My Creative Scrapbook Prima Contest!!

Hi There!

Just want to share with you all an awesome contest that is coming up at My Creative Scrapbook. Pam always has the BEST prizes. You don't want to miss this!!

Hi girls wanted to let you know that My Creative Scrapbook.com is having a contest...
The contest will start June 5th with tons of prizes...

Do you love Prima Flowers

Do you love Bling

Would you love to receive a box full of free products ?

then check out our site on June 5th to see the prizes you can win ....

We invite you to come join the fun!!
check back on our site www.MyCreativeScrapbook.com we will be posting more details and sneak peaks photos of the prizes!!!

Stay tuned.............!!!
Cheers XX

My Creative Sketches May Challenge

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Are you looking for a cool sketch to help boost your mojo?? Well My Creative Sketches has just gone live with the May challenge. The sketch is so easy to work with & so adaptable that I ended up creating 2 pages using this sketch!

The sketch was created by Tony Rangel inspired by a page created by Delaina Burns

For my first page I have used a mix of MME Lost & Found2 & Glitz Design Beautiful Dreamer. This is a pic of Kayla & Evie all dressed up to go to Kayla's 4th birthday ballet party last month!

The chippie is by 2crafty. I have painted this with gesso then some white acrylic paint. Then I added some glossy accents, while it was still wet I sprinkled some fine glimmer on. The gorgeous love heart trinket is by Prima

All of the gorgeous flowers are Prima. The butterfly sticker is from the Kaisercraft Bonjour collection

My secon page is using the Kaisercraft Miss Nelly collection. This cute pic is of Kayla & her twin friends Morgan & Quinn when we were on holidays at Hamilton Island at the start of the year

This quote is so sweet dont you think!

This is the awesome Random draw prize on offer

Entries are due 14th of June. I can't wait to see what you create!

Thanks for looking!
Cheers

My Creative Scrapbook Design Team!!

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Well I can finally spill the beans!!! I am so excited to be the newest member of the My Creative Scrapbook Design Team. I was so honoured to be asked to join the team a few months ago by Pam Rangel. I LUV MCS!!! Check out the announcement here

I have been subbing to MCS for 2 years now. The kits are soooooooooooo gorgeous. They are jam packed full of goodies from the best manufacturers like Prima, Websters Pages, Bo Bunny, Fancy Pants, Authentique, Pink Paislee just to name a few. To be officially designing with these awesome kits is just FAN TAB U LOUS!!!! Check out this months kits here

There is so much inspiration in the gallery & a really friendly forum. Lots of tutorials & fun callenges to play along with. Pam always has awesome prizes up for grabs too! I can't wait to share next months reveal with you!!

I now join this list of crazy talented ladies on the team
Delaina Burns
Alicia Geiss
Angel Rodrigue
Romy Vuel
Melissa Vettorel
Jolaine Frias
Rachael Ellliott
Luzma
Carla Marchee
Zoe Nemburt
Maiko Kosugi
Jamie Harder
Kris Berc
Izzy Anderson
This is a LO I created for the new challenge over at Once Upon A Sketch. The theme is Mum. So I created a page using a pic of me & my Mum.  I journalled about how we look so similar & have the same taste in things. Mum is much more than just my Mum she is also my best friend!

I have used Websters Pages Everyday Poetry. The Alphas are also part of this collection

A mix of Prima & Manor House Creations flowers

I luved fussy cutting all of the bird cages out. They are so pretty

My journalling

I also completed a page for The Color Room Palette #109 Special Edition. This is the palette

This is Ryder my spunky little nephew. I have used G45 Little Darlings

The alphas are a mix of Prima Meadow Lark & Prima Alla. The bling banner is Prima songbird

Thanks for looking!

Cheers

Giveaway Winner!!!!!

Hi There!

Firstly  I have drawn the winner of my 100th post giveaway ( I do it the old fashioned way with names in a hat!) & the winner is.......................

Sandra!!!!!!

Congrats Sandra. Email me at huntercarman@bigpond.com with your address & I will mail ur prize out.

Thankyou to all of u that left a comment or became a new follower XX

I want to share my last post for Scrapz.Biz. I have had a great time on the DT & made some great friends there. Thankyou so much to Heike for having me. I had a great time on the DT with an awesome bunch of girls. Thanks Sheree, Chloe, Aga & Nati for all your support & making the DT so friendly & fun to be on.

I am VERY fortunate & excited to have been offered a new DT position which meant leaving Scrapz.Biz. I am so excited & busting to tell you all....... but I can't just yet (soon though YAY!)

Anyway here is my last 3 projects that I did for Baby Month.

This was using Prima Meadow Lark. I entered this page for the April Prima BAP. *** FYI this is NOT a new Ultrasound Pic LOL. This is Evie.

The canvas mini banners were fun to alter with some chalk ink in a blue & purple

I also made a Baby Mobile. These photos are not the best sorry. I found it really hard to photograph to show any detail. Here is a quick tutorial on how to make this mobile

-To start off I cut X2 pieces of 12"X1" strips of card (not just cardstock you will need something thicker)
- Cover both sides of the card with paper
- Use a staple to staple the 2 lengths together on each end so it forms a circle
- Reinforce both of the joins with 1"X4" card covered with matching paper that is inside your circle. Just use your tape to stick down card piece straight over the join (If you want a more sturdy circle you could use something like an embroidery hoop as your base instead
- Cut X4 lengths of ribbon or trim exactly the same length. I used 10" lengths. It is easier to use ribbon or trim that is a little bit thicker
- Staple each length evenly around your circle
- Cut 1 length of ribbon approx 30"
- Place this length in the centre of your circle. Tie the 4 lengths of ribbon you have already stapled to the centre piece of ribbon. Leave approx 10" of length to hang your mobile from. The 4 lengths will now look like a pyramid

- Cut/punch 56 butterflies (or whichever shape you have chosen). Mix & match co ordinating patterns
- Roughly fold each butterfly in half so that it looks more 3 dimensional
- Stick 2 butterflies back to back with the same pattern facing out. adjust butterfly wings so that the butterfly is now completely 3 dimensional
- Continue to stick 5 butterflies per ribbon for the 4 outer lengths & 8 butterflies for the centre length
- Cut your ribbon off under the last butterfly to tidy it up
-Decorate the outside of your circle as desired. I have used some lace & bloomers
- Cover the ribbon where youo have tied the 4 lengths to the centre piece. I have used a flower

I have used paper from the Girls Paperie, Websters Pages Bloomer, Cuttlebug butterfly die & crinkle ribbon

I made another easel card (I still need to post a tutorial for that shortly!)

Easel cards are a new fav of mine at the moment. They are so cute! I have used Cardstock as a base & decorated with Pink  Paislee London Market paper, ephemera & spool button. The cute bow is from Jenni Bowlin

Well thats all for now.

Thanks for looking!

Cheers

Kaisercraft Saturday Sketch #1

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I picked up some yummy Kaisercraft 'Charlotte's Dream' from my LSS Scrapbook Sinners & thought I would have a play at one of the Kaisercraft Saturday Sketches. I chose sketch #1 cos I liked all the layers!

Here is my page

Based on this sketch

I luv the colours of this collection with the brown, peach & teal. I traced the die cut paper of this collection onto the brown brocade sheet then handstitched a border around the edge

I added some Kaisercraft roses, Prima flowers & bling & some Prima canvas resist pieces of branch. I tried to keep this page simple as the clours were fairly strong so I didn't want the page to look too busy.

I luv this pic of Kayla. She has the craziest fine hair that is half straight & half curly & it always sits out in a big mess! She tries so hard to keep it under control with her huge array of head bands. I think a haircut is on the cards soon!

While I had some Kaisercraft out I also made this Easel Card for my Best Bud Nelle's birthday. I will post a tutorial on our to make an Easel card very soon.

I have used a combination of Charlotte's Dream with Bonjour. The chippie frame, Rub on & flowers are Kaisercraft & the lace is Melissa Frances.

I just wanted to share a pic of Kayla all dressed up to go to her ballet party last week. I can't believe how grown up & beautiful she looks in this photo!

The other day I was extremely surprised & excited to find this post on the Websters Pages blog. Thanks Websters for making my week!!

Thanks for looking!
Cheers

My Creative Sketches April Reveal

Hi There!

Happy 4th Birthday to my gorgeous girl Kayla! She just celebrated her birthday on the 18th & we had a very cute ballet party for her (so many cute photos to scrap!!)

The sketch for April is up at My Creative Sketches ! This months FAB sketch was created by Tony Rangel based on a page created by the ever so sweet Romy Vuel. Lot's of layers & spot to embellish. LUV it!!

& as always Pam has the best prize up for grabs

Here is my take on the sketch

I have used the MCS March LE Kit which was full of MME Follow your heart (totally luv this collection!) I have layered soem fussy cut doilies with some trime , lace & punched borders. The bling is Zva creative

MME layered stickers gave such great depth. The blooms are Prima & the border punch is Fiskars
I also wanted to share one of the projects I had made for the Graphic 45 DT call

I have decorated the very cute Prima canvas banner with some G45 Once Upon A Springtime & Little Darlings, crinkle ribbon, Prima buttons & flowers & MFT & Spellbinders dies

The butterfly chippie is imaginarium designs. The Alphabet chippies are from my local scrapbook shop Scrapbook Sinners

(PS can we all pretend that the paintwork on my fence isn't so bad LOL! We live in a 87 yo home which needs a bit of renovating. We are working from the backyard forward so the poor ols fence will be last!)

Lastly I just wanted to share a few more features (sorry I feel so boasty when I give a toot but I get so excited that I have to share!)

I was the lucky winner of the March Scrap The Boys challenge.
My WP LO was featured at Websters Pages here
& another LO was place on the watch list at CSI ColorStoriesInspiration

Yikes a long post. Congrats if u got to the end!

Thanks for looking!
Cheers

Home Away From Home

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If you are looking for my giveaway check it our here!

Firstly I would just like to toot a little! My page was featured at The Color Room!!! Check out the link to see my page on the feature wall! It was the first time I had played in a TCR challenge. I have always admired the DT pages & there are always so many gorgeous entries that I always felt a bit intimidated to give it a try! So you can imagine how surprised & excited I was to have my page featured!!
I was also the March challenge winner over at Scrap The Girls!! Thanks so much to the DT for their votes & awesome prize!

Once Upon A Sketch is celebrating it's first birthday! I have been playing over at OUAS since Nadia first created this great site. I haven't had a chance to play for a while but really wanted to participate in this special sketch! The theme is Home. I interperated this into "Home away from home". we have just bought a van at a little beach called Marlo. It is a bout 2.5 hours from home but we love to travel up there as much as we can. It is so peaceful, we really don't do a lot. Just fishing, swimming, afternoon naps & enjoying the sun!

Here is my page

(I didn't realise my 'e' had slipped down sorry girls!)

This is the sketch my page is based on designed by Nadia

The journalling is rolled around this spool. I wanted it to look like a bouy floating in the water. In my haste to photograph this (& attend a screaming 1 year old!) I forgot to photograph the journalling pulled out. My journalling talks about how our van in Marlo is our home away from home & how much we enjoy going up there.

The papers are Websters Pages Everyday Poetry with a little bit of Kaisercraft Sweet Nothings. The flowers are Prima (of course!). I have also used some Pink Paislee ephemera.

To add some texture to my page I have dry brushed some gesso. I then used a makeup sponge & dabbed a few areas to get a thicker texture. I sprinkled some micro beads onto these thicker areas. The micro beads reminded me of grains of sand!
Well the screaming1 year old is at it again so better go!

Thanks for looking!
Cheers