Pretty Presents

In the weekend my kids got to take part in the Rotorua Santa Parade. They were riding in a 1026 Model A car. The two old gentleman with the car, one the owner and one the driver were proud of all the attention there car was attracting. I made up these thank you gifts for them. Homemade fruit mince pies and presented them in these decorated XL Kraft boxes that we have. I love the end result.

A Beautiful day to celebrate

Mothers. This is a quite gift I put together for my mum because we are heading over to spend the day with her shortly. The kraft boxes and spiral flower die make such quick presents. Have a lovely Day to all the mums out there.

Happy Easter

Are these not the cutest wee bunnies around! Cased from a friend and made with the Bow Die and lots and lots of M & M's, these are Easter treats for my kids and a friends kids! I'm sure she is reading this. They won't make it in time for Easter but at least you can see what is coming your way Stella :).

Baby Boy

This card was a request by a friend and she wanted a personalised card. What to do, what to do. I don't get to make many baby cards so I don't really have to many baby stamps, but using light blue for a boy has gotta be a sure bet!  I just cut the name from my Big Shot letters and stuck them on with my stampin' up 2-way glue stick, so that I can take them off again. Then I ran the wheel over it and because the bashful blue is pale I also then sponged over and around the letters to make them show up more. I added a layer of bling to jazz the card up , then it was done. A very happy customer.

Happy Valentines Day

We don't celebrate this day much in my house but I do like to give my kids a wee treat. The milk carton die makes a cute size to give something small. I filled these up with skittles.

Found it!

This is not quite stamping but I wanted to share this secret Santa present that I have made for someone. My friend was given one of these games a few years ago and I loved it. I found on Pintrest a way to dye rice so set about making one. I gathered little bits and pieces from the kids toy box and from around the house. The game is called find it, the container is left overs from a food product I had saved, I knew I would find a use for it one day. I used my punches and Big Shot for the cutting out shapes on the lid.

Wish Lists

Found this idea on Pinterest and made it my own using old and new Stampin' Up products. The pegs have been covered with DSP.

These next two are for my children, as you can see they are already in use.

40 Sucks!!

These sorts of things are all around Pintrest at the moment, so I thought I would make up one for my little brother for his birthday yesterday.It's a jar with 40 lollipops in it and decorated.

Done & delivered

Well, after a lot of hard work and effort I have finally finished 60 wedding invites for my brother. It's not my design, there are a lot of these cards around.

The 'Duck Boat' scrap page

Another LO from when Zoe was at Kindy, I Struggle a lot with trying to put journalling on my pages, but with this one it just worked. I have seen lots of pages with the words cut in strips like this and have always admired them. This time I hand wrote the words partly because I don't have a printer at present lol. I like the end result of this page. This is a boat the drives on land then into the water hence the blue 'ripples' done with the Tasteful trims die. I seam to use this on almost all my pages.

Summer Memories

Here are two more scrap pages I have done using the DSP from the past mini(bit late posting these pages) called Nautical Expedition. I have alot of seaside photos from all our summers we spend at the beach. I love this paper. Both of these pages have photos from a few years ago, my oldest boy with Grandad. 

Your Invited....

My oldest Boy had his birthday last week and these were the invites I made. The Dsp on the front is retired but I only had a little bit left, just perfect for the four invites I had to make, pretty simple design  and there was a piece of string looping round the  flowers to keep it shut. I even ran the flower thing past him first and he was ok with that too. 

Orange Again

This was another of my layouts from the beginning and using that orange colour that i dislike so much but  it keeps popping up over and over again. I picked my two colours from the balloons and couldn't really change that. This was one of those family pages to go into our Family Album. I struggle with  the journalling side of scrapbooking, this is one of those pages that still needs details. The memory tag in the page above came from a set at spotlight, Not Stampin' up but fantastic for scrapbooking!

BFF scrapbooking

This was one of those pages that just fell into place, and that was exciting when I am just so new to this scrapping thing. The silver BFF and the star are from this silver roll of 'stuff'  that came from Bunnings. I'm not really into hardware stuff, just go there to visit my friend, Hi Coral, lol. Anyways it's this real cool stuff that goes thru the big shot really easy and is adhesive, so ya just cut, peel and stick.

Sand Angels

Another of my scrapbook pages. This time this was my daughter last summer - remember the one where we had lots and lots of sun, 2011, she was making sand angels, just like the ones you make in the snow.!! This page I kept very simple. I had a big open space in the top left corner until I first got my Big shot die with all the trims on it, I was putting those squiggly little lines on everything, but it did need something up there I just didn't no what at the time. The shell stamps across the bottom come from "the other" stamp place.

Punchart Trucks

Isn't this the coolest  punch art. This page has been completely CASE ed from Here  . I loved everything about it and as soon as a saw it, I just new exactly which photos I would use. I don't have the stamp set Erica used for the cute trucks so  I went hunting for some punch art.  I had these saved on my computer for a long time but I had no names or anything with it so don't no who to give credit to for these great designs. I also had just the completed pictures so had to make them up as I went along.

Name Cards

This is the birthday card I made for my 2nd son back in December. It was an idea I found in blog land and thought it would be perfect because he has a short name. I had to use a retired wheel because I needed some thing with a very close together pattern. I cut out all the letters with my Bigshot then just laid them in place, 1st attempt I stuck them down but then couldn't get them off. Just sitting them on the paper worked fine. I also held the letters in place one by one as I sponged around them just to make them pop even more. The balloons were just made from punches for something extra.

A few weeks after my sons b-day his friend 'Cole' had his birthday so I made another similar card using green and purple, it looked very cool unfortunately I forgot to photograph it.

Sepia Scrapbooking

I was playing around with my camera one day and found this sepia setting that i didn't no was there. So when I got home i had a go at scrapbooking them in the same colours. For along time this was my most favourite page..... until I did some more scrapbooking.

I have finally taken the plunge!!

This is my very 1st ever scrapbook page. After surfing the web for a very very long time checking out other peoples pages I finally got up the courage lol and now I cant stop. I now have many pages which I will slowly post on here over time. I mostly start with a sketch then go from there. Next step is to enter some of the challenges around.

Embossing resist, again

This was a birthday card for a friend of mine whose b-day was a couple of days ago, It uses my favourite technique but this time I have done it on DSP. I love stamping on newsprint patterns Here I have used wheels and lots of different stamps, its hard to see each one separately. Also big butterflies using the Big Shot. I love how this came out.