Photo Star

Over on Crafters Anonymous on Monday this Star was the tutorial taught by Tia. I didn't do the class then but was able to download the tutorial later. When I saw the star I was keen to have a go at making it. I really enjoyed putting this together. I have used photos from our trip to Oz last year. I think the hadest part was finding photos that fitted into the shapes.
I have used Rich razzleberry as the card stock and the dsp is from Pocketful of Posies.
I may put some words on it describing our trip.

Slip Slide

At the retreat in the weekend this is one of the pages that I scrapped using StampinUp products. I have used dsp from the current mini, decorative label punch, butterfly diez and alphabet.
This is my delightful daughter in the water. Can't help herself even if it is very cold .

Glitter Card

Last night I had my card class. This is a card that I had Cased and was going to share with the ladies.But we had already made one wedding card so the ladies decided to omit the bride and groom on the card and we came up with this instead.
Sorry about the colour was taken at night, and I didn't end up with a sample.
The flower from Field of Flowers was stamped first in Pink Pirouette and the stamped over with Perfect Plum. The glitter paper has been coloured using Regal Rose ink using a aqua pen. The designer Paper is from Beau Chateau.Soft Suede cardstock has been used behind the dsp and the base of the card is Very Vanilla.Looked good.

Need for Speed

At the weekend I attended a scrapbooking retreat with a bunch of ladies from around the mid Canterbury region. On Friday when I left home I wasn't sure whether I was going for the day or night or for the whole weekend. It all depended on the weather as to whether I was summoned home for harvesting. But unfortunately for the arable farmers around ,there was a storm on Friday evening which brought down rain and hail in places. This is definitely not a good year for getting crops in.
Anyway it meant they I stayed two nights at the retreat and got heaps of scrapbooking done.
I was also able to teach a card class as well.
This is one of the cards that I taught. My theme was a card for a family. So taught a male card, card for a girl and a boy. But due to a practice evacuation I ran out of time to teach the last card.
( We never had practice evacuations or big emphasis on exits before February 22nd).
This card involved sponging, masking and stamp off.And again the use of the First Edition dsp.Also highlighted the use of the Bakers Twine.

We had a fabulous time at the retreat great bunch of ladies. On the Saturday night we all dressed up for a banquet which quite spontaneously became a wedding breakfast. (All because of the way the tables were laid out and who was sitting in the middle seat at the top table).We had speeches from the 'BrideGroom', 'mother of the bride' ,'flower girl' . Their were 'telegrams ' and dancing.
We all enjoy playing Scrap bingo, for a chance to win a prize. Very competitive game.
Thanks Sonia for a fabulous weekend. Role on next years one.

Dig this

I finally dug (excuse the pun) this stamp set out to have a wee play with it. Great set for the boys and the big boys that you might need to make cards for.
Stamps:I Dig you
Paper: Early Expresso, Wild Wasabi dsp, Garden Green
Ink:Daffadil delight, Wild wasabi, Early expresso
Accessories: Window punch.Stampin Write markers,Modern label

Sharing in your sorrow

I always like to have a few sympathy cards on hand. This is one that I made using my favourite stamp set for the moment, Field of Flowers. I got this idea off a card that I had seen on a blog. The First Edition dsp looks good teamed with this card. The main card is made using Very Vanilla. The sentiment is from Prayers and Thoughts stamp set.


Yesterday I took part in the Girls on Bikes held in Methven. I have never entered in this event before so thought I'd give it ago doing the 37km course. I don't have a road bike so used my mountain bike instead. I really enjoyed the ride despite using a mountain bike and the first 12km going up a steady uphill road.The weather was hot with a bit of a head wind in places.
Sorry no photos of me on my bike. Well not yet anyway.
After the bike ride it was lovely to be able to have a swim at Methevn Resort in their heated pool. I think I would like to do the bike ride again but probably on a racing bike next time.
Thankyou to Braziers for putting on this event.

My Valentines

I've had a lovely day today. Started with me receiving a lovely card and gift from my DH.
Then my daughter wrote my husband and I some lovely words for Valentines Day. Because it was wet today we went to town to do some jobs before going out for a lovely meal at a restaurant.
A tradition in our family ( if we are not harvesting) on Valentines day is to have a candle lit meal. ( Its amazing how many damp Valentines day there have been over the years.)
The kids get really excited. I try and cook something a bit different. For dessert I made Chocolate Brownie which went down a treat.
As well I made a gift for my husband.I made this heart shaped gift box. I have used the Petal cone big diez. I have put a narrow strip of cardstock between the two petal cones to make a box. I got this idea from Maria Matonti here.
And of course I couldn't miss the children out. So I made these.
Again these are made with the petal cone diez. Last week I made these for a workshop that I took.The ladies really liked these especially with the little treat in it.
So did my children.