Snip, Snap, Crop

Well yesterday afternoon I ran my Christmas card class for July. I kept them simple so the ladies could duplicate them easily enough with their own products at home. They use stamps from Kaisercraft Merry Christmas set and The Stamps of Life Holly4christmas set. There is one small greeting from a Fundamentals Christmas greeting set also. Of course the Fiskars scalloped edge border punch made an appearance as well as the apron lace border punch in the card below. Some heat embossing and dimensional pearls helped to put the finishing touches on this one. The Die Cuts with a View paper range that is still in our stores here made a great background for this card. I love to use a more non-traditional paper range on my Christmas cards to give a break from the red and green and the black and silver really makes the little red and green I have used pop out. I even introduced the ladies to some Smooch which none of them was familiar with. I have the snickerdoodle colour which comes up gold loo...

I missed the Cybercrop at Home and Scrapped on the weekend as my weekend was so busy and I kind of forgot about it. I did however finish a challenge today, albeit a little late for the CC. Karen gave us a challenge to find some butterfly clip art and use it on a layout which she also gave us a double page sketch for. I had these great papers - free with Australian Scrapbook Ideas magazine current edition which I thought were rather cute and looked like they would work for the layout so I had a lovely time playing. For the month of July, Heather challenged us to make a minimum of four cards with no particular greeting on them..... they could be ready for adding a greeting later or simply a "for you" card which could be used for any occasion. Some Basic Grey - Lime Rickey scraps for a funky and bright card. A masculine design using scraps from the technique challenge for the month which is the art layout from my previous post. Scraps from my Stars in my Eyes layout below which...

Over and Home and Scrapped a number of weeks ago, Heather put up a challenge to take a photo of the season and scrap it. I had these gorgeous photos of Belgium in autumn which I immediately thought of so decided to use those instead but it had taken me a few weeks to do it. Next is a layout - just because....... not for any challenge..... can you believe that? More photos of Ingeborg and I in Paris. Then off to the Netherlands to Valkenberg and the Town Cave. Ingeborg took me here for an afternoon tour. A little train ride through this huge cave with the most amazing artwork on the walls. The other weekend I went to a Fiskars workshop with the lovely Michelle Wallace and we created three layouts on the day. I had a lovely time and enjoyed the company of the other ladies there. As usual I loved the layouts we created with lots of stamping - so much fun. That's all for today..... Gotta finish watching the end of Got To Dance UK now...... Who will the winner be?

I can't believe that it has been two years since Heather started our little ning community of scrappers. In line with our second anniversary there, we have had a few challenges for June and the anniversary to play along with. I am trying to wrangle most of them to work in with my travel photo collection which I have of my holiday last year. Not so exciting for some as they are mainly 4" x 6" photos and lots of photos of streets and buildings but I wanted to scrap them none the less. My arrival in Amsterdam where I look rather bedraggled at 6.30am out the front of the Airport. The shuttle bus driver kindly offered to take my photo after a 26+ hour flight with stopovers. This is done using a sketch from Heather for the June sketch challenge . I've decided that twinchies and inchies are not my forte. Must be something to do with the size cos I don't do ATC's well either. This is a quote challenge for June where I have used the quote: A good friend is a connectio...

I have been keeping note of some challenges from Fab's Big Christmas Cards Challenge Blo g and Craftyhazenuts christmas challenge blog until I finally found time to start on them. Here is my small start..... Craftyhazelnuts #4 - use bling Craftyhazelnuts #3 - use trees Craftyhazelnuts #2 - use a recycled card or freebie. Fab's challenge - June - Use a fun sentiment Fab's challenge - May - Pastel colours and/or embossing Fab's challenge - April - Baubles and ribbons Fab's challenge - March - Curled paper strip and/or pictures Fab's challenge - February - Peel offs or outline stickers. The card above is a recycled hand-made card from a friend which I have added to and the one below is a newly made one with a little smooch and kindyglitz for fun. Hope you enjoy my creations and have some fun making your own.

As you may have noticed we didn't receive many entries for Scrappassion last month. It seems that the interest to participate in the Scrappassion blogs isn't there anymore. Combine the lack of interest with some personal things that the blog owner is dealing with and there is only one conclusion: Scrappassion will end on June 30, 2011. There is however a final challenge for this month: Take the advertisement shown below as inspiration for your layout. You can choose to be inspired by certain colours, the design with the 8 rectangles, shapes like the swirls and butterflies, pictures of angels, coke bottles, whatever really. You can also choose to get inspiration of one of the eight pictures, the words (like Love, Play etc.) This challenge really has no limits! Once you have made your layout, please send an email to Ria before the 30th of June. Visit the Scrappassion International blog for further details. Here is my example inspired by the bottom left image. I hope some of you ...

May has been a busy month and I really haven't done much in the way of scrapping and cardmaking until the weekend before last when I had a mad weekend of two cyber crops. First I have to share the cards that the ladies made for the kids card class the other week: The ladies enjoyed the fun of making them especially the dinosaur Cricut cut with googly eyes. I had this old card that I had half done sitting around in my stash after teaching a class using emboss resist techniques. I figured that I should really finish the front off and use it so played with some distress inks and then an old stamp from a Sugarloaf set that I have never used before. Scrap of Difference had a cyber crop and we had to make a card with the word Friend and something with wings. I was working on a card class plan for distressing techniques so added a little extra to make the card for the challenge. Jo's technique challenge was to use stitching on a layout. I also had a challenge at Home and Scrapped to s...