Here's the Story......

How fast are these weeks going, just feels like I shared my last The Color Room layout with you.

These colours are fantastic, but I really didn't know what to do, kept it simple and a little arty too. I'm really loving to gesso old book pages down on my background :) prepare to see that alot more. lol. all I needed on this was a couple simple embellishments, of course, since we are Prima sponsered this month I HAD to pull out my prima stash ;) ;) ;) (needed so much arm twisting there)

Here's The Story - Would you believe it if I told you that both these boys were sitting in the backs of their Tonka trucks????? well it's true. I put Adam in the back of his to grab a few photos and along came Dea with his truck (yes all my boys have their own Tonka Trucks) plonked it down beside Adam, and sat in the back. They started 'chatting' and playing which is always so beautiful to watch. End result a happy mummy with some lovely photos.

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A Transparent Flower Tutorial, ANYONE???

When you are given a challenge to create your own transparency, you have to think about ink and stamps.... RIGHT??? Well I went for the glimmermist and heat gun approach.

First Step

Spray Glimmermist all over your transparency and let dry (you can speed this up by using your heat gun, just becareful not to use it too much)

 Second Step

Using your Tim Holtz flower die, or punches or any other flower die you have (or your Tim Holtz die ;) lol, cause really it's awesome) cut a few different sized flowers. I went for 3 large, 2 medium and a small.

Third Step

Which I didn't photograph (whoops sorry) is to use your heat gun to shape the petals. First (base) petals don't need alot of shaping, just heat enough so that the sides slightly raise and curl. Continue this until you have heated all the petals and with each one into the centre heat them more so that they curl in towards themselves. You want to create a bud effect. Make sure that the larger flowers are the bottom, the medium are the middle and the smallest is the tightest bud

Fourth Step

Glue your petals together from the most flattest to the small tight bud for the centre of your flower. It really is that simple. Worst thing, you'll want to make more and experiment with different colours. Plus they are something that you need to see in real life because photos really don't do them justice.

and this is what I used it on the Make it Yourself challenge for Aussie Scrap Source which I was late in entering again.

Little Miss - I know I've scrapped this photos too much lately but hey when you accidently print them twice, I'm not going to let them go to waste. Plus I've run out of ink so I have to make do with what I have. lol. Used some of the GORGEOUS new Prima on this. As soon as I saw this paper I knew I had to cut it up. Plus those leaves... to die for.

Side note: I know that the flowers are nothing new, but I just wanted to share ;)

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What do you get when.......

you cross some Prima with some Websters????

Well for starters a fun layout for White With 1

and after that something a little arty, little distressed, little loved.

Dude - Dea had this weird obsession with Zac's gumboots at the end of last year. Would walk around carrying them for ages and even sit and play with them, BUT never ever wear them. Some Websters paper and Prima embellishments, I especially love that mask :) oh and the new (mist).a.bles, going to invest in a few more of those if you want to know where mine came from just check out Annas some of this is out of my new DT kit ;) 

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THE COLOR ROOM

New Palette is up at The Color Room and it is a whole lot of fun. Even more exciting is that this marks ONE YEAR and for the next month we are having Prima inspired palettes *sigh* can it get much better than that

Adore You - Another of Charlottes photos, don't you love new pics to get you all inspired :) this little chicky just makes my heart skip a beat. Using all Prima on this layout, mixed some old with some very new (notice some of these flowers are in the palette) I was actually a little nervous with these colours to start with but I'm really enjoying the way it has turned out. Even used my Cricut :)

 Leave you with a million pics of my flowers (some I made, using Prima paper)

Do hope to see you over and playing along this week.

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Finally....... Savvy Crop Part Two

yep I took my time in getting these up ;)

The last couple of the Scrapbook Savvy CC... which was really fun to play along with

Buddies - this was my take on Anthea's challenge. No card and handmade embellishment. Kept this really simple. Love the colours in these papers, little My Minds Eye and Cosmo Cricket.... this is such a cute pic of Dea. Whole story about this photo which I will get to another day ;) try next FRIDAY (hint hint)

Watermelon - this one is for Kerryn's challenge. Which was sort of similar to Antheas heheeee, old stash, hand made embellishment but needed two pieces of card. My kids would live on watermelon if I let them. They just love it. Don't blame them cause I do too. It's a shame it's so expensive. Mix of ranges again here Prima, Sass, Girls Paperier, Making Memories, Crate Paper and Love Elsie. Was so much fun trawling through my product to find things. Some of this dates back to 2007 (which is when I started scrapping) Few handmade embellishments too, the three different flowers and the slice of watermelon :) do have to love my felt stash :)

There was also a hidden criteria in the challenge, had to create a card using the scraps, as you know me + card = do not mix..... surprising I'm happy with the way this turned out 

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Lock Up Your BOYS!!!!!!!

cause this girl is going to break hearts.....

Again I am completely in LOVE with this photo of Miss Charli girl. It shows her naturally. None of these cheesy smiles she does lately, or playing with her wobbly tooth.

Lock Up Your Boys - Thought while I'm having fun playing along with challenges I might as well give the Stuff 2 Scrap one a go. Was about dressing up your chipboard, not that I dressed mine up much but I did play. Who would have thought when I brought my very very expensive drawing pencils I would end up using them to colour in chipboard (whoops) that's the padlock. As for the heart I painted, added a little bit of tape, stamped it, sprayed with some glimmermist, distressed the edges and then added a few pearls. Pulled out some more My Minds Eye for this one and added a little Prima for some girly touches (loving these new Prima leaves).

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In One Year

a Get Picky Layout for the March Inspiration

In 1 Year - it's suprising how much can change, how much you took for granted can be taken away, how much you learn and you grow. These two photos were taken ONE YEAR apart. Me being 40 weeks and 1 day pregnant and Adam being 8 days from turning ONE. Yep he baked for a long time ;) Mixing up a bit of Prima, SRM Stickers and AC Thickers. This is an awesome prompt and you should stop by and check it out.

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Savvy Cyber Crop Part 1

Thought I'd play along with the Scrapbook Savvy CC this month and YES I will upload in the gallery too, lol. Forgot Last month, whoops......

Anyway this month was all about Stash Busting :) gotta love that. Still the only CHA releases from this year I have are Bo Bunny and Sass. Both I never brought.... so for me it was easy to reach for the older product. Not that I don't love it the same.

Home - This was for Sara's challenge use at least 25 items (every single thing counts)

4x paper, 2x tags, 2x string, 3x chipboard, 1x butterfly, 2x pearls, 4x rhinestones, 1x doiley (cut in half), 3x brads, 4x alpha stickers, 1x photo, 1x tape, 2x stickers, 1x flower, 1x lace, 1x pen, 1x embroidery thread, 1x denim, 1x rubon, 1x machine stitching, 1x sequin waste = 38 items.... LOVE this pic of home. LOVE this range from Crate Paper and a few other little bits by Prima

Tags - This was for San's challenge, use your scraps to make some tags. I like these, they're a little bit funky, little bit random but I think they look fun.

Grrr - I took San's challenge a step further and made this LO using only scraps (minus the card).... yep EVERYTHING come from my scraps stash, I have an embellishment scrap stash on my desk, if things don't work I throw into a bowl, and all these things I'm guessing didn't work on other layouts. lol.... Well Mr Zac, can't say much about this face, past few days I've seen it WAY too often

Just to prove that I do have my little embellishment stash of unused items. 

Stay tuned for part two at a later date

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More and MORE Green

Had to use the Prima colours again. Something completely different to the other layout though. This is a little bit mixed media and I LOVE IT!!!

Happiness - Love this photo of Chevy and Adam, even though you can only see the back of Adam's head. I had a lot of fun with this one. Collage, stamping with ink and paint, throwing a bit of glitter, tearing up paper, adding some gesso. Just fun.

So until I upload again, have fun

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