Wow, that was a fabulous read.....

I just had a read of the Scrapbook Memories Masters Magazine and that was an AWESOME read. A huge congratulations to all the Masters, your work is Amazing.

I just wanted to share with you the other items I created entry which did not make it into the magazine. For my first share it is the Hidden Journalling challenge.

The booties on this page were shoes which are actually worn for several months by my son in his first summer in the US. I wanted to really play with the "Born in the USA" theme and so had lots of Red, White and Blue patterned paper.

I also really enjoyed seeing all the quilting that was done around different parts of the US when we lived there and so I played with this on my LO and created quilted squares. Here is a close up of the bottle cap with some of the mini quilting in did on the page.


Then for the sketch Challenge I used some pictures for the wedding my boys were in earlier this year. I decided to make some patterned paper using the sew easy.

Here is a close up of some of the Purple Pumpkin buttons I used and the fabulous heart sprays from Scrapmatts.
And another close up of the other cluster I have on the page. I lovet this Scrapmatts page runner.

For the LO of a 5x7 picture, I had this one of my friends daughter, which is just and AWESOME Picture. I decided to try and keep this one nice and simple.

Here is a close up of my title work where I had fun playing with a heat embossing technique.

I was quite pleased with how all mine turned out and am very happy to have received on HM for my double LO which you will have to check in the Magazine. Congratulations to all the Masters, your work is just DEVINE. I am really looking forward to seeing more from each of them this year.

Thanks for Looking.

Only 4 more sleeps!!....

It is only four more sleeps until Christmas and so I have a couple more Christmas shares for you with some AWESOME Scrapmatts. I have based my LO on the challenge at Kraft It Up this month. You had to create a LO about a Christmas Tradition.

I have used some of the Ball Balls which I coloured black, but then covered in Diamond Dust, and I must say, it was so much fun that I then kind of went crazy with the stuff on a couple of other projects....
Here is the title of my LO.

Here are some cards I made and again you can see I had some fun with the diamond dust. The Scrapmatts Titles make cards sooo easy.

Then I made some of the Christmas tree 3D ornaments and again I had some fun with the diamond dust.
Then I have a share from a LO I created for a challenge at one of the online stores I sometimes participate at. this was to make a LO featuring some chipboard you had coloured. I used heat embossing powder to make the AMAZING cogs white.

Then I decided to stitch on acetate and I think this is probably not something I will be doing again in a hurry.
Well that is it from me for now.

Hope you all have a fabulous Christmas and New Year.

X-Press It Challenge....

Yesterday the girls came over and there were eight kids running around the house, but in amongst this we managed to get a bit of scrapping done.

I finished this one off today, but here is my entry for the X-Press It Challenge. I have used 12mm. But I also have a LOVE of the foam mounting tape, which I also used on my LO. This is a fabulous challenge as you just need to use your favourite double sided tape on your project and link it to the blog, telling them which type of X-Press It tape you used.

As you can see, I also used some of the AWESOME Scrapmatts Teaset, which are soooo fabulous. I used some heat embossing powder to make them yellow and then I decided to add some stitched details to them.

Thanks for Looking.

Exciting News.....at Fancy That

I am really excited to announce that I am going to be teaching at Fancy That in Springfield. My first class is going to be in Late January and I am going to be teaching a class on Stitching your title. There are a couple of other techniques there too and the page can easily be converted into either a girl or boy LO.

Here is a sneak peak of what we will be creating and if you want to check it out the whole thing, it is in the store.

You can contact the store HERE.

December 123 Challenge - Time to Make some Noise

Last night I finished off my entry into the December 123 Challenge. The challenge this month was to create a Layout which used the colour Marigold, had the word Make on it and had a handmade anything. Well my Marigold is about as close as I could get. I have the word make and I made the pinwheels. Here is my take.

And a couple of closies.

I must say, I LOVE my big Scrapmatts Clocks.

Thanks for Looking and I hope you all have some time to get creative.

Wicked Princess.... more Scrap School....

We are up to Class 10 at Wicked Princess Scrap School and the class this week was to change your picture in some way. I have had this picture hanging around for over six years (as the child in the picture will soon be turning seven. I decided to make a nice and simple LO and I found some of this yummy My Minds Eye Lost and found in my collection.

I then found some of my Charms Creations in my stash and used the Stunning Yellow Sun as a part of the inspiration for the design of my LO.

Then I made my Scrapmatts Chippy Yellow to match the colour of the sun.

And there you have it. A pretty simple kind of LO for me but I must say I do like how it turned out.

Thanks for Looking.

Another Scrap School LO.....

Class 8 at Wicked Princess was to use stamping on your LO. I had to dig deep into my stash as I rarely use stamps, and I found these cute little tress in my collection. I also had some really YUMMO Crate Paper thanks to one of my friends. So here is what I created.

As you can probalby see, I also used some fabulous Scrapmatts vines on my page.

Thanks for Looking.

A moment of craziness....

Last night I decided to do some scrapping and I have done the challenge over at Wicked Princess where you needed to use some altered Chipboard. Of course I chose to use some Scrapmatts. I then made a decision to do the LO on acetate and chose to (as usual) stitch part of my title. Well I did it. I will share the whole LO on my Scrapmatts day (21 Dec) but if you want to see it all before, I am uploading to the Wicked Princess Gallery for the Scrap School Comp.

I must say, it actually hurt a bit sewing through the actate, so I don't think I will do that too often. But I do quite like the results. Who said there was no pain in scrapbooking!!

I also have decided to throw my hat in for the Kraft It Up Design team. Here is a sneak of the LO I did for my application.

Thanks for Looking.

Scrapmatts December Challenge....

This month we are having a challenge over at Scrapmatts inspired by the 12 Days of Christmas. All you need to do is create a Card, OTP or LO which is inspired by one or all of the 12 days of Christmas. Your creation of course must have Scrapmatts on it to be in with a chance at winning a $25 voucher in the draw.

I used the inspiration of 12 Drummers Drumming.

I have used some of the fabulous music notes made by Scrapmatts on my LO.

Hope you all get a chance to play along and there is lots of awesome inspiration over in the post at Scrapmatts. Thanks for Looking.