Retreat Time

Michael and I drove up to Murtoa 2 Saturdays ago. Michael left me at mum's so we could drive to the retreat together.

Had an absolute blast with the girls off my table, they were fantastic! The hostess, Michelle, who I have know for many years online, was really different this year. Welcomed us but then pretty much ignored us. I am not sure if we did something wrong, but it was really disconcerting, even a member of her DT was not the same as she was last year. Michelle's husband on the other hand was just as friendly as I remembered and we had a couple of really good chats. He's a hard worked like Michael and also goes looking for gold like Mick.
This year, I took NO photos to the retreat to scrap, my goal was atc's and Cards. Did no Cards (well one in class), and about 20 ATC's. Did however do 2 Lo's which I was amazed about as I wasn't going to do any this year. Last year I was going to do Lo's only and only did one haha.

Anyhow here are some photos from the retreat..

Mum and I taking a break from the drive. (Snow up the back mountain)

Our Table, clock wise from left, Rosanne, Mel, {Jo, not in photo}, Lana, Maria, Liz, {Yvonne, not in photo}, {Lesley, not in photo}, Kim, Denise, Wendy, {Me, not in photo}, Mum, Rae.

All the excitement of a hail storm, quiet large balls, but luckily very soft!!

Me, Mum and Rae, working hard.. Of course ;)

Lana loving her ink, Maria working hard, and Liz running a muck :D

Class over. Notice it is only girls from Our table in this class...

This was our photo swap. The idea, put 3 photos on a desk face down, then when everyone had done that. Go and pick a pile of someone else's photos and scrap them. Above was the page I made for Julie. I was lucky as I didn't bring any photos (as I wasn't going to scrapbook), but mum had the 20 free ones I had picked up for her at Scrappit. Below is the second LO I did, it was for Rosanne, she loved the one I did for Julie, and asked me to scrap her one lol. Her's is blue as she wanted the water paper to be on the page.

Us holding the LO we made for someone else

Us holding the LO that was made for us.

Mum and I last breakfast.

Group shot!

Hope you enjoyed checking out my photos. I am going to get myself organised and put up all of the ATC's I have ever made.. but give me a little bit lol.

Cheers
Liz

Card making madness

As some of you will know there is a card drive for Victorian farmers, which will be given out in Christmas hampers for them to give away to their friends and families when they need a card. I posted it as a topic, so if you want to have a read here it is... Rak Victorian Farmers. The Christmas cards I have made, may go to the actual farmers, or to my friends lol, will have to find out if she needs any Christmas ones ;)

	This is a card for a male, not really happy with it. Just never went the way I wanted lol.
	I like this card. It is cute. Well the stamps are hehe. This is for a child.
	To toot my own horn I really like this card hehe. I think I did a pretty good job :D Again, the stamps are just so cute, how could you not do a good job?
	This card I made after watching a demo at Roz's online SU party. I used 2 new embossing folders, new BG paper and new sentiment stamp that I got from the lovely Ebony. The rose stamp is one I have had for a year or so, love it :)
	This one is similar to the above, but instead of the embossing folder I used a text stamp, which is more like Roz's one. I made 2 like this.
	I like this Christmas card. The photo doesn't show it right, but where the red ends on the left the card itself is finished (the white you see after is the paper I took the photo on). When it opens the green circle stays on the bottom. I used my new embossing border file on this card. Made 3 of these.
	This card I made using a cricut cut file, my new embossing file, 3 new stamps and a sentiments stamp.

August Goodies

   My prize pack came from Ebony 2 days ago. I was so super excited when I got them.. Well I still am!! It was so much fun opening it and "oooohing and ahhing" This is pack two. My first pack was a cuttlebug. Which I have totally LOVED using. Now I have even more folders to use WHOOT!!

Check out those yummy stamps!	The MM ones are HOT!

My mixed paper		Yummy Bazzill

This is one of the limited edition paper packs from Daisy Bucket. It is super cute. I accidentally forgot to take a photo of the rubons but if you look at one of the pack photos up the top there is a little peak of it ;)

Michael was really sick this weekend so I got a little bit of scrapping done, but spent a lot of time looking after him. Also the scrap room is right next to the toilet, so I didn't really want to be there with Michael throwing up once an hour every hour on Saturday. I have made 2 cards though out of some of the new stuff.
I have also packaged up a COM for Anna (sorry it is so late!!) Been working on my next COM, and thinking about WOM that I owe and the newest WOM swap.. How have I gotten so far behind?? I have an ATC swap due, and another that I want to join, and some others that are overdue.. Time to pull the finger out I think ;)

August Cyber Crop

Ok the Cyber Crop this month was about Travel, so a great way to use up some of those holiday photos!! I got 3 out of 4 done which I think is really good. The holiday pal one, is of Zoe, Declan and me before I left Bundy last October. I really liked this Lo, it won a voucher too, not because I was the best, but because no one else entered that category, so yeah.

This is my OTP entry, it is a canvas and it is now hanging in our loungeroom, I wanted something that matched the walls a little, and as it turns out the dark orange is actually the same orange that is here in the lounge lol. I really hate the colour in our lounge as it seems to eat the light, but looks ok in moderation lol.

This is my card. It is acetate stamped and then coloured. I couldn't find vellum tape, or think of any way of holding it down so now it has a frame which is the tape showing through :(

Last but not least is my Chinese Whisper. It is Trouble sleeping on his new (well was new) mattress. It was his makeshift kennel a table, blanket, pallet and mattress :)

Thanks for checking out my blog and thanks for the recent comments!!! Love hearing from you peeps :)

I forgot..

Ages ago when Allcraftz had the NSD I took the photos of my classes that came, I forgot to post them haha.. mind you some are still in this form. WHOOPS LOL. I am going to complete at least ONE of these things on the Scrapbookit retreat

	"Mini" Album
Card Class
	Basic Grey Mini Album
Lo Class

Recent Scraps

I made this card as part of a weekend challenge from the lovely Megan, I made this card for a COTW for the Cute Stamper's Group/Mailing list, as I owed a card to Joy. The COTW had to be 'Ice Magic', "Use any stamp of your choice that is not usually related to cold weather e.g. a butterfly or a flower. Give your card creation some "ice magic". Use silver foil or gray, pale blue and white coloured card, add some white or silver glitter and any other embellishment to give your stamped image some "ice magic"" Megan's challenge was to use items that were available in the AC4Y store, didn't have to be bought there, but definitely had to be in the store. I was naughty though and used household foil, which Ebony doesn't actually sell lol. So I combined two challenges to get one card :D

This LO I did for the Purplescraps Cyber Crop, the Challenge was to create any Lo with a movie Quote and also some Chipboard. I took the quote from Dumb and Dumberer. It features our old Washing Machine and also our brand new one that we bought last Sunday.

Last weekend was also the AC4Y Cyber Crop. There were lots of great challenges, but I only achieved two. Check out the gallery to see all the neat work done. I did the Card sketch and also the lo Sketch. I am not too sure about the card LOL, it is way brighter than I am used to haha, but I really like my take on the Lo Sketch. I have used my Cuttlebug in both challenges. I really love that little machine.
Thanks for looking, and if you comment DOUBLE thanks!!

Rest in Peace

One of my best friends lost her mother to cancer. I feel really sad about her passing. It must be so hard.
I made this card.

Another friend of many years lost her dad 2 weeks before. I made a card then too.

I hope that I don't have to make any more cards like the above two!

Cyber Crop Fun

 

It's been cyber crop time again at the Allcraftz Forum, this month's theme was Bohemian Rhapsody, Challenge 1 was Sketchy using Megan's lovely sketch.

Challenge two was
It's All About YOU,
this is my entry. It
had to be a photo you
either loved or hated..
Needless to say I like
this photo of myself :)

Challenge three was Olde Worlde Charme (LO Sketch), but I didn't get time to enter this one. Still check out the wonderful entries! It is going to be so hard to vote.

Challenge 4 was Mini Me, making a mini album that had the phrase I am, this is my entry to the challenge.. I am going to add another set of 'files' at some stage. I really like this little Mini.