Bam! Ka-pow!!

Hey bloggers :) Gosh I've been a wee little bit slow with the posting this month (sorry *hugs*)... here is a my first catch up post...

It's BOY month over at My 2 Angels and we have been having lots of good boy fun doing boy LO's. Here is my first for September...Bam! Ka-pow! It's my Tough Guy Superhero...my little guy loves to dress up like a super hero...running around the house cape a-flappin', protecting everyone from his 'evil' sisters (much to their disgust!!!!)...

The backing cardstock is the reverse side of a piece of Sassafras Lass Monstrosity Take Note, that I machine stitched around the pattern to add a little bit more detail. I layered this with some SEI Happy Days Balloon (green side) and October Afternoon Cherry Hill Egg Basket papers. The title Mr Tough Guy Superhero is a combination of Sass Lass Apple Jack Glitter Alpha stickers and Like Father Like Son Element Stickers.

I mounted some My 2 Angels Extreme boy ribbon onto some thick chipboard that I painted and inked to add in the necessary superhero words. The Bam! and Ka-pow words are American Crafts Thickers Jewelry Box black alphas. I cut around 2 of my photos to be able to squeeze them onto the page without cluttering it up too much.

Materials Used:

Titles and Journalling - Sassafras Lass Apple Jack Glitter stickers, American Crafts Jewelry Box Thickers

Embellishments and ribbons: Like Father Like Son Element Stickers, My 2 Angels Extreme boy ribbon.

Pattern Papers - Sassafras Lass Monstrosity Take Note, SEI Happy Days Balloon, October Afternoon Cherry Hill Egg Basket.

Hmmmm....I think this LO might come in VERY handy when he starts bringing girlfriends home...hehehehe...

Birthday Blog Hop!!!

Hey Bloggers!! It's blog hop time :)

Do you want win some fantastic prizes from my2angels?
If you said yes (and who wouldn't!)
Today we are excited to present the first ever my2angels Blog Hop for all of it's talented DT’s and Guest DT’s to show off their creation and for you to view their blogs.

 In order to go into the draw to win you need to leave a comment on each of the Angels’s blog, as there will be winners drawn randomly from the blogs … so you won’t know which ones! Then go back to the start at my2angels and let us know you have completed the hop
Become a follower to get a bonus entry (don’t worry if you are already a follower we will add the bonus entry automatically for you)
Our theme is birthday cards
AND here is mine... :)

This is the front. I used the gorgeous SEI Happy Days birthday papers to make this card...the cupcakes are handcut from Make a Wish. The ribbon is a chocolate brown spotty My 2 Angels ribbon.

Now this card has a *little extra in it*

...open it up and....

Ta dah!!! It has a pop up birthday greeting banner!

The bling 'happy' is one half of the My 2 Angels bling happy birthday word, and I have used acetate as a pop up prop so it looks like it floats in air. The banner has been hand cut from SEI Happy Days paper range. The To You is the fabulous October Afternoon Thrift Shop 12 x 12 alphabet stickers.

good luck and thanks for stopping by!
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Or have you lost your blog trail and need to start again..?.... The starter blog for this hop is my2angels
Next stop in the blog hop is ….

Gilly

Birthday Scrap Relay Competition

Hiya Everyone! Hope this finds you well, and I am hoping this lovely spring like winter weather breaks soon (no offence to sunshine and all that but my garden needs a drink!!!)

Today I have a LO to share that I have literally just finished (the kindyglitz is still drying LOL) as part of a birthday scrap relay competition being run at My 2 Angels. Everyone who put in to enter have been split into teams to scrap something on different days, with a different main birthday embellie required. We get our criteria the night before....my day is Tuesday (today) and my criteria was "cupcakes" on the page somewhere.... so I took the whole cupcake criteria and ran with it...Here is Birthday Cupcakes...

I decided to scrap the picture of Jessica's cupcake stack I made for her birthday. The title is one half a My 2 Angels rhinestone happy birthday, with cupcakes in Adorn it little letters. The lacy look around the edge of the great SEI Cake walk papers was done with a Martha Stewart deep edge punch.

I included my easy peasy basic cupcake recipe as journalling, done on a piece of coredinations cardstock that has been embossed with a Timmy folder.  (Tim Holtz Notebook Texture Fades embossing folder - given to me by the lovely Wendy for my birthday *mwah*. Wendy knows I have much love for Timmy stuff) At the top of the recipe, I have used 2 gorgeous My 2 Angels charms - a spoon and handmade hand - just coz they were so cute I couldn't resist. The cupcakes were cut from a piece of SEI Make a Wish paper, tickled with kindyglitz and popped behind the recipe with a folded wee little doily (more blog candy from the lovely Deb).

The rhinestone swirl was done by firstly stamping an Autumn Leaves double scroll stamp onto the cardstock backing with versamark ink. (which is REALLY hard to see on white but you can just glimpse it) Next I dotted along the stamped image with PVA glue (using a toothpick) and placed some loose clear rhinestones along the image. Et Voila! Your very own handmade glittery scroll image. I added more handcut cupcakes and some gorgeous My 2 Angels mulberry flowers (which did not escape the kindyglitz treatment either!!)

Materials Used:

Cardstock: coredinations white and pink

Papers: SEI Cake Walk, SEI Make A Wish

Title: Rhinestone Happy Birthday, Carolees Creations Adorn It lettering.

Embellishments: My 2 Angels silver spoon charm, My 2 Angels Handmade Charm, large pink flower, small pink and white flower, blue flower, clear rhinestones, Autumn Leaves Double Scroll stamp, paper clip, small paper doily.

Product used: versamark ink, crystalina kindyglitz, pva glue, Tim Holtz Notebook Texture Fade Embossing Folder.

Hop along to the My 2 Angels gallery to view all the competition entries as they come on in!!

Hmmmmm now I'm HUNGRY!!! LOL....Be back later...HUGS

My2Angels Birthday Sketch Competition

my2angels Sketch Competition and win $20 voucher
Create a BIRTHDAY layout using BOTH of the following 2 criterias:
majority of products available from my2angels
and
Wendy's Sketch

Here is the linky to find out more: COMPETITION LINK!!!

Here is my take on it...

Ben at 6...

I decided that, being a birthday pic, I wanted to use bright colours - and what is brighter than Sassafras Lass?!! I used Sass Lass Apple Jack Translate and Nerdy Bird Spritely paper for the background and Sass Lass Apple Jack Glitter Alpha stickers for the banner and the word six.

The other background paper was the reverse side of a piece of SEI Happy Days Cake Walk paper.

For the title I used October Afternoon Thrift Shop alphabet stickers and coated them with dimensional magic to make them stand out on the bright paper.

I painted a buzz and bloom chipboard present with acrylic paint, then added a cute little bronze My 2 Angels love charm. It was the perfect size!

The journalling was a free font on my computer, printed onto cardstock and mounted onto chipboard.

 
 
 
 
 
 

Materials Used:

cardstock : coredinations

papers: Sassafras Lass Apple Jack Translate, Sassafras Lass Nerdy Bird Spritely, SEI Happy Days Cake Walk

titles: Sassafras Lass Apple Jack Glitter Stickers, October Afternoon Thrift Shop 12 x 12 Alpha stickers

embellishments: My 2 Angels blue flower, My 2 Angels Antique Bronze Love Charm, Buzz and Bloom chipboard present, red button, die cut heart, old chipboard number, natural coloured crochet thread

products: dimensional magic, acrylic paint.
 

I loved the photo I used on this page - definitely not the most professional looking photo I have ever taken (LOL to that!!) but his little face looking down at his Ben10 birthday cake and declaring it the best ever cake was precious.

Check out the other fun birthday celebrations and competitions (like the team page relay!!) on the My2Angels blog and win win win...

Hugs til later!!!

Scrap the Boys Challenge

Well hi everyone! I finally got myself together with Mr Mojo to complete a Scrap the Boys Challenge on time - the "Devil is in the details" one. Yay for me!! The challenge was to use stamping on the page, and for this page I used the great new Kaiser Bubble Wrap background stamp... presenting Mr Mischief never stays still.

I used bazzill kraft for the background and stamped the kaiser bubble wrap near the edge of where I was going to place the sass lass papers.

I popped some of my handmade polymer birds on top of an A2Z scraplets tree that I won as blog candy from the gorgeous Deb a little while back.

 The chippy brick wall is a Dusty Attic one I picked up from Scrapbooks from The Heart (my local scrap shop). Jenae said she wanted to see what I would do with it...well here it is - watercoloured and misted with heidi swapp black magic glimmer mist, with some pics of my cheeky boy cut out and stuck on it.

Well off to linky to Scrap the Boys website!! Hugs xxx

She is soooo Gorgeous

Howdy everyone! Geez it feels like I haven't blogged in AGES - I guess when you have been unwell and yet still running around after everyone like a headless chicken 'me' things get put to the backburner. Here is a catch-up blog post - my last M2A DT for July - GORGEOUS.

This is a modelling shot taken of my eldest daughter. The camera just loves her and always makes her look soooo way older than she is.

For this layout I have used Kaiser Ebony & Ivory Felicity paper. I highlighted some of the blossoms with indigo coloured ink and purple/blue kindyglitz. The title is cut from Quickutz Central Park font using white cardstock that I stamped over with the flower stamps, then inked in places and kindy glitzed to match the paper.

I used some gorgeous Autumn Leaves clear stamps to create the layered flowers. These stamps (flower sketch and flower swirls) have the petals outlined several times, so it makes layering a breeze by simply cutting along a different set of petal lines each time. I highlighted each flower with the indigo ink and kindyglitz, and finished off with a flower cut from the black butterflies and flowers felt ribbon.

Materials Used:

cardstock & paper: coredinations nightfall black, Kaiser Ebony & Ivory Felicity

Embellishments: ATC's miniature postcards butterflies, leaf charms, Love key charm, organza white flowers, black butterflies and flowers felt ribbon, black pearls and black velvet ric rac

stamps: Autumn Leaves flower sketch, Autumn Leaves flower swirls

product used: black ink, indigo(blue) ink, kindyglitz(purple/blue).

I am hoping to get time this weekend to scrap some photos I have had sitting on my desk for an eternity (or, at least, from our last holiday to Kalbarri ...the kids jumping on trampolines)
Such a lovely sunny day here in WA, so I'm hoping the weather will be good for the football tonight...Go EAGLES!!!

Love You Always...

Love you always... a layout of my gorgeous teen daughter.

When Tracy at My 2 Angels said this month was black and white with a hint of one other colour I panicked. I really did. I tend to scrap like a rainbow has wandered across the page most times so this month was a real challenge for me. Thank goodness she left the door open with the 'hint of colour'...so I took artistic license with the hint of colour and out popped this one...

Love you always...
This is my eldest daughter. She's a curious mix of feminine and attitude, gentle yet determined, quiet yet popular. And of course we love her dearly.

I handcut the title out of Rusty Pickle Popstars Miley paper. The frill border and the hearts were also cut from this paper, then I used the reverse heart side as a black mat (the large dotty heart is from the middle of the paper, and the hole is hidden under the photo and mat). The hand cut page elements were highlighted with red marker pen and dimensional magic. I did some black and white doodling around the edge of the red coredinations cardstock to keep in with the hand drawn theme of the Rusty Pickle paper. I tied lots of little ribbon pieces in the centre of the black flower ribbon slide and finished off the fabric feel on this with gorgeous Buzz and Bloom black corduroy clouds.

Materials Used:

cardstock & papers: coredinations cardstock (white, red), Rusty Pickle Popstar Miley paper.

embellishments & ribbons: black flower ribbon slide, black ric rac, red ric rac, floral jacard ribbon red & white, red satin ribbon with white swirls, buzz and bloom black cord clouds

products used: dimensional magic, black and white gel pens, red marker pen, fiskars apron lace border punch.

Nothing like a wee splash of red to add a dash of warmth to winter, eh?

Speaking of adding a little warmth to winter..oooh ahhh Mark LeCras kicking 12 goals for the West Coast Eagles this weekend...yeah baby!!!

Card Class last night..and this is what we made :)

Hi everyone! Hope this finds you all healthy and happy! Last night was my July card class at SFTH and this is what was on offer...

The little fish, bird, flowers and heart button are all my handmade polymer clay creations. You like? Well my cardies certainly did :)
Catcha later soon with a *new* layout - yay!

Ohhh he is such a cheeky boy!!

Howdy everyone...well the dry and freezy cold weather has well and truly broken here - rain...hail...winds...storms.. man we are getting all extremes here in WA this winter! And, of course, it's school holidays so the kids are looking through the windows at the weather and muttering "we're bored..." Oh the joy...LOL... so it's movies movies and more movies!!

I managed to catch up with the wonderful Wendy for a day long scrap (Yay!). Much coffee was drunk, much scrapping was done, and I managed to finish off my DT projects for M2A for July. (Yay!)... Here is number 2 project that I had prepared earlier... Such a Cheeky Boy...

Here is my gorgeous, 'lovely' LOL little son poking his tongue out at his sisters while I am trying to set a decent shot at Point Heathcote. Mind you, they were teasing him at the time, and probably deserved the tongue poking! I did get some really great shots of him with the last of the sun's rays providing light and shade...but I really loved this cheeky little snap so I scrapped this one.

The T-shirt in the photo is such a vibrant green so I used Cosmo Cricket Hello Sunshine: Clover to follow the colour through. I cut elements out of Rusty Pickle Popstar papers (Zac, Dylan) to give the page a boyish and playful feel. A quick word about these Rusty Pickle papers.. they can look a little overwhelming as a whole piece but the Zac paper is perfect for handcut edgings, and has some very useful words for titles on the back.

The Star element and arrow were cut out, stuck onto some thick card and cut out again to give them the extra stiffness to be stuck down with foam tape. I coloured the centre of the star with one of my childrens marker pens (or you could use gel pens or proper scrapping markers), and I did the same with the circle and 2 x star element.

Materials used:

Card and Papers: coredinations snowflake cardstock, Cosmo Cricket Hello Sunshine: Clover, Rusty Pickle Popstars: Dylan, Zac.

Embellishments: Metal textured stars - black.

Title: die cut title, Carolees Creations tiny stickers - tiny black, tiny worn retro. 

Cheeky but cute, eh?
Take care and thanks for stopping by xx

July Card Class sneak peek..

I spy, with my little eye, some sneak peeks for July....

There are only a few spots left and numbers for this class are strictly limited this month as these cards feature my own handmade polymer clay embellishments. See the girls at Scrapbooks from the Heart to reserve your spot (this includes my regular Cardies sorry girls xx)

And just a little bit of a toot... one of my cards is being published in an upcoming edition of Australian Cardmaking, Stamping and Papercraft Magazine ..Yay!! :)

Hugs C x

School Holidays Kids Class - a little peek...

I have been asked to run a school holidays kids card class at Scrapbooks from The Heart on 9th July, so I though I would post a wee little peek at what I have prepared...

The kids get to make a card, matching gift bag and decorated envelope to match, using sizzix paper dolls...

Cheers and back soon with the bigger pics

C x

A LO using Fabric?

Hey ho everyone. I have been a busy girl, working away on some classes and some DT layouts, but still found time to sneak a LO in just for me. I have had a bee in my bonnet about doing a LO using fabric ever since I picked up a beautiful fabric flower embellie from my local scrap store Scrapbooks From The Heart. Ta dah! Here is what I created!

These are the out-takes of the photos I tried to get my naughty girls to pose for on Mother's Day this year...trying for a wistful feel and all they gave me was giggles.

The little dragonfly is one of  my polymer clay creations...You like?

The key charm and circle pendant charm are both from Tracy's My 2 Angels web based store...( linky linky).

The background is green satin and coffee coloured organza, with a little rope of tiny weeny faux pearl wrapped around it. The fuzzy stuff is the leftover threads from the green satin where I have frayed the edges.

The flower that sparked the idea of the page, from Scrapbooks from the Heart.. (clicky here)...isn't it sooo yummy? 

Hope you all liked this LO as much as I do...and I have some sneaky peeks at my card and kids classes for this month coming up soooooon. x

Some of the many cards on my to-do list...

Hi everyone. Thanks for stopping by :-)

Today I have 3 cards to share that I made from some of the scrummies in the My 2 Angels DT pack for June. I tried to keep them along a similar theme so they would stand together as a group - using bright jewel coloured cardstocks, the same background paper and at least one element consistent throughout (in this case, the black acrylic diamonte flower chain)...here are the results...

I followed Taryn's tutorial Paper Bag Flowers to make the rose centre, and Wendy's tutorial Felt Flower to make the tulle flower at the very back. (Have a look in HERE to see how). The white crochet flower is one I made ages ago.

materials used:
green coredinations cardstock, Websters Papers - Life's Portrait Love Yourself (sprayed with black magic glimmer mist) and Life's Portrait Reflections, black flowers acrylic chain, ink.

I drew the shoe shape onto thick chip card then covered it with the lovely websters paper. The background dot effect is a cuttlebug dots embossing folder.

materials used:

Websters Paper - Life's Portrait Reflections, black flowers acrylic chain, loose clear rhinestones, square silver rhinestone ribbon slide, piece of black silk material, cuttlebug dots embossing folder, red coredinations cardstock, black ink.

 

I cut a frame out of the Websters Paper Life's Portrait Reflections, then used the other dotty side for the card. The butterfly is cut out of one of the ATC cards available in store, and it's wings have been edged with diamond dust. The scroll is half a black rhinestone flourish.

materials used:

blue coredinations cardstock, Websters Papers Life's Portrait Reflections, black flowers acrylic chain, black rhinestone flourish, black ric rac, diamond dust, ATCs miniature postcards butterflies. loose clear rhinestones, black ink for edges.

Hope your week is as happy and productive as mine needs to be LOL.

Hugs C x

A little rainbow...

Hi Bloggers... <3

Brrrr hasn't it been chilly!!!  Winter is well and truly here in good ol' Wait Awhile. Amid the frenetic pace of end of school term things and mid-year wind ups of stuff, I made this fun little canvas piece for my study out of my My 2 Angels DT pack.

This Love Blooms canvas was made using 5 different coloured glimmer mists, a plain white 4 x 6 inch canvas, some naked chipboard embellishments, some My 2 Angels Petite Silver Frame Charms, and some Adorn It tiny black letter tiles.

I sprayed the plain canvas with 4 different glimmer mists - denim blue, honeydew, pink taffy and yellow daisy. While that was drying, I misted a scrapware vine with black magic glimmer mist (on the naked chip it went a gorgeous dark grunge gold colour), a scrapware bird on a branch, and a scrapware snail from the bugs set with black magic and denim blue mists. The Buzz and Bloom flowers were from the arboretum set, and they were also misted.

 

 

 

Products used:

Glimmer Mist: Denim Blue, Honeydew, Pink Taffy, Yellow Daisy, Black Magic

Chipboard: Scrapware Vines, Scrapware Chipboard Bugs, Scrapware Bird on a Branch, Buzz and Bloom Arboretum Up the Garden Path

My 2 Angels Petite Silver Frames

Adorn It Tiny Black Lettering.

  

I have oooodles of cards to make, so I must dash - and keep and eye out for my cards popping up around here soon... :-)

 

Take care and stay warm lovelies x

C xx

June Card Class

Hey all... I thought I would pop on and share with you the cards my ladies made at my June Card class this month at Scrapbooks From The Heart. Again, the girls did an awesome job, finishing all four cards.

A special little shout out of thanks to my teen daughter Miss A for coming along to be my assistant. She made cuppas, washed brushes, tidied tables and cleaned stamps for me. Thanks hun. xx

Keep and eye out for my July class sneaks coming soon....

Hugs C x