Mini Album for my Mums 80th B'day

Southern Girls Challenge #34.....Lets Celebrate......  http://southerngirlschallenge.blogspot.com/   

This is a mini album made from envelopes, courtesy from "laura"aka "followthepapertrail" on Youtube.

It was a challenge with my friend to make the envelope album and cover it in our desired pps and then embellish it in our own time. A lot of fun!! I used Webster pps with prima flowers and bling and frame.

 The celebrate is an embossed stamp on a spellbinders die.

 I shall leave the insides for another time!! TFL

Challenge 32 Embellishment Bingo

EMBELLISHMENT BINGO

AT

SOUTHERN GIRLS

http://southerngirlschallenge.blogspot.com/

Just a little closeup of  those lovely TH rosette flowers & embellies.

Here we are for another fortnightly challenge. 

I thought this challenge was going to be hard to do but once I got my head around it  I found it was incredibly easy.  I did the 3pps, Gems, Punches....

I used the printery range pps......OMG I loooove them!!! I also used my new TH mini rosette flowers. Yummy.....I want to use them on everything!!

The photo is of my Husband [Carl] and his son [Allan].

It would be lovely if you checked out the other SGC Girls wonderful work too.

Thanks for stopping by and appreciate your lovely comments. TFL

THE HAKA

Here are the boys doing a bit of a Haka for the photographer for Al & Sez's wedding in 2008 amongst the orange groves.

Well here we are again ready for another fortnightly challenge. It's all about polka dots and stripes. So head on over to Southern Girls   http://southerngirlschallenge.blogspot.com/ and join in the fun and win a great prize from one of our sponsors.
Masked and misted and Stamped my way around this LO with a very small amount of PP......
The Fob Watch is spellbinders and the leaves are from scrapware which I painted with dabbers and added smooch paint on top.

At least the AB's are looking good for the final !! Go AB's.....
Special thanks for visiting and I'd love it if you left me a comment and I will be over to visit your blog.
Many Thanks
Karen

SMILE

Good morning Girls. For this fortnights challenge we are doing ANYTHING GOES. This always seems to be very popular with all you talented Gals out there in scrappy and card making land........

This LO is  a Dusty Attic Sketch from a couple of months ago. I loved the sketch and just had to give it a go.

I have masked, inked, stamped, painted, used my cuttlebug and used flower soft to make my topiary plants and misted them with GM. I had never used ovals in this way before and love the look of the main picture in the oval frame.  This is DH and I at his sons wedding in Port Elizabeth in SA about 3 yrs ago.

 TFL.

MY WINNER

 Thanks to you all for your wonderful entries. I am so pleased not to have had to choose, as this is a random draw, as it was way too difficult..........  And my winner is SHERRYN......no: 66.
Sherryn you have won a package from   http://scrappinpatch.co.nz/
You can email SGC (you'll find the email down the sidebar) and tell Trace 0r Lou you have won from my blog and who the sponsor is and they will contact you.
Yah, exciting.........A pressie in the mail...))
Thanks so much for participating in our very first BLOG-HOP.            

HAPPY BIRTHDAY-LAYERS - BLOG HOP

Can you believe we are a year old?, and what a fantastic year it has been with the support from all our wonderful sponsors, and to be on the best Design Team anyone could wish for. In celebration of this, we have an amazing bloghop with some of our fantastic regular sponsors giving away fabulous prizes.
 You should have arrived from  JULIE'S BLOG.... http://julie-rainbowdays.blogspot.com/ if not, head back to www.southerngirlschallenges.blogspot.com  where a full blog hop list is.


I have used product from ScrappinPatch.....http://scrappinpatch.co.nz called Echo Park. Scrappinpatch are giving away a wonderful package of product to one lucky lady who 1 - comments on my blog and 2 - enters the challenge at Southern Girls.

So, to recap.... the rules are simple, make sure you make a card/LO and enter into Southern Girls Challenges, also leave me a comment, and on the 20^th of September I will draw a random name, that will be a winner of the sponsor that I am showcasing.
Now head on over to  BETTINA'S BLOG....  http://bettina-bettyboop.blogspot.com
 HAVE FUN..........

A couple of pics of my daughter on her 5th birthday. She is now 30!! I have used Echo Park pps and bits from my stash. I love the number 5 that I covered with TH tissue tape! Love it when a plan comes together...
TFL

SLOBS ON TOUR

This was a fun project with my scrappy mate Kay. We had to make this photo wallet to hold 6 photos. So cool to make and will definitely be making more of these. So great when you have an occasion and want to showcase a few. You could easily make it hold a few more..... Very easy to do!
I used the beautiful ETC pps.....YUMMY...

This was a wonderful trip to the Marlborough Sounds last year. I have another couple of these to do.
Just kept it closed with a little velcro. Hope you can see how it works.
TFL

Cards

 This is for my friend who Loooooves pussy cats!!

These two were made for acqauntainces at our ladies lunch but I ended up not going so now I have a couple of cards up my sleeve! This one I tried really hard to keep simple!! I think I managed it....
TFL

MY GUY

Here we are for another fortnightly challenge with the Southern Girls. B/W with 1 other colour.
http://southerngirlschallenge.blogspot.com/
So here we are with my effort:
This is my surprise stripper for my surprise 50th B'day party a few years ago. You missed seeing him dressed....He was a fireman!   OMG.....A Very embarrassing situation but like a true trooper I played the game!! Hee Hee....

I made the background with a crafters workshop stencil,  a prima stamp and spritzed with GM cinder. Used Webster pps, more stamping,  prima flowers and bling and a sizzix flourish. The frame is a Teresa Collins from the Home collection.
TFL

PLAYTIME

This is little Isla on her play mat about 4 months old.

I used my new MS Wild Flowers deep punch...Yah...Love it!! I also used old bobunny pp and cosmo cricket chippies and used a SI sketch... so I  will enter this into:
Scotties Crafts ---use old pps and stash http://scottiecraftsnz.blogspot.com/p/challenges.html
Sketch Inspiration------http://sketchinspiration.ning.com/
TFL

JEWELLERY BOX & CARD

This was a plain black jewellery box which I Tarted up for my sisters 50th Birthday.

TFL

Birthday Card

This is for my sister who is turning the big 50 next week.

The background is 7 Gypsies tissue, the dress form is from Scrapware, the hat is a Hastings art Stamp and the flourish is a sissix. I painted the form base with smooch and covered the dress with paper and used little rosettes on the hem and bling around the neck and waist. I coloured the hat with copics and added the feather and gold bling.

I am entering these challenges:

One stitch at a time- Anything Goes
Scrappy frogs-Summer Flower
Inspire Me Fridays
Papertake Weekly-Hot Colours

TFL

Having Fun

I finally got around to fixing this LO up.

I never liked the original one [below] and I am so happy to have finally done this.....

I hope you agree with me that the final version is so much better.

YES.... I am happy now!!

Do any of you do this????

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

Hi everyone... Here we are again with another fortnightly challenge from Southern Girls Challenge http://southerngirlschallenge.blogspot.com/ Anything " BIRTHDAY"....
This is a photo of Grandson "Clayton" on his 3rd birthday earlier this year. They live in NSW in the Hunter Valley so we don't get to see him very often but skype is a wonderful thing!!......SOMETIMES......
Used those cool paint dabbers again!!! I do love them for messing up a page or painting chipboard and grungeboard.....They are soooo easy!!! Looooove them....Also used that gorgeous daimond type stamp on the background on the oval. That is so versatile! A big thanks to my friend Sue and her cricut machine for cutting out that 3 image thingy!! I didn't want to use flowers on this LO but had a hole to cover up. Thx Sue.....I used a sketch for this from http://crop-a-mania.blogspot.com/
Thx for dropping BY......

Isla

A quick LO this time as TIME hasn't been on my side!!
This is the Anything Goes Challenge for this fortnight.

This is baby Isla at about 3 months. I used Pink Paislee, Butterfly Garden PPs. OMG...They are gorgeous for baby girl LO's!!  A whole bunch of stuff from my stash and a martha stewart punch.
TFL

FAMILY

DT work for Southern Girls Challenge

 http://southerngirlschallenge.blogspot.com/..Challenge 19 "Lace & Pearls"

Masked and inked the BG pp and used Pink Paislee Queen Bee Collection with  lace and pearls from my stash. I used a sketch from http://stuckonusketches.blogspot.com/2011/05/may-13-2011.html
I will be entering  this into stuckonusketches.

WHITE ON WHITE

Just came across this site and really loved the idea of some simple cards sometimes. This weeks challenge at Less is More   http://simplylessismoore.blogspot.com/  is "WHITE ON WHITE".
                                                            I thought that could be fun...

Only trouble is that it is quite hard to photograph with just a normal digital camera and no good daylight. [Raining!!]
Had fun with spellbinders, martha stewart and cuttlebug. TFL

THE GIRLS

DT Work for Southern Girls Challenge..

.http://southerngirlschallenge.blogspot.com/...Lets Hear it for The Girls. 

I used Moulin Rouge pps and flowers, prima bling and butterfly with a reflections notecard. TH masking tape and a Sassy Studio " I Am Woman-Bubble Bath" digi stamp.  The carnival girl I fussy cut from another Moulin Rouge pp and stickled her to make her stand out a bit. I also stencilled the doily with a crafters workshop  template...Time Travel and coloured the glitter chipboard letters with a Tombow pen..... TFL

PICNIC

Challenge 16 over at http://southerngirlschallenge.blogspot.com/ is: use Blue and Green!! Here is my example. Used navy cardstock and lightened it up a bit with Dabbers: Snow cap, citrus and sunset orange.Used a TH bird and coloured that with Smooch and used my new Camera stamp and coloured that a bit with a copic. TFL

SUMMER DAYS & SAND

Southern Girls Challenge #16  Sketch 

http://southerngirlschallenge.blogspot.com/

My take on the sketch.....Thought I'd try a bit of messy stitching and get into using bits of my "stash". Also used some packaging which is always a bit of fun!! TFL

ITS YOUR DAY

I am entering this in to the Cardabilities Sketch#28.
Used prima Madeline 6x6 pp stack.

S.A. Township

Sketch 3.31 for Sketchy Thursdays
This little fella was wandering all alone thru the township. No pants on and just so cute!!

Father & son

This is for sketchabilities sketch #44
Used Pyrus collection with rub-on and stamp and also TH mask .

Ange

I was making this for the Southern Girls Challenge for "FLOWERS" this month  but was lucky enough to be selected for the DT. So I decided, with a couple of additions, to enter this into the Scottie Crafts challenge. Go on over to Scottie Crafts to join in the fun.

Together Forever

This is DT work for Southern Girls Challenge......Add an Animal. The sponsors are TeddyBea Digital Stamps. I coloured the image with stamp pad inks using a wet brush. I used K&Co papers, chipboard and stickers and prima flowers and bling.

Thundercat

LO for Scottie Crafts sketch challenge. Used Basic Grey Pyrus Collection and a TH die cut.

WEDDING LO

Another Challenge with Kay. LO had to have a circle, flowers and a flourish and bling!! I will also enter this in the "Southern Girls Challenge" for bling.
Used TH pp and prima fowers and bling.

Time with Grandad

This is a challenge with my friend Kay. It had to be B/W with a touch of red, plus 3 photos and  use these beautiful swirls she cut out on her cricut.

LO for Sketchy Thurday

LO for SGC for dry embossing.

Embossed stamped images in corners with TH aged mahogany and bird embossed with Ranger Holographic powder.