Austin update

Well I am currently still working on some new stuff for Tomorrow's Memories, they are taking me longer than I would like but I am getting there and will show soon!

In the mean time I thought I would share some photos I took of my little man yesterday. They were taken of him with the toy his dad bought for him while we were in hospital and matches his room so they will be up in his room real soon. I had some real fun taking them and changed them to sepia to match in better with the colours of his room.

Paperific 2009

I was fortunate enough to go to Paperific on the weekend and it was fantastic. The Twiddleybitz stand was buzzing the whole time!! It was so great to meet a heap of lovely customers and have the opportunity teach make and takes and do a demo of the Large easel and some Christmas Santa keys. Here are some photos of my day there.

These are of the Twiddleybitz stand taken at the end of the day when I could get a chance without the swarms of people!

Bit of a closer one of the Santa keys I decorated...

This is the easel that I had the pleasure of doing displaying a layout I competed last year for SIA.

Just loved those Prima flowers and glass beads I used on this. Oh and one of Sherry's flowers - they are SOOO pretty Sherry!

Here is a couple of close up's of the work I did for the show...

This is my curly Christmas tree, I loved doing this one... covered in embossing powder, bling (hard to see in the photo) and crystals.

This is the new floating frame I completed as well, complete with my son's 12 week old footprints and hand prints (scanned and printed onto bazzil cardstock)

Sorry about the small amount of posting lately, I am sure I will get in to a rhythm real soon!!

xxx

PAPERIFIC IS HERE!!!

Sorry I have not been blogging lately. I am sure I will get back into the swing of things real soon! Austin is 6 months old on Monday and we have FINALLY finished the cold yo yo between the two of us that lasted 2 months! Of course this put me behind AGAIN... but I have been busy creating stuff for TM and Twiddleybits which I will share real soon.



BUT in the mean time if you want to see some of my recent work and work by the other girls on Twiddleybitz's design team, come check us out at Paperific this weekend. We are at booth 11. I will be doing some make and takes today and would love to see you and have a chat!

Enjoy your weekend everyone, and in the mean time I will share a new photo of my beautiful boy!

Yes he is sitting really well now and loves the new view on the world!

Have a great weekend everyone, and I will post some new stuff shortly!!

Daisy Bucket Wall at TM

Last month I sent back my DT work for Tomorrow's Memories, and they decided to make them a part of a feature wall for Daisy Bucket. I was thrilled to know this and just wish I could be there to see it in person. The girls were nice enough to send me a photo which I will share with you all. I absolutely LOVE Daisy bucket papers as they just seem to bring out the best in my scrapping!! So if you are wanting to get some Daisy Bucket supplies and you are in Perth, head down to Tomorrow's Memories in Bassendean because as you can see by this photo they have heaps of their stock!!

First Steps in Life - Twiddleybitz 'Foot Book'

Ok so I have been really bad at keeping my blog updated. Truth is I have had a VERY busy month with a not well little man. He is finally on the mend now and as soon as I am back up to date with everything I will be back into some more scrapping!

I have managed a little scrapping in this time and it was great to reflect on Austin's life so far! He is 5 months old tomorrow so I have still to add some photos into the book to finish it (the last month, as this book is of his first 6 months) but I thought I would share it anyway.

I have used 'My Minds Eye' - Breaking free paper, which might I add I LOVE!! I think that this brand of paper is quickly becoming a favourite of mine.

Now I just need to get my hands on another one of these books to do the next six months!!

New Twiddleybitz Design Team announced!

Yes.... finally the new team has been announced and I am so pleased to be able to say that I have been given another stint! The team is filled with some wonderfully talented ladies. Links to their blogs have been updated on my side bar.

Please check out the Design team blog for a new competition to win some of these yummy chipboard pieces to use on your next scrapbooking creation!

Layout for SIA

Hope you are having a good week.

Earlier this year I was asked to submit a Layout for Twiddleybitz for the competition at SIA. I realised I had not shared this one on my blog.... so thought it about time. It is another for my wedding album that is slowly getting done. I have used some yummy twiddlybitz pieces (of course!!) and Basic Grey paper.

I struggled at the the time to get it done as I couldn't find my mojo... but it is amazing what a deadline will do... mojo was found and Layout done in a night!

Austin update

Today my little man is 4 months old, so I made sure I took some photos of him. He is smiling more and more each day. Tonight it was like he had the smiles and giggles for about 2 hours! Such a pleasure to have this much happiness in the house.

Well I thought I would share some of the photos I took today. Look out for them in upcoming projects!

Happy Birthday Leonie

The other weekend I found this cool template for my Pazzles, and well I thought I would make some to give to friends for their birthdays! Saw this idea a while ago on a friends blog and when I saw the template I just couldn't resist....

Well I got a chance today to get started and today it is one of my friend's birthdays so she is the first to receive one!

I will be seeing her tomorrow... hope she enjoys it.

New stuff and apologies...

Ok well first of all I must apologise for not updating my blog over the last few weeks. After having a sick little bub for a week and a half - I simply fell behind on SO much stuff including my scrapping and updating my blog.

I have been busy over the last 2 weeks catching up and getting some projects done, and can I say I have REALLY enjoyed my scrapbooking the most in AGES!! I think it has been the challenge of doing male layouts of my little boy. Trying to think a little more outside the square when it comes to embellishments as well as trying to use different elements of a paper range to provide more of the embellishing on the page.

So over the next week I will share the projects that I have completed recently... I hope you enjoy looking them as much as I have had creating them. And also some pic's from by birthday that I celebrated yesterday.

I will start the week with some Design team stuff I have done for Tomorrow's Memories that will be sent off tomorrow morning. I enjoyed using the "Little Monster's" by Daisy Bucket SOOOOO much that just can't wait to share what I came up with. Probably not surprisingly seeing that it is one of my favourite brands of paper.

I have not been a person who likes to scrapbook with really bright colours, but I do have a soft spot for orange when it is incorporated into a bright coloured paper range. I made 3 layouts and 2 cards which will be arriving in Perth by the end of the week (I am hoping... - c'mon Australia post!!). They have a bit of dimension to them so if you want to see the full effect you'll have to pop into the shop and check them out!

Twiddleybitz Design team call

For those of you that have loved the awesome chipboard pieces that I get to work with. Twiddleybitz currently have a design team call for new members. Check out the Design team blog at http://twiddleybitzdt.blogspot.com/ for details!

New photos of Austin

Photography by Brooke Chalmers

I thought I would share some new photos of my little man. He is growing fast and learning new things all the time.

A month ago one of my lovely friends took some pictures of Austin. She took some really cute photos of him just over one of our friend's houses. I was amazed how easily she took these pic's of him.

If anyone would like some photos taken by Brooke, you can contact her on brooke.r.chalmers@gmail.com she does photography of children in your own home, where they are happy and relaxed in their own environment and no need to travel for the shoot!

I will be using these pics in some upcoming projects and Can't wait!! Hope you have a great day....

xxxxx