TOMIC Entry

Good morning!

So I spent most of yesterday working on the The Official Magnolia Inspiration Challenge (TOMIC).  This is the first time I have entered so I am rather excited!

It is a BINGO challenge.  To see the requirements and other entries, please click here.

I decided to go with the centre vertical row, using pearls, lace and the colour purple.

I have used one of my favourite Magnolia Stamps from the Fairy Tale Collection, "Lady Tilda", and the beautiful "Utopia" papers from Kaisercraft.

Materials used:

Stamps: Magnolia - "Lady Tilda", Papermania - Midnight fairytale.

Cardstock/Paper: DCWV, Kaisercraft

Embellishments: Kaisercraft paper blooms, pearls, lace, rose ribbon, punched leaves (punch bunch).

Inks: Memento, Versacolor.  Image coloured with Copics.

 

I hope you like my card.

Until next time, happy crafting!

Carmel :-)

How slack am I?

Or is it more like, how busy has this year been??

Work has been mayhem, and outside of work has been just as busy.

I have been doing lots of crafty stuff, just havent been able to get them online!

Here's to a fresh start.  I am off to try my hand at a challenge for The Online Magnolia Inspiration Challenge.

Wish me luck....

Happy crafting,

Carmel

Where is Carmel??

Its been a very hectic few months in my life lately. I had the PEAK period at work in November, then Christmas and New Year and now, on top of it all, the Floods have affected work as well. Thankfully, my house was not affected by the floods. To quote my friend Kim, "We live in Utopia"!

Family in Lowood, friends in Emerald, Rockhampton and Brisbane have all been affected and it is heartbreaking to see the devastation caused by all the Queensland floods and I will admit I shed quite a number of tears over the last few weeks. Anna Bligh's speech last week about who Queenslanders are saw me a blubbering mess!! Now comes the time for recovery and rebuilding.

As I have not been able to assist with the physical clean up and recovery, some friends and I are going to be attending the Kaisercraft "Rising Waters Flood Appeal Crop Day" on the 5th February at the Browns Plains Outlet. You can find out more details here.

So since I haven't been able to get to work, I have had time to get a little organised in my scrapping area and I've completed a couple of Layouts, pictures to come.

Well, time for me to go back to my scrapping.

Happy crafting,

Carmie :-)

Feeling poorly..

I am sick. I hate being sick. I can think of so many better things to do than sitting here feeling sore and sorry for myself! I guess thats why I'm here on the blog today!

I have been busy taking photos of all my lovely pages and I thought I would post some of the pages I have done in classes/workshops for you to see.

All these pages have been done in a class/workshop at Discover Scrapbooking. You can check out thie blog here.

There was alot of "scalpal" work done in this one. I cut around the edges of some of the petals or leaves so that I can have them laying over the edge of my photo or outer matting. I also cut out a few flowers, leaves and bugs from the same paper as the 2nd matting to place on the page. I used Dimensional Magic on some of the flowers and leaves and used Kindy Glitz on some of the others, just to highlight those elements. I just love this page and Kathy loves it to!!

This was a double page that I did in the first workshop I attended at Discover Scrapbooking. It was an all day workshop/crop and it was great!

I have put this page in our wedding album that I am scrapbooking at the moment. I set myself a goal to have the album done by the end of the year. I have alot to finish in a few months!!

I just love this page. The photo is of my Gran and Poppa's wedding day. I actually missed the class for this page and did it at a crop night instead. I painted the leaves on the side and, once they were dry, smudged my gold ink pad over them. I think they came up nice!

Well I think that is enough for now. When I'm feeling better I will post some more pictures of the pages I have done lately.

Until next time, Happy Crafting!!

Carmie

Scrapping...

Hello again

Its been awhile since I set foot in my scrapbooking area and I have seriously had withdrawls!! So to get the inspirational juices flowing, I downloaded a sketch from the blog of Moma.


This is my interpretation of the sketch.

Materials used: Prisma Cardstock; Papers - Bella!/Ever After, Best Creation Inc./Mr & Mrs Collection, Creative Imaginations/Helen Dardik,Making Memories; Embellishments -Paper flowers, Basic Grey brads, kaisercraft diecut element, Anna Griffin 3D Title Sticker; KindyGlitz.

I was really happy with the way that the page turned out! The sketch called for the main photo being a 6x4, but I used a 5x7, thus making my page a little "fuller" with photos rather than embellishments.

I felt that the page could use a little "bling" so I used KindyGlitz on the flowers. They came up really good!

Anyway, I hope that the girls at Moma like it as much I do.

Until next time,

Happy crafting!

Carmel :-)

May sketch challenge

Hello again

I have been very slack in getting any pictures of pages done this month. You can tell its a peak time at work!

I HAVE, however, taken a picture of my May sketch challenge for Discover Scrapbooking.

I'll have to update the materials used at a later date because I seem to have misplaced the paper with it on there..... oops!

I used an A4 sheet of shimmering paper instead of cutting a Scrapbook paper. I ran a piece of black card (white core) thru my Cuttlebug using one of my "Asian Bundle" embossing folders and then, using my fine sandpaper block, sanded the embossing to bring thru the white core on the image.

I matted my photos on black card. My journalling block is just a piece of white paper ( I used a piece of the paper that came in the sleeve of my scrapbooking album, cut down to size) with gold paint pen doodled around it. I had to practice writing my journalling on a different piece of paper first, just to make sure it all fit in.

I cut the letters using my Cuttlebug and my "Your Not the Boss of Me" alphabet dies and white paper. I had originally thought the white would look alright, but I wasnt overly impressed with the way it looked once sitting on the page, so I coloured the letters using my gold paint pen to match my layout.

Just waiting to see who the winner of the layout challenge is now. Tough competition. You can see all the entries here.

Well I guess thats all for now. Until next time...

Happy crafting!

Carmel

Long time, no see

Hello again

I didnt realise it had been so long since I had put a post up!! I have been busy doing much of same things, scrapping and working.

Here is my page from the April sketch challenge.

SERENITY Material used: Cardstock - Bazzill; Paper - BasicGrey (Marrakeh collection - vanilla chai), Kaisercraft (Offshore collection), EK (Day at the Beach - Beachcomber); Kindy Glitz.

I spent so long cutting out the waves and the pinwheels!! I was pretty impressed with myself though!

I haven't taken pictures of many of my pages lately, (been very slack!), but I promise to get the camera out this weekend and snap away!

Until next time, happy crafting

Carmie