Having a bit of a pink fetish....

Had a bit of a scrappy day with my SIL yesterday which was great - and seemed to produce a lot of pink pages....lol
Pretty much all these products available at Anna's Craft Cupboard - if you want a list of materials check out the gallery HERE where I've listed them all.
This top lo is loosely inspired by Tara Scobie - I love how she uses strips of ledger edged paper.

stuff..

Sorry about the angle of these pics - still trying to find my 'perfect' place to take photos of LO's in this house - leaning them against the french doors is not so good....

Sept step-by-step

is up on Anna's blog HERE.
I've used a few different techniques on this LO if you want to go check out the blog.

[Using Prima Fairy Flora paper & flower, Martha Stewart Doilies, Jenni Bowlin button and cardstock all available at Anna's Craft Cupboard]

Fran xx

Isn't it funny sometimes how you can love one side of a patterned paper but you seem to not use the side you thought you would?
This red paper in this 'Nana' LO is Bo Bunny Learning Curve - Bookmark and I LOVE the other side of it - it looks like old kids storybooks but twice now I've used the red side instead. Not all that interesting really - lol - but just thought I'd mention it........
This is my Nana who passed away very recently(this is her before she was married - she didn't look like THAT when she died ;) ). She was 94 so while it was sad, she had a good innings.


And this is just a thankyou card - I have made SO many thankyou cards for coaches etc for the end of the footy/hockey/season and forgot to photograph half of them - godammit cos I really liked them and most of them were for males which I always find harder to make cards for.


And lastly - Happy 100th Birthday to our little town of Morawa! HUGE celebrations are happening in town this weekend - theres even CHOICES of 'nightlife' stuff to do - how about that for a small town??lol. And BRadley and I won't even be here as I have plans that have been in place for about a year - my Dad turns 70. Good timing, Dad - well, I guess thats Nana's fault really but can't have a go at her for it (see above paragraph...)
Apparently Morawa isn't 100 until next year but is being celebrated this year - and oh. my. god - doesn't that bring back the memories of the Year 2000 not being the actual end of the millenium but it should've been celebrated in 2001. Did anyone else have one of these people in their family (not pointing fingers at anyone, DAD). I tried to point out that it was the cool year of "The Year 2000" that we wanted to celebrate - not the specifically-timed end of 2000 years.......but that wasn't the point - have you ever met my Dad?...
Anyway - got 2 kids on the couch - and only half of them are mine - so better go do my nursely duties

It's been a while -so, how've you been?

My mind has been elsewhere the last few weeks due to a couple of deaths of those close to us - one tragic, one not.
And I felt like I hadn't scrapped for a while, but when I got my DT pack in the mail from Anna's Craft I actually had a great time putting some stuff together (more to come later).
These are both using the Basic Grey "Jovial" range - papers, 'pops' stickers and elements stickers - all available HERE at Anna's Craft Cupboard.

Sept sketch

Upload a LO to Anna's Craft gallery by the end of Sept using this sketch, and go in the draw to win a $40 voucher including free post.

Kaisercraft "Tis The Season" range

Available at Anna's CRaft Cupboard - I really love this range - it's a lot like the Dear Santa collection from last year - but better! Maybe it's just the red dotty paper that does it for me......

Kaisercraft "Be Merry" collection

Available now at Anna's Craft Cupboard

Secret Bird Society...

Step by step instructions for this LO are now up on Anna's Craft Cupboard BLOG - using Kaisercrafts new "Secret Bird Society" collection

New dresses

Using Kaisercraft's Pennyroyale range.

Aug sketch at Anna's Craft

Upload a LO to Anna's gallery using this sketch by the end of August and go in the draw to win a $40 voucher inclusing free postage.

Sketch designed by Wendy Smith.

..

During my year on the Kaisercraft DT we were asked to do a Technique focus for Scrapbook Creations magazine - using a mini-album on a LO. This was my take on the challenge using Kaisercraft's Devonshire range. It's in the current SC (number 80 I think?) along with Rona Bailey and Tanya Tahir's gorgeous LO's.

Girl's Paperie "On Holiday"

Available at Anna's Craft Cupboard

Fancy Pants "Wishful Thinking"

Available at Anna's Craft Cupboard - I love this range - so much so I have a piece of paper on my desk that is just too pretty to cut up, which NEVER happens to me - but I WILL use it so watch this space!

Kaszazz cards

I had these cards published in the last Scrapbooking Memories but they were accidently credited to Jodi Dolbel - no biggie, but SBM were so good about it and definitely made up for it with an awesome parcel in the mail!

Another My Little Shoebox LO

Products available at Anna's Craft Cupboard

My Little Shoebox

...

Ok - just a heads up - I've come to the conclusion that theres a bunch of stuff that I don't think ever gets to my blog so I'm just going to randomly upload things as I find them - so forewarned is fore-armed so feel free to tune out anytime soon.....lol
This is my latest step by step which is up on the Anna's Craft blog. I'm usually not a fan of brights but for some reason I love this Cosmo Cricket range "DeLovely", so I added it to my wishlist for my DT pack Anna's and I got lucky!

Bloody Masterchef...

I blame YOU, MASTERCHEF, for all the carrot peelings across my kitchen table and itty bitty bits of cut up fruit everywhere. My 2 youngest kids (4 & 7) have been 'playing' Masterchef this afternoon - arranging concoctions of things on plates and naming themselves after the contestants on the show - although of course my Claire is always the one named Claire...
And speaking of my Claire - I think she fell in love with one of the next door neighbour boys today simply by something he said. He was over at our house playing 'boy' things and Claire and her little friend asked them if they would be the judges for Masterchef, kind of expecting them to not be into it. Then he said "Have you got pieces of paper so we can write our scores down?" and the look on her face...well, I can just imagine in her head she was going "Oh.My.God...I'm going to marry you".
But you're still not forgiven Masterchef......

Using divided page protectors

A couple of months ago I had an article in Scrapbooking Memories about using divided page protectors and here are the LO's. There was one more LO which focussed more on using mini-albums in the pockets but I can't find it in my file so maybe I never took one? Anyhoo - here they are








(You can buy these page protectors at Annas CRaft by the way...)

She wasn't crying wolf...lol

My darling daughter Madison always carries on like a pork chop (where DID that saying come from??) whenever anything happens to her - honestly there are times when I think her arm must've been ripped off and I go outside and she's stepped in water or something insignificant- she is just one of those kids where you cannot truly guage her pain by the sound she is making as there is no varying degrees of it! (the other 2 kids, on the other hand are completelyt normal in these matters)
So last week I picked her up from the local youth centre (yes, I can go to these things now cos I LIVE IN TOWN - lol) and she was complaining about her sore foot - and I thought she was just whingeing cos she was walking on gravel but when she really had tears streaming down her face I actually believed her.
And one of her toes was looking a bit red and wonky - and the next morning she woke up with this bruise - so I took her to the doc (then the hospital, then the doc, then back the hospital - but we wont' go there...)and she's broken her middle toe - and just for the record, it wasn't the wonky red one!lol



So she's now lapping up the sympathy - and I said to her "Who do you take after?" and she very solemnly said "My father..." lmao - if you knew him you'd know this is completely true - he is highly talented at hurting himself on stuff that you wouldn't think is dangerous - and often on couches which is what Mads broke her toe on.