Card and a Half - Sketch Challenge #1

My card!

The sketch!

One of my lovely scrapbooking friends has started her own cardmaking challenge blog called "Card and a Half" and here is my entry for her Sketch Challenge #1. Good one Helen!! I glimmermisted a Twiddleybitz butterfly with the most gorgeous aqua shimmer but it hasn't quite shown up in the photo and the background PP is flocked - very nice!!!
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Using a Zipper on a LO



I went into my local OP shop last week looking for zippers and buttons and came home with a bag full of various zippers, bits and pieces for $3, so I decided to use one on a LO! I'm also going to create flowers with the others as they are a bit longer. Stay tuned for these LOs to come!

Thanks for stopping by. This LO was created for the ScrapBoutique monthly Stylist challenge for May where you had to scrap a LO using the colour scheme of brown, orange, cream and green, featuring my gorgeous nephew Hayden.

It's BIRTHDAY MONTH at ARTastic!! Blog Candy Giveaway!!

Come and join us for some fun competitions and tremendous prizes over at ARTastic this month as we celebrate "MOTHER'S DAY".

If you enter the monthly challenge and leave a link to your entry here I will pick a name out of a random draw to win my blog candy. If you also advertise this on your blog and let me know in your comment, you will receive an extra entry into the draw!  Plus .... if you become a new Follower on the ARTastic site and mention my name in your email to Shazza, you will receive another chance to win! 

Here is my monthly Design Team entry.

Here is the inspiration. 

Mother and Sarah Admiring the Baby - Mary Cassatt

Here's the challenge:

Diva Demand for an extra 6 bonus points, try and work the following into your layout.

1. Single Photo of a mother, grandma, child etc....holding a baby = 1pt
2. Lace somewhere on the page = 2pts
3. Something orange = 3pts

Please email your layouts compressed/resized for web viewing to shazzaalleyes@hotmail.com

The prize!!

So what are  you waiting for?

NEW! 'Birdsong' Kit from Tattered Inspirations



This month I was inspired to do something different with the monthly kit from Tattered Inspirations and decided to alter a clipboard as I was in need of one. This 'Birdsong kit' is so elegant and I just loved the colour combination and at AU$8 - very affordable!

I glued some vintage seam binding to the back of the cameo and tied it to the spring to act as a holder for the pen. It works really well. I hope you like it!

Cheers!

Scrapboutique Monday Roast!

Part of the ScrapBoutique Cybercrop is participating in the 'Sunday Roast' (on Monday!!) which is a blind scrap. I've never done one before and I absolutely loved it! Here is the end result.

Easter Weekend Scrapping

There was a black and white theme to this challenge plus the addition of flowers.

This LO worked perfectly for the LSBS Easter Challenge and a ScrapBoutique CC challenge this weekend!

This challenge was all about only using primary colours. The photo was just perfect!

For this challenge, you had to make reference to princess/birds and include some

journalling or a quote about something that is as precious as diamonds to you. 

We were given a visual inspiration for this one - a red/yellow butterfly in a heart shape and 'eyes'.

This challenge involved making a card with the quote, "You have joined the club!"



These are the 5 fantastic challenges this Easter weekend at Little Scrapbook Shop and also one of the challenges from the ScrapBoutique CC.

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Happy Birthday HOLLY!

It will be three years since I bought my beautiful Holly girl home from the pet shop and I just wanted to say Happy Birthday. Here she is with her birthday presents (blankie & penguin) from Aunty Lisa and family. She just loves them! The perfect squeaky toy and the blankie, which is on the bed and right now she is fast asleep on it!!

For those of you who know me well, you know how much my Holly means to me and we have so much fun every year opening presents (yes she opens presents - well trained) and we will have a special little doggie cupcake too! She is the most beautiful pet ever!!