Creations From The Heart

Layout for Alethea

Told you that I'd scrapbooked!

This is the layout that I made as an RAK for Alethea who won my blog comp recently.  These are her two gorgeous sons and I love how she can edit her photos in the camera before printing to have half black & white and half colour.  I grabbed bits and pieces out of my stash and I'll jot down what I can remember:

Background paper from We R Memory Keepers (Whiteout Collection)

Blue Bazzil for photo mats.

Daisy D's journalling card (I've left blank so Alethea can write something there about the boys)

Queen & Co black Felt Fusion

Creative Imaginations Swatch Book Impressons (terrible to apply - took forever to rub and nearly had to rub through the page to get them on and they're peeling off already)!

Making Memories rubons

Hero Arts stitched circle stamp

Tim Holtz "Walnut" Distress Ink

Basic Grey buttons

Chatterbox words

Heidi Swapp chipboard clock

Scraps of paper for the strips behind pics (Basic Grey, Daisy D's & others)

American Crafts metal photo corners

Staples, twine, thread, ric rac, metal charm

And think that's about it.  It's hard to see all the details but you get the gist with this pic and I'm really happy with it so hope Alethea is too.  She probably won't see this before I get the layout to her as her sister has just had her second child - a little boy named Charlie!  Congrats Allison....

OMG, I have scrapped...with paper and all!!

OMG, I've actually delved into my {very} dusty scrapbooking stash - and that would be my paper, hands-on goodies and not that digi stash on my PC!  Some time back, I gave away a couple of layouts to 2 of my blog readers so tonight I made a start on Alethea's one using two photos of her boys Logan and Liam.  I actually quite enjoyed going through my goodies and even remembered where things were that I hadn't pulled out for a very long time.  So hopefully tomorrow sometime (or today because it's already tomorrow!!) I'll have it finished.  I'll leave a spot for Alethea to pop some journalling in, but the layout will be complete and it may be the first one she's got as Alethea only makes cards.  So there you go Alethea, you're going to have to go and buy yourself a little album or maybe pick up a frame for this one to display.  Will take a pic of it and post it on here if it's sunny tomorrow as it's currently raining outside.  We were supposed to do some painting outside tomorrow {today!} but won't be able to if the rain persists.  But then again, we desparately need all the rain we can get nowadays.

Today we had another family inspect our house and the feedback from the agent was more than positive.  They loved it and were even talking about making our double carport into a workshop as the hubby is a carpenter and our single garage wouldn't be big enough for him.  They even hung around after the agent had gone and I came back 40 minutes later to see them driving out of our driveway.  They are requesting a Vendor Statement and once they sight that next week, they may put an offer in.  They asked the agent to call them if anyone else put an offer in.  Apparently they have recently moved from Canberra and are desparate to get out of their rental property so I'm keeping my fingers crossed.  They also had 2 young boys so the decor would suit them to move right into my boys rooms.

And I have started going back to read The Pioneer Woman's blog as it's truly amazing.  She's got like 4 blogs on her site - one for cooking, one for photography/Photoshop (heaps and heaps of tips for photos and/or using Photoshop), one for home/garden and her general everyday ranch life in the US.  It's well worth a visit as you can be on there for hours.  Her photography is just amazing and her writing is so witty and enthralling.  Check out the prizes she's given away courtesy of her sponsors and check out how many comments she gets every day to her posts....like up to 10,000!  Her average daily comments are around 500 ... boy don't my 1 or 2 pale in comparison to that!  he he he..... I just love this pic of one of her cow Beatrice!  Sums me up totally!!!

WINNERS......

I want to announce the winners of my RAK post from last week where I'll scrap a 12x12 or 8.5x11 layout for you either in digital or the traditional way...you can choose!

I had 7 comments in total left on the two posts on my blogs, so those ladies had a very good chance of winning....anyway, the lucky two winners are:

                      ALETHEA        and             COLLEEN

Congratulations ladies!  You can choose which size and way you'd like your layouts done.  Alethea, you can bring your pics on Friday night if you have them ready and we'll have a chat about it then.  And Colleen is one of my blog readers from the good ol' USA so you can email me me a couple of pics and I'll see if I can do your pics justice as Colleen's work is totally awesome!

A special mention goes to Robyn's little comment which she wrote as a poem!

Time is of the essence
And it's quickly running out
So my scrapping is suffering
Photos are laying all about

So if you could find time
Please scrap a school photo of Trent
I trust him in your hands
Cause your scrapping is heaven sent.

Thanks for being so creative Robyn and to the others who took the time the leave me a little comment. 

You can leave me a comment anytime as I like to know if anyone out there gains anything from the things I post and also want to know if anyone is actually looking at this thing!  I would still blog anyway as it's for my own purposes but also love to share what I do with the scrapping world as you always learn from what others do.

Today I was reading Jess Gordon's blog who does lots of digital scrapping but she's got a link to a beautiful website with lots of traditional scrapping projects on it called Inspire Company.  It's a website that offers vintage, shabby chic projects for sale and by tutorial.  There's plenty of eye candy and inspiration to be had there.  Check out some of the projects in the magazines and also what Jess made on her blog (love the cake card).  All totally gorgeous things!

 

Don't you love these little girls decorated with flowers...how creative.

I also found this little pic ages ago on someone's blog and I can't remember now but thought I'd share it....love owls and this is so cute!

And this baby wall hanging is just beautiful but didn't record where I found it!

RAK time! scroll down for most recent posts

For those of you who don't know what an RAK is....it stands for a random act of kindness and that's what I want to offer to one of my lucky blog readers! 

The prize is that I will scrap a layout for you with your photos.  You can provide me with two smaller photos or one larger one and choose what size layout you want (12x12 or 8.5x11) and I'll make up something showcasing Stampin' Up products and maybe a few other bits from my own stash.  If you're local, you can give me the photos or email them to me.  This competition is open to anyone, anywhere in the world as I do have quite a few international readers (hi out there!).

All you need to do to be in the draw is to leave me a comment on this post telling me what photo/s you'd like me to scrap and why.  You have until Sunday 18th May to leave a comment and the more comments you leave, the more chances you'll have to win a layout by me....let's just hope you like what I come up with!

I'm also running this RAK over on my digi blog so there'll be two layouts done - one in traditional scrapping and one in digi scrapping, depending on which blog you leave your comment on.

So start thinking about some photos you might like scrapped and remember to leave me a comment.  I'll draw two random winners on Sunday night (one from each blogs comments) and I may also throw in some Stampin' Up goodies too.

anyone for an RAK?

Feel like givin' a little love out tonight so for the first person to correctly leave a comment on this blog to the following question, you'll win a few little goodies from the new Stampin' Up Idea Book!  I am eagerly awaiting my delivery of some new products so will make up a little goodie box with some ribbon, brads and paper samples in it for you.  Sound good??

Okay....please leave your Comment and tell me what page of the new Idea Book (Australian one) is the Tres Chic stamp on?  There's plenty of links to the Idea Book on my blog or you may already have one in your hot little hands.

This is one of the stamps that I'll be getting at Convention this week and it's very, very nice if I may say so!  So go on, what are you waiting for....