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