White with 1 Challenge...

White with 1 is back!!!!! Well to be honest I didnt know it exsisted before BUT its now back.  What a wonderful challenge site.
You can find all the details of the challenge http://whitewith1.blogspot.com/2010/11/welcome-to-ww1s-november-challenge.html
Such inspiration from the girls and I love the yellow with the white.
Here is my take on the challenge.....

I have had the busiest week and week-end ever (or so it seems) BUT this is a brand new week so we just get on with it.  I have busy busy cutting, dyeing and crocheting (yummy new flowers) so hopefully my little shop will be full again in the next week or so.

Have a great week everyone .

Cheers.

luv marg xxx

'Get Picky' Inspiration Challenge....

Wow this is such an awesome site and so far I have loved the challenges.
This is the 2nd for the month and you can find out all about it http://getpicky.blogspot.com/2010/10/inspiration-challenge-1.html..
Such inspiration is found from all the DT members.

I have been so so busy the last few weeks that little or no scrapping has been done BUT I just needed to sit this arvo and do some.  
The idea was to take inspiration from the photo which I instantly found in the colours and of course the little banner LOL. It would be pretty hard not to get any inspiration from this picture and beware it makes you very very hungry especially if you have a sweet tooth like me....
Here is my take.....

Thanks 'get picky' for another great challenge.
Thanks heaps for looking......
Have a great week.
luv marg xxx

The big reveal and a 'winner'...

The big  reveal is finally here... Please visit my new blog here : http://bitsandpiecescreatedby-marg.blogspot.com/.
I would love any feedback (good or bad) and if you could possibly put my little blog button
on your own blog to help spread the word it would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks so much for all the wonderful comments  and words of encouragement as it means
so much to me. I was totally gobsmacked at the number of hits this post has generated on my little blog.  I am very happy to be able to share some of my little creations with you all.
Happy Shopping.



And now onto the winner of my little giveaway.
Sorry ! but computers and I are not great friends so it would have taken me forever to work out how to load the random generator so I decided to stick with the old fashioned way.  I wrote
everyones name  on pieces of scrap paper and got one of the little people to pick one out.
So the lucky winner is.........

KELLY........Please email your address and I will get the parcel of goodies sent to you.
Thankyou to all once again.
luv marg xxx

A GIVEAWAY........and some exciting news......

Hi Everyone...
Hope all is good....
I just wanted to share a little bit of exciting news with you all.

From next friday the 5th November I will be sharing with you all my' new little blog' where I will have for sale my own little embellishment packs.   I have always been a crochet girl from way back, when a dear Aunt spent endless hours patiently teaching me all her skills.  I will 'never' be as good as she was BUT I love that I learnt so much from her and that today 20 odd years later I found that I still remember it all...:-) .  She would certainly be very proud .... I have also been collecting over the past year or so old crochet bits and pieces from the op shops then cutting and dyeing these precious pieces with bright homemade natural dyes.   I have been using these glorious bits on my scrapbooking pages of late and just love them.  They are not colourfast so if you intend to wash these beauties the dye will run BUT in saying that I have done this for certain projects to get a 'washed 'out look and love the effect.

I also have a love of sewing so will have some cute little 'yo'yo' flowers which all have a matching covered brad in the centre.
There are also other 'bits and pieces' which I will share next friday so please come back to have a little sticky!

To help me celebrate this little venture I would like to give one lucky blog follower a chance to win this little give away that I put together.  All you have to do is leave me a comment and become a blog follower for the chance to win...simple as....:-) I will be back next friday night to announce the lucky winner..

The giveaway will include the following:

1 x large hand dyed vintage doily

5 x assorted mini hand dyed vintage doily's

2 x handmade silk flower with pearl brad centre

1 x handmade felt flower with button centre

1 x yo yo flower with matching covered brad centre

7 x assorted coloured hand made crochet flowers

Thanks heaps for looking and good luck...

Have a great week and I will be back next friday with the announcement of the winner...

Take care

luv marg xxx

October CC at Scrap Therapy....'ARTY'

I have just completed the 5 challenges over at Scrap Therapy for the october CC.....Such a great theme......This is the first time I have managed to complete all challenges.....:-) Helps when you just love the theme.....
'ARTY'......
These are my takes on the challenges.....
Journalling Challenge ..... Lisa P....
My gorgeous gd 'Evie'....and a little envelope holding a special letter....

Card Sketch Challenge....Helen.....
I made the flowers with my scalloped punches...(love how they turned out)...:-)

Sketch Challenge.....Allie...
I used a picture that I took on mothers day of my gift and card from little Ryder....'priceless'....:-)

Theme / Inspiration Challenge ....... Beccy.....
I love this photo of little Lachie at the park and I just loved using the paint....

Bower Bird Challenge.....Lisa....
Another photo of my gorgeous dd 'Erin' and another wedding page down......
I used my new maya stamps with paint which was so much fun....:-)

Its wonderful that now we get about 10 days to complete the challenges so you never feel rushed...I love that.....Thanks to the wonderful DT for such inspirational challenges....
Well I am off now to try and get some more chrissy cards done then some more crocheting......
Have a great week everyone and thanks for stopping by...
luv marg xxx

Get Picky.....New challenge blog..

A new challenge blog and a great one at that....Get Picky is launching its new challenge blog this month with 2 great challenges each month. You can read all about it HERE 
I especially like it because of 'multiple' photos...I really like to work with just 1 photo BUT at times I have multiple photos I would love to scrap BUT just never do..Well all that is about to change  LOL.
Anyway here is my take on this months sketch challenge...
Gorgeous Evie learning to sit up!!!!!  'Going Going Gone'...

Thanks to the DT at 'Get Picky' for great inspiration...

Thanks heaps for looking...

Marg xxx

October Challenge at 'Scrap the girls'....

October Challenge at 'Scrap the girls'...
Another great challenge thanks girls and you can find all
about it here   The challenge was an inspiration one and you had to find inspiration from this
shakespeare quote:
'What's in a name?  That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet'...
I found my inspiration with the word 'sweet' so used that in my title of my gorgeous gd 'Evie'...and also from the word 'rose' as I love roses and used some mini ones on my layout...
The exta criteria was to use 'flowers' and 'buttons'....
Anyway here is my entry......

Thanks again for a great challenge...
Thanks heaps for looking....   ;-)
Have a great week everyone.
luv marg xxx