Woohoo!!

FEELING GREAT AND START MY NEW SECOND JOB TOMORROW. TOOK MY GIRL OUT FOR A SPIN TODAY.....WOOHOO!!! just thought I'd share that cos it was awesome!!!! LOL!!!

Embellish It - Week 7 - Layout # 79

This weeks criteria was

create your own patterned background
make and use at least 3 inchies on your project
use a quote as part of your title
not use alpha stickers on your project
create a handmade embellishment from fabric

The hardest part for me this week was the handmade embelli from fabric.....couldn't find any fabric.......so I went to Krystals op shop bag and cut the pocket off a pair of denim shorts...LOL...I''m sure someone will think thats pretty trendy and still buy them from the Op Shop!!! So the pocket is now a cute little owl and a couple of lollipop flowers!! Had fun with this challenge...took me all day but I got there!! TFL.....Pauly xxx

Class Layouts (#76, #77 and #78)

These were the three layouts I did for my class at Scraphappy Kats on Friday night. Went over to Seymour in Jacquis new car.....mmm very nice!! Had a very late night....we didn't get home until 2.30am!! So yesterday wasn't very productive at all......sat and watched netball at Bonnie Doon most the day, came home and slept for three hours, had some tea and caught up on accounts. I started my entry for 'Embellish It' comp but was too tired to finish, so that is todays project..... and maybe start on my class for the Scraphappy Retreat...not long now....... Thanks for popping by Pauly xx

Embellish It - Week 6 - Store It

Cover of Card Compendium
Inside view below

6 cards using leftover pp's


Wow, made it through another week of the embellish It competition (link on my sidebar) This weeks challenge kinda freaked me out a bit when I first read it.....
Make a card compendium with at least three cards, two different pp's, and alter a shop brought embelli.
First things first....didn't even know what a compendium was!!!!! Thank heavens for google!!!
I couldn't find any templates, so I had to wing it...really wasn't that hard once I started (which I kept putting off until Sunday). I used Primas Watercolour Rainbow Collection - whimsy and blushing fushia. For my altered embelli, I used a felt flower and 5 paper flowers and stamped, inked, chopped and made it into one flower and used a prima bling for the centre. Wallah!! Then used the scraps of leftover pp to make some cards. It would comfortably hold ten cards I reckon....anyways TFL. Thanks for stopping by....Pauly XX

July ATC's

'Grunge'

'Spots/Dots'

'Motion'

'Trees'

These ATC's are my monthly addiction!! Love recieving my 'happy mail' every month! I posted two of these a couple of posts back, but I think they got lost in my photos!! Apart from these and a weekly entry in Tans 'Embellish It' competition, I have scrapped nothing!! Have so lost my drive.....hoping it comes back real soon!! I have some gorgeous photos of my grandsons lately and have them printed, just gotta get motivated!!! Maybe later today??? Better get off here and get all my bookwork done first before I get buried in it!! Cya Pauly xx

Embellish It - Week 5 (Roll It)

'Spotty/Dotty' ATC for Scraphappy Swap

'Grunge' ATC for Family & Friends swap

This week's challenge is set by Melinda Spinks (winner of the 'Embellish It' competition in 2009)Melinda's challenge is to create a layout using the following criteria:
Layout to be any shape but square!
Monochromatic Colour Scheme (With a hint of one other colour only!)
Paper Rolling or Quilling must be used on your layout!
Stamping to be used on your layout and be a prominant feature (not just a little stamp in the corner).
An embellishment to be made using acetate/transparency (you can also include any of the above criteria on your embellishment).

Made it through another week of Embellish It...struggled with this weeks entry as I felt pretty ordinary over the weekend, so this was all I could come up with. Will find out Friday if I get through another week. If I don't, I'll do the challenges anyway. I love the push it gives me to do stuff I wouldn't normally (PS....paper rolling is not on my list of favourite techniques!!!) Had another photoshoot today. Cass and I took the boys over to the wetlands for a walk. Cass took 150 photos and I took 129, havent seen Cassies yet, but just put a 'few' of my faves up. LOL.

Plenty there for you to pinch Mum, if the quality no good just give me a hoy and I'll email them through to you. Wish I could find my mojo......dunno where its gone??? Applied for another job today (in the kitchen at the hospital), but don't know if the hours will suit as I don't want to give my post office job up. See how I go......

Cheerio for now.....slack blogger....Pauly xxx

Embellish It - Week 4 (Vintage It)

Cody with his Mums beanie on....how cute!

Little bit of sauce on Cody......

BIG bit of sauce on Loohoo!!!! LOL

YAY, YAY, YAY!!! All my tax stuff is done, sitting here on the table ready to drop off to the accountant in the morning!!! Will be so glad to see the back of it tomorrow!!! Only took me all of last week (not weekend) and all today apart from two hours!!

The only time I got anywhere near my scrap table since last weekend was Saturday night to do the week 4 challenge for Tans 'Embellish It' competition. This week was Vintage week and the criteria set by Lisa Ikumphuis (the vintage queen we call her). I freaked when I seen the criteria at first, but thats why I love challenges, cos they push you out of your comfort zone! Criteria was - vintage style using lace and ribbon - creative use of rubons and paint - something for practical use - include a distressing technique. So I made a little treasure/memory box for my first little grandaughter thats on the way (due September) Quite chuffed with how it turned out and now I have a special little something for her to keep her special little somethings in (hopefully).

I took an hour out today at lunchtime and met Shaz, Krystal and the grandsons at the park. It was freezing cold but they had a ball and so did I, took ninety photos!! The other hour off, Rob and I met up with Dot and Alan for coffee and chinwag. Then came home and cooked roast pork for tea, then went for a walk (which we are going to do every night from now on) lol, thats the plan anyway!! Tonight we just walked off the crackle!!

Anyway enough rambling from me....lol, feel so relieved all that end of year crap is done!! Outa here to print some photos...

Cheers Pauly xx

Embellish It - Week 3 (Layout 75)

For Tans Embellishment comp. this week, the criteria was.......

This week's challenge is for you to also create something ( a layout or an OTP) using the following five points:

1. hand stitching

2. felt

3. beads

4. bling / rhinestones

5. doodling

Let me clarify the criteria; those five 'things' mentioned above (hand stitching, felt, beads, bling / rhinestones and doodling) have to appear on the layout/ project somewhere, BUT you have to create a handmade embellishment too (using one or more of those five points as mentioned above).

So I got that one done, (Aunty Jenny....I finally used my beaded butterfly on the bottom RH corner you taught me to make a few years ago!! Lol, knew I would one day)

Also a card for my nephew Dillon (Still blown away that he turned 18 yesterday!!)which is also done for June challenge # 4 for MAD. Had to use lots of ink, so I inked ther background, stamped Happy Birthday all over it, stamped a border with ink splats and went over the lot with champagne ink to give it a shimmer, then stuck on the 18 with foam numbers. That was my big efforts for the weekend!! Thanks for stopping by Pauly xx

PS. I love getting comments but if you can't write in English, don't waste your valuable time leaving me comments cos I can only read English! Thanks anyway :)

Class reveal....(LO 73 & 74)

Rob on the beach at Perth on holidays last March

Lucas on Easter morning....

Heres my layouts for my class at Scraphappys last night...thanks to the girls that attended, I had a good night!!
I have done three layouts this week for my next class, so I can't show yas yet!! Nearly halfway through the layout count for this year....can't believe I've done that many, it sure doesn't seem like it....I don't think I'll get much done in July as I'll be having too much fun doing end of month, BAS and Tax.....NOT!!
YAY, I made it through week 2 of 'Embellish It' competition...off to work on week 3's 'Stitch It' hmmmm....lots of criteria on this one!! thinking, thinking.........
Thanks for stopping by....Pauly xx

Layout 70, 71 & 72

Krystal with her boyfriend before they went to the Deb on Friday night. Layout for MAD 'Friday night In' challenge

Cass and I at her 40th birthday in March. MAD June challenge # 3

Lucas in the river in January. This one was for Embellishment competition Week 2. I made it through week one...YAY. This week is "Hybrid It"

Not much been happening here.....FINALLY over the flu (touch wood).....

Layout 69 - Lisa K's kit

This layout I done for MAD challenge 1 of 4 for June. Criteria was to use the quote given and minimum of two circles. I used one of Lisa K's kits, they are fantastic kits, value for money!!All I have added to this one is the two butterflies and the date journal block. If you haven't done so before, do yourself a favour and go here to check her blog, she puts new kits up at the start of every month and they are only $10 each . Some of the packs I will get 4-5 layouts from. VALUE!! Well thats all I have done this week, hopefully will produce some goodness over the weekend!! Cya Pauly xx

Layout 68 - Out of the Hat!!

Our 'new' driveway we got done last week.

Our cute puss 'Tractor'

Out of the Hat June challenge

The one and only thing I created for the long weekend (and that was last night!!) was for my take on this months Out Of the Hat challenge. Criteria this month was multi photos (more than three), mixed alphas for title and staples and doodling. Go check out the new forum started this month.

Photo for you mum of our 'million dollar' driveway you heard about on the weekend.....well $2528.84 to be precise. Way better than it was, but considering I was expecting about $800 worth, for that money I want a freeway!!! Pretty sure Dad would have done way better!!

Andrew had Saturday off so I went up to the workshop to try and keep Rob under control....we left there about 3.30...then dunno what happened to the rest of the day?? Sunday we drove to Albury to see Al in hospital....he's in pretty good spirits considering they just took off three of his toes!! Yesterday we had a sleep in, went for lunch, helped out with some new tyres for some people that wouldn't have made it back to Melbourne. Came home, washed my Harley and then just had to get on and give it a burl....Rob came with me...YES his first ride since his hip replacement!! I couldn't get the grin off his face all night!!! Lol, it was only a short ride, but I bet there will be no stopping him now!!! Thanks for stopping by....cheerio...Pauly xx

LO # 66 & 67, some ATC's.

Rainbows ATC

Flying High ATC

Black & White ATC

Remembering the 80's ATC (I chose these 2 movies as the producer Geoff Burrowes is a local and they were filmed here in the Mansfield district and I remember going to the launch of the 2nd one down here at our local cinema)

A just because LO that has been sitting half done on my table for weeks....

My first entry for Tans 'Embellish It' comp that started Friday.....come join in the fun......you have until Wednesday to join in....go see the details here

Embellish it Competition - Week1 by Sarah Rickard
We warmly welcome you to our First of Nine weeks of Competition. We have $500 worth of prizes in goods and vouchers to give away.
Everyone that places their layout in the gallery by midnight Wednesday 16th May @ www.scrapncraftwitht.com.au/gallery under the 'Embellish it' and 'PAINT IT' section will receive an automatic 10% off their orders while the competition is running, *please NOTE* this only applies when you are still participating either in the competition or challenge section. This will excude anything on sale. If your wanting sale items please put them in a separate cart.
If you are part of the comp or just looking on WE LOVE TO SEE YOUR COMMENTS! the work put into these projects are amazing and we all love your feedback.

Here is our first Challenge ...
Criteria for layout:-
* paint
* doodling
*use 3 different patterned papers* interesting ways to journal & title

Hand made embellishment criteria:-
* sewing
* paint
* must use 3 colours

We wish you best of luck and cant wait to see your work in the gallery!
enjoy
luv tan & my talented team Xx


Well thats been me for the last couple of weeks while stuck inside with the dreaded flu!!! I think I'm on the tail end of it now........hoping so anyway!! One set of those ATC's took me two days to plough through!! Hope you are all enjoying your long weekend!! Cya Pauly

Little Update......

Sneak Peek 1....

Sneak Peek 2.....

Pirate ATC....

Hardly got anything to show......I have only done my DT work for Scraphappy Kats (and can only show a little sneak peek yet) for this Friday night coming, and one little ATC I made last night for a challenge at Born2Create with a pirate theme. Went to Melbourne at the end of last week and seen the Jersey Boys, it was AWESOME! Lol, I'm glad it was really loud but, as no-one could hear me sniffing the whole way through it!! I have had the flu all week, but I wasn't gonna miss out!!! I am hoping I'm on the tail end of it now, as I'm totally over it! Just got the annoying tickle in the throat, otherwise feel okay (just). Off to cook some tea and hopefully scrap a little later tonight. Thanks for stopping by....Paulyxx