His Birthday

Alison Ellis "What Birthday' has just been reduced to clear at Aunty Vera's. This gorgeous range is just perfect for your birthday pages....

The 'What Birthday' range includes designs embossed with silver metallic foil or overprinted with glitter. I love the glittery cupcakes!

I've cut out cupcakes from the 'Party Border' page and adhered them with foam dots for a 3D effect.

And don't forget to add some journaling, or a date or number, to remember 'Which Birthday' in years to come :)

Christmas Chipboard Wreath

I had a bit of fun this week working on this 'off the page' project...



I love the Christmas Wreath Kit from 2Crafty - it has so many possibilities.

I started by covering the 'baubles' with some pretty Christmas paper and using a good old-fashioned emery board to file the edges clean. I then painted the rims with gold paint.

I then worked out positioning and glued the baubles onto the wreath base.

I like to use Tombow glue for projects like this as it has a super strong bond.

I found a gorgeous feather garland at my local Bed Bath and Table and carefully glued it around the back of the wreath.

Looks lovely from the front now!

Now all that was left to do was to add a few decorations for that bit of bling-ness....

The Santa and Sleigh is from the 2Crafty Mini Santa Sleighs cardpack (coated in gold glitter) and the Merry from the 2Crafty Merry Christmas card pack (painted red and the Dimensional Magicked).



Halloween Treat Bags

SSHHH!! Don't tell my kids! Look at these cute Treat Bags I just made for them...

I've used paper and embellishments from the Authentique Glowing Collection. Just love love love those papers! And the die-cut quotes from Glowing Icons and Glowing Noteables are such fun to play with!

And I've used those spider brads again - just 'cause they're so cute :)

As well as the obligatory treats, each Treat Bag also includes one of the Clear Cards from the Pink Paislee Hocus Pocus Clear Card pack. These are gorgeous printed cards that can be used as overlay embellishments in your scrapping. But you know what? I reckon my kids will just love them as bookmarks!

Halloween Lanterns

I took some time today to have a little play.....

Halloween Lanterns! They were such fun to make using Pink Paislee's Skeleton Soiree paper. It's double-sided so I got two different looks from the one sheet.

I used this cute 2011 tag from Authentique's Glowing Noteable and stuck it onto an orange blossom.

Don't be scared when you look inside this lantern....

 ....it's the skeleton from the same Skeleton Soiree paper sheet!

Oh look! It's a Creepy Crawly Spider Brad!

I cut these little tags from Authentique's Glowing - Lustrous paper. 

Such gorgeous papers - they're too pretty to be scarey, aren't they!!

Sultan - and how Authentique's Glowing Collection is not just for Halloween

A big thank you today to Michelle Phillips of NSW for sharing her absolutely beautiful layout - 'Sultan'

Michelle used Luminous and Enchanted from the Authentique 'Glowing' Collection for this gorgeously textured page. Stunning!

Doggie Treat Jar from We R Memory Keepers

How cool is this oh-so-easy to make treat jar? Thank you to the clever team at We R Memory Keepers for the Project Instructions.

We R Memory Keepers 'Friends Forever' collection available at Aunty Vera's

Enjoy Every Day!

Well, I reckon you know by now that I'm a Scrapper of the 'Quick and Simple' variety. And just to prove it..

I just love this photo of my Kiddo in the back yard. It's just a quick snapshot taken spur-of-the-moment, but it's such a happy picture. So after it had it's time in a frame, I wanted to keep the page about the photo, not about what pretty things I have in my Scrap Stash.

I've used Been There Done That paper. The background sheet is actually the reverse of South Australia Titles and the flowers and stripes from Tasmania Blue Gum and Tasmania Stripes. And I've never even been to Tassie!! lol

Foam Dots under the top flower give a bit of dimension.

Oh yeah - and that stitching is fake :)