Cards and more ....

Just thought I would sneak a last post in for April and share some cards I made together with my last tutorial for my2angels.
The cards were for MY very special little man 'Happy Birthday Baby' and another very special little man who had a birthday last week!! x

How cool is that chipboard skull?!?! and I'm just lovin Glimmer Mist at the mo!!! See how one piece of chipboard could make numerous cards when using it as a mask! 

Some cake photos - make a wish ............

.....and the 'mum I've had enough!' photo from the day before his birthday!! Converted to my fav B&W!

.... and this photo from last weekend ... my boys are so helpful after their games have finished don't you think? LOL!!!!

Next up is the tutorial that I did for my2angels making these rather cute little gift card boxes which can easily be made into a card. To find out how to make them head over 

HERE HERE HERE!!!

I don't know about you but gift cards are becoming my gift of choice as my boys and their friends get older!

The black ribbon I have used is a my2angels own brand. Tracy has 3 different boy ribbons with different words which are great for all those boy cards and layouts. I have a layout to share soon using the Chill Out ribbon. Check them out HERE HERE HERE!

Well that is my blogging for April .... I will be back to share another LO over the weekend! 

Hope you have a good one ... TFL W :)

Bowling and a tutorial!

Just a quick post with a LO and tutorial I just finished for my2angels. I had great fun doodling the graffiti all over this gorgeous Rose Moka paper with my trusty white gel pen and some ink for the splats!! 

The green embellies are handmade and really easy to make, if you want to know how, check it out HERE! 

And how cute are those My Little Bit of Whimsy buttons!

Other items available from my2angels:

  AC Thickers & Rose Moka Paper - Positif

The pins and bowling ball are die cuts ... cute eh?!?!

I have another LO I've done using one of these handmade embellies but I will leave that for another day! 

 .... T so much FL  W :)

my treasure ...

Time for a my2angles reveal and for this LO I decided to give some new Glimmer Mist a try! I've been wanting the Raven GM for ages and finally got around to ordering it from Tracy. I love dark colours on my scrapping and this stuff is fantastic! When I sprayed it all over a piece of Core-dinations white cardstock it came out grey but the blobs are purple and look great. I've used a black and white photo on some black patterned paper and die cut cardstock and then added a gorgeous my2angels black rhinestone swirl.

The butterflies are hand cut from a new Prima Flights of Fancy paper  (due in stock at m2a next week). The title is AC Thickers, PP holly doodle and Adorn it mini black letters. The green flower is also available in the shop and I also used one of my fav products,  Crackle Accents, on the butterfly bodies and my journalled hearts. And after sitting and thinking about it for a while I hand journalled in white gel pen around the die cut and I'm really happy that I didn't stuff it up! (My biggest fear when I decide to hand write directly onto my LO!!)

Anyway I hope you like it .... 

TFL and I'll be back again soon .. W :)

Joker ...

At last something to share! I have been suffering with a severe lack of mojo recently and then ... boom yesterday I had a mad rush and managed to do some well overdue scrapping!  I had some My2Angels projects to finish but also managed to finish this one which started off as wanting to try doodling around the edge of a page and just went from there! I only have a couple of slick writers so hence the black and red theme LOL!!!! He is such a joker this boy, he is always tricking or clowning around! he is SO much fun (except when he's not of course!!) LOL!!

I also have some cards I managed to make yesterday, got a few birthdays coming up and a few thank you's to go out from Easter.

Finally the lovely Taryn has 'tagged me'. I now have to list 10 things that make me happy, 5 pieces of trivia about myself, and then pass this award to 5 other bloggers I love ....
so here goes .....

THINGS THAT MAKE ME HAPPY ....
1. My boys
2. My family
3. My besties (you know who you are,  I truly don't know what I'd do without any of you x)
4. Scrapping
5. Going to the footy (Australian Rules Football) Go Eagles!!
6. Not having to cook!!!
7. Coffee & Chocolate
8. My laptop and the Internet!
9. Did I say my boys lol!!!!!
10. A good chick flick!

TRIVIA ....
1. I am  going to the Becky Fleck classes in May with my buddy Corrina ... can't wait!
2. I am a HUGE footy fan!!! and
3. I was lucky enough to be at the 2006 AFL Grand Final and see my team win a premiership by 1 point!!!
4. I want to learn to use the manual settings on my camera better!
5. I'm not an early morning person!

So I now tag the following gorgeous girls who are a constant source of inspiration to me! 

Corrina, Marelize, Tanya, Mel and Julie

Click on their names to check out their gorgeous work and say hello! 

I would also like to take this chance to thank each and every one of my readers and followers, for taking the time to visit and for leaving such wonderful comments, it truly makes my day reading them! Thank you!

Oh and don't forget the MY2ANGELS SALE!!! with a massive 20% OFF ALL STOCK until the 20th APRIL .. sounds like a good time to stock up to me!! Check it out HERE!

Well, for anyone that made it to the end (lol!) TFL and I'll be back with more soon .... W :)

Sisters ...

Well I am back in the world of blogging!! I took a couple of (semi) weeks break to spend time with my sister who was visiting us from the UK, I don't get to see her as often as I would like but we had the best time and as always it was sad to see her go, I am going to miss her heaps! Love you sis and see you soon!
And this leads me to my LO .... the photo is of me and my buddy and fellow design team member Corrina who I have to say is, as the title says, more like a sister to me than just a girlfriend, love you too 'sis'!! x x

The gorgeous little birdie is from My Little Bit Of Whimsy.

Well better get a wriggle on and get on with my My2Angels tutorial for Tracy! A little behind the eight ball this month but I want to thank Tracy for allowing me the time to spend with my sister! Thanks buddy I really appreciate it!

TFL and I'll be back real soon .... Wendy x 

Sale @ My2Angels!

Just a quick post to let you know about the great sale now on at my2angels ... details below or check it out here

I'll be back with some 'stuff' to share soon, just spending some family time with my sister at the moment!
Catch ya soon .... W :)

Easter is around the corner and to celebrate YOU get the savings

 My2Angels are taking 20% off EVERYTHING in store until the 20th April 2010!

Enter APRIL at checkout to receive the discount.

(Not to be used in conjunction with any other offers ie vouchers)

This is the time to be stocking up on all your favourite products, saving 20% on top of the low prices we already offer you!

And in addition to getting more products for your money, you will also receive

FREE with your first purchase
Self Adhesive Black and White Felt Birds

 AND
Ranger White Opal Liquid Pearls
with your first order over $65.00 (not including postage) during April
While Stocks Last

Head on over to the shop and check it out!

Footy training .....

Final My2Angels share for the month .. and again I have used some Scrapware and some my2angels own goodies. For the Scrapware house and grass, I have coloured it and then used crackle accent. For the cloud (I know!! but I love them!!) I have used brown and white inks. The large title is sanded Core dinations cardstock which has then been 3D taped to the page. I have finished off by adding a my2angels rhinestone scroll and some cute little footy boot charms on the 'beach hut' doorstep!! The gorgeous little bird pin is from My Little Bit of Whimsy!

Products Used: Click on link to go straight to the item in the My2Angels shop. 

Black Rhinestone Scroll : Football Boot Charms : 

Rose Moka Paper : Core dinations Cardstock : Carolees Creations Tiny Alphas

Scrapware - House : Grass : Clouds

Crackle Accent : Various Inks

We just had our first serious hit out in a scratch match this morning .... we didn't win but it was nice to be back on the oval on a Sunday morning again!! Looking forward to the real stuff to start!! Go Cougars!!

Thanks for dropping by and don't forget to check out the other fantastic design team projects for the month on the my2angels blog.

Back soon ... W :)

48 Hours ......

... without power!!! 48 hours!!! How bad is that?? pretty bad let me tell you!! But its back now and we were really lucky and didn't have any major damage so very very thankful for that!! We had to throw out some food from the fridge and freezer but other than that it wasn't too bad. It was a huge storm which certainly packed a punch and there were so many people who were unfortunately not quite so lucky as we were!!
So because of that I am a little behind this week but I will try and get around to all your blogs soon and catch up ... I've missed so many posts x
Just popped on to share a very overdue post of my Easter LO for my2angels (sorry Tracy!) I have used some more gorgeous Sass papers ....

I have embossed and inked the chipboard photo corners to match the buttons I used. The title is cut using a Cuttlebug Alpha 'Red Tag'. Email Tracy if you are interested as she can order them in for you.

Materials available from the my2angels shop:

Sassafras Lass Papers : Coredinations Cardstock

Buzz & Bloom Photo Corners : Cuttlebug Embossing Folders

Carolees Creations Tiny Letters : Various Inks

Thanks so much for stopping by ... I have one more 'Angel' share for the month and that should be up real soon!

Catch ya later .... Wendy :)

Washing the car .....

I am sorry for being MIA from here for a while .... I don't know where the times goes sometimes!!
Anyway a quick share tonight seeing as I can take photos again after getting my camera back! Thanks to a couple of friends I was able to get it fixed quickly after snapping off the battery cover last weekend!! :(
Thank you Corrina & Ngaire, I really appreciate you both going out of your way so that I wasn't without it for too long! x

Just something I came up with playing with some new Sass .....

Edit: I took the original photos of this LO late the other night and thought they were a little 'blue' so I have taken some new photos today in better light and now realise they were very 'blue'!! As you can see!!!! The new ones show the colours much better!!! Message to self ONLY take photos in good light!!

Check out the Sass in the my2angels shop here.

Almost forgot I made this card on the weekend too for some very special friends. I used a My Little Bit of Whimsy brick button ... cute eh?!

Hope you like ..... I'll be back as soon as I can with some more shares. I should have some DT work I've done for my2angels to show real soon! Thanks for looking ... W :)

First March DT Share .......

Time to share my first DT project for March! My focus for this one was Scrapware products ... Tracy has a huge collection of Scrapware in the shop (here) and seeing as I love chipboard, I thought I would do some pages this month showing off these lovely chippies!
For this LO I have inked and used crackle accents on all the pieces except for the house. The house I covered with LYB paper and then used it as an arrow to place the heart on. I have also inked and crackled the red 'a' in the title. The mini fences I've used are one of my favourite Scrapware pieces ever .... I absolutely love them!! They look awesome with the crackle accent too!!

Edit: This LO was accepted for publication on 11 March 2010 ... Woo hoo!!!
My first Out for Publication!!

It will be published in Scrapbooking Memories VOL 13 No 6 due out in May 2011! I have left you a little sneaky below though! TFL

Here are the products used for this LO 

Just click on any product with a link to go straight to that item in the my2angels shop

Paper: Rose Moka: LYB

Scrapware: Journalling Squares: Fences: Grass: Mini Houses: Heart

Alphas: Thickers: Carolee Creations: Cosmo Cricket

Other: Crackle Accents: Brown,Green,White & Red Inks (check out the inks in shop here)
Don't forget to check out the my2angels blog for the other 'Angels' gorgeous work!

TFL and for all your lovely comments ... will be back with more soon ... W :) 

Just chillin' .....

Being a long weekend here I managed to get a couple of LO's done today but only one I can share for now the other one is for Tracy at my2angels but I should be able to share it a little later in the week hopefully!
This one is the monthly sketch challenge for Anna's Craft Cupboard, I totally flipped it around and am really happy with the way it turned out! The photos were taken a few weeks ago at Coogee Beach!

Check out the little Scrapware birdie .... which I got from my2angels this month isn't it cute as!?!

The film strip is done using a Quickutz limited edition die.

Oh and before I go ... thank you to my very special buddy Corrina at My Scrap Burrow for awarding me this sunshine award .... thanks C !!!

Now the rules are ......

* Put the logo on your blog or within your post

* Pass the award onto 6 bloggers who are followers of your blog

*Link the nominees within your post

* Let the nominees know they have received this award by commenting on their blog

* Share the love and link to the person from whom you received this award

I know quite a few of my loyal followers have recently received this award so in order to share it around I award it to the following lovely ladies who have all been a part of my very exciting last couple of months. To each and every one of my followers and readers, "Thanks guys I am loving this blogland"!!!! 

Mel @ My Life with my Little Man

Treesa @ Art of Love

Amanda @ Amanda's Scrappy Joint

Lisa @ Our Little Slice of Paradise

Sarah @ Sarah Lou

Christine @ Scrappin Shimano

Enjoy your sunshine girls!

Thanks for looking .... be back soon!! W :)

Creative Scrappers!

With being sick I've not had as much time as I would have liked this month for my usual challenges but I did manage to get this one done for Creative Scrappers Sketch #91

Its getting so hard to get photos of the boys now .. I always find myself saying just one little smile ....... please? for mum? well I'm sure you know the drill ... on this one Sam was trying so hard not to smile but mum won!!
Papers are a Sassafras double sided which I got from my2angels and a Crate Paper left over and the awesome JUST is a Quickutz font. The orange stickers are Pink Paislee.
Thanks for looking - I must get a wriggle on with my DT projects (I'm on it Tracy!!! promise!! lol!! ) so ... till next time W :)

Kraft play ....

Hi, I picked up some Bazzill Kraft the other day to play with ... and this is what I came up with last night! I know, I know, there are clouds on there again BUT I just got these Scrapware ones from my2angels and they are so gorgeous I just had to try them out!!! lol!!! I then spent ages working out whether this LO needed a little 'something' else but everytime I put something on it, it didn't work so I figured I'd leave it as it was!!! The photo is my DS's 10th Birthday Sleepover with his best buddies!

... and here are those clouds again!! 

I used some Crackle Accent on the die cut 'TEN' and it worked quite well even on plain cardstock. The bracket ... well that was another story!! It has several layers of 'stuff' on it and it turned out a bit too glossy (still ok though) but I will have to have more patience next time and wait for it to dry between coats!!

Thanks so much for looking ....
I'll be back as soon as I can with more ... W :)

DT Projects to share .....

OK .. well I'm feeling slightly better now than I did on the weekend, and it must be because of all the 'love' I received on my last post!! Thank you so much to everyone who stopped by my blog and left me a message, I really do appreciate the time you take to read my posts, it really makes my day, thank you :)

So here are my DT 'Valentine' LO's at last, they are a 'little' different and all about my love for my boys! 

Lots of inking, embossing and distressing on this one and loved how rustic this paper looks! I have dry embossed (the large photo corner) and inked and embossed all the chipboard. I just love the mini butterflies from Scrapware ... they seem to find their way onto quite a few of my pages!! I am also loving using cardboard at the moment!! seeing as it was on my last post too!!! oops!!

Products available from the lovely Tracys' shop ..... my2angels

Papers & Card: Rose Moka: Carolee Creations XOXO: Coredinations Nightfall: Alphas: Thickers Black Jewelry Box: Scrapware: Butterflies mini: Happy Birthday: Flourish (similar to the one I used): Buzz and Bloom: Photo Corners: 

my2angels: Rhinestone Photo Corner: Black Velvet Ribbon with Silicone: Cuttlebug Script Embossing Folder: Embossing Powders & Inks check out the different colours in the shop

The second LO is my oldest son taken a couple of years ago sat in a heart 'sculpture' on the foreshore at Mandurah, which I cut out and journalled around. I thought the heart fitted the theme perfectly! 

These Buzz and Bloom Clouds I've used on this one are awesome .... I just love the different patterns on them. Also check out the cute little my2angels charm 'follow your heart' .... gorgeous! Just click on any of the photos for a closer look!

Products available from my2angels

Rose Moka Paper: Carolee Creations Paper : Coredinations Nighfall Cardstock: Thickers: Jewelry Box Black & White: Carolee Creations Tiny Letters: Buzz & Bloom Clouds: Scrapware Key: Cuttlebug Tiny Bubbles Embossing Folder: 

my2angels: Follow your Heart Charms: Cotton Ric Rac: Silver Embossing Powder also available in different colours here

Phew .. well its way past my bedtime now so I better get a wriggle on or I just won't want to get out of bed in the morning and alas I have to work! don't forget to check out the rest of the DT creations on the my2angels blog too. Anyway its goodnight from me, have a great weekend and I hope to be back with more soon ...  TFL  :)