Handsome

Finally another of Kel, he's going into silly mode again lately and trying to get a 'normal' shot is few and far between!

 Love this child of mine!

Boys layouts are fun when you have the right embies... cogs and barbed wire, clocks, cool trims... all these little bits replace my 'need' for flowers!!  Love that cute little button I got ages ago from L'il Red Rocket, it was perfect with the Kaiser Transparency Cuts.

I have used:
7 Gypsies Off The Wall Collection Paper
Dusty Attic Cogs #1
Dusty Attic Barb Wire
Dusty Attic Mini Word
Green Tara Mesh, Coffee & Sand
Green Tara Medium Green Leaf, 5cm
Green Tara Suede Leaf, Olive
Collections Ticket
SEI Tickets
Kaiser Transparency Overlays, 13th Hour
Handmade Halo Pebble
Authentique Word Stickers
Tim Holtz Muse Token
Lil Red Rocket Button

Dusty Attic Barb Wire	Dusty Attic Cogs 1	Green Tara Suede Leaf, Olive
Green Tara Medium Green Leaves, 5cm	Green Tara Mesh 38mm, Coffee	Green Tara Mesh 38mm, Sand

InLinkz.com

Thanks for visiting, take care and

Cupcake anyone...?

This month Helen @ Red Earth sent me some uber fabulous papers from My Mind's Eye Lost and Found Collection... look at these cool cupcake colours!!



and what about the actual cupcake!

I LOVE cupcakes, to me they are soul food because they can only ever make you happy... and they're even better when someone else makes them. Kel made these, his first 'all by himself' attempt, not bad hey!

Checked patterns usually scare the bejeezus out of me, but this one with all that hot pink glitter... OMG it was the 1st paper out of it all that I grabbed to play with... I think it was perfect for the pic of Kel's cupcake!

From Red: MME Adore Pleated Skirt, Prima Liliput Roses, Dusty Attic Songbird, Green Tara Lace, Maya Road Pin, Carolee's Milk Chocolate Alphabet Stickers

My Stash: Beaded Trim, Doily, Crocheted Doily, Kaiser Rhinestone Strip, Little Yellow Bicycle Journal Card, KandCo Brad, L'il Red Rocket Button, Mini Paper Roses

There's more to come... so keep an eye out here or over at Red Earth Scrapping!!

Take care of you.

[she's] Beautiful...

My 1st layout for Red Earth Scrapping... after months of being lucky enough to chat to Helen while she was getting up and running, finally they are off and going!

My 1st CT Kit was the August Mini Kit and these delicious 7 Gypsies papers... and of course I had to nick a pic of Tina's gorgeous grand-daughter Shontay for this ultra sweet girly range, isn't she just the most beautiful creature!

So here's what I have used to create this:

From Red Earth: 7 Gypsies {Victoria "Printemps"} PP, White Textured Cardstock, Prima Innoscence Flowers, Dusty Attic Vintage Chandelier, Jenni Bowlin Pin {Antique Gold}

From my Stash: Chan's Crocheted Trim & Doily, Petaloo Flower Centres, Collections Butterflies, Dusty Attic Mini Vines, Li'l Red Rocket Button, Green Tara Paper Roses {thanks to Sonya's stash}, Rhinestone Strip, Bella Flocked Transparency.

The Dusty Attic chipboard had some simple treatment, they were just painted in warm white paint and some Stickles added to the Chandelier. To create part of the printed paper as a heading it was simply trimmed from a 2nd piece and raised with foam tape.

Take care of you.

Dusty Sketch Challenge

At the moment Dusty have a wicked prize up for grabs, click on the sketch to have a see!


I've got some mojo flowing this weekend {finally} so I had a play as well... here's mine!


The only small photos in the house, me at 3 with mum and dad. Probably a good thing I did this, poor things were stuck down with icky sticky tape!

I had lots of fun with this! More faves on there... beaded trim, crocheted bits and the lovely Dusty Attic Wrought Iron Frame I've had for ages, finally it found the perfect home.


The cute button is from Lil Red Rocket; Crochet Trim from Simply Cards, a couple of cute little Etsy Stores I love. The delicious paper in the background is from KCo's Ancestry Range, available at Inspired Crafts, and of course the Dusty, CI IOD Papers, Lace Trim and those cute paper roses are from Tomorrow's Memories.

Sketch by: Trina McClune

Take care of you.

Saturday Night... do do do dooo do do...

Saturday night I had some lovely friends over to play, I feel so lucky to have these girls in my life! I only scrapped 2 layouts, but that's better than the 1 I did last time I had friends over to play!

Okies... so Rewind:

Saturday morning I went to get the pics from Kel & my date day printed out, and fell in love with one of them... so hot footed it down to Tomorrow's Memories {being my closest LSS that I knew would have the perfect everything} and grabbed some papers and embies to suit the photo {thanks Vicki} and also work in with this challenge:

And here it is:

Where [Do you go when you Daydream]

Not as stunning as my head imagined, but I'm happy with it! I love this pic of Kel... and you can see why I had to go to TM's right away, because while I have boy papers, I don't have soft antiquey bluey/brown boy papers! There's some delish Tim Holtz paper in there, some Glitz Vintage something and Dusty Attic Chipboard. Also some bits I got from Lil Red Rocket made it's way onto there!!

And so, while grabbing perfect bits of PP for the LO, MORE papers jumped into my hands while there - this BoBunny Mama-Razzi Diecut... and a few others from the range. All I can say is - OMG YUMMY!!

This was so simple, the Diecut PP, some TBZ Wrought Iron Flourishes, a Dusty Attic Key Plate, some Ephemera & Collections Butterflies, oh and of course a wee bit of bling!

And so was done the creating! Thanks to Bri & Allie, Tina, Jules & Nes for coming to play with me!!

Today I was shattered, it wasn't an overly shocking late night but I couldn't get going today and have had naps all day while Darren has fluffed about around me... and there's no way I'm admitting that I'm getting too old to handle a late night anymore LOL, but it could be I've had too many late nights the last few weeks... that one I might cope with admitting, I think next weekend will be a quiet one at home.

Take care of you.

More Happy Mail...

although these ones I ordered for me, but I HAVE to share them, talk about mega cute!

From Kim J's blog {whom I haunt regularly, I don't comment nearly enough though, bad Missy}, I followed links across to Lil Red Rocket... YUM!

From there I wandered into Michelle's Etsy Store {as you do} and bought these:




Yes... quite different to my usual 'thang' but I really had to have them. I love what Kim does with her little bits from Lil Red Rocket so thought I'd have a play too... and did you see how CUTE those little bunny buttons are - they'll be perfect for a LO of Coco, yes I know she's a dog... but I always call her CocoBunny lately!

I'm now waiting for Michelle's store to open again to get some MORE cute things because this time I think some of these need a home at my place!

Image Source: Lil Red Rocket

Take care of you.