Randomness

No pics tonight!!!

I was lucky enough to have a weekend away srcappin' with some friends and must say that even though I didn't produce a lot (I NEVER do!!!) what I did get done I was very happy with. Quality not quantity right?!.

The plan this morning BEFORE I left for work was to come home from work, take pics of said LO's and post them for all to see. Alas, at some stage in my busy day I came up with the brainwave (yeah right!!! more like a moment of insanity) that I would finish 'renovating' the dining room wall that I had begun about 3 yrs ago. At the time, once I had stripped about half the wallpaper from the wall, I realised that the 100+yr old plaster beneath was in extremely bad condition and wasn't fit for painting. As a temporary fix I attached some fabric to the wall until Boyd the Builder (aka hubby) got around to re-plastering for me. I should have realised my delusional state at the time of thinking such a crazy thing would happen as Boyd the Builder has had a very serious case of White Line Fever (driving a B-double) and is rarely home long enough to do anything.

So...after a longer than usual day at work I came home and got the ladder out and got stuck into the wall. The result...a totally wallpaper stripped wall, a large portion of paint stripped wall and a HUGE mess. Tomorrow will be doing the final paint stripping and then the plaster top coat to fill the 'wrinkles' in preparation for the paint. Once it is all done it will look 1000% compared to when we moved in 8yrs ago and will be the perfect backdrop for the large collage frame I am in the process of putting together in memory of our 6 week road trip in the USA last May-June. But for now I have aching shoulders from all the paint and wallpaper scraping and am in need of a nice warm shower.

Check in tomorrow for the update and hopefully I will have had a chance to take some pics of both the progress on the wall and some LO's to show you.

Cheers,

Sal xox

Flowers galore!

I thought I would show you the other 2 cards I made from the bits and pieces left over from the March Monthly Pack from Scrapville. I created my LO's first and still had heaps of stuff left over so played around with it and was able to make 3 cards from 1 piece of 12x12 cardstock.

In my a post I showed you card 1 and now here is card 2:

A close up of the dictionary paper flower

I made the flower by tearing 7 circles from the paper in different sizes. I roughed up the edges of each circle, gave them a little bit of Glimmer Mist and layered them from largest to smallest. Finally I tied them all together with some of the bakers twine in the pack. I was pretty pleased with myself and will definitely be doing a few more of these beauties.

Card 3...Creating more flowers!!!

I used the bakers twine to create a leaf and stem. I stamped a sentiment and cut it into separate pieces before inking the edges and mounting it up for a bit of depth.
The card...
A close up of the mulberry paper flower.

Mulberry paper is such a soft and whispy paper that looks great distressed and crumpled! I really should use it a whole lot more than I do!

Hope you liked my little creations,

Sal xox

Butterfly kisses...

I have had so much fun playing with the March Monthly Pack from Scrapville!!! There are so many bits and pieces in this month's pack and I managed to get a few LO's, 3 cards and a little OTP as well. This is my favourite card out of all of them. I love the 'hat pin' but really wasn't too sure what to do with it and after sitting and fiddling with it for a bit I decided to turn it into the body of a butterfly by stamping a butterfly image and cutting out the wings which I mounted beside the 'body' and twisted a piece of craft wire for the antennae. I was very happy with how it turned out. The papers are gorgeous too and worked well together.

I will be back with more projects to show you later...

Happy Scrappin',

Sal xox

The LOVE month!!!

February is the LOVE month and what better way to celebrate what and who you love by completing a LO featuring...LOVE!!! Scrapville's monthly sketch has been posted on the blog and has a decidedly LOVELY theme. This is my take on the sketch.

There is so much that I LOVE about the photo I used for my LO. Of course it is of my husband, the LOVE of my life, and it was taken while we were in Mexico, and I fell in LOVE with Mexico and it has hearts, lots of hearts, and I LOVE hearts!!!

I used Cosmo Cricket papers, a Stampin'Up stamp (a heart of course), and played around a little with some paint, a bit of mounting, added a bunting-type string of hearts and I wrote a short poem to 'hide' beneath the photo as my journalling. Yet again, I couldn't find any alphas in the right colour so out came the paints and the dimensional magic and...voila...alphas that match!!! These alphas used to be green felt. It is great to be able to make things match by using paints, inks etc. and it also make you feel a bit creative by changing things around a little.

For your chance to win a prize every month go check out the Scrapville blog for details on the LO and card sketch challenges and remember...you gotta be in it for a chance to win it!

Happy Scrappin',

Sal xox

January Blind Crop

Every month Janet holds a Blind Cropville at the Scrapville store in Wodonga. No, you do not have to scrap blind-folded BUT you do have to complete a LO without having seen the original LO the class is based on. Participants are given 1 instruction at a time and then follow the instructions to complete a LO of their own. At the end of the class Janet then 'reveals' the Master LO...it is amazing how everybody has there own individual understanding of the step-by-step instructions and it is wonderful to see all the variations and how different they look even when everyone has used the same materials to begin with.

I was asked to do my very first Blind Cropville LO for the ladies last month and this is what I came up with. There are lots of little bits and pieces to this LO with paint, ribbon, candles, glimmer mist and heaps more fun stuff that they all got to play with. Go have a look at the Scrapville blog and see what the ladies came up with. If you live in the Albury/Wodonga area pop into the shop and have a look at the real thing. Even better, book into a Blind Cropville class and experience all the fun for yourself!

This was the LO for the January Blind Crop. Featured in this LO is my niece, Lara, showing off some of her funny faces over the Christmas weekend celebrations in Melbourne at the family get-together.

Hope you like it,

Happy Scrappin'

Sally xox

A good idea at the time!

You know when you come up with a really good idea that you like, and then half way through the execution, you decide it wasn't such a good idea after all? That is how it was with this LO.

I thought the hand-stitched hearts across the bottom would be good, then the hand stitching on the 'quilt' background seemed like a good ides and then, to tie it all together, I decided to hand stitch the title as well. It was very time consuming work but I think it was well worth it. Add a subtle stamped border around the page and a bit of faux stitching with a white gel pen and...voila...finished!!!

This was another LO created using the February monthly pack from Scrapville. Check out the blog for more inspiring ideas and the next monthly sketch has just been released. Have a go at the sketch and you could be the winner of the monthly prize. .. a voucher from Scrapville to help feed your addiction!

Happy scrapping,

Sal xox

What happened to January???

What a hectic couple of weeks!

Hubby finally finished on the harvest and after 3 months of barely being home he had a much needed 3 days off to sit, sleep and seriously chill out (I would have needed 3 weeks to chill out!!!) before climbing back into 'The Highway Mistress'.

The boys are both back at school and we are all trying to get back into the routine of normality...whatever that is?!.

I have been slack on the posts BUT have been doing some scrapping.

This 'frame' is actually an 8"x8" canvas turned back-to-front to create a sort of shadow box. I couldn't find a heart shape to match the Thickers alphabet so I just cut a 'J' and a 'U' and joined them together to create the heart and I tied it all together with a black tulle bow with some Kindy Glitz dobs to add a bit of bling.

This little beauty was put together using the Scrapville monthly pack...GORGEOUS pack this month...and these pics don't do them justice.

Hope you like it,

Sal xox