Mermaids and Sisters...

Hello Dear Friends

I have been having loads of fun upstairs here in my scrap room. There has definitely been an oversupply of creativity which absolutely fills me with joy.  The weather is cooling down and today I spent a wonderful afternoon with a fellow scrapbooking friend and we had such fun chatting and scrapping ... and of course had a fantastic glass of wine later on.  We both completed two pages so it was a successful afternoon all around.  

One of the pages I worked on this afternoon is of my little niece having fun swimming in their new pool.

These cute flowers are basically made from two die cuts underneath and a Keisercraft white flower on top which I spritzed pink to match the page.  The heart brads are just too cute...  This was a really easy page as the paper really does all the talking!!

A couple of weeks ago I did this page below of me and my "Perth Sister" Debra.  Debs and I became friends in Durban in the early 2000's and I moved to Australia in 2005.  Debs and her family followed a few years later.  I treasure my friendship with Debs and although she now lives in Perth (they were in Kalgoorlie for a few years) I don't get to see her as often as I would like to. Debra's husband and I work for the same company and we got to spend the Christmas party together in 2012.  It as a wonderful sunset cruise on the Swan and has to rate as one of my favourite Christmas parties to date!  

I loved the simplicity of the page and wanted to keep it simple but just felt there was something missing.  I then added some hand stitching around the edges and added a few pearls on the top half of the page, and voila! I felt the page was complete.  I hope you like the amazing transformation of this page as much as I do.

Please excuse the light shining over the top section.  It is quite late in the evening and I wanted to post this today.  I just couldn't angle the light to be off the page without loosing the light completely and getting shadows!  The detailed photo below shows a bit more clearly the striking effect that the pearls have on the page.

I hope you enjoyed taking a look at my latest creations!

Take Care and please leave a comment to let me know you were here!
Cheers
Angie 

Easter Weekend Lay Outs

Hello dear friends,

I have taken a few days leave over the the Easter break and am so enjoying the time that I have to spend upstairs in my craft-room.  It's really cosy up here with my iPod playing relaxing music and I have a view of the activity going on outside.  I have an unlimited wireless internet setup at home and really enjoy streaming South African radio stations.  Jacaranda FM and KFM are my two faves!!

I have committed to as few things as possible this week, so that I can just relax upstairs here, and already I have completed three lay outs and one canvas.  The canvas is a first-timer for me, but more about that another day.

I would like to share with you a really cute LO of my little niece Jessica.  Look at the absolute delight on her face!!!  She knows that this 'toy' is usually 'out of bounds'!! 

Clearly she is showing signs of high intelligence by knowing instinctively how to touch type at the age of 2!!!  ... Obviously I'm not a biast Aunty!!

A close up of the beautiful Kaisercraft paper with matching embellishments.  I also used Prima flowers.  I used some Inkessensials Crackle Accents on the blue flower on the paper in the foreground giving it some *pop* on the page.  I used the same product for the bouquet of flowers higher up.

The next LO that I did is a beautiful photo of my Mom and Dad.  They were going to Tristan's christening last year.  I don't have too many photos of just my Mom and Dad, so wanted to add this one to my memory book!  Don't they look ever so glam!

I just love how this page turned out and how the colours compliment each other.  The sentiment is Kaisercraft from the Charlotte's Dream collection.

This stunning large teal flower is from Bella! Fancy Florals, and the rest are either hand made by me (lighter green flower to the right in front) and Blossoms by Vivaldi (pale pink and cream) and the blue one at the top is Prima.

This is also a hand made flower by me - I made it ages ago when I felt like playing around in my craft room but didn't have the mojo to do an actual lay out. The colour is absolutely perfect to compliment the paper and colour scheme of this page.

I have completed another lay out but after I took the photos I decided that I wanted to still do one or two things to it.  I will post that one in my next blogpost because I now need to take more photos.  I am so excited about the canvas that I have just completed.  It's my first attempt so look forward to sharing it with you soon.

I hope you have all had a wonderful Easter long weekend and if you are travelling - please go safely.

Take Care and lots of love
Angie 

It's been a very long time ...

Hi All,

It has been a long time since I have been inspired to send you all a blog post, and recently I was honored to be asked by a friend to make some invitations for her.  She is going to be having her 40th in New York and her friends would be flying in from all over the world. 

We spent quite some time designing the invitation and finally this evening I have finished them all.  I have so enjoyed making them and although I was invited to go, sadly the finances (or annual leave) does not permit me to be able to attend.

I am not sure if the photos do the invitation justice, but here goes ...

The shoe is heat embossed in Adirondack Wild Plum embossing powder.  The paper, ink, stamps and ribbon are all from Stampin Up.  

I stamped the shoe in silver on the Rose Red cardstock, then printed the words on vellum and adhered it to the cardstock at the top where the row if diamantes is.

I have done loads of cards recently, so will try and be more diligent and post some more photos soon.

Lots of love

Angie