Blog Award

I received this award this week from the lovely Helen Williams. Thanks Helen for thinking of me. She does some lovely craftwork and you can view her blog here.

The rules for this award are:
- Thank the person who gave you this award
- Paste the award to your blog
- Link the person nominated you for this award.
- Nominate as many bloggers for this wonderful award as you like.
- Post links to their blog.

Since I started my blog over a year ago I have really enjoyed sharing my creations and have 'met' lots of wonderful bloggers like myself sharing their talents that have inspired me.
My nominees for this award are:

Debbie Lamb http://debstampinstyle.blogspot.co.nz
Bron Heslop http://bronheslop.wordpress.com
Lisa Bullock http://daffyscrapper.wordpress.com/
Julia Leece http://juliescards.blogspot.co.nz/

I've just noticed that I have gone over 10000 hits on my blog. Wow thats amazing for just over a year. I thankyou all for visiting my blog and the encouraging comments that you leave.

Wedding card

Yesterday we had the pleasure of attending a dear friend of ours sons wedding. It was a very unconvential wedding but lots of fun.
This is the card that I cased and made for the couple.I have used the stamp set Marry Me from the summer mini. The lovely background paper is the velvety paper from Mocha Morning dsp.

The one convential part of the wedding was that the couple did dress up in traditional wedding colours; ie the groom wore a black suit ( probably the one and only time) and the bride wore white. The groom was sporting a lovely black mowhawk!
Delightful. The bride was 40 minutes late because she left her vows at home.The reception was meant to start at 4:15 but didn't get underway until 5:30. But thats ok we had plenty of time to talk.
Because the wedding was held right on the beach front my children had to go for a swim while the photos were being taken. That was fine but then they disappeared after dessert and were seen back in the water again. This time in just their undies. Because we live inland miles away from the sea they can't resist going into the sea.
So all in all it was a lovely day and just lovely to see the young couple making the committment to each other.

You're in my thoughts

This is a lovely Valentines day card that I have copied from Splitcoasters. I loved how the dsp from Sale-a-bration has been used on this card. The dsp is Everyday Enchantment.
The centre heart has been punched out from the Red Glitter paper from the summer mini.
The words are from the lovely stamp set Field of Flowers. I have used the window punch to seperate the phrase.
Have you made a valentines day card for that someone special yet?

Team Swap

Last night our team had a team meeting,but I was unable to go to it due to harvest. I made a swap anyway and this is what I made. I ran out of Razzleberry dsp on the last two cards so used pacific Point dsp and coloured the fruits that colour. I must say I almost preferred the Pacific point colours. Unfortunately I didn't take a photo of that card.
In this card I have used the Pretty Postage stamp set with matching punch. The base colour of cardstock is Natural Ivory. The other colours used are Rich razzleberry and Old Olive.
This card is missing its sentiment I think I put Just for you on my swaps.
I'm looking forward to receiving my swaps.
Hope you had a good meeting ladies. Next time!

Fresh Vintage card

This another card using Sale-a-bration products. I have cased this card as they use my favourite colours; Wisteria and Lucky Limeade paper and Concord Crush ink. The stamp set used is Fresh Vintage. The sentiment is from Curly Cute.

SAB goodies

Finally my Sale-a-bration goodies arrived and so I've been having a wee play with them.This lovely dsp is Everyday Enchantment. I have teamed this paper up with the Fresh Vintage stamp set also available as a free stamp during Sale-a-bration. The colours used on the stamp are the new in colours Lucky Limeade and Calypso. Pool Party ribbon also was used on this card.

Beyond the Garden Scrapbook page

This scrapbook page is cased from the summer mini catalogue. After taking this photo and looking at the colours in the photo I decided to do this layout with the Beyond the Garden dsp and then thought the photo would work with the layout shown in the catalogue.
This photo and the layout is so my daughter. She loves flowers and pink is her favourite colour. As for the photo well Thats my girl, hair a mess,grubby knees sitting on a bale during harvest.
The colours used here are Wild Wasabi and Melon Mumbo .
Here are two closeup photos of the layout. The first photo I made the flowers using Big Shot die Fun flowers. I screwed the paper up before running it through the Big Shot. Have used an antique brad in the centre. The coloured flowers are from the Field of Flowers stamp set. My favourite stamp set at present I think. I have used Pretty in Pink and then gone over it with Melon Mumbo and the other flower seen on the main layout is So Saffron gone over with Cajun Craze.
I've put little pearls along the scalloped edge.
The embossed folder is also from the new mini.
TFL.