I think I found it again!

Last year I lost my scrapping mojo and since then I've been struggling to do anything but just of late I feel like it's coming back. It's not that I'm creating masterpieces, more that I've found my love of scrapping again.

The following pic's are of a layout I started a few weeks ago when I went to a Friday scrap night at the new scrapbooking store in Cannington. I've been trying to put these pic's up on the blog for the past week but my blog seems to be a tad temperamental and it wouldn't let me until finally this morning it gave in to my persistence!

The picture I've used is one of me which Phil took a few years ago. The beautiful paper I've used is one from the latest range from Prima, isn't it yummy!

These beautiful gates are from Dusty Attic while the tree was cut from black Cricut chipboard using the new Cricut Heritage cartridge. I sprayed both the tree and the gate with Tattered Angels "Suede" Glimmermist.

Well, that's all for today, I brought a pile of the lovely new Websters Pages a couple weeks ago and I'm dying to have a play .... hopefully I'll get a chance tomorrow.

Until next time, thanks for dropping by.

Kaye :o)

Anyone feel like a challenge?

Sometime towards the end of last year my scrapping mojo ran away and ever since I've been looking for it, so I decided to give the sketch challenge over at Anna's Craft Cupboard a try, and you know, I'm rather pleased with the results! Oh don't get me wrong, it's not going to be winning any prizes anytime soon, but I had fun doing it, and that was the most important part.

Anyway, enough of my ramblings, here's a pic.

It was great, I used up some old Basic Grey papers and some scraps that I had sitting around and I also got to use a picture I'd had for a while of my husband, Phil, his brother Bruce and Father Colin on the day of Bruce's wedding back in May 2008.

The title was cut using Platin Schoolbook on my Gypsy, and to get the thickness in the letters I cut them out of black Cricut chipboard twice and stuck them together using a small Xyron sticker maker. I thin cut the title out of the colour Bazzil that I needed. The circle was also cut using the Gypsy, I think by memory the circle was from "Gypsy Font".

We'll, that's all for now, hopefully I can put some more pic's up soon. But in the mean time, if you feel like a challenge pop on over to Anna's and have a go at the sketch challenge, it's a great way to think outside the box.

Until next time,

Kaye :o)

Finally it worked!!!!

I've been trying for the past two days to upload this layout but the computer kept saying "NO!" (cough!). Finally it has decided to play nice.

I did this layout on Friday night, I've really been struggling with my scrapping mojo of late and was getting rather frustrated until on Friday night it hit me! Just have fun ... don't worry about creating a master piece! This is by no means my best work, but you know, I enjoyed myself!

The paper I've used is a Websters Pages paper, I cut out the vine (boy, that was a mammoth task!), inked it and then sprayed it with Suede Glimmermist. The finally I used a two step crackle medium to finish off the aged effect. It took a lot of work but I love the effect.

I was going to add a couple close ups but it looks like blogger is saying "No" again! Oh well, thanks for stopping by anyway.

Until next time,

Kaye

More Photo's as Promised!

Here we go, as promised the pic's of the other pages I'd done. I took advantage of the lovely sunny morning to take these.

This double page layout is of pic's from our trip to Geraldton last July, we'd never been there before .... but my goodness, it's a long drive!!!

For these layouts I've used white swiss dots for the background (gotta love swiss dots!) and the other papers and the tickets on the left hand page are from the Kaiser "Pack your bags" collection. The "Are we there yet?" is from Dusty Attic and I used the Cricut solutions "Street Sign" cartridge on "blackout" to cut out the highway sign shapes on the right hand page.

Here's some close ups...

This pages if of my friends little lad, he had just moved from being in a cot to being in a big boy bed and he was so excited about showing me. The photos aren't very good 'cos he wouldn't sit still long enough to get a snap but I decided to use them all anyway since it conveyed his excitement .... I'm glad I did I 'cos I love the effect!

Here's a close up. I used My Minds Eye papers from the Abby Road range. The frame and the cars & buses were all cut from the "Beep Beep Traffic Paper" ... so cute!

Well, that's all for now. Until next time ...

Kaye :o)

New beginnings

Well here we are, my first real post on my new blog. This is exciting ... well for me anyway.



So anyway, on to the reason we're here ... some pic's!





This is a picture of my beautiful boy lying next to the car ... he just looks so forlorn!, The paper I've used is cosmo cricket, the clouds, tree and dog box were cut out on the cricut using the "Paper Pups" cartridge and the title was cut out using the "Street Sign" solutions cartridge. I then ran the tree and the dog house through the cuttlebug to emboss them.

Well, that's all for now, I've got a couple other creations I've done but haven't had time to photograph, hopefully I get that done and get them posted over the weekend.

Until next time, and don't forget .... when life starts getting you down always go to you "scrappy" place :o)

Welcome to my "Scrappy Place"

Hey there,

Welcome to my blog.

Thanks for stopping by.

Kaye