Corniest title ever!!........

A smile for every season!

could I be any cornier????

what am I talking about?

well the word for this forthnight

over at 

Bird Is The Word

 is 

SPRING/SUMMER/WINTER/FALL

and I decided to use all the words

you can shoose one or use all like I did

head on over to be inspired by the rest of the design team!

I enjoyed playing with this one

I used embellishments to tell the story of the seasons

 behind the black and white photo of C3

thus the corny title LOL LOL LOL

so here is the layout

and here are some close ups

flowers are handmade by me....

more handmade goodies....

Get Creative Embellishments

will be restocked on the 29th of October

lots of new embellishments and little doilies like the one you see above!!

I think you will love them as much as I do....

later.................

it's my turn......

to set the card challenge over at 

Get Creative

just to remind you

for the month of October

we are celebrating cards

for two reasons

firstly because 

Get Creative turned

 2

and secondly

to celebrate world card making day

which is celbrated the 1st Saturday of October

so my challenge for you today 

is to create a card

using this sketch

I made two examples

the winner of my challenge will win some 

floral embellishments from

Get Creative Embellishments

so head on over to 

Get Creative

and check out the previous challenges

the challenges will be running until the 29th of October

so you have plenty of time to enter

the winners of the challenges will be announced on the 30th of October...

Music......

Our two kids are crazy about music

they love all types of music

they have a classical background and 

they need to have music on all the time

as they mature their tastes in music change too

the eldest  (I am sure I am going  to get this wrong)

so I will say she listens to Heavy Metal subgenres

which has also influenced the youngest

and this is their "thing"

brother and sister time

I never judge what they listen to...

my only problem is they crank up the volume to avoid hearing

my sweet voice!!!!!!!

I was told on the weekend I am a nag

I can tell you that shut me up for all of one minute 

I reflected on their words and then 

 I nagged 

to ask why they think this 

hahahahaha 

soooo......

this weeks word

at 

BIRD IS THE WORD

is none other than

MUSIC...

and here is my take on the challenge

make sure you head on over to the blog 

to see what the rest of the design team created

well worth it!!

and some close ups...

lilac pink flower ....Get Creative Embellishments

mauve heart ....Get Creative Enbellishments 

materials used

music pattern paper October Afternoon Good Cheer collection

lots of corrugated card board

Imaginarium Designs chipboard little boy and girl holding hands

Niki Sivils alphas

rosette was first stamped with a music score stamp

scrabble letter and rose quartz heart from my stash

lots of Gesso gauze and dylusions inks!

the luscious lilac flower, spiral and crochet heart from my Etsy shop

Get Creative Embellishments

will be updating it soon with more luscious flowers 

see you soon!!!!!!......

Get Creative!!!!!!!!!.........in October

Good morning everyone

welcome to

Get Creative's 

annual month of card making!

We had such a fantastic response last year 

that we will do it every year!

October 6th is

 World Card Making Day

so in honour of this we will hold challenges all month

13 challenges in all
and 13 prizes 

of course it is a double celebration
as we celebrate
Get Creatives
2nd birthday!!

so come and join us in an hour 

10 am EEST

as we kick off with the first challenge

of our month of challenges

Καλημέρα
Καλώς ήρθατε στον ετήσιο μήνα
δημιουργίας καρτών
του Get Creative!

 Είχαμε τέτοια φανταστική ανταπόκριση πέρσυ
που θα το κάνουμε πλέον κάθε χρόνο!

Στις 6 Οκτωβρίου είναι η

 Παγκόσμια Ημέρα Δημιουργίας Καρτών

και για να την τιμήσουμε θα έχουμε προκλήσεις όλο τον μήνα

συνολικά 13 προκλήσεις
και 13 βραβεία 

Φυσικά η γιορτή είναι διπλή
καθώς γιορτάζουμε
2α γενέθλια του
Get Creative!!

Ελάτε λοιπόν μαζί μας σε μία ώρα

στις 10 πμ ώρα Ελλάδας
καθώς θα ξεκινήσουμε με την πρώτη πρόκληση
για αυτόν τον μήνα γεμάτο προκλήσεις.

Summer and Scrapbookers in Greece

My dear friend 

Katerina Laiopoulou

has taken over the reigns of

Scrapbookers in Greece

from 

Elina Koutsouradi

and she has set a new challenge

 on the Scrapbookers in Greece

  challenge blog

the challenge has a theme and a sketch

the theme...summer vacation memories

the sketch

and here is my take on the theme and sketch!

and some close ups

and another....

 I have hidden journalling on the tag 

which has been stamped with distress inks 

and a chevron stamp from Studio Calico

and another just incase you missed something hahahah

supplies used

pattern paper Basic Grey little black dress collection

various scraps of cork , corrugated cardboard

gesso

Dylusions

Glimmer mist chalkboard

Distress inks

pharmecutical gauze

twine

various embellishments from stach

American crafts thickers

and rubons which were placed discreetly under and on the photo also under the gauze

(in an attempt to use up as much stach as possible!!)

chevron stamp Studio Calico

....later.....

Catching up......

Ok

a little red faced here!!!!!!!!!

this post was supposed to go live tomorrow

 as the following layouts are from my conrtibution a design team member at 

Bird Is The Word

I was unable to show them to you this summer 

as I had problems with my computer which I hope 

will stay away!...

If I go missing again it is because I am expecting my mother from Australia tomorrow

we have not seen her in 6yrs so there will be a lot of catching up to do

I promise I will find the time

 to come by and see what you have all been up to!

this layout is for the new word (soon to go live) on BITW which is

Touch

supplies used
bazil grey card stock
hambly rub on
lilly bee designs rub ons
rosette from Mitra Lee (xxxx)
roses (I am roses misted with Dylusions)
carbochon
paper tape ancient Tim Holtz (I think)
silver wings (Amy Petrou)
doily and crocheted hearts (Get Creative embellishments) update with new goodies coming soon!!!

Story

Spirit

Peace

Shadow

if you have come this far......
congratulations

7 day heat wave + no functional computer = delay in posting my layout for Bird Is The Word!

Dont you love long titles?

means I do not have to explain to you why I have been MIA

so let me show you my DT  layout for 

Bird is The Word

the word for this fortnight is 

'Reach'

okay so the title of the layout seems a little dyslexic

but it reads

Your dreams are within REACH

here is a close up of the crochet spiral embellishment I used on the doily

Supplies used

bazil cardstock

white paintJ enni Bowlin gray stamp pad

many many many stamps mostly from Studio calico

and my favourite chicken wire mask

corrugated cardboard spraypainted white

white doily

and a star pin from Maya Road

Amy Tangerine brad

Get Creative Crochet Spiral embellishment

head on over to the blog to see the amazing work of the design team

so many different style!! fabulous