Hot Blog Hop Hawaii Heaven!

Jacob should arrive in Hawaii any day now so

there is only a few days left to enter

Jacobs Giveaway

of a set of

Peachy Keen Retro Faces!

 Make sure to stop by Erin's blog to enter!

Good Luck!!!

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Plus some exciting news for me! Some of my work is featured next month in Ginger Scraps Street Magazine!

How exciting!

Cheap Chirpin Tuesday #3 May!

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Cheap Chirpin #3 for May!

Cheap Chirper #3 for May is: Work in Progress Books!

In scrap shops, you can pay anywhere from $12 to $20 for these Work in Progress books.

It is just a file of ten 12 x 12 display pockets, which you can use to keep matched paper together, store unfinished projects in one pocket, plan your layouts and leave photos and matched paper together with a little post-it plan until you get to it. (These are great for pre-planning scrap retreats).

 MINE, however, are altered. You can pick up these A3 display folder books cheaply from Newsagencies, when school is well and truly back and they are clearing out old stock. These are often on school book lists for Junior Primary class portfolios. Even though this is tagged $7.95 I got a few for $5 each on sale.

 Then all you do is place on 12 x 12 sheet in the front so you can see where to trim and use your trimmer 5 times slowly across the book and ....

 

You have a 12 x 12 display book for organising your layouts! 

I have one for boy matched paper, one for brand label paper which I enter challenges for each month (Bo Bunny, Kaisercraft, My Little Shoebox, Imaginisce) and one with photos matched to paper with little plans drawn for the layout in the pocket too.

So do yourself a huge OCD favour one day...

Lay out all your photos in matching sets.

Walk around the table with matching sets of paper and match them to the colours in your photos.

When you have them all sorted into piles...

 

Put them into your new $5 display book ready for INSTANT scrapping! That hour will be worth a day!

Remember to comment!

Cheap Chirpin prize box so far: Chalking palette, Metallic wire, Whimsical paper clips, Pentel outline markers, Bag of mixed brads, ten sheets of bazzills, 39 pieces of chipboard lettering, pearl paint pots, fake eyelashes, 20 doilies, coloured bakers twine, liquid pearls, water coloured pencils pack, pop embellishments, photo anchors, 2 metal butterfly altered rings, Easter pastel ribbon, an altered display book and whatever Carlene has for you on Me n Miss Pink Cricut today! 

HOT BLOG HOP UPDATE!

Jacob will be arriving in Hawaii any day!


He is off to visit Erin from a Girl in her Craft Box.

But Erin needs some help deciding what should I do with Jacob while he is in Hawaii. What projects should she make with him??


You can win yourself a set of Retro Peachy Keen Face Stamps if you head over to Erin's blog and comment!

Erin is an awesome crafter and her blog is always a great laugh. You should head over there, join her competition and follow too!

Have fun Jacob!

Change your blinkie link if you are following the blog hop! http://agirlandhercraftbox.blogspot.com/2011/05/jacob-is-on-his-way-and-he-is-bringing.html?showComment=1305332019653#c2735274986340187152

Cheap Chirpin Tuesday!

Cheap Chirpin #2 for May!

Cheap Chirper #2 for May is: Altered Rings!

They are in $2 shops for a reason!!!! They break easily. 

 

But one little girls broken heart over her ring that broke in two minutes is one scrapbookers ready made embellishment!

It doesn't take much effort to separate the ring from the top part. VOILA! Cute metal embellishment. You can use Stazon ink on the metal, stickles, i-rock gems, JUST ABOUT ANYTHING can help bling them up. 

PLUS the top part looks AWESOME if you stick it through the cuttlebug with some paper on top. Makes a cute embossed butterfly shape. 

The glue gun will keep it stuck to most surfaces. 

Remember to comment!

Cheap Chirpin prize box so far: Chalking palette, Metallic wire, Whimsical paper clips, Pentel outline markers, Bag of mixed brads, ten sheets of bazzills, 39 pieces of chipboard lettering, pearl paint pots, fake eyelashes, 20 doilies, coloured bakers twine, liquid pearls, water coloured pencils pack, pop embellishments, photo anchors, 2 metal butterfly altered rings and whatever Carlene has for you on Me n Miss Pink Cricut today! 

 

Whimsical Wednesday Birthday Challenge.

Whimsical Wednesday has a birthday celebration challenge on. This layout celebrates my 7th year in this world. At that age, most kids want to run away and join the circus... But I had the best ticket in the house - My Life. I had a wonderful childhood with great friends, a good family and lots of fun things to do! Imaginisce's Animal Crackers paper set was perfect. 

My family were active in the community.  I enjoyed freedom of the early 80s that our kids will never be able to experience. Playing on the street, animal nursery at our school, 20 kids on one climbing frame, cowboy themed dances with actual hay in the room! Thanks to allergies, safety rules and litigation, lots of these experiences are all but gone. 

 I was lucky enough to have a great set of friends and my school churned us out into a great bunch of citizens, that a lot of us still know each other's names 30 years on.

I returned home from school and playing many days bursting with excitement about what I did for the day. It was a great time to be a kid. 


My mum made the cutest doll cake for my birthday. I still remember every detail about the few hours I watched her put the icing on. 

 I cut out a ticket border from the Imaginisce paper set and then used a single hole punch to cut into the curved edges to make them look authentic. 

It is my step Dad's birthday today. Me and my spunkymonkeys have moved into his house on the farm recently after I separated from my husband. So his quiet, peaceful house has become a bit of a circus. So I also used some parts of the Animal Crackers paper to make him a card today too. The boys love their Poppy so much.

Thanks for a great challenge Whimsical Wednesday. It was a great layout to reflect on how lucky I was as a kid. I hope my boys will be able to reflect on their childhood experience with the same smile in their hearts. 

Whimsical Wednesday Royal Celebration.

Hi All!!! Whimsical Wednesday is celebrating my Royal Wedding with a Challenge... And yes... I said 'MY' Royal Wedding!

The Queen has graciously allowed me to announce here on my blog that I am actually married to Prince William and we used poor commmoner Kate as a body double for the photos, to attend all the boring public duties and fool the papparazzi.

I was chosen by her Royal Highness to be Will's true bride.  Kate, being so ultra thin, will have a bit of work getting preggo. I, on the otherhand, breed boys quite successfully... which is EXACTLY what the monarchy needs right now. 

Except my new sons will need a LITTLE bit more training on how to be princely-like. Yes, they are underpants on his head.

Anyhow, I LOVE the new i-rock trays just out!

You pour out your little bling bits, use them in the tray and when you are done, unscrew the tray cap, and they ALL go back into their little bottles. (I have found dropped i-blings in the weirdest places till now).

So I blinged up the page with some new red different sized i-gems.

I made some elements that matched my hunky new husbands jacket with the i-rock...

I chose some paper fit for a Queen!

All this to scrapbook my royal wedding, but also remind me in years to come of the fun that PhotoShop has brought to my life! I have been teaching Photoshop to some friends of mine too and always get quick calls asking,

 "How do you..."

Except the other day I was on the mobile phone, "Just use the lassoo around your sister's body and use the magic wand, grab the paint bucket and dump some black on the background." That got me a few weird looks in the shopping centre!

While teaching people, I learn so much too. I love it.

Anyhow, Thanks to the Whimsical Wednesday crew for a very fun challenge! While Kate is out and about being a fake duchess, it will leave me more time to scrap the rest of my royal wedding!

Cartridge or Peachy Keens! What will the winner Choose on Chooseday

Cheap Chirpin #1 for May!

Congratulations to Misty who wins our once-a-month Cheap Chirpin CHOOSEday! Because Misty is overseas she gets to choose between Princess Faces Peachy Keen Stamp set or a SURPRISE cartridge! PLUS the good news for Aussie players is that the Cheap Chirpin Tuesday Prize box will JACKPOT again for MAY!!!!

Thanks for joining our fun each week and commenting Misty! We can't wait to see what you choose and use!

Todays #1 Cheap Chirper for May is something a little quirky. The success of talented scrapbookers is to see something odd not related to scrapbooking and make it work on a card or layout.

I found these in a bargain bin at a newsagency  which of course would be reduced in price, because as CUTE as they are... as a necklace.... hmmmm.

But on a card...ooooooooo the possibilities.

 They are the cutest little 3D embellishments, complete with a bit of ribbon to add. Altered in the right way could add a whimsical touch to a card. Who's up for the challenge? You will win three of these!

Cheap Chirpin prize box so far: Chalking palette, Metallic wire, Whimsical paper clips, Pentel outline markers, Bag of mixed brads, ten sheets of bazzills, 39 pieces of chipboard lettering, pearl paint pots, fake eyelashes, 20 doilies, coloured bakers twine, liquid pearls, water coloured pencils pack, pop embellishments and whatever Carlene has for you on Me n Miss Pink Cricut today!

So comment under this post, Carlene's post (wait for the Cheap Chirp post) and find all the cheap chirpers this month for a chance to win ALL the chirpers for March, April and May OR a choice of cartridge or Peachy Keens! FUN!

HOT BLOG HOP UPDATE!!!!

JACOB is now leaving Australia and heading to HAWAII to see Erin, A girl in her Craft Box... See the post on Carlene's blog HERE.

Going Dotty for Frosted Designs Challenge.

Phew, what a few weeks it has been. I am settling into my new home/town and start my new teaching position this Friday!  I have felt a bit dotty with all that is going on! So I am entering the stripes and dots challenge at Frosted Designs.

These are my cousin's gorgeous children and family. I worked away for a lot of my teaching career. So I missed out on being there to watch her kids every week. Raelene sent me photos for birthdays/holidays and I collected them all.

I am so excited now though, as I have moved into their town area and will LOVE being able to spend more time with my cousins and watch their kids grow less quickly!

In keeping with the spots and stripes challenge, I used stripes, polka dots, stripes of dots and dots with stripes, I used dots on dots and stripes on stripes and dots on my stripey dotty stripes... lol. 

My eyes need testing now.

The fonts are from Songbird and Opposites Attract.

The font on the journalling is called SEGOE. Love it.

GREAT NEWS! 6 people have commented on all our April cheap chirpers for Cheap Chirpin Tuesday and ONE lucky winner will be announced on Carlene's blog and they can choose a surprise Cartridge, Princess Faces set of Peachy Keen Stamps or ALL the cheap chirpers for March and April (it jackpotted!!!!) Great to see more followers joining our Cheap Chirpin fun!

Sorry I haven't been blogging about lately! The internet where I live is slower than a postal service. I will invest in wireless fast speed soon and get bloghopping to see everyone's inspiration again!

Thanks for another fun challenge Frosted Designs!