popped on to share the party invites I have been making for her.

I used my Silhouette to cut the cupcakes, heart border and you're invited out. The dotty background is a cuttlebug embossing folder.

Nothing says "birthday" quite like cupcakes!!!

Bye for now...I still have 6 more of these little invite cards to make...I will blog again later this weekend (promise!), hopefully with my V-day DT layouts to share. x

Hugs C x

Week 1 of School is Done..and a couple of DT Layouts to Celebrate

Well Week 1 is done - all settled -all happy (and so are we with the wonderful teachers we have) so all is right in my little world. Tracy at My2Angels has posted our Back To School projects so I can finally start revealing some of my DT layouts YAY! Here are my first two Back To School.. (soz everyone...you will have to wait for my lovey V-day ones a *little* longer...)

I got the idea for this after getting all the back to school items out to label and my children walked through and said 'Look at all this stuff!' and started looking at it. So what did I do? Grabbed my camera and my stepstool and took photos of course! For this page I used Pink Paislee Cupid Bullseye paper. I distressed it and lightly inked the edges. I used a piece of Cosmo Cricket Hello Sunshine Hop Scotch paper for the edging and covered the join with thick black ric rac .The house, tree and fence are die cuts using Quickutz dies and cut from thin chipboard. If you like these then Tracy has some Buzz and Bloom you can use to do this: the chipboard set it a border but hey, why not chop it up and you are left with loads of wonderful and useful chip shapes!!! I painted mine with acrylic paints then finished them off with inking and Tim Holtz crackle accents (coming in store soon - very soon!!!). I added the ABC book charm for whimsy. The title is AC Thickers Jewelry Box, and the journalling is Carolee's Creations Adorn It Tiny Black Letters. I ripped a page out of a note book, ripped it, glimmermisted it and stuck the letters on. And here's the close ups...

 

My next page was simply 2010 because it was the usual first day of school pic that we all seem to snap.

I used Cosmo Cricket papers for this one - Hello Sunshine Hop Scotch, and Get Happy Pop. I used rainbow grosgrain to hide the join. The title is from die cut numbers and Carolee's Creations Word Play stickers - tiny worn retro. The little book was really simple - a rectangle of coloured paper, 2 smaller rectangles of white paper, fold them in half and staple along the fold et voila! A book. I have a bit of a bling obsession going at the moment so I took some red rhinestones and green rhinestones, traced a circle shape, dotted where I wanted them to go then glued them on in a rainbow look. The butterfly is a chipboard butterfly that has been coated with Tim Holtz crackle paint (antique linen). These paints are so awesome and easy! The messier you paint the better the crackle, so goop it on girls! I added a lovely red scroll felt heart that I had left over from my V-day layouts and it was the perfect place to hang the ABC book charm. The large bright flowers are easy peasy handmade flowers...look HERE for the link to the Pink Paislee blog tutorial that the lovely Tracy posted. I added a bit of kindyglitz for a bit of zing.

Again...the closeups:

yibbida yibbida, that's all folks! (for now)

TFL x

C

Whew!! Back at school and we survived - AND my first DT Creations

!!! Ok...so my little bunnikins are back at school (yay! BUT geez I miss having them around...as for how QUIET the house is....kind of spooky...) and I finally have the time to blog - sort of!!! (back at school means I am back at school too LOL)...

So here it is...I would like to share some cards I made as part of the DT for My2Angels...V-day cards... nothing says I Love You quite like a card you have slaved over...

I used some chipboard butterflies (you can find some gorgeous ones HERE in Tracy's store My2Angels) which I inked with red chalk ink. I embossed them using a Cuttlebug Script folder, then I inked lightly with black chalk ink to highlight the embossing. The heart cutout was first painted with red acrylic paint, then daubed over with white acrylic and finished with a Tim Holtz rock candy crackle finish...(where can I get this, you say...? Hmmmm a little birdy told me my favourite online scrap store may have this coming in soon...stay tuned...starts with MY and ends with ANGELS and has a 2 in it somewhere...)

The word LOVE and the heart are Buzz and Bloom chipboard shapes from the Be Mine set. The papers are from Making Memories Mistletoe Pattern (Yes, I used a CHRISTMAS PAPER - but, it WORKED!!) that I cut using a Martha Stewart border punch. The ribbon is a gorgeous black velvet with silicon swirls that was just divine to use.

I used a LOVE shape from the Buzz and Bloom - Be Mine chipboard set from My2Angels and inked it then coated it with dimensional magic. I distressed some gorgeous papers from Carolee's Creations Adorn It XOXO and Making Memories Mistletoe Pattern Stripe paper (seriously good papers and you don't have to do Christmas with it!!!) I love these papers with a choice of pattern - they are so versatile with todays style of scrapping. I finished it off with a heart from the Buzz and Bloom - Be Mine set that I inked with red ink then coated with dimensional magic, and added some gorgeous velvet ribbon from My2Angels Ribbons and Lace section.

I had so much fun with these cards and there is SO MUCH MORE from my kit that is still to come so stay tuned....

Bunniehugs C x

I won something!!

Woo hoo! I entered my AHOY page and card into a Quickutz competition on their blog Quickutz Blog and my entry won!!! If you follow the QK blog link you will have to scroll down past the design teams valentine post (and boy, it's pretty long LOL) but there it is!! My page! I won $100 US worth of Quickutz dies. Can't wait to get scrapping with those when they arrive!!!

Later Cx
(ps.. to see my AHOY page and card either scroll down my blog or take a look at the slideshow of my recent layouts over to the right..>>>>>  )

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

circle challenge

Hi guys...just wanted to share my LO I did for the January circle challenge on Aussie Girls Gone Scrappin' (follow the linky to see the projects coming online)... I am not the best with circles (they are so, well, ROUND!) but I snuck them in there....

I used a RW Laser cuts star frame (inked it, kindyglitzed it, crackle finished it) and the rear of some older papers from my stash, the metal letter tiles are from making memories, and the large flowers are prima.

Here's a close up!

I incorporated the circles as the frame and in the letter tiles... you had to have stars (hence why I used the frame) and your own handwriting (below the letter tiles).

Thanks for looking!!

C x

Ooohhh GOODIES!!!!

Oh I am soooo excited! My Angel Design Team goodies have arrived! The lovely Tracy at MY2ANGELS  has sent me the most wonderful box of things to play with!  I spy (with my little eye LOL) some Thickers and ribbons and cosmo cricket and pink paisley and some buzz and bloom chipboard....and loads of other really fabulous gear from her store (click the linky above guys to check it out!)...I couldn't resist - here is a sneaky peeky at some of the goodies I will be using this month...

I am rubbing my hands together with glee as we speak...;-) Keep an eye out on both here and Tracy's blog my2angels blog for the pics of what comes out of this pile!!! Off to start planning and playing!!

Later Cx

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

Ok...so I scrapped LOL....

I couldn't even wait! Had to scrap today! I discovered that acrylic paints and glimmermist dry EXTREMELY fast in 43 degree heat. REALLY fast.

So here it is....

I used coredinations vintage collection cardstock as the backing. This stuff is great as it comes looking all sanded like this. I distressed the edges a bit to give a bit more character. The gorgeous heart paper is from the Imaginisce Perfectly Post collection - fancy hearts doublesided paper. I added a twiddleybitz border bits flourish (which I painted, sanded and glimmermisted to death), a lock charm and key charm, some ric rac and ribbon. The title is an ancient piece of my stash - a metallic word from Making Memories that I attacked with paint and glimmermist. The gorgeous butterfly is die cut from quickutz REV 0166 Butterfly die. I love this die.

Close up of the poor abused twiddeybitz chipboard flourish:

And....as per the new year ressie....I did a card. I had originally cut the butterfly with a blue glittercard background, but it didn't quite work. I recycled this to make a quick card using Cristina Re paper, Adorn It letters and I embossed half the backing card with a cuttlebug embossing folder.

Off to cook burgers for dinner (ahhhh those children NEVER seem to stop EATING! LOL)

Thanks for stopping by

Hugs...Cx

*drumroll*....It's official...

I am soooooo excited to announce that I have been chosen by the lovely Tracy (click on her name for the linky linky to her blog) to be one of Design Team Angels over at My2Angels. I am so excited to be working along side of three very talented and artistic ladies:

Tracey Hunter

Taryn Stark

Wendy Turner

Congrats girls!!!! I can't wait for our first projects to come out!!! This is going to be fantastic!!!

Now I won't be able to sleep tonight - so excited - must scrap instead!!!

Hugs Cx

Pondering the Creative Process

I was sitting here at my desk, gathering stuff together for my next page, and I was picturing myself as broody chicken sitting on her nest when I am about to create something (paint fumes will do that to you!!). I gather bits together to 'feather my nest'... I get out some photos to look at and consider (sitting on my eggs), I sit a while (brooding), I surf the net awhile (brooding some more), I check my emails (ok, I know, now I'm procrastinating!) then I reach for the papers and start putting elements together (eggs start hatching)... off to hatch an egg or two now...LOL

Later 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

Happy New Year - and my scrapbook resolutions!

Whew! FINALLY I get back on here. What a hectic end to 2009 with working working and more working...Christmas Lunches and Boxing Day gatherings! But here I am... complete with a new year, a new page and a *couple* of wee scrapbooking resolutions (yeah yeah, I know, NO-ONE keeps their resolutions) that I am going to *try* very hard not to break.

1. When I make a scrap page, make a card out of the leftovers. When we put together a page of papers and bits and bobs, we LOVE it - right? Why not make a card of the leftovers because all the colour thought has already been done!

And here's my first for the year: this is my daughters holding their little brother when we came home from hospital.

I used my quickutz silhouette electronic cutter to cut the true type font title. The papers are DCWV from the Green Stack set. I used Adorn It lettering , Prima flowers (of course!), a quickutz revolution die to cut the journalling block, and I die cut the bird using the BossKut Paisley Bird die, undercoated it in Making Memories paint then coated it in a white MM paint, then used Ranger Inkssentials Crackle Accents. I hand stitched the stitching and cheated by using a piercing bug to pre-pierce the holes so the stitches were even.


And here's a close up of the corner detail:

And - TA DAH! here is the card:

    

I used the left over papers to make the card, and I also made (and decorated) a matching envelope. I used the Quickutz Silhouette (now distributed by Silhouette America,INC. ) to cut the envelope out of a nice co-ordinating paper.

    2. TRY and make a couple of Christmas cards every month -  we all have days when the MOJO goes-o, ah.... the black hole of creativity strikes us all at some point...so why not throw together a Christmas card or two out of those little pieces of Christmas stuff you stuck into your stash ..?

Here is the evidence!!!! LOL.

I used leftover papers from the above two projects and a stray Anita's 3-D sticker (GASP! Yes! I used a sticker!!! LOL) and a piece of a Christmas rub on for the wording. I popped some bling randomly on spots to give it a little lift, et voila! Christmas card No 1 is done.

    3. Last, but not least, resolution is simple (and probably the HARDEST) - try to make more scraptime!!!

Hugs until later C x