Halloween Greetings from Iowa

The photo is of DD enjoying her first really Halloween American style. The 2nd page are the cards that she sent us, the Bassett looks so much like our Ike. I have used the wonderful graphic 45, plus some of the pinkpaislee, chipboard tree sprayed with the black spritz which I just love as it has a sparkle in it. I never thought I would do 1 Halloween LO let alone 3. I did think with DD away that I would have so much time for scrapbooking, but how wrong I was, but I need to get a wriggle on and do a lot more before she gets home, as I would say I have about 1000 photo printed already, OMG, looks like my albums will have to wait again.

Halloween

Yes I did get carried away with the decorating, but why not go the whole hog, I even handled spiders, they were plastic but still a big thing for me. Chipboard cutouts, spritz, ad pinkpaislee papers and rubbons I added to the LO. I use silver embossing powder on the spiderweb.

Mad Hatter's Tea Party

I do think that I got a little carried away with the whole Halloween thing. Lucky Annabelle & I have good friends that go with the flow. But once I started, it just got bigger and bigger, but we did have lots of laughs and full tummys. I have used a mixture of products on the LO from Graphic 45 to pinkpaislee to the new glitter paper and of course my trusty cricut machine. Oh and I spritzed the chipboard Boo, but my fine mist just didn't work and I ended up with blobs. Not to worry.

My Sixteen year old Baby

This is the start of the LO, I bought a lot of the pinkpaislee Parisian Anthology, and the paper on the right is how it looked before I got to the 2 pieces of paper with paint, I was going to use kaisercraft Teal stamp pad, but I found I had paint that would be ok with some white added, well... it match pretty good, but I would have liked it a little paler, but I have moved on, "the sun will come up tomorrow".

so this is the finished LO, a bit loud looking at it here now, I did try and spray it with spritz, to tone it down a bit, but I didn't have enough, anyway I must move on. I made flowers out of the gathered material and then added some bling, I also found some bling & rub-on florishes, which I think blended in with the whole LO.

I had to dust of this bling florish, bought them sometime ago for a special LO, and this was it.

I had to find a needle and cotton for this part.
So that is the 1st LO using the new paper, not sure what I will do with the rest, possibly heritage, which I think will really suit it. But this was fun and a learning experience.

Advent Calendar 2010

Organised chaos!!! Beginners are grinners!!!

Sheer concentration & determination!!!!

Chocolate time!!! Who can go past Cadbury Roses Everyone look at the camera, oh well, I will if nobody else does.

To be continued.........

Firstly it has reached the 100 days till DD comes home, boy I will then be snowed under with LOs, she has become a wonderful little photo taker, and keeper of all things scrapbookable. I have taught her well. I often say don't forget to take a photo of this or that or keep this or that, and she has already done it. :)

Well now all about today, well we ladies got together and by 11.00am we were into serious cutting, inking, sticking, laughing, eating, gluing, making mistakes, fixing mistakes, discussing, embossing, masking, painting, attaching micro beads that run every were, decision making (we all know who has trouble with that, but did cope well today) and packed up by 6.00 and on our way home. And after all that time we still have the little boxes to cover and add the numbers, but that's a Melbourne Cup day, more good food, and lots of laughs.

It doesn't look like we did a lot today, but we were busy for the whole time, lucky we aren't doing them for a living. Thanks for a great day Floss, Trick & Treat & Rosepetal.

I am now planning my next LO, using the new pinkpaislee Parisian Anthology, I just can't wait to have a go tomorrow. I have photoshoped some photos that I think will suit the papers, and I hope a ink that I have will do the trick, so fingers crossed that it makes it onto the blog by tomorrow night.

Sweet 6 teen

I haven't used any new techniques on this LO, but I did use all the left over from the 1st LO, so that is a bonus, and I didn't spend all day doing just one LO, another bonus, had fun with the cricut, Graphically Speaking cart. so another bonus, and have loved using the Spritz another bonus, but its nearly empty, so I will have to buy another, don't think I can live without the Spun Sugar now. So all in all I have had a good day and thats a bonus, so sorry if anyone was wanting to learn a new technique from this LO, but it might just remind you that LOs can turn out pretty good with not a lot of embellishment, or different papers and lots of brain drain, sometimes less is best, and it was for me on this LO.

Sweet Sixteen

Breakfast with Tiffany & Co, & Mum.well my little girls is growing up so fast. I wanted to surprise her with something form Tiffany's as it was such a special birthday. I did enjoy doing this LO, it was really hard to find paper to match Tiffany's colour. I bought the base paper, which is the basic grey urban prairie, bluebird. But I just needed something else, so back down to my LSS, and I found another range of kaisercraft that I didn't think I would use, being "Child's Play". But just to tone it down a bit, and to match the base paper, I sprayed it with "Smooch Spritz", "Spun Sugar". For the base paper I cut letters out on the cricut then sprayed it, removed the letters, then I printed the other words over the top, thank god for A3 printers. Stamped a few words to tie in with the words that I found in the "Find a Word" paper. Then I cut out the letters to spell out the girls names. So I am really happy with this LO. I must now do the 2nd page that goes with it.