Inspired by Stamping May Releases.......Background Basics III, French Notes.

I hope you are enjoying the new releases, this month from Inspired by Stamping, I'm back today with another background set called Background Basics III and also French Notes.

My husband and I have been married for 25 years in July so thought I'd do a LO of the two of us on our wedding day using the sentiment 'Bisous' from French Notes. I stamped it onto one of the frames from Fancy Labels 18.

I stamped the music background onto some paper to make my own background paper. Again, this background set is so easy to line up to make a continuous pattern. I tore the music sheet slightly at the top and added some flowers and lace.

Check out what the other DT ladies have been creating.

Joanna

Kendra

Irit

Leah

Colleen

Gloria

Cindy

Vicki

Shani

Shea

Grace

Joanna,  will be giving away a $25 gift card to the IBS store everyday from 6th – May 10th, for full details check out, Joanna's blog. Winners will be announced daily on a separate page at 7pm (Brisbane time) the following day.

Free Shipping will be available on all orders over $20 using code "May Releases" This will start on the 10th and be available for only 48 hours. May 10th at 7pm to April 12th at 7pm Brisbane time only. All 7 stamp sets plus Die will be offered as a bundle for a 10% discount.

Thanks for looking, I'll be back tomorrow with one more project from May's new releases.

xxxxDebxxxx

Creative Heart and Soul Retreat...........with Glitz Designs, Fancy Pants and Authentique.

Hello my friends, I'm back today to share my weekend at the Creative Heart and Soul Retreat, it was amazing and so much fun !!!!!
Rach and I arrived at Antsy Hall on Friday afternoon where we met up with Helen and Sarah, who also go to Bromsgrove crop. We literately dropped our bags in the hotel room and went down to register, meeting Debbie and Tracie, who organised this amazing event. It was non-stop from then on!!!!

This is the beautiful hotel we stayed at, in Coventry.

When we registered, we had the option of buying a challenge kit, which was donated by American Crafts, all the money went to charity and whoever entered won a prize, first prize been a free place for the next retreat, sadly I didn't win that prize..

This is what was on the table when I sat down, isn't it sweet ?

After a welcome talk and a natter with everyone,( it was lovely to catch up with Jackie, who I haven't seen for a long time), we then went for dinner.

The four of us sat with the other two ladies from our table and the Glitz Girls, Laura and Erin. Oh my gosh, did we do some laughing, I love these two girls, they were so much fun and had such a great energy.

After dinner we got to work on our challenge kit, here's my LO.

Saturday morning, we were down for a lovely breakfast by 8.30am, ready for our first class at 9.30am. We had three mini book classes today, the first one was Festive 25 which was a countdown to Christmas using Authentique Festive collection, taught by Tracie Hudson.
I love this mini album, it's all ready to add photo's each day of December to the run up to Christmas.

 Next class was Yours Truly mini album, taught by Erin and Laura, two thirds of the Glitz Design girls, I absolutely love Glitz products, especially the new Giant Rhinestones.

A quick lunch, then it was time for Fancy Pants, My Life Mini Book, taught by the sweet Jodi, owner of Fancy Pants.

I love taking photo's and putting them on Instagram, it is becoming a photo diary of my everyday life so I decided to use the photo's for this mini book. The base of the book is made by using Fancy Pants 6 X 4 Journaling Cards, the papers and embellishments are The Good Life collection.

After dinner was "Party Night" with Make and Takes, raffle prizes and a quiz, we also got to carry on with any unfinished projects.

Here are a couple of the Make and Takes I did.

Sunday morning was just delightful, it was a crisp, cold Autumn morning, the sun was shining and I was in the most wonderful setting.I walked over to breakfast and was welcomed by this huge, open fire, just perfect !!!

After breakfast, it was back to the classroom for three LO classes, the first one was Fancy Pants using the Hopscotch collection.It isn't quite finished so when I've completed the second page I will show you  the completed project.

Next up was Authentique using the Curiosity collection, I didn't do this one in class as I didn't have any suitable photo's but I've got the kit to complete at home.

Last but not least was a LO class with the Glitz Girls using the Cashmere Dame collection, I love this collection, it's all very 50's style retro.

This is another LO, that I need to finish, so will show you the full double page at a later date. It was then time for a group photo and time for our goodbyes, sob*sob*. I took a couple of photo's while the photographer was getting ready for us.

This is a photo of the talented teachers and the organiser, Debbie, who did a fantastic job and made my weekend, one I'll remember for a long time.

This photo just makes me laugh everytime I look at it, Helen doesn't like having her photo taken and even went incognito for the group photo, wearing her sunglasses. I caught her though trying to hide behind Rach, hehe.

Thank you for letting me share my weekend with you, sorry it's such a long post but it really was a crammed, fun packed weekend, I can't wait for the next event !!!!

xxxxDebxxxx

C'est Magnifiqie September Sketch........... Olivia's new tutu.

Hello there, my lovely blog friends, I hope everybody is having a good weekend. I'm back today with another LO, yes, I've been bitten by the bug again !!!!
When I was scrapbooking regularly, I loved joining in with sketch challenges, unfortunately a lot of the sketch challenge blogs I took part in, no longer exsist but as I was blog hopping the other day I found a  great monthly sketch on the C'est Magnifque Kits blog.

Here's September's sketch, isn't it gorgeous, love all the layers and embellishments.

and here's my LO.

I painted part of the background paper with gesso and added some Pan Pastel around the edge.I got to use lots of my Prima flowers again, you won't believe how many packs I've collected over the years, I've used the dress form, from my Whoo Hoo Wednesday  tutorial, showing how to use old dressmaking patterns, I also added some glittered angel wings to it

The photo's are of Olivia, when we gave her the new tutu, that Paige had made for her, you can see how she made this no-sew tutu, here. She danced around the room like a little ballerina and posed for lots of photo's, I do love this sweet girl !!!!

Supplies
Papers- Sweet Fairy Collection.
Flowers- Prima, Inspired by Stamping.
Pretties- Prima Angel Wings, Prima Say it in Crystals, Prima Sweet Fairy Chipboard Journaling stickers, MM journaling cards.
Alpha's- American Crafts, Adornit.
Other- TH Sewing Room die, Pan Pastel Bright Yell. Green Tint.

Thanks for looking, enjoy the rest of your weekend.
xxxxDebxxxx

A Prima Inspired Scrapbook Page.......... it's a long time coming.

Hello, my lovely friends, I hope you've all had a good week and looking forward to the weekend. I'm back today with a LO, and it's been a long time coming !!!
I haven't been into scrapbooking for such a long time now and had completely lost my mojo. I still went to Bromsgrove Crop but either made cards, crocheted or just nattered, mostly the latter.
I still loved to look at all the wonderful scrapbooking blogs especially Prima and still bought lots of their papers, flowers and embellishments. I even bought the new Prima Idea Book 2012 but still didn't feel like creating a LO, I just kept looking at all the gorgeous creations made by the talented Prima DT.
Anyway last night I couldn't sleep, we'd been out to celebrate my brother's 40th birthday and instead of dessert I opted for a coffee, bad move !!! I tossed and turned, eventually I decided to put my earphones in and watch some Prima videos, I eventually fell asleep about 3 a.m.
It was worth the late night, as when I woke up I had the urge to scrapbook, I was particularly inspired by one of Jamie Dougherty video's.
Here's my first LO for many month's and I've loved doing it, so hopefully I've got my mojo back.

I've wanted to do something with these photo's for so long, they just make me happy and I smile every time I look at them. Paige took them on her phone and Olivia copied every funny face that Paige pulled.

I thoroughly enjoyed sitting in my craft room, ripping, tearing, inking, painting, distressing and layering, I've really missed all that messy crafting. I loved the look of Jamie's LO with the corrugated card so wanted to replicate that in my LO, using little bits tucked under the base paper and used as a photo mat.

I roughly painted my base paper, Botanical Collection "From the Heart" and used a dotty mask adding more paint.I cut out some labels and tags from the different paper ranges, layering them up and adding lots of Prima flowers, I cut the vine in half getting more for my money and used it both sides.I also tucked one of the new Junkyard Finding Clock Faces amongst the flowers and a little metal bird from my stash.

Supplies
Papers- Prima Botanical, Printery and Annalee, corrugated card.
Flowers- Prima  and IBS rosebuds.
Pretties- Prima Clock Faces, lace, clock hands,metal bird, Prima alphabet.

I'm feeling quite happy with myself after creating this LO, so thank you for letting me share it with you, hopefully I'll be back with more, very soon.

Have a great weekend.
xxxxDebxxxx

Bromsgrove Cropaganza 2011..............

Happy Sunday, Friends !!!! I had the best day ever yesterday, it was Bromsgrove 12 hour Cropaganza and we all had a fabulous time, thanks to Libby who organized it all and made the day such a success, she also made the most amazing Buternut Squash & Parmasen Soup for dinner,mmmm delicious. Libby puts so much time and effort into organizing these wonderful events, so a big,big, thank you, we really appreciate it !!!!
The very talented Ifa Zainon  taught us three wonderful classes throughout the day with a kit from Sarah's Cards which was full of American Crafts papers, Thickers and mini alpha's,bling and lots of other little bits, I still have  loads leftover to do more LO's and cards, she is such a lovely lady and such a great teacher, thanks Ifa.
Here's my three finished projects :

This frame started out as a blank Tando Creative Multi Frame, Ifa had a selection of paint colours so everybody's looked completely different when finished.I love how she got us to stamp and heat emboss on the painted frame, it's so effective. The bits of paper were scraps leftover from the LO's,I added the little drop pearls when I got home.

I loved doing this LO, it is so pretty, we covered the blank chipboard ampersand in embossing powder and heat embossed, cut out flowers from one of the12x12 papers and also added Stickles to the doily, I love those Thicker alpha's.

This page was so much fun to do, I have never doodled on a LO before, but Ifa showed us how and I loved it and will be giving it another go. Where my white space is, Ifa filled her's with journaling which I'm not very good at, I never know what to say but I will do some sort of journaling on this page to finish it off.
Thanks once again to Libby and Ifa for a wonderful day !!!! I also got another two LO's finished which I will show you in my next post. Thanks for looking and for all the lovely comments you leave me, I really appreciate each and every one. Enjoy the rest of the weekend.

xxxxDebxxxx