My happy day

So I turned 30 two months ago. It was a really great family day. We had a wonderful family lunch at a beautiful local beach and restaurant, at Clontarf beach.
I was surrounded by my family and the kids had a fabulous time.

So I decided to scrap one of my photos of my man, my daughter and me for the current monthly challenge at 123 Challenge blog.

The criteria this month is:

I obviously used the colour red, the word "happy" is in my title and I handmade 3 little balloons.

Notice the gorgeous Ah Scrap kraft doily and Clear cuts doily, that I have coloured with black paint.

Products used:

Basic grey patterned paper
American crafts cardstock
Prima alphas, mask and flowers
Scenic route rub ons
Shimmerz coloringz
Ah Scrap clear cuts doily, and kraft doilies
D-lish scraps washi tape
Craft wire
Felt
3d foam tape
Acrylic paint
Sharpie

TFL xo

Me at 30

The "life in full colour" cyber crop has started over at Scrapbooking Top 50.

And the challenge that I set is based on an "After 5" colour scheme.

This is the inspiration pic:

and this is the challenge criteria:

scrap using the colour scheme:
Black, red and white/cream
AND include either flowers or bling (or both) as your additional criteria.



Here is my example layout, I pulled apart a chandelier earring for my bling. The photo is of me two months ago when I turned 30.

Notice the gorgeous Ah Scrap goodies, Clear Cuts doily, which I coloured black with acrylic paint, fabric button and kraft doily which I cut in half. 

Get your own gorgeous Ah Scrap goodies here.

Products used:

American crafts cardstock and patterned paper
Prima alphas , flower and mask
Shimmerz colouringz
Equip headband
Equip earring
Ah Scrap clear cuts doily, button andKraft doily
D-lish scraps washi tape and flower
Craft wire
Gesso
acrylic paint
3d foam tape
Sharpie

TFL xo

What a pair!

Have you seen the current may challenge at Show us your stuff.
The criteria this month is too use texture paste some how. Along with the standard constant criteria of using handmade goodies.

I have the texture paste randomly applied on the cardstock with a scrap of card and with a polka dot prima mask and acrylic paints over the top.
My handmade items are by Ah Scrap- a purple flower wheel and pink felt butterfly.

Products used:

American crafts cardstock and alphas
Prima flowers,mask and alphas
Manor house creations flower
Kaiser crystals
Ah Scrap flower wheel and butterfly
D-lish scraps washi tape and resin flower
Equip flowers (from an earring)
Craft wire
Texture paste
Gesso
Acrylic paints
Sharpie

TFL xo

Clean your plate

 My May monthly challenge is live at Scrapbooking Top 50 Australia.
And being that it was mother's day yesterday in Australia. I couldn't go past a Mothers inspired challenge.
The challenge is  From this collage I would like to see you use one of the full quotes on your layout. Not just the random words.
Anywhere on the layout is fine, it can be title, subtitle or journalling. 

I'd love to see you all pop over here and give my challenge a go

Thought I'd share an in progress picture for my layout.

This was taken at night. To show the background before I stuck the photo down.

And the final product

Products used:

American crafts cardstock
Prima flowers and alphas
Manor house creations flower
Tattered angels chalkboard and glimmer mists
Shimmerz colouringz
Equip headband
D-lish scraps washi tapes
Typo washi tape
Craft wire
embroidery thread
Staples
3d foam tape
Helmer's scrap dots
Plastic mesh
Acrylic paints
Sharpie


TFL x

Nearly a smile?

I created this layout for Vicki's catch phrase challenge over at the SBT50 cyber crop that just finished.
I'm not too happy with the end result. I added too much to it and messed up my paint work and it looks too messy.
But I do like the colours : )

Full of layers, it's a really heavy layout.

Notice the gorgeous bottle caps from Ah Scrap!

Products used:
Bo Bunny patterned paper
Sassafras patterned paper
My minds eye patterned paper
Authentique patterned paper
Prima chipboard,lace, twister, flower and alphas
American crafts alphas
Manor house creations flowers
Ah Scrap bottle caps
Burdy's handmade embellies flower
D-lish scraps washi tape, flower and lace
Eye candy magic button
Rainbow splendour pinwheel
Vintage doilies
Acrylic paints
Craft feathers
Helmer's scrap dots

TFL xo

Nanna's girls

Happy Monday to you all.

I created this layout last night for Ant's challenge over at the SBT50 cyber crop that just finished.

It came together really quickly for me- 1.5 hours.

The challenge was to use chipboard, twine and buttons on your layout.

But all 3 of the items had to be altered in some way.

So my daughter and i went shopping today for new nail polishes. I added them to the drawer at home and saw all the old unwanted colours there. So I put them to use on my layout.

My layout has a red, pink and a white french polish on there  : )

I altered my chipboard with red and french manicure nail polishes!

I altered 2 buttons with pink nail polish

I pulled apart some craft twine and dipped in gold paint and added nail polish drips.

Notice the gorgeous Ah Scrap pinwheel and Bottle cap on there : ) Get your own Ah Scrap goodies in the next sale, Wednesday 8th May, 7;30 Pm on the Ah Scrap blog.

Products used:

American crafts card stock

Kaiser patterned paper

2 Crafty chipboard

Basic grey alphas

Prima twister

Ah Scrap pinwheel and bottle cap

D-lish scraps washi tapes

Annas craft cupboard pearls

Buttons

Fabric scraps

Acrylic paints

Nail polishes

Helmers scrap dots

TFL xo

Lucky Liebsters

I am so pleased to have been passed on the Liebster award from two super talented and beautiful scrapping ladies. Thank you lovely ladies xo

Leonie Waldron , a talented scrapper who I had the pleasure of meeting at one of Lou Nelson's classes last year and she has a gorgeous Vintage paper craft etsy shop called Raine Cloud.

And also Chloe Nielsen an amazing online scrapper friend. She has a spectacular handmade goodies shop called Rainbow Splendour. I have a huge stash of rainbow splendour goodies and they are so fun and colourful. Leonie and Chloe and both such amazing scrappers . Please check out their blogs and shops.

So what is the liebster award you ask?

Well The Liebster Award was designed to be a blog award

in the pay it forward fashion. It is awarded to blogs

that have fewer than 200 followers to encourage new

visitors to them. Once you have been nominated you award

it to five other blogs.

The rules are: Post the award to your blog,

give the award to five bloggers who you appreciate

that have fewer than 200 followers, then leave

a comment on their blogs to let them know that

you have given them this award.

I am passing the liebster award on to some talented scrapers. In now particular order here are my picks:

Marelize Frisby: Marelize is such a sweet lady, she always has the time to leave blog love and she creates such beautiful layouts. 

Amanda Lawrence (Star): Amanda is super sweet and talented and one very busy scrapper. As she owns the very popular D-lish Scraps. What an amazing store for crafty goodies!

Mazz Cairns: I just met the lovely Mazz online not so long ago. She is a sweetie and works so well with colours and has wonderful attention to details

Donna O'Connell: Donna is a beautiful lady who I have had the pleasure of meeting in person. She creates wonderful layouts and owns the very cool handmade embellishment store : Ah Scrap. A lot of my layouts feature Ah Scrap goodies and they are so wonderful to work with.

Leanne Jago: Leanne is a super cool chick. She is a inspiring scrapper with a unique style. I'm pleased to be on the SUYS design team with her.

Please check out all their blogs and tell them I sent you by xo