Like A Lizard On A Window Pane

I did do a little giddy giggle when I opened up the envelope that contained my new Such Sweet Tierney products
I just loved playing with the new products London has been busy creating
The new site is launching on the 1st of April and all her new products will be available then
Here are 2 of the 3 pages I made, will share the other tomorrow, it’s my new favourite

Lots of new cool chipboard buttons, as expected

and brand new are tags

and you seeing the new luggage tags… well you know how much I love LOVE love these!!

second page

Buttons, again

lovin’ the new designs and patterns

and speech bubble tags!

and journal tags

yep! Super Super cool

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I’d Rather Be Catching Rainbows

Amongst the minutes of today I -
*Picked baby spinach leaves in the rain
*Emptied the dishwasher 3 times
*Stewed a pot of apples
*Made a yummy scrummy lasagna
*Made this page

A close up

and the story, that goes with the photos, of Dave and one of the M&Ms

Used black paint but finished off the blotches with some rubons
Buttons are from Such Sweet Tierney 
and if you haven’t been over to the Such Sweet Tierney site please go check it out
London, the creative genius behind Such Sweet Tierney,
has lots of amazing things happening and is having some sneaky peeks which are GOBSMACK GOOD!

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You Sure Do Make It Like A Sunny Day

The new “Make It Yourself”  challenge over at Aussie Scrap Source is to make your own flowers
This is the page I made

I made my flower using some scrap cardboard, some paint and a pompom, cut from some pompom trim

Had to use my bright and wonderful friend yellow as this page is all about sunflower seeds

and I had some fun making this page
With some paint, masking tape, string, buttons and I gave new life to an old envelope

oh and there is also some machine stitching a a touch of doodling on the page too, cos you know I love these

today I spent some of the day at the Southern Primary School Sports Association carnival
Jessica represented her school in one of the 100m races for her age group
I just love this photo that I snapped

that’s her in the front
and here she is again

with her ribbon
Last year she got a 4th ribbon so she keeps saying how she got her personal best
Gotta love that!!

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Old Song Played On A New Guitar

Needed to keep busy today
And this helped

some random placed rubons

some old brown paper given new life

and another moment captured

Also wanted to let you know about a new challenge blog that has just started up

Once Upon A Sketch is all about journaling and sketches
and if you head on over you can find out more about the challenges,  see the new team and how you can win this

well, with the sun going down on our Monday
this new week has started with a bang
Hope yours is a smile filled one and thanks for stopping by to read my lil’ ol’ blog

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The Slowly Creeping Hand

You know those days where you seem to be pedaling backwards instead of forward
You know those days where you seem to go through the motions but not get anything done
You know those days where you seem to plod along, uphill, but not quite get to the top
That’s how today has felt
It hasn’t gotten to me but I have recoginsed that it is one of those days 
And I’ve also acknowledged that tomorrow ain’t today!
The dreary weather was good for making fun scrap messes

and lots to show in amongst this mess
The ‘2’ tag and the ‘I love you’, which is a stamp, are from Kikki-k 
And then there is some layering

some junk mail that has been given a much better life, thank you Readers Digest lottery junk mail!

some stamping (made use of my circle cork stamp), some doodling, some paint, some hand stitching…

and some journaling, and here you can see how tired I am… the photo is from Dec 2010 not Feb 2011
Just shows how fast the year has flown!

Not much sleep last night, which is probably why the day has been a ‘drudge-y’ one
A busy day tomorrow so the drudge-ies better stay away
Hope your day is drudge free too

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Look At The Stars, Look How They Shine For You

The new challenge at Aussie Scrap Source is to make your own stamp
So I did
Actually I made three
and used them on this page

Ross is the team that our girls are on at school, the yellow team, for sporting events>
Question…
Do you correct your spelling mistakes or rewrite so noone would ever know??
I correct mine, usually just writing over the top
I wrote time instead of team… could have been worse… could have written teen!!!

Love mixing up pattern papers, especially when they are yellow

had to search to find some yellow buttons ?!?!

oh and the stamping….
Did you see it??

 

I used a cork to make the two circle stamps

 

love that you can make a double sided stamp with a cork

Love the little lines in the cork and the effect they give with the ink

the other stamp I made was using a doily on the acrylic block and covering it with some paint

love the texture that stamping with paint adds

really enjoying these challenges, love anything that inspires people to make their own/use what they already have

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Summer Is Gone, But Our Love Will Remain

Seems our Saturday has slipped on by so quick that I almost blinked and missed it
Pulled out the bread maker this afternoon and have baked 2 loaves in it
One was still doughy the other I am yet to cut but it rose… A LOT!
It was my turn to share over on the Banana Frog blog
This is the page I made for my post

You can read my post here but here are some close ups

and my journaling

Oh and the cardstock was some of the Bling paper from Bazzill Basics
I’ve always had problems with the paper because stamping ink smudges, pen ink doesn’t seem to go on as smoothly
and things don’t stick as well as normal cardstock
well problem solved…
I just added a layer of paint and everything was good again  

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