Passionate Scrappers Comp - week 1

Passionate Scrappers Comp

week 1 ch layout

I have entered a comp at a passion for craft it will run over 8 weeks
every week there Dt sets a new ch that has to be completed within the time frame
this was my week 1 layout

Cricut was used for the words and lettering
a layout about why my hubby is my inspiration every day of the year

please pop over to A Passion for Craft and check out all the ch's and layouts uploaded in
the gallery there is some awersome work from all the ladies

Embellishments - Title
are made with m Cricut Expession die cut machine


Flower Mask
Title is done by my Cricut Die CutMachine
Felt us painted to achieve the right colour

photo and Layout Share

Sunday, April 12, 2009

Firework photos

Fireworks Australia Day weekend
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18th cake I made for my son
Happy 18th Marcus -
I made this cake and then
his older brother placed candles over it everywhere ,
must say it was very yummie .

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Friday, March 20, 2009





Roll of Dice Challenge

3 people needed to set the criteria for me to create a layout withmy Criteria was paint,flowers and blingThe background is painted and the flower stem , flowers where added to the stem, bling finished the flower centres off . Title is always done with Bling. Journaling is done the side of painted edge.Challenge was created for Roll 2 Create

wishing Victoria all the best for recovery and rebuilding

This last week we have seen so much of Australia under flood waters and then the awful fires in Victoria.

I can't say I know how they are feeling becauseI'm not there in person but I feel sad and have cried lots when watching the news.

When my husband heard the news Sunday morning he said they will call for help I'm sure he was asked to go as a fire fighther and chief of our local tem , he said yes straight away to the call, I need to go and help the other fireies.

He has been gone all week and due home Friday we saw him on the news and he rings me everyday , his sister talks to him of a evening then e-mails me with updates.

I have never been away from him for this long I miss him heaps but I know he is coming home to me Friday it makes me wonder how much aching Victoris families are going through when so many lives have been lost.

There are amazing stories coming outof Victoria and slowly as the week goes on there are blessings arising which people are hanging onto for hope

Victoria will recover and will rebuild I wish them all the best as they work out where to start

I have given and my hubby gave his work time up we are proud he was able to help and he will go again if the call is put out to the Tassie fighthers again, it makes alo realize what a special person he is in this field of work.

Then today I was talking to family members there are 3 from one family doing things and my bil as well

SIL - Making fire uniforms of all sorts
SIL - Hospital nurse/sister
BIL- helping with insurance

My DH - fire fighther

They have all different training but they are all helping Victoria in there areas of work makes me proud to be Aussie and part of there family.

Leave you with his question

What have you done to help?
What have you done different today because of the awful week Australia has had?
When did you last ring or cuddle a family memeber ?

Kit Layouts

Created these layouts from Kits at A Passion for craft online store the kits are priced really well and they have a range of kits for everyone.

Do you ever wonder?

Do you ever wonder what makes people tick or come up with ideas.At the pool the other day my son and a friend where talking about making the earth floatable it all game around due to way our earth is changing,

I asked what would you use to float it with ,"beer can and coke cans" was the answer I then asked what would you hold it together with "stickytape" was there answer

As I asked each question all the answers related back to something really simple in each ones home which they use every day of the week .

they are 14 and 15 years old but they had some great ideas and plan

My question to you is :- What can you do today for the world - even if it's a samll thing in the long run it will add up

I work at a shop and a person brought 2 drinks and asked could he pop the empty containers in the bin I said leave them on counter I'll pop them in the recycle bin

his coment was Cool Thanks thats great

it was onlysomething small but made him feel good

here's a huge catch up for those who follow along

The court case is still happening and hopefully soon we will have an out come of some sort

My middle son rolled his car a few times but everyone was okay it caused a few headaches at the tie but all is well now and all teens are happy again

I resigned from my job yep I did - lots of reasons but sometimes you have to step back which is what I did and it was teh right thing for me .Sure it was good money but you know what money isn't everything and I know I was placed here to do more than work for good money

It has changed the way I look at things and the way I supply things for my family ,it gives me time to spend with every child(sad when you don't know your own child up street), to enjoy other peoples company and do some things for me but most of all it has given me my freedom back and now I'm less busy which I love.

it's also given me my easy nature back again I don't stress much but when things get on top of me I get crabby and annoyed easy and thats what was happening so I have made the right choice for myself

I did achieve my goal of being coordinator but I never said how long I would be one so I'm happy as I still achieved my goal

since Christmas my dad got the shingles and is okay they ope to come and stay next month
my youngest soon goes back to school but he has had a great school holiday woth lots of trips here and everywhere

Blue Tongue Lizard

Blue Tongue Lizard in my back yard happliy sunning himself

Winner whoooo whoooo

I did a CC at A passion for craft site over the weekend and today I found I won a voucher

It's spent already and I had great fun shopping .

I really enjoyed myself creating these projects for the cc last week

soon to come galleries

Over the coming weeks I will be adding lots of my work by slide shows and galleries

I hope it will be a place to have all my work in one place and share everything I have created with everyone over the last 4-5 years

will take me a while as I have lots to upload but will upload little at a time

A Passion for Craft - DT Call

Design Team Call

We have 2 positions available on our Design Team for 2009.

If you’d like to be considered, here’s what we’d like to see:

Here’s what the position will involve

6-month commitment, with the possibility of continuing on for another 6 months

· 2 layouts per month OR 1 layout and 2 cards per month·
1 OTP per month ·
Articles posted on your Blog·
Links to the store , blog and gallery from your blog·
Product review once a month ( this can be part of your blog entry)·
1 class per month ( rotated with other DT member)·
1 CC per month Applications will start now and will close on the 31st of January

The design team will be chosen and announced on the 12th of February.

Questionnaire.·

How long have you been scrapping?
· Have you or are you on a design team if so who and when?
· Other crafts that you enjoy.
· Where do you find your inspiration?
· If chosen what can you offer this store?
· And other information about yourself
.We would like to see new creations with the following


These must be new and must not be submitted else where or published.

· 1 layout using chipboard embellishments
· 1 layout with no photo and a handmade embellishment
· Set of 3 cards Christmas Theme creation using stamping.
· 1 OTP project or altered project
· Regular chatting in our forum so we can all get to know each other
.A Passion For Craft Forum

Please email your questionnaire to sales@apassionforcraft.com.au. Please load all your creations into our Gallery in the folder marked for the appropriate category.http://apassionforcraftgallery.com/index.php

CC Jan 21st

A passion for Crafts 1st CC has started so head on over to the web site and join up as a member for some great challenges and fun with all the members.

Here is the link for the CC information

Everyone is really friendly and helpful

there are fun and games to be had in the general fourm for everyone

DT Card share

Thank you Card for cisters ning
Supplies used
Card stock small shipping tag
die cut word ,kaiser brad
Ink - blue ,frame die cut
green felt


Step 1 cut card to size
Step 2 ink background - let dry
Step 3 place die cut frame in middle of card
Step 4 add felt and tag embellishment
you're card is finished

A get well card I made for my family member who is unwell

I inked the background of the card and placed some pattern paper along the middle

then added some sticker letters . Then I inked the edges of the star and stamped a clock face in the middle of the card

A Passion for Craft 1st Cyber Crop

It will be on the 21st of January at 7pm Qld Time.
You have untill the following Wednesday to get your challenges uploaded to the Gallery.
I will start giving you all hints on what the challenges are on the Monday just to tease you all lol….


We will be setting 3 challenges and a game of bingo!
The prizes are a $10 voucher for the bingo game.
A $20.00 store voucher for one of the other challenges.
So if you would like to join us please register in the forum and look out for more information in the Cyber Crop thread closer to the night.
We will be using the live chat during the Wednesday night !
Hope to see you all there!
http://forums.apassionforcraftgallery.com/

Keyring I made for my eldest son out of Grungeboard - Inked and kindy Glitz the Grungeboard

Expression Cricut - Leaves

Card was made for my husband just to say I LOVE HIM because he had given me so much support just recently and sometimes it's niceto give a thank you in return.

Supplies used

Grunge Board swirl and heart

Kindy Giltz

Chipboard letters

stripe pattern paper

Leaves where cut using Exprssion Cricut and the

Cartridge used was Accent Essentials

Happy New Year EVERYONE

Card Share

Happy 2009 is the title on the card

• I have used scraps from my supplies for the pattern paper
• stripe paper was supplied by cisters ning where I'm a Card Design Team member
• Bling was supplied by cisters ning
• small alpha stickers are from my supplies
• small flowers are Queen and Co from my supplies
• Right hand side of card is Embossed by a texture plate
• Black ink was used over the Embossed texture

Happy Birthday Mother

It's the last day of the year tomorrow and it's my Mum's Birthday

Happy 50th Birthday SIL

Happy 50th Birthday Card I made this card for my Sister -in -law who is 50 today so I hope she has a great day with her hubby.

Supplies used

Card Stock
pattern paper
chipboard flower
bling
stickers
stamp which I only used half the pattern
quote stamp

Happy Birthday Dad

My dad turned 79 this year and this i the card I made for him out of supplies from my stash.I'm very lucky to still have both parents and it's a honour to support them now as they have supported my family over the years.

Anyway Dad had a great birthday and in the coming year we'll have to have a huge party to celebrate his 80th

My mum's birthday is on the last day of the year and my Uncles was on teh 1st day of the year and I can remember so many great new years eve parties till late really late as a child -teenager

Card Share

oops not taken very straight at all

a simple card using bits n pieces from my supplies

having lots of males in my family the browns and greens go okay together for a male birthday which there are plenty of starting of the new year

CD COVER

Cd Cover

Supplies used

Kaiser Christmas paper range
Bling Stars
Rubon flowers
Zig Zag pen
Ink
Plastic CD cover

Live for Today Canvas

I like working on canvas and made this one for my living room.

Supplies used

foam thickeners (letters)
kasier paint and canvas
chipboard shapes
kasier flowers and brads

I used the outter case of the Grungeboard shape and [ainted inside the shape with Gold paint later sealed the paint and carefully pulled the outter case off the canvas.

live for today is something I try to do all the time you will never get today bck so make teh most of each and every day forever

Sam is our fluffy snuggly cat of 6years.He keeps me company when I'm on the computer working he was siting watching me paint when I snapped this photo of him.

supplies used

Coord Card stock

Bazzil matting

Journal tag

Chalk and gel pen

Chipboard

I placed the Chipboard under the card stock and sanded away till the pattern showed through making a border around the photo and title.

Journaling is my own hand writing.

xmas

a quick simple card for cisters card blog

different paper scraps layered with ribbon and lace added

felt cut out for embellishment, stars and the word Xmas

Merry Wishes

Merry Wishes

supplies used

Kaiser paper
stamped quote
embossing power
stamp images Christmas

Stars cut out of Kaiser Paper
images are stamped using Green versa ink
Merry Wishes quote is embossed with gold embossing powdered and heated with my heat gun
rubons add on top right hand side

card share time

I have created these cards for cisters card blog so head on over to the site and see what everyone esle ha created.

Supplies used

Kaiser Christmas paper

gold embossing powder

ink

zig pen

stickers

I cut the stars from Kasier Christmas paper

stamped a image onto the card and then added embossing powder and heat with my heat gun

Card Blog Team Member

My friend Ally has asked me to be a
Card Design Team member on her site Cisters

Very excited about this postion and working with all the other lovely ladies who are card design team members.

every week we do a card design and it gets loaded up to http://cisters.ning.com/

so if you are looking for somewhere to hang with scrappers and fantasic crafters come on over and join up as a memeber

Hello Again

It's been a while since I have said hi

It's raining today in Tassie and we have had Thunder and Lightening

time for me to say Bye

Letting you all know I have resigned from Scrapping Around as of Nov 1 2008

I have been on site for 18 months and for me it was time to move on due to work , family and wanting to achieve more things within my life time

It has been fun and I have enjoyed it but my life sytle changed very quickly with my new job and I have given a few things up

You will still see me about and I will still add things to scrapping galleriers

I'm also looking forward to joining more of you and my friends in Cyber land and learning new things as I go

So Thank you everyone for visiting my Scrapping Around blog and supporting me on Scrapping Around

this blog will stay as for a while but I'm looking at Deleteing them all and changing to something esle or having a new blog with a new name so stay tuned

now I'm giving my self a 2 week holiday (well earnt too I think )

Close up of my Grunge board embellishments

Closer look at my Grunge board embellishments

I inked them and then stanped a image on top

and around the edges before placing together.

Last page of my Acrylic ablum

My youngest Luke on one page and all 3 ons together
on the other page

embossed Acrylic shapes
hand made embellishments by me

Marcus after motorbike riding when we where on the farm

I embossed acrylic stars to use on my ablum with

inks and embossing powders

Dh and myself many moods ago one photo is

taken at Ralf falls in the North East of Tassie

and the other one f me is taken in Hobart.
Embossed stars and flowers

Grant crossed eyed it was the only photo

of a teen I could get one summer.

Supplies used

Embossed shapes -

Rhinestones -
Grunge squares embellishment was a hand made project of mine

My cover to my Acrylic Ablum

Christmas is going and these cards I made for a Cyber Crop at Scrapping around

Products used where - Bella Holiday pack for pattern paper

Kasier flowers
Leaves - see through ones

Kindy Glitz

Stampin up supplies where the ribbbon and stamps for inside card

inside of card was made by the masking Tech

Layout that shows my Garden in spring time . I love the fact that
My garden gives me lots of photos through out the year.

On the photo that is on the right hand side there is a tiny bird
sitting on the log. If you look hard enough you can see him above
the whit flower.

This is a beautiful place where we visit in summer it's 10 mins away from my home and it really gets back to the wilderness of Tassie . I'm so lucky to have a wonderful spot to take photos . I love the peace you feel when out there walking around .

Title is done using thickers foam ones and I inked them yellow for a differnt look and so they blended in with the flowers and wood swirls from KASIER

Design Team Members wanted

Scrapping Around is Looking for new Design Team Members

we are looking for some talented people to become part of our Design Team for 2009.

You will be required to start in January/February 2009.

We ask that if you are interested to please give us 6mths of your time.

Rules for this comp are pretty simple:- Join us as a member in the Forum, Gallery & store.
Post at least once a day for 2mths from your joining date.

Upload a minimum of - 4 layouts, 3 Off the page projects and 3 cards using different techniques and styles into your personal gallery.

Fill out a questionnaire Complete a task or 2 that will be set for finalists Be prepared to have lots of fun and make new friends both in real life and on line. Email me Robert at admin@scrappingaround.net.au for an application form.

Applications will close on December 19th 2008 and successful applicants will be notified no later then 29th of December 2009

this is the basic information if ou require more information
go to the link on right hand sde of blog

September Cyber Crop - Scrapping round

Scrapping Around is having a CC all ch's are up and they are really easy so come on over and have a go you may even win some prizes you need to be a Reg member in the forum and gallery so you are ableto upload

prizes are listed below an there is links to Scpping around to your right of this post


September CC prizes
This month's Cyber Crop Prizes are:-

Children's Challenge Bling gift pack valued at $20.00 (pack will include the following items:- Rhinestones, Pearls, Brads, Eyelets)

Challenge #1 A & B Assorted Bella chipboard pack valued at $20.00 each (pack will include some of the following items:- Large chipboard Bracket & shapes, Large chipboard letters 12"X12" sheet, Corrugated letters, Chipboard Cookies in lower and upper case, chipboard shapes, chipboard album)

Challenge #2 Kaiser pack valued at $25.00 plus (pack includes:- Christmas wood album, rings, Cheer paper range and bling)

Challenge #3 Assorted paper and silk flowers to the value of $25.00. (Flowers will be what we have instock at this moment)

Challenge #4 Felt pack from Heidi Swapp valued at $25.00 (This pack will include butterflies and flowers from Heidi Swapp).

Challenge #5 Kaiser wooden canvas pack. (this pack will inlcude one 12x12 wood canvas, 1 Medium wood canvas, 1 small wood canvas & 3 mini wood canvas)

Challenge #6 2 TLC Runway scrap kits valued at $18.90 each

close up

here is a close up of the masking Tech I learnt last weekend while in Geelong

I will be trying this on other layouts and with different photos as I found it so much fun and something I could do in the family room

Masking Class

I went to a masking class and was taught how to use them right and how to finish the layout off with a mask.

Found this interesting and fun to do as I have never done this before it was something really new to me and the teacher Simonne who is a Design Team Memebr for Scrapping Around
did a great job of teaching me I really enjoyed this class

Found you need time and you also need to have a great creative mind and you need to play with teh mask before going ahead with where it needs to go on the layout

This was a really fun class to do and yes I will do masking again one day

RETREAT share

Billy Can

Billy Can was made by sanding the suface of the lid and painting it all over when I took the photo light wasn't right for the lid so will upload that later on

I covered it with card stock and paper then added flowers and bling till I was happy with the design.

adding the ribbons was fun and I used ribbons from swaps all sorts of colours to give the tin a happy look

I still need to add my name and some other bits but apart from that it is finished

Scrapping Around Retreat

Had a wonderful time at my 1st retreat every and can't wait till the next one

we boarded the plane Friday the 19th and landed at 11am for a fun filled weekend and came back to Tassie late Monday night .Luke was happy as it was school holidays so it ended his 2 weeks off great

I have some thinsg to share which I made whle away was pleased with them all as I had never ade these types of things before

Cong's goes to Luke for being a Junior Design Team member .He was so happy when I told him he had been asked to be part of SCRAPPING AROUND .

he is one of his layouts with him paddling on the river in our town as last summer the pool wasn't opened but the river was so much fun on very hot days

Mt Paris Dam

over the hoildays and weekends we often pack a picnic and tour our local bush land this place is not far from my home town and it's a great place to take the boys back into the Bush to enjoy the beauty of Tasmania
I enjoyed doing this layout and use some new supplies from Scrapping Around
Marcus sanded the paper for me as I was cooking tea he said that looks nice card stock I said yes but it could be sanded to show the colour underneath, the result was a light shade of blue showing through
I like the way my photo captures the water flow even though it was the middle of summer in the native bush land there was enough water flowing for all wildlife and plant life

Circut Expression

My husband brought me this machine and I love how it cuts and howal my things come out looking great, the more I play with it the more I'm learning it can cut different things ,being abl to press buttons an it knows exactly what I need it to do making my scrapping and card making so much easier

Colour Competition

New comptition over at SCRAPPING AROUND

Colour Competition

every week you will be old a colour and then you have about 7 days to create a layout in the colour combo then upload to gallery

Click on the link thats says FORUM on the right hand side of my blog

and sign up for some fun with Colours +