Bird Is the Word

Hi There!

I hope you are all having a great weekend. Congrats to all the Swans supporters out there! We had a great time watching the AFL Grand Final with a group of friends. We don't always get to catch up with this group of friends so it was great to see them  & have a few laughs & a few drinks.
Just sharing my entry for the Bird Is the Word challenge. The word is 'story'

I have used Prima Tea Thyme & a Prima clock

The dusty pink flower is Prima. The others are all Green Tara

The chipboard fence is Dusty Attic. I have just smudged some gesso for a shabby look

Prima flowers & clock

2 crafty chipboard plaque & Prima alphas

Enjoy the rest of your weekend XX

Thanks for looking!
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The Color Room & Scrap The Boys

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I have combined a couple of challenges for this project. I was inspired by the grungy feel of these 2 challenges at The Color Room & Scrap The Boys




So I have used the colour palette from The Color Room along with using the chevron pattern & have used the Scrap the Boys base & this is what I came up with

I have used a mix of papers again with some VERY OLD Stampin Up as the stripy background, Kraft bubble dot cardstock, MME Follow your Heart & Crate Paper Toy Box

To grunge up the page I used my Crafters Workshop Chevron mask & some black ink, dry brushed some gesso, sprayed some Tattered Angels Torquise mist & splatted some Tattered Angels Candy Apple mist. I also used a Kaisercraft stamp in the bottom left & top right corner

This chippie is from Scrap FX

The Chipboard sticker plane is Crate Paper Toy Box. The Kites are chippies from 2 Crafty which I covered with PP & twine. The Mini alphas are from Simple Stories Summer Fresh

More Crate Paper Toy Box chipboard stickers. The pic is of Hunter (in the green) with his buddy Jack. Jack is my good friend Nelle's Son. We met them at Mum's group 7 years ago. The boys bdays are 5 days apart

On Tuesday I travelled to Melbourne to attend a Prima class held by Janine Koczwara! I am a HUGE fan of Janine's work & was super excited to go. The page Janine taught was extremely beautiful & Janine herself is just gorgeous! She is so nice & it was great to meet her after stalking her blog for a while now LOL!

Me & Janine after the class

My take on  Janine's page. How dreamy is this page! I luv the details & layers Janine uses. You should feel how heavy the page is with all the embellies!! I was in Prima heaven!!

If you joined in the recent Blog Hop at My Creative Scrapbook some winners have been announced here! I hope you were one of the lucky ones!

Thanks for looking!
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Once Upon A Sketch

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I have had a chance to play over at Once Upon A Sketch for the August challenge. The theme this month is your favourite season. I chose Winter because I like to become a hermit & sit on top of my central heating vent, curl up on the couch & read & of course it's always a good chance to scrap more!

This is my page

I have used more of my stash!! This is an old collection of Bo Bunny papers Midnight Frost that I had bought intending to scrap some snow pics! I luv the navy blue & plum purple colour combo! I decided to keep the chippies simple & painted them with gesso then covered them in fine glitter so that they all sparkled like snow!
My journalling was handwritten in white pen but it is kind of hard to see in the photo. It reads "Kayla you really loved playing at the snow. I loved watching you laugh as you went down the toboggan run. We also made a snowman & had a snow fight!" 2010

The large bloom is a beautiful velver flower by Green Tara. It is so luscious & pretty! The lattice design is my new Cheery Lynn French lattice die. Thankyou to the lovely Steph Devlin for letting me know which die she was using. I had been crushing on it for ages & trying to find one XX
The flourish chippies is Dusty Attic. This was actually birds on a branch but I chopped it up so that it looked more like a flourish. the scallop circle chippie is from 2 crafty

I used some white versa colour ink & some honeycomb mesh to create the dots & splashed some gesso around the page.

The cogs were from Fern Laser design & all the other blooms & leaves are Prima (you can see some of the  journalling on this pic!)

This is Nadia's sketch

Thanks for looking!
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My Creative Scrapbook July Reveal Part 1

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So it's 4 days into school holidays in Victoria at the moment. How are all the Vic Mum's going?? I am definately enjoying not having to run around like a nut case in the morning but I am starting to lose a little patience at the kids already. If they ask me one more time can they have something to eat I think I will scream!! Seriously I think I should worm them, they just don't stop eating all day! We haven't done much this week but next week we will head to Mt Baw Baw for a day & have a few play dates. hopefully that keeps the hungry little hippos at bay!

Anyway it is reveal day at My Creative Scrapbook YAY! Today I will show you my projects I created using the Album Kit. It was filled with Websters Pages 'In Love' so it was a perfect chance to scrap MORE wedding pics!

The embellies in this kit are awesome. I absolutely LOVED the Prima trinkets. There was also a gorgeous scroll chippie & some Teresa Collins Blingage glitter which was lots of fun to play with! Throughout the month I will have a tutuorial using the Teresa Collins Blingage glitter

I luv this pic of me & my SIL Amanda. She is like the Sister I never had! I am really so lucky that my Brother married such a great girl (he is SUPER lucky to have her LOL!)

This gorgeous Red car is Amanda's Dad's car that he lovingly restored. He had 2 friends in his car club with the same cars (different colours) take us girls to the wedding ceremony.
I have used some Prima packaging on this page. To alter the chippie I just painted it black & added some modge podge once the paint dried. While the modge podge was still wet I sprinkled the gine glitter all over the chippie

I will back soon to share the Main kit with you!

Thanks for looking!
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Scrap The Girls & more

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Today I have the last 3 pages I did at retreat. I tried to get a few challenges done while I was away. The first was for Scrap The Girls

I luv these Prima Fairy Belle papers. The colours r so gorgeous!

This next one was for the June Sketch challenge at Handmade By Suzanne
based on this sketch

I have used Websters Pages In Love mixed with Kaisercraft The Lake house with some new Prima flowers. I just got a few new Martha Stewart punches. I luv this around the page one. It is so pretty!

& lastly a just because page (& another wedding page!)

Some more Kaisercraft The Lake House & Kaisercraft trim. The pink flower is Green Tara & the others are Prima. The bench is Prima too

Ok need to get back to the books. We run our own business & I do all the bookkeeping. Heaps to do before the end of financial year!

Thanks for looking!
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My Creative Sketches June challenge

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The new sketch challenge is up over at My Creative Sketches. I luved this montsh sketch! It was so fun to work with! As usual there is an awesome Random Draw Prize up for grabs PLUS we are now featuring our fav 5 pages!

Yes I have used another wedding pic! I still have tons more to scrap! I have used MME follow your heart collection which was in the MCS May LE Kit. I have added some Pink Paislee London Market spool buttons & a Jenni Bowlin bow. The flowers are Prima

The frame is Kaisercraft & the gorgeous bling heart is a Prima Vintage Trinket

This is the sketch that was created by Kim Keane

& this is the cool prize

You have until midnight July 14 to get your entry so plenty of time to work on this!

I have lots of pages to share soon. I went to a retreat with my pal Nelle on the weekend. It was a great weekend. We met some lovely ladies from Eltham.
I cam home to an exhausted Hubby & a very messy house! Craig kindly said how much he appreciates the work I do with the kids & house after playing Mum for the weekend!
I had to giggle when he said that Evie had a tantrum down the street that he had to deal with by himself! It is nice for the guys to know what we go through every day!

Thanks for looking!
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Prima Sun Kiss- MCS Reveal Day!

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Yay it's reveal day at My Creative Scrapbook. Extra exciting for me cos it is my very first reveal! Click on the link to check out the amazing DT Gallery. So much gorgeous inspiration!

The June Main kit is full of Prima gorgeousness featuring the Sun Kiss collection with some We Are Memory Keepers also.

I luv this pic of Kayla & it conveniently matches the papers really well (don't u luv when that happens!)

Kayla on her first day of kindy earlier this year!

The lace in the kit was so pretty. I used one of the note cards as a frame on this page

I luved that the kit was so versatile & that it also suits boy pages. I had some fun playing with texture paste, mist & stamps to create a graffiti style background

I thought this title suited Hunter at the moment. He will be 7 in September & the attitude has really started to creep in!

There are lots of exciting things happening at MCS. 2 new add on kits are being released. A Dusty Attic Kit & a Mixed Media kit. More details here. Also details for the Prima contest coming very soon!

I will be back soon with the beautiful LE kit!

Thanks for looking!
Cheers