ScrappinbyKris

Heart Trim 6x4 Photo Frame SVG

2012-01-28T11:54:00.001+10:00

Here's another photo frame, just a few hearts there lol.

You can grab this FILE HERE.

Heart Flourish 6x4 Frame and LOVE word SVG

2012-01-26T21:06:00.005+10:00

Okie dokies, my Heart Flourish 6x4 Frame is back in action, slightly modified to give some of the finer bits a bit more strength when removing from the cutting mat :)

You can grab this file HERE.

Love Word/title...

Grab some LOVE HERE

Enjoy xo

6 x 4 Swirl Frame - Mat SVG

2012-01-26T15:03:00.001+10:00

Just a quickie file to share, I swear I am turning into the worlds' most laziest scrapbooker, I don't cut anything by hand anymore if I don't need to and as my paper trimmer always chews my edges I prefer to just cut on my Black Cat sooooo here you go, today's pretty ordinary creation. Grab the SVG HERE. Enjoy

HAPPY AUSTRALIA DAY FOLKS :)

2012-01-26T13:16:00.000+10:00

So very proud to be an Aussie and living in this beautiful Country of ours, where the weather is wacky and all over the shop, but life is grand and happy to be alive. LOVE YOU AUSTRALIA!!!!! xo

Have a fabulous Aussie Day Friends xo

Penguin

2011-12-15T20:28:00.002+10:00

Supposed to be beautiful summer time here right now, yet it's raining and cold and miserable, and I've been sick as can be with the flu all week and pretty much sick of myself, can't stop thinking about damn penguins!!!!! So here's a lil fellow I made, feel free to grab the SVG file HERE for the lil guy. Don't forget to grab your white gel pen and add some lil peepers for the spunky lil fella!

Ballerina Girl

2011-09-23T18:46:00.004+10:00

So in helping a friend out with creating a Ballerina Mouse (as a bit of a challenge), I figured after making the Mouse one it wouldn't be so hard to convert it into a Girl lol just whip off my mouse head & tail and create (hopefully) what looks like a girl's head lol.

Here is a pic of the finished file.....

Okay, so there is the pic of the one I cut out and pieced together this afternoon, not thoroughly excited about it (never was excited about ballet), but oh well....I had a go :) lol

Now here is the SVG FILE for those who want to have a go....she is a big piecing...measures about 9" from tip of her crown to her toes, don't forget you can move the arms or legs into different positions, or resize to make her smaller or whatever takes your fancy ...ENJOY :)

Kris

Hearts & Circles

2011-09-20T21:54:00.001+10:00

Still playing about with MTC having a little bit of fun while learning some of these basic tricks...one day I will master this stuff...but alas until then....basics :) lol

Here's what I came up with while playing with the wrap to path features (yes I know...baby steps right?) lol

You can grab the SVG file for this HERE if you like.

Have fun crafting peeps xo

Another Border....just a simple one

2011-09-19T21:23:00.000+10:00

Having a bit of fun playing about with Make The Cut, trying to get my head around all the updates and exciting things that have been added into this wonderful program. Played with some basic shapes ...AGAIN!!! and made this border, DOWNLOAD HERE I kind of liked it, so kept it, thought I would share in case some one else would like to use it. It's not terribly exciting I know, but hey...you gotta start somewhere lol lol

Cheers Kris xo

Easy Print & Cut with MTC and the Black Cat Cougar using the KNK Plugin!!!

2011-07-30T00:00:00.003+10:00

Finally all of this Print & Cut stuff has finally done my head in...I bit the bullet this evening, and decided it was time to fight back and get this son of a gun to work to MY satisfaction....it has taken me quite a few hours to get all of the information from various sources...such as the Black Cat Forum and the MTC Forums, and trial and error and converting such overwhelming information into something that more resembles IDIOT Language...something I DO UNDERSTAND!!!! (sorry it's late here & brain is numb lol)

Okay I started out by getting into the Black Cat forum and working through the Manual Calibration of the Blackcat Laser using Signcut....(have I mentioned how terrified I am of Signcut!!!!) Okay so I've gotten that done, found my X and Y figures that work for MY MACHINE, yours may very well be quite different.

Anyhoo I got a perfect cut on the template for Signcut using these settings for MY machine...

X = (-18.5)
Y = (26)

Done & done! Next....

Into MTC (having already downloaded the KNK plugin with the 3pt registration) <---- Oh how I LOVE LOVE LOVE this.

Here is a screenshot of how I had my P&C set up on MTC (Ps...just click on the Photos to enlarge)

onto the setting for KNK....

I've told it to cut with KNK Maxx, this is when things got crazy for me for a bit, majority of folk have said you HAVE to reverse the negative & positive numbers....so based on that I should have had to set my settings as this in KNK

X = (18.5) & Y = (-26)

This is about when all hell broke loose in my craft room and one said Cougar and one said Laptop almost got hurled straight through my window...but alas...fortunately I remembered seeing one brave soul having said on the MTC forum that they found this to be untrue for THEIR particular setup, and actually were very brave and tried leaving their settings the same as their Signcut settings, so I thought, hey, why not? May as well give this a go before tossing the equipment out the window, so with that said I have changed my KNK plugin settings back to the same as I had originally used with Signcut

X = (-18.5)

Y = (26)

Well Hey Presto!!! (Okay time to insert a pic of my mat layout ...sorry for crappy pic but hey I'm not much of a drawer or artist lol...but here goes)

So basically

...picture my COUGAR sitting right --> HERE!!

Okay, so I have set up my mat (after many failed attempts earlier) like this Turn the laser alignment ON (you should know how to do that) and set it in a spot like where I have in the above pic. Bottom Right of the pic!

So the first Registration Mark that shows on my screen as being top left of MTC screen is now Top Right on my mat (see other big fat dot there) I then simply followed the instructions on screen to set the 3 registration marks ...gotta say after setting the first one, the other 2 were pretty much in perfect alignment, at this stage and at this time of the night (almost midnight now) I no longer give a flying you know what, so I accepted it all and hit OK and bam it cut out the bestest (is that even a word?) Print and Cut I've ever done, it was what I would say 99.9% perfect! I seriously could not ask for anything more than this.

Okay, so here is my result :) yay

So anyhooo, I am sorry for my ramblings, but you can't expect much more from me when I'm exhausted hehehe but seriously, I hope this information and the pictures of how my MTC is set up versus how I've set up on my mat, and loaded to the machine can help someone else who is desperately trying to improve their Print and Cut and not making headway with the overwhelming information that seems to be out there, just not in the right context for some of us who need to see pictures!!!!

Cheers peeps, outta here for some serious zzzzzzzzz's Goodnite xo

Some cool SVG Borders for your scrapbooking/cardmaking

2011-07-22T18:41:00.004+10:00

So I have been playing about with some basic shapes and tools for the last couple of days...boredom struck again lol, anyhooo managed to come up with some borders to share, hope someone can find something constructive to do with these.

Since I totally suck at Inkscape, I stuck to what I can actually fathom, Make The Cut, so basically as I'm a scrapbooker and I scrapbook on my base piece of card/paper measuring 30cm x 30cm (not 12 x 12) my borders if you import at actual size will be 30cm wide/long or whatever you want to call it, feel free to mess about, manipulate them as much as you need or want to do, sing out if you do something cool and creative with them, I would love to see.

Okay, here are the links for each one...

BRACKET Border SVG

CLOUDY Border SVG

LARGE SCALLOP Border SVG

SCALLOPED EDGE SCALLOP Border SVG

SMALL SCALLOP Border SVG

WAVY 1 SVG

WAVY 2 SVG

WAVY 3 SVG

WAVY 4 SVG

WAVY BRACKET Border SVG

WAVY STRIP Border SVG

I am off to cook some dinner for the motley crew and perhaps attempt a layout using some of these borders tonight (crossing my fingers) lol. Please let me know if there is anything that needs fixing (I'm only human)

Enjoy :)

Do you just love MYSCRAPCHICK?? Then you are gonna love this....

2011-05-30T14:47:00.000+10:00

Kristi Dailey has now got her own website up and running with some of her awesome whimsical graphic illustrations listed as well as Digi Stamps....she is also running a great special right now 50% off every purchase of $10 or more....BARGAIN I say!!!!

These are so cute....I feel a whole lot of Print 'n Cutting coming on now lol lol

Go check them out here....

Print & Cut with MTC and Black Cat Cougar....

2011-05-29T21:12:00.001+10:00

Wowzer...been a super dooper long day here today, trying to suss out the laser calibration to get my Print & Cut feature working with Make The Cut and Black Cat Cougar.

Finally tonight I have success!! Wouldn't call it 100% perfect but it's mighty damn close. After searching forums and blogs and youtube for hours today to find just the right bit of information to sort this mess...in pure defeat and with a can of rum in one hand...GOOGLE SEARCH TO THE RESCUE lol

With this totally awesome find.....
Sheri from My Card Spot had this fabulous TUTORIAL (with pics) thank goodness.... she is now my new Goddess...well for today anyhoo. Finally pictures showing me which way was X and which way was Y and a starting point to finding the right numbers for me...my numbers X -18.5 and Y 26 achieving almost perfect results...had just the tiniest bit of white showing around the bottom of my cut (will post a pic tomorrow when I have some daylight) Graphic by Lettering Delights (Weather Kids)

So to Sheri....THANKYOU for sharing this awesome information, and I hope that many others who are having issues with this will also be lucky enough to find your post! You have made my day and my purchase of the Cat just that little bit more exciting....now to find some chipboard that will cut with the machine in Australia!!! Our chippie is like rock apparently lol lol

Some Gorgeous New Stock - Just Arrived....D'LISH SCRAPS

2011-05-26T19:48:00.000+10:00

So D'Lish Scraps have just received a new shipment of some very sweet items, think it's time for me to go shopping again lol here's some piccies of the goodies

Here's the link to this great online store D'LISH SCRAPS or why not follow them on FACEBOOK

Colour my world....

2011-01-19T18:03:00.000+10:00

I really really wish my postie would HURRY UP!!!!! I am soooooo incredibly desperate now for my Printer Inks to arrive, been over 2 weeks now... I want to print some photos so I can scrap!!!!!

I want my COLOURS!!!!!!!!

Sketch Challenge Entry for Little Scraps of Heaven Designs

2011-01-19T13:54:00.000+10:00

So I finally got scrapping :) Yay!!! I decided to have a go at the Little Scraps of Heaven Designs Sketch #3 on Facebook here's their LINK

Here's the Sketch....

I used the gorgeous Panda Pattern that was purchased from LSHD over at their Website and a photo of my lil ginger haired treasure Miss Amy :)

Title of this Page is .... 100 Hearts Would be too few, to carry all my LOVE for You!

Happy New Year .... Bring on 2011

2011-01-06T09:29:00.000+10:00

Happy New Year to all my crafty friends :)

Time for this lil bunny to get her butt into gear and get the craft room cleaned up, I can't even see the desktop in there right now....must scrap this year!!!!

OH MY GOSH....It's almost Christmas again!!!!

2010-11-30T13:11:00.000+10:00

My how time has flown this year, it's been the most craziest time of my life this year, so many things have been happening, a lot of ups and downs, ended up immersing myself into Facebook Games (lol) to calm the crazies outta me!!!

Scrapbooking has been just about totally missing in action for me for the last 8 months (sadly) but for all of the above reasons, I just haven't been able to get my head in the right place for it. Time to change that. Still in for some incredibly busy months ahead as we prepare for the chaos we know as Christmas and then the mad crazy back to school organisation...Next January will be here before I know it, and I'm kind of in 2 places about that at the moment, my last bubby is off to Prep in January and I'm pretty darn excited about it...thinking of all those extra kid free scraphappy hours, but there is still that nagging lil sense of loss too, you mums out there will get what I mean!!!!

Although I've produced not a bloody thing for months on end, I've still been faithfully watching the scrap scene via the web, I have switched from using SCAL Sure Cuts A Lot to MTC Make The Cut, I gotta say, it's an absolutely awesome program!!! Still getting my braincells into gear and trying to work out different parts of that. Have recently been to the local scrap store and drooled all over the Cricut Imagine...kinda pretty darn impressed with that lil beauty, but hey, that'll be for another day for me anyhooo.

Anyhooo, I've managed to remember how to update my blog, make a post lol lol time for me to get to work and I look forward to getting some projects up on my blog again soon .... til then, take care and have fun

xo Kris

Latest Layout in store now @ Arnolds Scrapbooking Warehouse

2010-04-23T19:41:00.003+10:00

I haven't been around much....gonna blame Facebook games for that addiction...scrapping is still happening though.... just no where near as much... Have bought some absolutely gorgeous papers and products from Arnolds' lately...(Nicolette I got some pretties today for your pages girl)

Anyhooo here is the latest page I've completed for Karen @ Arnold's, using the absolutely gorgeous Glitz Designs...Distressed Couture by Traci Smith paper collection, these papers are just awesome to work with, they are so beautiful for distressing (nice 'n thick) The collection has a fabulous packet of Vintage Tag/Labels which I have used 2 of on this layout.

There are soooooo many new products in store at the moment, Karen has just received some absolutely stunning re-orders from Prima and more flowers OMG it is literally FLOWER HEAVEN in there at the moment ladies...bought some today (shhhh don't be telling the hubby), bought some more gorgeous Copic Sketch Markers in there also.

If you are into Copic Markers or have been thinking about whether to dive in or not....pop in store and have a chat with Karen, Tracy or Robyn they have some amazing products and information, also a beginners kit & class (just ask instore) Robyn has made some absolutely stunning Cards, all beautifully displayed with Robyn's usual attention to detail.

They are also stocking the entire Colour Range of refills for your markers(very economical way to refill)...pop instore to enquire or call them on Phone: 3293 4390. You really need to see the display to believe it....colour heaven I tell you :)

Well I'm off for a bit to work on some new projects for the store with these gorgeous new products received today....bright, colourful & funky...just love them all!!!

New Prima Products...

2010-03-09T14:17:00.003+10:00

This is another layout I've just completed for Arnolds' Scrapbooking Warehouse at Rothwell. Karen has received a huge shipment of Prima Products instore last week from CHA...omg soooo many pretty products, just mind boggling :)

Anyhoo... I've used:-
Pastiche Collection "Seaside" PP;
Flights of Fancy "Miss Pretty" PP;
SIIP Swirls;
Symphony Blend Red Prima Flowers;
Ribbon & Lace from instore;
Chipboard & Cuttlebug Red Tag Die for Alpha;
Tim Holtz Alcohol Inks, Tim Holtz Distress Inks, Recycled Packaging from Prima Products, Kaiser Flourish Stamp, Black Ink, Dimensional Magic

...and the subject of my page is my gorgeous little girl Ellen...enjoying a swim at her Aunty's place this summer :) The girl loves her H2O lol!!!

Some of the closeups of these gorgeous products :)

Thanks once again for stopping by my blog and looking at my work :) Have a great day xo Kris

Little Robots .... My Mind's Eye

2010-03-05T16:39:00.003+10:00

Howdy bloggers :) Hope you have all been keeping well!!!

I was totally delighted to create a page for Arnolds Scrapbooking Warehouse at Rothwell recently with their gorgeous new paper ranges that are flooding into the store at the moment.

I was given some of the Little Robots Range to work with, and have used a photo of my son when he was just a wee little lad of 3 years helping his Grandpa in the "Shed" lol lol . This little raggamuffin of mine is a deadset real boy's boy... he loves tools, not kiddie versions but the real deal (needless to say I drew the line at the talk of chainsaws and anything with revolving blades OMFG as if!!!), he's been taught from a very young age how to use things around the workshop and yard tools with his Dad & Grandpa... the joys of being the only boy I suppose lol.

Anyhooo....this is the page ... thanks for looking and if you are ever out this way pop on in & see Karen and the girls and have a gander at all the gorgeous new products fresh in from CHA :) ahhhh Bliss!!!!

Okay well I'm off now to have a play with these gorgeous new Prima products .... back soon with pics :)

Have a great weekend, stay safe, especially all you guys n gals out in the flooded areas of Queensland :)

Thanks for looking!! xo Kris

You are so precious to me....

2010-02-20T16:45:00.003+10:00

This is a layout I was asked to design for Arnolds Scrapbooking Warehouse at Rothwell. I was given the new range of papers from 3bugsinarug, they are sooooo adorable. If you have a little boy or some piccies of a little one...you really have to get your hands on some of these papers, they are just fabulous. Awesome quality too, nice n thick perfect for distressing :)

My very young at the time Master Jared :) Thinking he was around 6 months of age (1998)

I've used PP's from 3 Bugs in a Rug (instore at Arnolds right now)
Bazzill Cardstock
Martha Stewart - Flower Bed border punch (love these punches)
I-Top
Big Bite
Ranger Crackle Glaze
Tim Holtz Distress Inks
Paint Chip
Carolee Creations-Adornit Tiny Alpha Stickers
Ribbons, Buttons from my stash :)

Friday's Class...

2010-02-20T16:39:00.003+10:00

Well we had yet another lovely day with our ladies yesterday. The ladies completed a page designed by Joanne, here's a quick snap of Jo's layout

Sorry about the quick pic...it really doesn't do this layout justice, is quite stunning in real life!!!

Anyhooo all had a great morning, thanks to the lovely Jo for supplying some yummmmmy birthday cakes :) Very much appreciated xo

It's the Climb - layout

2010-02-14T17:30:00.002+10:00

This is a layout I completed whilst attending the Saturday Day Crop at Arnolds Scrapbooking Warehouse at Redcliffe, Qld.

It's The Climb....is Amy who was clearly sooooooo delighted with her efforts of climbing all the way to the top of the fort at Petrie Park last year...without any help from Mum or Dad lol so hard to let go some times... especially when the chance of them falling is there :( but we did it and stepped back and let her go for it and she beamed when she got to the top!!!!

That's my girl :) xo

Papers are from Bo Bunny...such gorgeous beautiful thick doublesided papers to work with
Bazill Cardstock - Cream
Bazill Cardstock - Purple
Chipboard Butterflies
Cherry Blossom Flowers (my own stash)
Maple Leaves - multiple colours (my own stash)

The font on this page is Hobo Std...see the last post regarding a link to this font...it works beautifully on SCAL.

Thanks for looking....have a great day, enjoy the rest of your weekend xoxox Kris

Sugar N Spice......the Font!

2010-02-08T08:35:00.001+10:00

I am posting this for Evelyn who asked what font I used for my Sugar N Spice title on my recent layout.

Evelyn...the font is Hobo Std Font and you can find it HERE

Hoping that helps!

Have a great day :) xo Kris

Finally I can share a layout....

2010-02-05T16:47:00.003+10:00

I can actually share one of my recent layouts with you now, Jo & I had the pleasure of some very lovely ladies for our class today. I always love seeing how different their layouts turn out, by using their own gorgeous photographs, it never ceases to amaze me actually.

Had a fabulous time and can't wait to do it again next fortnight, when the ladies will be doing one of Joanne's gorgeous layouts.

Catch you all again soon! Take care and have an awesome weekend, stay safe :) xo Kris

Scrapping....I have actually been doing something somewhat constructive...

2010-01-30T07:17:00.003+10:00

Hmm it would appear that I've not been doing much of anything lately....got slightly sidetracked with my Copics and card making but always on the front burner is my love for scrapbooking.

Unfortunately I haven't been able to share any of my projects as such because they are for upcoming classes... However here is a tiny lil sneak peak of an upcoming class for February/March that I've been working on recently.

Hopefully I'll be able to get some of my "own" stuff done again soon and share :) Til then take care and have a great weekend xo Kris

A new card....

2010-01-23T13:46:00.003+10:00

I've done an entry for the current Anya Ink Challenge....Project must use flowers....and an image from The Greeting Farm.

I've used Dressy Joyce Digi Stamp, coloured with Copics, AC Cardstock, PP from We R Memory Keepers and a small mulberry paper flower from my stash :)

Thanks for looking....have a great weekend xo Kris

Copic Heaven....

2010-01-22T18:03:00.004+10:00

So I've been missing in action a bit lately....Been stalking the postie for my new delivery of Copics :) **Doing the happy dance** They arrived this week .... yummmmmy 18 new glorious colours to add to the collection.

Which meant I needed to download some new digi stamps too ... ssssh don't tell Marty :)

Jared is off to a mate's birthday party tomorrow at the Lagoon so I made a quicky card today for his friend.

I've used the "Birthday Ian" digi stamp from The Greeting Farm, Bazzill CS & Imaginisce Papers, Birthday Stamp and Copic Sketch markers. I'm sure his lil mate will hoy it in the bin cos boys just don't care that much for their cards I'm quite sure, but oh well...had fun doing it.

Hey if you are in the area....check out Arnolds Scrapbooking Stamp Sale this Weekend...Saturday and Monday....popped in there today and saw them all OMFG to die for, absolute stamp heaven!!!!!!! Autumn Leaves Stamp Sets for the bargain price of $15 I think they were.. sooooooooo many to choose from ***faints*** Bought some of course lol....and again... don't tell Marty :) hehehe

These are the ones I bought, they are only little ones, but bargain for 8 bucks I thought lol :)

Happy Crafting peeps and have a safe & happy weekend xo Kris

2010-01-12T17:00:00.003+10:00

Howdy blogger friends :) Hope you all had an awesome start to the New Year :)

I've been busy cleaning and reorganising my mess of a scrap room so haven't had a chance to do much of anything crafty lol...

I did however manage to get this lil guy done yesterday.... only because it fell under the classification of "organisation" stuff lol lol lol lol Hubby couldn't complain that way!!

Mum gave me some little boxes quite a while back (let's not go there now) lol, finally I figured what the heck, I'd give it a dash of scrappiness and voila Rose Box done...

Now what could possibly be inside of this lil ole Rose Box I wonder???

OMG Roses!!!! Lots and lots of lovely roses :) Dang it makes a gal happy I tell ya!!!!

And last but by no means least....this absolutely gorgeously stunning little canvas "Thank You" from the lovely Brigitte, whom I made a fabo lil album for at Christmas Time for the Secret Santa with ScrapwithV, I think she liked it lol lol.

So HUGE thankyou to you Brigitte for this gorgeous little piecing, I LOVE IT!!!! xo :) Kris

Wahooooo....I escaped for a few hours today hehehehe

2010-01-05T22:55:00.009+10:00

So I went and did a little wee bit of shopping today.... scrappy therapy style shopping that is hehehe... The lovely Donna & I toddled off to Arnolds this morning to see what exciting new things were happening...had a sticky beak through the delightful stamp range OMG they have an enormous range of stamps to die for :) Decided on buying a gorgeous set of HeroArts ClingRubber Stamps "Happy Birthday Cupcakes" Set ...yummalicious!!!!

Hmm some Kaiser papers, Cardstock ho-hum kinda boring I know but ya just can never have too much cardstock... oh some yummy Kaiser Flower Blings :) dang how I just love the pretty lil sparklies...and then we trundled on over to Lawnton to Paper Addictions and I treated myself at long last too one of these....(finally!!!! yay)

Which of course required me to buy some of these....

which then inspired me to come home and play with some stamps & my Copic Markers (again lol) soooooo I put together this simple little layout tonight with the stamps that I coloured today...Miss Amy's 3rd Birthday piccie.

I have used my new Birthday Cupcakes Stamp Set and a "Shy Kiki LaRue" Digi Stamp from CC Designs at All That Scraps...these digi stamps are awesome, and the printer ink works beautifully with Copic markers, no problems with smudging and of course, you can size/resize to whatever dimensions YOU like!!!

Anyhooo I'm off to bed... been a long day of shopping, oh and I forgot to mention I managed to wrestle 5 monsters into the car and took them to the movies today, we saw Princess and the Frog, kinda cute, somewhat funny in places, nice movie for the kids, loads of Popcorn and Frozen Icee Drinks....brain freeeeeeze omg I forgot how bad that hurts lol ... soooo I'm beat, back tomorrow to post a pic of my layout as the lighting here at night is just woeful :(

Hugz...Kris xo

Happy New Year to all of my Blogging Friends....

2009-12-31T20:44:00.000+10:00

Merry Christmas....

2009-12-24T14:39:00.003+10:00

So guys 'n gals in my blogging world...I've decided to take some much needed "time out" with the family for the next few days or so...so I shall take this opportunity to wish you all a Very Merry Christmas...take care & see you all back here again in the New Year looking revived & refreshed xo Hugz Kris :) xo

Holiday Happenings....

2009-12-22T19:44:00.006+10:00

Awwww, sooo cute, my big girl and little girl hamming it up for their mumma today :) Amy came xmas shopping with us yesterday and the lady at Kmart was handing out these lil xmas hats for free woohooo she loved it (ever so large for her lil head lol) ... so here she is today with big sister Rachael having a sweet pre-christmas moment together xoxo Love you girls :)

So I have finally finished a double layout last night...started on this one a few days ago, but got slightly waylaid due to ill health in my family...fortunately everyone is on the mend now and back to scrapping and enjoying some quiet Pre-Christmas days.

I was doing some cyber surfing the other day and got to browsing through the "About Me Pages" of some of my fave sellers on ebay to see what they are all up to etc and stumbled across this fabulously bright layout by a very talented scrapper...craftyemg aka Eileen, I have watched this lady create some gorgeous paper pieced layouts over the years and just had to recreate this one...with a slight twist on the piecings themselves...my pics are of the kids enjoying a fabo day recently at the Redcliffe Lagoon down on the beautiful foreshore...they had such a fantastic time, loads of smiles, so these piccies suited the title of this layout to a T...I've used MyScrapchick's very cool paper piecings from the Beach Bears Mini Collection and pinched the title and layout of the photos from Eileen...so big thanks to Eileen for sharing your wonderful talent and allowing folk to recreate your gorgeous works for their own use :) and big thanks to Kristi & Crew from Myscrapchick for sharing your awesome patterns!!!

50% off at My Scrapchick

2009-12-16T10:52:00.003+10:00

Wahoooooooo, Kristi is offering another one of her fabo sales at MYSCRAPCHICK.... awesome opportunity to jump in and grab some new Paper Piecing Files.

I have bought many and varied files and these by FAR are the best & easiest ones to work with. Featuring "Layers for SCAL Version 2" yahooooooo!

Check them out soon...cos like everything good....it must end soon :)

Happy Savings :)

What's happening this week.....

2009-12-08T19:05:00.002+10:00

Well I enjoyed a leisurely stroll through Arnolds Scrapbooking last Saturday for their awesome SALE.... wow some darn good products at fabo prices I gotta say.

The sale went soooo well that it is now continuing on for the rest of this week, so if you get a chance and you are in the vicinity, pop in and grab yourself some great specials...

ARNOLD'S SCRAPBOOK & CRAFT SUPPLIES

Unit 14

16-22 Bremner Road

Rothwell, Qld 4022

Phone: 3293 4390

Christmas Sale Continues

Some of the bargains include:

Spellbinders buy 2 for $70

Cricut Cartridges $80each

Hero Arts Stamps buy 2 for $50

many, many more........

ohhhhhh btw it's CROP NIGHT this week too wahooooo

Card and Scrap Crops this Saturday

Card Crop

Saturday 12th December 10am - 3pm Cost $10 inclues Lunch

Scrapbooking Crop

Saturday 12th December 4pm - 9pm Cost $10 includes Pizza.

Mega Crop

Would you like to combine both into one mega crop. Well you can. Come to both crops for $15

Limited spots are available for our card crop this weekend. Ring and book now if you would like to come.

I am soooooooo THERE!!!! Can't wait to catch up with all the lovely ladies again, last time was just sooo much fun.... and to my fave mate...you know who you are....you definately better have another good "word" for me this time to laugh hysterically at lol lol lol.

2009-12-05T14:18:00.002+10:00

Sooooo, I have been on a new mission to use some of these Basic Grey June Bug Collection Papers....now I've gotta say, they're not exactly favourites of mine by any means, but I am interested to see just how many ways I can use them.... just because I can lol... weird I know, yes, but hey, that's just me...I love a challenge every now and then :)

So after going for a morning stroll through Arnolds' Scrapbooking Sale this morning (awesome specials I might add) yay... I found some gorgeous Kaiser Red flowers to play with...you guys who know me well know I just hate flat pages and flat flowers....so they got the "oompf" treatment and voila...this is the page I've come up with...my gorgeous daughter Ellen & her Prep Teacher ...Mrs Gilliver from the Fancy Dress Ball in August this year

So I have used an SVG & SCAL to create the mega cool background page, Basic Grey June Bug Papers I've used are Vintage Plaid and Aggie (both of them I've used the reverse sides) Kaiser Flowers Red, Kaiser Flower Rhinestones, Kaiser Rhinestone Flourish (halved), Kaiser Journal Spots from the Q1 Collection, Font is Whoa DNA and Ticket is from D-Lish and Pearls and Lace from my stash.

The Countdown to Christmas Begins....

2009-12-01T15:10:00.003+10:00

Phew is all I can say! I finally got this rotten Kaiser Project finished & done, don't think I'm ever going to attempt another Kaiser Off The Page project ever again, sooooo over them :( Well at least not until next time I'm tempted lol lol lol

Anyhooo, the kids are totally delighted in this monster project and soooo happy to find it ready in time to start their countdown to Christmas today, lots of little treats in those drawers for them lol.

Wow!!! I had another win...

2009-11-27T19:55:00.003+10:00

Wow, I found out today I had another win, woohoooo, "doin the happy dance" over at Aussie Girls Gone Scrappin

Amanda's Quote Challenge:

my challenge for october is to use the quote....'Laugh as much as you breathe and Love as long as you Live'....also to use ribbon, chipboard and metal embellies................have fun, cant wait to see what you come up with.....................entries to be uploaded by the 19th november.......
The Prize for this challenge is a $10 voucher for amanda(star)'s shop d-lish kits

This was my entry, I love how this layout turned out...thankyou Amanda for making me think outside of the square again :) My gorgeous big baby girl...Rachael xo Love ya baby! I caught her in the process of having a giggle when pushing her younger sister into the pool lol she thought no-one was watching lol

Santa Claus is coming to town....

2009-11-26T16:14:00.003+10:00

OMG you will never guess what happened last night. Was frantically trying to organise dinner for this motley crew of mine then what should our wondering ears hear...the jingle jangle of christmas bells and a jolly old Ho Ho Ho Merry Christmas!!!

Yeehaaaaa you guessed it....Santa was doing his yearly trip around the Peninsula...the kids did a massive bolt out the front door, racing over to the park to spot the glowing Santa Sleigh, I'm talking psychedelic lit up colours guys...the kids went bonkers for like half an hour until he finally came down our street and then holy moly the big guy was in front of our house...Ho Ho Ho'ing and sharing some special christmas treats with all the kids.

Want to say a HUGE THANKYOU TO ROTARY CLUB for saving the annual Santa Sleigh Trek for our community...can you believe after 15 years the local council were not going to keep it happening, unreal!!!! ROTARY CLUB of Redcliffe....you guys ROCK!!!!

MERRY CHRISTMAS

Mmmmmm YUUUUUMMMMMMY :)

2009-11-24T16:23:00.001+10:00

Something to drool over until the "official" Eclipse Trailer becomes available....go Team Edward :)

Dear Santa....

2009-11-22T12:30:00.005+10:00

This is a layout I did for a class on Friday. The class went great, the girls were a pleasure to work with as always :) and fun was had by all....

I have used papers from the Kaiser "Dear Santa" Range...gorgeous papers to work with :)

Santa Claus SVG can be downloaded HERE!

Hope you have all had a great weekend :)

Kris xo

Important Message as Summer arrives....

2009-11-09T15:43:00.002+10:00

As we approach Summer here in Queensland.... we as Adults know & understand how incredibly hot our weather is and the consequences for ignoring it ... Please take the time to read the following information....and keep our children safe :)

Ava's Rule

Ava had been found in her parents’ car, parked in the sun. She had snuck in looking for lollies and found herself in the back seat, with child locks on. She was 3 years old and did not realise that if she moved into the front, those doors would open. She never re-gained consciousness and died a few days later.

Her parents have dedicated themselves to spreading the word about Ava’s rule:

Always lock your car and store your keys where your children cannot reach them.

Verify your children know never to go to the car unsupervised.

Actively seek out sheltered locations to park your car.

Keep Safe :)

Ticket to Ride.....

2009-10-27T12:45:00.003+10:00

Well I've finally scrapped those new cutesie pics of Miss Amy enjoying her big girl bike riding lessons from the other weekend...

Off to catch up on some reading now I think.... have a great day my friends :) xo Kris

The Imperfect Parts of Life....Cyber Crop for SWV

2009-10-26T15:15:00.002+10:00

If you enjoy a good laugh and a good scrap fest.... then come and join in with us all next month at Scrap With V, awesome challenges, fabulous prizes, loads and loads of good fun... See you all there :) xo Kris

Flowers from a dear friend....

2009-10-26T13:26:00.002+10:00

So I love flowers....they make me extraordinarily happy!! So I could not have been happier to find these little beauties gracing my letterbox last week....Martina you are entirely too clever chick, and I thank you for your gorgeous gift of blooms :) I love them.... so glad you included so many for me to make & assemble lol ... burnt fingers here I come lol lol

Aren't they totally gorgeous?

A Quiet Moment....

2009-10-24T22:39:00.003+10:00

This is my sketch challenge for the SWV Cyber Crop from last weekend, just made it in by the skin of my teeth woohooo!

Thanks Ness for another great challenge and a totally awesome Cyber Crop, sorry I didn't get as involved as I'd like to have been this time, but look forward to the next....bring it on girl :)

I've used American Crafts CS, Graphic 45 PP, Embellies from "Game On" D-Lish Kit, Car button from D-Lish Scraps, Cuttlebug Diecut Chippies and Adorn It Tiny Alphas stickers, and Distress Ink by Tim Holtz.

Thanks for looking..... enjoy the rest of your weekend...happy crafting :) xo Kris

Spring Time Bliss

2009-10-24T13:15:00.006+10:00

So I did a tiny wee bit of shopping this week lol Bought some gorgeous Prima Papers, a few gorgeous kits from DLish Kits and oh lets just not mention what other things i've bought lol lol.

Anyhoo have had this photograph of Miss Amy sitting here looking at me for a few weeks now, so decided to play with one of my fave colours.....A dash of HOT PINK :) woohoo

Okay, so I've used part of the Vintage Rose Pack - Hot Pink - from D-lishKits uber gorgeous... Prima "Flirty Little Secret" Paper, Gorgeous HotPink Pearl Strand from Spotlight (thankyou Tina mwah!), Lace hand dyed Pink, SCAL Files: SPRING TIME and BLISS title and Coredinations Whitewash CS and Bingo Card.

Thanks for looking, have a great day!

ScrapWithV - Cyber Crop Entry for #3 - Card Challenge

2009-10-21T21:25:00.003+10:00

Brigitte gave us a fabulous challenge for this one.... Make a Card...with these criteria...

Something OLD, Something NEW
Something RECYCLED, Something BLUE

So I have used.....something old - Pearl Heart Button; new - graphic downloaded & printed; recycled - Page from old novel; blue - lace.

Thanks Brigitte for a fabo challenge girl :)

Another card...

2009-10-21T18:07:00.002+10:00

Started this one last night when I was in the mood to play with messy inks (mwahahaha love em) finished it off this morning, but as it was crazy grocery shopping day today, haven't had a chance to snag a pic and load it up until now, so here is the 2nd Vintage Style Card I've created. Thanks for looking :)

Vintage Cards totally Rock!!!

2009-10-20T21:30:00.002+10:00

Well I think I must say I have found a whole new love!!! I hate card making....don't get me wrong now....I totally love the whole idea of making cards, but man I really suck at it most days, so today whilst browsing thru some online catalogues I got my very first glimpse ever of a "vintage style" card, couldn't see too much of the details but something happened, made my lil ole heart go hot diggity dog, I sooooo have to jump on into some of that! So out came the cardstock, the distress ink omg I love that stuff hehe and some vintage old book that I bought for a song last week and voila....We have one lovely card that I actually quite adore!!!

Now, this lil sweetie is going on a trip.... in a hot stuffy envelope.... any day now.... I wonder where it is going to go to????? sorry can't say...it's a secret!! lol Have a great day/evening!

xo Kris :)

OMG Look who's riding now....

2009-10-18T17:32:00.003+10:00

OMG you know your baby days are over when your baby starts to ride a big kids bike :( Some friends of ours gave us a lil bike yesterday afternoon, needs a new tyre as we've quickly found out, hubby repaired it, but it hasn't held :( but she got a ride before it went pfffffft on her lol. Wow gotta say the guys who resurfaced our road this week, did an AWESOME job!!! Look how nice n smooth it is, nice change from the loose gravel horrible stuff we had there.

Woohoooooooooo go Amy go!!! xo

Gorgeous Vintage Embellishment Kits....

2009-10-18T07:44:00.003+10:00

OMG!!! These are so yummalicious! Have you seen these little bundles of heaven yet?? If not jump on over to D-Lish Kits and take a peek before they are all gone. There are 4 gorgeous embelli kits to choose from.

2009-10-16T22:31:00.000+10:00

D-lish Scraps is offering a $40 voucher on it's blog just for helping to spread the word about their online store! If you would like to win too then head on over .... make sure you tell them I sent you!

And their sister site D-lish Kits has one of their kits up for grabs each month just for following their blog. If you would like to win one of their kits, all you need to do is head to the blog and become a follower. Winners will be announced on the last day of each month.

Good luck everyone!!! Have a fabulous weekend :)

Woohooooooo I had a WIN

2009-10-16T12:55:00.002+10:00

So, I'm kinda doing a lil bit of a happy dance today, I took a message from my mobi this morning from my sweet friend Tina who was kinda do a happy dance of her own, something about omg girl pick up your phone, why aren't you picking up, omg you won you won you won lmao which had me in hysterical fits of laughter... Tina you are such a delightful friend, your enthusiasm and genuine excitement for others makes you a shining star girl...don't ever change!

So the challenge at Shabbychic Butterflys & Bows for this September, was this....Use...

Background colour of CREAM or WHITE
Dominants of pastel pink and lemon
and Butterflies (my fave lol)

This is the layout that I entered and yay it won woohoo, so happy and excited. Huge thanks to Eve & The Shabby Chicks for making my day!!! To all the other ladies who entered, I think your layouts were fantastic, keep up the great work and keep on entering, you just have to be in it to win it girls ...best luck with Octobers entries, can't wait to get my lil mitts on that challenge, it looks fab!!! Can't wait to see what gorgeous creations you all come up with this time.

Cheers Kris xo

Ps.... Have a great weekend :)

This is where I'm off to this weekend....

2009-10-15T19:24:00.001+10:00

Scrap With V Cyber Crop......

Can hardly wait....awesome fun time to be had every time! See you all there ladies :)

Another challenge entry to share...

2009-10-11T16:11:00.003+10:00

Yet another of my challenge entries for Challenge Heaven.

Themed Challenge - Calendar. Take inspiration from a calendar in any way you like. It can be the numbers, months a particular date etc
You must also use scallop edges and a tree/s on your page

Well that's all for me for one weekend, been incredibly slack, must get bottom into gear and get scrapping some more.

Hope you've all had a fabbo weekend and in good health, til next time, take care xo Kris :)

Another challenge Entry....

2009-10-08T10:56:00.004+10:00

Well I am totally loving these challenges, thanks to the ladies who keep them coming for us!!! This is for the Ebony & Ivory Challenge at Challenge Heaven

The challenge was this.....

Ebony and Ivory Challenge - White (Ivory) with pink and green
You must also use brads or pearls and a butterfly/s (You may use small amounts of other colours but White, Pink and Green must be the dominant colours)

(hmmm dunno where that blue came from in the 2nd pic, think it must have been a bit of reflection from the computer screen perhaps grrrr) lol

So I have used my white background, with Pinks & a Gorgeous Green Paper with fabulous pink roses oh yummalicious, fabulous butterfly from Creative Imaginations, Pink Wild Rose from D-Lish, Cricut Title, Versa Inks, Pink Pearls, Jenni Bowlin Alpha Stickers, Bella Journal Block Stamp :) Thanks for another great challenge girls! Loving it heaps!

OMG Look at the surprise I found in my mailbox today....

2009-10-07T23:05:00.004+10:00

This gorgeous little bundle of beauty & joy was awaiting my arrival home today after doing the dreaded grocery shop moonlight madness rush!!! (omg i hate grocery shopping)

This beautiful RAK is from my dear sweet friend Martina (aka Tina) Absolutely LOVE it all Tina, you know me too well my friend, they are just perfect!!!!

Thankyou so very much xoxoxo
Greatly appreciated and treasured!

My entry for Word Challenge

2009-10-06T17:14:00.004+10:00

This is my entry for the "Word" challenge over at Challenge Heaven

Word Challenge - Use the word "Adorable" in your title.
You must also use inking, ribbon and stamping somewhere on the page

I've used CS - American Crafts, PP - Graphic45, Flower - D'Lish, American Craft Ribbon, Stamp by Kaisercraft, 7Gypsies Journal Tag, Kaiser Bling, Alpha - Cricut, Ink - Ranger Distress Fired Brick

My entry for Quote Challenge at Aussiegirlsgonescrappin

2009-10-05T14:28:00.003+10:00

AussieGirlsGoneScrappin....Amanda's Quote Challenge....

Firstly, thanks Amanda for a great challenge, really enjoyed this one.

The criteria for this challenge was to use:

"Laugh as much as you breathe and Love as long as you live" - Quote
Ribbon
Chipboard
Metal Embellishment

Managed to somehow squeeze them all in there somewhere lol (they may not be big, but they are in there lol)

Imagine, Dream, Believe....Crafty Sketches Entry for September 15 Challenge

2009-10-04T15:50:00.003+10:00

This is my entry that I've submitted for the September 15th Challenge on Crafty Sketches Swing by and have a go, still some time until this one closes. The 1st October Challenge is also up ready for your creative hands to get going on! Come on and have a go!!

I absolutely ADORE this photograph of Miss Ellen that I happened to just snap when she was having one of her "off with the fairies" episodes lol I'm just amazed at how beautiful the blue of her eyes are, they are oh so dreamy. So when I saw this challenge & the sketch actually had the words, Imagine, Believe & Dream on there, I thought yeeehaaaa this will work perfectly. Gave me a chance to lash out irrationally on the bling "oh god how I love that stuff" lol.

Anyhoo, off to create some more entries for challenges, having a blast with them all at the moment, we've just gotten back from my sister's place, they have an inground pool, still a lil bit cool for swimming (for people with commonsense anyway) didn't stop the kids though, I swear these kids of mine are part mermaid lol they just LOVE the water! Who am I to stop them....hehehe photo opportunities lmao.

Take care & I hope you all had a great weekend, in good health :) Cheers Kris

My Challenge Entry for ShabbyChic Butterflys & Bows Blog...

2009-10-02T17:24:00.003+10:00

I had a ball doing this layout, with a jolly good push from my dear friend Tina to make me try something thats a little bit "out of the box I live in" lol...so once again Thank You Tina for making me try new things, I love love love scrapping with you girl, have a blast every time!

So the challenge at Shabbychic Butterflys & Bows for this month, was this....Use...

Background colour of CREAM or WHITE
Dominants of pastel pink and lemon
and Butterflies (my fave lol)

Spread the word......

2009-10-02T17:07:00.001+10:00

Good luck everyone!!!

MAGNOLIA Down Under - BLOG CANDY.....OMG OMG OMG

2009-10-01T22:03:00.003+10:00

OMG jaw dropping blog candy from the lovely Kellie Winnell for Magnolia Down Under, go check it out girls, follow the instructions, you should know them by now lol, share the love around and cross your fingers, toes, eyes, arms, legs, whatever it takes omg this is just too much, I'm in love!!!!! Thanks Kellie for the opportunity to win such a fabulicious Candy :)

Bev's Beautiful Blog Candy...

2009-09-30T21:05:00.003+10:00

Girls you definately need to check this lil beauty out, Bev is offering another stunningly gorgeous blog candy CHECK IT OUT HERE I'm so impressed to see some gorgeous Aussie stuff in there too....Kaiser!!! We love our Kaiser Down Under :) lol

Last Chance - Sketch Entries for September at Discover Scrapbooking

2009-09-26T16:30:00.003+10:00

Come on ladies, only 2 entries so far, would greatly love to see some more, if you have a bit of spare time on your hands this weekend, why not pop by and have a go. Here's the LINK for the sketch, you have until Midnight Wednesday, 30th September to get your entries in to have a great chance at winning the Store Voucher for the month. Here's the great sketch we are using, it is by Jolene Pienaar one of our very own well published Aussie ladies. Pop over and check out her BLOG for some inspiration.

RAK from my dear friend Tina :)

2009-09-20T07:47:00.006+10:00

Oh My Goodness, How I just loooooooooove surprises....

How is this for total yum-alicious flower heaven? My dear friend Tina surprised me the other day with this totally gorgeous collection of flowers, tags, journalling bits n pieces, and embellies, omg sooooo many beautiful gorgeous things in here (still amazed at what she can fit into an envelope!!!!) She made a drop dead gorgeous card as well with her sweet baby girl, Bindy on front, she is such a lil sweetheart with a gorgeous smile, how nice it was to find my little mate Bindy popping out off the envelope lol.

Tina you are such a sweetie, and I thank you with lots of love & hugs (again) lol.

Kylie's Flower Challenge at SWV Cyber Crop

2009-09-14T17:24:00.002+10:00

This is my entry for Kylie's Challenge on the SWV Spring themed Cyber Crop from the weekend. We had to use floral paper, a flower transparency, a chippie flower and include the word "flower" in the title.

Thanks for looking :) Hope you all have a great day.... what's left of it lol.

Cheers Kris :)

Vroooooooooooooooooooooom OMG SuperPowerBoats at Moreton Bay today :)

2009-09-13T20:54:00.003+10:00

OMG these things were UNREAL!!! They are so loud and fast omg was incredibly good fun trying to catch photos of these guys today. Here's a pic of "Big Red" as I was calling him, anything red and big and fast has gotta be good don't ya think? lol

I couldn't believe how low these helicopters fly over the boats and even scarier, the turkeys who are filming from the helicopters, man I'm talking, could see legs hanging out of the doors, holy cow!!!! Adrenalin junkies or what?? hehehe

We went for a quick cruise through the Scarborough Marina yesterday and saw a couple of these guys up on their trailers, OMFG they are HUGE HUGE HUGE! The engines are enormous, trailers the size of a house, unbelievably gorgeous pieces of machinery is all I can say.

We were going to trek up this arvie after the race finished to check them all out and grab some photos, but family called and informed us we were supposed to be visiting with them, like wtf? when did we make that plan I wonder?? but anyway, nature of the beast, keep everyone happy happy happy, so we had to ditch our plans :( oh well, always next year I suppose....

Hope you all had a happy & safe weekend,

Cheers Kris :)

Oh What a Day it's been.....

2009-09-09T20:52:00.005+10:00

Firstly.....A very big huge Happy Birthday to my gorgeous girl Ellie :) 6 today!!! Wahoo!

Anyway.... somedays we mums just feel like tortured old souls, slaves, cooks, washerwomen, chauffeurs, cleaners, you name it, I'm quite certain that I've felt it. So normally on our kid's birthdays (as we have such a large family) we generally don't do birthday parties as such, we stick to just the family, inlaws, outlaws, etc etc.

This morning I started at 6am with a quick trip to the local IGA to grab some lunchbags for tuckshop (Pay day treat for the kids), and a pack of candles to send off to school with Ellen's cake to share with her class! Came home, iced said cake, packaged it all up, got the troops ready, delivered the 3 youngsters to school, took Miss Amy & Miss Rach for a treat at Macca's (OMG) on the way to dropping Rach at High School, so whilst sitting there enjoying an absolutely fabulous cappucino yummmmmmy I decided, what the heck, lash out and have a bit of fun today for Miss Ellen and see what becomes of it....so off to do the grocery shopping, aka mad chaotic dash thru Woolies, picked up quite a few (out of the ordinary for us) treats along the way, grabbed what I needed to make a nice salad & bbq dinner for the family as the inlaws just got home from holidays yesterday (bit of a surprise!!!)

Well my day of fun had just begun....baked another cake (thankya Betty lol), we put a tonne of her frosting on it too yummmo & a cute Dora Icing topper that we found at the supermarket... put up a hundred and one streamers out on the patio, a great big ole birthday banner, made some potato salad, coleslaw, truckload of salad, chilli lamb-burgers, hot oven fries for the kids and blew up a zillion balloons OMG now I know why I hate balloons... anyway this went on for the entire day, closed all the house up, pulled the curtains across the back doorway and set off to pic the kids up (how fast did that school day go??)

Ellie was first to the car going "omg Mummy I've had the bestest birthday today with my friends and one of my friends gave me a present, I'm so excited" lol she so cute this kid, we get home and I asked her, "so what did your little friend give you?" she says to me "I don't know, I was so excited I haven't opened it yet!" lol

Anyway, said pressie was a gorgeous Fairy Barbie Doll (she is soooooo in love now)...Big Thankyou to Tom & his folks for their thoughtfulness and kindness to Ellen! On to the next big act of the day.....I asked Ellen to go out the back and get something for me....welllllllll the curtain gets pulled across and all I hear is

OH MY GOD!!!

This girl was so damn excited and thrilled to bits, she couldn't remember how to open the sliding door lmao. I was nearly flat on my back on the floor with laughter and delight!

Well anyway, the afternoon and evening turned into a great event, and the biggest and best thing ever happened.....

....right when my tired little possum walked up and grabbed me in a big ole bear hug and said

"Mummy I love you sooooooooo much, thankyou for making this bootiful party for ME, you are the bestest Mummy ever!"

And then I just melted!

I'm so utterly worn out and exhausted, but this little gem of a girl just made my entire day so worth the effort! I love her sooooooo much! xo

Hope you have all had a fabulous day :)

OMG I love love love getting mail :) Well.... Scrappy Mail anyway lol

2009-09-08T15:33:00.004+10:00

A HUGE thanks to the girls at Scrap With V for this gorgeous RAK received today. Sadly only one person entered last months sketch challenge there, and that lucky duck was ME ME ME!

So I kinda won by default which is great for me, but come on folks, get your little bottoms into some of these sketch challenges and help to make them grow and who knows.... YOU JUST MAY WIN!!!! Like they say, "you gotta be in it to win it"

So here's a couple to get you going.....

ScrapWithV - Sketch Challenge

Discover Scrapbooking - Sketch Challenge

ARTastic - Sketch Challenge

From Screen 2 Scrap

Just to name a couple! There are tonnes of them to be found.

Inspiration.......look at this gorgeous photo of yummalicious (hmm is that even a word?) items I got from ScrapWithV - Thanks Girls :) Much appreciated!

Now get scrapping folks lol

Cheers Kris :)

Another weekend .........gone before you can blink :(

2009-09-06T19:10:00.004+10:00

Well normally I love my weekends, but this one, I could have happily have lived without. Woke up Saturday morning with a run to the loo, hand over mouth, at a frantic pace! (And nooooo for all you smart bottoms thinking pregnant!! Not a chance!!!) Managed to contract some gross lil bug for 24 hours, made for a great day as Marty, myself and the kids were supposed to be attending his Cricket Breakup down in Brissy, I managed to stay for about half an hour, then drove all the way home....slept for a couple of hours then bam! sick again, so set off for a marathon drive to the city to pick him and the kids up, hoping to get home before the sick bug struck again, but fortunately it seemed to have simmered somewhat and I spent the entire evening sound asleep. Woke this morning feeling a whole lot better, excepting a few sore ribs from all the vomiting and a sore back, but thems the breaks and it sure beats spending another day vomiting :(

Fathers' Day today, managed to eventually cook up some Bacon & Eggs for the troops to enjoy out on the back patio in the glorious morning sun. The kids showered Dad with all their sweet lil gifts that they made & bought at school and a couple of exciting things from mum like a new shaver (hmm good for the legs too eh lol) and a Jim Beam Money box stuffed with fudge (revolting stuff) but he loved the JB money box part lol as I knew he would.

Had my Mum & Dad swing by for a visit, they've just gotten home earlier this week from a trip to Melbourne (said it was blardy freeeeeeezing) they took the RV down to attend my younger Brother's wedding, bought me home a CD of piccies (wooohooo gotta be happy with that). My eldest son Josh, was unfortunately involved in a vehicle crash this week, thank God he is okay, and somehow managed to make it out without a single mark/cut/scratch on him! Don't ask me how, the kid's car ended up literally "up a pole" vertical!!! Bloody 4wD cleaned him up from behind...just no excuse for that ... once again a valid reason why 4WD's shouldn't be on our damn roads!!!

Anyhoo, on a happier note, decided to tackle Brigitte's gorgeous Sketch Challenge on ScrapWithV for September, needed something constructive to do and well that was the first thing I saw when I jumped onto my lappy.

This is the sketch....

And this is what I came up with...

What better way to start Spring than another great Sketch Challenge

2009-09-04T22:30:00.003+10:00

This month at Discover Scrapbooking, we have a gorgeous Sketch Challenge by Jolene Pienaar. Jolene is an Aussie Scrap Artist and has been featured in many of our fabulous Aussie Scrap Mags. Her work is truly beautiful and deeply inspiring. Thankyou Jolene for sharing your sketches and your talents with us all.

Sketch by Jolene Pienaar

The rules are very simple.... complete your layout using your own interpretation of the posted Sketch for the month.

Take a pic, resize it to no larger than 300kb, naming it with YOUR NAME, and email it to us @ discover_sketches@y7mail.com with the subject line being "September Sketch Challenge".

The Prize for this Month is a Store Voucher to the value of $15.00 which may be used in our online store or instore.

ENTRIES CLOSE... MIDNIGHT, Wednesday, 30TH SEPTEMBER 2009

Here's my entry for this month ....

What a great day at the beach yesterday.....TIME TO RELAX!!!

2009-08-31T17:01:00.003+10:00

Now back to reality, it's MONDAY arghhhhhhhhhh..... well I have this gorgeous pic of my lovely eldest daughter Rach and I've been trying to find something to work with it all day... have been at the shop and probably driven Robyn quite insane by now (sorry Robyn) lol....

anyhoo, I wombled on home and sat here for a while looking through some photos when I had a brain explosion (aka brainfart lol)hehehe

A little while back, I entered a competition and had to do a layout with a photo that was provided to us all, I ended up doing a gorgeous layout for it.... but at the end of the day I was left with a gorgeous page with a photo that meant diddly squat to me, so I figured it's a shame to use such gorgeous & might I say costly scrappy supplies....sooooo I renovated it :)

Yup that's right..... bring on the removalists and move on in lovely new photo of Miss Rach enjoying a quiet moment of relaxation at the beach yesterday....

So now I have a lovely page, with a gorgeous pic of my big baby girl, and I can sleep well tonight lmao.

Now off to do some proper scrapping me thinks lol....now if I can just find my scrappy friend Tina...

Hope you all had a great day :) Enjoy xo Kris

Just Kickin' About....

2009-08-29T13:17:00.006+10:00

Had a quiet morning yesterday, so had a chance to sit and play with this pic of my son Josh, he never lets me get a pic of him EVER!!! so I snuck this one in while he was having a bit of fun at his Aunty's place the other weekend, not realising Mumma was lurking with the camera mwahahaha :)

Had a fabulous evening last night with the girls at DISCOVER SCRAPBOOKING, but then I suppose we always manage to have a great evening lol Plenty of laughter and oh my goodness....the creating.... oh my goodness, I have to say a huge huge HUGE Thankyou to my dear friend Robyn for helping me to put this gorgeous layout together. I haven't been able to see past the photo...you'll see why lol EYES omg I adore photos of EYES....this is a sneaky one I managed to get while playing with my camera settings, of my gorgeous lil gingy haired girl Amy, she has the most amazingly gorgeous big blue peepers but this photo has just amazed me as to how BLUE they have come out, so yeah.... big fat scrappers block for me with this one, Robyn organised some beautiful flowers and a scraplet and some of the gorgeous Basic Grey Range of Papers to help keep the eyes as the focal point of this layout. All of these gorgeous products can be found in STORE HERE!

I am truly stunned & amazed at the beauty of this one. So once again, THANKYOU ROBYN, you are a legend!!!!

xo Kris

Hope you guys are all having a FABULOUS weekend, I'm off to the beach tomorrow for my son's football breakup sooooooo that means MORE PHOTOS woo woo :) Take care xo

Heads Up for 30 days of FUN FUN FUN with KAISERCRAFT :)

2009-08-24T20:48:00.000+10:00

Oh.... my new addition to my ever growing digistamp collection :)

2009-08-24T17:29:00.004+10:00

Forgot to mention.... did a spot of online shopping last night, bought the new Kiki La Rue gorgeous digi stamps from All That Scraps check em out for very sweet images for your card and scrapping projects :) This lil cutie is going on my very next scrap page lol. She is "Shy Kiki La Rue".
xo Kris

A couple of layouts I did on the weekend....

2009-08-24T17:13:00.003+10:00

Well haven't done much scrapbooking lately at all, so I thought I'd have a quick play over the weekend and do some ordinary non-exciting layouts lol. Been feeling rather flat for the last week or so, so it's a start anyway :)

Family..... my partner Marty, his folks, Val & Hans, and our children.... such a rarity to get them all in a shot together...this was on Han's 79th Birthday recently :) Kids were having a great time as they always do when they go to Nanny's for a bit of extra TLC & spoiling lol

This is of Miss Ellie, this girl just loves to ham it up for the camera I tell ya! Such a little Diva :)

Anyway, that's all for now, will get back shortly with some svg's for you all :)

Cheers Kris xo

Sweet Sweet Saturday :)

2009-08-22T09:42:00.004+10:00

Thank goodness for weekends! What a week, this lil black ducky is just plain & simply exhausted! Had such a huge busy busy w/end last weekend so this weekend I am just staying home and losing myself in my lil ole scrappy room. Haven't had a chance to sort/clean anything out since having all my prized possessions hurled into my new little piece of heaven (gotta love men eh?) grrrr

So have made myself slowly troll through it all in the last couple of days, talk about treasures! Wahooo, it's sooo unbelievable the things we buy because we just "have to have them" and then they disappear into the stash never to be seen until the next time we clean and cull lmao.

So I took a little ole trip over to Bunnings and bought some storage containers & a groovy lil shelf that I've now got all my bling & pearls hanging off OMG I love BLING :) makes me sooooo happy!

My daughter is off to a surprise birthday party for her friend this afternoon, and being the slack mother that I am, haven't managed to get near the shops to organise cards or gifts so have made a quickie birthday card this morning for her....

Did this layout recently for ScrapwithV's Cybercrop Sketch Challenge and I won, wow you could have blown me down lol. Thanks for the votes ladies :) These would have to be some of my favourite photos of Miss Keely, she's one of these kids that always is pulling ridiculous faces when she sees a camera so Mumma snuck in some shots without her noticing hehehe

Bliss ..... is definately enjoying a yummy milkshake at Nanny's house .... for this lil girl anyway lol.

Hope you all have a great weekend....I'm off to finish cleaning up this room so that I can get back to scrapping.

Take care & have fun :) xo Kris

Lazy Sunday afternoon :)

2009-08-09T14:13:00.003+10:00

Well I'm having an incredibly lazzzzzzy day today, enjoying the Sunshine and doing a whole lot of not much else :) Why not eh?

I took these fab photo's of Miss K yesterday, she's been popping on these rotten little rollerblades everyday for about the last 2 months and banging around the back patio.

She got adventurous yesterday and cut loose out on the roadway in front of our house, so just had to scrap them, kept the page incredibly simple lol. Couple of svg's to share also Rule #1 and Play Hard

Enjoy your day, thanks for looking :) Cheers Kris

Just a lazy breezy Saturday afternoon.....

2009-08-08T16:20:00.003+10:00

And I do mean breeeeeeeeeeezy, damn westerly winds have hit (Ekka Time explains that!)

So I've locked myself away in my scraproom today and decided to have a little tinker with these Copic Markers and stamps

Played with this very sweet C.C. Designs Stamp slowly getting the hang of the pens hmm much much more practice needed yet me thinks! lol

Hope you are all having a great weekend, take care

Cheers Kris :)

Look what I finally did this week.....OMG

2009-08-01T12:09:00.003+10:00

Well I finally went and jumped head first into the world of Copic Markers :) OMG Started out by buying 12 & a colourless blender and am already highly addicted (thanks so much to all the card making blogger ladies) I enjoy reading all of your postings and seeing your beautiful creations, and the knowledge you have shared through your tutorials.

I have so far had a quick play with these gorgeous markers, coloured a Sarah Kay Stamped image, played around with colouring ribbons & ribbon rosettes, even played about with making a tye-dyed styled paper flowers (way cool) omg I can't believe how easy this is to do and how gorgeous they come out, amazing fun and I'm so glad I've invested in these beautiful markers, am soooooooooo totally addicted now :)

Well am off to have an online scrapfest with my lovely friend Martina and I hope you all have a gorgeous weekend, stay safe & well, & Happy Crafting

xoxo Kris :)

Lovely & Very Much Appreciated RAK from Shirl :) Thank ya Shirl xo

2009-08-01T11:36:00.004+10:00

Okies, well I have been very slack lately, and haven't done any blogging just lots of blog surfing :) hehehe

Shirl gave me a gorgeous and very appreciated RAK the other week.... omg I just can't get enough of these cute lil stamped images

Thank you soooooo much Shirl xo :)

OMG OMG OMG what a beautiful surprise I got today :)

2009-07-19T20:12:00.003+10:00

Well we had a nice day out today, met up with the lovely Martina & her lil fellow Master Tiger at Donnybrook.

Gorgeous day weather wise, no freezing cold winds, perfect BBQ weather woohoo so we enjoyed some snags & onions on the barbie with some hot chippies and fresh bread and rolls, yummmo. Kids enjoyed themselves, they enjoy checking out the fishing action on the jetty and playing in the playground, just enjoying the fresh air.

Anyhooooo onto the good juicy stuff now, this is what my gorgeous friend surprised me with.....

OMG I'm in paper heaven!!! Tina thankyou ever so much girl, once again, these are just gorgeous and I am totally stoked!

Well that's my day, I hope you all had a lovely weekend as well, smile & enjoy LIFE :)

xo Kris

A great sketch challenge - Win a $15.00 Store Voucher

2009-07-18T13:23:00.002+10:00

Howdy all, welcome to another glorious Saturday, the sun is shining....yet we are still freezing our tooshies off hmmmm.

Anyway, onto the news for the day....

Discover Scrapbooking has just announced it's very first exciting Sketch Challenge Competition, your chance to win a $15 Store Voucher wahooo, what can be better than that hey?

Pop on over to their Blog - 1st Sketch Challenge and check it out, you have until midnight Friday, 14th August to get your entries in.

2nd big exciting news of the day, my good friend Tina (aka Martina) lol has won a gorgeous Blog Candy from Lisa Kamphuis and I am so incredibly excited for her, congratulations Tina and thanks Lisa for offering such a gorgeous RAK on your blog.

Have a great day, Kris :) xo Keep on smiling!

Okay girls....it's BLOG CANDY ALERT

2009-07-15T20:02:00.003+10:00

LISA is offering a very gorgeous blog candy, go and check it out HERE, you know the drill, leave a comment, link to your blog, and make the love go round 'n round lol.

Here's a pic to help make you all drooooool a lil teensy bit lol.

and if you are addicted to playing the "bubbles game" you are soooo never gonna leave her blog lmao.

Good luck to you all, take care & thanks for looking xo Kris :)

This week's scrapping projects....

2009-07-12T11:56:00.005+10:00

Well I managed to finally get 2 layouts done! School holidays is definately not a great time to get any scrapping done!!! Impossible to have time out to think straight :( but alas, back to school on Tuesday wahoooooooooo how happy am I? hehehe

Anyhow, can't share my 1st layout yet as it's for DT work for Discover Scrapbooking, but I can certainly share my 2nd layout of my girls, a rare moment of sweetness between 2 of my "usually sparring" daughters lol. This was my take on a Beggahuna Sketch.

My very first Tilda Creation :)

2009-07-07T23:48:00.007+10:00

Well I finally received my very first gorgeous Magnolia stamps this week, so thought I better have a little play and see what I could manage to construct.

Then my mum reminded me this afternoon that it is my eldest sister's birthday in 2 days (I'm so incredibly bad with remembering dates - large families lol) So I did this little card up for my sis, hahaha she'll be my first handmade card victim hmmm I mean recipient lol.

Anyway, here's a pic of it. Not too shabby a starting point, plenty of room here for improvement that's for sure lol.

I've used Magnolia Tilda Stamp, Watercolour Pencils, Dove Blender Pen, Embossing Powder, Cricut Diecuts, Versa Inks, Kindyglitz, H2O's, Daisy Trim and Kaiser Rhinestones

Thanks for looking, have a great day xo Kris

Been absent for a lil while..... where have I been, what have I been doing?

2009-07-06T15:55:00.003+10:00

Hey there folks :)

Well I have been missing in action from my blog for a little while..... I've been a bit ill lately with a rotten old tooth ache :( oh god I hate toothache.... dragged the 5 monsters out with me on Wednesday to do a bit of grocery shopping cos quite frankly the cupboards were bare folks and that's not a great thing when the monsters are on school holidays cos these guys can eat you out of house and home within hours when they're bored bored bored!

Decided after that debacle that we'd splurge and have Chinese takeaway for dinner that night, yum yum yum, but within minutes of finishing dinner, I came over feeling incredibly ill, and thought oh boy, don't tell me something in there was bad!!! Nope, the nerve in my tooth decided to flare up and just about send me through the roof, so with tears in my eyes, and hot packs and cold packs doing nudda thing, a zillion panadeine, nurofen you name it, I phone my favourite Dentist (favourite=never hurts) lol and he told me to come on in on Thursday morning at 8.30 and he'd fix it up......well here I sit now ... minus 1 dreadful Wisdom Tooth **Who the heck knows why they are called that, nothing Wise has come from it so far**

4 days later, still have a very sore and tender gum BUT nooooooo more pain woohooo!

Friday, Saturday & Sunday bought to town the local show.... yup Carnie Time!

Anyhooo we took the kids up to the show for a couple of hours on Friday night, they had a ride or 2 each and a crappy show bag each (with bribes from M&D that we'd get a better one at the Brissie Ekka next month hehehe) waited around for the fireworks, they were great, a bit windy at the showgrounds so they were kinda flying straight out towards the bay lol. Dropped Daddy and kids off at home and scooted off to the LSS Crop Night yeehaaa, nice n warm there too!

My gorgeous friend Shirl was there and we got to catch up after a couple of weeks, she gave me this fantastic RAK **Thankya Shirl** and a fabulous Tilda Card she has made OMG how much do I love these cards?!!!!

Did a bit of online shopping here on Thursday after my evil tooth experience of the morning, figured a bit of retail therapy might just be in order to ease my pain LMAO

Couldn't control myself *again* and did a spot of investigating into Digital Stamping, must say it's very hard to find them but I did manage to find some, and stumbled across these and bought a set, had a play with this evil monkey character lol he cracks me up, and made a card up with him for my lovely friend (shhhh secret).

Monday today and guess what arrived!!!!!!!!!!!!!

OMG yes a bag full of heaven sent goodies woohooooooooooooooo

2 Tilda's, a Tilda Background and some gorgeous Twinkling H2O's omg gonna be a fun fun fun nite tonight :)

So in keeping with my *retail therapy* kinda theme lol I trotted off to the local shops and bought some gorgeous new Watercolour Pencils and Pad mmmmm heaven and have started playing with my new toys :) Ahhhhh BLISS!

Catch you all again soon xo Kris

Happy 8th Birthday to my gorgeous Girl..... Keely Allyson :)

2009-06-24T13:49:00.005+10:00

Well today is the 8th Birthday of one of my sweet little girls.... Miss Keely Allyson! We've had a great day so far, Keely has enjoyed opening up her pressies, we bought her a new Playstation Game, Tamagotchi (yet another) & a new pair of spunky black long pants omg she loves them! Oh and how could I possibly forget??? I made her a gorgeous card for the occasion, yes folks, that's right, I actually finally made a card that was able to be given lmao, now that's a first eh!

Her Nan & Grandpa are away exploring this beautiful Country of ours again, currently in Northern Territory having a ball, but they snuck a little surprise into the house for Keely before they left a few weeks ago. Can't believe the lil toffee nose didn't spot it hiding away in my closet lol (this kid is a great snoop...usually) So what's in the enormous box? A lovely new pair of trackie pants and matching hoody top Oh Gosh, this girl is over the moon with excitement today lol.

So....I let her stay home today and enjoy her goodies cos quite frankly, who wants to go to school and leave all their new treasures behind? We had some pizza, then Mummy had to get the dreaded Mixmaster out of hiding and whip up a quick treat for tonight with the family. We had a little bit of help from Betty Crocker again lol lol lol. So we are having a delightful Chocolate Swirl cake covered in a whole lotta heavenly chocolate frosting with oodles of smarties on top and some gorgeous little candy fairies that I managed to find recently on one of my shopping trips.

So here is a little collage of Keely's day so far.....

I had a lesson on making one of these cards yesterday out at Discover Scrapbooking, thoroughly loved this one, so came home and whipped up a pink one with cupcakes for Miss Keely's birthday last night, I used Pink CS, DCWV Sweets Paper Range, Ribbon, various stamps, Versa Inks. She loved it!!! yay

Dreams come true.....I'm a Big Sister :)

2009-06-21T10:43:00.003+10:00

I printed this photo out with the intention of using it in the LOS #4 Challenge recently, but changed my mind. I just adore this photo of Miss Ellen, it was taken on the day she became a "Big Sister" and had her very first cuddle of her baby sister Amy. I just love how her whole face lit up in this photo.

Thanks for looking, hope you all have a great day and enjoy the rest of your weekend :) xo Kris

Your Blog Makes Us Smile - Award

2009-06-19T18:08:00.003+10:00

I received this gorgeous Award from my dear friend Shirl today. Thankyou so much Shirl xo

I have already tagged you girls, see the other posting for that one lol, so I am also passing this award along to Vicki, Martina, Renee, Stacy, Tamara and Samantha. Check out their blogs, they have some great projects to see.

:) xo Kris

LOS Challenge #4 Entry for Scraps of Us

2009-06-19T08:40:00.004+10:00

This Round we had to complete a layout with a Fairytale theme. This is my entry.

Thanks for looking. Hope you all have a fantastic and safe weekend xo Kris

Oh heck, I've been tagged :)

2009-06-18T07:00:00.005+10:00

I've been tagged by Samantha and Shirl, who has also awarded me my first ever blog award woohooo Thanks Miss Shirl :) Now, need to answer these questions and then tag 8 others! Here goes...

Q1. What are 8 things you look forward to:

1. Friday night crop night every fortnight :)

2. Escaping 5 very noisy children on said crop nights :)

3. Sleeping in!!!! Every mother's dream isn't it???

4. My first cup of coffee for the day.

5. Winter School Holidays, so I can stay in my nice warm bed til a decent time of the day lol

6. Pay Day.... I mean who doesn't look forward to that?

7. Oh definately Thursdays, my one and only child free day each week, I can scrap wahoooo!

8. Spring ---- I hate this cold weather.....give me Spring every day of the year I'd be stoked!

Q2. What were 8 things you did yesterday:

1. Chatted with Tina all night and scrapped for the LOS Comp.

2. Packed up lunches for kiddies to go to school and an extra for Jared's excursion

3. Paid the bills.

4. Did the washing.

5. Did the grocery shopping.

7. Helped my girlfriend out for a few hours.

8. Went to bed early, was sooooooo cold lol

Q3. What are the 8 things you wish you could do:

1. Stay up late (I miss my night owl days)

2. Have more hours in a day!!!

3. Have more patience.

4. Add a 2nd level to the house, I miss having my craftroom :(

5. Get my kids to respect their belongings would be way up there on this list!!!

6. Catch up with Mum & Dad more often.

7. Get more scrapbooking done.

8. Go back to Decaf(cos it's so much better for me) but hey there is no way on this planet that I'm gonna go thru those awful withdrawal headaches again.

Q4. Name 8 things or shows you've watched lately:

1. My Best Friends Girl ..... OMG Laughed my bum off :)

2. ABC Kids

3. Bride Wars

4. CSI Miami

5. Grey's Anatomy

6. Twilight for the zillionth time.... actually is that even a word? lol

7. Snow Puppies

8. Ellen DeGeneres show lol such a funny chick.

Okay, well I've managed to find a couple of gals to tag for this one, they are, Vicki, Martina, Renee, Stacy, Tamara and I'm also sending these lovely ladies the Blog Award, enjoy girls, you have great blogs :)

Cheers Kris :)

What's been happening here......

2009-06-14T15:34:00.003+10:00

Well not a whole heck of a lot this weekend, kids have totally driven me to the brink of insanity this weekend, my delightful Master 11 has almost made me want to have myself committed to a nice safe softly padded cell somewhere :(

Thank goodness for friends is all I can say. My dearest friend Martina (Tina) always seems to manage to lift me out of those dark places, for that I thank her immensely xo

So I decided to have a bit of a play with one of her gorgeous little girl's piccies yesterday and made this for her.

Thanks Tina for being a fabulous friend girl xo

A Magical Challenge on Scraps Of Us site PRIZE AVAILABLE!!!!!

2009-06-09T21:24:00.003+10:00

Hey there all my lovely visitors, those who have been following, will have noticed my layouts for the LOS Comp with Scraps Of Us Group.

The 4th challenge has been announced and seeing as it is such a fun one, Vicki has opened it up to the rest of the forum members also, so jump in and check it out, join up, doesn't cost you a thing, come and have some fun and chat with the girls.

SCRAPS OF US FORUM

You could win this cute Imaginisce Stamp :)

So the challenge is this..........

Create a Fairytale....

For this challenge, we want you to tell us a fairie tale .... choose your own photo and create a MAGICAL LO... you can use all the products you want....

When you are finished your layout post it up in the gallery on the forum for all to see, you have until the end of June to get your layouts in ladies.....HAVE FUN!!

A sweet card for a very Sweet Friend :) You know who you are lol

2009-06-08T20:15:00.002+10:00

I found this amazingly gorgeous file recently on Nancy's Blog and decided to have a crack at it today to make a very sweet card for my very sweet friend. I think it turned out really nice and am busting at the seams to have a go at some more cardmaking. So off I go to create lol. Hope you all had a great long weekend xo Kris

Croc's Rule at Australia Zoo .......

2009-06-06T14:06:00.005+10:00

I thought I'd share this delightful double layout that I did for my most fave scrappy friend last weekend. Martina & I decided to swap photos and try scrapping for each other, well I must say my first attempt was very sad :( I had to admit defeat lol and ask for some different piccies, I knew she'd have some of her little fellow with animals.... was plotting and planning on making use of some of my fabulous Myscrapchick files, so these are the pics I was sent and this is the resulting layout. I'm so stoked that she loves it and can't wait to catch up with her this weekend while she's in town to give them to her :) The Palmtrees are actually my own files but I haven't had a chance to clean up the files to share yet, will try to get around to doing that soon. Until then, CHEERS Kris :)

Summer Savings at Myscrapchick....

2009-06-06T11:54:00.003+10:00

Pop on in to Myscrapchick for great savings on their fantastic collections of paper piecings.

Even if you don't have SCAL or a Cricut, the PDF's are included in their collections, and you can manually cut them out (OMG I remember those days lol)

Anyhooo their sale is on until the end of June, pop in and grab a BARGAIN!!! I know I will be :)

A fantastic blog for you SVG loving guys 'n gals

2009-05-28T12:18:00.004+10:00

Just thought I'd share this one with you all, in case you haven't come across it as yet, this is a very cool blog that is an svg search engine, check it out if you get a chance.

Creative Busy Hands Cricut Freebies Search List

Enjoy, Cheers Kris xo