Scrap the girls - March challenge

Hello again,

Here's my CELEBRATION page for the challenge over at Scrap the girls - with a photo of me and my good friend Michaela on her birthday.

Papers: Bazzil cardstock, MME (follow your heart - yum!) and old red MME

Embellishments: paper roses from RED EARTH, buttons, ghost hearts (I stamped with Staz On), machine stitching, plus gorgeous PEBBLES from Handmade Halo.

Thanks for looking! And thanks for another great challenge at Scrap the girls!

Amanda

Daring you to Scrap - MARCH challenge

This month at Daring you to scrap - you had to use Photostrips.
So I dug out these photo booth strips from my sister Anna's 21st birthday.
Fun photos (probably taken in the latter part of the night) with me being silly with my brother and sister!

Papers: 6 inch MME, Basic Grey

Embellishments: twine, Basic Grey and MME brads, black bling, butterfly and frame from Precocious Papers and PEBBLE and RESIN from Handmade Halo

This is all so crooked... when I am usually so straighty-180.....

Amanda

MARCH mystery box challenge at RES

Hi all,


Ready for another great challenge from RES - always good prizes up for grabs, so have a go!

Creative team members, Liz and Amanda, challenge you to invent your own project using mystery box items.

Create a layout OR a card using the following items, and post into the RES gallery by the end of the month for a chance to win a prize.

In your Mystery box this month:

* Bright colours

* bling

* pearls

* scalloped edges

Please note: You may add some staples from your pantry (!!! - ie. ink, stitching, lettering), but please try to stick to the core ingredients as much as possible. This month you must use both PEARLS and BLING.

Here are our creations for some RES inspiration:

Amanda's layout:

PAPERS: Summertime papers from ECHO PARK- plus I used the matching Sticker sheet - HERE.
Plenty of pearls and bling available in store - find it HERE.
Plus, look how good Halo products match - Raffia flower and resin flowers available from Handmade Halo.

A close up of those bling-pearl scatters and flowers...

Liz's card:

Looking forward to what you cook up this month!

Thanks,

Amanda

and

Liz - http://lizscardsandlayouts.blogspot.com.au/

Thickers focus weekend....

Head over to RED EARTH Scrapping this weekend- not only for some inspiration.... BUT also for some bargains... 40% of Thickers all weekend, (and 20% off everything else).

So here is my blog post with some ideas for using your thickers.... I have an addiction.... big time... wait till you hear HOW MANY packets I currently own.... LOL!

Firstly:

IDEAS: Overlap your thickers

Use the punctuation bits as embellishments...

Try this sketch too... while you are at it!

NEXT:

IDEA: I put crackle Accent (ranger) over the foam thickers for something different!

Check out the RAINBOW WISHES kit from Handmade HALO that I used on this page!

MORE:

IDEA: Thickers as a MASK, with misting

Thickers as the border

{AND OMG.... Thickers heaven! this was during my trip to CHA in January last year}

ANOTHER:

IDEA: Thickers as a MONOGRAM... NOTE: this is the layout example for our current February Mystery BOX Challenge... still a few days to join our challenge! DO IT!

THANKS everyone.... Have a great Thickery(??) weekend!

Amanda

 

Kraft it up February challenge...

Hi everyone....

I finished Kraft it up's challenge this month : Kraft + LOVE + PINK... easy?

Here is my page:

Last weekend I did a card class by the amazing and very clever Jane Clark.  She showed how to put chipboard shapes under canvas.... so I stole her idea for this page! I put chipboard HEARTS under the tissue paper. Then on these hearts came the layers:

* pink paint

* white script stamp, with white edges

* Ranger Crackle Accents

* Smooch Ink painted on top.

Paper: Kraft cardstock and white tissue paper

Letters: Lilybee, carolee creations and thickers

Embellishments: paper roses, raffia ribbon, pearls, crystal beads from a broken bracelet, Mr Huey white mist, Resin flowers from HANDMADE HALO, machine stitching, tulle,

October Afternoon sticker

Close up of the hearts...............................

Thanks for looking today!
Amanda

Daring you to Scrap FEB challenge, with my Halo goodies!

Hi everyone,

I created this layout using some of my beautiful Handmade Halo goodies and to meet the challenge over at Daring you to scrap. This month you had to create a layout inspired by a song.  I decide to use a photo of my friends wedding, so i asked her what her wedding song was.... which was "Crazy Love by Aaron Neville"- I googled the lyrics and found a line in the song that was just perfect for the layout and photo.

Papers: Black cardstock, Prima, Making memories, My girl paperie, Gltiz design paper

Letters: lilybee, Jillibean soup

Stickers: Crate, Cosmo Cricket, 7 Gypsie

(couldn't believe it when I found a sticker with "Crazy Love" on it! I'm so arsey like that!)

Embellishments: HALO flowers,  HALO resin,  HALO charms,  HALO pebbles, Green tara roses, Scrap fx chipboard hearts, birch string pearls, machine stitching.

Hope you are all having a happy, love-filled day! mwah!

Amanda

Valentines Day Cards for Handmade Halo

Hi everyone....

Get ready.... yes it's CARDS, from me..... I don't usually "do" cards.... I hope my good friends (and card-making experts - Liz Weber and Corinne Harrison) are impressed!

All made with these exclusive Pretty Little Studio papers- LOVE NOTES,,,....available at Handmade Halo

Plus resin rose, glass heart pebble - just some of the wonderful unique treasures you'll find over at Halo...

Now.... I just have to figure out WHO to give them to....

Amanda