Mid-Month Motivation

Time for mid-month motivation over at Scrapbook Dreams.

I have suggest some scrap-lifting to get the mojo flowing.

This layout, published in Australian Scrapbooking Ideas magazine, was my inspiration

And this is my version of that layout

It was a great way to use up scraps (of which I have a very large drawer of) along with some awesome Tim Holtz papers. A lot of my embellishments were either handmade or cut on the Silhouette and painted.  The larger film strip is a rolling stamp and the smaller one is is Tim Holtz Film Ribbon. A stamp or two finished it off.

I am off to Shell’s retreat at Waihi Beach this coming weekend so hope to have lots to show you next week from that.

Good Grief!

I haven’t put up a post for such a long time! Talk about slack!

In my defence, now that Winter is upon us, it is pretty chilly in my craft cave so I don’t spend very much time in here.

Having said that though, I have been pottering a wee bit here and there. Making a few cards, a couple of layouts and some atc’s and tags for swaps.

Scrapbook Dreams May Challenge

Scrapbook Dreams April ATC Swap – Hattitude

Scrapbook Dreams Mid April Motivation to use Handmade Flowers.

Tags for RAK gifts made with my Bombshell Angel stamp, a cut out dress for her and background stamping in Dusty Concord.

An easel card for Kelly’s baby shower.

A tag turned easel card for Jane.

A tag for fun! Lots of techniques used on this. Spritzing, masking, transfer to selloptape, lace flower.

Teaching myself to make these paper flowers, which I just love!

Scrapbox NZ Challenge – Black and white only

Scrapbook Dreams June Challenge.

So, you see, I have been doing something after all. I also made my sister-in-laws wedding invitations/RSVPs which I was really happy with.

Tuesday Trigger - Retro

What an awesome trigger this week at Moxie Fab World.

I’m not sure if the trigger was using Napkins or the Retro take that I picked up on.

Whatever it was supposed to be – this is what I did and I really rather like it, lol

The dancer and letter stickers were done on my Silhouette.  The gold border is peelcraft and the pp is a digital one from my many downloaded free files.  The gold glittered card base was hiding in my stash.

Tuesday Trigger - Easter

Easter Cards are not really much of a tradition in New Zealand – at least, not that I have noticed.

That made it a bit harder to be inspired by the theme this week at Moxie Fab World, although the colours in the Trigger image were fabulous!

I really struggled, to be honest but finally, after spending time with Anna today, cutting bits and pieces out on the Silhouette to make cards, I came up with a very simple card for any occasion.

A lousy photo taken inside, at night but I was running out of time to upload it before the next trigger arrives in my inbox tomorrow.

Tuesday Trigger

While blog-browsing, I came across a card challenge that took my fancy.

You can find the details the original card that triggered my version here on Moxie Fab World.



I used my Silhouette to cut the yellow fret-work and made the bow from netting and ribbon.