Jillibean Soup, stirring up YUM

Lets start off with some cards.

Yes do not fall over, I MADE cards

Using some Core'dinations and Jillibean Soup from my Annas Kit this month, so if you are looking for any of these products just pop over there ;)

Technically Bad - The photo might be, but I love it. As for the layout, well it took forever for me to punch those strips. Again all the products on here can be found at Anna's (lace included) and again my handmade flowers. Loving them so much right now. Doesn't help that they are so easy to make too.

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oh and should I mention HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME!!!!!!

I'm in town spending too much money on myself. lol

Sketches and Product Prompts

I've really been loving challenges lately, great distraction from my studies that's for sure ;) lol



Fairy - This is my take on the March Prima BAP so of course everything is PRIMA ;) I love these natural photos of Charlotte. Lately she's been giving the craziest smiles when the camera is pointed her way. So I need to sneak up on her. Loving stitching again too, started using the machine again since it's set up so well in my room now, but gone back to hand stitching, I'm actually surprised this looks neat. Needed the big guns of glue out to hold all these flowers on too. Gotta love my Helmar for that.

Miss You - I knew I'd miss Charlotte once she went to school but I didn't realise how much. She's always been my little helper and somedays I feel lost that she isn't here. This one's for the Prima Product Pick/Colour Palette. Loved the line up of Greens with a touch of white and grey. I really enjoyed creating this one. Lots of cutting, and iron on and old packaging.

So that's it for the moment. I'm off to work on a few more challenges

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Crate and Helmar

Just go hand in hand :) I created this following layout for the Crate Paper Colour challenge, awesome colours together that's for sure. I teamed it up with the ends of my old Helmar stash, as my NEW Helmar stash decided to finally show up yesterday (long story.... couriers rang me at the beginning of LAST week and wanting to know if they could just drop the box off at some shop, this shop is 20km+ out of my way, told them no that wasn't acceptable and that they are paid to deliver to me ;) so they reckon that they were too busy, hmmm, drive past every single day, and I would just have to wait when they weren't busy, guess that was yesterday)

Anyway back to the topic at hand ;) my layout.....

My Baby - well can't deny that fact, he is always going to be my baby. So funny I got Luke to take this photo on what was Adams due date (last year) I actually have a photo of me pregnant with him which I'm going to print off and scrap them together. What a difference a year makes hey. A whole mash of Crate Paper (Restoration, Snow Days, Orbit and Lillian) with a few scattered bits from American Crafts :)

Just the Helmar products I used ;) my three faves

Thanks for stopping by

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A not so mini MINI

This is my last January Project for Annas Craft Cupboard :) ABSOLUTELY loved putting this together, a collection of my January photos for my photo a day challenge, which I should update on my blog.

October Afternoons Modern Homemaker worked so well with this, isn't the little house album CUTE. I ended up removing a few of the paper pages and I used my Fabric Stiff from Helmar on a couple of pieces of calico, once dried I traced the house shape cut it and stitched the edges. Thought this added just a little more homely feel. Plus another range of texture through the album. I've kept it quite simple too. Didn't want to bulk it up too much seeing as there is heaps of pages.

Crazy thing, just looking through these photos and I've noticed that there is none of Deacon :( makes me feel like he's not important, but it's not that, he just RUNS from the camera now.

Hope you enjoyed my album, thanks so much to Anna for allowing me to do it for a DT Project

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Art Journaling :)

I have a confession.........

I haven't journaled very much at all over the past couple weeks.

Now.... I'm wondering if cleaning, moving and re arranging my craft space counts towards it though?????

While playing around in my journal the other week I came across a very cool technique using glue :) of course it was Helmar I had spilt a little bit along the edge of a page I was creating and at the time I didn't think anything of it but once it came time to inking the glue ended up resisting the ink :) just like the Pink Paislee papers, I have created a sheet with which glues work and which don't feel free to stop by the Helmar blog to see my results

I created an art journal page by doodling in Helmar Premium Craft Glue over my page, few hearts, a word, I've used a mask before and painted the glue over it.  

I then sprayed some glimmermist over areas of my paper, blotted it and added some distress ink,

Then I embellished with a flower, tickets, bird, writing, really whatever you want, thats the beauty of an art journal, you do what and there is no right or wrong :)

Also, the glue works well with stamps :) it does take a little bit of experimenting to work out the perfect amount but you can achieve some AWSOME results

Here's just a few other pages I've been working on

 

do LOVE my tag, I'm going to insert it into my journal somewhere I just haven't worked out where or how yet

So thanks for stopping by