Purple Scraps Cyber Crop

Well it is ages since I attended a Cyber Crop. Got my newsletter for Purple Scraps and thought I might attend this one. I haven’t done much scrapping or card making lately so I thought “why not”. I am so glad I went too. I did 2 Lo’s and 10 cards as part of 3 challenges. I am just starting the 4th challenge an A to Z of me. Luckily though we have until the 6th(ish) of April to get that done. The cards aren’t due til Monday the 16th, but I already did them :). I am so happy with them too. Lots of fun to make them as well. The conditions were that they were versatile, in that they didn’t have “happy birthday” or whatever on the front, so when you have an occasion you can just pull it out and go with it :) You also had to do, 2 masculine, 2 feminine and 2 kids cards. The other 4 were up to us to decide what we wanted.
The Lo’s were fun to make too. So long since I last did one. I am surprised I wasn’t rusty :D One had to follow a sketch (our house) and the other (family) had to be something that gave you a ‘pick me up’. As I said on the forum. Michael and Mum give me a pick me up.. Unless I am ready to kill em :D

If I have done this right…. Click on the cards and you can have a look at a bigger image :)

One World One Heart

I am sorry I didn't draw this earlier, with all that has been going on in our country it slipped my mind. It has been the worst week I think in Australia's history. So many sad stories and some really good ones too, no matter which I hear I tend to cry. I gave a donation of $100 last night, it is so small, but every dollar helps. I ask you if you haven't given please consider it. http://redcross.org.au/

Thank you to everyone that entered and checked out my blog!! With the help of Random.org, we have a winner. Drumroll... Bleubeard and Elizabeth

I hope you will enjoy the atcs!!

One World One Heart

I found out about this cool massive bit of blog love the other day and I wanted to join in but wasn't sure what I should give away.
I am totally addicted to ATC's atm so I am going to give away 4 ATC's 3 are my most recent made ones and 1 is a lucky one that {with a set} got lost in the mail, and returned over 1 month later.

I want to thank Lisa who is the brainchild behind One World One Heart. Check out her blog. It maybe a little late to sign up to give away stuff. But it isn't too late to join in to the giveaways and try and win some awesome arty stuff.

It isn't all about winning stuff though, it is about finding other like minded souls, making new friends and learning from people all over the world.


Entry is open for all bloggers. Just leave a comment on THIS post. Last day to sign up is the 12th of Feb. There must be some way to contact you. I will email the winner and if I haven't heard from you by my Birthday (19th of Feb) I will redraw and give to someone else..

Good luck and I hope you check out the rest of my blog :)

Birthday ATC's

You may remember I made the set of three cards for the birthday challenge at AC4Y, well at AngelATC's it is their birthday this month so Anne decided to host a birthday swap, so I added another 4 ATC's to the original 3 and sent in the 5 for the swap keeping one for my mum and myself. Anne's pictures look better than my original one.. LOL

 

 

Countries Of the world

Here are my most recent ATC's for this swap, Japan, Kenya, Lesotho and India.

I won 3 Awards :o)

 

 
Aw I am so honoured that my friends have given me this award - the Spreader of Love. Thank you Robyn, Marnie and Linda! It is so awesome of you girls. I feel so honoured to have gotten this 3 times. You have all said some lovely things about me!
The rules are you must post the award on your blog, name your bestower, then bestow the award upon 6 other bloggers and leave a message on their blog that they've received the award.
Visit Robyn at My Inspirational Journey.
Visit Marnie at Marnie's Alter Ego
Visit Loulou at Two offroaders and a couple of dogs

Now as I have this award 3 times I guess I should give it out 18 times lol but I really don't have 18 blogs that I could give it too. So will do as many as I can :)

LouLou, I love the ATC's this girl makes! I am so happy to have swapped a bunch of times with her :) Not to mention she is a great mate, and full of mischief at Australian National Scrapbooking Days!

Marnie, another fantastic little scrapper, active blogger and great friend! Nothing is too much for Marnie!

Robyn, apart from being an awesome buddy, this girl is TALENT! I wish I could do half the sweet looking things she makes!

Annette - another that can be described with the word TALENT! I wish I could do half of what she does too. I love that she happily shares her knowledge. Beautiful, fantastic, wonderful!

The Graphics Fairy, I love the beautiful images this lady shares. Thankyou! It makes it so much easier to find good stuff for atcs when you have a reliable site :)

The last door down the hall, another fantastic vintage image sharer, but also some FANTASTIC arty pieces. I love looking at all her stuff, it makes me want to run off the computer to the last door down my hall to the scrap room and get busy.

Ruby, a fantastic young person with a fantastic attitude. I love her carefree spirit in art, her abilities are awesome!

Dansnark Art An awesome blog with more tutes and step-by-steps.

OK that is all I can think of :)
Enjoy visiting these awesome blogs!

Thinking of You

I made this card 2 weeks ago for my friend Avie who's mother died. I thought I would wait until she received it until I put the photo up.

Christmas Gifts

The first item (Peace) is made for Neca at swapbot. Who is the most patient person. I hope she likes it, I have made it for our scavenger hunt. The E is a close up.
The next 3 are door hangers and close up's of parts of those. The first is for my best mate Shannon, she loves green. The second is for Bec, Shannon's housemate, not sure what her favourite colour is, so I hope she likes it. The third is for Bec's daughter Amara, she is just 1 so no idea of favourite colours, but it is nice and sparkly so I am sure she will like it :)

{Us}

   My most recent Lo, my mum and I. I did this one for the birthday challenge. I didn't win, but mum's lo did LOL!

Swap-bot

I {heart} Swap-bot. It is so much fun!! I really think if you are a good swapper and you don't flake you should join up :) It is free and easy. You can swap anything from art things to scrapping to food and makeup anything your little heart desires!  
I am hosting two swaps over there atm, one a Open theme ATC's - Australia ONLY which is 3 partners and 2 cards to each of them. As it is free theme it should be easy to make. The sign up closes on the 10th- which is really the 11th as the site is American. The last day to mail your stuff is the 10th of Jan.
The second swap I have on the go is, Recycled Christmas Card ATCs -Aussie only which is 2 partners and 2 cards to each of them. The idea with this one is you recycle your Christmas cards and make atc's out of them. The sign up closes on the 1st of Jan- which is really the 2nd . The last day to mail your stuff is the 11th of Jan.
If your new to Swap-bot and I know you personally, from swapping elsewhere, then PM me on Swap-bot and I will let you join in :) 

October Prize Pack and Music Atc's

See I said yesterday I had more to post :) Here is my prize pack from Allcraftz for October. I got to choose my own gear for that month, and I went wild and spent most of the money on stamps LOL. I got all four Penny Black sets, I just love them they are too cute! I also have 2 more single stamps coming and an Autumn Leaves Alphabet stamp set coming, but they were really bought out of CC money and my own (I went over lol). I had a voucher for $200 and still couldn't keep to budget muahah. I am bad!
The papers are for Mum for Xmas she is mad about owls so I got them for her. Some of the littler stamps I am going to give away for prizes for those girls doing the BOM that I have been running through Allcraftz.

  

The colour is WAY out on this close up of my music ATC, but if you click in to enlarge it, it shows the texture better.

Music ATC's that I made for Stamphappy Yahoo Group. I had lots of fun making these, lots of mess, but lots of fun. Check out the cute wings, my first ever wings lol.

Altered

  This is an altered letter (can you guess which though?? lol) I made it for Ali over at Swabot. I had fun doing it, is the first altered letter that I have done in ages! I was so excited I forgot to get a photo lol poor girl had to email me one :)
OK I had way more to blog but after spending 2 and 1/2 hours getting to the post office and home I am spent, so I will blog the rest later. In the mean time, you can't wonder what I did at the P/o lol.

Recent ATC's

        
Well well, aren't you lucky I have blogged more than once this month LOL. Ok here are some ATC's I have made this week...

These are for the Allcraftz swap "Christmas Theme"
Swap-bot "Sexy Theme"
Swap-bot "Vintage"
Swap-bot "where I live"
Swap-bot "Frog theme"
Swap-bot "Christmas Tree theme"
Swap-bot "Egypt"
Swap-bot "Stars Theme"

September Goodies.

These are my goodies for September from the lovely Ebony. Unfortunately I was sick when I got them, the went to the retreat, and life got in the way of taking photos. My October pack is due to arrive soon, and as Ebony was lovely and gave me a voucher to spend I know what I am gettng for that month. I am really excited about it too as I just about got 100% stamps :) With this pack, some rubons are missing as well as a packet of brads which I gave to mum.

 

 

Birthday Challenges

These are my ATC's that I made for the birthday challenge over at Allcraftz. There are heaps of challenges and time left to complete them, but I am just not sure that I will get any more done. I have heaps of swaps almost due and I want to get everything done.

This card is also a challenge, this one was to scraplift from one of the DT or Ebony. I think it looks pretty cute to me. You can't tell that it is all on foam tape, but the little fellow is as well as the blue sheet of paper with circles.

Sad News

Ebony at Allcraftz is shutting the doors. We're not sure if this is permanent or not :( The forum will still be up and running though so that rocks! But it is sad to know the shop is shutting.
Here's hoping all is ok with Ebony and Family!

Been a slack blogger again

 
So what have I been up to?? Ok, well have been doing LOTS of swaps on Swapbot and with my girls over at Allcraftz. I went up to QLD for a couple of weeks with Michael. Had an absolute BLAST! Mostly stayed with my best mate Shannon in Brisvegas, but also went up to Bundaberg. Stayed at a hotel for a couple of nights and also at Michael's parents.
Been meaning to take photos of my yummy September pack, but haven't, will have to relocate some stuff.. Also some is missing as I gave it away to mum (aren't I nice??)
Hmm... Haven't scrapped a page in I don't know how long. The ATC's have had me consumed, but I plan to do a LO very soon as Megan did a lovely sketch for the Allcraftz's Forums Birthday and I really want to scrap it. Will post a couple of pics of my recent 'remake' atc's for Allcraftz (the stupid mail man lost them!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) The first is my Friend theme. First lot actually had a stamped "If friends were flowers I'd pick you", but since making the first lot of ATC's the stamp has run away LOL. Second ATC is my Asian theme. Not as good as the first, but hope it will do.