Remembering Charlie - More than a Friend

Hello friends, welcome and thank you for stopping by!  Today I am sharing a layout created using Kaisercraft Antiquities Collection.  This is a very special layout to me, it is of our beautiful family dog, Charlie, who sadly is no longer with us - he was an amazing dog and needed to be captured in a layout.

The sentiments in the Kaisercraft Antiquities Collectibles are so beautiful and work perfectly with this layout- they express what is so hard o put into words at these times.

On Charlies last day we took some inky paw prints, we each one at least one.  I have included one on the layout, it has been cut/embossed using Spellbinders Nestabilities Scored and Pierced Circles Etched Dies and sponged using Imagine Delicata Ink in Golden Glitz.

The word 'Charlie' has been die-cut using Karen Burniston Alphabet Die and teal card stock and adhered above the photo using Scrapbook Adhesives BY 3L E-Z Adhesive Runner Ultra.  The beautiful bling is from Want2Scrap.

This layout is linked to the following challenges:

Digi Choosday Challenge - Anything Goes

Lemon Shortbread - Always Anything Goes

2 Crafty Critter Crazies - Anything Goes with a Critter

Crafts Galore Encore - Always Anything Goes

Crafty Animals - Always Anything Goes

Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper - Anything Goes with Patterned Paper

Dies R Us Challenge - Anything Goes

Mix It Up Challenge - Anything Goes + Open Technique

Morgan's ArtWorld Open Challenge - Anything Goes

World Wide Open Design Team Challenge - Always Anything Goes 

Your Scrapbook Place - Anything Goes

The Corrosive Challenges - Always Anything Goes

Word Art Wednesdays - Anything Goes

Thank you for your comments and all of the support you give me - you make blogging such an amazing place to be!! Your encouragement is such a blessing for me - it makes my day! God bless you!

                                                          {{{hugs}}} and happy creating

                                           

Little Birdie Crafts - Dare to Dream Mixed Media Canvas

Hello friends, welcome and thanks so much for stopping by.  I have a new post on the Little Birdie Crafts Blog today - a Mixed Media Canvas that was inspired by a stamp set. I have also used Stencils, Texture Paste, Chipboard, Flowers,  Butterflies and so much more.  You can see the full tutorial and step out photos HERE.

This project is linked to the following Challenges:

Simon Says Wednesday - Anything Goes

Catch The Bug - Anything But A Card

Crafter's Castle - Anything Goes + option: Show Us What You Color With

Crafty Creations - Always Anything Goes 

Moo-Mania & More - Things With Wings 

Word Art Wednesdays - Anything Goes

Crafty Sentiment Design - Summer

Lemon Shortbread - Always Anything Goes 

Tuesday Throwdown - Stenciling

Catch The Bug - Anything But A Card

Crafter's Castle - Anything Goes + option: Show Us What You Color With

Get Creative Challenges - ANYTHING GOES/NO TWIST

Thank you for your comments and all of the support you give me - you make blogging such an amazing place to be!! Your encouragement is such a blessing for me - it makes my day! God bless you!

{{{hugs}}} and happy crafting

Little Birdie Crafts Blessed Love

Hello friends, welcome and thanks so much for stopping by.  I am excited to be sharing a tutorial on the Little Birdie Crafts Blog - a special layout of my lovely Mum, who has just turned 80 years old and of course with Mother's Day in mind! 

There are so many wonderful products to choose from - Chipboard, patterned paper, Stencils, stamps, beautiful flowers, handmade embellishments and more.  You can see all of the details HERE.

This layout is linked to the following challenges:

Die Cuttin' Divas - Flowers and/or Mother's Day

Lemon Shortbread - Always Anything Goes

A Place To Start - TEMPTING TECHNIQUES SHOWCASE YOUR FAVORITE TECHNIQUE (layering)

Artistic Inspirations - ANYTHING GOES

Get Creative Challenges - ANYTHING GOES/NO TWIST

Addicted to Stamps - Flowers 

Brown Sugar - FLOWERS

Scrapper’s Delights Challenge Blog - Mother's Day or Anything Goes

Krafty Chicks - Stamp Your Own Background

2 Crafty Critter Crazies - Anything Goes with a Critter (butterfly, bird)

A2Z Scrapbooking Linky Party - May Flowers

Classic Design Team Open Challenge - Always Anything Goes

Creatalicious Challenges - Anything Goes + optional flowers

Let's Craft & Create Challenge - Anything Goes + option Motherly Love

Love to Scrap - Anything Goes

Papercraft Business Challenge - Anything Goes

World Wide Open Design Team Challenge - Always Anything Goes 

Your Scrapbook Place - Anything Goes 

Thank you for your comments and all of the support you give me - you make blogging such an amazing place to be!! Your encouragement is such a blessing for me - it makes my day! God bless you!

{{{hugs}}} and happy crafting

Little Birdie Crafts - Happy - Pieces of my Heart Layout

Hello friends, welcome and thanks so much for stopping by.  I am excited to be sharing a tutorial on the Little Birdie Crafts Blog - something different for me - a layout - and a masculine one at that! There are so many wonderful products to choose from - Chipboard, patterned paper, handmade embellishments - love those succulents and Cacti, Color Sprays and more.  You can see all of the details HERE.

This layout is linked to the following challenges:

Crafting By Designs - May Anything Goes

Crafty Creations - Always Anything Goes 

Word Art Wednesdays - Anything Goes

Lemon Shortbread - Always Anything Goes

Through The Craft Room Door - Always Anything Goes 

Pile It On - Lots of Layers and/or Use Your Scraps

We Love 2 Create  - Always Anything Creative/Mixed Media Goes

A Gem of a Challenge - Anything Goes

Thank you for your comments and all of the support you give me - you make blogging such an amazing place to be!! Your encouragement is such a blessing for me - it makes my day! God bless you!

{{{hugs}}} and happy crafting

This Makes Me Smile Layout

Hello friends, it is the weekend - woohoo!  Thanks so much for stopping by I hope you are inspired by your visit! I have been working on a lot of things,but am unable to show them at this time - Design Team projects and Commissions - but all in good time!  I do have a layout to share with you - I have decided that as the 'Memory Keeper' of the family I need to document some of my own memories - and this is definitely a favourite...one of the Retreats I was so blessed to attend with Spellbinders...

I have used the paper and stickers from  Kaisercraft Kaleidascope Collection (an older Collection) - such pretty colours - makes me smile just looking at it.

The photos are some of my favourite moments and have been cut/embossed using Spellbinders Nestabilities Fancy Edged Squares Etched Dies and sanded around the embossed edges using a Sanding Block - my favourite way of distressing.  The photo on the  bottom left is a Class that Stacey taught - sharing her real passion - I loved every second of it - Stacey is such a beautiful person and her passion inspiring - it has been an honour to be know as one of 'Staceys's Girls' for some of this amazing journey.  I have used stickers from the Kaisercraft Collection along with Little Birdie Crafts Handmade Embellishments - the Cactus are perfect for the Arizona based layout!  

The beautiful flowers are also by Little Birdie Crafts - the Beaded Blooms and I have added some stickers to create a little journaling.  I have also added some chipboard from Prima, a handmade embellishment and the gorgeous peacock feather, which I picked up in a crazy shopping spree with the other International Ambassadors.  The chipboard is from Little Birdie Crafts - it certainly says it all - DREAM BIG - I would never have imagined that this would be part of my amazing journey - me a card maker in my little suburb - but theses things do happen...so DREAM BIG!!

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This layout is linked to the following challenges:

QKR Stampede - ANYTHING GOES

Crafting With An Attitude -  Always Anything Goes

TIME OUT Challenges -  Inspired By Words* 

WordArt Wednesdays - Anything Goes

Crafty Creations - Always Anything Goes 

Lemon Shortbread - Always Anything Goes

Little Red Wagon - Distressing

Through The Craft Room Door - Always Anything Goes

Crafting from the Heart - ANYTHING GOES

CropStop Challenge - ANYTHING GOES OPTIONAL TWIST INCLUDE A PLAID ELEMENT

613 Avenue Create - Anything Goes  w/Optional Twist: Use Something Wooden (Chipboard sentiment)

Thank you for your comments and all of the support you give me - you make blogging such an amazing place to be!! Your encouragement is such a blessing for me - it makes my day! God bless you!

{{{hugs}}} and happy creating

It is the Little Things Layout

Hello friends, thanks so much for stopping by.  I have a layout to share with you today, with both myself and my son, using Kaisercraft and Spellbinders - there is so much dimension on this layout but it was not easy to capture in this photo - hopefully you ill get more of an idea in the close ups.

The layout is very simple to create, the patterned paper does a lot of the work, especially when combined with stickers from the Kaisercraft Misty Mountains Collection.

I have added some co-ordinating embellishments that were in a Kaisercraft Magazine the circles have been cut using Spellbinders Nestabilities Standard Circles SM Etched Dies and the Platinum Die Cutting Machine.  Next they have been popped up onto the layout using Scrapbook Adhesives BY 3L 3D Foam Squares.  There you have it - it really was as simple as that to create - and I am very happy about that!

This project is for the following challenges:

Crafting from the Heart - ANYTHING GOES

Creativ Fusion Arts & Crafts Challenge - ANYTHING GOES

CropStop Challenge - ANYTHING GOES OPTIONAL TWIST INCLUDE A PLAID ELEMENT

International Art & Soul - Orange and Black

Pile It On - Black, Purple and Orange and/or Fantasy

The Corrosive Challenges -  Always Anything Goes

Bimini Moose Scrapbook Challenges - Anything Goes

Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper - Anything Goes with Patterned Paper

Die Cut Divas - Autumn and Halloween (colours)

Dream Factory - Happy Family

Morgan's ArtWorld Open Challenge - Anything Goes

Not Just Cards - Always Anything Goes

World Wide Open Design Team Challenge - Always Anything Goes

Your Scrapbook Place - Anything Goes

QKR Stampede - ANYTHING GOES

Moving along with the Times - For A Man

Thank you for your comments and all of the support you give me - you make blogging such an amazing place to be!! Your encouragement is such a blessing for me - it makes my day! God bless you!

{{{hugs}}} and happy creating

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Own Kind of Beautiful Layout

Hello friends, thanks so much for stopping by.  Today I am sharing a layout with you - using some Kaisercraft papers that I have held onto for some time - but decided they need to 'see the light of day', along with this photo of my eldest daughter.

I have taken part in a Blind Scrap as part of a group I am in - it was so much fun and each layout created was so different but just stunning - I would definitely do this again!

Our first instruction was to start with a neutral piece of card stock, to ink or paint around the edges and to add a hand drawn border about an inch in.  I am not usually one who draws on their layouts but I did enjoy this, I used a Chameleon Pen and added Imagine irRESISTIbles Pico Embellisher in Tudexo Black randomly around the edges - I love the effect and will definitely be doing that again. I also added a lightly sponged border  by rubbing my 'fully loaded' sponge daubers around the edge - subtle but definitely there!  The white edging has been created using a White Paint Pen.

 My papers are from a much older Kaisercraft Collection - Kaleidoscope - and the stickers sentiments are from that set as well.  The photo has been cut/embossed using the Spellbinders Nestabilities Scored and Pierced Rectangles Etched Dies and the Platinum Die Cutting Machine and popped up onto the layout using Scrapbook Adhesives By 3L 3D Foam Squares for dimension -but not too much. All other layers have been adhered using Scrapbook Adhesives By 3L E-Z Adhesive Runner - Ultra. The layered flowers are from Little Birdie Crafts amazing selection, along with some Primed Chipboard - Tropical Foliage that has been sponged using Imagine Memento Ink in Bamboo Leaves and glued to each side of the flower clusters.  The flowers to the right of the photo have been glued onto a Little Birdie Crafts Tag from the Burlap Tassel Tags . A few handmade butterflies and flowers have been glued onto the layout - I made these using moulds and Paper Clay.

This project has been linked to the following challenges:

Crafting-With-Friends - ANYTHING GOES 

QKR Stampede -  ANYTHING GOES

Simply Create Too - USE STITCHING (REAL OR FAUX) - on the edgeso f the photo

Aud Sentiments Challenge - Fall + A Sentiment 

2 Crafty Critter Crazies - Anything Goes with a Critter (butterflies)

Bimini Moose Scrapbook Challenges - Anything Goes

Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper - Anything Goes with Patterned Paper

Creatalicious Challenges - Anything Goes + Option: Circles

Create and Inspire - Anything Goes + option of inspired by a song (You are So Beautiful by Joe Cocker)

Love to Craft - Anything Goes

Love to Scrap - Anything Goes

World Wide Open Design Team Challenge - Always Anything Goes 

Little Red Wagon - Tag You're It

WordArt Wednesdays - Anything Goes 

Everybody-Art-Challenge - Anything Goes

CropStop Challenge - ANYTHING GOES OPTIONAL TWIST INCLUDE DOILY (under the photo)

Scrapbook Stamp Society Challenge Blog - ANYTHING GOES  OPTION USE AN ANIMAL

A Gem of a Challenge - One For The Girls/Ladies

Thank you for your comments and all of the support you give me - you make blogging such an amazing place to be!! Your encouragement is such a blessing for me - it makes my day! God bless you!

{{{hugs}}} and happy crafting

X-Treme Legend Layout

H friends, thanks so much for stopping by.  It has been a little while since I have shared a Layout - I have been busy making them but getting them photographed and written up is a whole 'nother show! But I am getting there one by one - I think we need more hours in the day - don't you?!

This layout has been created from random bits and pieces from my stash - some of them I have had so long I cannot remember who they are made by (ooops my bad!) Other things are fairly recent so those I can tell you about....and the other certainty is that the photos are of my darling grandson - Noah!  He is such a 'boy' and 'bikie' mad - these moments are fun to capture!

The cogs are chipboard from Little Birdie Crafts that have been sponged using Imagine Delicata Ink in Shimmery Silver.  The main sentiments have been cut from older patterned paper and inked around the edges using a Black Marker to make then stand out.  The adorable little Bike is a handmade embellishment by Little Birdie Crafts.

The photos have been cut/embossed using Spellbinders Nestabilities Scored and Pierced Rectangles Etched Die and the Platinum 6 Die cutting and Embossing Machine. they have been lightly sanded using a sanding block and popped up onto the centre of the layout using  Scrapbook Adhesives BY 3L 3D Foam Squares.  I do love the effect on photos and use it a lot.

The trim around the photos are stickers from the Kaisercraft Misty Mountain Collection and has been trimmed into sections to fit around the photo.  The smaller sentiments are stickers from my stash and work so well on the photos - I love the way they look.  I have also added torn pieces of corrugated cardboard and patterned paper - how cool are those faux bricks!?

This layout is linked to the following challenges:

The Male Room - Wild and Free (definitely! LOL!)

Creates and Makes - Anything Goes

The Crafty Addicts - Anything Goes/Boys and Men

Lemon Shortbread - Always Anything Goes

WordArt Wednesdays - Anything Goes 

A2Z Scrapbooking Linky Party - Anything Goes

Dies R Us Challenge - You are a Star (the patterned paper is covered in stars)

Not Just Cards - Always Anything Goes

World Wide Open Design Team Challenge - Always Anything Goes 

Your Scrapbook Place - Anything Goes

CropStop Challenge - ANYTHING GOES OPTIONAL TWIST HANDMADE WOOD BACKGROUND

613 Avenue Create - Anything Goes w/Optional Twist:Magic/Fantasy

Angie's Digital Stamps -  Anything But a Card

Pile It On - Try a New Technique and/or Use Your Oldest Stash

Allsorts - From Boys To Men

Creative Fingers - ANYTHING GOES

Thank you for your comments and all of the support you give me - you make blogging such an amazing place to be!! Your encouragement is such a blessing for me - it makes my day! God bless you!

{{{hugs}}} and happy crafting