Its nearly the end of the month...

and lots of new challenges tomorrow to get our mojos into gear.

Here is a little peak of my DT entry to the Screen 2 Scrap Movie Poster for September ....

Full layout will be up in a couple of days but thats all for now, nothing new to show you sorry, working on a couple of paid jobs and organising the September free gift and newsletter (yukky yukky I hate writing)

Tracy :)

Wham Bang Ouch

Wham Bang Ouch is one of the latest releases from Buzz and Bloom chipboard range that we have instore. I have been waiting for it to arrive so I can finish off this layout of my son’s first day of high school.

Actually it is a layout mum gave me some time back to finished it off for her as she didn’t know what more to add. Well mum I keep the photos from the layout but that was it! Sorry but I couldn’t think of what to add and it was much easier to start again. It is also my entry for this months Calendar Challenge over at Purple Scraps. We had to incorporate a painted stencil into our layout and add circles.

Papers used was Rose Moka Equinoxe Pied de Poule and Reconfort (gotta love these double sided papers). I cut up strips to make the bricks then ran my stanley knife down the sides to give it the rough look like bricks. On the chipboard I coloured it in and finished it off with Black Kindy Glitz.

Here I have included our ruler charm.

Here are a couple of other new chipboard products from Buzz and Bloom in store.

I just realised I haven’t shown you this eg that I made ages ago which I clip my unpaid bills to (really need a much bigger clip) LOL

Used an old curtain as the dress, added our bling square buckle, rhinestones, pink corrugated ribbon, flower,organza ribbon and our eye pins with a bead.

Hope your week is creative. TFL

Tracy

Birds Trees Baby Boys and More

Take a look at these cuties that arrived today

Birds on a Swing

Silver Trees

Large Daisies

Baby Boy holding a bottle

The heritage page I am working on at the moment has just the spot for these coins!


Only a few more days left of August to get your FREE bonus birthday gift pack and before you know it, I will be saying Merry Christmas everyone - crap (: LOL

Tracy

My favourite layout to date

I completed a layout yesterday and felt in the mood again to scrap today so I headed over to RSS to see what other challenges they had for the month. The colour challenge was everything I love ... flowers, rhinestones and chipboard then pink, blue and black to be used. And once I had the idea, a few hours later this is what I came up with

I can’t believe two layouts in 2 days, I am on a roll, hope I wanna do more tomorrow.

It wasn't an easy process getting the tulle to stick down so here is my layout at the beginning

Its there under the wood – still not completely stuck down but once in the album she’ll be right!

Here are a couple of close ups

It is my favourite photo of me with my mum, brother and sister taken a couple of years ago and to date this is now my favourite layout

This next layout took me about an 1 hour to make ... that was once I decided on how I was going to do it! I realised that I hadn’t even put my Happy Halloween ribbon on my website (real bad blonde moment) and I have 3 years of Halloween photos to scrapbook, so I started with last years ... the first year I dressed up as well ... to scare the crap out of the kids in our complex who came to the door ... it worked LOL especially as I turned off all the lights and just stuck my head around the door, wearing a mask, to greet them

It is quite a big thing in our complex. A week before hand everyone gets a note (usually organised by me) that they put on their door or window if they want the kids to visit their unit. This is so they aren’t annoying the boring farts who live here ;)

I swear the first year we were here the angels had enough lollies to last them until Christmas!

And so here is my layout using Making Memories Spellbound Pattern Papers with Nightfall and Orange Coredinations.

I have to admit I got the idea for the eyes on the scrapware tree from a blog I saw a while back, and I apologise in advance if it was your blog, I really must write down these important details to acknowledge the cleverness of others. The tree has been painted and inked

As always 99% of all products used you can get from my website.

Hope you like and a big thanks to everyone who visits and leaves me encouraging comments, it means sooooooooooo much to me


Tracy :)

Tasmania Scrapping Classes and News

As some of you may know the Angels and I are off to Tasmania on the 24th September. Tickets were booked today, with a 6 hour stop over in Sydney giving me time to take the kids to see the bridge and Opera House.

On Saturday 26th there is 3 classes: 2 layouts, 1 OTP and for anyone who has booked for 2 classes or more can also attend a FREE embellishment class.

I have completed 1 layout with 2 tiny snippets of the layout below, to give you a little clue.
Clue number 2 is your title will either be family, love, adore or sweet as you will be receiving all 4 of these rhinestone words in your class kit.
Oh okay one more clue the paper we are using is one of my favourite Rose Moka Diva - Fatale.

Now ... no more or next I will be showing you the whole layout LOL




And these are what you will be doing in the embellishment class (templates included to take home for future use)





Mmmmm I wonder what one of these new arrivals from Scrapware I will be using on one of the class kits?




           Congratulations to Brenda W, East Devonport, Tasmania, Amanda T from Woodridge, Qld and Daphne B from Shalvey, NSW for receiving FREE kit of the months with their orders this week. 5 extra bonus packs were also given away this week with orders.

And finally, Sue aka Soupie from Scrapbooking Top 50 awarded me with this blog award



Oh bless her, I have been neglecting so many forums lately but she still remembered me - thanks Sue :)

So I am passing it onto my some old and some new friends - the DT team over at From Screen 2 Scrap

Marisa
Lisa aka Vanilla Essence
Corinnescraps
Ali
Shazza
and lastly, Amanda who FINALLY FINALLY has a blog

That's all for now
Happy Scrapping
Tracy

Angel or Fairy?

I recently made a card, something I don’t often do … unfortunately it was for another death. My good friend’s sister died at the aged of 35 from a heart attack. She has had a bad heart all her life, sadly, but still it was a terrible shock and all I could think about was her mother. Being a mother myself it really hit home to me.



I used some old rub ons for the word sorry which as you can see were a bit dodgy but I quite like the effect of them so I left it as is ... not bothering with a black pen to fix up. I sprayed the doily with starfish glimmer mist, red organza ribbon, white corrugated ribbon with two of our red flowers.

Now this card caused me a bit of confusion (what's new???) as I have always called the charm used Angels but the 2 males in the house said they are fairies. What do you reckon? Could it be both? Or am I ... god forbid ... wrong for once PML?

Wow my birdhouse turned out to be a popular item – thanks for the encouraging emails and comments left. I have managed to get 5 more birdhouses arriving around the 14th August so if anyone would like one of these please email me at info@my2angels.net - yes Amanda I have one put aside for you already

They are $10 each but unfortunately the postage will be $5.20 due to the thickness of the posts. However if you purchase papers, bottles or tapes from our website as well you be paying the flat rate of $5.20 anyway – just a thought

Time to get DS off to footy again

Hope your weekend is creative and your kids are behaving themselves ;)

Tracy

OTP Birdhouse

OTP Birdhouse is my entry over at RSS this month. The very clever Joanne from Tasmania made up the birdhouse (her own design) and sent me one - thanks heaps Jo :) She has also uploaded her version of the birdhouse in our gallery.



I was going to hang my tapes on it, but I think I might leave it on my desk as it, unless Sarah steals it for her room.

As required for the challenge I used 2 pieces of chipboard being the bird(covered in blue rhinestones) and scrapware picket fences (which I painted and applied crackle paint to). Lace was also required and is the snow at the bottom of the birdhouse. (It is actually a lace curtain I brought from the shops for about $2.50 - bargin as it is over a metre wide and works with the sizzex). It also had to be shabby chic, which I think I will get away with. It was my second attempt the first was black and white, then realising in the middle of the night ... crap ... wrong papers and colours for the theme!

So for the second attempt the papers I used was the kaiser cocco range, snowflake charms, leaf charms, dragonfly charms, silver glitter, blue & white stemmed flowers, buzz and bloom chipboard flowers (cut up) and lots and lots of 3d crystalina kindy glitz. We have all the products available except the colour paint.

Here are few close ups.



Our snowflake charm which is just hanging by a dribble of dimensional magic (man this stuff is great!)





Scrapware birds covered with our blue rhinestones - again all held together with dimensional magic



The chipboard flowers at the bottom, painted again, is the Buzz and Bloom Arboretum up the garden path - I just separated them. Our blue stemmed flowers which I have sort of wrapped around has our leaf charms attached. Also have put a couple of our dragonfly charms up the sides




Man I love this 3D kindyglitz and it is thick enough as you can see to "hang"! I then sprinkled our silver glitter over the top of the whole house - leaving a mess on my table!


News from the website:


So far this month we have given away FREE with paid orders:
2 kits to Kym in Ipswich and Diane in WA

6 extra bonus packs

2 bonus bonus packs

Some items have already sold out, but a restock is on the way. More coredinations papers & Dimensional Magic will be here tomorrow and fingers crossed by Friday the glimmer mist will be here along with Carole Creations papers, restock of Rose Moka, Basic Grey rubons and Collage Press Papers.

New arrivals since last time are:

These last rhinestones whilst gorgeous (love the colour) I have called them clear blue (starting to run out of names) whilst the picture shows them a having a purple tone they are more blue. Anyone who orders them give me shout on what you think they should be named.

And now for ...

                         

My beautiful DD, Sarah, has made it into the Districts teams for 100m sprint, relay and shotput. She was orginally as a reserves for the shotput as she had been sick all week of the trials but on the competition day, one team member was sick (oh what a shame!) so Sarah stepped in and WON FIRST PLACE with a throw of 6.15m. So my baby is all very nervous awaiting 17th and 18th August for the Districts competitions.
She has asked me not to let her see me on the day as I distract her so if you hear of any reports of a mother being arrested for hiding behind a tree taking photos of a childrens sports day THATS ME! However I am not sure whether taking the camera is worth it - remember the "action" photos I got of her scoring goals last soccer session! NOT!

I am also not sure where she gets the talent from I hear her mother is a drunken, smoking lazy coffee drinking woman who sits on her butt all day long at the computer.

Have an awesome week everyone
Tracy :)