We are all settled in

Well we are in the house and all settled in still unpacking and organising but we are getting there slowly.... My scrap room is still in pieces but my gorgeous guy has set up my desk so it shouldn't be too much longer till I'm back and scrapping again (well I hope so anyway )... But we are all happy with how the house is looking now and I'm sure it won't be long till we get into a routine and back to normal...
Just wanted to wish all my blog readers a very merry Christmas and a very happy new year...I for one can't wait till next year it's going to be a big one for our family....oh and I do have some very exciting news my gorgeous daughter kaitlyn got nominated as school captain for her school for 2012 so very proud of everything she has achieved so I'm sure she is going to be one busy little girl next year for her last year of primary school....ok back to unpacking some more back soon with some pics I hope

Xoxo

No scrapping

For me at the moment we finally got a house and we are in the midst of cleaning and moving....really missing my scrap stuff but looking forward to unpacking and setting up my new scrap room in our new house... Can't wait till we are finally in and I can scrap again...back soon with photos of my new scraproom hopefully all set up

Xoxo

JYC catch up

so thought i would come and share what I've done so far with JYC… i know i know its not a lot LOL but hey I'm still getting there and i do really have a great excuse of why i am behind LOL….our exciting news is……..we got a house woohooo we are so excited and cant wait to move in (hopefully in the next few weeks if possible)…so that's why I'm a bit behind and now with moving might be a bit more behind LOL but i might actually pre plan my pages so i can get them done when my scrap room is all unpacked….well lets hope so anyway….

so here is what i have done so far…
my album that i am using this year

these are really cute little ring binder 8x8 albums made by doodlebug….
i decided this year to go a bit vintage and use the new My Minds eye papers and Simple Stories papers….
here are my pages so far

ok so that is all so far….now to start packing up my scrap stuff and move….exciting times just means i get to reorganise my scrap stuff in my new room wooohooo now that's fun….

ok off to pack will update while we are moving hopefully…

xoxo

Its that time of year again…

my favourite time of the year…yep its December and i love it…this year I'm doing Journal your Christmas again (for the 5th year i think) and this year I'm not going to make a promise to get it finished (as that's never worked for me before LOL) this year I'm just going to create and see how i go… so this is me starting off

Happy December everyone….hope you all have a great one…

xoxo

Just discovered

Oh wow ok I'm a seriously bad blogger but I've just discovered that I can now blog from my iPhone lol...maybe now I might be able to blog more often from wherever I am... Well let's hope so anyway. Back soon with some things to share once I work out this phone blogging properly lol

Xoxo

Party Party Party

well the party is continuing over at Shimelle’s online party class…and i have even managed to stay caught up so far…

Prompt one: was to use strips of patterned papers on your page and use these strips from scraps of paper…well as you all saw in my last post i have a few scraps that i need to use…so here is the result even using older stickers and embellishments also

Prompt two: was to use patterned paper as your background… now i don't mind doing this occasionally but to challenge myself even more i decided not to use any cardstock what so ever…again i used a few older products on this page such as the tape…

cant wait for the next prompt to arrive this afternoon….more scrapping coming up

xoxo

Pretty Paper Party

woohoo the Pretty paper party has started with Shimelle.. the first challenge was to take some pics of your papers and sort out what sort of paper person you really are… well i read the prompt and i have to say I'm a bit ashamed of myself as i seem to have a rather huge addiction to pretty patterned papers LOL… i found that i was in all the groups and here are pics to prove it

The paper Collector:

as you can see a rather large collection of patterned papers and that's not all of the collection…

The Scrap Sorter:

Again this is only a small part of my scrap paper collection… Don't know what it is with me having to keep all the extra cut off bits of the patterned papers… i cant remember the last time i used any of it but still cant get myself to throw them out…

The Pattern Contender:

again these boxes hold more of my favourite patterned papers… those papers that i buy cause you never know when that perfect photo will come along to use with them (although some of them have been sitting in my stash for more then 12 months waiting on that perfect photo LOL)

The Collection Packer:

when i find a company i really like i have to have it all… the entire collection otherwise i get really frustrated when things don't match…

see just a slight addiction to patterned paper…its so so pretty… lets hope this class will teach me how to use up some of this pretty patterned papers…

cross fingers for me..

xoxo

Update time

Well another update time i think…

Down Under projects i have done recently…i was lucky enough to get some of the new grand calibur dies to use for my projects and of course to use in my new favourite die cut machine the grand calibur…but when i got these dies i realised how big they were and i had no where to store them…so this is the folder i came up with after searching and searching online for ideas…

love it this is one of the pages inside this folder i have used magnet sheets and cut them into strips to hold the metal dies onto the paper…it seems to be working so far although the folder is very heavy now LOL

i forgot to take a pic of the grand dies in the folder will do that soon to show you how they fit in there also….

The other project up on the down under blog is my Halloween card… even though we don't celebrate Halloween here i love it…this was just a simple card i made using some spellbinder dies..

Onto other normal day life things… Kaitlyn is finally home from a week at her dads… she is now back at school and we are back to normal routine…only a few more weeks of dancing for her then its over for another year…apart from dt work not a lot of other scrapping has been done…must get out of this slump I'm in…i did just sign up for another Shimelle online class so hopefully that will pull me out of it for good…(or should i just clean up my room maybe that will get me scrapping again LOL)…

ok off to get organised for work

xoxo

Recent Design team

thought i would update with some of my recent design team stuff for down under direct…have been loving being on this design team so much fun playing with all the awesome stuff we get…here are some of my recent work

love how this journal turned out… it holds lots of inspiring stuff that gets me scrapping in this book… just like a bible for scrapping lol

a fun page i did using lots of bazzill cardstock and spellbinders…

this month the dt got to have a play with all the fun new spellbinder dies that have just come out at CHA…this little box is one of them designed for the Grand Calibur machine…so cute

well that's about all for now.. lets see if i can go and get inspired to do some creating…

xoxo

another 2 cards

here are another 2 cards i made this weekend playing over at Splitcoast stampers…lots of fun challenges over there

this one was for the Featured stamper where you get to CASE a chosen person. This is the card i CASED Bensarmom and here is my card

and this card i made for the alphabet challenge at Splitcoast Stampers the letter was P

ok off to get organised back to work tomorrow

xoxo

Card making

So this weekend i decided to join in a few challenges with my cards…bought out my copics and had fun playing while it was very miserable outside…

Flower Bear

this card is using the new sketch from Friday sketch challenges and also the new I Spy challenge over at Split Coast Stampers…

that's all for now will update again shortly lots of stuff for my Down Under Direct dt work to share

xoxo

Another page for the album

wow I'm on a roll tonight…another page done for the Perth album…this time i used Shimelle’s Scrapbook Starting points as inspiration for this page…quite liking how this is turning out…

this is another rock formation that was close to Wave rock… we ended up going here for a geocache and had fun wondering around here it was amazing how the weather is the way this rock was formed….loved exploring this country of ours…

xoxo

Holiday Album

Well I've decided to start my Perth holiday album… while i was away i was lucky enough to go into one of the biggest scrapbook shops that i have ever seen… i picked up a 6x12 album and thought it would be perfect for my Perth trip photos… so here i am starting my album… might not do it in order though will just do pages as i go through my photos (once complete ill be able to then put it into an order…)

So here is my first page. I'm a huge Shimelle fan and have wanted to try her sketches for awhile now. Her concept in her travel album inspired me also to have a base of Kraft then use what ever colours you wanted so I've gone with that inspiration as well as using her sketch…

so here is my page on wave rock

 

wave rock was amazing and I'm so glad we got to see it. It was raining the day we got there but we still decided to climb to the top cause I'm sure it will be a long while till we can get back there again.

ok off to scrap some more

xoxo

Down Under Direct projects

hey everyone (that still reads my poor neglected blog) thought i would share my latest design team projects with you for Down Under Direct…this month i decided to do a few male projects as over here in Australia we are about to celebrate Fathers day

Firstly is a page all about my gorgeous guy who is my strength, my shoulder to lean on. i loved these photos i took of him on our engagement weekend away…love this guy so much

Products Used:

Bazzill Basics Paper:

8-814E Cashmere

9-990D Java

15-256F Cardinal

Spellbinders:

S5-048 Sprightly Sprockets

Other Materials Used:

Bo Bunny Printed Paper

Bo Bunny Stickers

Kaiser Alpha Stickers

and next i decided to pull apart an old wooden kaiser album that i had and i made it into this set of coasters… now which dad doesn't like a cold beer on fathers day LOL i know my dad does…

Products Used:

Bazzill Basics Paper:

7-783E Admiral

15-256F Cardinal

Spellbinders:

S5-048 Sprightly Sprockets

Other Materials Used:

Acrylic Paint

Kaiser Printed Paper

Mod Podge

ok off to get some more creative stuff done (i hope)

xoxo

and i return

well its been awhile since i last blogged… in that time i have been and come back from our awesome trip to Perth…we had such a ball traveling all the way over to the other side of Australia… the amazing things we saw and did was awesome…

Now I'm back and back into reality… my poor blog is so neglected these days…work has been very busy and lots of fun… we just had a big shipment of nice new things arrive so that was fun unpacking and the weekend just gone was our yearly retreat with 63 ladies from our 3 stores… such a fun weekend apart from me having a table fall on my knee (so yes I'm in a bit of pain at the moment)…

scrapping wise not a lot happening I'm hoping to get right back into things very shortly (once i get it unpacked LOL)… but i will share all my recent Down Under Direct dt projects (which I'm very slack at sharing lately too sorry)…

(this is my gorgeous engagement ring my man got me all on his own… he did so well i love it)

also my first page for my wedding album

Products Used:

Bazzill Basics Paper:

10-1001E Bazzill White
10-1081E Raven

Other Materials Used:

Bo Bunny Patterned Paper

Kandi’s Rhinestones

 

this was a quick male card i made loving the flags at the moment

Products Used:

Bazzill Basics Paper:

10-1001E White

2-214E Red Devil

5-510E Parakeet

3-344D Tangelo Blast

Spellbinders:

S4-162 Labels Two

JustRite Stamps:

JB08097 Miriad Pro 50pt Font Set

Other Materials Used:

MME Printed Papers

Toothpicks

 

so that is all for now… make sure you check out the design team blog lots of fun tutorials on there from the talented team members….

ok off to clean up and get my scrap room back in order…

(ps i also just re signed up for Learn Something New everyday with Shimelle go and check it out its a fun class from the 1st of September till 30th September)

Road Trip

well as we just got back from Perth after our Road Trip i thought this post was very fitting… love taking these photos of the road that we have driven many a time up and down to Bathurst…

Products Used:

Bazzill Basics Paper:

9-960D Kraft
9-990D Java
15-256F Cardinal
Spellbinders:

S4-142 Long Rectangles Large
S4-143 Long Scallop Rectangles

Other Materials Used:
Echo Park Patterned Paper and Embellishments
Misc Buttons

xoxo

Christmas in July Part 2

another item i made this month using the gorgeous Nested hearts Die… love this one and you don't just have to use it for Christmas but it can be used for many different things…

Products Used:

Bazzill Basics Paper:

9-960D Kraft
10-1001E Bazzill White
9-990D Java
Spellbinders:

S4-296 Nested Hearts
S4-114 Standard Circles Large
Just Rite Stamps:
JB-08780 A Merry Little Christmas

Other Materials Used:

Kaiser Patterned paper
Misc Glitter Paper

xoxo

Christmas in July

I got to use this gorgeous die from Spellbinders Called Nested Hearts for this months Design Team from Down Under Direct….

So much to do with this die… i used it this time to make these little Christmas ornaments…very cute for something hand made this year on the Christmas tree…

Products Used:

Bazzill Basics Paper:

10-1001E Bazzill White

Spellbinders:

S4-296 Nested Hearts
S4-114 Standard Circles Large
Just Rite Stamps:
JB-08780 A Merry Little Christmas

Other Materials Used:
Kandi’s Professional Bling
Misc Ribbon
Misc Twine

xoxo

Reflections

I love this photo of me it just says it all… Me with a camera in my hand all the time….

Check out the dt blog for more inspiration….

Products Used:

Bazzill Basics Paper:

9-960D Kraft
9-990D Java

Spellbinders:

S4-124 Scallop Circle large
S4-290 Labels Fourteen

Other Materials Used:
Echo Park Patterned Paper and Embellishments
Prima Canvas Alpha stickers
Bazzill in Stitches Thread
White Gel Pen

xoxo

Dream Big

Well we right now we should just about be in Perth WA…I've decided to schedule a few posts while I'm away with my dt stuff to share with you all….

 

Here is a card i made this month using the Spellbinders Impressabilities. i love using these as a stencil with my distress inks… make sure to check out the Down Under Direct blog.

Products Used:

Bazzill Basics Paper:

10-1001E Bazzill White
10-1081E Raven

Spellbinders:

S4-114 Standard Circles Large
S4-124 Scallop Circle large
S4-290 Labels Fourteen
I2-1001 Impressabilities Paisley
Just Rite Stamps:
JB-09880 A warm Hello Set

Other Materials Used:
Misc Ribbon
Distress Ink – Chipped Sapphire
- Spun Sugar

xoxo

One more sleep

So we are all packed now ready to head off very early tomorrow morning… we are all a tad excited over here and cant wait to start our big adventure of traveling over to the other side of Australia….

Ill leave you with my latest dt stuff for Down Under Direct….(don't forget to leave me a comment and ill draw a winner when i get back for some lovely goodies…)

Products Used:

Bazzill Basics Paper:

7-757E Swimming Pool

1-134E Passionate

10-1001E Bazzill White

10-1081E Raven

Spellbinders:

S4-114 Standard Circles Lge

S5-050 Rose Creations

Other Materials Used:

Kandi's Professional Bling

American Craft Thickers

Echo Park Paper

xoxo

see you in 2 weeks woohooo

Only 2 more sleeps

then we are off on our big road trip adventure across Australia to the other side… wow seems so far LOL…bags are packed now to just pack the car then we are all set to leave early (and i mean early LOL) Friday morning… so excited love road trips when we get to see this gorgeous country of ours… Perth here we come LOL…

Just thought i would share also my latest Down Under Direct work that i have done….i made this card as a colour challenge… love being challenged out of my comfort zone and these colours were gorgeous to work with….

Just have to say also I'm loving the Just Rite stamps as well so much use out of the one set… must definitely get me some more of these stamps….

thanks for visiting please leave me a comment i seem to have many visitors here at my blog but no comments…so from today till i get back please leave a comment on my blog (so i know the comments are still working LOL) and when i return ill draw a name and send them a surprise gift….

see you in 2 weeks

xoxo

Bit of a catch up

Opps seems I've neglected my poor old blog again… so here are a few things i need to catch up on…

Down Under Direct DT projects….

Products Used:

Bazzill Basics Paper:

10-1001E Bazzill White

6-638E Forget-Me-Not

4-406E Chiffon

Spellbinders:

S4-294 Lacey Circles

S4-190 Labels Four

S4-136 Classic Heart

S4-137 Classic Scalloped Heart

JustRite Stamps:

JB-09880 A Warm Hello

Other Materials Used:

Kaiser Craft Patterned Papers

Black Inkpad

Spellbinders Storage Folder

Products Used:

Bazzill Basics Paper:

1-166E Pirouette

6-699 Plum Pudding

4-431D Bazzill Yellow

6-638E Forget Me Not

5-510E Lorikeet

Spellbinders:

S4-146 Butterflies 2

Other Materials Used:

Kaiser Kraft Storage Binder

Glimmer Mist

100% Attitude

Materials Used:

Bazzill Basics Cardstock:

7-744E Stonewash

5-520E Parakeet

9-973E Walnut

Spellbinders:

S5-048 Sprightly Sprockets

Other Products Used:

Corrugated Card

Prima Canvas Letters

 

I'm having so much fun creating for Down Under Direct…. its nearly a new month so new projects will be up soon… make sure you go and check out the Design Team blog and follow us so you get to see all the inspiration….

On other news we are only 3 more sleeps away till we head off on our big road trip adventure across Australia to Perth…we are so looking forward to it…we are driving across with our new camper trailer and have just had the 4wd fixed and serviced ready for the road…we also have many plans on things we are to do along the way and while we are there also…. I'm sure ill have plenty of pics etc when i get back…so i really must get packing 2 weeks worth of warm clothes… apparently the weather is not good over there at the moment so lets hope it clears up for us by the time we get there….

see you in 2 weeks time

xoxo

Just Because Card

Here is another card i made for the Down Under Direct team… very quick and easy and never realised how good the Spellbinders Impressabilities are and how many things you can do with them… if you have never used them make sure you go and check them out lots of fun techniques (ill be showing more soon)…

here is my card

Products Used:

Bazzill Basics Paper:

10-1001D Bazzill White

15-256F Cardinal

Spellbinders:

S5-042 Fleur De Lis Doily Accents

S4-114 Standard Circles Large

12-1006 Floral & Stone Impressabilities

JustRite Stamps:

JB-08790 Just a Note Borders & Centres 15/8

Other Materials Used:

Ribbon

Versamagic Jumbo Java Inkpad

xoxo

Journal

Here is another project i did for Down Under Direct… with my wedding coming up i decided to make a journal for myself to record and keep track of all that i have to do and get done (which is way way to much to do LOL)….

so here is my journal i made

its already got lots of stuff in it…with preparations full on for our big day…

Products Used:
Bazzill Basics Paper:
10-1001D Bazzill White
6-697E Dotted Swiss Berry Pretty
6-699E Dotted Swiss Plum Pudding

Spellbinders:
S4-042 Fleur De Lis Doily Accents
S4-161 Labels One
S4-092 Stars Five
Other Materials Used:
Kaiser Craft Wooden Journal Album
Ribbon
Alpha Stickers
American Craft Thickers

xoxo

another DT posting

Here is my next reveal over at the Down Under Direct Blog… i was very happy with how this page turned out of my gorgeous girl Kaitlyn…

loved using the plain circles to make scallop borders etc and the new Fleur De Lis Doily Accents are so easy to use on any page….

Products Used:

Bazzill Basics Paper:

10-1001E Bazzill White

15-256F Cardinal

5-510E Parakeet

9-990E Java

Spellbinders:

S5-050 Rose Creations

S5-042 Fleur De Lis Doily Accents

S4-114 Standard Circles Large

S4-161 Labels One

Other Materials Used:

Bazzill Self Adhesive Bling Stones Kisses

Echo Park Printed Paper

American Craft Thickers

 

Go and check out the blog and see what the other dt members are creating…

xoxo

Just a share

So i forgot to share this card with you that i made for my very good friend Bee… this is her birthday card i made her…

loving these La La Land stamps they are just so cute and so easy to colour with my copics… was very happy with how this one turned out…

isn't she so cute….

xoxo

Down Under Direct Design Team

I'm back again with more design team work i did for Down Under Direct…when i saw this die released from Spellbinders i knew i had to have it (being a huge banner fan at the moment LOL)… so i decided to try and make a card out of it…

by just placing your die just under the fold of the card you can still cut out the shape you want and turn it into a card… love how versatile the spellbinders dies are…

Here is my card i made using the new Spellbinders Lacy Pennants die

 

so very cute love it and will definitely be making more cards using my spellbinders.

Products Used:

Bazzill Basics Paper:

9-960D Bazzill Kraft

1-128E Bazzill Pinkini

10-1001E Bazzill White

Spellbinders:

S5-029 Nested Lacy Pennants

S4-124 Classic Scallop Circles Large

S4-114 Standard Circles Large

JustRite Stamps:

JB08790 Just a Note Borders and Centres

Other Materials Used:

Misc Ribbon

Versa Magic Jumbo Java Ink
Designer Paper

Don't forget to go and check out the Down Under Direct Designer blog lots of gorgeous and inspirational stuff going on over there…

back soon with more

xoxo

Down Under Direct Design Team

Well here is my first project for my term on the awesome Down Under Direct Design Team… I'm still so excited to be on this team and had so much fun using all the gorgeous products that they have…

So here is my first page i did

i so love that spellbinders are so versatile not only for cards but using them on your pages is so much fun also…

Products used:

Classic Scallop  Circles Large S4-124
                       
                         Standard Circles Large S4-114

                         Mega Rose Creations S5-050

                         Flowers Impressabilities I2-1004

                         Bazzill White 10-1001E

                         Bazzill Pinkini 1-128E

                         Bazzill Kraft 9-960D

                         Bazzill Parakeet 5-510E

                         Echo Park PP

                         Misc Buttons

                         Misc Twine

So make sure also that you stop by the new inspirational blog that we will be posting our designs onto so much nice stuff going up so go and check it out…

back soon

xoxo

Update time

Well thought it was time for a bit of an update… just did a blog makeover and now its looking pretty again with a few added things up the top such as my galleries for my design teams…

So I've been without a computer for about a week now as i totally crashed my whole system… i was not happy let me tell you with losing all my photos and documents… lucky for me the wonderful IT guy came to my rescue and found them all for me so so so happy that i got them all back… so now I'm slowly getting back into things and sorting things out as i lost everything else on my computer such as all my favourite sites, blogs etc….

So in the mean time i have been doing a few things for my design teams here are 2 of my recent things I've done for Gel a tins stamps (don't forget to check out the new blog for gel a tins lots of inspiration over there)….

this card was made using the new Oodles of Doodles II stamp set… so many stamps in this one set so lots of ideas for this one

and here is a page using the same set

have a few more things on the go at the moment which is keeping me very busy…

ok off to update some more things and ill be back soon…

xoxo

Sketchabilities

Well the time has come for my Design team term on Sketchabilities to come to an end… i have had some much fun being on this team for the last 9 months… Karan sketches are so much fun so make sure you go and check it out… cant wait to see what the new team does with her fun sketches….

So here is my final page…

“Spooky Cousins”…

be back soon xoxo

Gel-a-tins Dt project

Well here is my first project i made with the cool stamps i got from Gel a Tins… i got to play with the Oodles of Doodles II stamps… they are so cute.. so many possibilities with these ones… here is my first project using them

off to create more with them…. Don't forget to also check out their new blog… its still a work in progress but its getting there… go and bookmark it so you can see all the gorgeous creations the other inspiring dt members are doing….

hope you all had a great weekend

xoxo

Catch up…

Well its been a busy few weeks around here so thought i better catch up my little poor neglected blog….

So i have some rather exciting scrapping news to share…. I decided a little while ago to give the Down Under Direct Wholesale Design Team a go…. not thinking much of it i got an email from the lovely Deb to say i made it to round 2…. here i was given some products that i had to use to make 2 cards and a scrapbook page….man it was a challenge but so much fun to do…here is what i came up with

Anyway a week later i got an email from Deb to say that i had made it on to her new Design Team for 2011…. OMG i was totally shocked and jumping up and down at the same time… I'm so excited to be apart of this awesome team and cant wait to start working with them….and as part of the prize for making it to the team i get one of these awesome machines…..

 

I'm so in heaven right now LOL… my most fav scrapping products Bazzill cardstock and Spellbinders….see told you i was in heaven LOL…cant wait to start on my dt assignments …

ok off to clean up my desk…

hope your all having a great week

xoxo