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!

This is the 1st scrap layout I have done for weeks. With Christmas approaching I have found myself so busy, not sure what I'm doing, but each day seems choc-full of something! This layout is for my Scrap Club on Thursday night.  Our daughter Mikaedy, just 6, took these photos of our son Ben at cricket on Saturday just gone. Hubby Chris finds himself out on the field umpiring each week, whilst I find myself in the scorer's seat, so I sent Mikaedy off with the camera and these are some of the photos she came back with, I am pretty impressed!

Cheaper Than Therapy Challenge, # 20

For Challenge Number 20, we are using another sketch by the talented Becky Fleck:-

Our Colour Combination this week is to use Basic Black, Very Vanilla, and one other colour of our choice; as well as any stamps and embellishments we wish to use.

Be sure to drop back next Monday to see what Adele, Rachael and I come up with.

Cheaper Than Therapy Submission # 19

A few hours late today! It's been a busy few days (with a late night thrown in at Rachael's Girls Night In). Here is a reminder of the layout for Challenge # 19, using Stampin' Up's paper Nursery Nest:

I had lots of photos to scrap, so I have gone a little more than what the layout allowed:

Don't forget to check out Adele and Rachael's. I've had a sneak peek and their layouts are just beautiful.

Showing Off!

Just thought I would post photos of the layouts my Thursday 'Day' girls did yesterday. They were all so awesome, all so different, yet all based on the exact same layout.

This was my original layout we took inspiration from:

Here is Cath's triumphant layout:

and Adele's final installment to Uncle Lindsay's Graduation:

Martine's Father's Day Scrabble page:

and a close up of those awesome scrabble tiles she made for her heading!!! Love it!

and Kelly: (who, may I say has never ever done a layout without pink in it yet! lol, but we are going to change that next Thursday!!)

Awesome layouts girls and lots of fun making them. I just love how one layout can be so different, depending on the theme and colours.

Cheaper Than Therapy Challenge, # 19

We are just in love with Becky Fleck's sketches and hence this week's challenge uses one of her sketches again.

We are going to use Stampin' Ups! new DSP Nursery Nest, which have some great soft baby-themed colours BUT the challenge this week is to try and use the paper pack and sketch without a baby-oriented theme.

Here is the set of colours in this pack:

Good luck Rachael and Adele! I'm really looking forward to seeing the outcomes.