Where did it go?

January that is, no really WHERE DID IT GO! I have managed to sort of keep on track with my crafting goals...scrap project finished, cards made and Project Life mostly done...hehehe. 

So today I'll share a couple of cards I've made, I just love the cutout effect and embossing =)

I am so in love with this card... starting with the mustard coloured card as a base, I embossed a piece of white card using a cuttle bug folder and lightly inked the surface with Tim Holtz - Antique Linen Distressed Ink.  The rose paper is from a 6x6 Glitz Pack - Laced with Grace.  The little cluster is made up of a paper flower I had on hand, a ribbon bow and a MFT die-namics rolled flower.  The little sentiment I printed out on Epson Matt heavy-weight paper and cut into a banner shape.

I love this card just as much I think...hahahahaha.  The striped paper is again from the Glitz Paper - Laced with Grace.  The butterflies and flourish are MFT die-namics too and again a flower from my stash.  Add a bit of lace, a banner with sentiment and some sticklers to the little butterfly and middle flower (not that you can see in the photo) and card number 2 is complete.

These cards were realitively quick and easy to make, I am really happy with the finished item =)

Have a great day!

Little Hands...

My scrap project this month was not something I had planned, it just sorta happened but I am so happy with the finished item.  For Christmas I was given a very special present, handprints of little Miss Ivy on a tea towel- age 13mths.  It was a teary moment when I opened that present, I can tell you...lol.  So what to do with the tea towel... I would never use it as a tea towel, I'd be too afraid of washing away Miss Ivy's hand prints and the tea towel was too big to hang as is.   I definately wanted it on a wall in my craftroom so this is what I came up with...

I cut the tea towel up, stuck the fabric bits to a piece of Christmas themed scrap paper and framed the whole thing.  The picture is now hanging in my craftroom and makes me smile everytime I glance at it.  I sure am one lucky Grandma :)

Have a great day!

Week 2 - Project Life & FREEBIE!

You can tell I'm back at work by the lack of blogging right...hehehe. I tell ya during the week I am soooooo tired at night, but hey then there is the 4 day weekend to look forward too =).

I was a little tardy in getting my Project Life -Week 2 together but that was in part due to reading several blogs of how others are organizing photos, notes, etc. I decided to follow suit and get myself organized as well, I am determined to stay on track with project life so anything that will make this easier is a winner in my book.

Whenever I take a photo or two and load them onto my computer, they usually go in a folder called unsorted. I then tag the photos before moving them to their proper folder. Inside this unsorted folder I now have folders for each week i.e. week 1, week 2 etc., this will definitely speed up the process of finding photos for layouts. Loving this idea so far!

I bought -a week to a page diary -to make notes in, plenty of room to jot down important thoughts or just what I am feeling at that time. I am not so worried about forgetting things when I sit down to create a page now. Good idea number 2!

I have also decided to pop the extra bits and pieces like ticket stubs, receipts etc. into plastic bags labeled with the week dates ready for scanning. I am not sure if I will scan everything or create a pocket to attach to the corresponding pages, I may even do both. As I am in two minds I can see this will be a process that will evolve over time but I'm not going to limit myself by making any hard and fast rules. Project Life is meant to be simple, easy and fun to do...right!!!

Now for my week two pages...

and the FREEBIE I mentioned? I love quotes so I can see each week there will be a quote or phrase somewhere on a page and figured I would share my little creations.

DOWNLOAD HERE! Just a couple of little journal cards, one 6x4 and one 3x4, as always

(Downloads available for a short time only)

enjoy :)

Have a great day!

Don't forget the GIVEAWAY!

GIVEAWAY | Three people will receive a copy of the Cute As Notepad Hybrid kit.
My Cute As Notepad is the sweetest little notepad you ever could make for yourself or someone special, super quick to put together too. Included in the kit are PDF files containing everything you need to put these Cute As Notepads together. They come in two sizes, a large and a small version to cater for all printers.

TO BE ENTERED into this giveaway please leave a comment below. Comments will be closed on Tuesday 17th midnight AEST. Winner’s will be posted shortly after. Want to double your chances, come visit me on facebook and leave comment on the facebook giveaway post too. Please be sure to check back to see if you are a winner.
Plus here are pages 11 & 12 of December Daily 2011

Have a great day!

Sweet Baby Boy!

Today is a Miss Ivy day, which of course means I am going to have a most wonderful day >.<  and it is also bloke's birthday.  Twenty-Five years ago today he was born 20mins before midnight, funny how you remember somethings as though they were yesterday.  Love you my boy, you don't even know =)  Happy Birthday!

Kit: Teeny Tiny Babies by SammyD Kreations (me)

Nawww wasn't he adorable...

Now for present day layouts, pages 9 & 10 from my December Daily 2011!

Hope you are enjoying the pages :)

Have a great day!

Sunday Giveaway

I've had a sunny Sunday today and so far a fun and productive weekend =).  First up I'm going to bore you with a couple more pages from my December Daily 2011. Then I'm going to tell you some fabulous news, well fabulous to me and anyone else living in OZ that would like to print their digital pages into a book and not lose any of the layout. Then I'm going to tell you about a Giveaway!!!

First: pages 7 & 8 of my December Daily 2011

Kit: Jolly Christmas (available now) by SammyD Kreations (me)

Second: fabulous news if you live in Australia and would like to have your digital layouts printed and bound into a book at a Harvey Norman Photocentre. You will need to purchase 1 tool to help you achieve this goal but it's really cheap and well worth the money, ready... it is Wendy Zine's Scrapping Simply Templates ONLY or  Scrapping Simply Toolkit.

I purchased the Toolkit yesterday and had a play with my December Daily layouts as these are the ones I really, really want to get printed and bound. I only corrected one layout and uploaded to my account at Harvey Norman Online as a test run. Book options I chose were one layout to a page and the full page option for each image to see the difference between a layout designed as is and one corrected using the Toolkit. YAHOOOOO... is all I can say, the layout corrected using the Toolkit was just perfect. I am now in the process of editing all my layouts for a book version, when done I'm going to take it to my local HN Store as the instore software is the same as online =).

GIVEAWAY | Three people will receive a copy of the Cute As Notepad Hybrid kit.
My Cute As Notepad is the sweetest little notepad you ever could make for yourself or someone special, super quick to put together too. Included in the kit are PDF files containing everything you need to put these Cute As Notepads together. They come in two sizes, a large and a small version to cater for all printers.

TO BE ENTERED into this giveaway please leave a comment below. Comments will be closed on Tuesday 17th midnight AEST. Winner’s will be posted shortly after. Want to double your chances, come visit me on facebook and leave comment on the facebook giveaway post too. Please be sure to check back to see if you are a winner.

Have a great day!

Cards and Lists

Hi folks, just dropping in to post a couple more page from my December Daily 2011.  Hubby and I are going to watch a movie tonight so this is a quickie post =)

Kit: Jolly Christmas (available soon) by SammyD Kreations (me)

Tomorrow I hope to show you the super cute project I've been working on, and there maybe a bit of a giveaway too...

Have a great day!