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.... :-)

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

100% Aussie Girls

Hey all...Hope your week has been going well - if not then I hope it ends quickly and painlessly for you. I just got my new DT package from Tracy at My 2 Angels, and it came packed with goodies (YAY!). I can't share the DT stuff just yet but there were a couple of extra goodies in there, just for me to play with. Tracy has these uber cute little embossed blue felt stars, and they went perfectly on this LO of my DD's in their aussie bikinis.... (along with some sass lass glitter alphas)

The materials used are:

Papers: bazzill cardstock, scenic route paper,quickutz star diecut.

Title: sassafras lass apple & nerdy bird glitter alphas; Kaisercraft mini alpha stickers

Embellishments: doodlebug designs boutique brads, Kaisercraft mini clear stamps - birdies, die cut bird, My 2 Angels embossed felt stars, generic blue heart charm.
Products used: tim holtz distress paint, tim holtz crackle accents, dimensional magic, glimmermist, Fiskars apron lace border punch, cuttlebug star diecut.

These Kaisercraft mini stamps are just so so cute!

I think the cooler weather has energized my mojo into action - have bits laid out on my desk ready to go for the next LO already LOL!!

Hugs and thanks for looking...C x

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

Now you are 11 - Things to do before you are 12

Hi all. Well, my middle child turned 11 recently and I have to ask - where HAS the time gone? I still see her as this little ball of energy that used to run around dressed like her favourite princess of the day!! Like all good middle children, she has her moments (or, as we prefer to call it, middle child syndrome) Our son is the youngest, and is still little and cute and the only boy, Ashlee is our eldest, a teenager, quiet, gentle and mature for her age, and is growing into a stunning young lady, and Jess slots into the middle - she's very intelligent and has a big heart and sometimes torn between being big and being small.

When Tracy over at My 2 Angels gave us free reign on the design team this month, I thought I would make good use of that and make something that was a celebration of Miss J and the things tweens can do (and still get away with doing).

It is chock full of all things bright and beautiful, just like her. I have used lashings of crackle paint and rock candy, inks, ribbons and flowers, chipboard and I have made my own word tiles using Making Memories Abby Words paper, chipboard, ink and rock candy. The butterflies are a free butterfly computer font printed onto cream cardstock, watercoloured then coated with rock candy, and the little chipboard croc head was hand cut, inked and coated with rock candy.

 
 

INGREDIENTS LIST

PAPERS: Making Memories - Cheeky Range Abby Numbers, Abby Words, Emery Red; 7Gypsies - Capri Sorento; We R Memory Keepers - Hoopla Bliss

CHIPBOARD: scrapware keys, scrapware 2 branches, scrapware bird on a branch, Buzz and Bloom Party Time Chipboard

CHARMS: Dragonfly, large silver key, turtle charm.

FLOWERS: olive green mulberry flowers, burgundy hydrangeas, white with pink tips mulberry flowers, stemmed star flowers blue & white

ALPHABETS: Carolee's Creations Tiny Word Play - various colours

DIES USED: cuttlebug 2x2's 4 set Asterisks, 3 x 3 Dandelion

RIBBONS: blue velvet ric rac, red velvet ric rac, pink ric rac, cream lace, various coloured satin ribbons

PRODUCTS USED: versa inks, dimensional magic, tim holtz crackle accents, rock candy, kindy glitz, acrylic paints.
OTHER EMBELLISHMENTS: clear rhinestones

OTHER: basic grey chocolate chip album.

Thanks for making it to the end of this rather long post, and don't forget to check out the DT work on the M2A blog (Linky Linky)  xxx
Later & TFL C xx

Growing Up

Gosh! Monday already!!! I demand to know who stole my weekend!

I just popped on to share with you this LO I did of my daughter's primary school graduation lunch. She was standing on the grass, under the trees, waiting patiently while all of us hover mums took a gazillion photos. This one turned out so lovely.

Papers : Crate paper - paper doll lizzie, Making Memories - cheeky emery red Flowers:  prima - cherry blossom branches, flutter vines scarletTitle and Journalling: Quickutz Heidi Swapp Handwriting, Adorn It Tiny Black letter tiles, Quickutz 2x2 circle journal die. Decorative Edging: Martha Stewart punch - iron gate.

I hope this week finds you all well, and I hope dry if you live in Melbourne!!!!

Gotta go - kids need to be taxi-ed here, there, and everywhere...

TFL Cxx

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