New lil passion and some ATCS

Well ive been getting into my cake decorating, theyre far from perfect but im happy with them :) The first one, which is the present was my first attempt at using sugarpaste, they stuff can be so frustrating that its rediculous :D

My next attempt was to do a 2 tiered cake, i ended up doing a magic sort of theme, hence the magicians hat on top :)

And of course 3rd attempt would have to be a 3 tier underwater cake :) i had heaps of fun and hissy fits with this one, haha, and learnt a few lessons about making sure everything is completely dry before putting it on the cake :D

Now to atcs, this is the atc i made for the "trees" swap over a scrapbook studio, i used cork for the trunk,

Thanks to all the girls who participated in the "Mixed Media" ATC swap at scrapbook dreams, they are just fab :)


Gorgeous Xmas swap at Scrapbook Studio,

And an awesome music swap, also from Scrapbook Studio, some awesome ideas with these,

Big Catch Up, ATCs and a LO

My Layout is for the Scrapbook Studio September Comp.
The challenge was
1.Use images cut from transparencies on your LO
2. Old chipboard
3. strip journaling

I had a photo of my nana so i decided she would be my subject for this challenge :)

I used prima papers and flowers, old heidi swapp chipboard letters, hambly transparencys aswell as a few heidi grace ones.

Now to the Atcs, lol, ive been very busy this month with these little things aswell as the circle journal im taking part in at the moment, so i havent actually got any layouts done at all,

This one is for the clear swap for the ATC groupies, i stamped images aswell a embossed, apart from the middle image, it is completely seethrough,

This one is for the Christmas Atc swap at Scrapbook Studio, again a stamped image with embossing.

This one was for the garden friends swap at ATC Groupies, you can see the full set that all the girls came up with down below, I ran the card through the cuttlebug, then painted with metallic jade paint, then stamped with versamark and used pearl ex powders, i did this numerous times with different colours and stamps, i stamped the leaves and butterflies and cut them out aswell.

This one is for the metal swap at Scrapbook Studio, i had alot of fun making these :) and i didnt cut myself n any of the metal so i was quite chuffed with that :)

This one is for the Humour swap at Scrapbook Dreams, The girl and frog Stamps are Basic Grey and Background Stamp is Mickey Choo which i got from the lovely Debbie at Glamour Girls Stamps.

I used Alcohol Ink to make my background, and stamped the girl and frog, cut them out and then used felt tips and watercolour pencils to colour them in, i cut the grass out and spray some glimmer mist on it for shine,

As you can see i ended up colouring all my girls differently, ad those little legs became very tediuos to cut out, only one girl ended up losing a leg though, always good to make a few extra isnt it ;)

This is the numbers swap from ATC Groupies, thanks for an awesome set of cards girls !!!!

This swap is also from ATC groupies, i think we managed to do 3 swaps this month lol, yet again another gorgeous set, the theme was Garden Friends

This swap is the Humour one from Scrapbook Dreams, i couldnt help but chuckle when i saw these, some great ideas ladies, i love them


Well i think ive caught up with everything now :D

Hope you all have a wonderful weekend xx

August Update

Finally got my layout finished for the August monthly comp, over at SBS the requirements were:
1. All page elements must all be held within an area of no larger than an 8" square/circle etc, meaning your scrapping area can not exceed these boundaries
2. ALL TEXT on the page has to be hand written including your title
3. Somewhere on your page you have to show and use a piece of packaging from any scrapbook product


Also received 2 atcs swap back, the first is from ATC groupies, the theme was black/white and colour of your choice, thanks girls they such a gorgeous set.

Next is the july swap for Scrapbook Dreams, which was travel destination, also another gorgeous set, think i might need to buy another folder as my one doesnt want to close now,

We had a swap for a 6x6 niche canvas over at Glamour Girls, this is the one i made for Ngaere, i decided to try something different and got out my sculpy, to make the tree and the birds eggs, we had to include lace and flowers somewhere on the canvas, my birds nest is made out of wire but i also incorperated the lace into it as well as a few other bits and bobs as birds do, i received Ngaeres canvas, i will upload a pic as well as the Zodiac ATC swap from SBS, definitely a must see :)

A few weeks back, Carol sent me some perspex, i had all but forgotten about it till she reminded me :) so thought i better have a play with it, i used frosted glass slides, i stamped them then let them dry then used the alcohol inks on the same side, but dont touch too much or add blending solution as it will smudge your stamping, as i learnt ;) and i just adhered with a dot of glossy accents in each corner

Puzzle Canvas and a few Atcs

The girls over at Glamour Girls did a puzzle piece swap a few weeks back, i saw them whem they were finished and fell in love and of course had to make my own :D

Also over at Atc Groupies we have our new swap which is numbers, to be completely honest i was stuck at first and had planned on going with 1,2 buckle my shoe, but do you think i could find any images :D nope not one, maybe i was just being picky, but couldnt find what i wanted, so i decided to take a different approach and get out all my messy things like embossing powders, inks, and pearl exs and just go from there,

Winter Warmer Comp Week 4 and a few ATCs

well the Winter Warmer Comp is almost over one more challenge and thats it, it been motivational, for week 4 we had to do a layout with distressing, i used Prima Cavalier papers, loving all prima stuff at the moment and got a big pre order booked for the CHA releases :D
Anyway, this was my entry,



This is my Atc i made for the Scrapbook Dreams July ATCswap, theme was travel destinations, i had originally decided to go with egypt, but then a recent trade me win had me going in another direction :D

These ATCs are just to add to my owl collection, love my lil hoo hoo's at the moment :) the background were left overs from a fabric swap from a while ago.

A Few Swap and A New Atc

Finally made some time to pull all these wonderful cards out of their protective pages, and of course put them straight back in, first up we have the "Halloween Swap" from SBBD

All of these were just lovely and creepy ;) look at all the black and orange :D

The next 2 swaps were done through Scrapbook Dreams

The first one is the "Christmas" Swap, these were all so gorgeous and soo much sparkle :)
and the second swap was "Favourite Thing Bout Summer", they are all so bright and summery

This swap i done through a little group, these are the "Introduce Yourself Swap", It felt really weird doing an atc on myself, but when these all came back, they were all so gorgeous, and great to put face to names :D

Ive alo been working on some asian inspired atcs, this is one that ive finished, i used a stamp of 3 oriental women, i used versamark then embossed with black powder, i cut this woman out the coloured her in metallic and non metallic felts, then glazed in dimensinal magic, for the background i used origami paper and stamped a script stamp over the background, and used gold embossing powder, also used some german scrap, its not quite finished as im still searching for the right type of flowers to put on it :)