Tuesday, April 6, 2010

Back from Easter break

I hope every one had a wonderful Easter break filled with lots and lots of chocolate!!

T and I had a great time camping for 4 days at the beach with family and friends. It was very relaxing and nice to spend some time away from the 'routine' of every day life.
However I was very glad to come home and have a decent shower and wash my hair properly to get out all of the sand.

One of our Easter traditions that I've kept since I was a little girl is to paint real hard boiled eggs. I remember when it wasn't about all the chocolate eggs and I loved all the hand painted eggs we received. I'm hoping that when I have children that this is something that they will enjoy too and carry on in their life time.

Do you have any Easter traditions?? I'd love to hear about them.


I can't say I've had the time to paint my eggs as exquisitely as this picture but you get the idea.


Oh and I received my little bundle of Easter goodness from the Stampin Up bunny. YAY
I can't wait to try out these new colours from the new Autumn-Winter mini catalogue.
Mellon Mambo looks divine!
Also Stampin Up have introduced new clear mount rubber stamps so I'm super keen to ink them up and see what they are like. They are going to be so easy to store in the new dvd sized cases.


I'll have to show you what I come up with!!!!!!!!!!!!

Monday, April 5, 2010

Picture Perfect Creations Colour Combo #6

What a super interesting colour combo at Picture Perfect Creations this week!!!

We don't have Dusty Durango here in Australia so I've used Really Rust instead. When I started out I thought these colours don't really look very girly but I think I've done a pretty good job into turning them into a feminine card.



I've used:
Paper - Always Artichoke, Mellow Moss, Really Rust and Very Vanilla
Ink - Really Rust
Stamp Set - Pocket Silhouettes
Other: Green Button, Always Artichoke Ribbon, Scallop and Round punches


Here is the colour pallet

Friday, April 2, 2010

Fearured on Liz Wares Blog


How exciting I'm being featured on Liz Wares blog today!!

(Well I'm probably a wee bit early as it's probably not posted just yet, but I'm off camping for the Easter break and just wanted to let you know this exciting news before I left!)

She also makes some cute jewelry here at Etsy.

Here is a little excerpt from her profile
"I started my Etsy store because I wanted to share a piece of me with the world.
I like creating my jewelry and didn't want it to just sit around. By selling my works
on Etsy my pieces can have an adventure as part of YOUR collection."

Pop on over to see pictures of my crafting space. I love having a sticky at where other people craft. Some people have the most wonderful storage ideas and some people have the most amazingly huge areas to craft in. I'm pretty happy where I am at the moment taking up half the spare room and T has the other half for his computer. I actually enjoy nights when we are in there together, even though we may not be talking much it's just nice to be with him!

Although my space is going to change soon as we are looking to move houses, closer to the city. Most houses we have looked at don't have the lovely shelving space that this one does. One day when we own our own place I'll be able to do what ever I like and put things where I want them, but for now I just have to make do with what I can.

I'd love to see your crafty/storage space - leave a link in the comments so I can check it out!

ok so before you go over to her blog here is a little sneak peek of what you'll see of my craft room

Thursday, April 1, 2010

I'm a runner up!


I'm super super super excited!!! I'm a runner up at Picture Perfect Creations!

This is the first time any of my cards have ever been chosen as a runner up -YIPPEE!

Go and check out the winner here it's an awesome little birdy card by Andrea and her blog is here.

Once again a little happy dance and thanks to Megan at PPC!

Curtain Call Color Challenge: Act 23

WOW what an interesting mix of colours in this weeks Curtain Call Color Challenge.
I found it really hard to work with the basic black as I hardly ever use it. (so I've used it so sparingly)
The inspiration picture looked very classy and I wanted to recreate that look on my card.
What do you think?????




I've used:
Paper - Whisper White, Pretty in Pink and Bella Bleu DSP
Ink - Pretty in Pink
Stamp Set - Heard from the heart
Other: Pretty in Pink ribbon, Cuttle Black brads

Here is the colour pallet