Starting School Scrapbooking Layout

Starting School Scrapbooking Layouts - I had to do it I couldn't stand looking at my first attempt of my page I did for Mark's first day of school way back in 2002. I mean truly, they say don't redo your pages as it shows your journey and growth in scrapbooking blah blah blah but really would you have been able to look at these two pages (note I have inserted them as small photos - why would I have them big???)


Shocking I know. Here is the latest version with no stickers or cutting of photos. I have used the Kaisercraft Lovestruck Range , our cute ruler charm and ABC Book Charms. Also I finally got to use my Kaisercraft Doddled Alphabet Clear Stamps. Our organza ribbon which comes in 7 different colours are perfect for tying charms.



Enjoy the rest of your weekend
Tracy

Heritage and Antique Images - all free

Heritage and Antique Images and Media are all free on this site. Whilst I don't do a lot of heritage scrapbooking, maybe one day I will think outside the 12 x 12.
Click on the image to take you over to The Vintage Moth

Autumn Leaves Clear Stamps - new stock in store

Autumn Leaves Clear Stamps from the stampology range have arrived. The supplier couldn't give me as many as I ordered so these are limited for the time being. We have Merry Christmas with a piece of holly and double Christmas Trees. Great price at $3.45 each
Great for your Christmas Cards or Scrapbooking Pages

Glitter Graphics

Brads - tips and examples of using them

Tips for using Brads - so I set myself the task or should I say challenge of using brads, a product I haven't used in a very long time. I am a firm beliver of using the products we have at www.my2angels.net because how can I recommend or even give tips of using our products if I don't use them myself. Also I want to ensure that they are easy to use, not faulty and good valve for money.

This is a page I have finally finished, which I had sitting around for over a week. I had 3/4s of it completed but I just couldn't finish it! Our crystal brads, glitter brads and metal brads have all been used. (One day I will figure out how to upload my pages larger so you don't have to click on them to get a bigger view! If anyone knows to do this, please let me know.)



All products, except the pens I used, are available at our website, including the corner love stamp which arrived last week.



As you can see I have used our pink crystal brads as the dot for the "i". You can use your brads in all in sorts of ways for your titles, and I will include more examples in further posts.



I used rub ons for the pink metal brads and drew a white heart onto the black metal brad and finished them off with dimensional magic. Wait for the white pen to be touch dry before putting on the DM. I am so impatience and always have to touch things to see how dry they are, (causing many redo's in the past) so thankfuly I finished this page at 1 this morning so the white pen was left to dry overnight. The black hearts I took off the heart border from our Kaisercraft "All Girl" rub ons.

And lastly, I used our glitter brads to embellished our self adhesive pink scrolll ribbon.

I hope I have has given you some ideas, or a reminder of using brads in your creations.

Tracy

Kaisercraft Scrapbooking Pattern Papers

Kaisercraft Scrapbooking Pattern Papers in store. We have over 94 double sided pattern papers from Kaisercraft ranging in themes from Christmas, Boys, Girls to Retro papers.

Just arrived to my2angels is their collection of Lovestruck and Sweets (as mentioned in previous posts)

Great value at $1.30.

All papers are posted in pizza boxes for protection and at a flat rate postage fee of $2.70, unluck most places that charged you postage from $5.40.

And wait there is more! You also receive a free thank you gift with every order (not not a set of steak knives). Each month this changes so keep an eye out for your newsletter from us advising you what the current months gift is.

What I love about these papers is, because they are doubled sided there is no hassle in trying to find two pattern papers to match your layouts and quite often I only need a sheet of cardstock and 1 sheet of pattern paper to complete pages. Pretty economical wouldn't you say?

All these papers are listed under the Pattern Papers section or just click here



PS Check out the new awesome acrylic clear doodling alphabets stamps in our stamp section, I can't wait to try these. Stay tuned for my next posted layout using them.

A bit of humor for your Friday morning

This is a specially formulated diet designed to help WOMEN cope with the stress that builds during the day

BREAKFAST
1 Grapefruit
1 slice wholemeal toast
1 cup skimmed milk

LUNCH
1 small portion lean, steamed chicken with a cup of spinach
1 cup herbal tea
1 biscuit

AFTERNOON TEA
The rest of the biscuits from the packet
1 tub of Gino Ginelli ice cream with chocolate topping

DINNER
4 bottles of wine (red or white)
2 loaves garlic bread
1 family size Supreme pizza
3 chocolate bars

LATE NIGHT SNACK
1 whole cheesecake (eaten directly from the freezer)

REMEMBER :
'stressed' spelled backwards is 'desserts'

Finally, here's some advice for you:

Dr. Neil proclaimed the way to achieve inner peace is to finish all the things you have started.......

So I looked around my house to see things I'd started and hadn't finished; and, before
leaving the house this morning, I finished off a bottle of Merlot, a bottle of Chardonay , a bole of Baileys, a butle of Kehuha, a pockage of biscuits , the mainder of bot Prozic and Valum scriptins, the res of the Chesescke, some saltins an a bax a cholates..

Yu haf no idr who gud I fel.

Brads have arrived - Plaid Fabric, Crystal and Metal Brads

Brads - I have to admit that I don't use them very often they remind me of my early scrapbooking days, and now when I look at many of those pages I wonder what was I thinking! But it nice to see how much I have learnt and grown in the past 6 years. After much research I find that brads are still a very popular scrapbooking and cardmaking item which is why I have ordered some in and challenged myself to using these versatile embellishments.

We have 3 types of brads - 7mm metal in 10 colours, 8mm crystal in 10 colours and 12mm fabric plaid brads in 5 colours. These will be on our website, with much better photos, later tonight (Tuesday 27th)




And as they say on the cooking shows, here is one I made earlier, in the anticipation of receiving this order.


Over the next week or so I will be adding more posts with ideas on using our brads to remind those who need it, how we can add them to our creations. Warning though, if you drop one YOU MUST locate it, as they *^&%&*!* hurt when you stand on them with bare feet! True Story!

Favourite Websites for Free Fonts

I want to share with you two of my favourite websites for free fonts that I use all the time.

http://www.urbanfonts.com/free-fonts.htm

and

http://www.fontspace.com/ This site allows to you type in your words to preview it before downloading


Because I have so much time on my hands - Not! And with only 1 and a half days to go before school starts I have finally got myself around to covering Sarah's school books and making labels using the fonts from these two great sites. See example photo, which you can click on to enlarge



These sites have great fonts for your scrapbooking page titles, cards or journalling.

You gotta love the free stuff