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Up to 60% off

2012-01-29T13:54:00.003+10:00

Up to 60% off all pattern papers

but only until Valentines Day

(excludes new arrivals)

and check out up the top right hand corner of the side bar

you can now be informed with an email every time we update our blog

so you will not miss out with the latest information of all our specials, new arrivals and inspiration from our Design Team

Just enter your email and submit .. easy peasy and so convenient

I have been having a play with the gorgeous new Basic Grey Kissing Booth

and created this layout

I didn't want to take any emphasis away from my photo so kept the embellishments minimal BUT creating a large rosette to frame my photo (thank you Audrey for the idea)

To create your own rosette frame

cut 4 rosettes from the Sizzix Sizzzlits Decorative Strip Die

and adhere together then glue down to your layout

DON"T HAVE THE DIE STRIP .. no problems I do ... just purchase your pattern paper or cardstock and let me know and I can cut it for you

Then a spray of Cherub Pink Glimmer Mist over one of our 22.5cm doilies and inked

I then framed the edges of the doily with Flamingo Liquid Pearls

I also added a few of our dark pink roses and dark brown roses to the edges

add a piece of pattern paper for your photo frame

and ta da you have a decorative frame for your photo

The Scrapware Chipboard Do-Hicky Flourish 4 which is on top of our gold skeleton leaves

was covered with Flamingo Liquid Pearls then sprinkled (while still wet) with Diamond Dust

and one of our

Large Flower Filigree

and a pink mini gardenia which fits nicely inside

I have also used another of our filigrees at the top

our Antique Bronze Flower Wrap Filigree

with pieces of our Gold Cup Chain on both sides of the Hot Pink Rose

and lastly, corner pieces created using again our dark pink roses and dark brown roses with brown pearls to hang our Antique Bronze Birdcage

Don't forget to go and check out our up to 60% off pattern paper sale
Click here to take you directly to the pattern paper section

TFL

Bo Bunny Love Cards

2012-01-27T13:51:00.000+10:00

I love red, black, and white for a colour combination and what better time of year or theme than Valentine's Day? I have been hoarding these Bo Bunny Enchanted Papers for a while for just this project and knew how I wanted to use it; I had to keep it 'soft' so frayed the edges with my craft knife.

I had this idea to sew the middle of the heart and that morphed into having two layers; then it looked too plain on the card next to the fancy "U" with the floral chain so I added the white rose to the bottom layer; then I added bling to the "I" for balance but wanted more definition for the centre of the heart; so added a beautiful silver pin with the little heart bead at the top.

For the inside I used my new Blazing Red Stazon for the stamp and then decided to 'snazz' things up a bit using the "Adore" pin with the red bead - I love how it turned out!! A matching envelope as usual and wallah!!

And a side angle shot so you can see the inside of the card too:

I love the end result - it's so romantic!

Ingredients:

White Card and Envelope

Red Cardstock

Bo Bunny Patterned Paper Enchanted

my2angels silver pin

my2angels White rose

my2angels Charming Floral

my2angels "Adore" pin

Flourish With A Bling - Red Pearls

Stazon Ink - Black and Blazing Red

Papercraft Clear Cling Stamps - Valentines

White cotton

Jen

and from me

Tracy,

with a card using the gorgeous Bo Bunny Kissing Booth papers and an Ivory Greeting Card as my base

Loads of our pink flowers and brown flowers
and
underneath is our Filigree Floral Embellishment
with a

Charming Floral Antique Bronze and Brown

and
Love Engraved Felt Hearts

plus a piece of our

Dark Pink Cotton Ric Rac

and our Envelope Charms with a pink rhinestone in the centre of the hanging flower

Hope you all have a safe weekend

Take care

School Scrapbooking layouts

2012-01-25T11:16:00.001+10:00

School Scrapbooking Layouts

We have a variety of School Embellishments at my2angels and I have set myself the target to get as many of the angels school photos scrapped and into albums before the next lot of photos get developed (dream on Tracy!)

But I have made a start!

First using our

School Pins and ABC Book Charms

And TPC Studio Pattern Paper

 Lots of Blue Flowers (I used a few from the Blue Butterfly and Flower pack, these flowers are of thick quality with absolutely gorgeous tones and colouring)

and

a 2nd layout

 using

our Graduation Cap Charms and Blue Tassels

again, with TPC Studio Pattern Paper

other suggestions are making little paper darts to fly over your layout 

and

what about one of 

 our Antique Bronze World Globe charms

or our Silver World Globe charms

for the Geography students (or as they now call it in the "new age PC world" SOSE!)

or take one of our new Inkssentials Brown Kraft Tags,

(available in 2 sizes)

grab some dictionary paper and embellish to create a journalling tag

don't forget to add our Antique Bronze Pen Pots to your tag

and how about, add a small amount of liquid glue eg dimensional magic to the back of a glass cabochons, and place over some letter stickers or "letter" stamped cardstock to make your own ABC bubbles or 1 + 1 = 2

Hope some of our suggestions help you to start on this years school projects

and

 when we released the Boys ONLY embellishment kit we were asked for a girls kit so ....

Introducing the my2angels
  
Girls ONLY Embellishment Kit

We have carefully selected products that will coordinate with each other and also
included various handmade products

So many embellishments to help you complete many creations
for only $24.99 (postage not included)
RRP over $35.00 

 It is a perfect day here on the Gold Coast to be scrapping
I tried to drive the angels to school this morning

 but the roads surrounding us are flooded and an unbelieveable sight of the golf course with rapids flowing through it! 

Hope you are all safe and dry, especially to all our scrapping friends and customers around the Gold Coast 

TFL

Hambleys Screen Prints with a dash of everything else

2012-01-22T19:20:00.002+10:00

Happy New Year

Jess here with my first post of the year, slack blogger I know!

It is my mission this year to use up my giant stash of papers especially my hoards of Sassafras Lass and Hambly!

I have used a combination of papers on this layout they are: Hambly Screen Prints, Simple Stories 25 Days of Christmas, Sassafras Lass Starters & Ellie's Tale as well as Kraft card stock. The alphas are from the Simple Stories 25 Days of Christmas range.

For the paint splats I used my FAVE splatter product ever, Oil Slick Glimmer Glam, It gives to best round splats ever, they are shiny and a little bit raised as well which adds texture : )

How COOLIO is the my2angels huge 15cm Mulberry flower??? They are my new FAVE product (well one of hehe).

I coloured this one with a Distress Stain in Mustard Seed.

I've layered a Sassafras Lass foldie along with a Large Black Rose, 2cm White rose and Yellow Rose.

The leaves are the gorgeous new Antique Silver Leaf Charms that I have painted with Oil Slick Glimmer Glam.

I've also layered a Small Holed Yellow Acrylic Button.

More layering! I've done some stitching with baker's twine.......is there no end to the uses of this amazing product!! Ive also layered a Large Holed Yellow Acrylic Button, 2cm White Rose and a Yellow Rose.

Soooooo there you have it, my first scrappy share for 2012....better late than never right??

Hopefully I will be back soon with another share......now I've started getting into my my2angels goodies I think there will be no stopping me!!!!

Love and Peace xox

JESS

More goodies have arrived

2012-01-20T09:46:00.000+10:00

Basic Grey Love Booth paper collection is now in store

Great timing with Valentines Day coming up, but certainly not limited to love theme projects with these gorgeous pretty papers

Another paper company who has great reverse sides of their papers, to use instead of plain cardstock

Here is a few of the papers, with the rest being in the New Arrivals Section

Also new to my2angels is

Heart Pins

5 of each colour (total of 30 pins) for $4.50

Silver Brass Round Filigrees

2 for 70c

Smiling Face Charms

1 of each design for $1.75

Colourful Daisy Charms

1 of each colour for $1.99

Colourful Buttons

4 for 75c

Iron Swivel Claps

5 for $1.99

Gosh that is a mixed bag of new arrivals LOL

Hope you all have a great weekend
TFL

Embellish Me Subscription Kit

2012-01-17T00:48:00.002+10:00

January Embellish Me Kit contains lots of handmade and manufacturer Love themed products this month.  And here are a few layouts I have created using this months kit (and the OTP I blogged on Friday also contains a few of the embellishments)

We only have 4 subscriptions left for the next 3 months.  If you would like to subscribe, you have until Wednesday to order and pay before kits are posted on the 20th (of each month).  

I started with a Bo Bunny Enchanted in a black, red and white theme layout

I sprayed the black cardstock with marshmallow glimmer mist in random areas
and the doily, lillies and strip of pp sprayed with Scarlet Glimmer Mist ..

speaking of black cardstock Tim Holtz Kraft Core No. 24 is PURE Jet Black!!!!

and a sprayed of Red Roses with Red Rhinestones

White Gardenia and White Orchids

Red and White Bakers twine with a Made with Love charm and Love Key Charm

An embellishment I made especially for the kit

and this layout has been created with the gorgeous
Glitz Design Papers

(and is also a class layout we are teaching here at my2angels on will be having here on 12th February ... for full details go here to the class list)

Rhinestone Love tucked in between the ripped pp, flowers and stitching.

An easy way to adhere rhinestone words is to cut each letter individually then add to your layout, makes it easier than peeling the whole word as one and risk them sticking together

Our new I Love You Notepads charms tied with pink organza ribbon

changing the subject now from the embellishment kit but still on the theme of Love

check out Jen's card using our 2 toned brown stemmed flower

Antique Bronze Heart and Key Locket charm

I love the idea of the Large flower filligree, centred with our love pin

Hoping your week has started off in a creative way

TFL

Introducing ....

2012-01-13T20:32:00.000+10:00

Introducing our first embellishment range for 2012 designed and made by my2angels ...

Charming Florals

A delicate collection of filigree and lace
adorned with a butterfly and pearl charming chain

Whether you add them to your Off the Page project or tag; use them as the centerpiece for a card;

or make them a feature embellishment on a layout, Charming Florals will provide you with a beautiful and unique handmade embellishment to adorn your project.

Hang them off a bookmark; or staple them to a folded paper corner; dangle them from a cluster of flowers or tie them to a chipboard swirl - there is no limit to the places you can embellish with a Charming Floral.

Each Charming Floral measures approximately 5.5cm in length x 2.5cm

$1.99 each

Silver and Blue Charming Floral

Silver and Pink Charming Floral

Silver and Red Charming Floral

Silver and Black Charming Floral

Antique Bronze and Green Charming Floral

Antique Bronze and Mauve Charming Floral

Antique Bronze and Brown Charming Floral

Of course I had to have a play with some of our Charming Florals. To start with, here’s the OTP Photo Frame Box youmay remember me mentioning back in December (I’ve finally finished it).

I started by covering an old box with Bo Bunny EnchantedCollection papers and then added one of our Black Scroll Felt Frames as a Photo Frame (using apiece of acetate to protect the photo from dust etc). One of our Love Pins is the perfect addition to the side ofthe frame.

On the front, our Silver and Red Charming Floral backed with a Red andWhite Mulberry Flower and one of our Silver Flower Wrap Filigrees provides afeature embellishment

Birds Eye View

Looking from above, you can spot one ofour gorgeous I Love you Note Pad Charms amongst a cluster of flowers (various styles – but doesn’tthe red, white and black look stunning together?), red rhinestones and one ofthe new antique silver leaf charms.

The glass cabochons (in a variety of sizes) have been firstly painted with Clear Rock Candy Crackle Paint (ETA 20th Jan) and then given athin layer of black paint.

Next, we have a tag that pairs Idea-Ology Resist Paper with our AntiqueBronze and Green Charming Floral…

together with some White Roses and White Lilies sprayed with Key Lime Pie Glimmer Mist.

And finally - shockhorror - my 3rd card for the year!

Here I use our Antique Bronze and Brown Charming Floral together

with our cream felt embossed heart, brown mulberry flowers, 2 toned brown stemmed flowers and some lace.

And last, but certainly not least, we’d like to introduce JenniHodge.Jenni is our guest DT for this month and she has created this ‘pretty in blue’layout using our Silver and Blue Charming Floral. I can't wait to seemore gorgeous work from Jen (who has the complete collection of CharmingFlorals to play with).

Another gorgeous photo that I have been dying to scrap for so long, this time it's my DS Riley...

I didn't want to lose the innocence in the photo by making it a real "boy" layout so wanted it softer... Tracy at my2angels answered my prayers the other day when she handed me a brand new product - an embellishment kit in blues with some flowers and a gorgeous altered flower with a charm - called Charming Florals (she is sooo good at these - checkout her charming chains too!!).

Naturally as I'm so addicted to her gorgeous hat pins I had to add one to the layout too :-)

I had fun glimmer-misting the chipboard and then using enamels to make the bird blue - but my favourite part of that is sewing it to the page with my machine (who says they are really for material and making clothes)!!!

I also love my new Tim Holtz Tab Die and how perfectly the little stamped saying fits. I have hand journaled on the patterned paper (did you see it straight off or did you have to look for it?). The chipboard foliage breaks up the blue - nicely; I really like the way they all sit behind the fence and only the charming flower is hanging over! I love the definition inking around the edges gives - my tried and true favourite technique I think!!

Ingredients:

PP - Autumn Leaves from about 2004!

Coredinations Snowflake Cardstock

my2angels Silver and Blue Charming Florals

my2angels - blue and silver jewelled hat pin

Tattered Angels Glimmer mists - Forest Green and Sea Glass

Tim Holtz Distress Ink Stormy Sky (ETA 20th Jan)

Tim Holtz Alterations Tab Die

Tim Holtz Distress Stickles - clear rock candy - on the top part of the fence (you can't see it in the photo)

Back with some more creations soon

Jen

Check out these new arrivals

2012-01-12T14:52:00.001+10:00

Check out these new arrivals

The photos the suppliers have sent me for this latest order do not do them justice, the detail and quality is outstanding! You will love them!

Bumble Bee with Antique Bronze Clock
2 for $1.80

Clock with Dragonfly and Cogs
2 for $1.99

Antique Bronze Pen Pot

great for the school layouts (unfortunately the supplier doesn't have these in silver but I will keep trying to locate some)
3 for $1.30

Toothbrush and Toothpaste Charms

2 of each charm for $1.40

Envelope with flower
3 for $1.40

For your travel layouts

(a great charm to compliment these new arrivals is our silver camera charm)

Big Ben Clock Tower Charms 3 for $1.30
Silver World Globe 3 for $1.50
Passport Charms 5 for $.160

Antique Bronze Square Filigrees
2 for 80c

AND
Thank you for all the Birthday ecards and emails, very much appreciated

I had a nice relaxing day and the angels actually (sort of) did what they were told ... what more could a mother ask for?

(except for them to clean their rooms, empty the dishwasher, take out the rubbish, pack charms, make up pizza boxes, bring in the washing and fold it! and most importantly NOT fight!)

WHO AM I KIDDING? lol

Happy Birthday

2012-01-09T00:01:00.000+10:00

Happy Birthday Cards

since it is Geli's birthday today (Happy Birthday Geli)

I thought I would step out of my comfort zone and tackle a card (not my favourite side of scrapping) but I am really please with the outcome that I decided to make 2!
(hopefully Geli has checks her letterbox before she goes blogging)

Using Authentique Pattern papers

black and white stemmed flowers

and our new antique silver leaf charms

and new black bird on a swing charm

The title is made with Carolee Creations Alphas

and secured with 2 pink glitter brads

and a Graphic 45 Birthday Card

Title is like the previous one made with
Carolee Creations Alphas
and secured with 2 Blue Glitter Brads

Our new Antique Bronze Rose Charm

and Antique Bronze Leaf Charm (light sprinkling of Diamond Dust)

And what are the odds of Geli and I sharing the same birthday!

So since I am once again turning 21

we are offering 21% off all orders placed today - 9th January

(does not included Kits, Classes or Gift Certificates)

This also includes products already on special eg most of our pattern papers

You must enter Tracy (spell correctly, without an "E") in the promotional code box at checkout to receive the discount

I am treating myself to a day without having to go to the Post Office so all paid orders will be posted 10th January

Hope you all have a great week

A year in the life of ....

2012-01-06T09:17:00.000+10:00

~~ONLY 2 kits left.....~~

ONLY 1 kit left ....

Need to give your mojo a kick start each month, or perhaps try something a little different?

Afraid to commit to a longer length project, because you fear running out of ideas or interest?

Don’t worry, we have the answer.

Introducing the my2angels “A year in the life of…” kit.

Each month you will create a layout that at the end of the year will together provide you with a record of ‘a year in the life’ of someone important to you.

This 12 layout kit is based on the Simple Stories Yearology Collection pack together with selections from the Tim Holtz Kraft Core Cardstock set. The colour theme includes brown, beige, blue, green and orange; so it can be used for both boy and girl pages. To girl’ify your layouts more, there is room to add flowers or pretty embellishments.

There are no themed pages eg December is not a Christmas layout.

You will receive:

All embellishments, pattern papers, alpha stickers, a Versacolor Pinecone Ink cube, plus all the cardstock required and the instructions needed to create your 12 layouts.
Various Tim Holtz Die Cuts (pre-cut for you).
Selective elements/embellishments painted with Rock Candy Crackle Paint and Antique Linen Crackle Paint.
All the embellishments needed to complete each page. In addition, you will also receive some extra charms to theme your layouts if you wish, eg the Easter month layout will receive a Rabbit with Easter Eggs charm.

Small Preview:

In the last week of January you will be posted your first kit. In it you will receive all the papers, any bulk(y) items and instructions for the January and February layouts.

Then from March until December - each month you will be posted the instructions and embellishments required to complete that monthly layout.

All you need to complete the layouts is 1 hour of your time each month, plus some foam tape, double sided tape and liquid glue. And, of course, the photo of your choice.

Cost:

We have two types of payment options:

Upfront $120.00 plus $8.00 registered post for your initial kit (total $128.00)

Our budget friendly payment option:

Upfront $40 and then from Feb to Dec (inclusive) make a direct deposit of $8.00 into our nominated bank account (total $128.00). Once this payment is received, each month you will then be posted your instructions and embellishments for the month.

To view all of the my2angels kits click here

New arrivals in store

2012-01-04T11:27:00.001+10:00

New Arrivals in store

Dream cabochons

90c each

Antique Bronze Compass

3 for $1.20

Antique Bronze World Globe

3 for $1.50
(these are more like our usual antique bronze coloured charms than the photo shows)

Antique Bronze Heart and Key locket

5 for $1.60

Knife and Fork

5 for $1.60

Rabbits with Easter Eggs

5 for $1.60

Rainbow with Clouds

3 for $1.50

Antique Bronze Leaves

5 for $1.60

Antique Silver Leaves

5 for $1.60

Black Bird on a Swing

5 for $1.60

Hoping your new year has begin in a creative way

Happy New Year

2012-01-01T00:30:00.000+10:00

Happy New Year

we hope you all had a safe and happy Christmas with friends and family

With your first paid purchase in January

you will receive FREE a roll of 3mm x 25m double sided tape

New to my2angels

Introducing for 2012 - our new 'Colour Splash' range of silver charms.

With 5 bright and colourful charm combinations, this range is sure to suit a wide range of layout styles and paper ranges.

Available in blue, yellow, red and both light and dark pink; each charm set features a flower/frame charm and a word/sun charm combination on a keychain.

And adding to our existing 'Christmas Present' range, we introduce our 'Birthday Present' Charm range - with 3 boy and 3 girl colour combinations.

Each set contains a 'present frame' with the words 'birthday boy/girl' on it, a word frame charm and a blank present charm.

Boy colours include red, blue and green; girl colours are pink, purple and yellow.

New Charms

2 large and well detailed I Love you Notepads for $1.80

Silver and Bronze Roses 5 for $1.60

3 Silver Steampunk Cogs for $1.80

Boys Embellishment Kit

You asked – we listened – here is our first ‘special’ Embellishment Kit for 2012 - the my2angels “2012 January Boy’s Embellishment kit”. Full of grungy goodness, the items in this kit will make embellishing your masculine layouts a breeze. The kit contains a selection of handmade, altered items (chipboard cogs, barbed wire, button cabochons) and basic elements, such as ribbon, ric rac, die cuts, and charms; along with some ‘special’ items, such as aged Dictionary paper and Die Cuts (made by us with various Tim Holtz Dies and Embossing Folders).

Small preview of items you will receive in your kit
all for only $19.99

and our

Embellish Me Subscription Kit

January's kit is filled with Love themed embellishments,

withFamily and Home for Feb

and Journalling for March.

(all for $55.00 including postage)

January kit being posted 20th January, so get in quick and subcribe

Wishing you and family the best for 2012

Take Care

Christmas layouts

2011-12-22T08:30:00.000+10:00

To end the year off

here are several Christmas projects I have been creating in the past few weeks

Firstly, a 3 layout class I held here last week using the new Teresa Collins Christmas Home Papers, which you will find in the new arrivals

Wine glass charm

Red Glitter ribbon

Christmas Silver Bell Charms

Red and White Bakers Twine

Journalling Tags

Silver Flower Wrap Filiagree

Joy Wreath

Cake on a plate charm

with Christmas Red Stickles on the holly

and the double layout
(sorry couldn't them get any larger & side by side but click on the photo if you want to see a up close)

Scrapware Christmas Pudding with our cake on a plate charm

To create the custard / icing I used White Opal Liquid Pearls

Loving the Red Glitter Zing Embossing Powder on the black cardstock

Using our new 15cm Large Mulberry Flowers as my background for this mini OTP

Products used:

Scrapware Chipboard Christmas house covered in Picket Fence Crackle paint

Chipboard Christmas Trees that I embossed with Sizzix Texture Fades Folder then heat embossed with Zing Silver Glitter Embossing Powder

Snowman Charm

Santa Sleigh with Hanging Presents Charm

Christmas Tree Charm

Joy Wreath

white organza ribbon

silver glitter ribbon

Christmas Silver Bell Charms

mobile phone cords for the hanger

and Silver Flower Wrap Filigree

Here is a bit more of a boy/grunge Christmas layout using Graphic 45 ABC Primer Papers

Pizza Box baubles painted with Fired Brick Distress Crackle Paint hanging from our Brown Rhinestone Chain with silver holly charms

Sizzix on the edge die file tabs for my layout title

We are open throughout the holidays for enquiries and orders

but will be taking a break from blogging until the New Year

From the Angels household to yours

We wish you and your family a safe and happy Christmas 

and may the New Year bring you lots of mojo and time to create

Tags and Winners

2011-12-16T12:01:00.000+10:00

Everyone who purchased my2angels Charming Charms between 1st-12th December went into the draw to win the complete collection of Charming Charms

And the winner is ....

Anita Sutton

since there were so many of you who purchased our Charming Chains we couldn't just have one winner

so the following ladies will receive 3 charming chains of their choice

Margaret Rivers

Jennifer Hodges

and Melanie Stewart

Congratulations

Please email me with your choice of charming chains ladies

Graphic 45 had a facebook challenge to make a Christmas Card using Graphic 45 products, so I thought I would give it a good using their ABC Primer papers

(Thank you to Keonie who let me use her Tim Holtz die that I ordered in for her)

and then I kind of got hooked and made these ones as well

another one using Graphic 45 ABC Primer

Looking in the window

And using a pizza box for a door

Using Tim Holtz Kraft Resist Christmas papers and sprayed with Scarlet Glimmer Mist

(I got the idea for this tag from Tammy Tutterow's blog)

And now I am tempted to ignore all the other projects I have in progress and play with Authentique Wonder Collection

(You will find them in the new arrivals section)

TFL

Hope you have a creative and great weekend

Corkboard Christmas Presents

2011-12-14T16:19:00.004+10:00

Corkboard Christmas Presents

by Geli

I wanted to do something for the kids teachers and it'd be a good last minute Christmas present too, if you're looking for ideas.

I couldn't find the right sized cork board, so I made my own. At a cheap shop I bought 3 document frames, about A4 ($2.50 each) and 6 sheets of cork ($2.50 for 2). I took off the glass, glued 2 cork sheets on the backing cardstock and glued on all papers and decorations with Helmar glue. I used the vintage school paper from Graphics45, available at my2angels. The vintage look goes so great with the cork.

The papers I used are:

Games and Playtime

One Two Buckle my Shoe

Jumping Joan

Calico Kids and

School Days

Here are some details:

book charm and ruler charm with green baker's twin e

(I love this stuff!!!):

a handmade flower with a skeleton leaf:

some orchids:

another handmade flower:

sweet little apple charm:

and yet another handmade flower (I was on a roll)

with leaves and a felt heart:

So, if you are still looking for some Christmas pressies to make, try some cork boards!

GELI

SALE SALE SALE

2011-12-10T20:18:00.001+10:00

Last Days to grab a Bargin

You only have until the 12th December (midnight Queensland time)

to get 25% off everything in store (this includes all items already on sale)

You MUST enter CHRISTMAS at checkout in the promotional code box to receive the discount.

(does not include subscriptions, gift certificates or our Christmas Kits

please purchase these in a separate order)

AND everyone who purchases a my2angels Charming Chain before 12th December will go in the draw to win the complete collection of our Charming Chains (perfect present to put under the Christmas Tree for YOU!)

Bo Bunny Enchanted with Jess

2011-12-06T20:45:00.001+10:00

Hey there GORGEOUS bloggy buddies : )

Remember when I told ya'll about Bo Bunny - Enchanted at my2angels?

Well I got sent some from Tracy, man I am one very spoilt dt angel!!!!

This paper range is so very versatile. It just screams out for you to add colour! It's a great range to add stickers, alphas, journalling blocks etc that you've got leftover from other paper ranges as well.

For my first layout I added yellow....gotta love yellow, black & white combo......

For the background I spread gesso on the paper with an old credit card then used the inkssentials blending tool with Tim Holtz distress ink - mustard seed over the Crafter's workshop - swiss dot template.....if you haven't got any Crafter's Workshop templates......GET YOURSELF SOME!!!!! They are awesome! You can use all sorts of mediums on them; sprays, inks, stains, paint dabbers, texture paste.....the list goes on.....

A cute small heart locket charm which I tucked under the paper rosette flower. The flower is made with the Sizzix Sizzlits Decorative Strip Die By Tim Holtz, I attached a large yellow acrylic button to the centre with charcoal bakers twine. Instead of using twine for making swirly whirly loops on my page I thought I'd try something different, so I used the black acrylic chain with rhinestones, it suits the glitter accents of the paper range.

Here I've used a black scroll felt heart layered over a small yellow acrylic button and a white with yellow centre mulberry flower. The tag is made with a manila tag, which I stamped with clear ink, then embossed with Zing clear embossing powder. I then coloured the whole tag with Tim Holtz distress stain - mustard seed, make sure to pat the tag with paper tower after using the distress stain, the stamping will show through even better.

Ok next up is layout number 2. I've used another fave colour combo, red, white & black.

I created the "circles" by cutting a large and small circle out of old card stock to use as a mask. I dabbed around the edge of the mask with Tim Holtz distress stain - fired brick, just remember the harder you "dab" the distress stain down, the more ink comes out, which means bigger "splats". The red layer under the photo is made with Tim Holtz kraft core - No.3, which I embossed with a cuttlebug embossing folder - tiny bubbles, which I lightly sanded. The paper "tabs" are made using the Sissix on the edge die.

I cut the "small" side off a black felt scroll frame, and layered it over paper and a scrapware square bracket notebook chippy. I attached a large red acrylic button with charcoal bakers twine & added a butterfly (I layered three on top of each other) which I blinged up with some red pearls.

As this layout is about my gorgeous little man being a gift to us, I made a gift bow style flower to go with the theme. I made the bow with Tim Holtz film strip ribbon, a small red acrylic button and some charcoal bakers twine.

I SO love these ladybug charms!

And there you have it folks.....a wee bit of Bo Bunny - Enchanted : )

I hope everyone is having an awesome Chrissy season!!!

Love and Peace xox

Jess

Quick I need to make some Christmas Cards

2011-12-03T12:00:00.000+10:00

Christmas Cards

Every year I say that I will make my Christmas Cards early and as usually, not being a fan of making cards, I keep putting it off and leaving it to the last minute!

If you are anything like me, I have the solution

12 very basic and easy peasy Christmas cards that you will whip up in no time!

I tried to used the same selection of embellishments throughout the cards, keeping the cost and time down

All you need is a few base products to start with:

Simple Stories 25 Days of Christmas Flash Cards ($1.20)

and 10 "5x7"Ivory Greeting Cards (10 for $1.80 and includes the envelopes)

okay so not the best photos from the supplier but you will get their look as we progress

BUT OF COURSE ALL THESE PRICES ARE 25% less due to our SALE

So start by cutting each flash card up into separate pieces

All your back ground pieces of cardstock is 10cm x 14cm (so you can get 6 cards from one sheet of cardstock)

Card 1

Adhere your cardstock and flash card to your card

Tie a bow with Red and White Bakers Twine (I have a thing about mixing cream and white so to remove some of the white I wiped the twine over my Jumbo Java ink
Then add your holly and berries

How to make Holly

Draw your holly on the BACK of a piece of green cardstock, it doesn't have to be perfect. Cut them

Then crease a centreline (outward)

Bend and scrunch holly

Ink the edges and wipe over it to pick up the creases

Then cover with dimensional magic and a sprinkle of diamond dust

To make the berries

Take a variety of sizes of our cabochons

Drop a little bit of dimensional magic to the backs of them and place down onto red cardstock. Push down and swirl the cabochons around the cardstock a little to remove any air bubbles and to spread the dimensional magic around evenly

Once dry cut the cabochons away from the cardstock

CARD 2

Adhere your cardstock and flash card to your card (i did my flash card on an angle)

Tie a bow with Red and White Bakers Twine again inking my twine with Jumbo Java ink

Then add your holly and berry

Card 3

Start with by adhering your black cardstock to your card

Draw a line around your flash card with liquid glue and sprinkle diamond dust over the glue. Once dry (around 5 minutes) adhere to your black cardstock.

Cut two 4.5cm stripes of our black acrylic chain with rhinestones . Tape with 3mm tape or liquid glue to top left hand corner then add our large snowflakes (with liquid glue)

Glue one of our Snowmen charms to the bottom right hand corner of the flash card

Card 4

Adhere black cardstock to card

Using liquid glue add one of our Joy Wreaths to highlight the 25th

Using either 3mm tape or liquid glue attach a strip of our black acrylic chain with rhinestones to just below the flash card

Card 5

Ink the edges with Spanish Olive VersaMagic ink

Take one of our gardenias from the Heritage pack and apply liquid glue to some of the edges and dip into your diamond dust

Once glue has dried, place gardenia in centre of our new Flower Filigaree

Tape down 4 Metallic Gold Skeleton leaves then adhere the flower to the centre

Card 6

Cut piece of Scarlett Coredinations Cardstock , ink edges black and adhere to card

Adhere flash card to the centre of your cardstock

Add strip of black acrylic chain with rhinestones to top of the flash card

Adhere Black Merry Christmas Charming Chain with liquid glue. When dry, tie a bow from the top loop of charming chain with Red and White Bakers Twine (this time I wiped the twine with black ink)

Card 7

Cut piece of French Roast Coredinations Cardstock, Distress the edges of cardstock then adhere to card

Add strip of Brown Acrylic Chain with Rhinestones just above scalloped border on flash card

Adhere 2011 Christmas Bauble (I have inked my bauble with Spanish Olive VersaMagic ink, again its the white and cream thing!)

When dry, tie a bow from the top loop of charming chain with Red and White Bakers Twine

Card 8

Adhere your cardstock to card

Colour in a present charm with stickles (I say do this first as stickles take a while to dry)

Draw a line around your flash card with liquid glue and sprinkle diamond dust over the glue. Once dry (around 5 minutes) adhere to your cardstock.

Once both stickles and diamond dust is dry attach to layout

Card 9

Adhere cardstock and flash card to your card

Cut piece of red acrylic chain with rhinestones and adhere to flash card using liquid glue or 3mm tape

Adhere 2011 Christmas Bauble (I have inked my bauble with Spanish Olive VersaMagic ink, again its the white and cream thing!)

Card 10

Adhere your cardstock to card

Draw a line around your flash card with liquid glue and sprinkle diamond dust over the glue. Once dry (around 5 minutes) adhere to your cardstock. (leave a gap without diamond dust at the top for your filigree)

Using liquid glue or 3mm tape add a piece of red acrylic chain with rhinestones to above the banner on the flash card

Add the filigree and one piece from the red acrylic chain with rhinestones

Card 11

Adhere cardstock and flash card to your card

Tie Red and White Bakers Twine around the bottom of flash card with our Christmas Sleigh Charm

Card 12

Adhere cardstock and flash card to your card

Adhere strip of brown acrylic rhinestone chain to just above the scallop on the flash card.

With red organza ribbon tie the extra dangle from the Merry Christmas Charming Chain around the reindeer charm neck and using liquid glue AND foam tape attach him to the card

If you don't want to bother with the cardstock backings, try the Simply Stories 4x6 Journaling Card Elements

Here is another quick one I did using our lollipop charm with stickles

Red and White Bakers Twine

and a piece of Melissa Francis Sprig

Okay so 13 Christmas Cards done and I don't want to count how many more to go so.....

my solution was to get Cathy's Christmas Kit and make another 10!

You will received instructions and ALL materials (with leftovers) to create 10 more Christmas Cards (this includes the cards and envelopes) and 3 "12x12" Christmas layouts using the gorgeous Simply Stories Christmas Papers and Sticker Sets

SORRY THIS IS NOT INCLUDED IN THE 25% off sale

Please complete a new order for this kit

Here is a snippet preview of what you will create

and the layouts

all of this for only $49.95 this works out on average $2.00 per card and $10.00 per layout ... AWESOME VALUE for a jam packed kit

Christmas may only come once a year (so why do I have over 10 years of Christmas photos still to scrap!)

Insert "happy dance" here because I got Cathy's kit

I now have most of my cards done and 3 Christmas layouts completed so now on to finishing my other "in progress " projects

SALES TIME and a FREE gift

2011-11-30T19:39:00.001+10:00

Let's finish the year off with a sale!

We are giving everyone 25% off everything in store until the 12th December (this includes all items already on sale)

Enter CHRISTMAS at checkout to receive the discount.

(does not include subscriptions, gift certificates or our Christmas Kits

please purchase these in a separate order)

With your first paid purchase in December you will receive FREE an Angel Bookmark (great stocking filler or to keep for yourself)

(colour of Angel may vary to photo)

Don't forget our Christmas Kit, created by DT Cathy

The kit represents great value, as it contains all the products and instructions to make 10 cards (including envelopes) and 3 layouts - for only $49.95. This works out at around $2 per card and $10 each layout - with leftovers for future use. IF YOU DONT MAKE CARDS (like me) the kit will provide you with enough products to create 3-4 layouts with LOTS of left overs.

Here is a preview of a few of the cards you will create

Stuck for gift ideas this christmas?

Why not purchase the subscription kit for your scrapping buddy or hint to hubby and the kids for you

We have bakers twine now in gift packs

and don't forget our pins sets for stocking fillers

If you want a pack made up specifically (this includes personalised charming chains) please email me at info @ my2angels DOT net and I will do my best for you

And speaking of kits!

I have been asked to make up Boy Embellishment kits and Back to School Embellishment kits. If you are interested in any of these, please let me via email at

info

my2angels

. net

Enchanted with Bo Bunny

2011-11-27T10:41:00.001+10:00

We received the new Bo Bunny Enchanted range on Friday and I got straight to work creating to show you all that whilst it is a "Love" themed paper collection, it is certainly adaptable to any layout

In the words of our Jess .... Think it's just for lovey dovey layout's?? NAY to that I say! I'm going to funk it up....add a POP of colour and do a coolio Elijah layout with it : )

LOL Jess

Here are a few pieces from the collection

And so this is what I have so far created with the paper range

I am currently working on an OTP using this paper range for a birthday present, and will share when it is finished.

Starting off with a boys layout

Love the Tim Holtz Tab File Die which I placed behind the photo for a side border and also to use for part of my tile

Added layers with Tim Holtz Tattered Banner Die, Antique Silver Clock Charm, Thickers Letters, Tim Holtz film strip and some chicken wire

To add more colour to the layout I used my ink blending tool and Tim Holtz Pine Needles Distress Ink to random areas on the edges

and a girlie layout

Cluster of our flowers with an Idea-Ology Ornate plates. I softened the colour of the plate with a dab of Picket Fence Distress Stains

I removed the love key from our Pink and Silver Love Key charming chain and replaced it with one of our sunglasses charms

Sprinkled the top corner with pink rhinestones and 2cm pink roses

Also a spray of pink glimmer mist

I hope you will consider Enchanted for your next layouts, it is gorgeous with its glitter accents and like I have shown, so versatile for any layout

TFL

May you always Dance in Sunshine

2011-11-25T13:27:00.002+10:00

Hey Ladies – Ngaire here

and I’m back with another of Tracy’s gorgeous Charming Chains.

They are all so stunning it is hard to pick a favourie!

This pretty purple one though is Madame's favourite – but then she hasn’t seen the one I am playing with now, so that could soon change. The purple is a perfect match for some Glitz Design papers I just got my hands on - the Dance in Sunshine range - so I stole one when she wasn't looking :) - yeah ok, there was more begging and pleading involved - but I got it.

Just love the way the purple and yellow combine together - so bright and cheerful. I've used a number of Antique Bronze items from my2angels on this layout - all keeping with the butterfly theme used on the Charming Chain.

The main alphas in the title are (surprise, surprise) my favourite ones – Scrapware Antique Lowercase – both the normal size and the minis. This time I've used Mustard Seed Distress Ink to colour them and then a light spray of Sunflower Sparkle Perfect Pearls Mists to give them a nice shimmer.

On my tag I used an Antique Bronze Butterfly Clip and the dangle pearl from the Charming Chain, together with some flowers from my stash. The rubon is from Kaiser - who REALLY need to do something about their shocking quality control. I've actually Photoshopped the tag image a bit to fix up how poorly the rubon has transferred. At some point I will either have to remove it and buy another to replace it or suck it up and learn to live with it.

Down the bottom of the layout I have used an antique bronze Tim Holtz Ornate Plate, together with an Adage Ticket (oos) to pop the word SOAR into a cluster of Prima flowers. Attached to the book plate is one of Tracy's beautiful antique bronze Filigree Butterflies.

Also tucked into that flower cluster you can see a small glass bottle - it's from my stash, but Tracy has some vial bottles, which are very similar and can be used as embellishments like mine.

So grab a charming chain whilst you can - they look great on cards. tags and layouts

Ngaire

and some new arrivals:

ABC Silver Block Charms

5 for $1.60

Memories Silver Rings (flat backed)

3 for $1.20

Wish Silver Rings (flat backed)

3 for $1.20

I can imagine these on a birthday layout

and new Large Flower Filigrees

2 for 99c

check out the size of them with one of our heritage gardenias!

I hope you all have a creative and safe weekend

Is it Christmas today mum?

2011-11-23T14:18:00.000+10:00

Sooooooo as we all know, it's getting to that time of the year again.....CHRISTMAS!!! And yes I have a Christmassy layout to share with you.....

Instead of doing a layout with a photo from Christmas day I decided to use a cute non-chrissy photo and scrap about how excited Elijah is about Christmas this year.

This year he is finally old enough to kinda understand what it's all about. He's thrilled to bit's at the idea of Santa coming to deliver him pressies. Every morning he asks "Is it Christmas today mum?" lol

I've been playing with the GORGEOUS Simple Stories 25 Days of Christmas collection pack.

I reallllllllly love this collection.....it's jam packed with so much goodness, LOVE the houndstooth print thats carried on throughout the collection.....gives it a cool edge.

Tracy has been making all sorts of GORGEOUS chains. She puts in so much time and effort making the most fab embellishments!

I was lucky enough to be sent a few and on this layout I have used the Merry Christmas 2011 Charming Chain. Seriously go check out all her awesome creations HERE.

FABULOUS products used: ALL available at my2angels.

Cardstock: Coredinations Snowflake.

Paper,Stickers & Alphas: Simple Stories 25 days Of Christmas collection.

Transparency: Hambly Portrait Gallery - Black.

Pleated Card: Bazzil Perfectly Pleated Cardstock - Pheonix.

Felt Border: White Scalloped edge felt frame (which I cut a long side of to create a scalloped border).

Spray Mist: Tattered Angels Glimmermist - Dark Denim.

Flowers: Large Roses - Green, Mixed Green Roses pack - 2cm, White Roses - 2cm, Black Gardenia - Large.

Chain: Merry Christmas 2011 Charming Chain.

Buttons: Small Holed Acrylic Button - Red.

What kind of Christmas layouts will you do this year???

Love and Peace xox

Creating with Charming Chains

2011-11-20T20:23:00.000+10:00

Hi everyone

Cathy here with a layout ...

Classy and Fabulous

You girls should all know by now how much I love to mix ranges of pp's together and I knew as soon as I saw the Glitz Houndstooth, it would be the perfect background paper to go with the Authentique Uncommon Collection Unique pp which I hand cut and layered with foam tape, then added some stemmed flowers with a few rhinestones cut from the black rhinestone chain for flower centres.

I also added the gorgeous oval frame and double heart charms around the flower sprays.

The Scrapware lamp post was inked in grey and I lightly dabbed some Tim Holtz black soot ink over the top and added a couple of the new white pearls. The little birdie was cut from the Echo Park sticker sheet.

To frame the photo I used the Glitz Polka, some corrugated card which I painted white and some black rhinestone chain. I cut the Authentique word from the strip at the bottom of the paper and finished off with some of the stickers from the Glitz Titles stickers for my title and journaling.

Cheers

Cathy :)

Hi Ladies,

Ngaire here - and I have been having a ball the last few weeks, hiding out at Tracy’s place bossing her around, demanding one of this and one of that.

Prepare to be absolutely gobsmacked at her latest creations – a bit like Pringles or CC’s (Hmmm – are they still around?) you won’t be able to just stop at one. I don’t think she even had time to set this little beauty down before I snaffled it up – because it was just perfect for the Glitz Designs, Beautiful Dreamer layout I was playing with for her.

Love this paper range – why have you not all bought it out?? It is absolutely stunning. For this layout I have layered to my hearts content, starting with the Polka patterned paper as the base. This was given a good distressing with my Heidi Swapp Distressing tool. Over that went a slightly smaller piece of the lovely Damask paper, which was also distressed and then stitched to the base paper – with a small bit torn out on the right-hand side. I’ve then offset a piece of Polka (which I cut from my base sheet before stitching the Damask layer on) with a smaller rectangle of the Stripe paper, on which I used one of my Martha Stewart punches to give it a nice lace border. The final two layers are a piece of the newsprint reverse side of Polka and one of the Whatnots. That gave me a lovely set of contrasting layers to play with as my layout framework – the rest was straightforward fun playing with some lovely embellishments.

From my stash I pulled out some old vines and a floral stem and mixed them up a bit to give me a nice floral cluster in the bottom corner of the layout.
I added one of Tracy’s gorgeous Large Antique Bronze Keys and a small antique bronze Love charm. A really cool thing about the key is that the spaces in the top of the key are actually meant for gems to be placed into them. I’ve subbed in some pearls – but they look great without anything in them too.

The alphas are my favourite ones – Scrapware Antique Lowercase – both the normal size and the minis. To get that distressed look to them you need to paint/ink them white first and then dry them with a heat gun. Then ink with Tumbled Glass Distress Ink (oos) and heat dry. This colour is almost the perfect shade for these papers – a slight touch of a Weathered Wood Distress Ink pad to the alphas (lightly – the ink will bead rather than spread out) then gives them the perfect match – they now have a slightly dirty, grungy look to them, just like the blue on the Polka paper. Heat dry again. Now to give them a bit more of a colour pop – add either some Tumbled Glass Stain or Re-Inker to a gob of Rock Candy Distress Stickles and mix it thoroughly. Apply to the alphas and dry with a heat gun again. Perfecto – it will be a bit blotchy with the heat gun drying (f you want a more thorough coverage just paint it on and leave to dry naturally) – but I love the look against the patterned papers.

I’ve done exactly the same thing with the flourish corners – this time using Worn Lipstick. As an added bonus – used without the glittery coating, Worn Lipstick is exactly the shade of soft pink that is in these papers. So you get two matching colours for the price of one with this ink.

Across the top of the layout I have added a Crinkled Seam Binding Ribbon (from my stash) as a garland. I embellished it with the matching hanging pearl that comes in the Charming Chains pack. I had to grovel a bit (ok – it was a lot actually – there might even have been some begging too) to get the extra ones from Tracy – but it was so worth it. I love the sense of whimsy it gives the layout. Another floral cluster – using up the rest of my vines - helps fill up some empty space underneath the garland.

Tucked away in the torn out corner is my journalling tag. The last of the flowers and a bit of the crinkled ribbon have been used to embellish it and tied on to the tag is Tracy’s stunning new Charming Chain. The blue pearls on this chain match the colour in the patterned paper perfectly. Yes mine is a little longer than yours will be (length does vary a bit, since they are hand-made) – but that is more because mine is a proto-type and I ran away with it before Tracy could do anything about it.

And here is the tag itself – with that stunning Charming Chain. The rubon on the tag is one by Kaiser and I put the journalling on the back.

So that’s me for this week. Check out the Charming Chains in the store now and get in to get some Beautiful Dreamer papers before I go back to restock my stash.

Ngaire

Charming Chains ... Christmas Release

2011-11-17T14:52:00.001+10:00

Introducing our Christmas Charming Chains

Blue and Silver Mistletoe Bauble Charming Chains

Merry Christmas 2011 Charming Chain

Green and Red Christmas Bells Charming Chains

(I am still playing around with a black and silver chain, to match the Simply Stories 25 Days of Christmas papers, so I can get motivated to finish the 2 layouts I started a few weeks back)

And introducing our little cute

my2angels Christmas Angels

(these angels are not an original idea, I saw the idea in a beading book and remembered Sandra W making something similar a few months back)

Blue Christmas Angels

White Pearl and Silver Christmas Angels

Green and Silver Christmas Angels

Red Christmas Angels

Not your colour combination for your Christmas theme this year?

Well let me know and I will make one to match .. just send me an email if you have my direct address (won't put it up here to prevent spammers) or via our website in the contact us section

Geli has been busy

here is what she has come up with ...

What?! Christmas cards already!

Yes, already. I made up 2 quick cards

You don’t always have to use Christmas papers for Christmas cards when you have gorgeous embellishments! I used some scraps in Christmas colours and the new chain embellishment with a felt heart (just stapled on):

and a bit of twine and a little sleigh charm. Done!

Here is the other one:

Red glitter ribbon, a Christmas bauble,

some star flowers and a snowman charm is all it takes to make this look Christmassy!

and Jess, well poor Jess has a half completed layout on her table using our Christmas Chains but her back has decided not to play the game

here is an insert from her email I received earlier today ....

Can't do much with my back like it is.....trying to stretch it out a bit.....but apart from that am moving around like a bloomin 90 year old Nanna.....need to put a blue rinse in my hair, get a lap dog and start knitting.....

GET BETTER SOON JESS

I won't mention how many more sleeps to go till Christmas ... too frightening!

So instead .. Happy Creating and hope you are having a great week

Christmas Kits and New Arrivals

2011-11-15T09:12:00.001+10:00

We have an awesome jammed pack Christmas Kit designed by our DT Cathy Cafun

available for you to purchase now, giving you plenty of time to create your Christmas Cards.

You will received instructions and ALL materials (with leftovers) to create 10 Christmas Cards (this includes the cards and envelopes) and 3 "12x12" Christmas layouts using the gorgeous Simply Stories Christmas Papers and Sticker Sets

Here is a snippet preview of what you will create

all of this for only $49.95 this works out on average $2.00 per card and $10.00 per layout ... AWESOME VALUE for a jam packed kit

We have already sold some here in store so there is only 9 left ... grab this amazing value of goodness here

BTW did you see the huge 4 page spread of Cathy's work in the latest Scrapbooking Creations? Sorry Cathy I know you will be totally embarrassed by this LOL but heck it isn't every day you are a feature in the mag over so many pages!

Also new to arrive today is

The Crafters Workshop 12x12 templates (more on backorder) for $9.95

You can view all the new arrivals here