(Inter)National Scrapbooking Day Weekend Extravaganza!

Southern Girls Challenge and SpiegelMom Scraps are teaming up to bring you a full on, awesome National Scrapbooking Day Weekend of fun, creating and prizes including prizes from our sub sponsor Auzz Trinkets & Crafts

Come and join in the fun - Sign up at https://www.facebook.com/events/352855381575724/

And you can use this special discount code in the Spiegelmom Scraps store to select some goodies to play with.....

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We Are looking forward to this joint awesomeness and hope you will all come and join us!!! I've seen some of the DT projects and you will definitely be inspired!!

{Southern Girls DT} Card - here's a sign... that I love you!

Hi crafters!

When I was still at school, on a whim I did a sign language course - I don't remember a lot of it (a little like those 7 years of Japanese I did! All gone!) but I do remember a few key phrases, and I can still rock parts of "My Heart Will Go On" (Celine Dion) with my hands... which was the #1 song at the time (yes, it was THAT long ago).  Maybe it was a sign (excuse the pun) of things to come, when I would have my own deaf child.  We don't use sign language - we've focused on speech and listening with hearing aids and Cochlear Implants - but it has been so helpful to know a few for those times when the background noise is just so overwhelming and The Boy just can't hear anything.  A few key ones for us have been "OK?", "toilet", "I love you", "look", "show me", "thank you" and "can you see?" - especially useful when there are tall people in front of us at a show, church or display.

So when I saw that Kraftin' Kimmie had Tara - who signs - I just had to have her.  Isn't she divine? She was a lot of fun to colour too, I'll have to revisit her dress when I come to the clothing class over at Kit and Clowder! 

Card recipe:
Cardstock: white, purple
Paper: Kaszazz
Stamp: Tara (including sentiment) (Kraftin' Kimmie)
Colouring medium: copics
Other: hexagon embossing folder, gold heart brads, purple pearl paint

Challenges:
Kraftin' Kimmie: sketch (April) + twine (#276)

 

Card - just because I love you

Hello! Welcome to my corner of the blogosphere!

I applied for the last Tiddly Inks DT call (there's another one on now) and was so excited to be chosen as a runner up.  The lovely Christy asked all of the runners up to take part in a blog hop which has finally rolled around for today! Be sure to hop over to the Tiddly Inks blog to check out the amazing projects created by some very talented ladies :)

Here is my share today, featuring Wryn - Smart Cookie:

 

 

Isn't she adorable? And she comes with some really cute sentiments!

Card recipe:

Cardstock/paper: Crate Paper 'Craft Market' - Handmade Patterned Paper, Crate Paper 'Craft Market' - Project Glittered Double Sided Speciality Paper, white cardstock, pink cardstock

Stamps: Wryn - Smart Cookie (Tiddly Inks), Petite Petals (SU!)

Colouring mediium: Copics

Ink: Strawberry Slush (SU!)

Other: Crate Paper 'Craft Market' Ephemera Pack, pink doily

Challenges:

Besides the hop, I would also like to enter the following challenges:

Sister Act: #102 ATG

Pile It On: #65 April Showers Bring Flowers

Ooh La La: #178 At least 5 layers

Tiddly Inks: #155 Spring's in

Thanks for swinging by today! 

Love, 

OMM xox

Card - 100% organic awesome

** NOTE: If you're looking for my DT post for Southern Girls, please scroll down or click here. **

Happy April Fools Day!

Did you play a prank, or were you pranked? I read a fun article this morning on the top 10 pranks that fooled nations - I did have a bit of a chuckle about some of those!

I have finally had a chance to get my Copics and stamps back out, and I'm so pleased to see that my colouring is improving.  I am STILL working through the hair and skin class over at Kit and Clowder, but I am going to work on that over the next few weeks and hopefully get it finished.  I'm keen to move onto the clothing class but my OCD wants me to finish one before I start the next *grin* - I wish that extended to actual craft projects! HAHA!

Today I have a fun boy's card for you featuring Hipster Kody from Some Odd Girl.  I have coloured him before, but this is the first time he's actually made it to a finished card!  The sentiment is also from this set.

Card recipe:
Stamp set: Hipster Kody (Some Odd Girl)
Colouring medium: Copics
Cardstock/paper: Old Olive (SU!), patterned paper and circles (Kaszazz), offcut of blue
Other: distressing tool, twine, Not Quite Navy pen (SU!), circle collection dies (SU!)

Challenges:
Sister Act: ATG #99
Craft Your Passion: ATG #255
Some Odd Girl: Linky party

Thanks for swinging by my blog today!

Love,
OMM xox

{Southern Girls DT} Layout - Moments in my arms

Hello hello!

Today I am sharing my very first DT project for Southern Girls Challenge.  The challenge this fortnight is ...

DIES AND PUNCHES

Which of course, are my favourite things ever!  I've loved punches since I used a Santa shaped one in primary school for a craft activity... I'm not going to admit how many years ago THAT was though :) (let's just say in the 90s).

This layout features The Boy and I, while he was getting over the trauma of general anesthetic used so he could have an MRI.  He woke up screaming, and didn't stop for a good 45 minutes, and then we had to sit in this position for another 90 minutes wrapped in the first quilt I ever made, until he recovered enough that we could go home.  Poor little mite!  Instead of focusing on the MRI though, which I have scrapped on a previous occasion, I've focused the layout on the two of us (plus Stinky Bear!) in a comforting and loving moment, captured on film by The Man. 

Layout recipe:
Cardstock, paper, embellishments: February Main Cake Kit from A Piece of Cake Designs
Dies: Block Words (Kaisercraft), A Gilded Life lace (Spellbinders)
Journalling: Chocolate Chip pen (SU!)

Come on over and join in the fun, just use your favourite dies and punches to create a layout, card or other project and link it up!

Have a creative day!

Love,
OMM xox

Layout - love shared reading

Happy Monday!

Did you have a good weekend? I hope you got your craft on, I definitely did.  Lots of sewing and a layout to boot! Yeah!

I finally managed to get my hands on a Main Cake kit from A Piece of Cake Designs a few weeks ago, and it finally arrived last Monday.  My hubby teased me with photos of the box knowing that I was stuck at work and then off to a meeting and would barely get a chance to crack it open that day never mind playing with it.  For nearly a whole week the kit lay spread out at the end of our kitchen table - I couldn't bring myself to cut into any of it, lest I regret it.  Such scrumptious papers! And LOADS of embellishments!

Lately I find that I work best if I have a sketch to start me off.  So I picked up the first March sketch from Stuck?! Sketches (see below) and here's my take on it, kinda rotated and flipped:

The photo doesn't do justice to all the glittery, sparkly, shiny elements!  I can't wait to get started on my next layout using this kit!

Layout recipe:
Papers, cardstock, embellishments: A Piece of Cake Designs February Main Cake Kit
Other: cork arrow and chevron (Studio Calico)

Challenges:
Stuck?!: March 1 sketch

Scrapbook Boutique: Colour challenge

Do you share books (take turns to read pages/paragraphs) with your kids? The Boy mainly reads independently now, but sometimes he will read aloud to me and we will talk about the story just like we used to :D Love that kid!

Love,
OMM xox

Layout - NO1DAD

Hi crafters and craftees!!

I was super excited to be invited to be the March guest designer for Scrap Our Stash, and I have been bursting with the news for the past few weeks! And here it is!!!

My layout celebrates the close relationship between my son and hubby, but the journalling is about our son's first triathlon - he was so excited to participate (training wheels and all), and finished with a huge smile on his face. He was just so proud of himself, and we couldn't have been prouder of him either. I have used a combination of Kaisercraft (Garage Days), DCWV and Stampin' Up! paper, with lots of fussy cutting, inking and hand stitching!

This month's SOS challenge is STENCIL:

S - SU! paper, stitching

T - tape, tags, twine

E - edging, embossing

N - numbers, "N01-D4D"

C - circles, cotton

I - ink

L - lemon twine


HINT: Take a picture of your kids with their participation certificates - they are DATED and will help you work out exactly when the event was years later when you get around to scrapping them!

I really hope you'll play along with the challenge!

Love,

OMM xox