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

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....

Merry Christmas....

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....

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

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.....

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.

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....

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...

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....

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