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This is a relatively quick layout to do that I demonstrated at the Hamilton Quilt and Craft fair in September. Dianne can tell on me that I was finishing putting this one together on the floor before the show started!! It's that easy . . .
I've used the new, beautiful set called Creative Elements, which is another one of those sets that seem to have random, mismatched images in it. However, upon having a play, they do work together quite beautifully.
I've included an additional border using the Little Leaves die, cut into bits and placed behind my photo mat:
I sure like that flourish included in the stamp set too.
The embellishments along the side are using the Beau Chateau papers and the beautiful Lace Ribbon Border Punch.
The clusters of embellishments are the Frames Embossing Folder, the butterfly from the Creative Elements stamp set, a small heart punch (of course), and an Antique Brad (also of course - cursed be the day these are deleted).
Simple and Effective. We have a scrapbooking class THIS Thursday November 3rd at 7:30pm in Bucklands Beach. Join us!
Supplies Used:
Stamps: Creative Elements set, Very Vintage wheel
Colours: Pink Pirouette, Pretty in Pink, Crumb Cake, Marina Mist, Early Espresso, Rose Red
Other: Lace Ribbon Border Punch, Satin Ribbon, Scallop Trim Border Punch, Frames Embossing Folder, Basic Rhinestones, Antique Brads, Heart to Heart PUnch, Large Oval Punch
During the school holidays, the girls and I are inspired to do something extra special for the significant other in our lives. In July we made the Moroccan Restaurant for him downstairs, and this time we spent a good part of a day making 40 Love Notes.
We just used bits and pieces - stickers and die cuts and stamps to make up some simple ideas. My younger two daughters LOVED the coloring in bit.
I then wrote in all of them, some sentimental, some silly, some naughty, and some appreciative. Kjristi and Sofie wrote a couple and also wrote on all the envelopes and sealed them up.
Our super secret plan was to go over to his house and hide them all over, some in easy places to he'd find them right away and some really really hard so he'd find them continually for a long time.
The four of us were sooo excited. Melinda, Kjristi, Sofie and myself all jumped into the car with 39 cards (the 40th I saved back and stole his car keys and hid it on his car seat while he was over for dinner thanking him for being cool about melinda going to Fiji with me).
We decided to call him along the way to make sure he wasn't home or on his way home. I decided it might be a good idea to have a reason we were in his house . .just in case . . . so I offered to move his laundry along.
Boy did we race around!! We only had 15 minutes before I had to go pick up daughter #3 AND now I had to do the laundry!! We hid them in some good spots. The girls were fantastic.
So, he found the one on his seat right away of course when he left my house late that night. (this was the night before Melinda and I left for Fiji). He thought that was nice and drove off. Then he got home and found one in his washing machine, then another in the bathroom, and then caught onto our game . . . .
He texted me about 40 minutes later and told me he'd found them all - he'd found 11. He still doesn't know how many there are, but I think to date he's found about 20 or so.
We also disovered that the Stampin Up journaler - the permanent black marker pen - that its ink goes through the dishwasher remarkably well.
It was a small thing really, but it was a fun, bonding activity for my girls and myself. And I hope Robert feels special and thought of and cherished. And I also hope that he finds one just right when he needs one.
xxxx Love you Rob
** Love Notes Envelopes set of 40 $14.50 pg 126 (mini squares)
Hi All! Finally home again and have a moment to write up a nice recap of the wonderful wonderful trip to Fiji.
(Ahh I have finally worked out why I could not upload . . . I had the settings changed on my camera and the pics were way too dense. Phew)
The above is our place setting for the first night's dinner. I was stoked with this as purple is my favourite and seahorses are what I'd pick out for myself too. It was perfect! These are handpainted on local wood. Such a cool souvenir.
These are the wonderful young men and women who performed some native dances for us before dinner that first night. It was an big welcome!
Our room. They were great to keep the rooms very cool and to leave us drinking water every day. All our needs were catered for - it was a lovely resort and such a nice place to lounge. I spent as much time as possible in that bed . . . which wasnt' much really . . .
And every night we receive pillow gifts, which is possibly everyone's favorite part of these trips. The first night I received this very cool beach bag, perfect for the adventure the next day. I used and used this and will continue to do so. Thank you Shelli!
Soo, the next morning, we were up before the sun ready to go on a white water rafting adventure. We had no idea the ride there was four and a half hours by bus and van.
Some of the countryside along the way between snoozes.
Melinda and myself at the halfway point. Stopping to have morning tea and a walk around. It was getting hot by then.
Here we are in our gear and helmets after a 20 minute hike through the forest to get to the boats. At this stage we were ready to get wet. We were absolutely melting. But the safety talk freaked us out a bit, so we had a healthy fear of what we were getting into at this stage.
SU was so thoughtful and had a photographer sitting downstream at various points snapping photos of all of us at no charge to us. That was such a NEAT gift!!
It began to rain at some point during the day (all of us had lost track of time between the early morning and the jet lag), and it got cold off and on. The best moment of the trip was in a peaceful part - the scenery was exotic and stunning and birds were singing. Our guide, Abraham, began to sing to us in his language. It was amazing. The four of us were silent and touched by the moment.
I'll add a few of those after I finish this bit.
Friday morning was make and takes and swaps. We have some fantastic product coming up! Might be buying that entire mini catalogue myself to be honest. It was fun to sit and chat with friends from home and australia and craft the morning away.
Delys Cram, Patrice Halliday-Larson, and myself
We mucked around the rest of the day, kayaking and sleeping and shopping. And walking around. I bought some neat little things for christmas stockings and a carving to keep in my lounge as a souvenir.
well I can't remember what we did on the saturday except the kayaking and shopping and lounging about. It was wonderful. Oh yes, melinda treated me to a couple hours at the spa! Lovely!!! I could get used to that . . .
This is us at the farewell dinner, which came all too quickly.
One of the many many stunning flower pieces in the hotel.
I love this. This was our place card for the last dinner - our little teaser for Broome next year. I am so pleased it made it through customs! I enhoy having his on my piano at the moment.
We were treated during dinner to a talented group of local singers who presented to us some native songs. It was beautiful - very high class. They then came through us and shook our hands. They were shy.
a last photo with shelli and sage before we went back to the room and packed.
Thank you so much to all my team and my customers for making something like this possible for me. Melinda and I commented several times that who would have thought . . . two ten year old girls in Montana and best friends for life would one day meet up in Fiji. I feel so blessed and loved and happy. thank you all for being in my life.
xx
Bula!
Sorry it's taken me a couple days to get to this; the internet connnection at this hotel is not only slow and expensive, but charged by data rather than time and uploading was just a pain. I think I have figured out how to do this now without costing hundreds of dollars, and I will continue to post as I can!!
The trip started with a bit of stress as the plane was cancelled and then the charter one was overbooked, but we got here in the end, a few hours late, but they moved the welcome dinner back a bit to accomodate.
We were greeted with refreshing drinks and smiling faces, as per usual on these wonderful trips. We had some local entertainment by some young, talented dancers.
The dinner was a lovely, local food, buffet. Melinda was not feeling so well and the food was even more unfamiliar to her than it was to me, so she didn't get much down. It was fun to try so many different items, like coconut marinated fish, plantains, and bread fruit.
Shelli welcomed us all there with love. She's arrived with her fourth daughter, Sage, who's been a lot of fun to hang out with (more on that later - day two).
. . . . okay I cant get any more pictures to upload at the moment. grumpy face. So I will post this and see if I can at least stick up more pictures later.
And also post about yesterday's rafting trip!
xxxx
Last Tuesday's Scrapbooking class was a challenge for me - the request was Masculine. Lucky I had these nice photos of Rob and Bayley in my stash! The boys made efforts to come to church with us in August when Madeleine was giving a talk, so they were all dressed up and clean shaven. I wonder if men realize how amazingly handsome they look in church attire . . .
I was taking terribly photos last night!! I think I was ready for bed about 530!
First of all, the layout was taken from October's Pagemaps, a most useful website for any scrapbooker! I knew I wanted to use these pictures and I knew I wanted to use the new Mocha Specialty papers. So then it was just flipping through the catalogue and choosing which images and accessories would coordinate.
Most of the images are from the Forever Young stamp set - LOVE these pale tree images along the bottom of the page! I put two hearts on the Antique Tag - one for each of the boys. The little one is for Bayley with just a bit of glitter to the page. He's the type of boy who doesn't mind a bit of sparkle. None for his dad, though . . .
Now the words turned out quite cool. Very very pleased with how that worked out. They are from my favorite word set Word Play, but I've used a marker and omitted half the words. Have a look and see what it originally said and what it says now - a great and easy technique to manipulate and get more mileage out of your saying stamps.
When I asked Rob what sort of images to include on his page, he said "TOOLS". Well . . . . this antique clock will have to do.
I got the layering concept from my team mate and friend Paula Dobson from one of her really cool cards she shared at our last training day. All the layers were a little confusing for my class, but the finished effect is cool. Thanks Paula!
This paper from the Mocha Specialties is flocked, which gives a very rich look to the layout. Hated to cover any of it up! It's hard to tell in the photo, but the striped black and white ribbon is frayed on the edges and then inked in crumb cake. The fraying is another technique we learned at training in August. wow, I keep saying that . . must have been a great day!!
Hope you've enjoyed!
Next scrapbooking class has been moved to a Thursday November 3rd. Our theme will be Christmas. Come along and join us!
Supplies Used:
Stamps: Forever Young set of five $48.95, Word Play set of twelve $74.95
Colours: Basic Black, Soft Suede, Crumb Cake, Early Espresso, Very Vanilla
Other: Metallic Brads, Circle Punches, Window Sheets, Antique Tags, Heart to Heart Punch, Owl Punch, Black and White Striped Ribbon, Square Lattice Embossing Folder, Dazzling Diamonds Glitter
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