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