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Some Cybercrop shares

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I did promise to share my cards that I created for the Silver Wedding anniversary and wedding recently. Both are made using Cuttlebug embossing and Cricut die-cuts. I hope you like them. The silver Love sticker is a self adhesive paper lace that I bought at one of the cheap shops. I have been waiting to find something to use it on and finally this card gave me the opportunity. Did I happen to mention that we made baubles for Christmas? After seeing the video on the Christmas with the Cricut blog, I went in search of the necessary floor polish from here in Australia to make these. I used the Pascoes' Long Life floor polish and it worked a treat. The boys enjoyed the play with glitter and the chance to makes something else to put on the Christmas tree. As it turned out, not only did I have a wedding to attend on Saturday but I also have two Cybercrops on. So far I have only managed three items for the Scrap Of Difference CC. The first is Jo's sketch challenge with a theme of &q

Found some mojo lately........ yippeee!

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Happy New Year to you all out there in blogland...... Since my mojo has been away on holiday for some time I am very glad it has decided to return for a while. Here's hoping it stays for a few months now. I have a number of layout shares for you all for a change as the weather has been hot, hot, hot..... 40+ degrees celcius on some days recently. It has given me the opportunity to stay indoors in the AC and scrap. I found some photos from Christmas 2006 when we were still in Canberra. I don't usually scrap the same/similar photos three times over as rarely I have similar ones, I just scrap whatever for each of the boys albums. However I decided to challenge myself with scrapping these photos on all different layouts. Do you know how difficult it is to scrap the same photo differently when you have already completed a layout you like? I really struggle with it. However I am very happy with the results. Decided to kick start my year with a few challenges for the month also as I r

An award from a few weeks ago

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Ingeborg gave me the 'Your Blog Is Fabulous Award'... Thanks Ingeborg! When you receive this award, you have to mention five things that you love, which are: Bruce, my wonderful husband; Jason, James, Keelan Ethan and Mitchell, our busy boys; My few close friends; SCRAPBOOKING/cardmaking and of course ... Chocolate! I am passing this award on to five other people : Karen Kowalick , a friend and fellow scrapbooker; Penny Hackney , who inspires me with her clever work; Vince , a talented gentleman who makes stunning cards; C arla Peicheff , a lady who inspires me almost daily with her lovely colour combinations and clever ways to make use of her Cricut when creating cards; Michelle Wallace , a Fiskars friend!