Gone Vinyl Crazy!

When I bought my Silhouette Cameo January last year I also purchased three starter kits, one of them was for Vinyl.  Which I have finally gotten around to playing with...lol!

...and play I did, I went just a little crazy!  I started small with some vinyl words on my craftroom chalk board. 

 Perfect quote thank you Heidi Swapp, it looks great on the board.  This I created using different fonts.

Love, love, love this quote which went above our bed!  The font used for the word 'Always' is Aquarelle, Times New Roman for the rest.

Fell in love with this quote and wanted to do something for Valentines but  missed the boat on that one...lol.  I finally have this on a wall in our hallway.  Wordart - Our beautiful love story - vinyl by Kolette Hall, available from the Silhouette Store.

 

How could I not include these words in amongst the Family Photos.  Cut file - My Family by Jennifer Wambach also available from the Silhouette Store.

 

 

...and I just couldn't go past putting signage on the Bathroom and Toilet doors, hehehe!

I had a ton of fun but will say it is not something you should do late at night when tired.  Some of the cuts were a little fiddly, resulting in a little bit of frustration but that was because I didn't take my time...lol.

Have a great day!

Card Me Thursday - a Male Card!

Yep I made me a Man Card... ok well not me it is actually for the Father-in-law.  The original was another Pinterest find. 

 

The tie pieces I cut with my Silhouette and the yellow stripe is washi tape.  A quick card that looks super cool... um errr I mean Manly!

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Wordless Wednesday!

This Seasons Fashion... dressed and ready for a playdate at Grans!

 

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Fun and Fresh Embossing!

OH MY STARS... where has a month gone! And what a month... we will have an addition to the family in October, another Grand baby and I am soooo excited.  I had a weekend visit with the Mumma and Pappa to be, then my DD came to visit us for a week.  Then unfortunately I was a little under the weather for a couple of weeks. In amongst all that I was making wedding invitation samples for a Nephew and his Bride to be...phew!

But this last weekend....wooooo!!! Got my crafty groove on and 'made pretty stuff'... lots of it, hahahaha!  Anyways back in March I entered the Couture Creations Facebook comp and I WON!!! So absolutely stoked to have won as I looooovvve Couture Creations embossing folders sooooo much. 

My winnings was a full set (10) Fresh & Fun Embossing Folders...YAAAAAAYYYY!!!  This was the happy mail I received, a beautifully wrapped parcel!

 

Here are a couple of cards I've made so far, the first folder used was the Peacock Pleasure folder.  I had seen a few peek-a-boo cards popping up acoss the web and thought this folder would be perfect. The stamps are by Kazzazz and Distress Markers were used to colour in the stamped images. 

 

 

I saw a card on Pinterest that my card below was based on... using the Petal Pleasures and Super Powder Puff folders.  I might also add this whole card was cut with my Silhouette Cameo :grin: 

 

and last but not least I wanted to play with a bit of colour and thought the Extra Flint folder would suit fun colours.  I used distress ink, then embossed, then with a bit of sandpaper gently rubbed the surface to reveal the embossed design a bit more.  Some Amy Tangerine ribbons and a fun, colourful card was complete. 

 

A huge thank you to Couture Creations for my prize, I know I will get a lot of use out of these folders.

Have a great day!

Project Life - January!

Woohoo I said I was doin it and I am... got my Simple Stories 6x8 Album, got my Sn@p cards, got my Simple Stories pocket protectors and it's all happening...YAY!

Warning Photo overloaded post...lol!

So far so good... I am really enjoying the process of putting together a month at a time as opposed to a week at a time.  The Momento app really has been awesome to use and the pages are coming together quickly.  Here are the first few pages...

OK not bad but I was not entirely happy with the way the pages were looking.  The pages above were what did it... the left is ok but I love the right more.  I like the square photos better and a border helps to lift them off the background.  Check: square photos and white borders! 

 

As I am doing a 6x8 album, there is not a lot of room for journaling and not every photo I take has journaling to go with it... soooo I will utilise the 6x4 pockets for journaling a couple of days at a time, as well as the odd 3x4. 

And then some weeks I may just make a half page divider insert to hold all the journaling...lol! 

The month of January was a good learning curve and I'm eager to start the month of February making a few changes as I go.  I reckon it will June before I find my style and I'm ok with that... this is the first year of paper for me, so I'm being very forgiving and not worrying too much that the pages are not perfect.  This is real life after all *wink*

How is your PL coming along?

Have a great day!

Never too young!

...to get your stamp on and indulge in a bit of T!m Time!

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A Photo-a-Day April!

Have you ever participated in one of these?  This is my first and I have to admit I'm having a bit of fun with it!  One of my nieces posted on instagram the #PHOTOADAYAPRIL by @FATMUMSLIM challenge and I thought why not. 

I have been having a blast playing with photo editing apps for my Project Life photos but I don't want to go too far with the editing of those.  So a photo a day is perfect for me!  I can see how creative I can get photography wise with the prompt for each day using my iPhone only, then indulge my app playing....FUN! FUN! FUN!  You can see all my photos here: INSTAGRAM FUN or you can just click the tab at the top of this page ;)

And the apps I use the most... Nostalgio for cool multi photo layouts, Phonto for adding text to images, Camera+ for most of my editing and Pixlromatic+ for really niffty filters, effects and borders. Oh and instagram of course...hehehehe!

If you have never tried a Photo a Day before...all I can say is dooooo iiiiiiit! So much fun!

Have a great day!