Smash it!

Happy New Year

SMASH books from K&Company or EK Success are the new craze. Not yet here in Australia to my knowledge but not to worry, like many other scrappers I am attempting to make my very own :)

Firstly, I took a heap of papers (I have way too many and this is a great way to use some up!) and cut them to the desired size. My book is 8 1/2in x 6 in. You can make your book any size really!

Next I used my new bind it all and punched

I add some pocket pages for memorabilia etc

and also cut some pages smaller and odd size just to add a little fun to my Smash book.

and that's it!  Now I need to go decorate my cover and start 'smashing' lol but first I have to go make one for my DD, she wants her own 'smash' book to do over the school holidays!

These handy little books are the perfect way to keep track of all your great ideas, doodles, trinkets and bits & bobs. Being 'old school' scrapbooking, you can jot notes in them, glue photographs, cards from friends, pictures from kids, your own doodles, newspaper clippings, movie ticket stubs - really any type of memorabilia you can think of will fit in one. They are supposed to be slapped (smashed) together, unlike many current scrapbooking techniques that require hours and hours to put together just one layout.

SMASHing is also a great way to use up all your odd bits of scrapping supplies, like those unused alphas, chippies or tags. I have also kept the off cuts to make tags or to use when decorating the inside pages. So pleased that I used up quite a lot of my paper 'stash' :)

Thanks for dropping by, hope you are having a terrific start to 2012, I know I am!

Addicted to Scrap blog hop

Addicted 2 Scrap

blog hop 2012

Welcome!

Thank you for joining us on our 1^st blog hop from Addicted 2 Scrap! You should have arrived here from Sharon’s Simply Sweet blog so you’re on the right track but not to worry if you didn’t, listed below is our blog hop line-up and you can hop on over to the start at Live Love Papercrafting. I am very excited for this blog hop because it gives us all a chance to check out and follow some very inspiration blogs! I know you’re ready to get hoppin’, so here is the next blog in the line up, so get ready for some eye candy:

Mandy~Live Love Papercrafting

Andrea~Whimsy Crafts

Canica~Shoestring Scrapbooking

Sharon~Simply Sweet

Sue~Sue's Scrap~petite Creations <==== You are Here!

Please check out these awesome blogs, leave some love and follow! Thanks so much for playing along!

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I love OTP projects and this is my latest, a cute Gingerbread House from 'Make it Crafty'

You need both the Base House and Gingerbread House Decorations (sold separately) and I mounted mine on a thick piece of chipboard.

I tried to give the effect of snow with texture paste and then added some Twinklets Diamond Dust for a bit of 'glitz'

I made a sweet little Pine tree using TH rosette dies.

view from above.

close up of the 'snow'

so happy with my little rosette tree! :)

view of the back. Candy canes I used ribbon after first painting.

side view. I place a TH die pine tree at the rear as it look odd with nothing.

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Remember the laughter, the joy, the hard work, and the tears!2012 will have new beginnings, love, laughter and hope. Hope for a better future and a brighter tomorrow, here we come 2012!

Happy New Year

Summer Fun

Whats great about Summer.... having a pool.. well the kids think so, they spend hours and hours cooling off and having heaps of fun.  These photos were taken a few years back but even though they are much older I think they have just as much or maybe even more fun! and we end up topping the pool more often from all the splashing about and bombies!

Kaiser papers, Bazzill, Birch Papercraft, MylittleShoebox, DMC floss, Prima flower, Making memories rubons.

Let's Scrap sketch

I really love this sketch and plan to do a few more layouts using it! Even a double or two :)

close-up of the really nice Birch paper, embossed and glittery!

Thanks for dropping on by, hope you are managing to stay cool! Check back soon as I am participating in a 'blog hop' which is going to be so much fun!

Fussy cutting

This Echo Park paper just screamed out 'cut me up' so I did lol! Victoria Gardens is such a very pretty paper with gorgeous details. The photo is of my beautiful dd on New Year's Eve last year when we always go down to Fremantle and watch the final sunset of the year. I captured her in a very tranquil moment. I must apologise for the first photo, doesn't really show the true colours, not very good light this morning and I took these with my phone as my SLR is buried in the robe with 1000's of Christmas presents on top - oops!

EP Victoria Gardens 'Rose Garden' Bazzill,  Kaiser Bling, Kaiser Pearls, Collection Butterflies, DA Lamp Post, Leaf ribbon and TH Distress Ink.

Distressing was done with the wonderful Ingvild Bolme distresser, such a MUST have tool for any scrapper, LOVE it!

I used Cotton Candy stickles and outlined all the rose detail but its a bit hard to see, so much nicer IRL!

close up of my fussy cutting and stickled rose :)

Thanks for stopping on by on this Christmas Eve eve, my kids are so excited that Santa will be here in two sleeps, well my precious baby girl is the other three just humour her! We have the philosophy in our house 'Don't believe, don't receive' :)

Have a very Merry Christmas and a safe and Happy New Year! Xxx

More Christmas projects

Both the girls love giving handmade stuff out and they both like helping me make them which is really nice, we get to spend more time together. Below are the little layered gift boxes (they look like little presents when closed up) and are great for putting in little chocolates and the like. I used Kaiser Christmas papers and TH Alterations movers & shapers to decorate. Pictured are only two that I made, forgot to photograph the other two :( teachers loved them!

We made Santa sleighs to give to friends. Easy as, just cut the sleigh from Cricut Christmas Cheer, add candy canes for the sleigh runners and top with a cellophane lolly bag filled with Christmas chocolates and candy!

Thanks for stopping by, hope you are having a wonderful evening!

Busy

I have been kept busy these last few days doing Christmas crafts. Both my girls like to give out cards & candy canes at the end of year and I try to make it a little more fun and interesting so this year my little one gets to give out cookie cutter ornaments! Flicking through a Stampin Up! catalogue in the back showcasing their ribbon collection were Christmas cookie cutters and I loved the idea and then while browsing The Paper Tree blog the lovely Sarah also had cookie cutter ornaments - same idea two very different places and I thought I just have to give these a go, they looked so cute! They are so easy although time consuming but just lots and lots of fun and the end results are so stinking cute, don't you think!!! Below are only two, a Christmas Tree and a Bell, I made 18 different shapes including Angels, Gingerbread man, Stars and Reindeer, we  filled them with a candy cane and chocolate baubles, sealed with acetate and decorated with Holly leaves, kept it simple so my little one could help..

and just for a bit of fun we are going to give her Kindy teacher a Survival Kit! I made one a few years back and had lots of comments and my son's teacher was so thrilled to receive such a fun yet useful gift. We are also giving a more traditional gift - a gorgeous Gingerbread House candle from Dusk.

I have a few other Christmas projects I will share in a day or two as its getting late. Thanks for stopping on by, have a fun week! 

Where does the time go?

I have loads of photos still sitting in developed envelopes waiting to be scrapped! My baby is now four and I still have lots of her 'baby' photos unscrapped and not in her album. I really need to get some system going but I love taking photos and I am drawn to the recent ones and seem to forget about the older ones :(
Below is another awesome Let's Scrap sketch and I love these photos so much and thought they were perfect for this sketch. Still only managing one side lol! Think I may need to try and do more doubles next year. May help in catching up on all these photos!

Bazzill 
Prima papers - Melody collection 
Prima vine 
Prima say it in pearls 
My2angels flower 
Deja views - wonderful words 

Thanks for dropping by, hope you are having a lovely weekend, only 20 sleeps now!!!