August thank you FREE birthday gift

WOO HOO its our birthday - well sort of. Whilst I have been selling as samscrapbooking for nearly 4 years and "a sort of website" for my2angels for 5 months prior to today, I class today as our birthday.

You see last year on the 1st August 08 was my first day of becoming self employed and kissing the air conditioned offices good bye with a HUGE smile on my face. Only downside is no regular pay package but I am much happier and healthy than I ever have been, except putting on a few kilos (: and then a few more on top of them!

So to celebrate this milestone I am giving you a bigger thank you gift this month with every paid order. This is limited to your first order, however all subsequent orders will still receive a thank you gift as always. Colours may vary from the photo


In addition, if your order is over $50.00 there will be extra items added to your thank you pack

There will also be random draws throughout the month with the winners receiving one of our kit of the months FREE

And because I can, there will also be random bigger bonus thank you gifts given out during the month

The random draws will be decided by the 2 angels, not me, cause I would be giving you all bigger packs.

Have an awesome weekend hope its creative. I am off to watch my son play league.

Tracy

PS I hope I am not jinxing myself by saying this but I haven't been sick (medicially cause we all know I'm a little sick in the head at times) since I left the air conditioning offices - makes ya wonder ah. Or is it just I lead a sheltered life now tucked away hided in the office:)

I am on a Design Team Woo Hoo

I was asked by the lovely Shazza to join her on her new challenge blog called From Screen 2 Scrap. It is an awesome unique concept whereby everything is movie related, I mean how cool does this look



The first challenge was to create a layout using the inspirational movie poster "Fire walk with Me" directed by David Lynch



Here is my entry basing on the colours and the heart theme. We also had to have zig zags and ripping/ tearing with 1 photo.



Oh look it our stemmed flowers again LOL and black rhinestone flourish cut up, our love charm, made with love charm, red flowers, black & white heart ribbon, white, black & red black organza ribbon, eye pin and our white tag for the journalling.



So from the top at the start of each month a movie poster will be uploaded and the DT will give you some added inspiration with each of their submissions.

You will have a month to complete and your take is be emailed to: shazzaalleyes@hotmail.com

At the end of the month a Golden Globe Award will be presented by the DT to recognize outstanding achievement in the monthly scrapbooking challenge, (both domestic and foreign layouts), and to focus wide public attention upon the techniques, overall appearance and criteria met.

ALSO,

An Academy Award, (popularly known as an Oscar), will also be presented monthly by a random draw of all entries, this is to recognise excellence by all of you in the scrapbooking industry including the Crew (DT members), Movie Buffs (challenge entrants), and Movie Extras (guest designers)

When you send your entry to Shazza please let her know it was me and my blog that you heard about screen 2 scrap from.

The blog offically starts on 1st August but here is it just for you ...


Screen to Scrap

Take care
Hope you have a fun and creative day
Tracy :)

3 Layouts to Share

3 layouts to share with you tonight but first I have to say I AM IN LOVE yip totally and utterly in love with my new flowers. So much so I have done 3 layouts in record time! The first one is for the Sketch Challenge over at Ready Set Scrap (I so go to type ready steady cook every time!)


I remember a while back stating that I can't use the same paper twice WELL I WAS WRONG (don't tell me kids I admitted to being wrong!) the Rose Moka paper is second on my LOVE list. This photo cracks me up every time - Sarah had been trying for weeks to roll over but her arm keep getting in the way and then she finally did it and the look on her face - priceless!



Our I am Clever charm with white tags



Up close of our flower charm, black rhinestone flourish, white tags, white corrugated ribbon and flowers with 2 skeleton leaf behind



This is one of the new scrapware chipboards we now have in stock. Bird is coated with pink kindy glitz and I used Jo Sonja Crackle Medium which is now in stock


Next layout is of mum and I and it is for the Purple Scraps Monthly "Challenge You". As required I did heritage style, based the colours on a layout in their gallery, used up odds and sods of letters and it is sort of based on the sketch.



Pattern Papers are Jenni Bowlin (another newbie in store) with again our stemmed flowers white and blue this time.



Another scrapware chipboard, crackle paint, antique gold key charm and our blue flowers



Finally last layout to share is one for a friend, who I still haven't asked permission to upload so I have blurred out the photos.
The envelope containing a letter is made from an old newspaper which I downloaded from the NZ National Archives (it is for a friend back in NZ)



Papers are Little Yellow Bicycle (love them, okay they are third on my list), the scrapware bird on branch which I just inked this time and applied DM. Also a dollie I sprayed with Granite Glimmer Mist, red and black rhinestones, red crystal brad, white tag, black organza ribbon and our red felt scroll. Bird up in the top right hand corner is from scrapware as well.



Our red and black/white stemmed flowers with skeleton leaf (again I know but I love them), black flower we have sold out of this style but do have other ones in stock, and our red felt heart.

I have one more layout to show you but I can't share that with you till Saturday ... why ... can't tell ya ... you will just have to wait till Saturday.

Thanks for looking
Tracy :)

I am back with lots and lots of new products

Hi everyone I am back - no mojo so no layouts to share (well I do have 3 half completed layouts on my desk!)

Firstly thank you to everyone for your kind comments and emails I have received over the past week. It is really heartwarming to know people are so kind and thoughtful to take the time to write to me xxx

While I haven't been around I have still been busy with lots of new products arriving this week. Here is a small peak at a few of them





Over 20 new chipboards from scrapware in the chipboard section.
More Buzz and Bloom Mirror and Acrylic shapes
Jo Sonja Crackle Medium in the Dimensional Magic section
Yeah also go some 3mm double sided tape, onto my last little piece.

But my favourite new products would have to be the black/white and blue/white stem flowers and the Jenni Bowlin Newsprint Pattern papers which I have used on this half completed layout.



Must go and locate the mojo those 3 layouts have to be completed by next week along with 2 other private scrapbooking job I have been asked to do and I have to organise myself as I have been request to teach a lady how to scrapbook guess how old she is or should I say how young she is ... 95 YEARS OLD ... just goes to show you are never too old to learn something new :)

Take care and thanks again to everyone
Tracy :)

I apologise in advance

Hi everyone

I just want to say sorry in advance for no new postings and not visiting all the forums I usually go to on a regular basics.

This week has been an emotional week and very tiring.

Firstly, on Wednesday I received a phone call to say a good friend of mine had emergency brain surgery and as we speak, it is still touch and go still for him.

An hour after receiving the call about my friend, my boyfriends father died in New Zealand.

No scrapbooking has been done and I am not sleeping very well at the moment so I am absolutely knacked.

Just wanted to let everyone know, who usually hears from me regularly I am taking some time out and won't be back for a few more days.

Take care everyone
Tracy

2 Angels sleeping layouts

As one of the Top 50 sponsors, I had the pleasure of co hosting last months Cyber Crop. It was heaps of fun and for this months Christmas in Jully CC one of the challenges is a blog hopping challenge. So to explain why I might mention something a bit out of the ordinary in this post, it may well be a clue for the blog hoppers :) And it isn't me 'just being my usual duuuuuurrrrrrhhhhh self ;) or is it????

Okay for some scrapbooking - this first layout is based on a sketch at the Scraplounge for July.

I have úsed heaps of our flowers

white scroll felt star

rhinestone words - sweet and dream (adding an s from other words I have)

silver, dark green & purple rhinestones

silver glitter brads

purple rhinestuds

purple crystal brads

green felt scroll ribbon

Buzz and Bloom acrylic house

and the following charms: butterfly, daisy flower, dragonfly and mushroom.

The Buzz and Bloom chipboard flower flourishes which I inked, applied dimensional magic and put DM and Kindy Glitz

The fence I made with chipboard, painted it green, applied crackle then covered it with white paint.  I found some soft wire which I threaded with our 13" clear beads.

I haven't been as scraphappy, as I could have been, while missing in action but I do have one more layout I did last month, don't think I have shown you. It was for the June CC at the Top 50,but didn't submit as it didn't turn out how I wanted. Same theme & style layout as above just a different angel skeeping. Whose blog? Where?





I do have 1 more layout to share but I haven't resized it etc so it can wait for another day. Blog what blog whose blog?

Ooooo my favourite programme is on now - How I met your mother - must dash

Tracy :)
PS Tra la la la la la la

Damm dog ate my layouts

Considering I don't have a dog or (sorry) I don't even like dogs but I don't have any other excuse for nothing to show and tell today. Definitely will have a couple completed in the next day or two to show you.
What I do have to share is this clip from youtube the angels showed me. I just love the facial expressions and his accent!



I will be back promise!!!!
Tracy :)

There's a mouse in my lunchbox

I don't even have an excuse for why i haven't blogged lately, I can't even tell you what I have been doing, all I can do is blame it on the school holidays!

I have only 1 layout to share with you. It is for the Ebony & Ivory Challenge over at RSS where you had to use black, green and pink. The Rose Moka paper was perfect for this challenge and I just looooooooovvvvvvvveeeeeee the RM paper range. We also had to have rhinestones, buttons and chipboard.

First I need to explain what the ... am I scrapbooking sandwiches for! Well I have a habit of when making the angels lunches I take a bite out of the sandwich - well it always looks so yummy and I have to have something in my stomach before the day is full of consuming lots and lots of coffee! And I use to always take a bite out of my EX husbands lunch and my now BF when I make him lunch - not bloody often now he is ugly and old enough to do it himself!) So I decided to scrap this habit / tradition.

I have used our zig zag felt frame and as required buttons on the chipboard title which I painted and crackled, rhinestone eyes on the rat and 1 photo.

I had heaps of fun with this layout, so here it is with a few close ups.






Have fun creating
Tracy :)

PS Should have a restock of Buzz and Bloom & Glimmer Mist by the end of next week yipee