Just Me and Them

Scrap Artist Pages and some Cards

Well I guess my title gave away everything lol.  This weekend has been absolutely awesome - I have caught up with soooo much and more!!  Yesterday I cleaned up the house, did groceries and even had some time to make some fruit mince pies - from scratch!! They werent the greatest to look at but they were still yummy to eat.

Anyway, here are the Scrap Artist pages I created last night -

Sarah and I mde a whole heap of these yesterday as well.  They are for this afternoon when she goes to her dancing Christmas party.  Sarah was so cute because she insisted on being a part of every step of the process but she couldnt handle putting on the life saver handles so in the end she very politely told me to do them and took over all the rest - very cute!!

I also created a pair of Magnolia stamped cards - one for Matt's birthday which is early this week and one for Sarah who turns a huge 10 4 days after christmas. Here is Matts -

Notice the cake is upside down?  I stamped it like that by accident then really liked the effect since she is all devilish and all!! Here is Sarahs - not so wicked one!!  

Well, time for me to go get Sarah ready for her party - wish she would stop stressing over what she wants to wear!! 

Latest Christmas Cards

Today we went to the Pageant and god was it a hot one!!  Tomorrow won't be much better but apparently there is a change a coming and thank goodness too!!  So far its been a week long of heat - the 37 - 40 degree kind of heat at that!!

Anyway, we made it through the pageant and the day!!

Tonight - while it still is tonight - I wanted to quickly share some more of my Christmas cards I have been making.  So far I have made a total of 65 of the 70 I wanted to get done which I think is pretty good!!

Anyway, here they are -

All of my cards have been created using the Xmas papers range from Kaszazz and Kaszazz stamps.  I can officially say now that I joined Kaszazz and love them so if you are keen on anything let me know!! 

Xmas Cards and More

Well I have officially made it to 40 Xmas cards finished - yep 40 done and another 30 to finish for our Xmas list!! 

Here are some quick ones I created using a Making Memories base card set, word art pieces, Basic Grey Doilie and that good old Kaszazz swirl stamp which I love!!

I also have been working on this kind of floral ball thing - no idea what to call it - I saw something similar in the Kaisercraft magazine using punched flowars and had the idea of using some of my old prima flowers instead.  I got crystal facetted beads to use for the centres and just pinned the lot to a large styrofoam ball then sprayed the finished ball with a Glimmer Mist to glitz it all up.  Pretty Huh!!

 

Well, thats it for me for tonight!!

 

More work to share

This is turning out to be such another busy week and I'm still on school holidays lol!!  So far I have created a hummingbird necklace for my mum using a Dragon Bead weaving kit, started my woven bead necklace that I have been dying to start and of course cleared out all of my old scrap kits I had to make.

I've even stocked up my kit collection by creating 4 new kits from all the old goodies lying around my scrap room and a couple of new things to inspire me added.  I figured this way I can be more ready to scrap through the coming months as everything is pre-coordinated but also use up all my old stash rather than going and joining another kit company again!!  Here's hoping it works out!!

Anyway, here is some more of the kit catch-ups I created -

The first two pages were created using the last bits of the Scarlet Lime kit I found while the bottom page was created using an old Scrappit kit.

A couple of weeks ago I got really keen on a stamping kit called - Kassazazz.  Its a cool company that sells their stamps as unmounted rubber so its cheaper and easier to store.  Anyway, here's a card I created using  one of their stamps -

 

A Big share!!

Hiya, I have heaps to share tonight but before I do I just want to share this -

Yes!!  Thats my street - but thankfully not my house!!  A couple of hours ago we had an urgent knock at the door, it was our friends from across the street whose kitchen was on fire.  Matt ran over to help get a fire blanket over the stove where the fire was still burning to try and contain it  while I came after to get them all to bloody well get out of the house!!

In the few short minutes the fire was ablaze, the house filled with so much smoke you could barely see inside which is kind of a scary prospect and one that definately has me thinking about all the fire training we give kids.

Thankfully, only their stove was damaged by the fire.  Thankfully the fire crew were very quick and very efficient.  Two trucks arrived, followed closely by an ambulance when they saw how smoke affected Matt and Deone were.

Anyway, on to other less dramatic stuff - Sarah had her first dance concert yesterday -

she was so excited and nervous about the whole thing. 

Her first item was to do the fling with other new beginner dancers. She finished off her part then with a fairy dance -

She was so terribly cute at it all!!

Last weekend  I went to a Kaszazz training day.  I am very intrigued and interested in this stamp company as I love the idea of purchasing single unmounted stamps rather than bulky kits.  I have so many stamp now that I need to really think about storage effectively!!

Anyway, here is the things that I created on the day -

Everything used on the day was from their newest release which was kind of exciting!!

 

August Club Scrappit-Now

Well, here it is in all it's glory! As you can probably see, I loved these papers and found them very easy to work with.  Here is the pages I created -

 

 

 

Then I also created a star book out of some very different papers -

 

 

And finally, I created a set of cards.  I made 2 of each design but have of course only photographed one of each design.

  

 

 

Over at my Articles blog (link at the side of this page) you will find and article explaining how to create both the star album and the reflecting colour baubles on my cards.

Quick catch-up

Not much from me of late.  In my last days in Melbourne I got sick - typical me!!  It started as a sore throat which quickly progressed to a rather rude barking kinda cough and ended with a head that feels so heavy.

My mum convinced me that I should go to the docs - since I could be dancing with a nasty pasty pig lol - and I did, today.  I only have a rather annoying traditional flu and an asthma cough - phew!! - I guess thats all good but I sure wish this bug had just bypassed me altogether!!

Anyway, I have a few pretties to share with you all -

 

I made these two pretties a few weeks ago for my students teachers farewell and promptly forgot that I had even taken their photo until I was downloading my Melbourne photo's!  Too cute!!

 

And this pretty digi page was created for the Scrap Artist monthly challenge!!  This months challenge was to create a page using the quote "Life is...".

Ok, thats it for me for tonight, I am stuffed and sick and just want to go sleep for a couple of years lol!!

June Club Scrapp-it Now

This weekend the June club was officially released and I can finally show off what I created with the kit!!

This month the pack was very pretty and whimsical - all fairies and kings!!

Here's the pages I created -

 

 

 

 

and here are the off the page projects I created -

 

 

 

Finally, here are some cards I also made -

 

 

 

Lastly, I have uploaded both tutorials I wrote for this months newsletter up on my Scrapbooking articles.  The first is a how to on the technique to create the card above and the second is also a how to, making one of the screen frames I created up further.

 

Digi work, sneakies and a new article

This month started off with a new challenge with Scrap artist and I managed to squeeze it in among everything else I've done -

 

What do you think?  I normally hate the colour orange - it's one of the few colours I don't like and yet I used it!!

Here are more of the sneakies I said I would share - although the kit should be coming out sometime this weekend.

 

 

 

 

 

Finally,  I wrote a technique article for the Scrappit site and in addition to getting it over at the shop site you can also check it out over on my Articles page (the link is on the side of this page).  There is also a downloadable copy there for those that prefer to print.

Here are the three cards I created using the techniques -

 

 

 

 

Catch up

I feel like such a naughty little blogger.  I've had sooo much going on lately that there's been no time to just sit in front of my computer and chill with my blog and so 5 whole days have passed and I havent done anything!!  I have actually got quite a bit mounted up to share but that can wait a bit... I reckon an explanation is needed here. 

You see my class is off on camp next week - mine and some of two other classes and it's been chaos setting everything up to run smoothly.  It hasnt been an easy path to walk but I must say there's been a pretty sharp learning curve to work through and I guess thats a reward in itself - must just keep telling myself that!! 

Also,  I'm trying to catalogue all the digi files I seem to amassed so that I actually know what I have!!  I think I wrote earlier on about how I bought a fantastic program called ACDSee photo manager to do the cataloguing, which involved sorting the files into logical groups then tagging them so that specific searches are possible.  Easy??  Yeah well, first my portable hard drive crashed and died and I had to get that replaced - fortunately I have everything backed -up so no drama's except that all the tagging I'd started had to be redone.  Then, my laptop crashed (Blasted sticky fingered kids) and I had to go to an earlier backup which of course meant I had to restart again!!  So now I'm still going 2 weeks later BUT I learnt to backup every day while I'm working on this huge task.  Amazingly, I have already amassed over 16000 files to catalogue!! 

So that's me... and here's my shares -

 

This is this weeks challenge page for the Scrappit "We dare you" challenge.  This weeks theme was to create a page about shoes and so of course I chose to use Sarah's must have Hannah Montana shoes!!  I reckon the photo tells it all - especially when you know they were a small fortune for kids shoes AND they are only barely 3 weeks old!!

Finally, I spent some time making cards over the last week/weekend and I just wanted to share how they turned out -

 

 

 

 

 

 

I love love love the middle card - the one with the poppy.  I think its the colours but that's my favourite one!!

Well that's it for me for now, I think the club newsletter and May kit are released today so hopefully I'll be back tomorrow to share what I created!!