Christmas Bauble

After Christmas last year, I bought a heap of clear baubles from Spotlight and today I finally got the inspiration to do one. Again my daughter is the fairy, but this time captured in fantasy flower garden inside a bauble...

Happy Birthday K

Made this card for my nephew today using the cool stamps from inque boutique. Happy Birthday K for next week..

1st Layout in months

This is my 1st LO that I have done in months. I am now hoping the mojoless drought has broken...

All the goodies were used from this months Poppy Ink Kit from BB..

-Tinkering ink PP

-Basic Grey Rub on's

-Scenic Route alpha stickers..

Week 5 ATC Challenge

This weeks ATC Challenge theme over at BB is Christmas-Anticipate.

ATC Challenge- Summer

This is my ATC for this weeks
theme for the great ATC
Challenge over on BB. The
theme is SUMMER..

Aussie stampers cyber challenges

Last night on Aussie stampers had their very 1st cyberstamp. The wonderful Coby set us 4 challenges to complete before Monday.

1st challenge-Christmas Sparkle.

Make a card that sparkles.

2ns challenege-The 4 seasons.

Create a set of 4 inchies that celebrate the seasons.

Inchies are new to me so I found this quite challenging, especially working with molten opals on such a small scale. Yep a few sticky molten opal fingers later... Done!!! I decided to put them on an ATC so I wouldnt loose the little things.

3rd challenge-Mini rainbow. Create and ATC using your fav Monochromatic colour scheme.

4th challenge- create a papercraft project using an uninked stamp from your collection. I decided to play with some alcohol inks and use a Zettiology stamp that I got a few weeks back and make another moo card...

Ah challenges complete now onto the next great ATC challenge over on Blue Bazaar.

Here is the link http://aussiestampers.informe.com/forum/index.php?sid=ae293d7aba5ef1edaac06dead0e79630 for the only non buisness aussie forum, come and join us and happy stamping...

J WARD

On Saturday we went up to Ararat to visit J ward which was a jail for the criminally insane. A very interesting place, full of horrific stories and tales.
Of course I was taking photos left right and centre, and it wasnt until I went up to mums the next day and plugged the camera into Dads computer when I noticed an anomly in this pic. Its seems I have taken a photo of another presence in the autopsy room. Enlarge the pic to see more detail but its all there for the naked eye to see.
After the hairs on the back of my neck went down, I emailed J ward with this pic and to see if others who have visited capture the same sort of thing, or if they could explain it furthur.
I recieved an email back from them today, and they will be putting the pic up for discussion with its members, and if they discover anything they will let me know. Wouldnt it be great if someone out there actually knows who this could be. Spooky but also very interesting...

Bouquet of tissue paper flowers

I made this for a friend who just had a beautiful baby girl last week. The are made using just tissue paper and pipe cleaners and a bit of ribbon for a pretty bow. I think I am going to have to make one for my scrap room..

Sarah

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Week 3 ATC Challenge

This weeks ATC challenge over on BB was Category- Flea Market, theme BUTTONS.

I hunted and hunted for some pretty vintage buttons in my jar but nothing jumped out until I started pulling the metal ones out, and found the right pic to go with them.

The indian goddess is a tissue mod podged..

Happy Halloween

My little witch this time last year...

The great ATC challenge

The great ATC challenge over at BB

run by the lovely Coby, is now in its 2nd week. The 1st theme is a pocket full of something that you treaure and this weeks theme is Christmas-Decorate.

Hop over and join in the fun.

http://www.bluebazaar.com.au/index1.php?f=bb/index

Love MM new Noteworthy Range

I am loving the new MM noteworthy range, so so cute

Off to play some more I think....

A couple of layouts

A couple of layouts I did awhile ago. The winter one is when we had some serious snow in July on my daughters birhday. Pic was taken at the Botanical Gardens. (wished it was my garden). Sorry about the terrible pic of the LO.
Fire works LO was when I was trying to learn my camera last year in Canberra at the army's "Beat retreat" at the war memorial. Not the best pics, but it is a point and shoot camera after all. My inpsiration for this has to come from Loretta Grayson whose work I admire greatly.

Sarah
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ATC's

Over the school hoildays I went to the local antique shop and boughts some gorgeous vintage/heritage photos. I mainly got them for ATC's but would love the scrap them now.
Here are 3 that I have played around with so far..

Yesterday went to Paperific with mum and bought some gorgeous stamps which I have been playing around with today making some more moo cards for a swap.
Also today we have been making a little halloween scene on the kitchen dresser
with a witches cauldron boiling with smoke, spiders, finger nails, and skeletal hands. I cut out witches, bats and scared cats out of black cardstock and stuck them on the wall, you can find all sorts of wonderful templates on marthastewart.com. I will share a photo later this week.
Thats all for me for now..

Sarah
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Cute little house

While I was up in Townsville about a month ago looking after the shop Scrapbook Shenanigans for Michele, I decorated a Doodlebug chipboard house. It was so much fun painting and decorating the windows with sheer muslin curtains and using soft muted colours. The only thing that wasnt so much fun, was punching out a million or so!!!! egg shapes, shaping them in your palm, and placing a little double sided foam square on each and every one, then placing on the roof as tiles. However the time and effort paid off with a cute little tacktile roof. Thats all for me, working on some vintage ATC's, and will share them with you once I have finished them...

Sarah

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You have to love postie, he delivers brillant stuff. Yesterday I recieved a beautiful RAK (Random act of kindess) from Bec from http://www.bluebazaar.com.au/ an envelope full og gorgeous vintage goodies to play with. So last night I made this little 4X4 canvas, I just added some ink and the vintage pic. Thank you Bec.

And then today postie delivered all these wonderful ATC's from a swap with Philippa from http://limetart.blogspot.com/ the theme was Aussies icons, myths & legends.

And also a beautiful ATC just for me from the lovely Peta also from BB. Thank you Peta, I shall have mine for you in the post tomorrow.

Other than creating all is fab, Imogen started school swimming today and loved every moment of it considering we havent been in a pool since last summer.

Sarah

Finally an update

Hello all, yep back onto the blog thing, after a few people have asked why I havent updated it. Well it all comes down to being slack and nothing else really. And that I really dont know what I am doing so until I learn all the ins and outs of proper blogging, I am sorry this will be a rather boring blog to look at with some pics and a bit of text thrown in for good measure.

What have I been playing with lately. On BB the lovely Monique suggested a Moo card swap, rather intriqued I was so with a bit of detective work they are much smaller than an ATC measurements are 28mm by 70mm.

A very small canvas to work with but fun and challenging all the same. So here is my 1st pic for my updated blog which all going well shall be updated reguarly.

Until next time

Sarah

Up up and away......

This morning we woke to an amazing sight. A hot air balloon that was filling with hot air just across the road from the back of house. We watched it take off, and of course we waved and all the people waved back. Anyway we quickly got dreesed and raced up to Mt Pleasant and to our astonishment their was 16 hot air balloons in the sky. It was so surreal, a truely amazing and memorable sight. The photo over Canberra with all the balloons doesnt do it any justice.
Anyway update on Imogen. Went to the doc again yesterday and once again couldnt find anything wrong with her. If she hasnt come good by Monday she is back to the doc for blood tests. I shall keep you posted.
This afternoon we went down the road to watch Barry play footy. It was a practice match. It was RMC verses ADFA, and RMC won.
Whilst we were there Imogen perked up a bit, so fingers crossed we are seeing the last of whatever it is.

Quick Update

Quick Update on Imogen. Still no good, we took her to the ER at Canberra Hospital early yesterday evening, and after a "very" looooong wait they told us she """might""" have constipation. However we disagreed and they sent us on our way. Today a number 2 came out, so no constipation there, however the little one is in so much pain and is very lethargic, not eating and drinking.
So the plain now is, hopefully she gets a good nights sleep, and assess the situation in the morning, but it's likely I will take her back to the doctors and have it out with them. So I shall keep you updated on Imogen, and fingers crossed all is well in the morning..

Pialligo Apple Orchard

Today Imogen's pre-school went on an excursion to the Pialligo Apple Orchard, which is just down the road. And to much of Imogen's disgust, I went along to assist. Well if you call taking loads of photos assisting, well I did a great job then.
It was a totally organic orchard, and the apples were 'delicous!!' We were able to pick 8 apples, then go back up to the apple juicing shed to watch how juice is made, then able to taste test and buy a bottle. It was 'bonza' I tell you.
Imogen is still a bit off color and seems like the problem is easing, but hasn't totally gone away. Poor little bugger, at least her mind was of her belly for a few hours today, with the apples, and her little mate Georgie who popped over for a play...