2 layouts and another proud mother moment

What a bad bad blogger I have been! Sorry been side tracked with other things but I have also been doing some scrapbooking - I have 2 to share with you 2 today. I have 2 more but I just have to add the finishing touches.

Here is my entry for Amanda's Quote Challenge over at Aussie Girls Gone Scrappin. We had to use the quote "Laugh as much as you breathe and love as long as you live" which I typed up and put on top of our round silver pendant charms. Also had to use chipboard - I used Scrapware Photo Corner and Buzz and Bloom Blossoms. Last criteria was ribbon - organza ribbon up the top and a piece of our brown ric rac.



My entry for this months ARTastic challenge. This is the artwork to get your inspiration from ...



And this is what I came up with using Kaiser papers and Birdhouse from Scrapware


Love the colour of the leaves (which come with the birdhouse) - I sprayed Yellow Daisy Glimmer Mist on to the bare chipboard. you probably can't see the full glimmer of it but its a gorgeous golden colour


Our birds on swing charms inside the birdhouse



As you know I have the promotions section on my website to raise money for Bravehearts. Well my son has also been collecting cans for a while now and I emailed Bravehearts and told them that Mark has about $30, whilst not much every little bit counts. They told me that $30 would put three children through their "Ditto's Keep Safe Education Program"". The purpose the program is to teach children the skills to keep safe from sexual predators.

Late last week in the post, Mark received a letter, Certificate of Appreciation, Bookmark and Pen from Bravehearts thanking him for his contribution. He had such a HUGE smile and "proud of myself" look on his face all night, it just made my heart melt with proud!



This special piece of mail has got him so much more motivated and eager to raise keep raising money. He asked me if could clean my car for $270 LOL making his total up to $300 so he could help 30 children - in his innocence he was thinking of a classroom setup like at school.

And then later on that night when he should have been asleep!!! I went to check on him and he looked at me with this big grin and I just knew what he was thinking - (he had that proud look on his face still).

Mum, he said, I should contact the cricket grounds and big places like that to get more cans, he tells me.

Mark ... we would have to hire a truck I told him.

Thats okay there is a place just down the road where we can hire one he informed me.

I suggested we start off a bit smaller and put a note to everyone's letterbox in our complex (we are one of 42), tell them what you are doing and lets see what sort of response we will get.

Oh don't you just love it - BUT why oh why can't this caring and thoughtful boy be like this when he is in the same room as his sister????

Thanks for looking everyone
Have a great day

Glass of wine anyone?

With mum's upcoming 60th birthday and the party being held at my place, I thought hmm jump rings, ribbon and charms might make things a little easier and save me dishes at the end of the night! So I came up with these using our new jump rings, rhinestone word "Happy Birthday", ribbon and charms. Now everyone will know whose glass is whose.

and then it got me thinking ... Weddings using our silver rhinestone wedding words

and don't forget not too far away (heaven forbid!) is Christmas ... so out came our glitter ribbon

I have an invite to go to a baby shower in a few weeks (I remember them being called Kitchen Teas years back) so these were quickly made up... but we have so many different ribbons and charms that would be suitable for a baby shower, christening or baptism ...
and then with 10 minutes to spare before I had to get the angels from school I made these


They took about 5 minutes each to make and I could have added so much more to them. With our huge variety of charms I reckon you could just about make one for any occasion.

So there you have it .. oh by the way mum, I came up with the idea so don't even think about getting me to make them all up for your guests!!!

Till next time
Thanks for looking

Aussie Girls Gone Scrappin

I have been trying to get this posted for the past hour or so but the chat over at the ning site I created this morning keeps calling me back - dunno when I will get some scrappping or that other horrible thing they call housework done!

When RSS shut down last weekend there were several people mourning the lost. I had been thinking about creating a ning site for a while now ... it seemed the perfect time to do it now ... but wasn't sure if I would have the time to do both the website, blog and everything else but I sent Shazza and Amanda a thinking out loud email and 24 hours later we have aussie girls gone scrappin ...nope no mucking about with us LOL

So what is it all about ... well so far we already have 14 members and counting. We have a gallery ONLY for challenges which we will announce on the 20th of each month and you have until the 19th of the next month to post into the gallery your creations. I will be sponsoring 2/3 prizes each month and working on a few other sponsors.

We will also have forum topics like tips, techniques etc and already been asked to organise a swap so that will be next to organise.

In the meantime here is a little snippet of one of my challenges that will be on show come the 20th October - don't tell the girls over there haven't shown them yet LOL

Not much of a hint of the criteria in the photo for you! I used our new jump rings, brown flowers, brown organza ribbon, stemmed flowers and I inked the friends charm with Timber Brown Staz On Ink.

Hope to see you all over at Aussie Girls Gone Scrapppin

October Free Gift of the Month and 1 layout

Its always so busy at the beginning of the month, with our free gift and new challenges uploaded to various sites.

First up ...

This month with every paid order from my2angels you will receive a packet of our white tags - approximately 10-15 tags in a packet. I just loooooooooovvveee these! I use them regularly for my page titles or small pieces of journalling.


Over at Screen 2 scrap the movie poster is up ...



1. Use a group photo

2. Yellow or gold title

3. Use one element from the poster - a dinosaur, monkey, plane, rocket, squid etc.....
OR
3. Something inspired by one of the figures in the poster.......
example #1 The Pharoah = a pyramid or egyptian theme
example # 2 Napolean Bonaparte = the Eiffel tower


and this is my interpretation of the poster

I took the insirpation from the character Amelia Earhart, the famous women pilot.
The group photo is of me with my son, brother and sister at the airport when my brother flew out to London on a working holiday.
Kaiser pattern paper
Lots of downloaded clipart used
Scrapware chipboard flourishes, journalling block & plane
my2angels stemmed flowers and charms.
Making Memories gold stickers for the title
Postage stamps are real - they came from a letter mum wrote to me when I was working in London.
One of the envelopes I scanned, from an original letter my Grandad wrote to my Grandmother in the 1920's. Also the music paper in the background was downloaded from the internet and sprayed with glimmer mist. It is the song "Leaving on a Jet Plane" my grandfather's favourite song.





I inked the charms with Timber Brown Staz On ink to give it an antique look. Look there is one of our white tags with our half penny charm on it.



and over at ARTastic Challenge Blog Octobers inspiration is this from Vincent van Gogh

Don't forget to let Shazza know it was me who referred you, when submitting your entries.
Have a great day everyone and TFL
Tracy

Classes down in Tasmania

I am back from the adventure down in Tassie. We had a great time once the rain stopped! It is such a beautiful part of the country with green for miles (coming from the drought of Gold Coast it was a beautiful sight). The people there were so friendly and so welcoming, if you haven't been there you gotta go. I think a few mini tornados must have come into town while we were (and I don't mean us LOL!) We had some delays and detours because of fallen trees and power lines down but it made our journey even more fun. The first photo is before we got to Jo's house in Rosebery and the 2nd photo is on our 2nd detour getting out of Rosebery - yip we drove under it LOL

here are the 2 layout classes we did. I think the ladies were a little overwhelm with so much to do in one day, but 90% of them mangaged to complete all 4 classes and a few of them being beginnners did brilliantly.

SWEET

Rose Moka Papers were used and as it is doubled sided we cut it, ran our knife down the edges to distress them then flipped the middle piece over to show the other pattern side. Then taped it down to white card for a backing.

The chipboard is scrapware flourish which has been inked and painted with kindy glitz and dimensional magic to finish it

The photo of the innocent me LOL is our felt scroll frame on top of a doily sprayed with pink taffy glimmer mist and our silver rhinestones “sweet” word. All the girls got 4 words, sweet, family, love and adore for the titles of the 2 page layouts.

The bottom of layout starts with our white felt scroll ribbon and over top twisted is our pink 13”beads and tulle. Tied randomly onto the tulle is black organza ribbon, large daisy and leaf charms, velvet rose leaf sprayed with granite glimmer mist and our light pink stemmed flowers. Tied at the bottom of the chipboard stemmed flowers is our made with love heart charm, eye pin and pink bead, (left over from the strand used to twist around the tulle). Randomly adhered are our clear black and pink rhinestones.

ADORE

The 2nd layout was for the boys. I used our Adore rhinestone words for my title!

Top right hand corner is a small piece of black tulle and our red stripped felt heart.

We cut cardstock, raised with foam tape, inked the edges and put the title of their choice onto each square

We painted the frame with crackle paint then with black paint. I wiped silver ink down the sides as well. Bull dog clip, white tag and our heart locket with key charms

Moving down was a piece of white card sprayed with granite glimmer mist, black tulle again which we randomly cut. The arrow photo anchor from scrapware is inked red, then black for the edges, dimensional black and a black rhinestone. Made the tag from my cuttlebug

I made some red cardboard hearts before I left tied with string. Glad I did because we were running out of time on the day

We also did an OTP house but mine got damaged while on the plane so once I get it back together again I will post it for you to see. (The photos I do have of it have a orange glow to them thanks to the dust storm we had before we left)

Finally, a BIG BIG thank you to Jo and Brenda for their wonderful hospitality and making us all feel so welcome. They feed us, gave us accommodation and basically "put us with us" not an easy task somedays LOL

To everyone who has emailed me while I was away I am slowly getting through them and will reply to you asap

Will be back soon with next months free gift of the month and don't forget ARTastic and Screen2scrap will have October's challenges up by tomorrow, hope to see you over there

Before I leave for Tassie I have these to share...

Finally it is nearly here, tomorrow we are off to Tasmania (returning late 29th Sept) and since I opened my big mouth in previous post about a Christmas layout, I suppose I had better show you it.

It's not quite what I intended this layout to be but its done! Christmas may only come once a year but I just don’t like doing them and I have at least 5 years of Christmas layouts to scrap and don’t start me on all the birthdays needing to be done!

I have used Teresa Collins P/P, doily sprayed with starfish glimmer mist, black coredinations cardstock circle.

Under the scrapware chipboard Christmas tree are our present charms. The tree I inked in red, then added a thick layer of dimensional magic over the top then I bent it after it had dried to crack it. The black edging is kindy glitz. The little doily behind has been sprayed with granite glimmer mist

I use Black Kindy Glitz on the Thickers for the title and a small piece of our new black seed glass beads. I was intending to use more but I felt the layout was busy enough without adding more to it (had already completed 90% of it before the beads arrive.)

One reindeer charm on the right hand corner and finally up the top left hand corner is our flowers, black flourish and scrapware holly photo anchors with a red glitter brad holding it together.

Not sure if I will have access to my2angels emails while away but if anyone need to contact me I will be able to get emails from my other address ... samscrapbooking@yahoo.com.au

This month is Blue September. It's about creating awareness and raising funds for cancer in men. One in two Australian males are diagnosed with cancer by the age of 85! At least one in three cancer cases are preventable, and the number of cancer deaths could be significantly reduced by more men choosing a cancer-smart lifestyle. These men could be your fathers, your husbands, your boyfriends or your sons.

Jo from over at scraps of sanity will donate $10 to Blue September for every blue page emailed to her by September 30.
It doesn't have to be all blue it just has to be the dominant colour.
So come on everyone... help here out with this great cause and help the men in our lives.
Email your entries in to joannepowell1972@gmail.com

Here is my layout I sent her. Its my DD last month competing in Districts – and I finally got to use the cheerleader charm, as mentioned in my tips and example of using charms tutorial

The terricotta flowers are the Buzz and Bloom Denim Fabric flowers (Blush) and I got to use our new bird charms.

And finally but most importantly this gorgeous boy stole my heart 13 years ago today

TO MY BEAUTIFUL SON, MARK WHO IS 13 TODAY

Love you to infinite and back
Mum
xxx

PS and yes I will alway keep reminding you that it took 36 hours (I add hours here and there when reminding him)plus hemorrhaging (that was me!) and with the use of forceps until finally all 10.5 pounds of you came into this world and changed my life forever (in the best possible way).

New charms, jump rings and seeds beads in store

I just love getting deliveries especially when there are charms in them - even better when you forgot you had ordered something like these birds.



The charms are in packets of 5 for $1.60

Mum and Jo both said these are Tutus which I agree with but I think you could get away with them being a dress for any layout or card. Do ya think?


These remind mum and I of Marilyn Monroe - you know her famous scene standing over the subway vents! These are so dainty, I just love them. Available in Silver and Red Copper.


What else? 10mm jumps rings which are great to tie your charms to ribbon, clips, buttons etc etc. Available in gold toned, silver, antique bronze, black and red copper.



We also got some petite 2mm seed beads for $1.20 a metre.





These are all in the New Arrivals section (which is also new) at the top of the Boutique index.

I am in the middle of a Christmas 2008 layout and the black beads are perfect for it, so I am going to go now and work on the layout :)

Night everyone