Christmas Cards

Its that time of year when the Christmas Cards are all ready to be sent out- well Ive only just finished making mine and here they are;

Shark Diving

Velvet Album Cover- came from Scrappers Paradise. The paper also came from here it is a Creative Imaginations paper by Christine Adolph. Bazzil Cardstock as the backing piece and the start from the project, photos also matted in Bazzil. We all have a selection of chipboard alphas so I used what I had and did something different to them, so that they weren’t all the same. Two I put through the Cuttlebug ( well i don’t have a Cuttlebug but the pasta machine works just the same) and then to distressed by rubbing with sand paper, one letter has a piece of string around in tied in a bow and another just tied around it. Some I have sanded around the edge and some I have inked in brown ink. For the whole project the same light brown ink was used; Versa Magic- Sahara Sand.  One I have stapled to the page. Pom-pom ribbon used around the journalling circle, also inked in light brown.  Other bits and piece I used include; string, shells, starfish, lace, vintage lace, journalling spot, tag, pin and dictionary paper. I have an old dictionary I found the definition for shark and ripped it out to use.

Heres the first page:

And the second page:

Close ups;

Cute Giveaway

Over here at Purple Pumpkin there is this cute little giveaway from Sam Hauzer, you can find all the details here for your chance to win this little goodie!

Oh the thrill

This page I just used scraps of paper I had; the scrap paper box is getting ridiculously full! All of the squares are 2’inchs each side. Kraft cardstock as the back piece with journalling strips of white Bazzil, inked with brown ink. The photo is distressed with sandpaper around the edges. There were 15 used here are the papers used, each one was inked around the edge with Versa Mark; Sahara Sand.

Orange spot, Aqua flower, Clouds, Blue Circle- My Minds Eye
Green Houndstooth, Aqua doily, Pink/Red spotted hearts- Basic Grey
Blue Circles- Pink Paislee
Green flourish, Green, pink and purple spot, Orange dark spot- Kaiser

Pink Pattern- We R Memory Keepers

Pink flowers, Orange leaves, Yellow flower- October Afternoon
Pink hearts- Bella Blvd
Also used was a yellow October Afternoon journalling date sticker, Orange and Aqua My Little Shoebox alphas and White and Pink Thickers. The pink Thickers I drew around with a black pen. Green Tara flowers with spotted buttons from spotlight, a piece of string tied into a bow is in each one. To finish off the page I spritzed the page with orange Glimmermist; Flower Power

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Yesterday Molly came inside with half of her soaking wet! I looked outside and I had filled my large 4 foot tank with water to see if it was water-tight as I want to set up a salt water tank. I’ve looked at setting it up and I just love the idea of having a little Port Jacksons Shark in there too, I can hand feed him and everything! Well Molly must have jumped into the tank without knowing it had water in it as there was alot of water dripped from the tank to inside the house.

Christmas Spirit

In the Christmas spirit I created a page to get in the mood for more Christmas themed pages. This page did take quite a while to create but overall has an awesome affect. I traced a large dinner plate onto a piece of white Bazzil cardstock and then started covering it with everything Christmas I had. I used nearly every button in red and green I had with bits and pieces in the circle to look like a Christmas wreath. The outside of the page is inked in green and red.

• Bright green Sassafras and foiled red Thicker alphas
• My Little Shoebox white alphas
• Green Tara flowers, holly, roses, leaves and a wreath
• Christmas Fabric from Spotlight
• Assorted buttons
• Bella! red bow
• Birch red trim
• Vandoras green spotted ribbon
• Felt heart, circle and flower
• Kaiser red and green rhinestones
• Kindy Glitz- Crystalina
• Red, green and cream DMC or Anchor thread
• Black pen
• Dew Drops- Pearlescent Lime and Rocket Red ink
• Bazzil Cardstock, Bazzil Bling Cardstock
• Assorted Christmas bits and pieces

  

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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Yesterday we had a baby chicken born. One of our hens was clucky, as we don’t have a rooster the eggs weren’t fertile. A couple of eggs were borrowed from the neighbour to see if she could possibly hatch a baby. One egg hatched, its the cutest fluff-ball with little black spots. As mumma hen is protective it was quite hard to try and get a photo but here are some I tried to get

And here is little Molly laying about on my scrapbooking stuff

Scrappin

Ive been scrapping to get as many pages as I can done.
Here are the last few in the past few days.The backing card is Bazzil cardstock with the photos matted in Kraft. A whole piece of Echo Park brown houndstooth paper ripped in half and a piece of each page is used. One page has to 5x7 photos with the other having three 5x4 with the middle one trimmed to fit on the page. The ends of a smaller piece of Bazzil scalloped card is under the houndstooth paper on each page also.  Journalling also printed on Kraft with the font ‘CK Journalling’ The journalling is over the top of one brown scalloped card. Both pages have a light brown piece of natural looking ribbon with thin string tied around it and into a bow. On the left page I have used Jenni Bowlin studio Banner stickers, over the top of these are bright green Sassafras letters. On each end of the banner is a small piece of ribbon stapled onto the page. On the right page is where the main title is, the letters used are bright green Sassafras, brown Rose and Moka, green Basic Grey and white Thicker letters. These are on the top of Blossies Journalling helper tags, next to this is a green doily and a large Collections chipboard swirl. I have inked this slightly in Dew Drops ‘Sahara Sand’ ink. On the swirl is a Green Tara flower with a little starfish in the centre. As i have tried t put something on both pages the left page also has a flourish but smaller with another star fish next to it.

Close ups;

And heres the double spread

And heres another one

Beachin It

I started with a light aqua piece of card and wanted to use the We R Memory Keepers ‘Hippity Doily’ die cut. A smaller piece of We R Memory Keepers paper is also used; a green strip which I have folded up along the bottom of the page. The photo is matted in pink and then in orange, lately I have been double matting, It give that extra bit of colour and as I usually use larger photos it gives the illusion of a bigger photo. I wanted to create a beginners page without the typical add a few embellishments and a photo. I wanted to use more stuff! Three Green Tara flowers used with a We R Memory Keepers embossed die-cut. I have also used a pink Green Tara sprig next to the photo. The title is Making Memories noteworthy alphas. Another part of the layout is the large orange flourish, I painted it in two coats of Kaiser Colour paint ‘Mango’ inked with Versa Mark and then coated in Stamp Worlds embossing powder- Iridescent sparkle. At the top of the flourish i have tied a tag with a large brad and flower on it. To finish off the page an orange spotted satin Vandoras ribbon is tied into a bow with a metal tag through one part of it. The flowers and die cut was then coated in Kindy Glitz.

Close up;

And this one

Girlfriends;

The papers are Creative Imaginations and Bazzil cardstock. I have used a few Bella! embellishments, Green Tara flowers glimmer misted with a button and a brad added to the centre. Black lace is from spotlight along with the large silver 18 key. Kaiser purple ribbon is tied in two places on the silver key. Title is a small rub on from Kaiser.

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Farewell Blossies

Yesterday was the last day of Blossies :( Good luck to Annette and hope she conquers every endeavour.

Also Ive got some great news!

I’m going to start very soon as a Scrapbooking teacher at Scrappers Paradise on Bribie Island. I have to sort out classes and keep scrapping up new ideas!
This one will be a beginners class as its simple but effective.

So Alike
This one is one of the simplest pages I’ve done in quite a while. I started with a My Little shoebox die cut with a piece cut off the side and a piece used on the top of the page. The photo is matted in watermelon and then in brown. At the top of the page there is a pink flower with a button in the centre, then a piece of lace gathered and a yellow October Afternoon journalling sticker. Under the photo is a large flower white i have glimmermisted in orange, and then a pink doily over the top. Next to this is a flower with a button in the centre. A large piece of lace with the title in Bella Blvd pink letters distressed with sand paper. Backing piece is Kraft.

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Favourite things-Everything!

I know I need to do another post on my favourite things so here is another one. The thing is I love flowers and ribbon and well basically everything, so here is a few of my favourite pages Ive created the past few years.

Wedding Car

Last weekend Dad went off to a wedding with his car, she was to be in the wedding of a mate he use to work with.It was to occupy a black new Holden ute. Heres dad looking very shmick!! and of course the HQ looking great with a polish and buff. Dad was very proud of his car this day and it was quite exciting to get dressed up for it, the bride and bridesmades were driven in his car.