Tuesday 24 January 2012

Stampin' Up's! Sale-a-bration Catalogue

I love this time of year! Stampin' Up! released their Sale-a-bration catalogue today and it is valid through to 31st March 2012. Earn a free product from the Sale-a-bration catalogue with every $100 spent. Click on the link on the right to see what gorgeous freebies they have this year!

Thursday 19 January 2012

Cheaper Than Therapy Challenge # 20: Submission AT LAST!

Well, this challenge was posted originally on the 8th November 2011.... and I have only done it today. Whoops! I havent stuck to the original colours we were supposed to use, but I'm sure Adele and Rachael won't mind. I have fallen in love with the new DSP in the Summer Mini called Spice Cake. Such gorgeous colours and I have used it on this layout.

Here is a reminder of the layout by Becky Flek:


And here is my layout:


I can't wait to get my photos printed and add it to my 2012 album.

Tuesday 17 January 2012

Scrap Club 4

It's time to put my scrapbooking hat back on after Christmas and New Year!! This Thursday night is Scrap Club 4 and we are scrapping our Christmas photos using the papers 'Letters To Santa'. I have made 2 double page layouts, with the option of doing 1 or 2 (depending on whether you're up for a long night or not!).
For layout 1 you will need your Santa photo and a photo of your Christmas tree (or another Christmas photo of your liking). Make sure the photos are the same size, either 6 x 8's or 5 x 7's.


Layout 2 I created to mount your Christmas day photos on. My layout will take 8 trimmed photos, but it is really quite open to how many go on there.  There is a bit of work in this one, creating the stockings, but they are really cute.


Can't wait to see you all on Thursday night girls.

Wednesday 4 January 2012

Ribbon Organiser

Adele and Rach, this post is for you! I took my gift voucher into Kikki K today and look what I found: these cute cute little clothes hangers in a jar.
I have now sorted all my ribbon odds 'n sods. I still have my reels of ribbons, but this now stores all my left over bits n pieces and makes them very accessible!
I have just hung the little coat hangers over a pants hanger and now it's hanging on my paper door. Shame the rest of my craft room isnt that organised!!


Butterfly Shadow Box

I fell in love with this idea back at the Stampin' Up Regionals in September and after finally finding the shadow boxes I have created my first butterfly shadow box.
I have made the butterflies using Stampin' Up's! Flirtatious Speciality paper and cut them out using the Beautiful Butterflies Bigz Die. My mum has decided to make my daughter (6) a handmade quilt, so I couldn't get the matching Flirtatious Designer Fabric cut up into butterflies fast enough, so we could co-ordinate her room.
The shadow box should not have taken me very long at all, but my Physie teacher Pam, gave all her ladies a button necklace that she had handmade, for Christmas and it inspired me to get all my beads out of storage. So, it just turns out I have had to bead the body and antennae on these butterflies to jazz them up a little. I'm going to make three frames in total for her room. I hope you like my first one!