Hearts......

Hey there,

Its time to show you the new Die cut challenge at Stuck on U Sketches.

"Create a Banner"

I've created a simple Banner using lots of Hearts from scrap paper.......embellishing them with flowers, buttons and some liquid pearls.

The large doily heart was cut using Martha Stewart Elegant Cake Art ....the smaller ones were cut with George. I used my sewing machine to join them all together. 

This looks really pretty hanging across my kitchen dresser.

Yay.......its Friday, have a great weekend

Tracey

Berrylicious

One of my favourite deserts is "Pavlova" covered in lots of strawberries.

Berrylicious I think:)

The theme this week for 'Stuck on U Sketches' die cut team is "Fruit".

Jordyn requested a Pavlova for her 15th  birthday cake so I thought these photos would be perfect !

I used 'Hello Kitty' cartridge for the strawberries and Martha Stewart 'Elegant cake Art' for the large doily.

I used 'Art Philosophy for the font.

Look at this strawberry banner from 'Country Life' cartridge..........I have not used this cartridge very much and did not realise it had this feature until now! Most of the images on the cartridge can be cut out in a banner, how cool is that. At the moment I am going through a banner stage.......I just love them:)

I hope you can join us for this fun challenge!

Head over to 'SOUS' and have a peak at the Design Teams fabulous 'Fruit Salad' of inspiration.......

Enjoy your day and Thank you for stopping by:)

Tracey

"Scrap the Girls" is having a colour challenge this month........I found this photo of Tori and Jordyn which went perfectly.

White - which you can't see because my background is white, pale pink, hot pink and black.

The paper I have used is Kaiser "Love Notes". The scallop circles of the flowers were cut with "mini monograms" cartridge and for the black scallop border I used Martha Stewart "Elegant cake". I still have a huge supply of little heart buttons which I bordered the photo with.

Yay......another page completed for Jordyn's Album

Thankyou so much 4 stopping by

Tracey

For a good cause...........

My local Kaiser Outlet store is running a workshop on Saturday the 5th of February........you can create anything you want - Layout, Off the page item, basically anything you can put photos in or on. All the projects created on that day will be donated to people who lost everything in the Floods. I can't do the workshop on that day so I have made a layout ahead of time and I'll be dropping it into the store next week.

Usually when I do a layout I know what photos I'm going to use.........so to do it this way was a bit of a challenge for me.  As you can see it fits 4 photos. I 've left the overlap of paper free of tape so a photo can be slotted in quite easy.

I embossed the chip board letters...............When I heated the powder up it melted but did not go smooth how it normally would ( I don't know why) it stayed a rough texture which I thought kinda looked like snow? I liked the way it turned out.

Here's the cartridges I've used -

Martha Stewart elegant cake - large doily and leaf border
Joys to the Season - Branch of leaves
George - large circle and rectangles for photos
Paper - Kaiser winter wonderland

Thankyou 4 Stopping By

Tracey

Happy Birthday

I'd like to show you a card I made  today for a special person........I love these colours together. "Jitterbuggin" challenge this week is to use Chocolate Brown as your card base with any other accent colour and add a bow.

Here's the list of cartridges I've used .............

Forever Young - Flower......

Butterfly - Martha Stewart elegant cakes

Leaves - Walkin my Garden

Tag - Sweet Hearts

Flourish - Picturesque

Kaiser paper - Homemade collection

See You Soon

Tracey

Happy Birthday to Tereesa........

Don't you just love Cupcakes ! "Well here's one I made for my friend Tereesa who is celebrating her birthday today........its a really cute novelty idea using a fluffy pair of socks.

I used the cricut lite cartridge "cup cake wrappers"

And her card..............

The flowers were cut from "George" and the banner was Martha Stewart "elegant cakes"

The paper is Kaiser "Candy Lane"

All wrapped up with a pretty flower tag........

If you like the Cupcake please visit  "Greenbeans Crafterole" for the instructions....... She has so many great ideas.

See you again soon

Tracey

White with 1...........

Today I decided to do something different........Step outside my comfort zone! I often visit the "White with 1" challenge blog to view the beautiful works of art but have never taken part in a challenge. Two days ago I met Cathy from "Cathy can't help herself" in our local Kaiser outlet store she is on the DT........she encouraged me to have a go................
So this is me having a go! What a great month to do it..........I'm working with my favourite color.

 White + royal or navy blue + a banner is the challenge.

How lucky was I to have this Navy lace in my stash....and Warren is wearing a blue shirt! LOL

Here's a close up of the banner which is raised with foam dots and my favourite little heart buttons.

Here is what I've used ...........

Cricut Cartridges

Banner - Martha Stewart everyday cake,

Font on banner - Rock Princess

Scallop lace border - Martha Stewart elegant cake

Story book - blue back ground

Heart stamp - Love defined - stampin up

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Hop over to "White with 1" and have a look at all the great Layouts

Thanks 4 stopping by

Tracey



Happy New Year...........

Hello, Happy New Year!

It feels like forever since I've been here.........I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas. My husband has been on holidays for a week, we've been enjoying lots of family time and doing the odd improvement around the house. One thing that I'm so excited about is today Paul put a new shower head in our shower and its "BIG"......Hey, I know this is only a small thing, but I was so over this tiny water saving one we had! (The new one still saves water, but it covers me!)

A week before Christmas I enjoyed a wonderful day of craft at a friends place. Walking into Lola's house at Christmas you really feel like you are in "fairy land" so many lights every where...its so pretty.

Here are some pictures of what we made.... Starting with large match boxes  we joined them together to form a cube, covered them in our favoutite papers then embelished them with pretty things.

Here's Lola's creation.......She loves earthy colors!

The flowers were cut from George and the paper is Kaiser.

And here's mine...........which I finished today!

On the top you could add lots of embelishments.......I just added a few.....the rose paper was just to  beautiful to cover up. The paper is "Rose Garden" by Papermania. Its a large 12 x 12 pad that has all the die cuts and letters as well.

I cut the Butterfly from "Martha Stewart"  elegant cake art.

I can't wait to put some little treasure's in my pretty box.

Now, has anyone got some ideas for all these matches???????

  

Looking forward to a great 2011.......Happy New Year

Tracey xo



Christmas treats

Two more days and the kids will be on there summer holidays........Its been busy with end of year graduation and lots of Christmas activities! In between I've been trying to make some cards. Jitterbuggin is having a challenge..........make a card with your favourite Christmas treat on it. Well, I just love Christmas pudding with lots and lots of custard......my pudding actually swims in the custard!

I used - 

Winter Frolic - pudding

 Martha Stewart Elegant cakes - doily

George - Circle

Pattern paper - Kaiser Be Merry collection

Back soon with some more Christmas things......

Tracey

Get Well Soon

My good friend Tereesa  from Up late 2 Create ........her daughter Alyssa is a very very sick little girl at the moment. I will be visiting her in hospital tomorrow so I made this card for her this afternoon in her favourite colors. We all hope to see you home real soon.

I stamped the image, the little flowers were cut with george then I added my favourite  tiny heart buttons . The butterfly was cut with Martha Stewart elegant cake.......its so pretty.

Fantabulous Cricut challenge this week is " Achoo" Create a get well card for someone who is sick.

This card is really simple,  but I think its really pretty..........I hope it cheers Alyssa up .

Be back soon

Tracey