My Little Guy...he is our world

Here it is, as promised.. the first of my June DT's for My 2 Angels (goodness...June DT shares already!!!)This is my little guy...he really makes our family complete. He brings an energy and spark that we dearly love.

For this page, I have used the lovely Websters Life's Portrait paper, one side as a backing for the my2angels scroll felt frame - black, and the other side machine stitched to the black backing cardstock.

The tiny grey flowers with bling centres are also cut from this paper (centre of the circles) and glimmer misted with black magic, as were the lovely pristinely white leaves (hehehe). The lovely white canna lilies didn't escape my inking either - just a touch around the edges... I couldn't resist adding some gorgeous charms to the page, and the circle pendant has the word Love that I cut from the paper, stuck in then coated with crackle accents.

The title sits on a frame cut from the top left hand side of the paper (it has the words Life's Portrait originally in it). I have used lashings of rock candy and diamond dust (and a wee touch of kindy glitz) on this page to give the aged and whimsical feel.

Products Used:

Websters Paper - life's portrait

my2angels scroll felt frame - black

black mini gardenias, white canna lilies, white leaves

circle pendant charm, love key charm and house charm

my2angels black rhinestone scroll

Carolees Creations adorn it lettering

blue ric rac

rocky candy, crackle accents, black ink, black magic glimmer mist, silver rhinestones, diamond dust, crystalina kindy glitz

misc - maya road leaf pins

Hope you enjoy this one too...I don't usually use Websters papers but I am very happy with how this LO turned out!

Til later...thanks again all the lovelies who stop by and leave comments :-)

Hugs C x

Sneak Peeks of my June Card Class

Hi all... another month, another class... and some more sneak peeks. Here are the sneaky peeks of my card class for June at Scrapbooks from the Heart. One sketch - four very different cards...how cool is that!

Spaces are limited so if you want to book a spot, click the SFTH link and check out the timetable..

cheers amigos... back in a couple of days with a GORGEOUS layout for my M2A June DT...

Hugs C x

Becky Fleck class - Floating Frame

Now that I have a bit more time on my hands I am catching up on the things I have wanted to blog but hadn't. First catch-up post is this one: the Websters Pages Floating Frame class I did at the Day with Becky Fleck. We had such a productive and creative day that I will not be able to fit all the projects we made into the one blog post, so I decided to break the posts up into 3 posts...1) Floating Frame 2) 3xSingle page layouts and 3) Collections Canvas.

Ta dah...presenting.... the completed floating frame....

I stayed pretty true to Becky's original design - I loved it so much - just a little tweak here and there to suit my eye (as you do) and a bit of inking (as the original frame was beautiful and pristine and clean looking). I just LOVE how this turned out!!! The frame and chippy bits are from twiddleybitz, the papers and gorgeous trims are Websters, and a few little gorgeous and touching extras in there are from Becky's own stash (the calico(muslin) from her hope chest, some of the buttons from her Grandma's jar, and the crocheted flower she made on the plane journey over!!! Bless her gorgeous soul!

Such a great day, and lovely projects (I will post the pages in a couple of days)...hope you enjoy looking at them as much as I did making them (with a little help from Becky of course LOL...)

Hugs C x

A Little Boy A Little Canvas

Hi everyone. Brrrr aren't the mornings chilly now! I have finally finished working full time for Sue (hope Canada was fabo hun) and I am back to my regular stuff (YAY!!) with time to blog (FINALLY!). I have my final DT project for May for M2A I can finally share - it's a little 4 x 4 inch canvas I did of my son. I originally made it for my desk, but I am now considering adding it to a page with a larger photo to go with it...hmmmm.... will post pics if I decide to go that way.

I took this photo of my son climbing up a ladder towards me whilst I stood at the top of a platform...I loved the effect!

I coated the canvas roughly with an olive coloured acrylic paint, ripped up an old book for the background paper, and pulled a piece of gauze to shreds to lay over the top of the paper. I mounted the photo (which I attacked with an edge distresser and brown distress ink) onto a chipboard square that I had painted around the edge with tim holtz picket fence distress crackle paint. I tucked an olive green38mm flower in the corner with a chipboard heart (coated with black magic glimmer mist) behind the photo mat before mounting.

Along the bottom of the canvas I have used a basic grey bling it topiary tree, a scrapware vine (coated with tim holtz crackle paint, then random inked with black and brown distress ink), a scrapware house (very maltreated with distress ink, gold embossing ink and distress inks LOL), some My2Angels Explore Loud Messy ribbon (inked with distress ink) and finally a lovely My2Angels large key charm.

 

Materials used:

My2Angels Explore Loud Messy ribbon

My2Angels Large Key Charm

scrapware chipboard - houses, vine

Basic Grey bling it Topiary

olive green 38mm flower

Tim holtz Crackle Paint, Tim Holtz distress inks, gold ink

misc: 4x4 inch canvas, acrylic paints, gauze, a page from an old book, inks. 

I love working with mini canvases, they are so much fun...and you can throw as much or as little on it as you like.

 

Thanks for stopping by!

C x

Having Fun With Daddy

Wow! It's nearly the end of May already! This year seems to be sliding by rapidly! I have another My 2 Angels DT to share - a layout of my son and husband at AFL Auskick taken last year. They were running around like 5 year olds - both of them - and I took a whole series of shots of them mucking around. This picture represented the day well as they both have a terrific time playing around with the footy. (I can't wait to see how the balance will change when little Mr B is big enough to tackle his daddy to the ground!)

Materials Used:

*My2Angels black zig zag felt frame, *My2Angels footy boots charms

*ribbons: My2Angels extreme cool ribbon, black ric rac, thin teal and black satin ribbons

*papers: Rose Moka - Positif, Charmant

*Title: misc chipboard, Carolee's Creations Adorn It lettering

*product: crackle finish, black magic glimmer mist, black ink, aqua ink.

  
    
 

The footy boot charms were perfect for this layout, and are were a very pleasant surprise when I dug them out of my parcel - they are a terrific size with excellent detail.

The Rose Moka papers that I used were dead set perfect for the photo and the club colours (teal white and black) so this page really made itself.

I have used the fantastic My2Angels Extreme Cool ribbon , ric rac, and some thin teal satin around the edge of the My2Angels frame in what I call a ribbon explosion effect. I carefully cut the ribbon so you could see the words clearly.

Ohhhh it's raining!!! Snuggle up and stay warm everyone - off to watch the last ever episode of 'Lost" (have to admit to being a little lost in the middle of the show and gave up for a while - but I promised my Hubby I would sit through it with him)....the things we do, hey girls....

Hugs C x

May Card Class

Thursday night saw me up to my elbows in embossing powder, ink, crackle and glimmermist, and ripping old books to shreds. Why...? you might ask? I was teaching a card class at SFTH is the answer. I worked the ladies really hard (sorry girls xxx, they did warn you I set a cracking pace LOL) and the results were fantastic!! 4 cards from 2 sketches in 2 1/2 hours... Everyone left with 4 new cards, a big exhausted smile, and I bet they all slept very well that night!! Now that the class is done, I can reveal the cards that I had placed a sneak of earlier.

Off to design my next set of sketches and cards for June....thanks for stopping by and for all the lovely comments- they keep a smile on my face all day long...stay warm and stay well.

Cx

Eeekkkk Book Week AND a class with Becky Fleck!!

Well bloggers, what a week! On Saturday I was fortunate enough to spend a whole complete day scrapping with my bestie gal pal Wendy at Lake Karrinyup Function Centre attending a DAY with Becky Fleck of Page Maps fame. It was incredible. Becky was soooo gorgeous and gracious, such an amazingly great lady in person. I will post pics soon of the wonderful projects we did (got a tweak or two to do LOL)...but one thing that really touched me was how she included in every kit (and there were 80 of us!) some of her own special  personal treasures - buttons from her Grandma's button jar, and muslin from her own Hope Chest - so that we can remember her and cherish our creations. Gosh she was soooo lovely - have I said that yet...?

I also have a DT page or two to share (yep...this is gonna be a loooooong post so grab a coffee....)

Firstly, EEEEKKK Book Week...

Book Week 2008...

and my darling gorgeous little precious baby son, my little sweet 5 yr old, wanted to dress up like a spider. Yep. A spider. And not just any spider - a redback spider. And yes, I had to design him a costume. He was sooo interested in bugs and spiders and anything that crawled (although heaven forbid if one of these creepies had the audacity to crawl near him!!!!)

 

 

For this layout I have used a great Rusty Pickle paper (Eight legged Web), and I hand-stitched cream wool over the top of the web designs to really make them stand out. I stitched these great little spider charms on the webs - and gosh they look so real when you get them out of the packet - ewwww! (LOL!).

Materials Used:

Rusty Pickle Paper - Eight Legged Web (Costume Party Range)

Jenni Bowlin Studio - Chalkboard Alpha Vintage

Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist - black magic

My 2 Angels design ribbon - Explore Messy Loud Rough and Tumble 100% Boy ribbon

Spider Charms

misc cardboard (I used an old pizza box), wool, needle.

AND Girls of a Feather...

 

Our Challenge this month was to use the wonderful ribbons from the My 2 Angels collection, and I was so excited when my bundle arrived. I loved the pink girls ribbon but my girls are not in the pinky pastel frame of mind lately. I really wanted to use this ribbon on this paper so I altered it.

MATERIALS USED

Papers: Rose Moka Graffiti paper

letter stickers: AC Thickers Jewelry Box, Carolee's Creations Word Play tiny black retro

ribbons: My 2 Angels girlfriends ribbon, Websters raspberry ball fringe trim, black ric rac

other products: scenic route chipboard button, Tim Holtz rock candy, Twinklets Diamond Dust, Glimmer Mist - black magic & gold

miscellaneous items: inks, calico fabric

I have a card class I am teaching tomorrow night at Scrapbooks from The Heart so I will also be back on in a few days to share those with you too.....and my Becky Fleck pages....and my photos of the Becky Class too....whew!

Thanks for stopping by and getting this far into this epic post....hugs and hugs again

C xx

My Little Artists

Happy Mothers Day to all you lovelies out there with flesh kids and fur kids (can't forget you Kaye & Clare - Hugs x)... I have had such a lovely mothers day...up at 7am to go to Auskick with young Master B (where I WON the mother's day raffle !!!! Thanks COUGARS!!!) , then home to hugs, cuppas, homemade shortbread and wonderful gifts. Out to lunch with Sam's Mum, sister and family (ahhh Paradiso...yum!) and home to a relaxing, bubbly spa bath with my Jessie Bear. Truly blissful. My best, BEST presents were these gorgeous cards from each of my children. Sam and I went to the footy yesterday (go you EAGLES!!! Wooooo hoooo we won!!) and while we were out, the children made these for me to surprise me (even though they had done the usual Mother's Day cards from school).

This is Little Master B's...he is seven and he drew the pictures then cut them out and glued them down....and he did the dot writing all by himself xxx

This is Miss Jessie Bear's (although she is now 11 and may object to me calling her that!!!). She chose blue as it is my favourite colour, and die cut and put together the sizzix teddy bear. xxx

This one is from Miss Teen Ash, she is 13 and loves to scrap and make cards too. She used one of my favourite fonts - Quickutz Strawberry - and I love her simple style. xxx

All this creativeness and not a skerrit of mess to give it away - love them to bits. Thank you to my wonderful  (ssshhhh just don't tell him that!!) husband Sam, and my beautiful children for such a nice day just when I needed it most.xxx

Hugs to you all too

C xxx

And my butterfly obsession continues....

I am a butterfly addict. There. I admit it. Stamps, dies, diecuts, papers, charms, embellies...I just love butterflies. So you can imagine my absolute delight at getting these GORGEOUS new Prima papers from the Flights of Fancy range. I had recently been out at Point Heathcote with my children for a modelling photo shoot, and I took my own trusty camera along too. I took this shot of the children sitting on the lawn as quickly as I could focus  (before they started giggling, poking tongues, pulling faces or doing 'bunny ears' to each other.) I developed it in sepia tones to keep in with the feel of the Prima papers. Here is my LO I did for My 2 Angels ...called They are My World...

Materials used:

*Prima Flights of Fancy papers: Miss Pretty, Firefly, Faith

*Pink Paislee holly doodle - cubicle - alphabet stickers

*Carolee's Creations Adorn It Tiny Aqua Sandra alphabet stickers

*My 2 Angels Blue velvet ric rac

*Tim Holtz Rock Candy, crystalina kindyglitz, Twinklets Diamond Dust, Tim Holtz distress ink (tea dye)

The butterflies are hand cut from a piece of Miss Pretty, coated in Tim Holtz Rock Candy, with the tips of the wings dipped in Twinklets Diamond Dust, and a little bit of crystalina kindyglitz. I continued the diamond dust/crystalina kindyglitz theme by dribbling the glitter glue along the bottom of my photo, then sprinkling with Twinklets.

The title is Pink Paislee holly doodle stickers (cubicle) that I lightly coated in kindyglitz then finised with dimensional magic.

Thank you to all of you who commented on my son's birthday cake. The 'secret' to the volcano look was to use butter based icing, dribble it down thickly, then when the candles were dotted down the cupcake tower front then lit, the butter icing warmed up and became runny - et voila! Running lava.

Hugs C x

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.

Their smiles...

Hi everyone...well, I'm back, as promised, with a DT LO for My 2 Angels to share. This one is titled 'They capture our hearts with their Smiles'...It a pic of my 2 girls dressed up for a Melbourne Cup themed modelling show. *sigh* Not looking forward to when they are going to places like the Cup for real! I must put a little note in here....green backgrounds on papers are EXTREMELY hard to photograph with any real success... I did a lot of machine stitching on this page (yes, that includes on the die cut flowers - that took ages!!) and used the new gorgeous crate papers throughout.

Materials Used:

Paper - Crate Paper.

Cardstock - Bazzill

Stamps and Ink - Maya Road, Stamp It.

Embellishments - Carolee's Creations Word Play Letter Tiles, Quickutz font (Spicy Chicken), Silhouette die cut flowers and lace, Kaisercraft rhinestones, Prima Say it With Studs butterfly and bee, buttons, embroidery floss, thread.

The weather here has turned wet (finally!!) and we are getting a wee taste of winter (at last)... so it's time to snuggle down with a warm milo and a good scrap magazine and start plotting my next shopping trip....

Hugs Cxxx

Who likes Blog Candy..? I do!

Now I generally don't post all the blog candy giveaways that I come across - just not enough hours in the day sometimes....but this one was toooooo delicious not too...

Bridgette at Scrappin Bridge makes these absolutely gorgeous flowers and well - you guessed it - she's giving some away as blog candy...ooooohhhh mine mine mine mine mine!!! LOL!

here's her link: Scrappin Bridge . Now here's a pic of the candy...

Soooo delish? Yes?

I have a couple of DT layouts to share with you all really really really soon (I promise!!) I just need to be patient a little longer ...I know.. patience really isn't one of my strong points LOL.

Hugs Cxxx

SALE SALE SALE...

Hoppy Easter Everybunnie!!!!

And here is a little Easter something for us all...a sale! Gosh I love sales!! And here is one at My 2 Angels...

Easter is around the corner and to celebrate YOU get the savings

- we are taking 20% off EVERYTHING in store until the 20th April 2010!

Enter APRIL at checkout to receive the discount.

(Not to be used in conjunction with any other offers ie vouchers)

This is the time to be stocking up on all your favourite products, saving 20% on top of the low prices we already offer you!

And in addition to getting more products for your money, you will also receive

FREE with your first purchase

Self Adhesive Black and White Felt Birds

AND

Ranger White Opal Liquid Pearls

with your first order over $65.00 (not including postage) during April

While Stocks Last

oooh free stuff too...gotta love free stuff!!

Cheers all! Off to eat chocolate...lots and lots of chocolate...mmmm.....

Bunniehugs x Cxx

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.... :-)