Baby Gift

Hello Happy Saturday we are having a nice weekend, an especially nice one as we got good news yesterday regarding the sale of our apartment and now we can start planning to go back to Australia and lots of exciting stuff ahead for us especially building our new house by the beach.

Anyway one of my clients I walk their dog Hana, the couple that own her just had a baby boy today so I had already made a card but I decided to make a little gift to go with it. I'd seen some baby gifts on blogs using the fry box from Cricut. I decided to fill mine with little baby socks, I fit six pair in there which was great. I got these whilst out shopping today, I was pretty sure it was a boy from the way the nursery was decorated and I guessed right so I bought the right socks. I made the fry box at 11.5 inches on the Cricut and I also cut a scalloped tag and wrote with my Cricut pens. I also cut a cute blue teddy bear and used a Peachy Keen Critters bear stamp face and used some enamel dots for his buttons. I love how this turned out, just a small gift but a nice thought. Thanks for looking, have a nice weekend.

I go bananas over you

Hello I made this card as a surprise for Greg this morning before I go out to the dogs. We've been waiting yet another week to see if our sale will go through on our Condo and we still don't know, we're pretty tired of all this now and it's stressful on so many levels. So I made this card for Greg to brighten his day, what better than a tropical banana with a smiley face. I told Greg in the card that this banana came all the way from Cooya Beach to say hello to him. I cut the banana out on my Cricut and I inked around the banana with yellow Distress Ink. I did the little banner on my Cricut with my Cricut pens. I especially like how the glittery banana peel looks. Greg loved his card, it's on his desk. Maybe this little banana will be an omen for us that we will get good news today : ). Thanks for looking have a nice weekend.

Ivy's 2nd Birthday

Hello I have another layout for Ivy's album today, this is a double page  layout I did for her 2nd birthday. Greg and I made her a cake and she loved it, she didn't get to eat it all at once even though she would have liked to!

The pages were cut 8 x 8 and I used my Cuttlebug and Circle dies to cut out the photos and layers. I used my Cricut to write my journaling and some other die cuts I had in my stash. Thanks for looking.

Friends Furever

Hello I made another page tonight for Ivy's album, this one someone took of us near the Christmas tree farm last year, Ivy was so cute in her winter coat and I love this photo. I used some of my nice Christmas papers. I've been saving some but I think I may as well enjoy using them. I cut the lights on my Cricut and the Friends Forever title I got for 50 cents from Miss Kate's Cuttables. I added a candy cane sticker as well. I really like how this one turned out. Another nice page for Ivy's album.

an Ivy layout

Hello again I've decided to try to get some more done of Ivy's album, I put it aside for a bit whilst I finished all my cards and the Italy layouts. We've got so many wonderful pictures of Ivy that her album will take a while but that's ok. I actually got more pockets to extend my album on clearance at Joanns a couple of weeks ago so I will have plenty of room in her album. She is such a darling girl and we've known her since she was a small puppy. When she was a puppy she loved to go around picking up junk in the street, we always used to joke she should work for the Chicago streets and sanitation, she would have been a good little worker for them lol. I cut an 8 x 8 page from striped paper, then I used my Cricut to cut the file folder square. I cut some scalloped squares a bit bigger than the photos out of the scraps of the striped paper and inked the edges with Tim Holtz distress ink Picked Raspberry. I also used my Cricut and black pen to write my journalling. I got the title out of a paper pad I got ages ago and the border was from a pets stack Greg got me a while ago I love using that for Ivy's pages, look at those little bones! I added some enamel dots, a joy brad and a wood veneer paw print. Thanks for looking.

Birthday card

Hello I made this birthday card this week, I got this new stamp set from Michaels on Saturday with my 40% off coupon, I thought the little mouse in the nutshell sailing along chilling was so cute. I started with a pre-made blue card then a white cloud embossed layer, I then went over with my Blue distress ink. I stamped my image and cut with circles, I find this easier on my Cuttlebug and my Circle nesting Spellbinders so I can line up the image correctly. I colored in the little mouse with pencils and added silver gel pen to the clouds and the water. I punched a scrap of green with a scalloped punch and stamped my greeting and added a silver border. Inside it says "Have a mice birthday" very cute, thanks for looking.

You are Pawsome

Hello hope you had a nice Tuesday, we had a lovely sunny day here we went out for a walk this afternoon and it was lovely to have some summer sun together after some storms lately.

I made this card for Ivy and her mom Tanya. We are most probably leaving soon (although we still don't have 100% surety yet) but we are going to be very upset when we say goodbye to Ivy. We love her to bits and she has grown up with us since being a tiny gorgeous puppy, now she is a gorgeous big Great Dane and I get to see her usually 5 days a week a few times a day usually and Greg always comes with us on our afternoon walk and we play ropes and go for walks to the lake and play treat game, all lots of fun things the three of us. We will really miss her but we have lots of wonderful photos and memories and we will always love Ivy, we just wish we could explain to her that we have to leave now but we will always think of her and love her, we hope in her little dog world she will know that. It would give us great comfort to know she is not sad, but she has lots of people that love her and of course the Fido Treat Truck. She's even inspired us to get our own Great Dane one day, they are such beautiful dogs and we will have our own puppy to love and train called Zoe.

So this card is for Ivy mostly but as Tanya is her mom she can give it to Ivy. I saw the idea in a magazine for the saying I just love it, instead of awesome it's pawsome and Ivy sure is pawsome. I cut the card on my Cricut and cut a circle out of the front I added a fancy frame and some circles in the middle then a pawprint to which I added glossy accents to make it raised and glossy. I used my Cricut pens to write my greeting and cut out my label and added ribbon. We bought Ivy a special toy to play with for when we leave and I'm going to make her a big batch of "Miss Lindsey treats" that she loves and we'll get Tanya something too. Hope you like my card.

Baby Card

Hello, Happy Sunday I hope you had a nice weekend, we had a nice weekend : ). I don't make many baby cards but one of my clients (I walk their dog Hana and they live on the floor above us) they are expecting a baby in early July, I don't know if it's a boy or girl so I made this card in unisex colors. I started with a white card, added a star patterned paper layer then I embossed a yellow layer with a stars embossing folder. Then a smaller white layer, I rounded all the corners on all pieces. I cut the pram from the New Arrival cartridge and added some grey ribbon, some tiny punched hearts and pearls to the wheels. I hope they like this card I think it turned out cute.

Fabulous Florence

Hello I had chance to do a layout today of when we visited Florence, Italy last year. I used my Cricut pens to write my title, they come in a pack now with different tips and a craft friend of mine found some in her Michaels and kindly sent me them so I was glad to try them out. I used them for the title and the little saying on the right hand side which reads "Oh darling lets be adventurers". I used my Cricut to cut out the "Ciao" and used some wood veneer embellishments and stickers for the rest as well s using ink around the edge of the page and the adventurers saying.

Greg's Christmas card, probably my most favourite card

Hello I have what is probably my most favourite card I've made so far, completely my own idea with no real ideas from anywhere. I made Greg's Christmas card now because I think at this stage I will be too busy nearer to Christmas. I've had this card waiting to be finished for a few weeks, I just had to find some mini candy cane stickers and I did yesterday at Michaels. I made a long card and then the next layer was white I used two different color distress inks in blue to make the sky. I cut some grass and a clothes line as well as hangers. I cut out a bikini, a Santa jacket and some board shorts as it's Christmas near the beach. I punched out some flowers and added some gems and the candy canes and wrote the sentiment with my Cricut. I think this is so cute and perfect for a warm Christmas. Not your traditional Christmas card but just perfect for the theme I wanted and I know Greg will just love it. Thanks for looking, have a nice day.

New Home Card

Hello Happy Sunday, its warm but stormy here but we're going out in a minute so nice to go out and enjoy our day. I'm looking forward to our treat later, frozen chocolate mousse sandwiches. I made some chocolate biscuits from scratch and we made some frozen chocolate mousse so we'll cut out rounds of the mousse later and sandwich them between the cookies yum! I love cooking and baking with Greg, I will be even more excited when we have a much bigger kitchen.
This is probably a bit early to make this card as we still don't have the final approval on our Buyers finance but we're meant to be by the end of this week, we REALLY hope all is ok and we are sure it will be. So we're going to give her a bottle of fortified wine from Australia when we leave so I made her a card to go with it, just from scratch and on my Cricut. I added some American ribbon with the colors and I think it will be a nice touch to go with the gift. I think maybe if I made this in advance and carry on as if we will sell our apartment all will go well. Positive thinking!!

Dessert on the go

Hello I think I have almost finished my Italy layouts now but I will go and check my albums. I made this one of when we visited a little dessert shop called Pompi in Italy that we were recommended, they had all these flavors of Tiramisu that they put in a little box to take away. I think I had a Hazelnut one and it was delicious. Greg doesn't like Tiramisu so he had a Cannoli. We sat near the Spanish Steps and ate these. I used my Cricut for most of it and some stamps as well. Thanks for looking.

Ice cream happy summer card

Hello I made this card this afternoon for my friend Claudy who is sick with a summer cold/flu at the moment so I knew I had this cute ice cream paper to use so I made her a get well/cheer up ice cream card. I used a pre made yellow card and then used the Cricut to cut my layers and the cute ice cream. I used my score board to make the lines on the cone and write my greeting. I used one of my Peachy Keen faces to stamp a face and used some white gel pen to accent and some glossy accents on the cherry to make it shiny. I put the ice cream on 3D dots. Thanks for looking.

Vatican Layout

Hello Happy Wednesday, I have a layout I did yesterday of our visit to the Vatican in Rome last year, it was wonderful to visit and we took lots of photos but these are a few of the best. I kept my page simple, I like to scrapbook with not too many embellishments, just my way and to let the photos be the star. I had some Rome papers to use up as I'm almost finished now so I used those and cut a bible from my Cricut. Thanks for looking.

Eat Layout

Hello from a lovely hot day in Chicago, Greg and I did our cardio today but not in the gym, we got out in the fresh air and sun and went for a walk near the lake.
I made this page on the weekend and this is of the delicious food that Greg and I cooked at our cooking course in Sorrento, Italy on our anniversary. We were so full after eating all that but loved it all and it was in such a beautiful setting and we enjoyed cooking together, it was a wonderful day. I used various patterned papers and I inked the strip of spotted paper. The "Eat" title is from my Cricut library. Thanks for looking.

Anniversary Lunch

Hello Happy Friday, almost the weekend now : ) I haven't done any scrapbooking in a while as I've been getting my cards done but I'm trying to finish up Italy now so I did a layout of the photos of us on our Anniversary in Sorrento when we did a cooking course which was wonderful and this is us eating our wonderful lunch in the gardens of the beautiful villa we cooked in and the people that ran the course. I used a royal blue card for the background and then I used lots of things from a paper pad I got at Michaels for $5 recently. I cut some chevron paper which looks a bit like the pattern on my dress and then cut out the tag for the title and the "what a great day" card at the top. I added some wood veneer embellishments and used my Cricut to write my journalling onto a heart tag. Thanks for looking, have a nice weekend.

Last two Christmas cards

Hello I have 2 more cards today I think these will be my last Christmas cards. I think I have made all of them now. I just used scraps to make these, I had some cardstock left over so I cut 2 square cards out of them. For the first one I embossed a piece of red foil card in my dots embossing folder and then I added some silver borders and a sentiment sticker. I cut a tree on my Cricut and decorated with a star gemstone. For the second one I embossed some white card with my Merry Christmas embossing folder and then I went over it with green distress ink. I added some green borders and I cut a Christmas pudding on my Cricut. Thanks for looking.

70th birthday card

Hello from a nice sunny day in Chicago, I made this card for my Aunty Jenny for her 70th birthday coming up. I started with a yellow card then added a yellow and white dot layer. I then cut a scalloped layer in white and used my Cricut pens to write my greeting. I then stamped in Versamark ink the cupcake and squiggly line and embossed with white powder and heat set. I then went over the scalloped layer in 4 colored distress inks, I think it looks very pretty and cute. Thanks for looking.