I was challenged!!!!......

and now I am better hahhaha

Seriously I am challenged and I am receiving the appropriate medication!

Ok so I am not challenged I am sure my husband would beg to differ....

I think I should get on with this post dont you?

well......

My friend Chryssa and her Dt team over at 

Scrap and Grab

challenged

 me to make a layout without the colour 

Black.....

jokes on them they thought it would be difficult

Chryssa is kicking herself now

hahahaha

I use a lot of black on layouts about me

its the colour I wear

what I feel comfortable with 

must be the drama queen in me!

I adore colour

but I have to have black somewhere on me or in my creations!

so 

after the longest introduction

here is my layout

for 

Scrap and Grab

some closeups

materials used

Paper trunk socialite privileged

cratepaper SCCP collection blue cottage

modelling paste

dylusions mists

die cuts from my cameo

purple pumpkin button

American Crafts orange fabric brads

Studio Calico chipboard Alphas and numbers

duck is a mystery found in my stash LOL

thanks for the challenge gals!

Happy New Year!...

What a way to start the new year!!

our house is leaking 

it rained so heavily just before New Years eve

that the rain water seeped through the ceiling

rendering 2 rooms of the house useless

I had used every bowl and bucket that I owned

to catch the water!!

and it wasnt dripping it was leaking 

I was on an hourly vigil to empty buckets

I can honestly say I am exhausted! LOL

I held Christmas dinner and New Years Eve dinner so there was endless cooking 

cleaning you name it! LOL

amongst all the celebrations and drama I created a layout for

Get Creative's

January 1st layout challenge

the challenge is to express your feelings of the year that passed 2012

and the year to come 2013

the twist is to make the layout like an art journal page

using your paints mists mediums etc..

head on over to the blog to see the amazing layouts created by my fabulous design team!

here is my interpretation

we would love for you to play along!

Morning all.....

over at 

Get Creative 

we have a gorgeous sketch for you....

designed by

Melenia

this is my interpretation......

the die cuts are from my fabulous 

Silhouette Cameo

(cant get enough of this machine)

and the little flowers and hearts are from 

THE SHOP

so if you have time make sure you play with the sketch!!

I couldnt keep my promise!.....

I know I promised that I would be back soon....

and that I would fill up my ETSY shop with some cuteness

but

a life ended suddenly and we are all reeling from the shock

and the loss is more now that the funeral is over...

I ask myself one question every day

Why was such a young life taken?

I do not get any answers and I probably never will....

thus my disappearance again!

I do have some layouts to show you

I will start with one for

 BIRD IS THE WORD

this weeks word is

CREATE

I found this super cute photo (a little blurry) 

of Christian and thought I have to scrap this!

So here is my design team layout

Create-ing

(no it is not a spelling mistake)

I purposely wanted to use my fabulous Studio Calico "create"stamp

so I just added the ING

supplies used

K&Company blue pattern paper

white cardstock

Tim Holtz masks

Cameo die cuts (zipper camera and wavy film strip)

Sassafralass stickers

Dylusions mists

American Crafts thickers

Create stamp Studio Calico

modelling paste

some close ups

See you soon with some

Get Creative 

Near on a month's

absence

from this blog!...

yet again I have negelected this little ol blog of mine

once again due to family issues

you cannot say I am not consistent LOL

Anyway here is my 

Bird Is The Word

layout for the 

Breathe

challenge

(thank you Wendy for your patience)

the barabed wire frame and chevron patterns are masks I made with my new little baby

my CAMEO.....up till now I have never owned a die cutting machine

and I had been drooling over Marie Papadopoulos cards which she had made with the Cameo

and when Studio Calico had a offer on the machine I snapped it up

(gift from my mum)

the chevron stirps are also from the cameo

I am in love with this machine it has so many possibilities

So I played with gesso to give some texture

and played with my Dylusions

some close up!

the design create art stamp is from Studio Calico

Breathe was cut with my cameo!!

Hope to be back soon!!

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...