Monday, August 31, 2009

NEWS!!!!!!!!

I am Guest Design Team Member this Month over at Mystical Scrapbooks

So please come over and join us and have some fun with some great challenges and a cybercrop later this month

Some of the great challenges over at Mystical are a sketch, technique and word association challenges

Here is my page for a Baby Word Association Challenge



Materials
October Afternoon Ducks in A Row paper, alphas and stickers *
Core'dinations Royal Cardstock *
American Crafts Poolside Thickers *
Cuttlebug Embossing Folder number Collage
Kraft Cardstock
* available from Mystical Scrapbooks

I hope to see all your wonderful creations over there

Ellen

Welcome Miss C

I am lucky enough to be getting pink newborn cuddles as my girlfriend had a little baby girl a little over a month ago and these are the cards I made for them



She love giraffes so I couldn't resist but to use one on the card

Materials
Kraft Card
Crate Paper Sweet Branch Papers
Bo Bunny Double Dot Burnt Orange
Stampin Up! Congratulations, Wild About You and Cause for celebration stamps, Kraft Taffeta Ribbon Close to Coco, Tangerine Tango and Chocolate Chip Ink

Thanks for looking
Ellen


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August Mystical CC

Mystical Scrapbooks had their August Cyber Crop earlier this month.
The theme as COLOUR here are the challenges I managed to do


A Primary Colour Challenge.
I found it so hard not to use Kraft card stock for this page.

Materials
Blue CS
Sassafras Life is Beautiful "pleasantly puzzled" Paper
Scenic Route North Shore Strip Combo 1
My Minds Eye Bohemia Barefoot "Play" Quote
Basic Grey Lime Rickey Buttons
Twiddleybitz Basic Arrow
Versamark Pine Cone Ink
Stampin Up! Canvas, Big and Little Pieces Stamps, Summer Sun, Pacific Point and Riding Hood Red Ink


This was a Challenge to use ONLY Blue, Orange and White.
I loved the restricted colours, makes it easier to choose embellishments and paper......
Materials
Crate Paper Orbit Galaxy Paper
Rasberry Rocket Papers
Cosmo Cricket Forecast Sunny Cardstock Stickers
Pink Paislee Fashion Script Alpha
October Afternoon Night Light Stamps
Stampin Up! White and Blue Bayou Card, Tangerine Tango, Pacific Point and Blue Bayou Ink

Thanks For Looking
Ellen
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Sunday, August 23, 2009

Mojo Turns 100 - Day 5 - Dragonfly Best Wishes


I have had the Basic Grey Wisteria 6x6 for a while and got the inspiration to crack it open today.
I have used the Mojo Turns 100 - Day 5 Sketch as inspiration.

Materials
Basic Grey Wisteria 6x6 Paper pad
Twiddleybitz Dragonfly
Craft Notions Colour Shake n' Sprays in Blue Lustre (from Twiddleybitz)
Eggshell Card
Stampin Up! Short and Sweet Stamp, Taffeta Ribbon, Perfect and Pale Plum Ink

Thanks for looking
Ellen
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Mystical Sale!!!!!!!!!!

Donna need to make some room for new stock arriving soon at Mystical Scrapbooks

RRP have been marked down from 15% up to a massive 60% off...

Be quick, once it gone it gone! No back-orders!

Happy Shopping

Ellen..........

Thursday, August 20, 2009

Twiddleybitz Design Team Call

Are you ready ...... Twiddleybitz are having a design team call for our next term! Check it out here!

Monday, August 17, 2009

Carnival Fun


This a page I did for a Word Association Challenge over at Mystical Scrapbooks.

It's a Theme Park challenge and the words are:
ride
show
attractions
cream
fun
carousel
roller coaster
dodgem car
fairy floss
toffee apple
You can use any or all of these words in your title or journalling - can't wait to see what you do with these words.

Materials
Basic Grey Lime Rickey Papers, Rub ons and Chipboard
Heidi Swapp Credit Card Slide
American Crafts Gift box Thickers
Green Tara and Prima Essentials 3 Flowers
Black Card and Brad

Thanks for Looking
Ellen
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Twiddleybitz Dt Challenge Time

The latest Twiddleybitz DT challenge from the talented Sonya Thair is up on our blog... go check it out here, you might even win some wonderful Twiddleybitz product!!!

Wednesday, August 12, 2009

Baby Girls

Wow so many babies especially girls being born.
My Girlfriend has been very strapped for time and asked me to make 2 baby girl cards for her. So here they are.......

Materials
Cosmo Cricket Honey Pie Clementine and Quinn Paper
Kraft Card
Kelly Panacci Clear Border Stamp
Stampin Up! For a Friend Stamp, Close to Coco and Creamy Caramel Ink




Materials
Cosmo Cricket Honey Pie Clementine Paper
Kraft Card
Crate Paper Little Spout Stamp
Stampin Up! Kraft taffeta Ribbon, Close to Coco and Rose Red Ink, Pink Pirouette Card, Short and Sweet, Wild about you and Cause for Celebrations Stamps

Thanks for looking
Ellen
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Sunday, August 9, 2009

Happy Birthday


It is was Big Boy's 5th Birthday last week I made all the invitations for his party.

I was at the local Kindergym I made name tags for all 15 childrens drink bottles and used my buldging scrapbox to decorate the lolly bags.

All the kids felt very special to have their names on everything.

Materials:
Paper for the invitations and tags is K&Co Rough & Tumble
Kaisercraft Distressed Alphabet & Kids Zone
Stazon Black Ink
Stampin Up Basic Grey Ink
Misc Ribbon, Jute Twine and Grey Card

Lolly bags made from my scraps box...

Thanks for looking
Ellen
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