Reflections

'Butterfly Love' ATC - Artist Trading Card

Here's an ATC - Artist Trading Card - that I've made for the very lovely Sarah in exchange for a little something that she is going to send me - more details on that later on!

The purple and orange background is actually a pre-printed one that was included in my Inkurable Stampers prize pack that I won back August.

I altered 2 Grungeboard Hearts with Colorbox Ink, Metallic Rubons and Watercolour Pencils and then attached them to the background. To the large heart I then added a heap of purple beads which I adhered around the outside with Dimensional Magic. On the smaller heart, I just chose to add just a little hand stitching to define the edge a little more.

I then added 2 Transparency Butterflies (also from my prize pack) with hand stitched bodies to add a little dimension to the ATC as well!

Anyway - I do hope you like it Sarah - it will be in the post shortly!

Until next time,

October CLUB Scrappit - Sneak Peak

My Design Team goodies for the October CLUB Scrappit have arrived and whilst I obviously can't share the projects that I've been working on, I can give you this quick little sneak peak of one of them!

I just love this pack - the papers are just gorgeous and with the addition of stunning rubons, bling and pearl trim - it's just a scrapper's delight! I'll be back to share some more *sneak peaks* soon!

On the home front, the boys are still on school holidays and whilst I made it totally through Winter without getting a cold (aside from that ear infection I got), I've now succumbed one - it started last Friday with a sore throat, headache and nausea; and then over the weekend moved onto the nose with sneezing and 'running like a tap' and I now have the nose starting to clear but a bit of a cough! Hopefully, a couple more days and I'll be feeling back to my normal self!

Until next time,

 

Longford Scrappers - *Update*

Just a quick post today to let all my Longford Scrappers participants know that their section of my blog has been updated with all the activities we'll do right up until our Christmas Break-up!

How's that for getting organised! *grin*

I had a few suggestions of things you wanted to do AND then I found a few ideas online too - projects that I know you girls will just love! Once I get a sample or two made of them all, I'll be sure to add the images so that you can see exactly what we will be making!

See you all on Thursday!

Until next time,

Wedding Card - A Bird and Two Rings

Today I decided to take up on a challenge over on Shanna's blog, which was to use one of her templates - I decided to use her Scrolly Frame on this relatively simple wedding card.

The white card actually has a thin white pattern tissue paper attached to the front of it - very hard to make out in the photos though. I then used some embossed cream pattern paper, cut to the shape of Shanna's Scrolly Frame, mounted it to white cardstock before hand stitching around the outside and then cutting the shape out.

The bird is one from Collections that I painted with white pearl acrylic paint and it compliments the tissue paper background perfectly and the rings are two little gold plastic ones that I've held in place with a couple of insignificant stitches - I would have used my 'invisible' thread to sew them on BUT alas I couldn't put my hand on it! Ah well - not to worry!

Thanks once again Shanna for sharing your templates and inspiring me to create this card!

Until next time,

Semi Precious Stone Jewellery - Hematite

After recently making two custom jewellery sets for someone (see here and here), I was inspired today to play around with my beading supplies to make a little something for me!

This matching necklace and bracelet set features the semi precious stones of Hematite and Magnetic Hematite with a few 'Ruby' Swarovski Crystals and Silver Bali Beads incorporated into the design as well!

The 'ruby' crystals symbolise my birthstone - which is a Ruby - and the Silver Bali Beads not only compliment the silver magnetic clasp on the necklace and the toggle on the bracelet BUT also the shimmmering light which is reflected from the stones themselves!

I'm thrilled with the results and actually have enough supplies left over to make another similar set too! Actually - I might even make up some designs to put in my 'Made It' Shop! I'll let you know if I do!

Until next time,

Sky Watch - Avon River

My contribution for Sky Watch this week is one that I took yesterday on our day trip to the Avon River at Stratford! This is the view looking upstream from where the boys built their stone wall!

I just love the shimmer on the water and the puffs of white cloud that hang in the sky!

I must admit, I had been tossing up whether to share this photo or one of a railway bridge BUT I endrf up sharing the latter one in yesterday's post!

Until next time,

Avon River

Today the boys and I took a drive to the Avon River at Stratford. We had a picnic lunch in the park, a quick play in the playground and then headed on down to the river to find a spot to play in the water and to build a stone wall as well.

The river was flowing surprisingly fast in some areas whilst in others the water could hardly be seen to be moving at all! The boys had a great time throwing rocks into it and James practiced skimming stones across the surface too!

The Avon River is surprisingly wide (and deep when in flood) but on days like we found it today, you have to walk across quite a bit of stoney ground to reach the river itself. We started our walk along the river downstream somewhat, and as we made our way upstream the vegetation thinned out and the actual river became shallower and more stoney.

This became 'OUR' spot and the building of the stone wall to stop the flow of the river began. It amazes me how the boys wanted to walk away some distance away to find stones for their wall when the whole area was covered in stones!

None-the-less, they had a wonderful time! Here's how their wall looked when they'd finally had enough and we began the walk back to the car!

Before I sign off for today, I thought I would share a favourite pic I also took of the old railway bridge (that is still in use) that crosses the Avon River! I converted this one to black and white because it really does make more of an impact without all the colour of the bridge detracting from the structure itself! 

Until next time,

Last Kaszazz 'Tweaked' Card

Yay! Here's the last of the Kaszazz Embossed Christmas Cards from last week, that I have 'tweaked' and added a few of my own touches to!

I decided to take the original square card, cut it in half and convert it to a larger rectangular card. Once I'd worked out my sizes, I then added some hand-stitching along both sides of all the ribbon pieces for a little added dimension as well! 

 

 Until next time,

 

More Kaszazz 'Tweaked' Cards

Here's the third of my 'tweaked' Kaszazz Christmas Cards from our Longford Scrappers workshop - one more card to go!

This one I've 'jazzed' up with some hand-stitching, silver sticker trim, silver greeting and some clear bling too! I just love the effect of the pale blue with the white and then highlighted with the silver - very classy!

Until next time,

Kaszazz - Embossed Christmas Card & RAK

Here's another of the 'tweaked' Kaszazz Embossed Christmas Cards that I told you about yesterday.

Once again, I cut my original card in half so that I could add some hand stitching detail to the front and then I adhered this whole piece to the front of a blank white card.

As you can see, my hand stitching has created a border around the whole outside of the card AND I 'pop' mounted the centre wreath of flowers onto foam tape to add a little more dimension as well!

I just love the way this card has come out! Now I've just got two more from our Longford Scrappers 'Kaszazz' Workshop from last Thursday to finish 'tweaking'!

Onto some other news - some of you might remember a little while ago I promised a RAK - Random Act of Kindness - to the person who left my 1500 comment! 1500! I still can't believe that I've reached that number! Thank-you to everyone who not only takes the time to stop by BUT also to those of you who share their thoughts on my posts - I do so enjoy reading them!

Well - the good news for someone is that recently my blog passed 1500 commments with my Anniversary post. So who did infact post my 1500 comment and is therefore the winner of my RAK?

Jan K - Congratulations Jan!  I'll be in touch soon with your RAK!

Until next time,