"Gift Of Love" Award

Look what I got the other day form the wonderful Janine.

This is called the "Gift Of Love" Award and I get to choose between 4 & 8 people to pass it on to.
Here are 5 fabulous Blogs from my blog list

Renee

Ness

Tanja

Kaz

Hand Inspired

Been a little out of sorts here.

Isacc is growing up very quickly he is now 14weeks old and his mum (Sam) and dad (Ben) took him to get some professional baby shoots taken 2 weeks ago- he was 11 weeks old then and I just thought I would share a couple of shots with you.

I haven't been a slack blogger or scrapper lately on purpose but it seems that my mojo has taken an extended holiday :(. Please if you find it could you return it to me or better yet leave me a comment on a my blog to inspire me.

Who knows you may just have the right words that will bring the mojo back to me again LOL and if you do I will give one lucky blogger a little RAK just to say thank you.

1st ever promo @ Scrapping Around

You may not remember whom gave you the scrapping bug or what got you started but who knows so just for fun here is a little promo for all that can and do remember. Now just to make this a little more fun I am going to give everyone a $5.00 store gift voucher for each item that you are able to upload. For those that have been scrapping a few years now your not forgotten (that's only if you can't remember your 1st evers )

What you need to upload. Here is the gallery link for you

• Upload your 1st ever single 12"x 12" layout,
• Upload your 1st ever double 12"x 12" layout,
• Upload your 1st ever card,
• Upload your 1st ever OTP,

The Knitty Gritty of the challenge

• This challenge is open to old and new members of Scrapping Around.
• You must let me know here when you have uploaded to the gallery.
• You must put 1st ever as part of your title information on the items you have uploaded to the gallery.
• You will need to have a store account for me to email you your voucher.
• Each person is able to win a total of a $20.00 store voucher.
• This Challenge will close at 12pm VIC TIME on the 28th of FEB 2009
• Store vouchers will be emailed out on the 1st of March 2009 and valid for 2 months from that date.
• You will also need to email with 1st ever in the subject line.

For more information join us in the forum.

Happy Valentine's Day

To all my friends I hope you have a happy Valentine's Day today.

You know we should tell our partners we love them 365 days.

Victorian Bushfire appeal - Shop at COLES today

The Victorian Bushfires are just devastating as we have all heard on the news since they have happened last Saturday.

My heart and prayers goes out to all those that have been affected by this disaster.

So I am asking everyone that reads this blog to go do their shopping at any COLES store today as they are donating all their profits for today to the bushfire appeal. Please even if its only a couple of items that you are needing from the supermarket like milk and bread, take that little bit of extra time and shop at COLES today. We will be doing our shopping there today.


The RED CROSS are also doing a wonderful job of helping victims from this bushfire and if you wish to donate please follow this LINK. Every little bit helps.

Happy Birthday Mathew

Our oldest son Mathew is 23 today. Here is a snap shot of him with his nephew Isacc. Don't they both look relaxed LOL.

FEB Cyber Crop Layouts from Scrapping Around

These are the layouts I got completed for the Cyber Crop at Scrapping Around this time. I just haven't been well for the past 2 weeks and at this stage we have no idea what is wrong. But I can tell you that 3 blood tests in one week is just 3 blood tests too many.

Challenge #3 - LOVE / HAPPINESS This is a photo of Charlotte, Samantha and I that Rob took on Christmas day. It does remind me about how much fun the 3 of us girls can have together. and thats what the journalling is all about. I used rubons on the ribbon for an added touch of journalling. On the journaling block I used stickers and rubons as well as my own hand writting for my journalling.

Products used:-

• Grant Archival Textured cardstock pad - Neutrals
• Ash paper flowers from Kasiercraft
• Sugar Sugar collection - SPRINKLES from Kaisercraft
• Purple flower rhinestones from Kaisercraft
• Alpha Masks from Heidi Swapp
• Pale Beige paint from kasiercraft
• 2 scoops brads for ribbon
• White ribbon
• Rubons from Kaisercraft & TLC from my stash

Journalling reads:-My happiness is being able to spend time with my 2 girls. The 3 of us allways have a lot of fun together.It's what I call bliss.

Challenge #6 - Blind Challenge

My take on Renees blind challenge.

I have used :-

• Grant Archival CS
• TLC patterned papers

• Lone ranger - SALOON paper from Kaisercraft
  

Challenge #1-Handmade chipboard embellishment

My take on the 1st challenge for this Cyber Crop.Family I inked the chipboard using stamps and inks from my stash. Photos were taken on Christmas Day at charlotte's house.

Products used were:-

• Bazzill CS - Raven
• Lovestruck paper from Kaiser
• Flower Power - Fuscia Fozz felt from kaiser
• Latte pearls from Kaisercraft
• Journal Block from Bella
  

Cyber Crop @ Scrapping Around !!

Come on over to Scrapping Around if your looking for some great challenges.
The CC started this evening and goes over the next 4 days with uploads due on Monday evening.

Scrap the BOYS!!

Over at Scrap The Boys their new chalenge is up and so is the public voting for January 09 Layouts. Why not pop on in and cast your vote for some of the most amazing entries I have seen in a long time. Poll closes on the 4th of FEB.

Off to see if I can find my mojo it seems to have gone missing over the last few days what with the hot hot hot weather we have been having here in Victoria.

I have lots of photos on my pc already from Jan but haven't gone out to get them printed at big W just yet. Hoping that I will be able to get there before Friday but who knows.

HUGE SALE ON @ Scrapping Around

have so much stock that we need to move to make room for the new ranges we would like to get in so we are having a huge sale in our store til the end of FEB or while stocks last only.

Bling sale with items up to 35% OFF
Heidi Swapp felt embellishments 24% OFF
Kaisercraft Fozz felt and Blooms 50% OFF
Crafty Originals Chipboard products up to 34% OFF
TLC/ Breezy Designs up to 50% OFF
Kaisercraft BTP items between 40% and 45% OFF

Keep checking their blog as more items will be listed over the next week.

Happy "SWEET" 16th to our "BABY" Boy!!

Today is Alex's 16th birthday.
Yep he is our baby so to speak.
We are having a BBQ Dinner for him this evening with family and friends.

Here he is in his school uniform but this photo was taken in 2008 when he had dyed his hair blonde which turned out a lovely shade of orange...LOL

JOY Canvas

Finished its in the gallery at Scrapping Around and now here it is for you all to have a look at. :) I went through a box of family shots that haven't been scrapped and you know there are still heaps of photos in that box but hey its ok they will be in scrapbook albums one day.
Items I used were:-
Canvas from the reject shop
Kaisercraft Argentella collection - FLORENTINE
Kaisercraft Argentella collection - CHANTILLY
Kaisercraft Argentella collection - ALENCON
Kaisercraft Argentella collection - TULLE
Kaisercraft Original Monologue Letter ~ J
Kaisercraft Original Monologue Letter ~ O
Kaisercraft Original Monologue Letter ~ Y
Kaisercraft eggshell paint
Me & My BIG ideas icons - Small Scrolls
Spray adhesive. - Spotlight
I tell you the spray adhesive is fantastic for canvases as I have always struggled adhering to a canvas until now that is.

Happy Australia Day !!

To all our family & Friends we wish you a very Happy Australia Day. I for one am overjoyed to be a citizen of this great nation. My parents, Brothers and I migrate to Australia in 1974 ( I was 10 at the time) from The Netherlands. We became naturalised citizens 3 years later. Some photos of the Fireworks at the Geelong Waterfront from last night.

Take care and happy scrapping till next time I blog.

XOXO

Week #3 photo share

These are my 7 random photos from week 3. You will see our crazy son, Jess with Blackie, Isacc and myself, Necturines I picked from our tree, The crazy cat Garfield and a really random shot I took when we went to MacDonalds for a coffee. Can't say I didn't have a busy week at all can you LOL.

Scrap the boys layout

The other day (16th of Jan 08 actually) I created a layout for this month's challenge at Scrap The Boys. I used the following items to create it.
Cardstock - Stampin’ Up!
Papers from INK
Stitched rubons in red from TLC
Grungeboard skulls
Brown versacube ink
White ink Colour IT!
Bella chipboard letters
Journal block from Glitz Designs
Journal block from Theresa Collins

I used my Stampin’ Up! cutter tool kit to grunge up the papers around the edges with the Distressing Tool.
This is the very 1st time I have ever entered a blog challenge too. Amazing how sometimes things just fall into place isn't it and you are able to do something you have wanted to do for ages.

Week #2 photos

Bit slack with these I know but I do have a good excuse for not posting these here earlier.
Our internet is on go slow as we have been shapped back from going over our plan and we are only 3 weeks into the month...Doh! Plus I have been helping the Bossman in getting everything back onto the Scrapping Around website.
So these are my random photos from week #2.
Catch you shorlty with week #3 and an OTP I completed this week :)

Such is life...isn't it!!!

Well I have had to have a good long think about things that are important to me and what really isn't and you know My FAMILY are #1 in everything that matters.
Having said that I have had to think about me and Stampin' Up! and as much as I love their stamps and other products I'm not a "party plan" girl at all. Just don't like having my supplies in boxes and waiting for the next booking at all so at the end of this month I am going to give up Stampin' Up!. It's a tough choice but hey it has to be made. I'll live and I won't stress about feeling like I am stretching myself too far and all over the place.
DH's work hours being what they are some weeks its just too hard to work around him and hte boys that are still at home. Plus my commitment to my DT work is much more important to me.
So good bye Stampin' Up! if you are one of my customers I will post a link to some wonderful ladies in early Feb that I know will be more then happy to help you with any products you may wish to purchase from Stampin' Up!

Catch you soon with another post :)

Kaisercraft Gingerbread man

Finally my 1st otp for 2009 is finished and I can share it with you all now.
I Used the following items to create this little wall hanging for Isacc's bedroom wall:-
Kaisercraft pp - Peek-A-Boo - Nursery
Kaisercraft pp - Peek-A-Boo - Lullaby
Kaisercraft pp - Peek-A-Boo - New born
Kaisercraft pp - Peek - A -Boo - First Steps
Kaisercraft paint - Mint
Kaisercraft paint - Eggshell
Kaisercraft wooden letters
Rubons were a mixture of Kaisercraft & TLC/Breezy Designs
Blue ribbon is unknown

Last of my CC layouts

This is the last of my CC layouts that I got finished on time. There is still one more to go and it will get done as it needs a few finishing touches.
Step-by-step challenge with Scrapaholix. For this layout I used:- TLC cardstock
Kaisercraft pp - Spirograph - Harmonic
Kaisercraft pp - Spirograph - Phase
Bella Corrigationz - BLue
White ink
Olive ribbon for corners on my hidden journaling
Clear Star - with glitter heat embossed

New family additions

Charlotte and Chloe have 2 new family members of the 4 legged kind. LOL
here is a pic of them aren't they just too cute.

They took Alex and I with them and we too ended up with another family pet.









This is Alex's kitten I think his/her name will be blackie but not sure just yet.

What I have been upto so far this week

Well I have been having a play with wordpress. There are just some things blogger won"t let me do that I really want to do and that is seperate my DT work from my Stampin Up! and also inform my Stampin' Up! customers on what classes, workshops, crops I am planning for 2009.

Sad that blogger won't let me do all this I know and I bet I am not the only one whom hasn't worked out how to do all that and a little more in blogger.

So if your looking for information on my Stampin' Up! classes etc here is the link ofcourse I will still be here and will link bits from here to my Stamin' Up! info and vice versa so don't stress to much.

Ok I'm off to have a little play with my stash and pack to go out and crop at a friends house this evening.

But before I forget hop on over to the Scrapping Around Blog as I have set the challenges for SYS #2 and the 4th quote challenge there while the site is being transfered to a new hosting company. So hoping that this wont take to much longer but they did inform BR that it could take up to 5 working days :(

Till next time take care

Jan CC Creations

These are my creations for the Jan CC at Scrapping Around so far.

Challenge #1B - Card sketch challenge

I have used:-

Kaisercraft blank card - Metalic Teal

Happy Birthday rubon - TLC

Dome stickers

Olive Ribbon

Spiroghraph papers - Rosette & Spiro

Challenge #1A- Page Sketch challenge

I have used the following items to create this layout.

Kaisercraft Spiroghaph papers - Rosette, Spiro & Phase

TLC cardstock

Bella photo corners

Rhinestone arrow and word from Kaisercraft

Dynamo LetraTag for my journaling.

Challenge #2 - Mutli Photo Layout

Products used for this challenge were:-

TLC Cardstock

SU Scallop punch

Elegance - Elizabeth pp from Kaisercraft

Chipboard Alphas - Bella

Chipboard shapes - Bella

Stamps form my stash

Zig pen for journaling

Bark versacube ink

Cinimon versacube ink

Rhinestones from Kaisercraft

Challenge #5 Christmas Memories

For this challenge I have used the following:-

Bazzill white CS

Heidi Swapp mask

Celebarate acrylic word from Scraplets

Paper flowers from Green Tara

Wooden flowers from Kaisercraft

Pearls from Kaisercraft

Distressed inks in Worn Lipstick and Shabby Shutters - Tim Holtz

Thats 4 down so far and only 2 to go which I hope to have finished tonight, but will upload tomorrow to share.

Cyber Cropping Time

There is only 1 sleep to go until the January 09 Cyber Crop
When:- Thursday 8th January.
Theme:- Scrap your Holiday Memories
Start Time:- 7:30pm (VIC)
Where:- The forum at Scrapping Around

There will be Great Challenges, Games, Great prizes to be won and whom knows what else will be in store…so come on over and sign up for some creative inspiration, a bit of chatter and a whole heap of fun.
Hope to catch you there:)








You will now notice that all my links are in blue and all my headers and other special things are in white LOL. I am hoping it will make it easier for you all to be able to follow the links what with my beautiful background from PYZAM.COM
Until my next lot of updates have a wonderful day and stay safe.

Scrap Your Stash Challenge #1

Scrap your stash challenge #1 wasn't a difficult one for me, as I have heaps of papers and embellishments etc that are well and truely over 3mths old. Don't we all LOL.


A copyright to me.

This is also a very old photo of DS @ either 3 or 4 Can't quite remember sorry. He is now 22 going on 23 ROFL.
The papers and Cardstock I have used are from Stampin' Up!
The Chipboard is from Bella and America Crafts.
Rubons are from Urban Lily.


For more info on this challenge go check out the FORUM at Scrapping Around. Join up as a member and come have some fun with us as this could end up being a year long challenge who knows LOL.