Stuff2Scrap

Just finished off a page I had started last weekend. I got this fantastic chipboard frame from Stuff2Scrap because I thought it would be great to use with multiple photos. It was a bit fiddly getting the pics, papers & other bits to fit into the frames but I was pleased with how it came up. I used crackle paint on the frame & tissue paper in the background, which I stamped & misted myself.

TFL xx

Boxx of Scraps & Bird is the Word challenge

The challenge over at Bird is the Word http://birdisthewordchallenge.blogspot.com.au/ this month is the word "Future". I took a few pics on our recent hike & thought they would suit this challenge. Also as the Featured Member on The Scrapboxx this month I was asked by the lovely Jane to create a page using April's Boxx of Scraps. Here is what I came up with.

The monthly Boxx of Scraps is full of lots of lovely products, as you can see, which you can subscribe to. Pop on over to http://www.scrapboxx.com/catalog & check out some of their great kits. The owl button is from Purple Pumpkin, otherwise nearly all other products used on this page are from the Boxx of Scraps.
Thanks for dropping by.

Field Flowers

Well it's Friday again, if you can believe it. Really don't know what happened to this week.  However, I did make this card for my S-I-L who has just had an operation. I love the Stampin' Up! Seam Binding. This one is Baja Breeze. I've also used Not Quite Navy C/s & ink, Baja Breeze c/s & ink, Kraft ink & the very pretty Field Flowers stamp set as well as my all-time favourite background stamp - En Francais. I stamped the flowers twice & made them "pop" with dimensionals.

I hope you like it. Let me know what you think :)  Until next time...

Fresh Vintage & Everyday Enchantment

Hello again! My parents asked me to make a card for them to give someone as a "thank you".  I've been wanting to use the new Fresh Vintage stamp set from the recent Sale-a-bration promotion from Stampin' Up! along with the beautiful Everyday Enchantment pp. This is what I came up with. They didn't want any sentiment placed on it as they wanted to write their own message inside. I've used Lucky Limeade c/stock, Poppy Parade c/stock, Whisper white c/stock, Old Olive, Poppy Parade & Marina Mist Inks & Lucky Limeade ribbon. I stamped a couple of extra flowers, fussy cut them & "popped" them with foam dimensionals.

Thanks for looking :)

Purple Pumpkin April Sketch Challenge

Hope you are all enjoying your Easter weekend. My family & I enjoyed a lovely hike & picnic yesterday in a nearby state forest, so I'm sure you will see some pages about this later on.  In the meantime, this is my entry in the April Sketch Challenge over at Purple Pumpkin http://purplepumpkincrafts.blogspot.com.au/ I started it on Friday night during a Build-a-Page challenge that we had on the Scrap & Chat at The Scrapboxx. I had a nice time chatting to The Boxx girls while commencing this page - lots of laughs & not much scrapping :) I've used a lovely little button (heart) from Purple Pumpkin plus one of my fave colours at the moment - coral. The pps are from Stampin' Up! and I made the fan flowers myself. Leaves are from Craft Queen, lace from Tattered Inspirations & the little floral button is a gift from the lovely Janice Nicholls - thanks Janice. Here is the sketch:

Closies:

Thanks for looking xx

Show Us Your Stuff!

Happy Easter everyone! I hope you've all got some great "outdoorsy" plans for this fantastic weekend. During the week I raided my stash so that I could jump straight into a project today without spending too much time indoors. My project is for the April 1st challenge over at Show Us Your Stuff! http://showusyourstuff.blogspot.com.au/  This is the inspiration:

Plus for something extra we could try some quilling on our project, which I did.  Yes I know, I've used pink on a masculine page and a flower, but hey........I think I've pulled it off :) Besides, if Tim wants to use pink decorations on his cake, well he deserves to have pink decorations on the page I create about him -
fair enough? And I really wanted to add some quilling so hence the flower. As you can see I've used the colours in the lovely baby booties as my inspo.

We were addicted to this season's MKR so much that we decided to have a "cook off". We all took it in turns over one weekend to cook a meal. Tim went all out and made damper from scratch (he drew the line at cooking it in hot coals in the backyard), steak with a home-made garlic sauce, his own seasoned wedges and vegies plus a cake for dessert. Now normally when my offspring decide to create in the kitchen it doesn't usually include the cleaning up (yep, my job apparently), but this particular day the kitchen was cleaned to an inch of it's life with no input from me....Bonus! So of course the moment had to be recorded :)
TFL, have a great weekend.

April Sketch Challenge

Happy April Fool's Day! And what a gorgeous day it is.
Yesterday I was unable to join my fellow scrappers (Annette, Kim, Cheryl & Mary) in Orange, so to solve the problem, we "Skyped" which was a lot of fun - thanks girls! Below is what I was working on while socialising with the girls.
The past week has seen my family being able to tick a few boxes and things are looking a lot brighter, so when the lovely Jane from http://www.theboxx.scrapboxx.com/ contacted me and asked me if I'd like to be the FEATURED MEMBER for April, of course I jumped at the chance, which was the icing on the cake for my week :)  As part of my duties I was asked to create a layout as inspiration for the April Sketch Challenge, which is set by the very talented Julie Winks http://thewinksplace.blogspot.com.au/  So pop on over to the The Scrapboxx and have a go at this month's Challenge.  This is my example:

And a closie:

I couldn't resist using the buttons from Purple Pumpkin and the chippy word is from ScrapFX. Flowers & pp from Kaisercraft, Carolee's Creations alphas, the banner is made from Stampin' Up! c/stock & pps, Maya Road clock, hessian and muslin.
Thanks for dropping by :)