Card Making Frenzy

I received the new pack of papers from Alison Ellis in the week along with some gorgeous chipboard shapes and superfine glitter. Melissa was home sick the day it arrived so we spent the day playing. The card on the left of the purple trio was made by Melissa - she couldn't wait to try out the glitter. Have a look to see all the gorgeous colours in the glitter range: http://www.alisonellisdesign.com.au/html/ccpreview.html

A few more cards made recently. The one on the top left uses a Stampin Up stamp from a lovely set of 12 called taggers dozen. See Fleur's blog for more details - I got them at one of her Stampin Up days.

The following cards were made for the Alison Ellis Cyber crop which was on last night. Lots of discussion about "inchies" which are tiny pieces of artwork 1 inch by 1 inch square. They are extremely addictive. The card on the left uses AED glitter Lime Sherbert and is a gorgeous dazzling green. The little square in the middle of the card is one of my inchies as are the squares that spell out the word "noel" on the card on the right. The last 2 cards use some of the new AED pp which is just divine with the gold and silver foil highlights. For the 'Joy card' I have also used Fancy Pants big board stars and MM philadelphia letters all painted with gold paint.

This layout was for one of the AED challenges - to write your Santa wish list. I have used AED pp, made some inchies:-) and also used Bo Bunny rub-ons.

Can't believe after about 4 months I am scrapping again and loving it. Completely went off the boil earlier this year.

How about the wind today? It's revolting, especially as we have just dirt as our back yard. It was cleared out about a month ago in preparation for landscaping so now we're living with a dust storm.

Have a great week!

Still Here!

First of all I want to thank all of you lovely people who have left comments on my blog. So much was happening over winter that something had to give and that was my blog. Both girls had calisthenics comps on weekends plus Emma had netball matches and tournaments. I also started a new job and am working most days so by the time I get home and do dinner, chores etc I am too tired to even contemplate blogging.

We have also had the backyard cleared and a driveway put in to the garage at the back of the block so there has been a lot of sorting out to do.

However, the calisthenics comps have all finished, as have the netball tournaments so weekends are being reclaimed. The deck needs to be built but we're getting someone in to do that so we just need to concentrate on the landscaping.

We did manage to get away for a week to Moama which was lovely. Where we stayed was right on the Murray and had lovely bush land (see pic). We played tennis, went horseriding, and generally just relaxed.

Melissa turned 7 this month. I actually managed to make the party bags using a template that Vicky gave me. I used Alison Ellis Designs Garden Party range and they looked gorgeous filled with lollies. That's about the only scrapping I have done in the last few months apart from a couple of cards. I will be going to the AED cybercrop on sat 27th October though and hopefully will produce something. It's been so long I can't even remember what's in my stash any more. AED have some lovely new papers and have you seen their beautiful new glitters and chipboard? Have a look here: http://www.alisonellisdesign.com.au/

Hope you've all been scrapping madly to make up for me!