1 layout completed and I am feeling horrified

Okay so the title is a bit weird but this posting is in two parts - firstly my layout. Over at the scrapbooking Top 50 they have had a Mothers Day Cyber Crop running for the past week and thankfully you have until next Wednesday to complete the challenges (this one took me 4 days!). I have only managed to complete 1 layout so far and the criteria was to use this quote in your layout

A mother is she who can take the place of all others but whose place no one can take

Love the quote. So for my layout I decided to scrap all the females in my family (blood related) who are either mothers now, and with my sister and my DD who will be mothers in the future (god help us, just kidding Alyce - but I do want a niece!)





On the Buzz and Bloom chipboard letters, I inked first then applied 3D crystalina kindy glitz. I also used it to add water droplets on the flowers. On the larger flowers I just used the normal crystalina kindy glitz.

To centre the flower is our Made With Love charm, eye pin, blue organza ribbon and a button.

The flower was white and the lace brown but I sprayed them with pink taffy glimmer mist. I know glimmer mist has been out for a while and I'm obviously a little slow on the uptake but I am making up for not having this awesome product sooner - over quarter of a bottle has gone already (only had it for 5 days) as everything I touch these past few days has been sprayed. It leaves such a beautiful shimmer as you can see by the next photo (I hope) where I have sprayed it on the ripped edges of the pink paislee paper. The beads are our 13" glass round beads, which I have finally used as a strand and not as individual beads.



Up the top left hand corner I folded the pink paislee papers and held them down with our petite silver frame charms , organza ribbon again and flowers. Top flower was white, and you know what I did with that one! and the bottom flower I left alone but did ink it. You might be able to see a small bit of blue glimmer mist that I have sprayed around the edges.



Okay so why am I horrified?

Well over at the Scraplounge each day a scrapbooking question of the day is asked.

Now last week we were asked if anyone has used kindy glitz then the following day asked if anyone uses Dimensional Magic.

Yes I am giong to name and shame you young lady! Well, KYM admitted out loud that SHE HAS NEVER USED EITHER PRODUCTS!!!!

Now to me thats like the Pope not saying his morning prayer! Truly I was mortified, horrified to say the least, in fact I don't think I can express what I thought - lost for words! So my dear Kym, in your order that I am posting to you today I am also enclosing a couple of samples I quickly made up for you late last night, not stunning but they show you what you the effects that they can product!



The black flower has just been sprayed with granite glimmer mist
Black kindy glitz on the chipboard frame
3d kindy glitz on the flowers
The key has been inked white (couldn't find an ink to match teh flower sorry Kym)and dimensional magic applied. Also a small drop of DM was applied under the charms to stop them from moving.

Now if there is anyone else out there who doesn't want to be named and shamed LOL, in your next order let me know and I will send you a couple of small samples using these 2 awesome products.


TFL everyone
Have a fab day
Tracy

Happy Mothers Day

Happy Mothers Day to all you mum's out there. How does she do this - silly me - she's a women!!!



For mothers day I requested that the angels to do as they are told and I didn't want to hear them fighting! Woo hoo I got my wish they are off to dads for the day (they don't see him from one month to the next so I can't deny them the opportunity when it arises) yipppeeeeee so that means I also got my third wish - for them to leave me in peace so I can scrap with all the new goodies that have arrived in store.

Hope you all got what you wanted
Tracy

New Stock Arrived

OMG it is Christmas here at the angels household. Yesterday saw the delivery of over 60 new products and the place looked like a bomb had hit it.

Pink paislee, glimmer mist, cosmo cricket, buttons, chipboard, rub ons OMG they are so yummy I can't wait to start using them -

My first favourite is these delicious Rose Mosa papers


The Cosmo Cricket papers are awesome and includes their robots papers. The black cogsmo chipboard shapes, which as you can have all sorts of shapes so not just restricted to the robot themed projects.
And don't get me started on the basic grey rub ons.


oh and then there is the Teresa Collins range, arrived just in time for this months Ebony & Ivory Challenge over at Ready Set Scrap





There is lots more but right now I am so in the mood to scrap, first victims pink taffy glimmer mist with the pink paisley pop fashion range

Hope everyone is having a fab weekend and all you mums out there get a sleep in tomorrow (AFTER the kids wake you at the first signs of daylight with breakfast in bed, Sarah does this every year as she just can't wait to give me her creations that she has made for me bless her)

Tracy

Whats your favourite page title or quote?

I need your help!

Okay ladies time for some new designs but I want your views on it...

Now I know you are out there, I see the visitor count tick over each day. So make yourself known and tell me, what page title or quote  you use on your layouts / OTP / cards for boys and girls, the most. Would you want this on a stamp or ribbon or chipboard or other type of item

 You will go in the random prize draw to receive these felt products and ribbons (and knowing me I will find more items to add to the packs). 

The more people that email me with their favourites for BOTH boy and girl, the more prize packs I will have to give away.

Please let me know before the end of May 09 by either emailing them through to me via the comments page on my website or leaving a comment on my blog.

Thanks everyone

Mothers Day Cyber Crop at Top 50

Woo hoo tomorrow the Cyber Crop starts over at the Top 50 (frozen meals have been stocked up). Victoria has posted some really GOOD hints on the challenges and she has been giving away prizes already.

Another different twist on a challenge is on the third day, May 8th you get to know what the challenge is! But first you have to pick three words from the list below...

Memories
Baby
Family
Kisses
Hugs
Sweets
Gifts
Love Hearts
Card
Romance
Laughter
Roses

What you will be required to do in this challenge will be posted 9am Friday 8th May and you will be given until Midnight May 20th to complete this challenge!

AND there is a lucky number draw where you have to choose a number between 200-500. On May 14th the winnner will be picked and you win a store voucher for $15.00. That ain't hard girls and NO layout to complete.

Did I tell you that I am sponsoring Challenge 2 It's an OTP project all about family portraits on something we can all use everyday... so get those family portraits printed (photos can be all different sizes)

Get over there girls and register, the more the merrier

Monday Layout link and a quick funny

Good Monday Morning

Thanks for everyone who voted for me at the Scraps of Us, late last night I had 2nd most votes. This morning discovered that I wasn't in the top 10 and obviously the Design Team was involved in the final decision. Love the sketch we had to work with but oh well ho hmm moving on...

Thought I would direct you to the gorgeous Tracey Hunter's blog who has completed a layout using our felt frames. Maybe its that "e" her name that gives her such amazing talent, damm you mum NO BARBIE DOLL and NOW NO E IN MY NAME to blame you for ROFL

Hope everyone is having a fab day and here's a just quick funny for the day that our fab Kym from the scraplounge sent my way.

THE AMISH ELEVATOR

An Amish boy and his father were in a mall. They were amazed by almost everything they saw, but especially by two shiny, silver walls that could move apart and then slide back together again.
The boy asked, 'What is this, Father?'

The father (never having seen an elevator) responded, 'Son, I have never seen anything like this in my life. I don't know what it is'.

While the boy and his father were watching with amazement, a fat old lady in a wheel chair moved up to the moving walls and pressed a button.

The walls opened and the lady rolled between them into a small room. The walls closed and the boy and his father watched the small circular numbers above the walls light up sequentially. They continued to watch until it reached the last number and then the numbers began to light in the reverse order.

Finally the walls opened up again and a gorgeous 24-year-old blonde stepped out.

The father said quietly to his son ....... 'Go get your mother.'

Who is your favourite Legend?

Voting closes Monday 4th May for round 1 of the Legends of Scrap Competition.

If you go to this link Scraps of Us , you will see the entries for the competition. It is in a forum like format, so you need to scroll through the 7 pages of chat and entries. It is interesting though as there is a variety of layouts and a few ladies from around the world have entered.

After looking through the entries if you want to vote, please don't choose me if you don't think mine should go through to the next round (I know some of you lovely ladies would do so and thank you for that xox) whilst I would love to carry onto the next round I want to because of my layout. So after viewing the entries head over to the main page (link up the top) and it will list everyone who has entered. Shazza who hangs out at RSS has also entered - good luck girl :). Just scroll down to my post here on the 24th April to see my entry.

Hope everyone is having a fab weekend, and to all you ladies in NT and Qld enjoy the extra day off work you have because of Labour Day / May Day.

Tracy

Layouts for Purple Scraps Calendar Challenge

The Calendar Challenge for April over at Purple Scraps was:

Sketch 1

Sketch 2


AND
Photo – Cluster together similar photos
Stamping – Collage style
Photo – Cut photos and use cut pieces on the layout
Use – A flower that has been embellished


These are my 2 layouts that I submitted and won the random prize draw with:


Coredinations cardstock used with Print Block PP. Rhinestones, cystal brad and stamped flower from my2angels with cuttlebug cut out shapes. Chipboard title is from buzz and bloom which has been inked.

Ribbons and green flowers which I stamped from my2angels. Inked and painted buzz and bloom chipboard arrows. PP is Rusty Pickle & Cosmo Cricket with coredinations cardstock as the background

These are the May sketches, which I just love:


Points are awarded to each challenge you completed, not the amount of layouts. There is a major draw at the end of the year for the people who completed at least 1 layout in 8 different months. You still have 8 months to go, so come over you talented bunch of ladies, and join in. Details are in the forum under "Challenge Yourself"

TFL and hope everyone is having a creative weekend
Tracy