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that I won't see Dad until next weekend, might have to make another card and use that one instead and save the card I originally made for another day lol!!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

September ScrapawayG3 Sketch

This is my take on Gayatri's Sketch for September. Head over to the site (http://scrapawayg3sketches.blogspot.com/) to check out the rest of the DT inspirations and submit your entry for this month.


I have use the Stampin' Up! Loads of Love stamp set and some Basic Grey paper.

Shabby Chic Card

I've been busy with this card this week.... it's for one of my best friends for her 30th birthday. I procrastinated over it for days as I couldn't work out what to do with it and as soon as I started playing with these papers, it all came together! I've also managed to sneak in one of my new favourite Stampin' Up! stamps. I love this clock and how it comes up when stamped on a transparency (my new fav technique!).

TFL xx

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

Some new scrapping work and cards

I finally got some scrapping done last week for my DT work over at Scrappers Garden. I have created 2 double LO's and one single page. The kits go one sale in a few weeks, so I can only show a sneak peak of them here... Check out http://scrappersgarden.openstores.com.au/ for all the kits on offer. They are excellent value!

These 2 sneaks are from a double LO. This pp range was so much fun to work with. Lots of bright colours! I need to crop the other LO's so I will post them in the next few days.

The following LO is my take on the July sketch at Scrappers Garden. The pics are from one of my best friend's little boy's first birthday which we celebrated recently. He is so adorable!

Some more card work:

This was created for a friend for her nephew's birthday. I love this little truck! I did a similar card in brown tones for my Dad for his birthday.
This little cutie was made for my mother in law's birthday. It's the Rustic Rooster Hostess Stamp Set. I wasn't a fan of the rooster to start with but now i'm using it, I love it! 

What was meant to be a quick update, has turned into a really long post! Happy reading lovely people and I hope you all have a great weekend.

xx Renae

Exciting News....

The lovely Gayatri has invited me to be a part of her new design team. Check out http://scrapawayg3sketches.blogspot.com/ for all the sketches. The Design Team will be creating some beautiful cards based on these sketches so as ito inspire you all. Gayatri's card and scrapbook sketches are awesome and I love working with them. There is a monthly competition with a prize pack and all you have to do is make a card using the sketch to enter. Pop pn over and check it out for your chance to win. This is my take on the first card sketch:

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

Scrapping from May

I have been extremely busy the last few months and have not had a chance to update my blog with my LO's created in May. I haven't done any scrapping in June yet. I have paper and photos cut out ready to attempt my first LO of the month but don't have a great deal of mojo at the moment and am a little burnt out. I'm busily preparing for my first Stampin' Up! Workshop on the weekend. I have a few cards that I have made as samples and will try to get some pics up here over the next week. Now to enjoy some work from May... TFL xx

These were my Design Team LO's for Scrappers Garden. For the month of May I used the Kaisercraft Spirograph and Everblooming ranges.

This one is from a challenge over at Deb's Creations. This was Gayatri's sketch challenge.

Another challenge over at Deb's Creations. This was Skye's Songbirds Challenge, based on "The Sweetest Thing" lyrics for inspiration.

Another challenge over at Deb's - this one was Theresa's challenge set for May.

Mandy's bright coloured negative space challenge over at Deb's.

This is the sketch from Scrappers Garden for May and also doubled as one of the challenges over at Deb's. I love this Basic Grey paper!

This was a LO from one of Nicole's shabby chic classes at Scraploot. I hadn't quite finished it at the class and wanted to use it as the basis of my shabby chic LO for Chris's DT LO Challenge at Deb's. I love browns and greens together and I love this paper. I had so much fun with this class.