A Card made with Love

With Mother's Day last weekend a homemade card was necessary.

I don't buy cards and haven't for ages. I love being able to create that something special and personalised for family and friends.

This time round I had to create a card for my Mum for Mother's Day. When Amy Mattes sent me these cute flowers to play with this month, I just knew I had to use them on my Mum's Mother's Day card.

Close up of some of the flowers I hand cut.

A little help from Helmar Liquid Scrap Dots for dimension and kindy glitz for a bit of glitz and the card was done.

I still have quite a few flowers printed out to play with. So keep your eyes peeled later this month for what my little boy got up to at the farm.

TFL, M x

Playing around with Helmar and Fiskars again

Finally got to finish a layout I started while at Escape 2 Create.

I loved making my own background paper to mix things up a bit and this layout was no exception.

Love stamping onto the cardstock and then going over the image with Helmar Acid Free Glue to highlight parts of the image. It is a little bit of a process with colouring in the image with my glue pen full of Helmar Acid Free Glue. However I am impressed with the results that you can achieved so have repeated this process several times on other layouts.

Here's the stamped image after I had then wiped it over with some irridescent white paint and then wiped off the excess paint. Looks quite amazing in real life. Just a little hard to photograph


I then added some dimension to the layout by adhering the embellishments to the page using my Helmar Liquid Scrap Dots I rave about.


And the full layout.

Gotta love my eldest DD eyes !!! Yes I am bias!

AND YES !!!!! the flourish on the page WAS HAND CUT !!! I am a sucker I know.. but everyone kept asking me while I was at the retreat if I had handcut the flourish! With a little bit of help from my Fiskars Fingertip knife the job was done rather quickly !



Can you tell that my scrap trolley was full of lots of Helmar goodies while I was away !!!

TFL, M x

Digi Kits fun

You gotta love digital scrap booking supplies!!!

Love how flexible they are and last kit I got to play with from MyGrafico was no exception!
I was sent some Dilek Designs paper

and some LA.LA. Studio digi stamps

to work with this time round...

I printed the paper onto textured card stock that I had here and it turned out amazing. The paper was so yummy to play with and really lends itself to all sorts of creations.

Here's a close up of the embellishments

Lots of stamp and hand cutting for this layout.. but SOOOOOOO worth it. Great therapy too! LOL!

Here's the full layout

Why not pop over to MYGRAFICO and see what they have in store. I know you will like what you see as I did. So many yummy things there to play with.

TFL, M x

An old one I found...

Haven't shared this one yet.. been busy creating and found it in my album of layout to photograph with a few layouts thats still to have photos added to.
This layout is about the chores that are involved with being a parent.. which I am sure we all know about!

Played around with my Helmar Acid Free Glue on the stamped image for this one.. loved the dimension it gave to the image.
Back to the grind stone..

TFL, M x

First Lot of TSO Layouts

Have been extremely lucky to have become a part of The Scrappers Outlet Design Team this month. I am extremely excited to be working with a truly amazing team.

When I came back from our trip away to the Flinders at Easter I was lucky to find my Design Team pack sitting waiting for me on the porch.

My fingers were itching to get started because of all the yummy goodies that were in the pack.

Thanks again guys for the pack I LOVED it all and had so much fun creating. I managed to get 3 LO's created and have a little left over that I am hoping to get a card made with at a later date.

I was sent this to play with -
PP = Imaginisce - Live Loud
American Craft Ribbon
7 Gypsies 3 in 1 parentheses trio stamp
MME Magnolia Serene "Letters"

From my own stash -
Cardstock
Material scrap
Floss
Own Alphas
Glimmer Mist
Kindy Glitz

Here's what I created.

Layout 1 - Zoo Doo


Layout 2 - Rockstar


Layout 3- Friends


Why not check out the gallery to see what the other design team members have created this month.

TFL, M x

Toot Toot !!!

Check this out !!!

We wish to thank everyone who submitted a design team and guest designer application. The amount of applications along with the creativity was mind blowing. We are proud and excited to announce our 2011 Helmar USA/AUS Design Team!



Tracy Weinzapfel (Design Team Coordinator)
Erika Taylor
Leanne Garner
Jen Erickson
Carisa Zglobick
Sarah Mullanix
Julie Walton
Carrie Ferrier
Carole Stirrat
Jessica Morales
Letitia Grace Lauer
Cherry Nelson
Connie Mercer
Jessica Diedrich
Jimmi Mayo
Lydell Quinn
Alicia Barry
Michelle Wallace
Beck Beattie
Julianne McKenna-De Lumen
Jenny Burns
Mandy Collins

We are so excited to have these wonderful designers work with our adhesives!! Stay tuned for a ton of creativity and inspiration on our Helmar USA Design Team Blog!

Congrats to our new 2011 Design Team, Guest Designers and our Adhesive Ambassadors!!

Very excited to be able to be on this team for another trem. Cannot wait to get my hands dirty and play.

M xx

Chocoholics Challenge for May

Looking for a fun challenge this month ??

Why not head over to The Scrappers Outlet.

I have been given the opportunity to set the Chocoholics Challenge for the month of May.

The colours for this month are:
Chocolate, Pink and Black

And here's my sample..


and a close up


Why not pop over and join us for this months challenges.

TFL, Mx