November D2U Scrapbooking DT Work

So here's what I have to share this month using the amazing stuff sent in my DT kit from Direct 2 U scrapbooking.

Layout 1 - Blanket = layout made using the DT kit for this month and my own stash. Had fun cutting the flowers out of this patterned paper for this one.

Products used: DT kit - PP - K&Co = Wild Saffron - Wildflowers
From my stash: Versamark Ink, Chipboard Scrap, Clear Scroll Stamp, Stazon Ink - Metallic Blue , Bazzill Cardstock, Cardstock Scrap, Dimensional Magic, Cloud 9 Rain dots Journalling Pen.

Layout 2 - Little Engines = layout made using the DT kit for this month and my own stash. The pizza box worked really well for the tyre prints and even played with some tiny glass beads too.. very messy to work with but fun.

Products used: DT kit - PP - Basic Grey = Lollipop shoppe Key Lime Pie, Pizza Box, HS Rub On Alphas.
From my stash: PP - Basic Grey - Oh Baby! Boy, Versamark Ink, MM Alpha Stickers, Kaiser Clear Journal Stamp, Stazon Ink - Black , Cardstock, Permanent Marker, Clear and Silver Glass Beads, Acetate,Journalling Pen.

Layout 3 - All Aboard = layout made using the DT kit for this month and my own stash. Finally used up some of the ticket stubs that have been crying ou to be used. The colours in the photo were perfect for the paper too.

Products used: DT kit - HS rubon alphas, PP - Basic Grey = Recess, Wooly Cat Swing Tag.
From my stash: PP - Basic Grey - Colour Me Silly - Learn, Versamark Ink, HS Chipboard Alphas, Rubber Train Stamps, Stazon Ink - Timber , Bazzill Cardstock ,Permanent Marker, Ticket Stubs, Journalling Pen.

Layout 4 - Daddy's Girl = layout made using the DT kit for this month and my own stash. Had fun doing this one. Love the photo of my two sweeties.

Products used: DT kit - Core'dinations cardstock - Forest, Striped Organza Ribbon, Lemon Organza Ribbon, Wooly Cat Swing Tag, Heidi Grace Heart Fastner, Orange/Red Flower Petals, Green Button, Floss.
From my stash: PP - Basic Grey - Aged and Confused - Pistachio, Versamark Ink, Book Page, MM Noteworthy Note Page, Thickers Chipboard Alphas, Kaiser Clear Seal Stamp, Stazon Ink - Black , Journalling Pen.

Layout 5 - Budding Beauty = layout made using the DT kit for this month and my own stash. Felt..MMMM Loved playing with this layout. So loved doing it with minimal PP.

Products used: DT kit - Cardstock - Kraft, Felt, Heidi Grace Pre bradded Flowers, Orange Flower Organza Ribbon, Floss.
From my stash: PP - Kaleidoscope - Dots/Orange, Ric Rac, Heidi Swapp Chipboard Alpha, Stazon Ink - White , AC Rubon Alphas, Permanent Paint Marker, Kindy Glitz, Felt, Journalling Pen.

Layout 6 - Fun Is = layout made using the DT kit for this month and my own stash. Gotta love the Core'dinations CS. Played around with some circle punches and ripped paper for the embellishments to keep it minimal for this one.

Products used: DT kit - Core'dinations cardstock - French Roast, Lace, PP - K&Co = Wild Saffron - Petite Strip
From my stash: PP - Basic Grey - Oh Baby! Buttercup, Versamark Ink, Tsukineko Walnut and Terracotta Ink, Heidi Grace Alpha Stickers, Heidi Grace Clear Stamp, Stazon Ink - White, Permanent Marker, Kindy Glitz, Journalling Pen, MM Noteworthy Journal Page, Cloud 9 Raindots.

TFL... Till later... M x

Projects Share from me from Fiskars ANZ "Girls Nite In"

Thought I would share with you some projects that I did for the Fiskars ANZ Girls Nite In.

Thank You Card



Tools:
· Fiskars® Rotary Trimmer
· Fiskars® Craft Mat
· Fiskars® Tool Taxi
- Tweezers
- Paper piercer

Materials:
· Cloud 9 Design Rain dots
· Heidi Grace “Cherrywood Lane”
- Décor Stripe
- Flocked Flowers and Brads
· Pre-scored C6 White Card Base
· Heidi Grace Clear Stamps
-Tags and Words
· Ink
· Adhesive of your choice

Instructions:
1. Fold pre-scored card base and ink around all edges.
2. Cut out the following from the patterned paper
- 1 @ 5 ½” x 3 ¾” (using patterned décor stripe side)
- 1 @ 5 ½” x 1 ¼” (using plain side)
3. Ink edges of pieces you have just cut.
4. Adhere the smaller piece to the top of the larger piece of décor stripe as shown in photo.
5. Attach flocked flower to the join lines of the two patterned papers with brad on the left hand side.
6. Using your Heidi Grace stamp, stamp a greeting to the top right hand side of the card as shown.
7. Adhere to the front of the card base.
8. Finish off with adding Rain dots to the strip at the bottom of the card with the circles

Flower Card



Tools:
· Fiskars® Rotary Trimmer
· Fiskars® Craft Mat
· Fiskars® Round and Round Squeeze Punch XL
· Fiskars® Round and Round Squeeze Punch L
· Fiskars® Micro tip Scissors

Materials:
· Heidi Grace “Cherrywood Lane”
- Embossed Words
- Décor Stripe
- Embossed Floral
· Pre-scored C6 White Card Base
· Fiskars® Clear Stamps
-Baby (Cute as button)
· Ink
· Adhesive of your choice

Instructions:
1. Fold pre-scored card base and ink around all edges.
2. Cut out the following from the patterned paper:
- 1 @ 5 ½” x 3 ¾” Embossed Words
- 1 @ ¼” x 12” Embossed Floral
3. Using your Round and Round Punches, Punch out the following:
- 1 @ 2” Circle Décor Stripe
- 1 @ 1 ½” Circle Décor Stripe (using plain side)
4. Ink edges of the embossed papers. Adhere Words Embossed Paper to front of card base.
5. Cut small triangular wedges from the larger 2” Circle as shown in photo to create “petals”. Ink edges.
6. Ink edges of the small 1 ½” Circle and adhere on top of larger circle as shown.
7. Using your clear stamp, add the button part to the top left hand of circles as shown.
8. Ink the edges of the long strip of embossed paper. Tie a loose knot down one end leaving a small 1” tail to create a “leaf”. Trim other end to create a “leaf” on the other side.
9. Cut remaining piece of paper strip to create the “stem” of the flower off at 4” and adhere to left hand side of card.
10. Assemble “flower” as shown in photo and your all finished.

Pink "Wish" Layout



Tools:
· Fiskars® Rotary Trimmer
· Fiskars® Craft Mat
· Fiskars® Threading Water Border Punch
· Fiskars® Tool Taxi
- Paper Piercer
· Fiskars® Micro tip Scissors
· Fiskars® Stamp Press
· Fiskars® Shape Template – Circles
· Fine Paint Brush
· Flower Template to trace

Materials:
· 1 4”x6” landscape photo
· Cloud 9 – Wild Honey
-Pink Sky at Night Paper
· White cardstock
· Clear Stamps
- Stitching and Journal Spot
· Ink
· Water Colour Pencils
· Ric Rac Grosgrain Ribbon
· Embroidery Floss
· Gemstones
· Small Flowers and Brads
· Raw Chipboard Alphas
· Adhesive of your choice

Instructions:
1. Ink edges of cardstock.
2. Cut out the following from the patterned paper:
- 1 @ 5” x 2”
- 1 @ 7” x 2”
3. Using your Threading Water Punch cut one side of the two pieces of patterned paper that you have just cut.
4. Using your pink watercolour pencil, blend colour from the scalloped edge to the centre. Repeat on the straight side. With your paintbrush and water, blend so it ends up lighter in the centre. Leave to dry completely.
5. With your pink watercolour pencil and flower template, trace 3 flowers in the positions as shown in photo. Colour the flower in using watercolour pencil. Blend using paintbrush and water as you had with the paper strips. Allow to dry completely.
6. Using your paper piecer make evenly spaced holes for stitching to outline the flowers. Using your floss and embroidery thread, stitch to the outline of the flower to highlight. (I have used iridescent floss).
7. Adhere your photo to the cardstock base 3” down from the top and 2 ¾” in from the right hand side of the layout.
8. Layer the two scalloped paper strips onto the layout as shown on the photo.
9. Add ribbon and ric rac to the layout as shown. Adhere chipboard title to layout as shown. Colour chipboard with watercolour pencils. Blend to highlight.
10. Using your stamp press and clear stamps, add in the journaling and stitching stamp as shown.
11. Finally, use your Circle template to set gemstones and flowers in a 4” circle around the chipboard title.

Birthdays Overload !

Hard to believe that it is October already and that it is almost over too. This month has been such a busy month for us. Full of birthday planning and finally the big days arrived for two of our kids. After all the reminders about how many sleeps it was till their birthdays, shopping for party food and invitations being sent, I think that we were over it all...lol... But not the kids.

So we started the birthday fun here on the 24th of October with our little boy, Nate.. who is now not so little and growing up before our eyes so quickly it is depressing. After counting down the sleeps he finally woke extra early to remind us all to say "Happy Birthday" to him..After a quickly eaten breakfast parcels were opened. Followed by Troy having to assemble some of the Lego he got for his birthday (his current addiction..lol. Then I dragged him to the specialist with me with the promise of having a special lunch after for his birthday. So for fun he chose Subway and I tell you I was glad to finally get there after a week of talking about the meatball, cheese and salad 6" sub he wanted. The rest of the day he spent playing Lego at home.
Friday night we had Jhane's friend sleep over for her party. A BBQ tea was on the menu as both the kids had chosen the same for their special birthday meal...a tradition in our house is that you get to chose what you want to have for tea.. mind you we had to convince Nate to make a different choice at first as his first choice for his birthday dinner was toast... gotta love the simple things..lol.
So... we finally bundled all the kids off to bed about 8.30pm.. though the girls finally went to sleep about 11pm after we nagged them to be quiet. We were less than impressed with the girls when we were awoken by them chatting and whatnot at 4.30am.. lets just say we had a few words to say to them about it... GIRLS !!!! so after finally dragging them out of bed the morning was busy spent at the specialist and blood collection place for me, while Troy dropped Jhane and Rachel off to the movie's for her birthday. Lunch was the order of the day next and then the girls did some shopping together while we wandered around. The girls were well and truly stuffed so we dropped Rachel home in the early afternoon. The rest of the day was spent buying fruit trees, a chocolate factory surprise visit (Troy surprise to the kids for their birthday), and baking cupcakes for Nate's party the next day.
Sunday started off busy with MORE Lego building, cupcake icing, making fairy bread and getting ready for the party. Must say that it was nice to be able to have a party a home knowing that the kids could play in a yard now that it is finished. So.. Nate had his first party at home with his friends. What a fun day we had.. Apple bobbing, pin the tail, pass the parcel, cricket and heaps of fun in the cubby house. The bad part of the day was poor Nate ended up getting a fat lip and two nice cuts from a fall just 5 minutes before we did his cake. All the photos show his lovely fat lip. Poor Mite! We ere all stuffed after this and spent the rest of the day once everyone had gone resting.
Monday started with our eldest Jhane turning 11. Still hard to believe that she is 11. She has grown up so fast too. Soon we will have to think about high school, boys and what not. She has started recently with the whole make up and change your clothes 6 times a day thing. We gave her a camera for her birthday. She was so excited as she was not expecting it at all. Troy had charged to battery up for her till 1am the night before so she was able to play before she ran out the door. Once she came home from school she opened the rest of her parcels and we prepared everything for the BBQ for tea. We did some yummy chocolate mud muffins with chocolate sauce and ice cream for her dessert. She had a good chuckle at me when I put a candle into hers so we could sing. Just one of the silly things Mum does.. she was probably thinking..lol..She then spent the rest of the night reading her camera manual, eager to learn how to play with her new toy.
So as you can see it has been a mad birthday season here in our household. Nice that it is all over.. not too sure if it is nice that my kids are growing up so quick. All we hope for our children is that they are happy and know they are loved dearly by us. So once again Jhane and Nate.. Happy Birthday to you both from Dad and I, We love you.

Cheers M x

Spicy Challenges Galore at D2U Scrapbooking !

Marisa the owner and operator of D2U Scrapbooking is off on a fabulous holiday to India. So while the boss is away, Kerryn has cooked up a fun 4 week challenge for us all.
Here's what she has cooked up for us all....

When I think of India, I think of curries. Korma, Vindaloo, Chicken Tikka & Rogan Josh are a few that come to mind.

Your challenges are going to be inspired by some of these curries.

Each Monday, a challenge will be set and you will have until the following Sunday at midnight to upload it to the gallery.

Each week, all entrants who complete the challenge will go into a random draw to receive a RAK.
At the end of the 4 weeks, if you have completed all 4 challenges you will go into a draw to receive one of two store vouchers to the value of $15 & $10 that Marisa has kindly donated.

These challenges are sure to be spicy and lots of fun, I look forward to seeing your creations. Kerryn

The First Challenge we have been set this week is:

Challenge 1 - Korma
Korma is a mild, pale, creamy curry dish.
In honour of the Korma curry, I want you to create a layout using pastel colours. There are no other limitations. Upload you layout to the folder “A Taste of India” in the gallery by midnight Sunday 2/11/08 to go in the draw to receive a random RAK.

Check out the D2U Forum for further details. Looking forward to seeing these tasty morsels!Why not head on over and give them a go!

Cheers M x

Photo Swap

At D2U Scrapbooking we did a photo swap this month. Kerryn created a layout for me, Kirsty created a layout for Kerryn and I did a layout using two photos from Kirsty.

This was soooo much fun to do. I love the colours in the photos and her daughter Natalie was such a cutie who wouldn't want to scrap photos of her. So here is the layout I created for them.



I am so glad that it arrived at the other end safely in Kirsty's hands and that she loved it.

The layout that Kerryn did for me using some recent photos of Little Miss Kiah arrived last week and I LOVE IT!!!! It looks even better in real life. And.. the other exciting news about the layout itself for Kerryn is that it got accepted into the Basic Grey Gallery... WTG Girl ! But the best bit is that I get to keep it. Thanks again Kerryn it is amazing. So here it is..



I can't wait till we do this sort of swap again. It was quite refreshing to scrap a layout for someone else, and even better when they enjoy what you have done. If you haven't done this sort of thing before I highly recommend it.

Better go and get some house work done.... YUCK !!!

Cheers M x

Next Fiskars Crop Event - Booking Closing

Just a quick one to let everyone know that booking for the next Fiskars Crop here in Adelaide close at the end of this week. We still do have a few vacant spots that we can squeeze people into. Though most places booked out very early.

I am looking forward to catch up with everyone again and sharing the Fiskars love around just before Xmas. We have some amazing projects to create for those last minute Xmas ideas. Don't forget too the cool prizes that have been kindly donated by Fiskars for our big event.

If your interested in attending get in quick and shoot me an email for further details at:

mlwallace@internode.on.net

But you better get in quick as the spaces left are very limited due to popularity.

Cheers and happy scrapping, Michelle :)

*REMINDER* Fiskars ANZ October Challenge closes soon !

WOW !.. with so many amazing entries already it will be a hard choice to decide who will be this months challenge winner.

Who would have thought the humble punch could create such amazing layouts. To check out the work that we have already received check out the link on the Fiskars ANZ blog.

Don't forget though that you still do have till till the 31st of October to get your entry in for this challenge.

Here is a recap of the challenge details for you:

My October challenge to you is simply this:
Dust off your punches and get to work. I would love for you to create a card or a layout making your own embellishments from punches. You can add some little extras like I have, but the embellishments MUST be based around punches. So what are you waiting for... Get Creative !
Whether you "squeeze" your shapes by using one of Fiskars Squeeze Punches, "pop" out a punched shape or two using the Fiskars Pop-Up Punch or even punch to your hearts content using another punch in your stash ... it doesn't matter, we just want to see what you can create using Punches!

Please e-mail your work to fiskarscraft@yahoo.com.au by the end of October to be in to win some awesome Fiskars products and maybe even a cool Fiskars Punch.

I can't wait what everyone comes up with. So dust off your old punches or pull out your new ones and get creating!

Happy scrapping, Michelle x