Lets Get Shabby Challenge No 16.....AND....Kraft it up monthly challenge...

Gosh how fast is this year flying past!!!! :-( It will be christmas before we know it....:-)
Anyway it only seems like yesterday that I did the last challenge over at 'Lets get Shabby' and here we are back once again with challenge No 16.....
You can find all about the challenge here:
http://letsgetshabby.blogspot.com/2010/09/challenge-16.html

This challenge was to take inspiration from the 2 kitchens pictured....
I chose to take mine from kitchen No 1 because the colours just jumped out at me....
I have chosen the colours Pink, Yellow and Blue as my dominant colour combination.
I have made the flowers out of fabric (and also made the crochet ones, BUT also used one piece of fabric for the bow...
The 2 die cuts are the MME 'pure joy' and the ticket...
Here is my take on the challenge...

And a little close up.....:-)

Once again I loved this challenge and happy with my end result.
Thanks again to all the DT for the amazing inspiration....
Hope everyone has a great week..
Take care..
Luv Marg xxx


Well I also managed another challenge for 'Kraft it up' today so instead of making 2 seperate posts thought I would just add it to this post......
'Kraft it up' is another site I just love and each and every month the teams helps to inspire me......
You can find this months challenge here:
http://kraftitup.blogspot.com/2010/10/octobers-challenge.html
A wonderful sketch to have us work with and an easy task it was too with such a great sketch......
I have found my love of paint again in the past few months and have also used some lovely Kraft and some awesome 'fancy pants' kraft kuts p/p.....Here is my take on the sketch: (my 2 favourite little boys!!)

Thanks Kraft it up for another wonderful challenge....

Thanks heaps for looking.....

Luv Marg xxx

WOW.....

Wow ..... I was lucky enough this month to win one of the prizes up for grabs at 'Kraft it up'.... Always such amazing entries so I am honoured to be among the winners..... Thanks kraft it up....:-)
Here is my entry.....

I am going to be having a little giveaway very soon with some of the goodies that I have been making so stay tuned........

Have a great weekend...

Luv marg xxx

Long Weekends come and go!!!!!!

Not sure if you are like me BUT when I know long weekends are coming around I plan all sorts of stuff that I am going to do BUT it just never happens that way....
Friday night we took the little people to the local show which they just loved....Its actually good they are still quiet small as a ride here and there is simply enough for them.  They loved to just look at all that was going on around them..The looks on the little faces is just priceless!!!! Would of liked to stay for the fireworks but they were on way too late.
Saturday was just a total waste day really..I had to do a few things in town, had some visitors so by that time I decided the only thing I wanted to do was to scrap, so I did and I found inspiration from Helen over at ST who set a few challenges for WCMD.  Her is what I managed to create:
Challenge 1 was to use the sketch as inspiration. It was a nice simple sketch and this is what I came up with....I was happ with how my handmade flowers turned out.... :-)

Challenge 2 was to to make 2 or more Christmas cards....Yay I have now made a start.... I just love the beautiful MME chrissy papers......

I have a few projects on the go and will be able to share soon......

I woke up this morning and found out over at Scrap Therapy that I had won the Card Sketch for the Sept CC........Yay!!!!  A little shopping never goes astry!!!!!Her is another look at the cards I made.....Thanks to all who voted!!!! :-)

Well I am about to tackle some long awaited housework then hopefully I can scrap the afternoon away.....

Hope everyone has a great week....

Take care..

luv marg xxx

'Kraft it up' September monthly challenge.....

September monthly challenge at 'Kraft it up' was so inspiring this month.  I wasnt sure I would be able to finish in time BUT I did and happy with the end results....
I LOVE this site and the team are all so inspiring....
I have scrapped these photos before BUT am lucky that I am doing an album for my DD so if I want can always do it again for me!!!!

We had to take inspiration from this picture.......

I instantly saw the red and the banner so this is where my inspiration came from...
Here is my layout.....

I have used Kraft as my base then swished some cream paint as a background for the photos.  I then stitched around for a border.  I made the banner by punching out some circles then folding in half.  I made the flowers from scraps of paper using my scalloped punch.....

Thanks KIU for a great challenge...
Thanks heaps for looking.....
Have a great week...
Marg xxx

Scrap Therapy September CC....

Well its September CC over at Scrap Therapy and a few things have changed this month....
They will now be run over a longer period of time which is just over a week and its just sooooo much better....Much easier to complete the challenges.....
This month I managed to complete 3 of the challenges and happy with them all...

September CC  Sketch Challenge....Lisa's challenge.....
This is our gorgeous 'Evie'.......(just growing up way too fast!!!!!)

September CC Card Sketch Challenge.....Helen's challenge....

I used the gorgeous MME p/p's and some cute little roses that a special friend sent to me.....:-)

September CC  Theme Challenge.....Allie's challenge.....

We had to get inspiration from the wonderful pic Allie had found and I instantly found inspiration in the flowers.  We were also to do some doodling so I decided to doodle all my own flowers and coloured them in with signo pens then outlined in a black signo......A friends gorgeous little girl Charlotte.....

Well thats it for now....I have a few things I am working on BUT cant share just yet!!!!

Hope all is good in your part of the world...

Take care...

Luv Marg xxx

A weekend away!!!!

Wow I have just had the greatest weekend away at the 'Scrapville' retreat at the Hume Resort just out of Albury.   It was a wonderful 3 days and I got to spend some quality time with my partner in crime 'Melinda'...It is always great to catch up with her and we always come away with lots of aching parts from too much laughter....Our table was just the bestest and it was lovely to catch up with and meet new friends.  I had met Sally before BUT this weekend I really got to know her and just love her to bits.....I also shared the table with 2 very talented ladies in Anthea and Sam.   What a great weekend.  Janet certainly out did herself as the venue was spot on and she literally did take the whole shop with lots of new goodies making their appearance.  The accommodation was awesome and the meals were always yummo!!!! (just a shame about the roast and the gravy incident!!!!) but it all worked out in the end.....
I did my first ever class which I was happy with and a big thankyou to Sally for helping me out....:-)...
I didnt manage to do a great deal (too much fun happening!!!) but will share with you what I did manage to create....

Firstly this was the class I taught and I must say I had a wonderful group of ladies who loved what they came up with.... Its an altered frame with a photo attached that can be updated each year....They loved learning how to do the fabric flowers.....

It was lovely just to sit and create what I wanted with no pressures and this is what I managed for the weekend....

This one is of Ryder enjoying a toffee apple...(much to his mum's dismay!!!! lol)

This is of the gorgeous 'miss Evie' a couple of weeks ago at the park.....

Another of little Ryder also at the park a couple of weeks ago.....

I also did one of the classes at retreat.....Sally's tri-fold cards BUT the camera decided to go flat just as I was taking all these photos so will take one asap.....

Ok till next time...

Take care...

Luv Marg xxx

'Lets get Shabby' Challenge No 15.....

Well it is challenge time yet again over at 'Lets get Shabby'.....These challenges just seem to roll around  so quickly!!!!!
Anyway another fabulous challenge that I thoroughly enjoyed...
You can find out all about it here :   http://letsgetshabby.blogspot.com/2010/08/challenge-15-announcement.html

'You make my heart sing'....
I chose this gorgeous photo of miss 'Evie' and found this beautiful old music sheet of paper at the op shop....it fitted perfectly.....:-)
I have used some older p/p's for my backgrounds and some lovely music ribbon that I picked up at one of the craft shows years ago (i just knew it would come in handy some day!!!!) I then decorated with some prima flowers and a string of beads....
So here is my creation.....

And here are a couple of close shots.....

The inspiration one gets from the talented DT over at shabby is just incredible....Thankyou shabby girls....

Thanks so much for looking....

Take care...

Luv Marg xxx