HAPPY NEW YEAR 2012!!!!

With a new year we now must say goodbye to 2011. Thought I would share with you some of my favourite layouts for the year.  Do you know how hard this was for me to choose!!!  I have truly loved creating each and every layout/project which made it so hard just to choose a few!  So here they are in no particular order:):)

2011 proved to be an amazing year all round for me, a year of hopes and dreams come true.  A beautiful new baby, an awesome year with my big boy at Kindy, a big 30th birthday (party to come.....woot woot), beautiful memories with all my boys and a truly amazing year scrapping wise!!!!  I am so grateful for the opportunities I've been given this year and so so appreciative of all of your kind words and comments, support and friendships.  It means more to me than you will ever know! 

Hugs to you all xoxo

"Love" Prima

Hi all you lovely blog followers.....hope you are recovering well from the excitement of Christmas:)  We are STILL sorting a home for all the new toys and games the boys got.  Tim put up new shelves in their room today:)  Anyway thought I would pop by with some Prima creations.  The first one is a Birdhouse canvas album.  I have had this creation in my head for so long just had to get it together.  It was a little time consuming but I got there!  We had professional photos taken of us back when Mason was born and I wanted to scrap them in here.  I only got to do a few photos though, I couldn't fit anymore......that's what I get for making things too bulky!!!!

"Love"

I have a little tutorial on the Prima blog if you want to check out how I created the background brick effect.

I love my little birdie sitting on the window here.  The resin's are so amazing.....just love working with them!!

Just some more closeups.



Here are my centre pages:



Next up I have some gifts that I made for Cooper's 2 kindy teachers.  They are just glass jars that I turned into pretty pieces:)  

I also altered this Christmas bauble I bought from Pillowtalk.  It started out clear with a few rhinestones on it, now it's turquoise and even shinier:):)



Here is a 1st birthday card I made.  I used the Romantique collection here. 



Lastly, a Christmas card I made for the Prima blog.  Mum gave me a whole bunch of cards from when she was a little girl and this image was on one of those cards.  It is soooo gorgeous!  I just loved adding special little touches to this.

Note the little deer as you look out the window:) 



That is about it for today,  I am busily creating for CHA so best get back to it.  I will be holding a Prima giveaway in the next week or so, so be sure to check back:)

Thanks for dropping by, wishing you Happy New Year festivities if I don't get back here before then xo

I think Christmas is nearly here:)

Wishing you all a beautiful Christmas Day.

Hugs xo

My Baby's first Christmas:)

So excited for Mason's first Christmas........I know they never remember it but I will!!!!  I created this layout using Shimmerz.  Lots of gorgeous, sparkly colour here:) 

 

Coloringz in Lime in da Coconut

Colorinz in My Bleeding Heart

Vibes in Hermit the Frog

Pearlz in Green with Envy

Enamelz in Sparkliscious

 

"Believe"

I absolutely love the Enamelz on here, so much sparkle:)



I have just received some more Shimmerz in the mail......I'm in love, I really love playing with it all, it's so easy to work with:)  I made a canvas with it last night, will share another day when I take a picture and make sure the new owner of it doesn't mind if I share it.

Just a couple of pics of the boys for Xmas:)  A certain little 3 year old hasn't been very posy for me so at least I have the one of the 3 or them together.



Going to paradise for a few days to relax now, so be back next week for my birthday, Christmas, New Year, our party and getting my big boy ready for school.  Busy times......plus creating for CHA:):)

Hugs to you all xo

Ahoy there me Hearties!!!!

Warning: Photo overload in this post!!!  So my little Kobi had his 3rd birthday Pirate Party a couple of weekends ago.  We all had such a ball, honestly the best party we have ever had.  Awesome theme too, we have never done a themed party for the kids before.....bit of work but loads of fun:):)  Mum made the boys costumes (Cooper's was bought but we added the bandana and sash).    Just spotty and strip materials from Lincraft.  Mine and Tim's were a mix of op shop and made!  We have friends that own a Jumping Castle Business so we had a really big Pirates (of the Carribean) Castle.  It was great even the adults had a go;)  I borrowed the blue scene setter and all the mesh added some pirate wall hangers, banners and balloons and this made for a really cool backdrop!

So here are some pics from the day.

My big boy now (within the week he turned 3 his toilet training just clicked....woo hoo!!!!!!!)  I now have 2 big boys and a baby I keep telling him:)

Struggled to get a good pic of the 3 of them (that is happening alot lately)!  But this one is soooo sweet.....I love it, I love my boys!!



Here's the "Young" Pirate family:):)

Kobi and his awesome cake that our friend Krystin made him!!  So he was a little too close to the candles for my liking but he did blow the candles out (eventually):)

Baby pirate....



Big boy pirates......





Pirate ship fruit bowl and then all the kids made fruit swords:)



Treasure Hunt......



Oh my so much fun, one definately to remember!!!

I just want to share with you a quick tutorial on Kobi's Pirate invites.......so extremely quick, so cool!!!

I used inks + Shimmeringz in Heavy Metal.

 Firstly I cut out my 2 pieces of paper to size.  The background paper being a bit wider than the actual written part.  I cut around the edges randomly making the cuts all different lengths.  I teared and ripped the written paper aswell (I just printed this onto normal A4 paper).

I distressed around the edges with my ink pad.

I crumpled up the paper and then pulled it back out and adhered it to the backing cardstock.  I then added drips of alcohol ink around the edges of the text.  Sprayed my Shimmeringz to give a bit of shine!!



Added a little flag with masking tape and there you have it.....Pirate Invites:):)



That's about it for today, I better get off here, so much to do, so little time!!!!

Hope you like my pirate post.

Thanks for dropping by xo

The Color Room #87

The Color Room this week has a beautiful Christmas palette......not your traditional Christmas colours but looks so stunning anyway!!!  I really love doing the non traditional palettes for Christmas anyway, I just can't seem to work well with red:(

This is the first lot of pics I got of the boys this year for Christmas......take 2 hopefully will happen this weekend.  I just couldn't get one of the 3 of them together, Mason's turn to not cooperate!!  I am really loving listening to the boys thoughts on Christmas and Santa......it's very cute:)

"Tis The Season to Be Jolly"

I have used some new Prima flowers on here + alot of Kaiser chipboard that I have had in my chippie box forever!!! A bit of Hambly too:)



Here is the lovely palette!



Thanks for stopping by....will definately get these pirate pics up soon, I am halfway through editing them:)

Take care xo

Prima BAP

I absolutely loved this sketch as soon as I saw it:):)  I am a huge fan of bunting so this instantly got me inspired to create!!  I hope you can play along too and be in the chance to win some amazing Prima products.  Here is the sketch:

Here is my layout using the sketch.  I had these super duper cute pics of Mason when he was 6 weeks old and I just had to add in the pops of aqua to match his little hat:)  I am more of a single photo scrapper but this definately was a fun way to use a series of photos.

"Gorgeous Little Man"

I made the banner by cutting out different shapes of patterned paper.  I then distressed the edges and layered them on top of each other with foam tape.  I then added the twine to the top of the banner.  My ribbons were then added next along with the Shabby Chic Treasures, Buttons and Trinkets.



Beautiful Prima blooms:)



More flowers with some Flocked Rubons.  The rubons went really well with this colour palette, they are a beautiful creamy colour with a touch of texture to them.



Thanks so much for dropping by, I hope you liked my layout:)

Hugs, until next time xo