Scrapping for my niece!

While I was recently in Port Macquarie my sister and niece wanted to scrap! Yah!! My niece had a photo she wanted to do and knew she wanted lots of flowers but no layout in mind and no time.... Hello... I am here with no photos of my own and love flowers!!! 'I would love to do it for you' I said. 'Cool' I think was her response!!

She picked some gorgeous bright orange Prima flowers and I picked out some Prima paper - yummo, along with ribbons and pearls and lots of other gorgeous stuff. I had lots of fun and this is the end result.


Thankfully she was extremely pleased with the end result of my fun!!
Hope you are all having a great weekend.

Little Miss Mae (3) and I went to the beach this morning, it was a perfect start to the day! We then came home to visit with my brother and his kids for the rest of the day. So a perfect start to the weekend... I wonder what we will do tomorrow!!

October Team Swap Card

Well, finally another chance to create something with some new rubber... I have lacked the mojo after holidays, but thanks to our team swap and some inspiration from my good friend Tiffany, I have come up with these...


I love this colour combination of Crumb Cake (formally known as Kraft), Very Vanilla and the new in-colour Blushing Bride. Stamp sets used are Notably Ornate, Curly Cute and a Hostess set called Punch Potpourri. Other things used are 1 1/4" striped ribbon - Pretty in Pink, Basic Pearls, Silver embossing powder, dimensionals, mini glue dots and sticky strip.

Can't wait to see what the other girls have come up with this month.

Have a great weekend xx

SAM Challenge #15

After being on holidays camping in the rain for eight out of nine days.... (the kids still had a great time - luckily!), some scrapbooking was just what I needed! The Stamp-a-Memory Challenge this week is to 'Scraplift' a page found in all the great layouts from their site. (this took quiet a while to find as I was having to much fun looking and remembering all those great layouts!)

This is the layout I chose - its by a guest designer, Janice Klass...


and this is my version of her layout...


These photos were taken at a picnic for my mums birthday. Dad brought along his whip and was trying very patiently to teach us all how to 'Crack that whip'. There was lots of laughs and great memories made that day!

SAM Challenge #14

Well... I haven't participated in a challenge for a while and liked the idea of doing some scrap booking! The wonderful girls at Stamp-a-memory have put out this great sketch challenge, so I thought I would have to have a go!
This is the sketch


And, this is my entry! Thanks to my daughter and her great little soccer team - I had a couple of photos that definately needed scraping.
I have used the gorgeous new Newspaper Print DSP from SU and also the beautiful 1&1/4" stripped grosgrain ribbon in black and vanilla, the little leaves are from the two step bird punch and the Not Quite Navy flower is made using the scalloped circle punch.


This is a close up of the journaling.


Have a great week xx

Extreme Elements!

Hi all! I finally had time to have a play with some new rubber this morning! Gotta love new stuff... when I first saw this set in the new IB&C, I knew it would be great for boy/male cards and pages. Had to have it!
Below is a male birthday card - hope you like it.


Here is an 8x8" layout for my calendar next year! So nice to be able to do more of my son with a really nice set.


The colours I have used are Sahara Sand, Soft Suede and Not Quite Navy. The stamp set is called Extreme Elements on page 52 of the IB&C.

New Idea Book & Catalogue is here!

How exciting!! Its here and ready for you to order from and enjoy all the wonderful new things that are on offer! You can order your new IB&C from me for $10 or click on the image in the right hand column to view it on line!
Enjoy everyone!!

Open Day Cancelation...

Due to both my very talented older children (slightly biased!) getting into the semi-finals with their soccer, I have had to cancel my Open Day until further notice... If they get through next weekend then there could still be another two weekends of soccer finals and grand final to go to. I love watching them play and they would be very disappointed if I wasn't there for these very special games. I hope you can all understand this.
I will post when I have another date for this special introduction day to the new Idea Book & Catalogue will be.