Intro Class

I have just finished the sample for the introduction class that I am running on the 3 January and wanted to share a few sneak peeks. However, the peeks are a bit poor!  I was was using Mitch's camera because it was within arms reach and unfortunately I don't have the macro setting down pat like with my little, old flasher.



I am looking forward to this class, I really love the layout. You can't see all the good things in the pics but let's just say it's rather large and sparkly!
If you have any questions or want to book this class or any of the other beautiful projects that are on the calendar, please visit Scraptivate or call, or even better call in and have a look in real life!!












Take care of each other,
see you soon!


M

Saturday Night

On Saturday the lovely Judy B threw a wonderful end of year party for all her staff at the hospital and we were lucky enough to make it on to the exclusive invitation list, and we had a ball!!! Thank you so much Judy, for thinking of us. It was a great night!!!
This is Judy getting her "groove" on and boy can she groove!! Judy and Benedict absolutely rock when it comes to tripping the lights fantastic!











Mel-Belle and Natalie

Natalie and Michael (hahaha, looks like he is in trouble! He wasn't but I have managed to get photos mid expression on everyone, wait till you see the ones I scrap)


Kev and I (not the best photo, and would you believe 2 weddings and a dinner/dance later, not one decent photo of us. It is a conspiracy!!)

I swear I have some art to show you very soon, it must have just been one of those fortnights, can't seem to catch up. But I will post photos asap!!


Take care of each other,
see you soon.
M

Your cordially invited to have a look!

Hello, just another quick update. Thought I would show you some invitations I knocked up the other day for display in Scraptivate.



Please excuse the photos, they were taken with my iphone (just gotta luurrve the iphone), and they were just sitting on my grubby old work mat.

























Had big plans to show you a finished work of art I have made for the joyous season but unfortunately Angus got to it and broke my cone... lucky I am not short of adhesive type substances. It has put the completion off a little though! The joys of motherhood!!


Take card of each other,
see you soon!
M

Pride, Lessons and Laughter

Sorry about the quality of the photo, yes, I took it in church... with my phone... UMMMM VAAAAAHHH - "Hail Mary full of Grace..." will say a few more of them to make up for it.  Although I am sure that God understands how much I want to share my pride in my (not so big) boy.

Yes that is my Moo-Moo, first time as altar server.  I am so proud he has taken on the responsibility and that he is learning about taking on a role of care and service within the community.  Whether it be in the church, in the family or just in the wider community, I think it is soo important that I teach my children to take care of people and offer support and service to those that need it.  Taking on a role like altar server just helps give the opportunity to put that in practice. 


Father Bonaventure actually really helped my in his sermon on Saturday, he touched on a point that is something I struggle with on a day to day basis.  Without prattling on I will pass on to you his gem of truth as I am sure this will make a lot of sense to alot of us no matter what your faith or convictions...
"When you win the rat race, you are still a rat."   
Think I am ready to take 5 minutes out and have some time for peace and gratitude, how 'bout you?


Now on to something a bit lighter...

This is Anghee (2) being difficult, if I can't take photos of him now what is he going to be like as a teenager!?!


Take care of each other (and yourself), 
see you soon.
M

I know what boys like...

Does anyone else remember that song except me? "I know what boys like, I know what guys want, I know what boys like, boys like, boys like me, nah nah nah nah nah!" Eighties music, YUM!!!


Anyway, that is not quite where I was going. I was actually refering to the fact that I love Halloween because of all the great releases, ie. paper, stamps, ephemera. While we don't celebrate Halloween in the traditional/commercial sense, I love the Halloween stuff because most of it ROCKS when it comes to making cards, pages and OTP projects for boys! Here are a couple of 'boy' cards I have made for my big boys to use for some of their mates birthdays. BTW, I was also playing with UTEE and Opals!! Heellllooooo, how cool are they???!!! So happy with the drippy effect!!  It took a while but I have it down to a fine art and here is a tip - it doesn't involve a melt pot!!!  I layered a bit of black UTEE on the already melted Opals and then reheated it all to get the top of the bat wings. Loved this and am definately going to play with that a bit more, think that effect could really look gorgeous with the right colours and the right pattern!!






Take care of each other,
see you soon.
M

A couple of quickies!

These are just a couple of quick cards I made recently, as usual one had to be in purple, I just can't help myself.










And the vintage one, which is using a photo stamp.  I have a few of these and I never use them as much as I want.  You know, it's just one of those things, so I am going to try to use them on some cards, especially after this one, because I think it has worked quite well.

More "stuff" soon.


Take care of each other,
see you soon.
M

How could I not take photos?!?!?

How could I forget to take my camera to preserve the moment???  What was I thinking???  Mind you, how could I ever forget my first time, does anyone ever forget their first time.  I don't think so, and I don't think I will be any different.  Those lovely ladies will be with me now, everytime, and I thank them for giving me such a lovely memory.  What am I talking about, I hear you ask... I taught my first class on Sunday, and it was absolutely fantastic.  I had the most wonderful girls, who were sooo patient with me and so good at what they were doing it hardly felt like I was doing anything but have a crop with friends.  And they all made the most gorgeous caddys.  All the lusty, busty wenchy type girls on the front turned out great, and busty!  Thank you to the girls that made it such an enjoyable experience for me and I sincerely hope they had as great a time as I did! Mwah, mwah, mwah!!!


Well next class is a double layout designed to give beginner scrappers a heads up to some of the techniques and tools used "in the trade".  Feel free to have a look on the Scraptivate website, and I will post pictures later.


Take care of each other,
see you soon.
M

Guess what... my class is this coming Sunday!! Which means this is the last few days to book in to learn how to create this handy little handbag caddy, all girlie and florally and see how I dressed that  shapely dress form with the bust I wish I had, lol!!! (Can't really see it in the picture but she's got a great rack ;-) ) This would make such a lovely present, or maybe just to display your own girliness!!


Please call Scraptivate to book, on 9444 6626.




Hope to see you there!!




Take care of each other,
see you soon!
M

What a thank you!!

This is one of the amazing table centre pieces my sister-in-law Misty made for her wedding on the weekend, AND to say thank you for the invitiations, etc. I made she allowed me to take one home to use to share the most beautiful, simple pleasure that fresh flowers are!

I think you can see now where the hot pink and lime green came from now!!!!



The planter, by the way, is more than 1' long, the blooms are huge and vivd and most are still with us today, amazing, I know!!

Kev has decided we are going to put some herbs in the planter once the blooms have finished and we will be able to put it on our kitchen window sill. This pressie is going to be the type to keep giving. *Mwah* Thanx Mist!!!!

Take care of each other,
see you soon!
M

Congratulations Misty and Phil

Anyone who has come within 200m of me lately would have heard about the invitations that I have been making for my lovely sister-in-law, Misty. You would have heard about it because to be truthful it has been a little bit of a stress. Doing the invites themselves wasn't the stress, it wast just that Misty had picked a colour combination and a paper that was very different to what I would have chosen which made it a real challenge. Misty had decided to have Oriental Lilys and so her colours were hot pink and lime green. And the focal paper is one aptly named Oriental Chinese Carpet. So after much ummmming and thinking and trialling and redoing, I finished everything and the wedding went off without a hitch on Sunday. I haven't taken a photo of the actual invite yet, but I will and I will put that up as well!!
This is one of the bomboniere tags. Lucky for us my mother-in-law (beautiful, warm lady she is, I really do love my mother-in-law), makes soaps and candles so Misty had beautiful pink and green soy candles in lovely little frosted glass holders, with guess what scent... Wedding Cake!! There was the most beautiful sweet cake smell all through the reception centre.

Place cards, yes, in case you didn't notice I hand stamped and embossed everything. The stamps are a Basic Grey set which was totally awesome because you could build any flourish you like out of the different small flourishes and there was a range of frame stamps that matched, how easy is that!!











Misty had originally left herself and her groom off the list, so I took it on myself to make this 8x8 canvas for there place card. I actually used pink mulberry paper to do the tissue paper background and it worked a treat!!


The happy couple, Misty and Phil!

We always wonder where Wal comes from because she looks so different to the boys, but she is soooo like her Aunty Misty!!!




PS Keep an eye out I am going to tell you about the discovery Mel-Belle and I made at work the other day... Border-ific-abilities!!!!!

A layout!

I have to be honest and off the top of my head I can't remember the last time I did a layout, I am enjoying the off the page, cards and projects with no boundaries so much more at the moment, I have difficulty even getting my head around a 12 x 12 page. Except for my heritage photos, I haven't even been putting my photos on 12x12 pages. You'll actually see alot more 6x6, 8x8, and 8x12 pages in my collection, which also means that you can't buy a lot of albums off the shelf so it forces me to think outside of the box as far as how to display and store my pages goes.

Having said all of that, just recently as a challenge I created this layout. The specs were 12x12 and the colour scheme had to be bright. This may surprise some, but I actually struggled with "bright". While I always do "strong" colours, "bright", I thought was a bit of a stretch.




Anyway, I picked the papers first so I had some idea of where to go with it all. All the chipboard is Glimmer Misted (of course).
I have come to love these photos since doing this layout, I may have to do them again, but give them the "Megan" treatment and leave the Pina Colada paper alone.


One thing I love about my little house is that I can see my babies from the dining room and often they are completely unaware that I am watching them, to the point that I can catch these candid moments when they are being completely honest.

I've noticed too, that my children very rarely have a full set of clothes on in any of our home photos. For some reason the boys have gotten into the habit of not wearing a shirt around the house, and often only wearing their boxers, even if it is 2 degrees. Because of this Wal very rarely wears a shirt either which is a bit of a worry. She just hasn't realised she is a girl yet! I really hope she come to terms with the appropriatenss of clothes soon.

Take care of each other,
see you soon.
M

Kaiser Bag Caddy-Soooooo excited!!!

I am sooooo excited to be teaching my first class at Scraptivate on Sunday October 25! It is this handy little Kaiser handbag caddy, I am sure you've all seen it at the shop. It's going to be a great class, full of ideas about how to get 3d effects from you flat paper embellishments (including shaping a beautiful bustier). I sincerely hope you'll all come and join me for what is sure to be a really fun class. For all the details hit the Scraptivate website or call the store on 9444 6626.

Surprise!!!

This is a blank box I altered recently for a present, I haven't given in to the recipient yet so I really hope that she doesn't see the blog, mind you she is the only person I don't want to see my blog, to everyone else - PLEASE SEE MY BLOG!! Tehehe!!

The box itself was black, I am 99% sure it was Cosmo Cricket. Being black is AWESOME, I loved it. Wish I had've bought more than one now. And just for future reference, the stamping behind the heart/wings was done with the Brilliance Pearlescent Biege and it went on the black sooooo well, then I have just embossed it with clear embossing powder. it really worked well!

Inside a put a air dry crown from the Krafy Lady mould, and it is painted with Golden Micaceous Iron Oxide (YUMMMMMM, love that too!!)

Well, I hope she likes it when she gets it, and I hope you liked having a peek at it too!!

Take care of each other,

see you soon.

M

Because

Thank you, Svetlana,   xxxooo!!!

Yay, now that wasn't too long was it?

So here is another quick update!! Are you all shocked?




This little album was a DT project given to me by Natalie from Scraptivate. It is the bright and funky "Zinnia" range from Little Yellow Bicycle. The title came directly off one of the papers, in fact, when the pack was handed to me at a staff crop, someone was waiting for me to read the lovely family quotes on the paper because they knew I would get a tear in my eye, but I got them... I waited till I got home to read them, tehehe!!! (And yes I did a little teary.)

I really do love this album because the papers are so fantastic (and they have oodles of my favourite colours, purple and orange, in them). The wide colour range meant I could use heaps of different photos without clashing with the paper, and no black and whites.  It is my favourite mini album to date. I was looking through the multitudes of photos of my little family and I was blown away by just how openly affectionate they all are to each other, even without realising it. Whenever they are put close together even when they just sit on the couch together, they sit right up close to each other, put their arms around each other, just generally give love to one another and I absolutely love it!! I had to be picky about what photos I put in or else it would have been too thick to bind.


I must say too, knowing that Kev won't read this, I did make a point of using some flowers with the boys photos. And I think I pulled it off quite well. And, Yes, there is quite a bit of magenta too!











Well, if your interested in an up close look it, is in the store on display.  Feel free to stop in and flick through the pages!













And to those who saw my FB comment on Monday, yes I rustled up a little something... I have completed a double layout which I am going to teach as an Introductory Scrapbooking Class in November at the store. I am sooooooooo  excited, so wonderfully excited!!  It is going to be awesome!!!!




Take care of each other,
see you soon.
M