Dec 09 Online Freebie

For this month I have found the cutest thing over at Better Homes & Gardens. With Christmas in the air there is a great site where you can digitally make snowflake paper cutouts and they then are uploaded to fall in the sky with many others created from all around the world. You can comment on other people's snowflakes and any comments that are made about yours are emailed to you.

This is so cute and quick, you must give it a go.

Visit 'Make-A-Snowflake'

Angel ATC

Well, I have just done my first ATC (Artist Trading Card), well.. actually 14. The theme over at Angie's Scrap'n'Art Journey blog was Fairies/Angels with 12 participants (my 2 girls wanted one each - hence the 14 I made). These were great to make but I must admit that the fact that they are all exactly the same made it a bit tedious towards the end, but not too much to never do it again.

I decided to do a paper pieced angel for mine using a paper doily for the angel's dress and cardstock for the rest of her components. Drawing the templates was an interesting stage to get the right dimensions to fit.

Hope you like.

The Four of Us

Here's a digi layout I did for Angie's 'November 09 Seven Up Challenge' over at Scrap'n'Art Journey. Have a go, there is a $10 voucher for Sweet Blossom Designs up for grabs. Closes 29 November.

The challenge requires the following

1 photo

2 scrolls or flourishes

3 different patterned papers

4 embellishments

5 colours

6 flowers

7 rhinestones/brads.

Anyway, this photo was taken on Steve's birthday and is a happy snap of the four of us. Hope you like.

A Couple of Buds

Oh, it was so wonderful to be able to sit and do some scrapping - its been a month and I could only do one...oh well one is better than none. Its wonderful how a calm just sweeps over you when you get to do what you love. If only I could scrap every day or at least every second day.

So here is my layout called 'A Couple of Buds' It is actually my DT layout for Journaling Junkie which will be posted shortly... shhh... dont tell anyone I posted mine a tad early.

This is an interesting challenge, there is a recipe to follow;

1 x photo

1 x die cut (the green border strip under the photo)

1 x textured patterned paper (the green glossy paper)

1 x cardstock

2 x other patterned paper (orange paisley and plain orange)

inking (black ink)

bling (rhinestone on border strip & rhinestone circle around title)

rubons (the journaling block which I cut in half and the small flowers)

stitching (the orange X over the black circles)

scalloping (I combined the cardstock and scalloping recipe items as one piece of scalloped cardstock)

Hope you like

Your Blog is Over the Top Award

Wow, I have just received the Over the Top Blog Award from Angie. Thanks Angie.

With this award I am able to pass it onto 5 other bloggers with the following questionnaire to add a bit of fun. So here are my 5 bloggers who I have chosen because of their fantastic blogs and the fact that they are extremely talented scrapbookers.

Helen Tilbury

Kate
Sheree
Lady Grace
Rebecca B

Here are the rules of this award

1. You can only use ONE word answers

2. Pass this along to 5 other bloggers

3. Alert them that you have given them this award.

4. Have fun!!

Questionnaire

1. Where is your cell phone? Handbag

2. Your hair? Wavy

3. Your mother? Missed

4. Your father? Preoccupied

5. Your fav food? Chinese

6. Your dream last night? Work

7. Your fav drink? Caffeine free diet coke (sorry more than one word but I hate Coke)

8. Your dream/goal? Happiness

9. What room are you in? Dining

10. Your hobby? Scrapbooking

11. Your fear? Drowning

12. Where do you want to be in 6 years? Fulfilled

13. Where you were last night? Home

14. Something that you arent? Perfect

15. Muffins? OK

16. Wish List item? scrapbooking room

17. Where did you grow up? Canberra

18. Last thing you did? Ironing

19. What are you wearing? Uniform

20. Your TV? On

21. Your pets? cats

22. Friends? The best

23. Your life? settled

24. Your mood? mildly stressed

25. Missing someone? buddies

26. Vehicle? CRV

27. Something your not wearing? dress

28. Your fav store? Scrapbook

29. Your fav colour? Lime

30. Last time you laughed? yesterday

31. Last time you cried? 2 weeks ago

32. Your best friend? Angie/Rachael

33. One place that I go to over and over? Work

34. One person who emails regularly? Angie

35. Fav place to eat? Restaurants

New Life Layout

We were so priviledged last month when our local resident possum decided to visit us to show off her new baby. Mummy came right onto our back verandah and enjoyed some apples on a stick. She looked after baby well. At one stage he... or she fell off and was trying to climb up the glass window. She hooked her tail around the railing and lowered herself down to scoop him up in her arms. She lifted him to her chest and he climbed back up onto her back. So cute. With the apples, she would grab the piece off the stick and eat it with 2 paws, holding the railing with her tail. She would then hold it up to let her baby have a bite. SOOOOO CUTE!!

Anyway, I was able to snap this lovely family snap and have created a layout called 'New Life'.

Hope you like it.

Nov 2009 Online Freebie

Instant Color Schemes.

Now this is cool. If you have a particular theme you want to scrap and want help with the colour scheme to use, then visit Instant Color Schemes. Type in the theme and see what colours come up. I started with BEACH, then got adventurous and typed in HAPPY CHILDREN and BABY ANIMALS. Now the colours for Happy Children were a bit dull but what a fantastic site and great inspiration. Give it a try.