Sunday, November 29, 2009

Scrapware Memory Box Kit - Great gift idea

How adorable are these Scrapware Memory Box Kit and Scrapware Wisteria Lane Kit. These examples are from Scrapware's Website. Great gift idea to go under the Christmas Tree
Scrapware also has a Ning Community and often prizes to be won - here is the link to check it out ... scrapware ning community



I was tossing up whether to do a Christmas Scene (which I still might do) or a family themed one.
And as you can see the family won ;)


. I used Little Yellow Bicycle Pattern Papers
Scrapware Chipboard Clouds
Pink Felt Heart
Bird Charm
Scrapware Chipboard Noami Flourish
Follow your Heart Charm
Pink Organza Ribbon
Pink Kindy Glitz - we are currently awaiting our supplier to restock so we can get more in - Crystal goes on pretty similar just depends on what the colour of your background is.
For the roof I cut strips of coredinations cardstock with decorative edged scissors and inked them white


OMG our new pink white and green mulberry leaves are just gorgeous and match our white and pink gardenias perfectly. I also used our pink skeleton leaves


. I painted the roof and used Fancy Pants Simplicity Pattern Paper and our small key charm


Glitter Brads to centre our pink flowers
Pink Rhinestone Strips
Tree Charm
Made with Love Envelope Charms
And filled the windows with Dimensional MagicAnd finally, I put the green house through my cuttlebug embossing folder to give it some texture (obviously before I made it up LOL)


Hope everyone is well and near a fan (so flippen hot here on the Gold Coast)
See ya back here on the 1st December when the first day of Christmas free gift is announced...

Thursday, November 26, 2009

NEW IN STORE - Mulberry Leaves & Metallic Skeleton Leaves

Metallic Gold and Silver Skeleton Leaves are now in store at my2angels.
PERFECT for your Christmas Cards and Layouts.



Also Poinsettias are back in stock – our last order sold out within 2 weeks. Next order won’t be here until late January 2010


These mulberry paper leaves are just gorgeous and these photos just don’t do them justice.


Mulberry Paper Leaves – Light Green with Brown Tips



Mulberry Paper Leaves – Pink, White and Green



Mulberry Paper Leaves - Dark Green with Brown Tips



Mulberry Paper Leaves – Green, Brown and Rose


And look at these! OMG to die for! More Gardenias to add to our range. Only $4.80 for 12 flowers


TFL

Hope you are having a creative and relaxing week


Tuesday, November 24, 2009

my2angels frame for an OTP challenge

my2angels frame is my entry for the OTP challenge over at Aussie Girls this month.
Jo, who set the challenge, is so flippen amazing on the saw (or whatever you call the tool LOL) that she also made me the frame – clever girl ah? Even used the same fonts as my logo.
I just love what she did and I am so happy with the outcome


On the pink skeleton leaves I applied pink kindy glitz.
Buzz and Bloom Chipboard Botanica Flowers
and our new love key charms with pink organza ribbon


The black rhinestone flourish I left the plastic backing on and just cut around it to give it a backing and then adhered it with dimensional magic to the frame.
I gave the gardenia flowers a spray of glimmer mist – pink taffy and graphite, they look so pretty I wish you could see it better in the photo


The photo is in between 2 sheets of acetate and I stamped a flourish with jet black stazon ink (which we now have back in stock). The normal ink eg versa colour won't stick to acetate


The letters I painted, added black rhinestones and wiped ink randomly over the edges. My “2” is covered in black kindy glitz


And look what Anne P gave me with the comment Tracy - LOVE her little shop. I am going to cheat cause I did the questionnaire with only one word answers allowed, last week, that goodness!!! Cause OMG it was so hard for me just to say/type one thing, as some of you would know LOL!


Since its Monday morning ... holy smoke ... 1am what happened to the last 2 hours! anyway I thought it was about time I left you with some humour. If you have seen this before ... oh well I hope it gives you another laugh ... not as funny as the waxing story nothing will beat that ...

Lizard Birthing Story

If you have raised kids (or been one), and gone through the pet
syndrome including toilet-flush burials for dead goldfish, the story
below will have you laughing out LOUD!

Overview: I had to take my son's lizard to the vet.
Here's what happened:
Just after dinner one night, my son came up to tell me there was
"something wrong" with one of the two lizards he holds prisoner in
his room.

"He's just lying here looking sick," he told me.
"I'm serious, Mom. Can you help?

"I put my best lizard-healer statement on my face and followed
him into his bedroom. One of the little lizards was indeed lying on
his back, looking stressed. I immediately knew what to do.

"Honey," I called, "come look at the lizard!"

"Oh my gosh," my husband diagnosed after a minute.
"She's having babies."

"What?" my son demanded. "But their names are Bert and Ernie,
Dad!"

I was equally outraged. "Hey, how can that be? I thought we said
we didn't want them to reproduce," I accused my husband.

"Well, what do you want me to do, post a sign in their cage?" he
inquired.(I actually think he said this sarcastically!)

"No, but you were supposed to get two boys!" I reminded him, (in
my most loving, calm, sweet voice, while gritting my teeth
together).

"Yeah, Bert and Ernie!" my son agreed.

"Well, it's just a little hard to tell on some guys, you know," He
informed me. (Again with the sarcasm, you think?)

By now the rest of the family had gathered to see what was going
on. I shrugged, deciding to make the best of it. "Kids, this is going
to be a wondrous experience," I announced. "We're about to
witness the miracle of birth.

" OH, Gross!" they shrieked.

Well, isn't THAT just great! What are we going to do with a litter
of tiny little lizard babies?" my husband wanted to know. (I really
do think he was being snotty here, too, don't you?)

We peered at the patient. After much struggling, what looked like
a tiny foot would appear briefly, vanishing a scant second later.

"We don't appear to be making much progress," I noted.

"Its breech," my husband whispered, horrified.

"Do something, Mom!" my son urged.

"Okay, okay." Squeamishly, I reached in and grabbed the foot
when it next appeared, giving it a gingerly tug. It disappeared. I
tried several more times with the same results.

"Should I call 911?" my eldest son wanted to know.
"Maybe they could talk us through the trauma." (You see a pattern
here with the men in my house?)

"Let's get Ernie to the vet," I said grimly. We drove to the vet
with my son holding the cage in his lap.

"Breathe, Ernie, breathe," he urged.

"I don't think lizards do Lamaze," his father noted to him. (Men
can be so cruel to their own young. I mean what he does to me is
one thing, but this boy is of his loins, for God's sake.)

The vet took Ernie back to the examining room and peered at the
little animal through a magnifying glass.

"What do you think, Doc, a C-section?" I suggested scientifically.

"Oh, very interesting," he murmured. "Mr and Mrs. Cameron, may
I speak to you privately for a moment?"

I gulped, nodding for my son to step outside.

"Is Ernie going to be okay?" my husband asked.

"Oh, perfectly," the vet assured us. "This lizard is not in labour.
In fact, that isn't EVER going to happen...Ernie is a boy. You see,
Ernie is a young male. And occasionally, as they come into
maturity, like most male species, they um....um....masturbate."

He blushed, glancing at my husband. "Well, you know what I'm saying, Mrs Cameron."

We were silent, absorbing this.

"So Ernie's just...just...Excited," my husband offered.

"Exactly," the vet replied, relieved that we understood. More
silence. Then my vicious, cruel husband started to giggle. And
giggle. And then even laugh loudly.

"What's so funny?" I demanded knowing, but not believing that
the man I married would commit the upcoming affront to my
flawless femininity.

Tears were now running down his face.

"It's just...that...I'm picturing... you pulling on
it's...it's...teeny little..." he gasped for more air to bellow in
laughter once more.

"That's enough," I warned.

We thanked the Veterinarian and hurriedly bundled the lizards
and our son back into the car. He was glad everything was going to
be okay.

"I know Ernie's really thankful for what you've done, Mom," he told
me.

"Oh, you have NO idea," my husband agreed, collapsing with
laughter.

2 - Lizards - $ 140...
1 - Cage - $ 50...
Trip to the Vet - $ 30...
Memory of your wife pulling on a lizard's wacker. Priceless!!!
Doesn't anyone know lizards lay eggs???


Thursday, November 19, 2009

New Charms in Store and Aussie Girls Scrappin Challenges Layouts

Check out these new charms that have arrived in store ...

Starting with our favourite, that has already been used on an OTP but we can't show you yet until Jo uploads her challenge over at Aussie Girls Gone Scrappin
How perfect are these bells for your Christmas Layouts and Cards or even wedding projects

And you should have your Halloween photos developed by now, so check out these spiders (which I should have added to the next layout)...

Aussie Girls Gone Scrappin November Challenges are up ...

The criteria for my first challenge to the ladies is a Dress up Themed Layout (doesn't have to be Halloween) and
must have felt, hand cutting and ribbon


I downloaded gravestones and a mummy from clipart, wrapped white organza ribbon around the mummy and added red rhinestones for his eyes



Scrapware Spider web with black kindy glitz


Scrapware Spiders covered in black kindy glitz with orange rhinestones


Halloween Felt Ribbon for the title and our Jack O Lantern Rhinestones Shapes



My 2nd challenge is Music. You must have felt and more than 5 stars


I used
Jenni Bowlin Red Love Song Pattern Paper
Rusty Pickly Brass Knuckles Foil Die Cut Pattern Paper
Black Stars Felt Ribbon
Scrapware Chipboard Journalling Date Set
Musical Note Charm
Microphone Charm
and some metal textured silver stars



TFL and I hope you will join us in the challenges this month. I have 4 more layouts to upload but tomorrow is another day :)

Wednesday, November 18, 2009

What have I been doing?

Well I have been creating this ...

AND
AND
AND
AND
AND
AND AND
AND FINALLY THIS ONE

Total of 7 projects
and guess what ... I can't show you any of the finished results LOL they are for upcoming challenges
but I can show you the other thing I have been doing ... 32 wedding invitations .. OMG NO not me been there done that got the divorce papers ... I had been asked by a friend of a friend to make them up. She wanted them in Tiffany Blue and they were to replace the ones her friend made for her in Canada but with our great postal system we have in the world they never got to her!!!!!!!!!! They aren't the most exciting invites I have done but its what she wanted ...

I will be back in a few days with a few of the finished layouts from the above
In the meantime check out the shopping I have been doing here
Take care
Tracy :)