Reflections

Glorious Spring Weather

Don't you just love Spring weather . . . I find it so much easier to be inspired to eat well, exercise and get outdoors in the garden when the sun is shining, the skies are blue and the days are warming up that little bit!

Mel and I are actually off for our weekly two hour walk this afternoon - it's such a great way to catch up with one another whilst getting a good dose of exercise all at the same time. The only dilemma we have this week is where to walk because our usual venue is affected by flood waters - *grin*

In other news, I had a wonderful array of scrapbooking products arrive on my doorstep yesterday - I can't give away too many details of where they came from OR what I am to do with them BUT my goodness!  I sure am going to have lots fun getting stuck into all this creative goodness!

Here's hoping you have a fantastic day - Oh - and Happy Birthday to the very lovely Paula of Scrappit too!

Scrappit - Design Team Challenge

This week's Scrappit Design Team Challenge was to:

Make a layout where the title is inspired by a corporate logo (either in theme or design or both)

So - what did I use as my inspiration - why none other than the current Scrappit Website header!

I used a dark brown cardstock background to which I added my photo (which I downloaded from the internet) followed by a gorgeous 2 Crafty Scroll Frame into which I added my white page title.

I then added a scattering of flowers across the page - some simple mini punched ones that I added KaiserCraft Pearls to the centre of AND some stunning white Paper Perfect Sunflowers that I made myself using a fantastic mould that I recently purchased!

I just love how much dimension & texture these Sunflowers add to a project - these ones haven't even been painted or inked but are perfect just the way they are!

Scrappit - 2 Crafty

Today on the Scrappit Blog you'll find a blog post from me about using 2 Crafty Retro Christmas Trees as features on a couple of Christmas Cards.

Here's one of the cards I created using some of the gorgeous 6 x 6 Basic Grey Pattern Paper for the background as well!

Here's a couple of little close-up too!

If you want to take a peak at the second card I created AND find out how I actually coloured the 2 Crafty Retro Christmas Trees, why not head on over to the Scrappit Blog and take a little peak?

Kaszazz - Notecard Set

I finally got a chance last night to finish off the second of the Kaszazz projects that we created at our Longford Crafters day last week.

This little project was a handcrafted Notecard Set with 5 Notecards & 5 Envelopes tucked away inside.

I slightly altered the way the little box was tied up - instead of wrapping the ribbon right around the outside of the box and then tying it into a bow, I simply punched a couple of holes into the flap at the top andthen tied the bow through them!

Here's how the box looks when you untie and remove the ribbon.

As I mentioned, tucked away inside the little box are 5 decorated notecards and 5 envelopes!

Each notecard was decorated with a Rollergraph stamp which I framed on either side with some thin strips of black cardstock AND then a few scattered KaiserCraft Black Gems were added to the stamped image for some dimension.

The envelopes were decorated in a similar manner with a Rollergraph stamp being added to the left hand side of each one with a thin strip of black cardstock added as a border!

Thanks so much Jan for sharing this little project with us! I think everyone thoroughly enjoyed making them!

In family news, today saw the auction of my deceased Grandparents' old Poultry Farm property. As some of you may recall, the old farm has slowly been pulled down over the past few years so that the family could sell the property with the newly renovated farm house, a small rental house and vacant land. Despite no sale actually taking place today, we do have a couple of people interested and now negotiations on price will begin. We're keeping our fingers crossed that one of them might make the purchase . . .  x x x

Sky Watch - Kitchen Window View

Today for Sky Watch I thought I would share the view I get to enjoy from my Kitchen Window . . . on this particular day with isolated storms about, the sky looked quite spectacular!

Here's hoping you all have a fantastic weekend!

Scrappit - September Scrappitpack

Scrappit released their new September Scrappitpacks last week and I thought I would share the gorgeous pack that the very lovely Paula sent me to create with!

Aren't the colours so very pretty?

This page created for my dear friend Jan of one of her gorgeous grand daughters and it features photos taken by the very talented Linley Gordon of LaBelle Photographics - such sweet photography!

I should mention too that the actual flowers weren't included in the Scrappitpack BUT I thought they complimented the pack perfectly!

In other news, I know I've been a little absent of late with my blogging - just call it life getting in the way . . . there just never seems to be enough hours in the day sometimes!

Many thanks for all your emails of concern . . . we've all been keeping well and finding plenty to keep us busy! Actually, it's hard to believe BUT the school holidays are quickly approaching once again - the boys are really looking forward to being able to chill out for a couple of weeks. Perhaps I'll be able to catch up on some old blog posts as I really would like to bring it all up-to-date once again . . . stay tuned!