In the Beginning {Princess Scrapper}

Valentines

2012-02-17T07:21:00.001+10:00

This is the card I made for my man for valentines day; good thing both of our favourite colours are orange :)

And I what I received; named him Squishy!

Precious

2012-02-13T09:00:00.000+10:00

{In style}
• Zva pearl flourish

• Vintage doily
• Green Tara flowers and roses sprayed in pearl Glimmermist
• Kaiser paper blossoms sprayed in pearl and then orange Glimmermist
• Kaiser die cuts (Love Notes Collection)
• White eyelets from Spotlight
• Ribbon from American Crafts
• Kaiser alphabet( one a few years ago)
• Pink Thicker letters
• Vintage lace
• Black and white Bazzill Cardstock

Close up;

More on Precious

2012-02-12T04:33:00.003+10:00

Shortened this blog post;

• Making Memories large chipboard } sprayed in Glimmermist
• Paper; We R Memory keepers (My Valentine)

• Bella! Black alphabet

• White Thickers

• Kaiser strip of gems

• White eyelets with thin string tied through them

• Photos matted in black Bazzill

• Green Tara rose and flower

• Buttons and charms from stash

• Bottlecap brads from stash along with bits to make a banner

• Bella! Gem pin through the flower

• Ribbon was back from Blossies
• Paper strip; Bo Bunny

Close ups;

I love pink!

2012-02-11T17:17:00.002+10:00

Good thing I love pink and heaps of it! The next few layouts of Precious were just awesome to create with the colours I love using.

Materials used:
• White and black Bazzill
• Scalloped piece pink Bazzill
• Celebrations black chipboard distressed
• Kaiser zipper embellishment
• Bella Blvd alphabet stickers
• Buttons and ribbons from stash
• Green Tara rose inked with black
• Papers used for circles; Heidi Swapp houndstooth, Bo Bunny, Bazzill Cardstock, Bazzill embossed cardstock, Swissdot Bazzill cardstock, Bo Bunny, Kaiser, We R Memory Keepers and Basic Grey
• Also used in circles is pink fabric, metal embellishment, Kaiser and Green Tara flowers, Heidi Swapp journaling circle
* All the papers and cardstock used are distressed

Close up;

KING

2012-02-11T16:27:00.000+10:00

Yes its over six months ago that I fed the white lions at Dreamworld and Ive only just finished a page on it but I have alot of catching up to do!
Kraft cardstock as the canvas, photo matted in Bazzil cardstock. Papers used are Kaiser( Prairie Lane Collection) and a strip from Bo Bunny’s Zoology range. To the left bottom corner of the page is a flourish( Flourish with a bling) along with a metal distressed looking frame. Here is where I have put the title. Just painted chipboard letters in cream and inked in a light brown over the top. Underneath the frame is two journal labels from October Afternoon, where I added a little bit of journaling. Wrapped around the bottom of the page is some thick string, under the photo some vintage lave and a smaller lace piece under the journal. The top right corner has some more lace, paper and a journal label with the date the photo was taken.

Close up;

Next post is more pages Ive done on Precious

Precious Pages

2012-02-04T16:23:00.001+10:00

Yes it’s been a long long long time since I’ve been on the blog but I’ve been so busy with work, uni, the new man and basically life in general to try and do a bit of scrapbooking.In that time I had Precious at the panel beaters getting her re painted and all pretty for me, I was away for a two week course in Wollongong for a mollusc course at Uni and one thing after another.

So here’s the first page of Precious after she’s been painted and brought home to me.Started with a piece of white Bazzil, then the photos matted in black. The houndstooth paper is Heidi Swapp with the numbered piece of paper is KI Memories. Towards the right hand side of the page is the most busiest. I have used three ribbons across the page all from back in the day at Blossies. I still have quite a stash! The alphabet I have used is Heidi Swapp hot pink adhesive chipboard, it’s really getting toward the end of those letters, anyone know where i can get more from?! I’ll certainly be using more hot pink with these car pages. Pushed through one of the knots of ribbon is a Bella! pin with a gem on the end. In the bunch of “stuff” on the bottom is A Kaiser felt heart, Spotlight heart and button, black button from the stash, a hot pink felt flower with a rose on the top is covered in Stickles to make it look more sparkly. The black flower and pink sprig is Green Tara and the other hot pink flower I can’t remember! I’m out of the loop now and need to get back to it! At the top of the page is another rose with stickles and the tag is a Bella Blvd sticker. It is attached to the page with hot pink brads.

Here’s a close up:

The second page created today was a few photos of when I was away in Wollongong studying, it was quite hard to be away when i knew my baby would be getting done and i couldn’t come visit like i did before. These are photos my sister and the panel beater sent to me while I was gone, there of course was more but they wanted to try keep it a secret until i got back. I used a piece of lace i bought from Spotlight and a ribbon back from Blossies. The alphabet is Pink Paislee (small letters) and Bella! for the larger ones. A few buttons next to it to just keep the page simple and focus on the few photos.

Here’s a close up:

As I have many many photos of the car as she was getting done it was hard to choose photos to use and with the amount to get them all scrapbooked as part of the whole story. So instead I’m using up some pages from We R Memory Makers they have slots in them for photos so I’ve cut up mine and fitted quite alot into it, and because they aren’t the most glamorous photos but show the progression of her it was a great way of displaying the photos. Of course i haven’t finished these; still have to journal and add some bits and pieces to them.

I will be back on here soon!

Really Late

2011-09-30T07:45:00.000+10:00

So I havent been on here in months!! Been so busy with work and life its hard to have spare time anymore. Since my last post on here heaps has happened

The shoe shop closed down and I got a job at Autobarn, wasnt there very long and they asked me to change positions and work as a Receivals chick out the back, as I dont like being on the till very much it seemed alright. Ive been there a while now, doing all the invoicing, credit claims, warrantys of faulty items, chasing suppliers for stock and money, really enjoy it as it keeps me busy and I dont have to put up with customers anymore! haha
With UNI, this semester I deffered until next year just to have a break and work on stuff in my life. Last semester I passed all units and just waiting for next semester to start and get back into it and finish my degree to go travelling.
Recently I have just been accepted into a Mullusc Biology course at the University of Woolongong in NSW, I had waited months to know if I had a chance or not and last week received the email telling me I was in!! Really excited for it!! Its two weeks in December for a summer semester course, a third year unit with 8 credit points so a good one to get into for sure!! So Im off to Woolongong very soon.
Now the torana; coming up to nearly 5years Ive had my baby and never getting close to finishing her, well I just got a personal loan so I can get her proffesionally painted and then put back together so I can finally get to drive her! Working at Autobarn is certainly helping with getting all the car stuff I need.
As for scrapbooking Ive barely had time to do any and still trying to get pages done from a few months ago, those photos are of my lion experience at Dreamworld feeding white lions, really amazing to see them up close even though we were between wire. Everytime I do anything with animals it gives me little boost on finishing my degree and working with animals.
I have also finished my saltwater tank aquarium, taken me all year but about a month ago I was able to add in my little shark, hes a Port Jackson, very cute and I named him Jaws; haha

Plenty more has happened but dont want to keep going, have to now get up and get ready for work
Enjoy your day!

What Ive been up to;

2011-03-30T09:26:00.002+10:00

Well apart from trying to catch up on uni work Ive also been organising my craft cupboard which is also under my bed and going into the hall and craft room! Im going to get a craft shed very soon so I can properly work and scrapbook in my spare time. ( What spare time?!)

Ive collected pink and orange shoe boxes from work which are all great sizes to organise everything into. Also pink and other baskets, on each box/basket will be a label. For the labels I have used some Bella! alphabet stamps and a spotted butterfly, sewn two buttons, used a piece of hot pink spotted ribbon and matted in an orange cardstock. Alot of work but they look so cute!

Heres some photos, will post more and close ups of the little labels too:

I have too many hobbies! This is also what Ive been working on, its been about a month or so since I first started my salt water tank and yesterday I bought an orange clown fish and last week had my first little damsel fish.

This weekend Im going on a party bus to the Gold Coast for a friends birthday, lost my job but now starting tomorrow at Stafford; giving it a go see how that goes!
And next week Im going to see Good Charlotte and Short Stack!!!!! Ive come to love Short Stack the past few months and so excited to get into mosh pit and see them perfome live! Oh yeah!

Holidays in a few weeks too but again travelling to Armidale for UNI, then its my birthday; Im so behind havent even scrapbooked last years, ahhhhh!

Busy busy busy

2011-01-30T09:16:00.000+10:00

My Uni break is coming closer to the end and Ive barely done any scrapbooking :(
Most of the time Ive been working, hanging with friends or just vegging out at home watching movies and chilling in the pool. Thank goodness the rain has finally stopped!

A few weeks ago I helped on a weekend down in Brisbane clearing up after the floods. Dad, my brother and I were in Yeronga cleaning up the streets and peoples homes and belongings- it was just a few streets compared to the whole amount of Brisbane going under. Bloody hard work for the day but was great to get in there and help out.

Since then Ive donated bags of Avon products I had here to go out to the Esk region and Lockyer Valley, hope ladies out there can use some of it as its sitting here doing nothing- Mum went through the spare room and gave kitchen bits and her work gave heaps of boxes of glasses. Mums also been doing fundraising through a lady Julie Cox who is making yummmyyy cupcakes and then giving the money straight to the flood victims, already raised $1000 and hopes to make another $1000

And today I managed to do a page; really do need to get into scrapbooking more but also need the inspiration. Maybe some new excting photos to play with. Heres the page:

KS CJ

Bazzil Cardstock and photo matted in Bazzil Bling Cardstock
S.E.I glitter paper, Making Memories 'Flutter' glitter paper
Green Tara and Doodlebug flowers
Vandoras ribbon
Donnas Doily
Flourish with a Bling pink swirl
Basic Grey Sparkling rubs
Alphabet from Scrappyshop over at Elimbah

Close ups;

Neglected

2011-01-05T12:43:00.001+10:00

Yep I did neglect the blog for a little while, Christmas and New Years ended up being really busy!

Anywhoo heres a scrapbooking page I made for my best friend for Christmas, there is a little glare because of the frame.

Heres a Christmas Card I made for someone amazing that Ive just recently started spending alot more time with, which makes me sooooo happy!

I cut three circles of fabric to make the suffolk puffs, each one has a button sewn into the middle of it. Then the three puffs glued onto the card. The backing piece is Kraft Cardstock with distressed edges. A chipboard flourish inked in light brown is at the bottom of the puffy things. The scalloped die-cut came from a Making Memories- Paperie Notepad- I'm amazed as to how much of that I still have left! Around the green die-cut is thin string wrapped randomly around it before I stuck that to the card. To finish the card off I tied a piece of lime green spotted ribbon into a bow around the whole card.

Close up;

My new boss at the shoe shop also does great cooking. For Christmas I recieved a basket of hand-baked goodies. The Lemon Merignue pies were amazing!

A few weeks back we had a Secret Santa at Annettes house for Christmas, this was my little gift; Scrapbooking products! Cant wait to use them!

Christmas Cards

2010-12-06T05:38:00.002+10:00

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

2010-12-05T06:17:00.002+10:00

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

2010-12-04T22:24:00.000+10:00

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

2010-12-04T08:42:00.001+10:00

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

Close ups;

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

2010-11-30T07:26:00.002+10:00

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

Close ups;

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

2010-11-29T12:42:00.000+10:00

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.

Close ups;

Farewell Blossies

2010-11-29T12:07:00.000+10:00

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.

Close ups;

Favourite things-Everything!

2010-10-10T21:02:00.000+10:00

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

2010-10-09T00:57:00.002+10:00

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.

Again...

2010-10-08T12:47:00.000+10:00

Most people are saying 'again' when I tell them Ive done another shark dive! I just love it, here are some photos of the second shark dive with my Aunty Belinda (Im on the right!)

Some of the sharks look blurry as its mating season, there are 2 males to 1 female and the males are swimming alot faster as they're a little frisky! haha

Marathon Crop

2010-10-06T18:45:00.000+10:00

Heres a photo of the latest Pizza and Pyjama Crop, pitty my cute tiger slippers didnt make it into the photo but anywhoo

And this is one from back in August 2008! woahhh

Hope to get to the next Marathon Crop!

Dream....

2010-10-05T09:53:00.000+10:00

Last night I had a dream about scrapbooking, Ive been told by Yvette that she gets ideas for scrapbooking in her dreams but I never have and thought what the??
But anywhoo I had a dream about getting published for my scrapbooking and it reminded me that I havent done a blog post about my great news (actually I knew this a little while ago but wasnt quite sure when the book was coming out) soooo I have two pages going into "The Big Book of Scrapbook Ideas" by Memory Makers Magazine over in America!
Unfortunately I cant post the pages on here because of copyright but they have been blogged before before I knew they had been chosen. I submitted them back in April/May and knew a few months later. I have now been told I will not recieve my pages back until April/May of next year!! So that is when the book is going to be released, will keep you posted while I wait! (Really want my layouts back- the formal album is incomplete without them)
To finish off today here is something I found while searching on the net. I just love cuteeee cats

I really am a sucker for cats! Especially ginger ones!

And lmao at this one!

Favourite things; Flowers

2010-10-05T04:55:00.000+10:00

I LOVEEEE flowers, nearly every page has a flower of some sort used on it, I cant help it I have to add more flowers, here are some pages with well more than just a flower used on the page

Also use them on cards;

There are again quite a few uses for flowers

Layer them
Fold in half under photos and different parts of your page
Ink the edges
Cut flowers from patterened paper and layer them
Layer flowers with different colours and sizes
Embellish the centre by using brads, buttons,
Sew in the centre in a random pattern as shown here
Paint them, crackle paint is effective
Tie a piece of ribbon into a knot for the centre
Spray them with Glimmermist or cover in Dimensional Magic

Favourite things; Ribbon

2010-10-04T04:39:00.002+10:00

I have a few favourite products to use when I scrapbook and ribbons has to be one of the top favourite! I have sooooo much ribbon and try to use some on nearly every layout. Here are a few of my favourite layouts with ribbon incorporated into them.

There are so many uses for ribbon;

Tie them in knots, multiple knots and bows
Staple them to the page
Stick them to the page with tape
Tie around the whole page
Use them as borders around the page of photos
use small strips of ribbon to cover chipboard shapes;
And so much more, check out this post at Blossies for more ideas

School Days Layout

2010-10-03T16:54:00.000+10:00

I printed some photos of the last day of school last year and finally created a page with them
Here it is, simple page with a thick strip of wave paper folded and a thick piece of vintage ribbon and a few bits and pieces. I have used a piece of drift wood and real shells

Close ups;

October Afternoon

2010-10-02T18:16:00.000+10:00

October Afternoon papers are so pretty! I love the new "seaside" range with all the fishy pages I do. And what better time to create a page a page using October Afternoon then in the afternoon and in the month of Ocotber hahaha.
Here is a double page I created of my first scuba dive in the tank of sharks at Underwater World. ( I cant wait on the 6th October I am going AGAIN with my aunty as she is visiting from NSW and were going together), I just cant get enough of diving with these awesome sharks!!
Well anywhoo here it is

Simple pages as the photos of course are the main focus;

Close ups;

More Older Layouts

2010-09-22T10:42:00.000+10:00

Here are some more from another album;

Older Layouts

2010-09-21T13:09:00.000+10:00

Ive gone through some older albums and photographed my layouts as to have them all on file and easy accessilble, this is wayyyyy before I had my blog so here are just a few of the pages from my Car Album that started my passion for scrapbooking. h

Here are the wooden letters on the front of mr car album

Im Baaa-cckkk

2010-09-21T11:14:00.000+10:00

I havent neglected the blog Ive just been uber busy this month. I travelled down to Armidale for uni for a week and then decided to drive another 5hours and visit family and friends in Newcastle for another week and just arrived back home Sunday afternoon, today Im hoping to get some scrapbooking done but with not many photos its going to be interesting, tomorrow Im going to get some printed and hopfully get cracking on my delayed scrapbooking.

Also Im teaching at Blossies this coming Tuesday; check out the timetable here

The class is called Vintage Reflections, on the 28th September from 10am-12pm, please book in so your not to miss your chance of scrappng with me.
Here are some sneek peaks of the class, for full layout visit in store.

Shark Dive

2010-09-02T21:02:00.000+10:00

This is what I got up to yesterday;

After the dive;

And then I recieved a certificate stating Ive dived with sharks and a shirt and stubby cooler with "I survived the shark dive" written on them.

It was awesome fun, cant wait to go on another one!

Beautiful Blogger Award

2010-08-26T19:21:00.002+10:00

The Blossies girls have nominated me for a Blogger Award, thanks girls!

So the rules of this are I have to nominate 10 blogs and tell you 10 things about me.
Here are my 10 blogs;

1. Blossies
2. Yvette Fanciulli
3. Sam Hauzer
4. Becky Higgons
5. Gail Lindner
6. Heidi Swapp
7. How About Orange
8. Kim Archer
9. My Little Shoebox
10. Catherine Duffy

And 10 things about me,
1. Im studying Zoology full-time as an external student, studying from Armidale NSW
2. I love CATS!! with my fav animal being a tiger
3. I was born in Newcastle, NSW and moved to QLD over 7 years ago
4. I actually have a Marine Boating License and a Blue Card for Construction
5. I get very travel sick with almost every mode of transport
6. Im allergic to cats, dust and mould with reactions all the time
7. Soon to be published over in America for Memory Makers magazine
8. My favourite band is the All American Rejects, and meeting them last year one of the best nights Ive ever had
9. I have swam with sharks, and have another dive booked for two weeks time
10. My favourite drink is the Electric Pink Vodka Cruisers

Theres some things you may have not known about me, check out the above blogs for some great inspiration!

Older Pages

2010-08-23T13:56:00.001+10:00

I cant remember if Ive blogged these before as they are some older pages, if so here they are again.

New Layouts

2010-08-23T13:36:00.000+10:00

So at the Blossies crop the other night the inspiration wasnt really working but I did manage to create four layouts, here they are, thanks to Yvette for all the inspiration on the night! haha
My Fav Rockstar:

Close up;

Young Love:

Close up;

Mermaids:

Close up;

and New Glasses:

Close up;

Soooo my photographing wasnt so good on these pages but you can find them on the back wall at Blossies

Butterfly Collage Challenge

2010-08-17T14:34:00.000+10:00

Over hear at Blossies there is an amazing Butterfly Collage Challenge happening, so heres my go at it. Good thing I have HEAPS of orange and pink stuff. Everything came from the stash, you can find most of it at Blossies.

Heres some close ups;

Sneek Peek

2010-08-13T10:52:00.000+10:00

Im teaching again next month at Blossies a scrapbooking class so keep an eye out on the class timetables.
Heres just a sneek peek of what you could create, be sure to book in when the newsletters are released.

Keep watching my blog, Im going to start creating one of those collages featured on the Blossies blog called Butterfly Collage Challenge, of course I dont actually have a butterfly punch so it's going to add a little twist to the collage idea. Now to get creating!

Shabby Frames

2010-07-31T06:19:00.001+10:00

Ive blogged the individual artist cards before but I dont think I have blogged the final product of these shabby art pieces I created for art last year at school.
Some are all hanging in the craft room now, I wasnt allowed to have all of the pieces on display so more are in the ceiling :( The photos arent the best as I couldnt fit along the door across from the wall to get all the artworks in the picture.
Here they are

Close ups of each one;

Another Sea-themed Layout

2010-07-30T12:17:00.000+10:00

I took these photos at the beginning of the year when a friend and I went to Seaworld. I loved the Ray Reef- where you can pat and feed these beautiful stingrays and eaglerays

Materials used: Thicker letters, Bazzil Cardstock, Blossies ribbon, turquiose ink, metal heart, paper flowers, button and October Afternoon Journalling sticker

Close ups;

I'd like be under the Sea

2010-07-25T09:19:00.003+10:00

Kraft Cardstock, Bazzil Cardstock, My Minds Eye paper, Thicker and Pink Paislee letters, magnet words, blue flourish die-cut (I'm not sure who made these as it was quite a while ago that I bought them.)

Close ups;

Old is New Again

2010-07-24T16:19:00.001+10:00

While working at Blossies the other day, organising the shop and shuffling some of the papers I noticed that some of the older ranges that are really nice are still available. I thought I’d do a blog post on layouts I’ve created and the papers and some embellishments etc are still available
This one is about a month old; Basic Grey, Max and Whiskers
The layout is called Billy, very simple with two pieces of paper, doily, buttons etc. A strip from the sticker sheet also used. You can keep up with how Billy is on Yvette's Blog here

Around February last year We R Memory Keepers brought out Heart Attack
I havent done a page yet with these but have a few ideas in mind, they will be on the blog shortly. But here is an example of the pages to trig your memory

I have created an off-the page album using quite a few of these papers also; Sports Day (I have done a blog post on this before look here to find close ups)

Last year I also created a Valentines Day Card, here it is

Bella! has had quite a few paper ranges that we’ve had come and go but one of the original ranges is the pink Damsel papers
It isn’t one thing, its a million little things: This one is quite simple with a photo and a few pieces of paper, I have cut out the flowers from the same range

Websters pages- A sweet life
I bought the six different calendar pages. All of them are sort of vintage looking, havent used them yet but I will eventually.Heres an example of what the pages look like.

Another Basic Grey range still in stock is Lemonade. I have done a page using these papers but cant seem to find where it is, so heres some of the papers instead.

For some very pretty papers use Imaginisce; Lucy Bird. Dream Big: This one I have cut out heaps of flowers, all pages have glitter on them and are just gorgeous. This layout was inspired by Sam Houzer, look at her pages with this range here. Also for my formal album I created this page using more of the same paper on a layout called Great Day. Looking through my pages I have found another one called Live.Laugh.Love. I love the way Gail has also used this range to create a page of Amelia found here

I have also used some of the paper to cover a tin that is on my UNI work desk. Add some ribbon, glitter covered letters and flowers and you have a pretty tin for stationary

My Minds Eye has great papers with a great feel to them, the Love Me Do range with bright yellow, red and blues are great to do exciting pages with and are so versatile.
Here is a page I recently created with photos of my tropical reef dive back in April and the blues matched my scheme. The other side is the clouds which I had originally bought the paper for, just goes to show looking at the undersides of papers can be fun! *this one will be blogged shortly with close ups

I found a couple of Heidi Swapp papers also with a few of these ones left. Using the whole pattern as the backing piece I created Beautiful. ( The butterflies are also Heidi Swapp but I’m not sure where you will find them now)

Well Im back at Uni now so the blog wont be updated as much as Id like to but I hope to keep it somewhat regular.

Card Share

2010-07-22T08:26:00.000+10:00

Looking through some old photos from last year I found some cards that I dont think have been blogged yet so here they are:
This one was for my sister on her birthday last year

Close ups;

And this one was for her boss last year for her birthday

Close ups;

Yummy

2010-07-20T10:40:00.000+10:00

This isn’t something I usually blog about but I just had to. In the Kaisercraft Magazine Q1 (pg 83), I read a recipe for some chocolate cookies and they seemed so nice I made some;

So here’s the recipe; Carols Cookies
125g butter
200g dark chocolate
3 eggs lightly beaten
1cup brown sugar
1 ½ cups plain flour
½ cup cocoa
250g white choc bits

Preheat the oven to 200C and line trays with baking paper
Place butter and dark chocolate in a small pan and stir over low heat until chocolate is melted and is smooth (I melted it in the microwave and it worked just fine)
Place this into a bowl and add the beaten eggs and sugar, stir to combine. Sift in the dry ingredients and white choc bits, stir until well combined.
Drop spoonfuls of mix onto trays (I was able to gently form a ball with mine)
Bake for 10mins, stand cookies on tray for 2-3mins and then move to a wire rack.
Yummy
*this makes about 50 cookies and beware of the killer amount of chocolate used!

While also going through the other Kaisercraft Magazine Q2 I found another recipe I wanted to try (page 91)

Mint Slice (very easy and very yummy)
250g Malt-O-Milk biscuits
6 Peppermint Crisp chocolate bars
½ 395g tin sweetened condensed milk
125g butter
250g Cadbury chocolate

Crush biscuits up in a food processer (or a zip-lock bag and a hammer), also crush the peppermint crisps bars. Keep a few bigger chunks of the chocolate in the mixture to ensure that when cut up most slices have a few green chunks
Place both biscuit and chocolate into a bowl
Combine condensed milk and butter in a saucepan on low (once again I used the microwave it’s just so much quicker). When melted mix into the biscuit and chocolate mixture
Spread into a slice pan and flatten out the mixture with a spoon. Once set melt the chocolate and pour over the slice. Return to the fridge to set.
* I used mint chocolate for the top if mine which has the mint crisps in it really makes it extra minty

Relaxing

2010-07-12T08:10:00.000+10:00

This one is on the back wall at Blossies

Relaxing; Heidi Swapp Invisibles, Bazzil Cardstock, Birch ribbon, Thicker letters, Bazzil Bling Cardstock, Heidi Swapp journalling die-cuts, large paper flower, Spotlight ribbon, Celebrate Chipboard, Dimensional Magic, Kindy Glitz, tag, My Minds Eye flower die-cut, American Crafts ribbon, Kaiser brad, Blossies Journalling Helper; Calenders, Celerations trim, Elise button, One Heart One Mind sticker, Blossies Ribbon, Making Memories paint, Green Tara flower

Pizza and Pyjama Marathon Crop

2010-07-11T10:20:00.000+10:00

Last night was Blossies Pizza and Pyjama Marathon crop, a crop going for a massive twelve hours! haha
Well anywhoo the Blossies girls got scrapping, here are the layouts I came up with at the crop:

Billy; using the new Max and Whiskers from Basic Grey, an orange doily, Pink Paislee letters, ribbon, button, brads and some felt flowers

Vanuatu; I have used the last scrap of Bella! paper for this one with some cardstock, doily, flower, button, Rose Moka letters, string, My Minds Eye die-cut and ribbon

***These two pages are on the back wall of Blossies if you wish to look at the real thing

In trying to do more of my cruise photos here are more layouts created last night.

Beautiful Lifou; Bazzil embossed leaves cardstock, Making Memories; Paperie notepad paper, Pink Paislee letters, EK Success letters, scallop punches, paper, Kaiser brad, ribbon and a piece of Creative Imaginations paper

Lemon Bay, Numea; Using some older Bella! die-cuts (you could use any of the same range to create a page like this), Thicker letters, vintage trim/ribbon, Kraft Cardstock, Bazzil Cardstock, Basic Grey letters, button and a paper flower

This one I added a few things to finish it off,

Nap Time; Kraft Cardstock, Bazzil Cardstock, ribbon, paper flower, Thicker letters, button and some stamping. ** This page is actually 12'' by 7''.

Asian photo fun

2010-06-26T09:04:00.002+10:00

I started with the pink Bazzil piece and ‘the girls paperie’ papers I wanted to use (these papers can be found at Blossies and are fairly new). I thought these had a vintage look to them so distressed the edges of every piece I used on the layout. I have used two 6x4 photos which I have matted on the same piece of green Bazzil cardstock. Underneath the Bazzil is a green spotted paper, also the girl’s paperie. To the right of the photo there is a large Bella! flower with a Blossies flower in the middle of that following with a Kaiser and another Blossies flower. In the top right corner there is a XL Heidi Swapp photo corner. Below the photo I have cut a scalloped shape out of the flower paper and distressed it, and lifted up the scallops as well. Across the whole page is a piece of pink Celebrations ribbon tied into a bow with a pin through the bow. Underneath the scalloped paper is a piece of Birch lace. Also under the photo is some vintage trim from Spotlight. This is also where the title is for the page. I have used three different types of Thicker alpha letters and next to this a journalling sticker from My Minds Eye, this has the date on it which is Basic Grey alpha stickers. There are also two flowers; Kaiser and Blossies. Above the photo on the left hand side is another piece of the paper with a My Minds Eye tag above it, on this I have used Little Yellow Bicycle letters to write ‘Memories’. The edge of the page was inked in light green.

Some close ups;

Xmas 1998

2010-06-25T09:03:00.000+10:00

THIS IS NOT THE REAL COLOUR- (My camera wont pick up the green and has made it a yukky colour no matter how I try to fix it!) To see it in the real it will be at Blossies soon!

For this one I wanted to use some Cosmo Cricket papers which are new in at Blossies. I found this old photo in the pile of photos to be scrapped and though it was perfect as there were bright colours in the clothing we wore. Bazzil cardstock is used as a backing piece, and the matted piece for the photo. I have used two strips of the paper on the page and another piece for the chipboard tag next to the photo; this had an orange brad securing it to the page. To the right of the page I have used many flowers and bits and pieces; Blossies, Doodlebug Design, Kaiser Flowers also with a string tied orange flower (I do not know who made this). I have also used a crotched flower with a large orange brad in the centre, this brad has just been waiting to be used and it had to be something special. Below the crotched flower is a Kaiser felt heart, above the flower is a Doodlebug Design heart. Across the whole page is a larger piece of orange organza tied into a bow, over the top of that is a smaller pink grosgrain tied into a knot. These both can be found at Blossies. Underneath the ribbon and flowers is a long piece of felt ‘Scribble’ these areQueen and Co. and also new at Blossies. For the journalling I have used a Bella Blvd sticker and written in black pen. To the left is also the title I have used red foil Thicker letters and pink Bella Blvd stickers also, both of these have been distressed. Above the title is a Hambly rub-on and under the ‘1998’ title is a Hambly Screen print.

Heres some close ups;

Winner!!!

2010-06-13T17:45:00.001+10:00

This year I decided to enter the Caboolture Show with some of my scrapbooking layouts. Not bad for my first year as I came home with quite a few prizes, ribbons, certificates and gift vouchers. Here are my layouts with their awards!
AAR- Highly Commended- Journalling

Art Night- Third Place- Flowers

Rod and I-Second Place- Bling

The day my dream came true- Second Place- Titles

Dream Big- First Place- Flowers

Dream Big- Second Place- OVERALL SHOW

And heres a photo of all the awards

Past Layouts

2010-06-13T06:25:00.002+10:00

Heres a few I picked up from Blossies the other day that never made it into an albums they have been on display; Im not sure if I have ever blogged these ones so here they are

You may have seen this one in the previous post

Beckham

2010-06-11T14:54:00.001+10:00

Yes another cat page, this one is of our good friend Andrea who has this gorgeous ginger boy. I have also kept to using Kraft for this page and matted in Bazzil. Next to it is a piece of wood grain paper from My Minds Eye, I think this is the last of one sheet I bought, it’s great to use up those scraps. At the bottom of the page I have used a large piece of brown fabric, I have a large stash of fabrics as well, adding texture makes the pages stand out alot more, I love to add texture and layers. I have gathered up the fabric and sewn across it three times, over the top is a thin piece of vintage ribbon which I have stapled to the page and either end. Also over the top of the fabric is thin string tied around the page three times and into a bow. Up above the fabric is a wooden heart with two small pieces of string just tied into a knot through it. Next to this is a felt flower with a little cat brad. For the title I have used black Thicker letters, above this is the journalling. This is a Kaiser rub-on which i have cut to fit into the space I wanted above the lettering of the title. On the left side of the photo is two piece of brown vintage ribbon, from Blossies. It was also the last I had of that ribbon, so overall I have used up a few bits and pieces creating this layout.

Heres some close ups;

Adorable

2010-06-10T14:54:00.000+10:00

This is my favourite photo of the kittens, soaking it up in the sunlight. For this page I wanted to use Earthy/brown colours as it matched the colour of the little kittens. The orange/brown paper is from October Afternoon and the other blue/brown flourish paper is from Bella!/Ruby Rockets range The Summerhouse. The photo is matted in brown Bazzil and the backing piece Kraft. I don’t use Kraft very often but it matches the little kittens and other cats so well. The mesh-looking ribbon is from Blossies, I have just gathered it underneath the piece of Bella! paper. Around the whole page I have tied a thin piece of string three times and into a bow, the bow also has a little cat charm tied into it. To the right of the page is a die-cut with journalling on it. This came from one of the Kaiser books that had the free stuff in it, I found it matched what I was doing, and using up those freebies means there is less stash lying around! Next to this is a chipboard circle, this is from My Minds Eye; Abbey Road with the cat button over the top and thin string tied through the button. A felt flower is also next to the die-cut which has a cat brad in the centre, these both are from Blossies. To finish it off I have used My Little Bicycle orange glittered letters for the title.

Heres a close up;

♥

2010-06-02T14:48:00.000+10:00

The kittens today all shared their first drink of kitten milk. Not from Molly but from their other mother me, it was so cute watching them try and figure out how to lap at it, they cleaned the plate up!! I wasnt able to get a picture of it but will next time!!

This is how I went to bed last night, with them taking up quite a bit of the bed.

This is them sharing a meal last night of some fish- they love it! How cute are they all around the one plate trying to get closer than the one next to them.

The other day I went out to Pet Stock and bought them a toy, it makes noises has plenty of things to attack and they love it!

And one of these cute little mice to play with aswell

Theres HOW many in the bed??

2010-06-01T11:57:00.000+10:00

It seems to Molly that sharing my room with her and the kittens isnt enough but now I have to share my bed aswell. They have learnt to climb up my bed and to sleep with me. I have to be very careful now not to squish them when sleeping as they climb through my legs.

Its amazing how they can sleep in the most awkward positions;

Molly doesnt need to be there for them to just laze around with me

I thought Id better wash my sheets as Im allergic to cats and instead they climb on my dressing gown and dooner on my matress yesterday morning

Soaking it up in the sun, I love how their fluffy coats glisten in the sunlight!

This morning sleeping in the sun;

Last night we decided to give Molly some fresh chicken breast for dinner. After a minute or so we looked down to see that little Ginger was eating with her, it was so cute. Like mother like son.

Heres some others Ive taken the last few days.

Sharks and Stingrays!!! How Exhilerating!!

2010-05-29T10:45:00.000+10:00

For this page I wanted to use the shape of a shark fin as the main part of my page. (The white is just a piece of card, it isnt attached to my layout). This photo was taken at the end of April when I went for my shark/ray dive at Seaworld. To create this page I have used Bazzill cardstock, Pink Paislee, Rose Moka and Basic Grey letters, October Afternoon journaling sticker, Kaiser rub-ons, ribbon from Blossies, Bella! die-cut, Bella! flower, Kaiser flower, Green Tara flower, a brad that I have covered in Dimensional Magic and then glitter, Celebrate ribbon, starfish brad, crotched flower.

Here are some close ups;

Pretty Purple and 5 weeks old today

2010-05-28T12:12:00.000+10:00

This one is a card I created a few weeks ago for my next-door neighbour who just recently had a baby. I wanted to use her name "Addison" as the main focus of the card and purple as it is the main colour of her baby room. To create this I have used purple Thicker letters, purple paper flowers, organza ribbon, Kindy Glitz, Kaiser paper, Bazzill cardstock, Birch purple lace, satin ribbon, small silver letters and the whole thing covered in Glimmermist!!

The little kittens are 5 weeks old today so here are a couple of more photos of them :)

Little Kittens

2010-05-25T09:17:00.001+10:00

These little kittens are 5 weeks old on Friday and so just so cute, I have had so many internet troubles and havent been able to upload any photos onto my blog, so I havent given up!! There is also too much UNI work to be done to get on here and blog, but holidays is at the end of next week!! Yay!!

This one is my favourite so far out of the hundreds I have taken

This morning they ALL shared their first real meal- fresh chicken breast!!

Here are some other photos from last week, as soon as I sit in my room they climb all over me and go to sleep, I cant help but just sit there when being attacked as they are so gorgeous!!

Molly

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Is going to become a mum, she is really close to having them. Hopefully when Im not away at Armidale next week or on my birthday.
Here is the little cuteness with the biggest belly. She likes to just flop herself down, must be tiring carrying little kittens everywhere.

The LAST of the FORMAL ALBUM

2010-04-10T14:05:00.000+10:00

Im glad to have finally finished it!!!

This one again is very simple. I have used Bazzil for the backing and matted the photo with. Blossies flowers with a button is next to the page, I had the title “Kiss” chipboard letters for ages and used it up!! I have covered it in My Minds Eye paper and sanded all the edges, it took ages!! Across the page is a piece of thick organza ribbon and a small vintage lace tied into a bow over the top. The date is pink foam Thickers letters. To finish the page off i have used a flourish with small roses in it from My Minds Eye over the top of the title and ribbon.

Close up;

THE LAST PAGE:

Photo and backing piece if Bazzil both distressed, a piece of pink houndstooth Making Memories paper under the photo. We R Memory Keepers glitter trim, Bella! buckle, Celebrations ribbon, Blossies paper roses, Zva Creations gem flourish, pink felt, sliver UPIKIT stickers, vintage lace, Blossies paper flowers and a pink butterfly all different bits and pieces used, the title Bella Blvd stickers. I have used a chipboard frame, painted in pink underneath and then crackle medium and a dark blu over the top, I think it turned out quite interesting. I have used Kindy Glitz all over the page and then covered it in Glimmermist.

Close up;

LATE LATE Happy Easter

2010-04-10T08:03:00.000+10:00

I tried to blog this on Easter but Blogger was having some serious issues!!!! So here it is Happy Late Easter. Usually I dont make easter cards but this year I actually did. I have used a couple of different pieces of We R Memory Keepers papers, all farely new at Blossies.

Ive used papers all from the same range, the eggs are stamped onto the same papers and cut out. The stamps are also from the same range, two pieces of ribbon and the title is actually cut out from one of the papers which had heaps of wording on it

More Formal Pages

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I’ve used a beige piece of Bazzil for the backing piece. The photo is matted in light pink. The photo is placed in the bottom corner of the page, next to it the title; Bella Blvd letters which have been distressed. Around the page is a piece of pink organza ribbon tied in a knot. There is also a UPIKIT silver glitter swirl and a layer of flowers. The flowers are Blossies, Kaiser and Prima, in the centre is a paper rose. In the top corner of the page i have folded down the backing piece and stapled it, next to this are two layered flowers also Kaiser, Prima and Blossies with paper roses in the centre. Another piece of pink organza ribbon is also next to the flowers. The white Kaiser papers have been embossed with a spotted embossing folder and the pasta machine.

Heres some close ups;

Heres another page Ive created

This page I have used pink Bazzil as the backing piece, each photo is matted in We R Memory Keepers paper. Also used is a My Minds Eye paper frame, one i have had for years and finally used up. Two Kaiser; Childs Play die cuts, Organza ribbon, pink lace and aqua trim used. The large pink butterfly is an iron-on transfer but I’ve used it on my page instead and glued it down with some Power Pritt. More Blossies different organza ribbon is under the Green Tara flowers and rose which is on one of the Kaiser die-cuts, next to the flower is a Bella Blvd sticker and a UPIKIT silver flourish. For the title I have just used our names at the bottom of the page. I have used dark blue Pink Paislee letters, aqua foam Thickers and pink spotted Basic Grey alphas. Top right corner has a sticker from Bella Blvd.

Close up;

And one more; the album is nearly finished

For this one I wanted to use a chipboard circle and tie ribbons all the way around it. Using just my ribbons once I completed most of the circle!!! Only a few were repeated. The chipboard was painted pink first then the ribbons added, in double knots as to not come undone. The photo is matted in the same colour as the background. The outside of the page has been distressed and then inked in pink. The title I also wanted was to be on the photo itself. I have used pink foam Thickers letters for the title. Next to the photo are two layered flowers, both Blossies and Prima used with a button in the centre. I have used a gem flourish from Zva Creations which was one and I cut into two pieces. Under the flowers is a My Minds Eye sticker which I have written our names on. The top left corner of the photo has a Bella Blvd sticker.

Close ups;

Monochromatic Scrapbooking

2010-03-21T20:14:00.000+10:00

Ever since I saw this one on Gail’s blog I wanted to do one myself. The backing piece is American Crafts and the photo is matted in the same card, the photo has been distressed. Also used is a large paper doily underneath the photo. I have used Bella! butterflies and put them through the pasta machine with a dotty embossing folder, it looks quite impressive even though the photos don’t show much of it. Two Bazzil glittered paper strips used under the photo. On the right side I’ve gathered a piece of ribbon with a small piece of another paper strip. On top is a chain with two brads. Across the page is a small white satin ribbon tied into a bow and across the gathered ribbon, it also has a heart buckle through it. Under part of that is a piece of pom pom ribbon. To the left is a date, I have used Pink Paislee letters, Bella Blvd and Thickers. On the right top is the title, I have used two different types of Thickers and a Bella Blvd sticker. Another butterfly is at the top it has small Bella! brads in the centre, a line of other Bella! brads is next to the butterflies on the left hand side. A strip of Kaiser white pearls added to the top of the photo. I have then soaked the whole page in Glimmermist!!! I love making the page more sparkly.

Heres some close ups,

It was quite hard sticking to one colour I kept wanting to add more colours like orange and pink and more stuff, but my stash is lacking some white things and some different shades looked more yellow, so didn’t go there

Global Warming

2010-03-18T14:58:00.000+10:00

I am currently working on a Biology Essay for Uni, the theme; climate change and its effect on two species abundance, I went to the library and took out a couple of books to read on the topic. (Did you know?? You can loan out 20 books at a time!!!)
I found this one, there is heaps of information and perfect as it has knowledge about the polar bear but as I was reading more about it I found it more interesting
I suggest this book as a good read; it goes into detail what humans are doing to our Earth and how it must be stopped.There are many different scenerios, how Earth is changing and for the next generation it will never be the same, some things never able to be reversed

Next time your at the library, find this short book to read

100

2010-03-17T09:04:00.001+10:00

This is the one hundreth post on my blog. Which means I have to show some scrapbooking....
Here are the first pages I created at a Creative Memorys party about 6 years ago which started the love of Scrapbooking, how things have changed since then. I think there must be something about cats???

Also this week I have booked in for a Tropical Reef Snorkel at Seaworld, at the end of April in my holidays, I simply can't wait to go and snorkel with the reef sharks, rays and tropical fish. At the end of the year there is one step higher the Shark Encounter with the large man-eating sharks- in a tank of course. I wanted to do this in April but it books out so quickly (months in advance) so Im waiting till the end of the year and more University holidays.

Listening to the radio yesterday there was some prize for QLD VIP passes, listening I knew the song, my favourite band the All American Rejects and won two of them!!! So awesome, listening to my band finally paid off!!! Was stoked and then booked in for Seaworld now I can get in there for FREE.

Hmmm although Ive blogged no Uni work has been done yet.....

Another one

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from last weeks crop, two isnt bad for 5hours right?

Materials used for this one; Bazzil Cardstock, American Crafts Cardstock, Kraft cardstock( the second time ever I have used this stuff), Spotlight ribbon, My Minds Eye chipboard dinosaurs; Abbey Road, Pink Paislee green letters distressed, white Thicker letters inked over the top in light brown VersaMagic, Basic Grey green and grey letters

Check out these cute dinosaurs

I have also used another chipoard tag from the same range under "ZOOLOGY" in the title, with a piece of tied ribbon

Layouts from the crop last week

2010-03-16T14:49:00.001+10:00

This one I created at the crop last week. So here’s the list of materials I have used to create this layout:

Chipboard Celebrations circle, Green Tara flowers, Blossies flowers/roses,qhite poinsettia flower (I received this on a gift from Anette a few years ago, see hoarding things is great, you use them up eventually) Prima flower, Bella Blvd alphabet letters pink and white, Bella Blvd Journaling stickers, My Minds Eye Paper; quite contrary, Blossies Journaling Helper; Calenders, Kaiser felt hearts, Heidi Swapp felt butterfly, Spotlight glittered pink butterfly, Bazzil cardstock glitter strips, Celebrations ribbon, Blossies ribbon, We R Memory Keepers blossoms glitter lace, Bazzil Bling cardstock, Kaiser pink pearl strips, VersaMagic pink ink, My Minds Eye Accessory sheet; quite contrary range. Most of these things are NEW at BLOSSIES so go and have a look

You can also find this page here

See...

2010-03-08T08:25:00.002+10:00

What happens when you give a box to the cat... Its so small but she still likes to sleep in it, most of the time Molly puts her head like this just to rest it while she sleeps

I think this one is the funniest... haha

Look at these pics I took the other day of our old boy Boots, he turned 12 a month ago and is still such a handsome cat.

I adore my pussy-cats♥

Cant wait to scrapbook these photos

Birdhouses

2010-03-07T12:55:00.000+10:00

Using a chipboard pack from Blossies I created these cute little birdhouses. the pack is called something to do with a "Village" but i added them onto sticks and created birdhouses. I made this for my dear friend Andrea, I gave it to her in the week- after getting the damn laptop fixed!! I have used assorted ribbons, papers and bits and pieces to create these little collection of cuteness. (The little twigs even came from the back paddock along with the piece of wood it is all sitting on)
Here it is

Some close ups;

Simple

2010-03-03T14:56:00.002+10:00

Molly and Dad, this one is simple, the photo had many colours in it, I kept to just a couple of them; orange, pink and brown .Outside piece is white scalloped Bazzil. The title consists of Thicker, Bella Blvd, Rose Moka and Pink Paislee alphabet letters all distressed and covered in Kindy Glitz. I have used a large orange button and a fabric brad in the centre, I just pushed the metal bits into the holes. A large pink flower, Bella Blvd stickers; distressed. Tied around the page is orange thread. Two pieces of ribbon used, the pink has been gathered. Two hinges are next to the photo the holes are covered in Kaiser pearls Large doily was a piece of white plastic I’ve cut down and covered in orange Glimmermist. The photo is double matted. A strip of pink pearls across one of the stickers.

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Well, La Di Da

2010-03-02T15:35:00.001+10:00

This one was created using the new Kaiser La Di Da range. I have used two of the papers and bought the embellishments to match, these had chipboard pieces and ribbon, i used all of the chipboard pieces and a piece of each ribbon. Also used were the Kaiser alphabets to match, Bella Blvd letters and Thickers. There are heaps of embellishments; Kaiser, Prima and Blossies paper flowers, Basic Grey pearl hearts, Bella! Buckle, metal flowers, green gems, Bella Blvd stickers, other Kaiser felt pieces from the love range, and various bits and pieces. I have doodled in a sharpie around the page and title.

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Scrapping again

2010-03-01T09:25:00.002+10:00

This is the first page of my cruise album, I’ve finally started on that one (the formal one is still going though). The photos are matted in Bazzil, backing piece is scalloped Bazzil. The title is Bella Blvd and Thickers. White flower, circle mirror, blue ribbon, white satin ribbon ,paper roses, elephant brad, Bella! Buckle, Kaiser small letters, buttons and metal embellishment are from the stash. The paper doily, umbrella and sword are all things I've collected while on the cruise. Journaling done with a Sharpie.

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Something Different

2010-02-28T23:38:00.000+10:00

I got the inspiration from a magazine for this one. I created a template for it and started off with that adding bits and pieces to it.
Paper: Hot pink Kaiser; La Di Da range, white Bazzil cardstock, Imaginsce striped pink paper, American Crafts Cardstock, Bella Blvd pink heart strip (folded), pink Bazzil cardstock, thick cardstock for backing, pink swirl paper (unsure where from its an old one)
Embellishments :Bella Blvd stickers, Blossies ribbon, Spotlight ribbon/lace, Birch trim ,Celebrations ribbon, Prima paper flowers, Green Tara paper flowers, Delish brad and metal embellishment, Spotlight pink butterfly and Iron-on butterfly, Kaiser gems and pearls, Bella Blvd pink letters, Kaiser pink alphabet, plastic bobby pin and pearl buckle from stash, Gold Eyelets from Blossies, Sharpie for journaling
Its quite different but i like the way it turned out.

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Organisation

2010-02-15T09:56:00.025+10:00

Since I’ve got back I have been re-organizing my room, figured I need to use my desk now I’ve started University. It was bought to use through school-whoops it just had my stuff tigers and toys, useless crap, scrapbooking albums and various pieces of stuff really. So here it is my new desk area. My textbooks, stationary, folders, files, laptop are all easily accessible!!!! Already there is so much work I have to start on so blogging won’t be updated that regularly.

I made this tin also when I came back, I used Imaginisce paper, Bazzil scalloped cardstock, Birch ribbon, Celebrations ribbon, Prima flower, button and assorted chipboard letters painted and covered in KindyGlitz. The tin was then covered in Glimmermist.

Also is my word for 2010, yes it’s already Feb I’ve only just figured it out. I thought being here at my desk is the best way to have it close as to think back to it. It is Zoology; the scientific study of animals. This is the degree I’m studying this year and for the next three years. It is what I want to do, to be a zoologist. This artwork is sitting at my desk where I can see it every time I’m doing study or my university work. Ive added to year 2010, not sure if I’ll keep it just for this year or make new ones for the other two years.

I have used a Bo Bunny orange and black tiger print, a large strip of white spotted paper folded randomly, and covered some chipboard letters in a black and white striped paper inked in light brown. Across the page is a piece of string tied, a button, rose (also inked in light brown), a flower and orange/black button, and a gold charm I had in the stash. The year is Pink Paislee letters which have been distressed. The smaller letters along the bottom are Kaiser.

Armidale

2010-02-14T09:32:00.000+10:00

While being in Armidale NSW I tried to blog, this didn’t work as there was barely any reception and it was painful to try and do anything. My laptop and the connection thought it was too hard to try and upload any photos also. Here are some of the photos I took around the town.

This Horsey was very friendly

We found a Gorge

I played a game with some cows, they were inquisitive as I turned around they moved closer, when I took a step towards them they moved back

These are the cutest deer, they were next to our holiday inn.

There is a Lolly Shop =]

Happy Valentines Day♥

Using up more things in the stash

2010-02-07T07:24:00.000+10:00

The paper is a ©Cythie Fisher paper from JQ Outdoors, I have had this one for quite a few years and came up with a reason to use it. I took these photos just over a year ago at Australia Zoo, even behind glass I got some quite good pictures. I’ve used up some chipboard letters, covered them in wood grain paper by October Afternoon and sanded the edges, also in the title are Pink Paislee letters which have been distressed. A thick piece of brown organza is gathered undeneath with a smaller piece os brown ribbon, the letters are over the top. A piece of sting is tied around the whole page. The middle photo has a chipboard frame around it, inked and then coated in Dimensional Magic, buttons, metal frame and journalling tag from stash.The paper is matted onto a piece of dark blue Bazzil, this also made it more sturdy as the paper is thin.

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This is my favourite part of the page; the detail gone into this tiger on a piece of paper is amazing.

Anywhoo, I'm off to Armidale for a week of orientation at Uni, will be back on here when I return. =]

Too Many Cats??

2010-02-06T18:05:00.001+10:00

The white backing piece is Bazzil, brown paper is the back of a Kaiser paper, pink spotted paper is Adorn It and the pink striped cat paper My Memories Scrapbook Paper. I have used my sewing machine on these papers. I have used a photo of each of my cats, I picked the best I had and edited it in Photoshop with their names and the colour to black and white. Each one is distressed around the edge with sandpaper. I like the way it gives it a distinct white border, then all matted in pink Bazzil. In the top right corner is a large Bella! spotted flower, smaller pink Prima Flowers a chipboard flourish; distressed with sandpaper, two loops of pink beads another flower folded in half and a paw print brad in the centre. Sitting on the flourish is a felt Stuck on Craft felt cat sticker. In the bottom left corner is the title the fish and collar are from the same sticker set as the felt cat. Pink glitter letters are Thickers, hot pink Heidi Swapp letters are lightly distressed both have white gel-pen traced around the edge. The pink CATS is a Bella! alphabet but I have painted them instead of being green; Making Memories paint used and then white gel-pen over the top. Three ribbons used a piece from Blossies and the other two while I was out today at Bribie Island. One photo has a piece of pink trim on it.

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