No cards yet sorry.

I was in the middle of finishing off my class cards from the show when my son arrived home in a ute with a broken leg and gashed head. Fallen off the back of a four wheeler!! So from 4pm yesterday arvo until I got home last night at 'bout 10pm I spent in at Mackay hospital.
His leg is broken in two places and they'll decide this morning whether to operate or not.
See you soon I hope with some of my creations from the show.

I've been away

Arrived home yesterday from the Scrapbooking and Papercraft Convention & Expo held in Brisbane. This show is held every year on the Queen's Birthday long weekend. Wow, I had a ball. Came home with lots and lots of goodies. Did four classes, watched many demos and learnt heaps.
Now I have to catch up on everyone's blogs. Oh yeah and to find homes for all my new stamps, nesties, inks, stencils, cardstock, ribbons and embellishments that I brought home.
I'm home tomorrow so really want to get in and play.
Thanks for reading.

Yesteryear cards

I made these a week or so ago to put in the Tourist Centre. They are very popular and sell well.

All the pictures are by Stamp It from their 9ups range.

I'd like to thank Debbie for the award she so kindly gave me too.

Enjoy the rest of your day.

Bella Bleu again!!!!

Here's the last of the Bella Bleu wedding cards I've made. I've left off the hat pin in this one.
Hope you like it.
Just lately I always seem to be at funerals. One on Friday, another one on Wednesday. It's not good. My Dad doesn't seem to be too well either. Will have to keep an eye on him.
Have a good afternoon everyone.

Little Paper Shop sketch for SOA

I joined the SOA site and there's a lovely sketch on there created by Little Paper Shop.

Again on my mission to make wedding cards using Bella Bleu papers here is the card I made.

I'm so happy with the way it turned out. The stamp Love and Marriage is by PSX.

Thanks for looking and have a wonderful day.

Inkspirations Sketch Challenge #8

I'm on a mission at the moment to make wedding cards for the Tourist Centre. I liked Makeesha's Inkspirations sketch so here's my wedding card using Bella Bleu papers and Together Forever stamp set.

I've got a thing about vellum at the moment so that is the top layer of the centre piece, then very vanilla and kraft on the bottom. Each layer is stamped and positioned over one another.

Love that kraft taffeta ribbon. Gorgeous.

Today I managed to make two other wedding cards using Bella Bleu dsp so will put them up at some stage tomorrow, probably after I do my volunteer stint at the Tourist Centre in Sarina.

Monday morning is tied up with CWA. Each year CWA has a different country of study. There is a competition open to the school children to do projects, colouring in depending on their age, for each year's country of study. This year the country is Madagascar.

We have an outsider judge each category and award 1st, 2nd, 3rd and merit places. Then the 1st place winners go on to be entered in the Division competition then onto State.

So my job as the branch International Officer, is to present the certificates to the children on school parade.

It's usually done at our hall with all the entries displayed on boards but this year International Day had to be cancelled due to the school having state tests that day.

So that was another job I completed today, printing out all the certificates and adding the judge's comments etc.

Right O, I'm off to bed now. Very tired. 'Night.

Companion Scapbook Page

Here is the page that I've done as the opposite to my first one. I used the same colours but just altered the embellisments a touch.
This sketch is one that was given out at the Scrapbooking morning that I went to Tuesday week ago. So I had the huuuuuuge day on the Saturday at South's League Club then went again on the Tuesday for a morning and early afternoon session. The sketch is called Square It/Round It. The idea being to have the rounded corners, circles in the missing section but still be a square format.
I did find it a bit hard to cut my photos down to 4" square and the one that explains what these particular model houses are, I couldn't cut it down at all so I printed the information onto a journalling mat and made it 4 x 4. I think it's worked out well. The original lesson didn't mention matting the photos but I felt the Chocolate Chip brings out the colours better. Also in the missing corner the original lesson had 3 circles largish circles there but as I wanted to match the previous page, I used my flowers and another set of circle stamps I have by Hero Arts.
I kept to the metal elements by three brads on the ribbon and brads in the centres of the circles and flowers. The two pages together look quite ok so I'm a happy bunny.

On that Tuesday I booked my place for the Scrapbooking Retreat being held on the weekend 31st July. So Kerry, Therese, Dianne and I are off to that. Definitely looking forward to it, no cooking, no housework, just sociallising and crafting the whole weekend. Excellent!!!!
Thanks for looking and reading. Have a good day.

Mojo Monday Week 88

Here is a card I made for the Mojo Monday challenge. It wasn't until it was finished that I decided that I like it. lol Wasn't that keen on it half way through.

The Banksia stamp is from the SU Bloom Away set and the dsp is Windsor Knot. I just coloured the image with my brush (not water brush, too much water) and water colour crayons.

The circles are cut with my Nesties.

Thanks for looking.

It's Finished!!!

I have finished my scrapbook page that I've been working on since Tuesday. I had the photos stuck down then yesterday at Leah's, I ripped them all up and started again. I wanted to combine CM papers with my SU textured cardstock, so I worked out what colours co-ordinated with the papers and have gone from there. Then there was the texture and embellishments to think about, I didn't want a 'flat' page. The sketch I used is one that Mandy gave as a challenge to a Yahoo group I belong to. It wasn't an easy process by any means but I'm absolutely so happy with my finished page.

I used Circle Circus which I have loved from when I first saw it in the new SU catty and was stoked when I found out it was one of our gift sets at Convention. There are sooooo many uses for this set, in particular, some of the circles lend themselves so well to Oriental cards.
It's All Good from last year was another set that I used as well as Lovely as a Tree. Then there is all the 'metal' eg silver brads, filigree brads, buckle and a clip. Actually the buckle was added as a brain storm whilst talking to my friend Robyn who is a scapbooker from way back. Thanks Rob. That strip of ribbon was looking very bland and was worrying me çause I didn't know what to do with it. lol

After using the CM curvey cutter I have now ordered it. The flowers are Hero Arts and my trusty Martha Stewart branch punch and SU eyelet border punches were used too.
I've left the writing, had to take the photo first.

I had an email from Ngaire Anderson regarding a comment I had made on her blog, telling me that scrapbooking, in her opinion, is not about how good the pages look to everyone else but if those pages hold a memory and you enjoyed doing them, then that is what counts.
So after doing my page, I now agree wholeheartedly.
Thanks Ngaire for your words of wisdom.

Another thing I need practice with is my photography skills. Oh well, perhaps that will come with time.
Thanks for looking and just maybe you may like my page as much as I do myself. lol

Tiger and Elephant

I'm back. Now I know these cards aren't strictly stamping but I think that these particular 3d's are different and lend themselves to being jazzed up a bit.
Both these cards were done in a class but only with the base card, the 2 pieces of dsp and the 3d image. I wanted to put my own 'stamp' on them to be a bit different.

All the edges of the top pieces that have been 3d'd have been inked around the edges with brown ink. This one I used Tim Hotlz's distress ink Vintage Photo. Uninked edges don't blend in with the pic and look unfinished. The greeting has beens tamped and clear embossed with Vintage Photo distress ink and this ink CAN be embossed if you are quick. The ribbon is from a pack I found online one day. It's not easy to get different animal ribbons. This pack has a zebra, leopard, tiger, and a couple of others. The beads I picked up at Needleworx here in Mackay on Monday. Thought they would be cool with these cards. I used retired SU black hemp to thread the beads onto. A photo corner with a brad finished it off. I'm really happy with the way this card has turned out.


This one of the elephant I had started ages ago but wasn't finished and had a different ribbon on it and I didn't like the way it was, so today I got into it and fixed it up. The twill tape is from SU and the twine is retired SU black hemp. Again I've added the beads. This time I used some metal photo turns that I had in my stash. Again the edges have been inked in brown ink, I think I used Versamagic Jumbo Java on this one and the greeting (retired SU set) has been stamped and clear embossed with Jumbo Java as well.
My silly sense of humour came out here, 'cause elephants aren't supposed to forget, are they?? rofl Well I was amused anyway!!! It's the little things you know...

Thanks for looking.