Hybrid Designs Survivor Mini Challenge

Just when I thought I was done for the week the Design Team over at Hybrid Designs throw a mini challenge at us for the Survivor Competition. We had to create a LO or OTP that was patriotic..so I got off my butt, drove 300km and went to the Australia Day Skyshow on the Perth Foreshore....got some brialliant photos of the fireworks using long exposure and a tripod as well as a photo of our flag streaking across the sky pulled by a helicopter.


Recipe:
Cardstock: Bazzil
Bling: Say it with Crystals
Flowers: Kaiser and unknown
Stamp: Heidi Swapp Date stamp
Ribbon: ???

This year: 18 Birthday cards, 2 Mothers Day cards, 1 Fathers Day card, 2 Easter cards, 2 Thankyou cards, 1 Goodluck Card, 1 Valentine card, 3 new baby card, 6 Christmas Cards, 1 minibook, 2 12x12 LO and 1 double page layout.....

Taylored Expressions Cupcake Challenge

Taylor from Taylored Expressions is celebrating a year of cupcake challenges with a super challenge - 9 cards based on 9 different sketches by the 9 members of the cupcake crew - I'm over half way there!

Taylors sketch



Jami's Sketch



Ana's sketch



Donna's Sketch



Vicki's Sketch



This year: 18 Birthday cards, 2 Mothers Day cards, 1 Fathers Day card, 2 Easter cards, 2 Thankyou cards, 1 Goodluck Card, 1 Valentine card, 3 new baby card, 6 Christmas cards, 1 minibook, 1 12x12 LO and 1 double page layout.....

Hybrid Designs Survivor Challenge #2

Well I have just finsished my 2nd challenge for the Hybrid Designs Survivor Challenge. This one was a dooley...we had to complete a LO with:

2 Colours only
LO must have a title, sub-title and journaling
1 Journal Block
Distressing
2 4 x 6 photos

I had such a cute photo of my niece looking through green plastic and looking at the world in green - so I decided to photoshop the image converting everything to black and white except for the green plastic, add some Basic Grey papers and a Becky Fleck page map from May last year and the result is this.




Recipe
Cardstock: Bazzil
Paper: Basic Grey - urban prarie: hayfield and bluebird
Flowers: Prima and Kaiser
Bling: Say it in Crystals
Stamps: Delish Alpha Bites and Autumn Leaves
Ink: Versacolour
Stitching: Hand stitching using in Stitchz limeade by Bazzil

Cardvaarks seeing spots challenge
Yesterday I found out that one of the teachers I work with - Hayley Hill had her baby. Lawson was born last Monday and so I got my head down to making a card welcoming him to Hayley's family. Using the left overs from my LO and the inspiration of polka dots from the Cardvaark blog, this is the result:



Recipe
Cardstock: Bazzil
Paper: Basic Grey - urban prarie: hayfield and bluebird
Panda paper piecing pattern: Precious Piecings by Lisa
Ribbon: ???
Embossing: Cuttlebug

This year: 18 Birthday cards, 2 Mothers Day cards, 1 Fathers Day card, 2 Easter cards, 2 Thankyou cards, 1 Goodluck Card, 1 Valentine card, 3 new baby card, 1 minibook, 1 12x12 LO and 1 double page layout.....

Taylored Expressions Cupcake Challenge #51

I love the challenge sites, and Taylored Expressions had a fun looking sketch to attempt and I have a BFF about to have a baby girl.



So combining their inspirations and my need, here's the result!




Recipe
Cardstock: Bazzil
Buttons: ???
Ribbon: ???
Alphas: Rose Moka Equinox

This year: 18 Birthday cards, 2 Mothers Day cards, 1 Fathers Day card, 2 Easter cards, 2 Thankyou cards, 1 Goodluck Card, 1 Valentine card, 1 new baby card, 1 minibook and 1 double page layout.....

Kazans Sketch #18

Another week another wonderful card sketch on 2 Sketches 4 You.


Having been trolling the blogs over the last week I felt like doing something sweet and romantic with plenty of bling! So here it is. I used 2 coordinating papers with the same pattern from Sassafrasslass and brought the paper to life with some cutting out, mounting foam and glue - I love the 3D effect!




Recipe
Paper: Sassafraslass Serendipity Scrumptious and Blue Boutique
Overlay: Hambly Screen Prints
Bling: Say it with Crystals
Alphas: Making memories tiny alphas - brown ledger
Cardstock: Bazzil
Ribbon: ?????

This year: 18 Birthday cards, 2 Mothers Day cards, 1 Fathers Day card, 2 Easter cards, 2 Thankyou cards, 1 Goodluck Card, 1 Valentine, 1 minibook and 1 double page layout.....

6 Picture Meme

Jodene, a fellow West Australian and the creator of 'Did I say that out loud' blog And Donna from Popsicle Toes tagged me for this challenge and I was curious to see what I would find!

First, the rules are simple. As follows:

1.Go to your Picture Folder on your computer or wherever you store your pictures. 2.Go to the 6th Folder, then pick the 6th picture in that folder.
3.Post that picture on your blog and the story that goes along with the picture. 4.Tag 6 other peoples that you know or don’t know to do the same thing and leave a comment on their blog or an e-mail letting them know you chose them.

Here is my picture and the story behind it:


This photo was taken on the 13th July 2004. I had been transfered to Kununurra as the Deputy Principal at the school and had the most amazing time exploring the Kimberleys during that year. During the mid-year holidays I had friends from Perth come up to visit me and we loaded up our swags on the roof of my jeep and packed up tents, equipment and supplies for a 5 day camping experience in the Bungle Bungles. This photo was taken soon after our arrival into the park, it had taken us 2 hours to travel the 78km into the park - the tracks in were devilish (but an adrenalin rush) and we had gone across 5 creeks and a river to get in - super fun as some of the drop downs were a over a metre. We rescued a car that got stuck on its way across a creek towing them out of the situation and lost one of my number plates...lol...Liz is on the roof of my car untying the swags and Kerry is by the door - we had the best week and took some excellent photos - I love camping with the girls, my perth mates, kimberley buddies and newer friends from Norseman - all the jobs get done!

The 6 people I am tagging are:

Toni from Chick Chat, a friend from Norseman and Queen of the Crop at Hybrid Designs

Moralia from Moralias Web Blog, one of my first sources of inspiration when I started blogging with an amazing sense of colour and design

Donna from Butternut Sage Designs, a 'Stampin Up' Demonstrator who has awesome ideas and makes incredibly creative cards

Jenn D from Stamp your Heart out, Jenn is awesome - her cards are super cute and she gives great explanantions about creating her effects!

Sue from My Inner Reflection, Sue is another Aussie who recently made a comment of one of my cards, when I checked her blog she had this super cute pocket card which I scraplifted *hangs head in shame* I'll be checker her blog regularly!

Marie from Said Simply, Marie is a fellow Hanami tribe member in the Hybrid Design 'Survivor' Challenge her blog is awesome and her work is detailed with great design elements.

Thanks for tagging me Jodene - It was fun going back into old photos!

Outbling - Outcrop - Outscrap

The Hybrid Designs website is hosting a challenge this month which I joined (not too sure how wise it was) based on survivor with a scrapbooking theme. The participants have been divided up into two teams Hanami (my team) and Kazan and our first team challenge was to come up with a totem - ours is awesome thanks to Kym - one of my team mates. The next Challenge (individual) was to come up with a LO, OTP or mini based on our totem.......


I made a minibook to record our team's progress. Everyone has a page inside and as we complete challenges I will add them to each team mates record - should be a good journal of how we are going - first challenge is due on the 22nd and so far 4 of us are done!


Recipe
Cardstock - Bazzil
Paper - K&Co Sparkly sweet
Lettering - Rose Moka Equinox and Lime Vinyl Thickers
Bling - Doodlebug Design jewels and Say it in Crystals
Bind-it-all binding system
Cricut cuts from 'Fabulous Finds'

This year: 18 Birthday cards, 2 Mothers Day cards, 1 Fathers Day card, 2 Easter cards, 1 Thankyou card, 1 Goodluck Card, 1 Valentine, 1 minibook and 1 double page layout.....

My poor baby....

My poor puppy went in for his yearly vet check this morning and came out later this afternoon with 26 stitches - a lump had appeared on his leg just before Christmas and when I had the vet check it out they were a little worried that the cells in the growth weren't normal. On top of that poor Erkle had a few other little cysts that the vet recommended removing - so they put him under, removed 3 growths, cleaned his teeth and he is looking a very sorry for himself at the moment and is reaping in the sympathy and treats!

He has 10 days of recuperation before I take out all his stitches until then he is looking a little like an unfinished patchwork cushion.....poor baby!

Kristina's Colour inspiration # 38

I love the colours Kristina picked for her challenge this week, though they are not colours I would usually use together, I am happy with the results!



Recipe
Cardstock - Bazzil
Paper - ?? a scrap I had pre-stickered with the xyron...
Buttons - Bo-bunny
Stamp - See D's
Punches - EK success flower and EK success circle

Samantha's Birthday

Well I have just got home from a few days in Perth celebrating my nieces first Birthday and then a follow up trip down to Busselton to help mum with a few cleanup issues - the SHED!!!!

Sam's celebrations started with an afternoon tea with the Herberts on Sunday then a follow-up lunch the following day on Samantha's actual birthday. Sunday afternoon tea was heaps of fun - with my two nieces, we were not short of entertainment - Mia is toddling around very well and Samantha was using a chair as a walker for the afternoon.


When it came to present time, Mia was happy to help with the unwrapping!



The lunch, at my brothers local nursery/cafe-restaurant, was lovely and Samantha was on her best behaviour and loving all the attention.

Bitten by the Bug Challenge.....

You would think I would be challenged out by now but no no no....am loving the direction and focus it gives me to getting my cards done. The challenge from Bitten by the Bug was to use the colours green, blue, pink and yellow, have a star and use the cricut - My take on the challenge is a 'Goodluck' card.




Recipe
Cardstock: Bazzil
Paper: Urban Lilly Be Yourself - Be strong & Be Free
Alphas: K&Co - Sweet Pea, Clearly Yours
Bling: Say it with Crystals
Cricut Cartridges: used for star and scalloping - George and Basic Shapes & Doodletype

This week: 18 Birthday cards, 2 Mothers Day cards, 1 Fathers Day card, 2 Easter cards, 1 Thankyou card, 1 Goodluck Card and 1 double page layout.....

Oooooh the heat.....

44 Degrees Celcius and my air conditioner is on the blink...making me think back to other times of heat - Cape Levique October 2007. It should have been Cape Levique October 2008 except for the unexpected, unplanned transfer to Hyden for my job. Instead of lazing in a beach shack last October I was packing, driving 300km on a dirt track and then unpacking and getting ready for school with 3 days to go .....

Anyways, Cape Levique 2007 was awesome and I just couldn't decide which photos to scrap, so I scrapped em all..*g* I used a sketch I received at the Hyden retreat (author forgotten *wince*) last November.




Recipe:
Paper: Basic Grey Archaic - Primal, Primative and Dirty
Cardstock: Bazzil
Buttons: Basic Grey Archaic
Staples
Journalling with my trusty Dymo and Archaic Dirty paper

This week: 18 Birthday cards, 2 Mothers Day cards, 1 Fathers Day card, 2 Easter cards, 1 Thankyou card and 1 double page layout.....

I feel the need to declutter....

The biggest angst for me with paper crafts is the rubble left behind....I get immersed in the muck during the creative process then I come up for air at the end of the project and freak out..it goes so much against my grain to see my work station look like this.......




And then comes the peace after the storm...when my stash has been stashed, my discards seperated into rubbish for the bin and rubbish for the recycle bin, my desk once more has white surface and my need for order has been satisfied......


I'm ready for my next project.....

This week: 18 Birthday cards, 2 Mothers Day cards, 1 Fathers Day card, 2 Easter cards and 1 Thankyou card. No Layouts yet.......

Caardvarks January Challenge

I have always been a big fan of Becky Fleck's Page Maps - she is responsible for many many of my scrapbook LO's and her Page Maps Cards are a constant companion at crops and retreats! So when I visited the Caardvark site and saw the challenge, I was definitely up for it.


With patterned paper from an early Paper Salon Range - 'Harmony' - in my stash inspiration was easy. A few flowers from Kaiser Craft and 'Desert Sun' Yarn from Bazzil and it was done.


Love the cool colours - delightful on a day expected to reach 44 degrees celcius!

Recipe
Paper: Paper Salon - Harmony, Spiral Floral, Paisley and Tags.
Card Stock: Bazzil
Yarn: Bazzil - Desert Sun
Flowers: Kaiser Craft - Turquoise and Lime
Button: ?
Foam Mount

This week I have made 18 Birthday cards, 2 Mothers Day cards, 1 Fathers Day card, 2 Easter cards and 1 Thankyou card. No Layouts yet.......

2 sketches 4 You

My Entry for Kazans Sketch 17
How can you not be inspired by the scalloping on the sketch *g*


My take on the sketch is this - the delightful 'Mia Collection' from Crate Paper and my trusty Dymo - someones going to love it!

My cards.....

Congratulations to Rosie who had her little baby boy Simon just before Christmas - this one is in the mail to her as I type! I can't wait to give Rosie and the little tyke a hug from his Auntie Lynne - requires a trip to Kalgoorlie ....its holidays anything could happen!

One of many like Birthday cards for the women in my life! I used a pack of paper I have been hanging out to get creative with: Mia Collection from Crate Paper

Inspired from Bibbis Dillerier' blog - her work is so shabby chic and awesome - made me want to start internet shopping immediately!




These guys are thanks to the hard work of Lisa at Precious Piecings - these little guys are a breeze to cut out on the bug with the help of SCAL - with a little bit of shabby chic detailing my neices will love them!


This is a direct scraplift from an incredible designer, Jennifer McGuire who seems to adhere to the "KISS" principle brilliantly...I will be going back and back to her blog!