Sketch Challenge

Hi everyone. Hope you are having a very nice day. I saw on Makeesha Byl's website a sketch challenge which I decided I would do. Since then my computer crashed - literally on the floor. I did the challenge, left it on the table and went to bed thinking I'd finish it in the morning. When I got back to it the next day I was stunned to see some strange marks!! Can you see them? We have had quite amazing rainfalls a month or more back resulting in mass plagues of grass hoppers! I can only think that these are the culprit as I also had lavender lilac and basic black cardstock out too. Obviously the creamy caramel was more suited to their diet - I guess it does look like dried grass a bit lol!! So I decided to keep the layout and write on the back about the pesky lil 'hoppers! These grasshoppers have kept the Pilbara kids fully entertained as they catch them, (keep them in tissue boxes after I rescued my good tupperware thankyou very much!!) then release them or forget them and rediscover them dead. The other thing we have lots of at the moment is big fat hairy huntsmen spiders! Every night before bed I'm having to do the spider patrol. One night I tried to catch one, failed after it jumped at me and I resorted to spraying it. Then it disappeared - dammit! That was it, Colby refused to sleep in this room. I'll post the finished layout later tonight.

MMM

Well its nearly Wednesday and I am doing my first Monday madness post. That should say it all really! Computer issues after my computer fell off the computer desk arrghhhh! Thanks Paul for putting it back together f or me :). We went to a free Easter egg hunt at a local park. There was face painting, bouncy castles, hair spraying - I had mine sprayed green which the kids loved! The hunt itself was really quite hard. The park is quite big and they used golf tees as its still pretty warm during the day here. Colby tried his absolute best but couldn't find one until the organisers ended up putting out a second lot of tees! Phew.
Apart from that, a lot of personal issues I've been having persist which is making life challenging. I've been off work for nearly two weeks now and there has been lots of progress in many areas with myself and my children so its been worth it. There is still a long hard road to go but I feel lucky in that I have my beautiful kids, an understanding boss and some bloody fantastic friends.

Some more cards

Yes its me again! I'm having a blogging frenzy! Underneath (to the left) are the Stamparoos Card Swaps that are in the mail! Thihs challenge was a masculine card. The base of these were simple enough using the fantastic Stampin'up! square punches but the letters I had to cut individually and it was a bit of a big job for me.

Next we have the Easter projects that I cased off the Splitcoast stampers!! They were fun and pretty easy to make too. The basket it actually too baskets taped together and then blinged up. The carrot is printed onto your cardstock, cut out and scored!
I have extra of these left over so if you want to purchase either or both of these projects please email me at home or message me through here. $5 per project and will include a stamped image from the Good egg set for you to use. Bye for now!

Helen

Congratulations Danya!

I new there must be someone out there reading my blog, well I hoped there was! Danya was the first person to reply and she has received her Brand New Catalogue today! She tells me she is looking at it already!!

So please leave me a message if you drop by. Each week I am going to offer some blog candy to tempt you to leave a message! So leave me a message and you might win a prize!

Alrighty so you may notice a free subscription thingy on my blog. If you click on it you can get a free subscription to Creative Paper which is cool.

Another Challenge!

Isn't life just a challenge full stop? My gosh it's really hard work sometimes. But here I am playing along with another of Keesh's challenges. I found these colours a little tricky, although I found a card that I had made using most of the colours but with sage shadow instead!

So I have used used rose red as the base, pumpkin pie and the scallop border punch, regal rose c/s over the top of this and the flowers are rose red, pumpkin pie and rose red stamped off once cos I don't have regal rose stamp pad (can you believe that?!) all stamped on whisper white c/s. There is also dazzling diamonds on the flowers but it doesn't show too well....The stamp set is the fantastic Seasons of Joy which I really love to use for any occasion as you can see.

Today is the first official day of the new Ideas Book and Catalogue. The first person to leave me a message on here will receive a copy FREE!! (Excluding demonstrators). So leave me a message!

Makeesha's Sketch Challenge

Hi everyone. Hope you are enjoying the long weekend. Here is Makeesha's latest sketch challenge which I am actually hoping to post on her site. I've done a few now and they are great for inspiration.

The photo below is my first attempt. Wasn't quite sure about it but decided to post it anyway. I've used the chunky glitter and bali breeze paper both from the minicatalogue. If you want any other info contact me.

The other card is also using the Bali Breeze dsp and some ribbon from sherbet collection. Also you can see the diamond brad in the centre of the flower from the pretties kit. One of my favourite things to do with these is to pop them out of the brad and use them flat.

I'll be posting the retired list from the Stampin'Up! 2008/2009 catalogue soon so order quick as there is lots of great products going for good.

Sale-a-bration is here

Hi and Happy New Year!! 2009, I can't believe its here already. Before I head off down south for some respite from this heat, I'm holding a sale-a-brate with me workshop at my house this Wednesday 7th January. Of course we will be using some of the free sets you can get when you spend $100 on any of the fabulous products. Might have something to do with Valentine's Day too!! Hope to see you there.

For your copy of sale-a-bration contact me on 0418914293 or via here.