Last ever Scrap Tiffany DT project

Sad to say but Tiffany is not continuing on with her scrappy blog. Sob. It's been wonderful to work with the lovely ladies that make up her DT and Tiffany herself of course. All very wonderful people.

Here is my card for the sketch challenge set this month. It's called Remember When and has old movie stars featured in it.

Scrap Tiffany using Kaisercraft

Hi everyone,

The first of the month is here. Yay. It's always an exciting time.
I got some nice happy mail today from a win on Facebook from D-Lish Scraps. Lots of embellies to use on my future projects. A lovely surprise.

Today is challenge day at Scrap Tiffany. We had to use our favourite Designer's products. I chose to use Kaisercraft. I'm really pleased with my card. I've also included a tiny Creative Memories snail sticker and title sticker. Can you see the little snail? He was the perfect colour match. Plus, I've hand-stitched a couple of lace flowers which I wanted to incorporate too.

Pop over to Scrap Tiffany to see what the other Designers did.

Guilty Pleasures

Haha, that's a winning subject title!  That's the challenge at Scrap Tiffany this week. See here for the Design Team's reveal of their guilty pleasures.  Here is mine. I made a card. It's an invite to a friend for tea (I don't drink coffee, but they might like to). I do like to take time out to catch up with a good friend over a cuppa, whether at my place, their place or a cafe.

Friendship

Scrap Tiffany's challenge goes up today. The theme today is friendship. Everyone needs good friends. Where would you be without them. Lonely Hotel, that's where.  Take a moment to make a card for a friend to show them how much their friendship means to you. When you are done, photograph it and email it to tiffany@scraptiffany.com and Tiffany will put it on her blog to share with the World. Fun, huh?  (p.s. you can make a layout too of course)  As I'm a card designer there I've made a card. Here it is.

I've made lots of crafty things with pink with year. I think I'm getting the hang of it.

Blog Hop Giveaway WINNER

We have a winner. I put all the names in a little basket and my son drew out:


CRAFTING WITH FAITH


Congratulations. You have won my giveaway of winter-themed scrapping goodies. Please email your address details at tiernans@optusnet.com.au and I will send it out to you.

Stamped image challenge for Scrap Tiffany

Today's challenge for us Designers at Scrap Tiffany was to use a stamped image. I received this very cute little boy image through a swap at Amanda's swaps. I started with him. I coloured him in using my pens and I used a pencil for his face. Then I've used a few Basic Grey Wander elements, the title and arrow are made using rub-ons. I also have a chipboard image with the helicopter.

ScrapTiffany Recycled Blog Hop, plus a giveaway

Hi. I'm Dale, a very keen scrapbooker and cardmaker from Western Australia.

Welcome to the Scrap Tiffany Recycled Blog Hop. If you'd like to start at the beginning of the hop go to here.

I have chosen to make a gift box. I'm recycling a box of Blaq socks I gave my hubby for Christmas. I'm transforming it into a box to enclose his Anniversary cufflinks. As it's for a man I've chosen a classic black and white colour scheme.

The box was already black to begin with. It slid in and out.

I then simply put the gift on some tissue paper into the slide in part of the box and set aside.

 I covered the outside of the box with Upsy Daisy Designs patterned paper. Then I attached some interesting white ribbon. I cut out a design from another piece of patterned paper by Upsy Daisy Designs and attached it to the top using pop dots to give it some dimension.

I think you'll agree that this now looks a little different to the original and is certainly an improvement. Plus, as the box slides in and out it can even be re-used again. I will have to give it to someone other than my husband though as twice is enough.

Here is Paul receiving his cufflinks. He was very happy with them.

I've also created a layout about the gift giving. It was the occasion of our 16th wedding anniversary. All the products used on the page are by Kaisercraft.

I'm also running a giveaway in conjunction with this blog hop. It's very simple to enter. Merely be a follower and leave a comment on this post. I'll draw the winner after the hop has concluded. Here is my prize. It is all winter-themed.

Thanks for persisting with this very long post. I hope you liked what you saw and now I'll send you on your way to Danielle.

ScrapTiffany - http://www.scraptiffany.com/
Michelle - http://michelle-livingandscrappingmylife.blogspot.com/
Katie - http://scissorsspatulasandsneakers.blogspot.com/
Kay - http://kaysscrapyday.blogspot.com/
Jennifer - http://www.jdcreated.blogspot.com/
Norazah - http://letscraft.blogspot.com/
Jolanda - http://jolandascrapsels.blogspot.com/
Wendi - http://scrappydayinparadise.blogspot.com/
Bev - http://beeceecreativity.blogspot.com/
Krischelle - http://www.alteredpage.blogspot.com/
Sophie - http://lescrapdesoph.blogspot.com/
Gaby - http://www.gabycreates.com/
Dale - http://daleys-dailies.blogspot.com/
Danielle - http://scrappindanielle.blogspot.com/
Renee - http://charmsbuttonsbows.blogspot.com/
Becca - http://lovelifecrafts.blogspot.com/
Danielle 2 - http://ecoscrapbook.blogspot.com/
ScrapTiffany – http://www.scraptiffany.com/

Scrap Tiffany Blog Hop - coming soon

It's coming... The Scrap Tiffany Blog Hop 2011



That's right bloggers, The Scrap Tiffany Blog Hop is only but days away. Be sure to check it out from this Thursday... there will be heaps of ideas on offer, with 'recycle' being the theme!

Tags Galore

I've been making a lot of tags lately.  I made these ones with my left over Serendipity Squares from my Tuesday Tutuorial with Scrap Tiffany this week. These are for a swap I'm doing this month. I made 7 of them.

I made these two tags for a challenge at Scrapbook Savvy last month. One is a birthday tag and the other is a Mother's Day tag.





Tutorial at Scrap Tiffany - Serendipity Square by yours truly

Today is Tutorial day at Scrap Tiffany and today's tutorial is by me. I chose to do Serendipity Squares. There are details instructions and photographs that show you just how to make them. Just click on to the link below. Enjoy.

http://www.scraptiffany.com/blog_tiffany/2011/04/t.html

Scrap Tiffany reveal

For me the Scrap Tiffany's 1st of April sketch challenge was to turn this sketch into a card.  No problem. I actually really love the card that I've made. Here is the sketch:



Here's my card. It's called "A little bird told me".

Cute huh?

Scrap Tiffany - Beauty

The challenge for us Designers at Scrap Tiffany this week was to represent beauty in a card or layout. I made a very sparkly card. Here it is for your viewing pleasure.

Here's the link to see what all the other Designers did:

http://www.scraptiffany.com/blog_tiffany/2011/03/what-is-beauty.html

If you'd like to join in just email Tiffany your creation.

Scrap Tiffany reveal

Scrap Tiffany has the perfect challenge this week. It is to create a layout or card about sports. This is very easy for me as I do it regularly. I make an ongoing cricket album for Damon and an ongoing football album for Mark. They both play both sports but I decided to pick one sport for each boy.

I also make lots of cards for the boys to give to their friends and they are often sports-themed.  Here is a card that I made for Mark to give his friend Taylor. They are both in the same house, Swan and Taylor is a fast runner. I had the perfect photo of them together at last  year's sports carnival where they are getting ready to run a long distance race. Mark is the boy on the left. He gave this card to Taylor for his birthday.

Stylish Blogger Award - take a peek

Blow me away, I have received an award from a fellow blogger, by name of Harmony Sweetpea (her blog is at http://harmonydiy.blogspot.com/).

So now it is my duty to share seven random facts with you, then pass this award on to seven talented bloggers. So, here we go:

1. I love Rick Springfield, have done since I was 14 and Jessie's Girl was first released in Australia. I got to meet him (and give his a smooch and a squeeze) last October. Bucket List item ticked off.
2. I love to swim.
3. Even though I haven't done it in  a while I really love to ride horses. We owned and trained race horses when I was growing up. What young girl doesn't want to have a horse?
4. I have two handsome, talented and intelligent sons.
5. Do I actually need to say it? SCRAPBOOKING is my hobby and passion.
6. I'm in a book club, we meet once a month at The Left Bank.
7. Blue is my favourite colour.

I now nominate the following talented bloggers for a Stylish Blog Award:


Tiffany - http://www.scraptiffany.com/ A very inspiration lady and a blog to match.

Debi - http://debisjoy.blogspot.com/ A lovely lady and I like her scrapping style, she has a lot of variety in what she creates.

Mandysea - http://teacupofscrapisms.blogspot.com/ Check out the eye candy here. Great name for a blog too.

Karen - http://karenshady.blogspot.com/ Can't miss out Karen. We were on a DT together and she's currently DT for Kaisercraft. I'm sure you've seen her stuff somewhere.

Nay and Gilly - http://nayandgilly.blogspot.com/ You get two ladies in one blog. Only a recent find but can recommend.

Natalie - http://onescrappydoctor.blogspot.com/ Fabulous creative artist and a doctor.  Talented.

Leelou - http://leeloublogs.blogspot.com/ You've got to check this blog out.

Don't you just love looking at blogs. So much creativity out there. Why not pay this forward ladies? You might find someone you'd like to follow too.

Tutorial

Slip on over to Scrap Tiffany (http://www.scraptiffany.com/) to see a tutorial I wrote on how to create labels for your albums. Let me know what you think.

Scrap Tiffany - Metal or wire challenge

Tiffany asked us Designers to bring back the metal or wire to our cards and layouts for this challenge. Here is my card "Joy".

I have combined my love of beading and card making for this challenge. I dipped into my stash of beads and made the stem and leaves of this flower with them and some green beading wire. I've used BG rubons and a die-cut flower as well. I created a circle punched hole in the front to sneak peek through to the pretty paper inside the card.

If you want to join the challenge go to http://www.scraptiffany.com/ for more inspiration from the other designers and you'll find Tiffany's email there too.

Scrap Tiffany reveal - Inspiration in Colours

It's the first of the month and that means our Design Team layouts and cards are up over at Scrap Tiffany. The colour inspiration for us to play with was yellow and grey.



I made two cards, both birthday cards.  Here they are.



Why not play along and make something with this colour scheme yourself? Mail it to Tiffany at ScrapTiffany@yahoogroups.com.

Scrap Tiffany Sketch Challenge reveal

Morning all.

It's the second challenge for January over at Scrap Tiffany. As a card maker there I had to turn this layout sketch into a card. Well, never having done that before I just looked at it and ignored the word photo and thought about how I could decorate a card using the shapes. The result is a pretty, girly card that I made for my Nan. I gave it to her on the 31st of December for her birthday.

If you'd like to challenge  yourself make a card or layout and send it along to tiffany@scraptiffany.com. For more inspiration take at look at the blog at what the other Design Team members did at http://www.scraptiffany.com/.

Scrap Tiffany challenge # 1

Scrap Tiffany is off and running for the year of 2011. I'm a card designer over there. If you want to join in just scraplift something from one of the designer's blog sites and email it to Tiffany. Feel free to choose me also if you'd like. Here is what I did. I scraplifted a layout that Yolanda did almost exactly. It was so easy to translate it to a card. The theme is soccer. Plenty of my boys' friends like it so it will be an appropriate birthday card at some stage. No point in making something you won't use I say.

Yolanda's layout

My soccer card

1/1/11 and Scrap Tiffany

Just had to type those numbers. What an interesting combo.
I love the first of the month. Loads of new challenges to find to be inspired by.
Today is Perth Cup Day. There will be lots of sunburnt punters today no doubt. I'll gladly watch it on the tv this year. Too hot.
Look out for http://www.scraptiffany.com/ after today. Tiffany is overhauling her blog and the new Design Team featuring yours truly will be up. Also she is launching a new format so have a look out for it. Exciting stuff.

Have a great new year's day.