Kaisercraft Sketch Challenge...

Hi all! I hope you'll come visit me in six hours time when Whimsical Wednesday Challenge begins! But for now, the Kaisercraft Sketch #2 caught my eye. 

Well, I assumed you had to use Kaisercraft Products... so I did. Lol. PLUS the by-products.

  My scrapping isn't my life. I'm still in it primarily for the story. The fun comes first, the pics come next and then the paper... However, lately, I've caught myself in the fun moment thinking about paper that matches. Lol.  

So I thought I'd make a fun layout that challenged my brain. Who needs suduko! I used all the label ends, layered it with Lone Ranger, Fun in the Sun, Le Chateau, Konstruct, Party Animals, K-botz gears, even the nice-looking-but-weirdly-named MeerwahcdjpqeindaAhbdoba whatever one. 

Ergh... no-one will get that joke, hold on a minute and I'll go look it up on my post-it note...nup, threw it out. Tough luck. Plus I used lots of the ranges as mats in the layout.

 

Here is the sketch.

Here's the message:

Used the ends to add words into my journalling. Used Kaiser pearls for the penguins eyes. 

Used Kaiser clear stamps for the title.

Made my embellies out of paper ends, just to keep the theme going and I love a good challenge.

Even used the paper titles as extra journalling.

Thanks Kaisercraft for a super cool sketch challenge! But more importantly THANKS for your great paper ranges which match any fun that I find myself in!

I really do think in paper. I've had a break from my daily humdrum staying in Perth with my GF Daisy and today we took the kids to the museum to pet a tyrannosaurus.

With a no-flash rule, slow aperture and my three year old screaming in my ear about the scary looking dino, I managed to get some blurry shots. But still the Dino Mates paper comes to mind... Lol.

Little Yellow bicycle BabySaurus paper... lol.

Let's play 'Spot the naughty boy'.

See you back real soon for Whimsical Wednesday!

Throwback Thursday Challenge Episode 209

Before I get really weird on my Wednesday post this week, I thought I'd post something normal for a change, to prove I can be sensible sometimes! 

Ok, so I exaggerated. *Nose is growing longer for lying*... Truth: I can be normal... on the rare occasion. 

So this normal-rare-occasion was a birthday. My Aunty Lyn's. She made my gorgeous wedding dress years ago and she always deserves a fancy card... 

 If it was just for a random Jane Doe down the road... I launch out the ugly paper... lol.

*searching through stash* 

OOOoooooooo DCWV Immortal Love range... HOT!

Throwback Thursday challenge at My Creative Time was to use Wildcard, or Just Because Cards:
and then I used this sketch from 
Die Cutting Divas, as inspiration.

The DT work over at Throwback Thursday is amazing so I thought I could enter and make a fittingly special card. So I blinged up my card, I added a fancy ribbon rose and some cute mini letters.  I glimmer-misted the flower.

Then I read the rules again *nose is growing longer* 

Ok. Truth:  Read the rules for the FIRST time, after getting excited about completing my creation. Saw that needed to use embossing too! EEEEEEeeeeeekkkkkkkkkkk!!!! 

The OCD in me doesn't cope well with EXTRA UN-READ RULE!

Gah! Speed reading catches me out all the time lately, but without it, I could never blog about like I do.

So I decided to use some embossing powder on my flower, some rainbow sparkly stuff... HOT. Sprayed on some adhedsive, sprinkled glitter and then heat gunned it with DISASTROUS results! It looked horrid. Meanwhile Glimmer mist was still drying and got annoyed, "HEY yo emboss stuff! This here is MY flower!" Both of them had a mad fight on the end of the rose and Emboss lost the fight. The rose had a haircut and I may as well have used the Froggy paper. 

Post-emboss plan failed.

Some remnants of the emboss can be seen if you strain your eyes.

Before I could think of my 'PLAN B' for post-embossing... Aunty Lyn's party had started and I had to go. As it was, the non-scrapping party goers thought it was JUST AAAMMMMMAAAAAZZZZZIIINNNGGGG.... even though in scrappy world I would consider it an EPIC FAIL!

So I'll post it, Live and LEARN... PLUS in about a year I can enter it into a challenge blog I found on Daisy Central called Flashback Friday, where they encourage you to reflect on past posts and celebrate how far you have come as a scrapper! lol. YAY! 

 Thanks for a learning curve and a cute sketch Throwback Thursday. I had fun! 

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Thanks for joining us for the Whimsical Wednesday Blog Hop. It was a great success and I'll announce my prize winner when I am DTing for the first time with Whimsical Wednesday tomorrow! Plus I can't wait to see who won the Gypsy and other great prizes! This week's challenge is fun so make sure you join us Wedensday.

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Great News from the HOT BLOG HOP! Jacob is California with Cricut Junkie at the moment. During his US tour he has planned to take a detour and is also heading into PROVO CRAFT HQ office and will hopefully meet the Cricut himself! Wooohoooo! Stay tuned to the fun using my 'Jacobs Travels' tab.  Lots of fun, laughs and prizes along the way!

Whimsical Wednesday Blog Hop!

It's here!!!! YAY!!!!

Welcome to the Whimsical Wednesday Blog Hop. 

You should have arrived here from Shelly's 'Cards by Shelly' blog. If you just happened to drop by my blog then please head to the Whimsical Wednesday blog HERE and start at the beginning of the hop.  There is lots of prizes and blog candy along the way! Plus the Grand Prize is a Gypsy!

For this hop we have all made banners and wall decor that will be sent to a nursing home to brighten the walls and the faces of the people living there. Read more about this on the link at Whimsical Wednesday. 


I decided to make a couple of easy lightweight 6 x 4 photo hangers that can hang on a door knob or a wall hook.

Great grandmothers, grannies, poppies, omas, nonnas, nannies and all forms of 'life experts' love seeing endless photos of the new generations. So I thought this could be an awesome way to make a photo display where photos can be changed easily and often. 

I cut seven frames from Storybook using my Gyspy to squash it into a rectangular shape, then I used a sheet of acetate to make the folder part where the photos will sit. 

The acetate sheet only comes half way up the back so that the photo can be pulled out and changed easily. 

 I then used the crop-o-dile to place eyelets in each side, securing the acetate and giving me something to thread twine through to hang.

I used a range of Cindy Loo characters using mix and matched colours. I got the inspiration for my colours from my mums Russian Dolls.  

I doodled over each frame with mixed colours and distress inked the edges. Keeping all the decorations to a minimum and simple so they don't distract from the photo focus.

I used acrylic twine to thread frames on in a balanced way and then covered a craft popstick to centre the hanging. Some gorgeous ribbon from Spotlight set the top of it off! 

What do you do with the left over length of acetate acrylic sheets? Make perfectly shaped minicheesecakes of course!

Then hang the lightweight display anywhere, and sit back, relax with some yummy cheesecake and watch the grandchildren grow and grow!

Thanks for checking out my 6 x 4 photo display!

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Check out these prizes from our generous Blog Hop sponsors!

Patsy from the Prairie Bird Boutique 
*Your choice of one bundle of Shabby Crinkle Ribbon

Babette from The Kraft Outlet 

The Kraft Outlet has generously donated their “Inspiration Play Pack”
This is a collection of The Kraft Outlet's top selling items valued at over $45. The play pack comes with 10 yards each of the red and brown baker’s twine, an assortment of 50 of the plain and grungy tags, an 8 sheet assortment of their cardstock and text weight papers, an 8 envelope assortment, one sheet of Kraft labels, a set of their vintage dictionary pages, 1 yard of black twill tape and a CD full of 100 graphics and backgrounds.
In addition the Kraft Outlet is offering 10% off all purchases made during the ENTIRE  month of July. All you need to do is enter the code JULY10 at checkout. 




Stephanie has donated the Grand Prize for this Blog Hop which is a Gypsy! In order to qualify for the Grand Prize you must leave a comment on each of the designers blogs. At the end of the hop please return back to the Whimsical Wednesday Blog to leave a comment saying that you finished the hop and left a comment under all our posts. The blog hop will run through to Sunday and end at Midnight.

PLUS!!! I'll be giving away some extra Whimsical treats! If you follow both Whimsical Wednesday and me, leave a comment here saying you follow both blogs, I'll give one lucky winner some Peachy Keen Boy Mates Faces stamps!   

Thank you for joining us for the Whimsical Wednesday blog hop. Your next stop is Amber at My 3 E Scrapbooking.

Enjoy the rest of the hop and all the brilliant DT work!

 

The Sun is shining in a Peachy world!

Lol. 

I think I have followers despite myself sometimes.

This week I have told you that my brain talks to me all day long, an inner diva sings on continuous reel, I introduced the merthing and I post loopy stuff when I'm tired! 

Yet the followers keep rolling in! Love it. 

Makes my day! 

Note: I'm tired right now. Expect loopiness.

I'm a two minute manager. If I find a gap of two minutes in my day, I use it. I use every minute. So there I was the other day with my two spare minutes and I decide to speed read Angelica's post for this challenge and check out the DT stuff. Here's her opening sentence:

 

But in my noisy singing, chatty brain, I read:

"Good morning Peachies! I hope the sun is shining where you are today - If not, I hope you are...."

In my head, I thought, 'aww that is so gorgeous, what a sweet way to start a post.'  Then my sons had a fight over the Dora doll and the yukky brown stuff hit the proverbial fan, and then had to race out the door. But I thought about that cute quote all day and loved it, and decided to use it in the layout I planned in my head.

Made my card... with inspiration from Janice on the Peachy Keen's DT- her card was so cute!

I used Angelica's half quote-that-my-mind-misread-and-made-it's-own. I think we can say we co-own the quote now. Lol. 

Don't roll your eyes blog reader! I warned you I'm tired. If you keep reading my blah blah that's your own problem! Lol. 

I used Everyday Faces for the sun and the cloud. As much as I love all the PK stamps, those Everyday Faces just keep on giving! They are the best value. 

I cut the umbrella chick from Birds on Parade and then cut out a sun from... ummm.... one of my linked carts on my Gypsy. Sorry. Not really specific there. 

Thank you so much Angelica for the half quote!

It's been raining and cold here for days. Send me sunshine from Wisconsin! 

Thanks Peachy Keen for yet another great challenge!

 

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Angela chose PAT N as the winner for helping me RAK her with ideas about wooden letters! Thanks to Carri, Shannen, Gina and PatN for your help! You ladies are gorgeous. x

Pat! Go to Scrappy Go Lucky HERE and choose 3 colours of CANDI and email me them on my contact button! 

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Grand Prize is a GYSPY for the blog hop at  

Whimsical Wednesday this Friday 7pm EST! Join us!

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News from the HOT BLOG HOP!

Traci @ CricutJunkie has welcomed Jacob to California! See her post here and follow her for upcoming Hot Blog Hop prizes!

 

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That's all folks. 

Robotz! I just thought of it. 

The sun was from Robotz. Now I can sleep. 

Paper Playtime fun... Plus a Blog Hop with a Gypsy up for grabs!

Jumping out my comfort zone, I found this challenge blog on the Daisy Central challenge list. So I thought I'd give it a go for myself. Especially after I formally blog-announced I will hand colour in a digi before the end of the month instead of being a Photoshop cop-out queen. 

All my followers know I am not the best at colouring! lol. So at Paper Playtime the Challenge #49 was to use a digital stamp and red, white, blue... I thought I could enter, then hide among the sea of gorgeous entries and give it a try! 

Being Australian, the red, white and blue is close to my patriotic heart too.  Lucky for me, my Dad is born on the 4th July, so I thought I'd make this cute joking card for him from my boys. 

 The glossy and Glitz and stickles made the 61 look like some kind of sweet sugary candy. The element frame and blob are from Bugaboo collection from Kelly-Jo scraps.


The digital Stamp is BoysRUs in the PuddleJumper set from LORi Designs. I used watercolour pencils and a blending pen. It's as good as this digi-newbie is going to get!

Ok. I admit it. I photoshopped the insert pic. What can I say, I just LOVE using photoshop. BUT I can finally see for myself how much awesomer, (is that even a word?) gooder, betterer, fabulouser, fantastic-er - WHATEVERer
the hand colouring looks.

I agree with whoever is not liking my photoshop easy-road. Hand colouring looks a lot more cuter. 


Topic change: Love that star emboss folder. 

Thanks for a great challenge Paper Playtime. I really did feel like I was playing with paper for the first time again. It was great to have a little moment of learning something new.