Design Team 2016

It is with great excitement that I can now officially share my wonderful news! I have been chosen to be part of the Design Team for Artfull Crafts for 2016. What an honour! I am very excited to be part of the team this year - and cannot wait to get stuck into creating projects to share. I will be updating my blog, as well as the blog over at Artfull Crafts, plus there is a pin board for each of the Designer's over on Pinterest with all the projects - there is some awesome talent on this 2016 team, and you can read all about the other members here.

Looking forward to an exciting and fun-filled year!

Connoisseur of Cars!

We went up to Nelson as part of our family holiday in 2011 - and this a photo of my son (18 at the time) at the car museum. He loves classic cars - and I am astounded at the amount of knowledge that has on these - especially the cars from the 70's! And hence the title.......

I used a Prima range of papers which I have distressed and layered. The clocks are from Kaisercraft and the chippie is a Dusty Attic - which I inked in black and adhered metal cogs. I dabbed a bit of watered down black gesso around the layered papers and embellies to make it "pop" out. The ink splats are with a gold Bo Bunny ink. The buttons are also Prima, as well as the spark plug.

Silly Selfies

More Than Words is a new challenge blog - And here is their challenge for January - what a lovely theme to introduce themselves and their DT:

I have tried to take selfies - but I just don't seem to get it right. Ask my daughter and she has a whole rule of how this is done - put your head this way, and your eyes like this, and your chin like this ... no matter what I do, I just don't seem to get it right. My daughter takes beautiful selfies. I asked her one night to show me again how it's done and she gets hold of my phone and says "like this Mum" - and the result this silly selfie ..... I just love this photo of her. Here is a layout I did towards the end of last year with the Cocoa Vanilla range of my daughter and her silly selfie - quite appropriate for this months challenge at More Than Words; 

This layout was an inspiration set from an idea that I saw of a colleague who used the circles and stitching, and I added in flowers and some inking. Just love these colours from this range.

hey GOOD looking

It's been a while since I was last on my blog, as not much happened in my scrappy world over Christmas - I guess they don't call it the silly season for nothing. Then I lost my mojo for a while too. But I think I am back and nothing like taking part in monthly challenges to get that creativity going again. So up first the challenge over at  D-LISH Scraps this very inspiring mood board:

These awesome colours inspired my take on the challenge. This is my lovely nephew - when he was much younger. Such a lovely boy and I so love this photo of him. I distressed white card stock and place this on red cardstock. Then with blue gelato and some texture paste stenciled in the clocks. Inked over these and dripped on some Lindy's stamp gang red ink. The chipboard has been painted in white and then dabbed on some blue ink.

Thanks for popping over!!

Bo Bunny "You're Invited" range

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This month I was given the lovely Bo Bunny range "you're invited" to play with as part of my role on the design team for The Paper Teapot.

Here are the two layouts I created with the range:

Pop on over to the Paper Teapot blog, by clicking here to see which papers I used to make up these two layouts. 

Thanks for popping over :)

White with 1 - November challenge

Hello again

White with one Challenge - the month of November is grape month:

I have a few embellishments in the likes of flowers, card stock with this colour - but have just never gone as far as using these, so thank you White with 1 for making me use a colour in my stash I don't get to use often ... so here is my take on the November challenge:

My lovely husband of 25 years, son (22) and daughter (19) - they are my life ....

Thanks for popping over to look :)

D-Lish Scraps November Challenge

Hello all

I have had such fun with the mood board over at D-Lish Scraps this month:
Check it out here

How lovely the black and white - so here is my take on the challenge:

These colours are just so "classy" and chic. Here is a photo of my daughter at 14 (taken about 5 years ago) it is one of my favourite photos of her .... 

Thanks for popping over 

Michelle