Swapbot

I have been swapping lots on swapbot, and loving my time over there!!!!! Here are some of the ATC's I have received. I will get my act together and post some of the ones I have made too... one day LOL
These 3 are from the Scrubs (tv) swap. 2 are gifts and one is the actual swap item. I love them. They are from Bree
These two ATC's are from Kerre for the vinatge atc swap. I am not sure what the gold spots are, but they are really cool!
These two Atc's are for the same swap as the above, and they are created by Joanna. They are just awesome! I love the crackle technique used. I really love these!
This was from Georgina for the tongue twister atc. It is pretty cool, and hard to say :D

World Card Making Day

 

Well it was World Card Making Day on Saturday and we celebrated over at Allcraftz. Fabulous day with lots of fun and games, prizes and even POPS lol.
I only managed to make 3 cards, but considering the boy actually made it home early for once, and we spend the whole of Sunday gardening and playing out and about, I think 3 was a pretty good effort. The Happy birthday one and the 'Genuine' one were challenges set by Megan, the Bird one was a self designed card... Obviously as it is quiet plain LOL.

 

This note pad I made for MrsRankin over at Swapbot. I sent it a couple of weeks ago, but she has been away so I am not sure if she has received it or not.. I sure hope so! I am loving swapbot. Have been in tons of ATC swaps. Counted all the atc's I have made (I keep a register) so far over 152 LOL Isn't that mad?? I am hooked they are great fun.

 

 

Charity Auction

A scrapping friend is having an online Auction, here is the link. Good luck!

Countries of the World ATC swap

I am in a COTWA swap with AngelATC's and the girls have been really wrapped about my atc, so I thought I would share it here. I wrote the instructions out for them so will share that too. It is 100% Tim Holtz product. I love Timmy! I would love it if he came to Australia!!!!! I'd even billet him LOL.. But it wouldn't be a fair trade as I would raid his stash lol.

It is done in distressing embossing powders so it feels
really rough and textured. Anyhow here is said ATC and instructions....

1. inked my 'time' stamp in milled lavender and stamped where I wanted
2. inked my 'corner' stamp (from same set as above) in china blue and stamped where I wanted
3. inked my Mona/paris atc stamp in soot ink and stamped where I wanted
4. Tipped on soot distressing powder (shake first ;)) and then heat well with a heat gun. let cool
5. rub your finger all over the embossing to release the special crystals
6. inked around the edge roughly with Brushed Corduroy ink.

All inks mentioned are the Tim Holtz Distressing inks :)

Spring CC

Cyber crop time again. I only completed two out of the four Challenges. My back was just too sore to sit and do long projects. These are my atcs.

The tin was the OTP. It's a little shiny as it has been coated in modge podge. I really wanted to complete a challenge over at Purple scraps as it looked like lots of fun. But alas the back didn't want to.

Sitting at my desk is really hurting, but standing for shortish periods of time has been ok. The only problem is it does feel ok, then once I have finished (over doing myself) my back KILLS! One period of 'overdoing' was cleaning down our fence of all this ivy creeper and old pieces of wood (and an old clothes line lol) That night boy my back wasn't pleased!

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