Your Gift Is My Gust Of Wind

I haven’t had many work days so far this year.
Which has been ok.
Ok because it’s meant I’ve had a little more time to play.
And play is what I’ve done with these Scrapmatts Tags and ATC.

I just love this tag.
I’ve used the new Scrapmatts Silhouettes Pack, a “moments” that I removed the “s”
on a new Scrapmatts Tag

For this ATC I used a House ATC.
With a brand new Scrapmatts Word pack.
I’ve also used some of Louise Nelson’s gorgeous hand carved stamps.

And my last tag I’ve used a Sewing Spool tag
and topped it with the gorgeous spool and needle from the Sewing Pack.
The triangle arrow is excess from the Scrapmatts Flags

See, aren’t the spool and needle just gorgeous?
Perfect for playing!

Have you had some creative play today?

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SCRAPMATTS/FLOURISH WITH A BLING - SWAP AND GIVEAWAY DETAILS

Scrapmatts and Flourish With A Bling are hosting a giveaway
as part of a product swap the Design Team’s have been participating in.
The entries close tonight so make sure you run over to the Scrapmatts site
to check out details AND ENTER!
Here are my creations for the swap

I created the background using a tiny dots mask from The Crafter’s Workshop
I’ve used FWAB Elise (Antique Brown Rhinestone) and FWAB flower

as well as Scrapmatts Assorted Words

and some Scrapmatts Hinges

I made a tag

Using a Scrapmatts Bird and a FWAB Vine (Adam Metallic).

And here is my second page

I altered some FWAB Chloe, Antique Gold pearls
Added a FWAB Vine (Jack, Black Metallic)

Stamped on some Cocoa Daisy stamps

added some Scrapmatts birds, Ornate Frames

and painted the Layered Design Border

So make sure you check out the details of the swap and giveaway HERE
and don’t forget to enter!

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COCOA DAISY: Product Spotlight

Recently I made these two tags

using the Tree stamp from Cocoa Daisy, found in the Aspen Grove kit

I made the tags as I played with the cool Faber Castell Pitt Pens.
I’ve made a little video, as I played.
You can see the video HERE on the Cocoa Daisy blog

 

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Oh What Fun It Is To Ride

I’ve had a little play with some paints to make some Christmas Tags from Scrapmatts

Scrapmatts products used:

Reindeers 03

Words 22 Merry Christmas

Christmas Ornaments 07

InLinkz.com

 

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Sometimes I Feel My Heart Will Overflow

The weekend comes
The weekend goes
and it seems that even when you don’t fill the weekend it seems to fill itself!
I have a few (sorry photo overload) things to share with you
Some Scrapmatts creations
Firstly
a couple of cards

the bird bath made me think of Snoopy and Woodchuck
so I played with that idea and added an American Crafts sticker

I added some sprinkles to an ice cream
and played with another jovial idea

I added some microbeads and dimensional magic to create the sprinkles

I also made a couple of tags
this one uses a word and I made this tag for a mixed media challenge over at Aussie Scrap Source 

The first week’s challenge was about resist
I’ve used a Cocoa Daisy stamp and clear embossing to create the resist.
And this tag is for the second challenge, Texture.

I’ve used one of the gorgeous parasols with some textured paste and layers of paint
and finally
A layout

I’ve used a raw ice cream and tied on a painted heart 

I teamed it up with some American Crafts products (and packaging… can you spot it?) 

to tell this story

She really does!!
Just as well her Mum really really loves her!

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I Was Staring At The Sky Just Looking For A Star

This month the Scrapmatts Design Team were asked to make Cards, ATCs or tags
I choose to make some tags
AND BOY DID I LOVE MAKING THEM!

I’ve used the bird cage and bird (which is outside the cage not in)

Can you spy the Cocoa Daisy stamps from July??

I’ve used a clock and a heart

I pulled out things that have been sitting in my “gonna use one day” drawer

Used some words

Used the Crafter’s Workshop chicken wire mask

and some hinges

Seriously, there is something about using ink and paint that gives me serenity

I loooove this dress form

and each of these tags is a statement from my heart

from where life is at for me right now
or just me telling me to listen.

What do you need to listen to?

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Wot-cha-ma-doogle

Don't ask me why...

Just cos...

Today has been a wet, stormy and cold type of day.

Took the girls to the library, where we got lots of books including 3 or 4 paper craft/Art books, at their request. Then we came home and they fought over them, sigh lol

Dave was home early today, which is always nicer than nice :)

Had an email, waiting for me tonight, from the lovely Annemarie. She had been reading a US store catalogue, Lily Pulitzer, and in it they were promoting their new clothing line, which are in gorgeous colours, and the money goes to their charity "A Colorful Cause", which is raising money for Epidermolysis Bullosa. You can read more here and here and here :) Thanks Annemarie :)

Speaking of online friends... The gorgeous inside and out Sandra has tagged me with this pretty cool award

The rules:

1. The winner may put the logo on their blog.

2. Put a link to the person who sent you the award.

3. Nominate 10 blogs.

4. Put links to their blogs.

5. Leave a message for your nominees.

So the blogs that make me smile, thinking off the top of my head

Phin

Theresa

Gigi

Julie

Jill

Karen

Sasha

Revlie

Denise

Gudrun

But there are so many more, and I also wanted to say that having comments in my inbox makes my heart smile and makes me dash through my emails just to read them, thank you :)

Scrapped this page today, after printing off our holiday photos. Love this photo.

Inspired by Marle and the page she has here I wanted to use the same technique with tearing the page, eyelets and the tied string. I found Marle's blog through The Inspirational Craft Blog, she was featured yesterday.

And that's me and my lot for today :)

Ciao for now

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