when your scrap box gets too big...

you have to cull or create....so i created this time although my 6 year old has pilfered some of it for her own creative uses as well. i have had to do somethign with the box as it is starting to over flow and needs to upsize-not good jan-so these cards were all made from bits and peices from the scrap box-not bad i thought-not enough bold bright colours (probably why they are scraps lol) but servicable cards this one has some cuttlebugging in it. i have daubered over the embossing to highlight it the blue bird is some chipboard i picked up 'cheap as chips' in the bargain aisle of my local ware whare. an old card front i didn't use from a swap i did many many many moons ago more daubered embossing but with choc chip this time cheers ears

“A lady came up to me on the street and pointed to my suede jacket. "You know a cow was murdered for that jacket?" she sneered. I replied in a psychotic tone, "I didn't know there were any witnesses. Now I'll have to kill you too."”

Jake Johanson

hoot hoot hooray

and no not the stamp set. hooray for me that i sat down and did sewing for...cue loud gasp....fun...yes i sewed for fun. not curtains. not cushions. not a dalmation outfit for school book week. but for fun. it was, of course, a total unmitigated disaster and my granny would have fifty fits to see such shoddy sewing techniques. but all in all i had fun and made something i would normally not even venture towards. this sock owl was made so much better by claire at craft shmaft but my attempt complete with beanie and little felt feet was a successful, if not ugly first attempt. i will be having another go during the week wiht a brighter odd sock to show off. oh and please excuse my awful awful photos of late. i ahve lost my camera somewhere around my inklings retreat weekend so i am left with the phone camera and as you can tell it is a peice of crap cheers ears

cookie cookie cookie

who loves cookies? me me me me! and thanks to the amazing carol http://inkantations-and-inkarnations.blogspot.com/ and the industriously cool ryn http://rynscraps.blogspot.com/ i got a template to make cookie monster and his cards. thanks gals!!!

these were made with some bali breeze cs, close to cocoa and choc chip cs. added a scallop punch for cookie and a cupcakes wheel stamp for something special down the bottom-if only stampin up had a cookie stamp...hmmm....YUMMY!

Science is not a sacred cow. Science is a horse. Don't worship it. Feed it. Mehmet Murat ildan

WOW WOW WOW

stitches and craft show in sydney rocked!!!!! wow is just an under statement for all the amazing stuff i saw there. i went wiht my crafty sister Kris and we were truely inspired and amazed by all the talent and gorgeous stuff we saw. we are also feeling slightly poorer too but we wont worry about that too much lol this lady jodie was amazing http://vintagericrac.blogspot.com/. she did an awesome talk about blogging which we thoroughly enjoyed and i did almost wet my pants at some stage i think because i was giggling a bit too much!!! i bought a very cute outift for katie off this lady http://madi-and-me.blogspot.com/. her baby stuff was just so darn cute and adorable and pink. i also drooled at this stall http://craftschmaft.com/. OMG. i think i am in love with her owls. i mihgt even be subverted to the art of sewing...how weird would that be??!!lol this lady had some cool cards and cufflinks http://www.shelbyville.com.au/ this stuff rocked http://imok.com.au and that was only a few of the amazing things we saw but we are inspired now so keep a look out for our terrific tuesday craft nights. come along to see what we are making. this week we are making sock owls because of the alarming amount of odd sox we have at our hosue and thanks to claire at craft shmaft we have finally found a perfectly valid use for them all

essential baby swap

so after a brief rest I am back into my swaps again. this month I have my essential baby card swap group (find us here http://www.essentialbaby.com.au/forums/index.php?act=SF&s=&f=169). This month we have to make a sympathy/sorry slider card using pink yellow and brown. I had some card I have had sitting in my stash for ages so decided that I had to use it up for this challenge. The stamp set I used was "From the Garden" which was a hostess set from the 2008/2009 SU catalogue. It has always been a stamp set that intrigues me and I like to find uses for it because it is not really a 'me' kind of card but the more I use it the more I find it useful for loads of cards and scrapbooking. this was a really easy card to make. If you want to learn how to make it please give me a bell and I can show you how. Don't have a cow, man. Matt Groening

back again!!

well now my baby moon has expired and i am the proud owner of a june 2009 model baby i have found time to make some cards, go on a inklings retreat and take part in a cyber crop. i have lost my camera though....sigh...so not too many piccies to be had until i find itagain. YES i have checked the fridge and i haven't put it in there in my sleep deprived state hahahaha i managed to take this one with my phone camera so please excuse the awful photo. it was for a cyber crop with the inklings team. we had to make a xmas card using non-traditional colours. i used the just jawing set and added some snowflake eyes. i am not too sure who would appreciate this card for xmas-i need to find some emo friends probably hahahahahaha