Creations From The Heart

wanna see the view from my window?

Isn't this a fab view?  Well this is what I see when I look out my bedroom window each day!  Just beautiful isn't it?  When I sit at my computer, when I do some ironing, when I just sit and relax...this view brings me back down to earth and allows me to really appreciate life.  How sad will the day be that my parents sell this house which they built in the early 80's.  I'm hoping we can stay here for some time before they decide to move to a smaller place as this block of land is 3 acres with rolling hills and a river across the road.  Now that's life....

Even the boys got the thrill of their life by going for their first ride on Pa Trevor's ride-on mower.  You can see that Ryan thought it was a little too loud as he wouldn't take his hands off his ears!

Anyway, I'm getting more and more boxes sorted each day but there's not much more that's gonna fit into my bedroom so I'll start doing some more sorting and rearranging to try to make it fit better.  Next we're going to start on our storage shed as there's probably heaps I can cull to make our things fit in better rather than having it stacked up to the roof and front door!

I'm finally back online and out of my home of 14 years!

Just a quick post to say that we have moved out of our house and boy, was it totally exhausting work!  You don't know how much stuff you've got until you get it all out of your cupboards and out into the house to pack!  Gosh, did it take way longer than I ever expected.  We were lucky to get out of our house before settlement on Friday.  We filled up our storage shed plus there's now boxes all around the veranda outside my room at my parents place plus all through their carport.  There's a load in the back of my station wagon to go back to the storage shed but that needs to be cleaned up as it's totally full.  So over the next few months, there'll be lots of culling things to fit them into my room and also the storage shed.  I'm not sure when I'll be able to do some paper scrapping or cardmaking as I've got stuff from my shelves strewn everywhere!  It's gonna be fun but I'll get there eventually.  Off to work for the day tomorrow but I think my parents are totally exhausted and over my kids already!  The dog tried to escape today after the kids left the gate open.  The cat got beaten up the day we moved but his cut on his head is healing after a trip to the vet.  My legs and feet are all swollen up from standing on my feet all last week but I'll survive.  I'm definitely not looking forward to a move again anytime real soon!  Will be back as soon as I can with some work to share with you as I'll have withdrawal symptoms if I don't get my scrapping stuff out soon!

Hybrid wall hanging frame

Here's a little hybrid project I've made for Amy's 4th birthday today (a big happy birthday to you Amy)!

Thought I'd make up a present while at the same time fulfilling my CT commitments with Sugarplum Paperie!  It's great to be able to mix your hobby with your work even though I'm only getting paid in kits, but it keeps my hobby going!

Click on the image to read the full list of credits.

Love Notes box & cards

Here's a peek at what I taught at my Stamp Club workshop today for Lisa.  It's from a tutorial off Splitcoast Stampers (for the box design).  The cards are the little 3x3 inch Love Notes that you can purchase with matching envelopes.  There's so much you can do with these cute little cards and they're nicely packed in a gift box tied up with ribbon.

I have used Season of Joy  and Crazy About Christmas stamp sets and the All About Christmas Jumbo Wheel.

I used Purely Pomegranate ink, Always Artichoke ink and marker, Bravo Burgundy marker, Versamark and silver ink (non-SU).

Card is Whisper White and Purely Pomegranate.  Patterned paper is from Holiday Harmony in the Spring Mini.

Additional supplies used:  Purely Pomegranate ribbon, Dazzling Diamonds, Crystal Effects, Stampin' Dimensionals, scallop circle punch, 1" circle punch, 1 3/8" circle punch, corner rounder punch, edge distresser, Silver Embossing powder, heat gun, sponge.

Here's a few closeups of the cards.

Someone's talking about me!

Found this link to my blog from Scrap Scene

They highlighted one of my cards and a digi layout on their site recently!

This site is worth sifting through as there's so much info re all things scrapbooking on there.

another hybrid card

     

Here is a hybrid card I've made using MANGO SORBET kit from Sugarplum Paperie & Andrea Burns - available at The Digi Chick.  I've used Whisper White cardstock from Stampin' Up as my base.  The rest of the papers and journalling spot are from the digital kit.  I've used Chocolate Chip & Blush Blossom inks from Stampin' Up to ink the edges of my papers to give them some depth.  I have tied some American Crafts ribbon around the card.  The two silver brads are from the Hodgepodge Hardware set available in the Stampin' Up Spring Mini on page 17.  I have then taken a Plain Janes chipboard flower and inked it in Versamark, tipped Stampin' Up Heat & Stick powder on it and heated it with a heatgun.  Straight away I tipped Doodlebug Sugar Coating glitter onto the flower and quickly heated it to set the glitter.  I've also used some Stampin' Dimensionals to give the pieces a bit of pop.

I have a friend Danielle to thank for the design of this great card.  She borrowed a few things from me and went away to the snow for a week and whipped up a card storm!  Here's the card I got my inspiration from:

It's just so beautiful.  Same ribbon I used but the patterned papers are from Crate Paper and the flourish stamp is from Autumn Leaves.

Here's some more cards I borrowed from Danielle to take pics of and show you all.  They all contain some Stampin' Up products and look totally amazing.  Thanks so much Danielle for letting me borrow them! 

A pic of the boys....just because

This pic was taken yesterday with Millie who is the Kinder Teddy Toby has bought home for the week.  We've got to document in a scrapbook what we did for the week with her.  But the boys looked so cute, I had to post this on here!

Flirty Skirty hybrid gift box

Over the weekend, I had a get-together at Yvonne's for us Stampin' Up demos and we made amongst  other things, one of these great little gift boxes so thought I'd have a hand at making one hybrid-style and this is what I came up with.  It's much prettier in real life as always with taking pics.

I have used the gorgeous Flirty Skirty kit from Sugarplum Paperie.  Click on the image to see the credits in the layout.