A new LO, cards and some kits for my LSS......

The lovely Sue from Scraploot asked if I'd like to prepare a few kits for her a while back and I of course jumped at the opportunity! I finally had some scrapping time last weekend and got them finished!  Below are a few sneak peeks of the 3 kits.... I'm not sure when they will go on sale, so keep an eye out over the coming weeks, either in person at the gorgeous shop in Prospect or online.

 The last one is a double LO that I am finally really happy with!

I managed to finish this layout at the last Scraploot social scrap. It's one of my mum and her beautiful friend. I'm going to frame and give it to her, as she has been at me for a while for one to put up in her freshly painted spare room - this one matches the colour tones now :) I love this new Kaisercraft range.

 

 

and a few close ups......

I finished off a few cards this week for my Dad's and mother in law's birthdays.

This one is for Dad using the one of the new Kaisercraft ranges and Stampin' Up! stamp set.

This one was for my mother in law. This is Websters Pages paper and a stamp set from Stampin' Up!. The background stamp on the cardstock is one of the new Kaisercraft stamps.

I recently did a class with Rachel Greig from Darkroom Door and love this new crayon resist technique we learnt. It's my new favourite for cards! I bought one of the stamps that has this cute old truck on it and now that I won't see Dad until next weekend, might have to make another card and use that one instead and save the card I originally made for another day lol!!  I'm feeling a little drained and sleepy at the moment, so I will see how I go.... somehow I don't think i'm going to get as much done as I initially thought this weekend! I think it will be a lazy one crashing on the lounge watching DVDs and the V8's instead!

Have a great weekend and thanks for looking!

xx Renae

New sneak peeks

Just a sneak peek of the layout I did for the SBM never been published cover comp. I had another LO that I wanted to submit but didn't quite meet the criteria, so I re-did it in a different paper range with the right sized photo and moved (and changed) the title. There are quite a few other changes to the original one I did, but it is still fairly similar, which was what I wanted as I loved the original one so much. I started it at Tiff's crop night over a week ago and have finally gotten around to finishing it!

"Sisterly Love": Published in Scrapbooking Memories - Vol. 12 No.11.

I absolutely love these beautiful flowers that the clever Chris makes from B2Creations. The other flowers are handmade from a tutorial that Chris gave us at a retreat last year. I have to be patient when I try to make them as they are fiddly, but I love the effect. I have used the Kaisercraft Prairie Lane paper - I'm a sucker for anything brown!

I also found some pics on my camera (my pretty new Digital SLR that hubby and I got for a good deal when we got back from Hawaii - it was so worth the 2 years interest free term to pay it off!) of a few cards I have made over the past few months.

They were all for either friends or family members birthdays. Now I'm off to make some more :)

Happy Scrapping

xx Renae

Card examples

As promised...... these are a few new cards. The first one is my take on the August sketch over at ScrapawayG3 Sketches (http://scrapawayg3sketches.blogspot.com/). Head over and check out this month's sketch to be in the running to win a prize.

The rest of these are cards weew to play with the gorgeous new stamp sets!

Thank you notes

These are some cute little Thank You notes I made recently. They all have the same design and image, yet the different coloured paper and cardstock/ink, all give a different look. I stamped the same "Thank You" stamp in the bottom corner on the back of them as well. I have used Stampin' Up! Designer Series paper together with the Fun & Fast Notes stamp set and the Short & Sweet stamp set.

Have a great weekend xx

Happy new financial year

Where has the time gone! I can't believe it is July already. I celebrated my 30th birthday last weekend with my wonderful family and friends. It was a wonderful night and courtesy of my wonderful photographer sister, I have some great pics (including my new avatar of me in my lovely new red dress!). I will have to get organised and put some happy snaps up here for you all to see. Those that are on Facebook and want to have a stickybeak, they are all up there for you to see for now :)

I didn't get a great deal of scrapping done in June, but have made what feels like a million cards for my Stampin' Up! workshops! My new order of stamps arrived this week so I have had so much fun experimenting with them and I am addicted to my Stampin' Pastels! I am trying to get organised to take some pics of some of the cards I have created. I placed my pre-order for the new Stampin' Up! mini catalogue today. I'm in love with everything in it! You will all love what they have on offer. Customers can commence ordering from this mini catalogue from 1 August. I can see I will be ordering everything from it in the few months it is available!

Most of you would now have seen the new Kaisercraft QOne ranges. Aren't they gorgeous!! I placed an order for some of their goodies today through Scrappers Garden. I love the storage options available too - what a wonderful idea!! I can't wait for them to arrive. I had to keep myself extremely restrained and not buy everything!! I am going to have so much fun creating with these goodies - I can't wait!

I'm off to my second Stampin' Up! workshop tomorrow, Mum is hostessing. Lucky it's close family and friends as my voice has disappeared this week and is only slowly coming back LOL!!

Have a wonderful weekend :)

xx Renae