Easter Egg Hunt

Here's a little Easter page I FINALLY got round to scrapping...(lol)....

I love the movement of Little One in the photo on the right. Thought he needed a bit of whimsy and dimension, so I added a fluttering butterfly...

I'm into paint at the moment...painting everything!
Paint and chipboard and Dimensional Magic - yay, love it!

This page uses:
* Ocean Blue Colour-cord cardstock
* MiJeMoo Designs Easter Little Eggs paper
* MiJeMoo Designs Easter Skinny Words Green paper
* Ocean Blue Blossoms and brads
* 2Crafty Swirly Corner

Wednesday.....What Would I Do Without.....

It's Wednesday...

...and what would I do without my Messy Mat??!

Somehow I STILL managed to get paint on myself and on the wall!

Tim Holtz!!!

Tim Holtz is coming! Tim Holtz is coming!!!

Well, not in person (wouldn't THAT be exciting) but a big box of gorgeous new Tim Holtz products is on it's way to Aunty Vera's. Definitely a case of one for me...one or the shop...one for me....lol.

Here's a sneak peek at what's coming...

TICKETS:

STICKERS:

TISSUE TAPES and RIBBONS:



And HEAPS more! I feel like Dorothy......lions and tigers and bears...OH MY!!!!!



I'm not a card maker, but....

I'm not usually much of a card-maker but give me deep purple and shiny silver and I'm going to give it a good try. Helped along by the fact that nearly everybody I know seems to have their birthday in July!

Here's one of a whole heap of birthday cards I just made. All sort of the same but all a little bit different. This is the Aunty Vera Lazy Version - the little birdie didn't quite fit in the silver frame but hey - who's going to notice. I won't tell anyone if you don't (lol).
I used gorgeous Alison Ellis Design 'a Formal Affair' papers for the background - Black Tie Hearts and Lounge Suit Script.
The silver frame is a Delish frame from my own private stash and inside it is a little birdie card topper from Hunkydory (Birdsong).

The butterfly is also from Hunkydory - Springtime Elegance: Flights of Fancy. These are just so much fun to use. Pop out the pre-cut silver foiled butterfly and stick it down with your favourite adhesive. Then pop out the matching acetate butterfly shape and adhere that over the top for a winged effect. I folded the wings up just outside of the central 'body' part of the butterfly shape so even after going through the post this butterfly will still have it's pretty wings a-flight.

Quick Footy Page using 2Crafty Chipboard Word

I'm a terrible Craft Procrastinator. I constantly have at least half a dozen projects in progress scattered about. So every now and then I pick up a photo and say to myself "ok, quick, simple page with this one" if for no other reason than to experience the joy of completing a page in one sitting....and clearing a piece of my craft table! And sometimes simplicity is all you need.

A sheet of grungy boy-look paper, a 2Crafty chipboard word (in this case 'FOOTY'), some red and yellow paint, an off-cut of ochre cardstock, co-ordinating ribbon and simply black alpha stickers.

Voila! Boy footy page all done.

I always have heaps of fun with chipboard - I think it's the Finger Painting Monster in me!!

I also added a layer of Dimensional Magic to the Footy word - just to give it a bit of gloss and that nice 3D-ness (now there's a new word!)

A beautiful card surprise!

I got the most lovely surprise in the mail yesterday.....a beautiful card from Yvette at Ellie's Unique Invitations. Yvette specialises in baby showers - matching hand-made cards, gift tags, stationery and even bonbonnieres. But other themed specialty cards are also catered for and Yvette will happily work with her clients to achieve their special unique dream-cards.
Have a look at the gorgeousness:

I love the recurring butterfly theme and that glittered chipboard butterfly is so sweet...

Layering and overlapping of flowers, plus glitter and bling give the card texture and dimension....

Ellie's Unique Invitations  is located in Cranbourne, VIC.

http://www.elliesuniqueinvitations.com/

email:  yvette.groen@bigpond.com



Something Old, Something New - Scrapping a Vintage Wedding Photo

When I found an old b&w photo of my Uncle and Aunt's 1965 wedding day, I just had to give it a page of it's own! I wanted to keep the page fairly simple as this page is totally about the photo - not about how many pretty goodies I have in my Scrap Stash!

The page uses something 'old' - Alison Ellis Design 'Precious Moments - Forever Silver' and 'Precious Moments - Special Day'. This range is an oldie but a goodie and can be found in the clearance aisle of my website. And something new - bright and shiny and brand new in fact....PEARL Sticky Bling Runners. 

I love the bling runners - they're so easy to use. They have a self adhesive backing and can be cut to size so placement of strips of bling is just so simple. Each pack has 2 runners in it, and the runners are about 30.5cm long. I've used only one runner on this page.