Merry Christmas

Hey Everyone,

I've been thinking about this challenge at Kraft Plus all month...I was in all directions! Then last night I decided on just a basic window on my page.

'I Can See Clearly Now'

Use something see-through on your layout.
Think vellum, plastic, glass, bubble wrap etc etc.

The hardest part of this page was finding a suitable photo!

The brick background design, window frame, flowers, and banner were all cut with my cricut. The branches and leaves were all cut using Tim Holtz dies. I also managed to add my favorite crochet doilies. 😍The Christmas lights are rubons. My clear element is sequins and recycled packaging for the window panes. 

Hope you are having a great week, thanks for visiting

Happy Crafting

Tracey

All Natural Beauty

Hello Crafty friends,

Kraft Plus has a wonderful challenge this month

What's the Buzz
Be inspired by Bees and/or  Amanda Hall's
BEE-RILLIANT graphic. 

I loved everything about this graphic......Colour, bees and Hexagon shapes.

Sometimes what you plan in your head , just doesn't work on paper.....my first page ended up in the bin! So, this is 'Take 2' 

Love this photo of my 2 daughters and their cousin taken last month, while they were visiting family in Canada. Its not often they get to see their cousins....they had an amazing time :)

The background overlay was cut out twice with Artbooking cricut cartridge. I glued the two layers together for extra dimension, then hand cut it into the shape I wanted. I embossed and inked a few of the cut out Hexagons then added them back into the design.

Art Philsophy cricut cartridge was used to cut the flowers and leaves, I've added a sprinkling of micro beads to the center. I couldn't believe I had some Bee Buttons in my stash....Perfect! I cut the back thingy off then added them to the center of the flowers....so cute!

Love these tiny doilies.....they always see, to find a place on most of my pages. 

Happy Creating 

Tracey x

Live in the moment

Hello,

So Happy I found a little time to enter "Scrapping Outback" Challenge for April

"White with a Twist"

Creamy Orange/Tangerine, White and a touch of Grey 

Love this photo of my Husband and 'Jett'

The background overlay was cut using "Artbooking" Cricut cartridge.

A little stitching , washi tape, lots of sequins a few buttons , wooden hearts and flowers. The 'Flair' button is from 'Funky Flairs' and the Chip board is from 'Scraping Outback'

Its my sons birthday today...........I need to go and see if his cake is cooked!
Yay....its the weekend tomorrow

Enjoy
Tracey x

Vision of Sugar Plums .....Day 1

Hello............So excited you are joining me today for Lori's 

Visions of Sugar Plums 2015

The blog hop with run over three days

There are eleven designers sharing lots of fun Christmas projects, fabulous sponsors and a fun challenge!

Here is a close up of my Christmas project

We have some wonderful sponsors!

Be sure to comment on all Blogs to be in the running to win! Your name will be entered for every comment you leave. The more comments you write the more chances you have to win!

Lawn Fawn - $25.00 Gift Certificate

The Funkie Junkie Boutique - $25.00 Gift Certificate

The Cutting Cafe - 3 Sets of Choice to a Winner

Moonlighting & Co. -  1 Set of Choice to Three Winners

PPinky Dolls - 1 Digital Stamp Image of Choice

Baers Design Studio - 1 Set of Choice to Three Winners

CanvasPop -  one 16x20 canvas of your favorite photo

ChouxChoux Paper Art -  Mega Giveaway of Christmas Crafting                                                           Goodies

Canvas Pop has another great giveaway going on right now - you could WIN YOUR CHRISTMAS!  Enter by December 11th.

Enter the WIN YOUR CHRISTMAS 

giveaway HERE.

Also

Lori is  hosting a challenge...........the theme is Christmas/Winter,You can link to the challenge on Lori's Blog HERE. The challenge will end on December 20th. The randomly selected winner will receive a $25.00 gift certificate to Lawn Fawn.

Now for my project........ An Advent calendar!

This chalk board hangs in my family room/kitchen area......It usually has an inspirational quote on it. I used Cricut Artbooking for the tag shape and Art Philosophy for the scallop circle. The wreath stamp is CTMH 'Remarkable Wreath Seasons and Nature'......I used veramark to stamp it then white embossing powder. I used a punch for the small circle with CTMH 'Magical Days Holiday' with vesamark and gold embossing powder. I really like a shabby look so I left all the threads hanging. The tags are hanging on a plaited twine....a few pegs to hold the sweets.

You know.....the hardest part of the whole project was finding sweets that had wrappers to match the colour theme...lol !

I almost forgot...can you see the tiny pom poms on the tip of the tags?

Please visit the links to the other designers, they have some fabulous projects to show you..... have fun hoping:)

Lisa Minkler

Mitra Pratt

Tracey Kelly

Maria Patrick    

Char Cundy

Regina Easter

Karon Hughes

Silje Aunan

Debbie Fisher

Cherry Nelson

Jeanne Jachna

Lori Hairston

I'll be back tomorrow, hope you will join me

Tracey x

A few cards !

Hey Everyone,

Its been a busy few weeks around here!

Last weekend my sister and her family flew in from interstate, to help celebrate my parents 80th Birthdays. It was kind of a family reunion too.....It had been 2 1/2 years since I'd seen my sister.  So I went nuts cleaning everything, lots of baking too! We had a great weekend.......I think its taken me all of this week to recover!

Anyway.......onto my projects.

For my first card I played along with "Paper Sweeties" October challenge. 

Live Love Grow.....is a stamp from Paper Sweeties. I cut the Maple leaf from cricut Artbooking cartridge, embossing it with cross stitched hearts. Doilies and more doilies, lace and a sprinkle of sequins.

This is the card I made for my Mum. The overlay was cut using cricut Artfully sent cartridge, the pretty papers are Kaiser.

I sure find it hard to make masculine cards.......this is what I came up with for my dad. As you can see I took inspiration from the background paper and cut a Balloon from cricut Artfully Sent cartridge. It is glitter embossed......yep, I had to add some sequins too!

Otherwise I think its pretty plain :)

Thanks for stopping by, Have a great weekend!

Happy Creating

Tracey x

Beware

(Scroll down for The Shabby Tea Room post )

Welcome to Day 2 of the 

Halloween Party

I have another Shabby looking Halloween card to share...how cute is this vintage image.......you can find this image and yesterdays image HERE

Love the spider background paper........I found it HERE

I die cut the flowers from felt, then added a tiny black crochet doily.

The little Mouse and Beware are both cuts from Cricut Artbooking Cartridge.

If you missed  all the details for the Halloween Party and how you can win some awesome prizes........ please go back to yesterdays post HERE

 Blog links for today

Lisa Minkler

Mitra Pratt

Tracey Kelly

Maria Patrick

Lori Hairston

Be sure to visit again tomorrow........I've been doing some Up cycling, re cycling....what ever its called, I can't wait to show you.

Tracey

Trick a Treat

Hello and Welcome!

Its time to Party....day 1

Before I give you all the details on how you can win

Here is my project 

Halloween Vintage images are so cute......I love using them on my cards.

 Cricut 'Art Booking' cartridge was used to cut the spider web

and 'Happy Hauntings' for the cat

Even on a Halloween card I still managed to add a few of my favorite things..........lace,doilies, sequins :)

Here is how you can win some fabulous prizes

Comment on every blog each day to get the most chances to win!

Lori will put your name "in a hat" for every comment made. So if you comment on all blogs today, you get your name in the hat six times!

Winners will be announced on Sunday,Sept. 27th.

There is also a Challenge - Create a  Halloween or Fall project...link up by October 3rd. A Random winner will be announce October 4th. 

Please link back to Choux Choux Paper Art.
 Winner gets a $25.00 gift certificate from Lawn Fawn.

The link will be located right under the halloween party day one post on Lori's Blog.

  

Our sponsors  are:

Prize - Pillow Box Die and Peek-a-Bat Dies

Prize - Three sets winners Choice

Prize - $25.00 Gift Certificate

Lori is also giving a MEGA Halloween Party Prize.  Lots of goodies, it includes a $15.00 gift certificate to Lawn Fawn.

I also have a Party prize.....just leave a comment on all three of my Halloween Party posts, I will draw a random winner.

Time to get hoping!

Lisa Minkler

Mitra Pratt

Maria Patrick

Regina  Easter

Lori Hairston  

Have fun........happy Sunday to you!

Tracey

Happy Birthday "Paper Sweeties"

Its "Paper Sweeties" 3rd Birthday

What's a Birthday with out Cake!

The Banner is a stamp from Paper Sweeties'Celebrate'. It has a pretty design on each pennant. I fussy cut them out and added one to each side of the slice of cake with cute tiny heart buttons. The little celebrate tag is also Paper Sweeties.

I also added the Banner to the card . 'HAPPY' is a die cut from the Happy collection.Love the shape of the font :)
The flowers and scallop card base were cut from 'Artfully Sent' cricut cartridge , the scallop frame was cut from 'Art Philosophy'. Cheery Lyn die for the doily.

No decorating on the inside ......only a stamped message from the "Happy" collection. 

Be sure to stop by Paper Sweeties to wish them a Happy Birthday....the design team have some gorgeous projects to share with you.

Happy weekend Everyone

Tracey x

A Layout and card

So nice of you to stop by today.......its raining here, perfect crafting weather!

I have 2 projects to share .....the first one is for 'White with 1' challenge.

The heart over layout was cut using cricut 'Artbooking' cartridge. I used Gelatos to colour it.....love the softness the water colouring creates. I've added a few of my favorite bits and pieces.

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My Design team creation for 'Stuck on U Sketches'

Die Cut

 WINGS

Fairy, butterfly, bird, plane........etc

I decided to go with a Butterfly.....the front of my card is very simple.

How pretty is this POP UP feature :) I used a glue pen and gold glitter to outline the edges.......love all the sparkle!

'Artfully Sent cricut cartridge was used to create the popup, scallop card base and sentiment on the front

I am sad to say that this is my last post for Stuck on U Sketches.....Leah and Nanne have decided to close the blog. I have really enjoy being part of such a wonderful team....its has been a fun few years.

I look forward to catching up with you somewhere else in blog land:)

Happy Crafting Everyone,

Tracey

The Shabby Tea Room and Stuck on U Sketches

Hello.......so nice of you to stop by today!

Such a pretty inspiration photo for the new challenge at 

The Shabby Tea Room....Sweet Summer is the theme.

My Artistic Adventures is the sponsor for this challenge

I have used 'Pink Shabby Chic tags' on my card.

The Scallop card base was cut using Artfully Sent Cricut cartridge.

I had fun making the rosettes.....they are a nice change from flowers.  Some pretty lace, sequins....just a few of my fav things!

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Stuck on U Sketches Die cut Challenge

The theme is Summer

These photos were taken on Holidays last year! We had so much fun at California Adventure Park......here we are on Mickeys Fun Wheel.

The sun burst overlay was cut using ArtBooking Cricut cartridge. The papers and die cuts are from an older Kaiser collection 'Fine and Sunny. My friend Anna is still crocheting me pretty doilies......so I have added them too.

Another layout completed for my trip album

Happy Creating

Tracey

2 Cards.....

Hello.......so nice of you to visit:)

Today I have two DT projects to show you.

The first one is for 'The Shabby Tea Room'

Pretty in Pink......create a card/project inspired by the photo! Love this gorgeous photo, sometimes I like to try and re-created it!

Here is what I came up with..........Love the Bokeh backgrounds you see around at the moment. I had lots of fun using water colour paper and paints to create the background. I cut myself a variety of circle stencils then stamped with white ink......I'm really happy with how it turned out.

I cut the bike out from Heritage cricut cartridge, ran it through the xyron to create a sticker then added lots of sparkle.

My daughter thought she would like this card framed.

I'd like to link up with "House of Cards" May challenge...Bokeh effect

I look forward to seeing your pretty projects in The Shabby Tea Room

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My next card is for 'Stuck on U Sketches' Die cuts.

The challenge is 'Mothers'......I created a card for Mothers Day.

The oval frame and overlay were both cut using cricut ArtBooking cartridge. "LOVE" is a stamp from 'Paper Sweeties'

 Lots of my fav things....buttons, pearls, flowers, ribbon...the scallop ribbon border is a gorgeous velvet.

I also played along with this months challenge from 'Sketchy Boards'. I chose to base my card on the colours in the gorgeous photo...Yellow and Green. I hope to find some time to do a layout with this great sketch.

Kind of a long post for me........happy Monday to you, enjoy your week!

Tracey