A LO

I was hunting through my patterned paper stash looking for something and found this die cut paper which I have had for ages. Even though it wasn't what I was looking for I decided to pull it out and use it (nothing like being side-tracked!). ;-)

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I don't think I have scrapped any pictures of Maddison's first birthday, so here's the first one!

The pink trim and stickers are from Studio Calico kits (available at Scrappin Studio) and the journal stamp is from Darkroom Door.

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Here's another little conversation I had with Maddison ...

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On Monday afternoon the kids had their swimming lesson and after Maddison had her shower and was getting dressed, she sat on the bed and inspected her fingers and toes.

Maddison - Look at my hands and toes Mummy.

Me - They are all wrinkly like walnuts from being so long in the water.

Maddison - Yeah ... they look like I'm a Grandma!! :-)

heheheee (sorry Grandma)

Scrappin Studio Weekly Challenge

I'm playing along with Scrappin Studio's Weekly Challenge, which is to use stamps on a LO. As you know I have PLENTY of stamps to use, it's a matter of narrowing it down to which ones! haha

I decided to scrap these pics of Maddison at the beach so pulled out some shell stamps from Darkroom Door. I stamped the background using the bubble stamp from Studio Calico with Antique Linen distress ink, and stamped the words and shells with Pumice Stone distress ink. The words are from Technique Tuesday (large set is an Ali Edwards set).

And I have just realised I haven't journalled on it! Oh well ... I'll get to that! :-)

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Darkroom Door ATC Swap

Just before Christmas I received the swaps for Darkroom Door's November Seaside Collection ATC Swap that I participated in.

Aren't they cool. Love how that even though we have used the same stamps or photo chips they all look so different. (The left hand ATC holder has two of my cards in it! ;-) )

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I made two sets which I have already shown - this one using the alcohol ink splatter technique/

And this one using embossing resist and mists :-)
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Guest Artist at Darkroom Door

Earlier this week the LO's, cards and ATC's I created for my guest artist spot at Darkroom Door were featured on their blog. (You can see the posts here, here and here and also a bit of info on what products I used.)

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I made a few cards and ATC's and also did 12 LO's. :-) I really hope I can keep on this roll of using stamps on my LO's now, because it's a great way to embellish without bulk I must say! ;-)

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Here's the cards ... (Thanks Jessy for the beautiful butterfly die cut!)

Some ATC's

The backgrounds of Seashells (above) & Pitter Patter & the Hands ATC's (below) were created using the alcohol ink splatter technique. That sure was fun!

4 LO's using Darkroom Door's Seaside Collection

(and this is Aaron, not Samuel!) ;-)


4 LO's using the Hello Baby collection.

This one - 3 days old - is not my usual! But I had these Websters papers in my stash and finally just got brave and cut, cut, cut! I stamped images onto Vellum and I love the look. It didn't end up on Darkroom Doors blog - I think because the stamps weren't so obvious - there's 6 stamps, can you see them?
4 LO's using various other stamps and products from Darkroom Door.

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Love the robots eyes on this LO - just matches perfect with Aaron's eyes!! ;-)

So that's it :-)

I had such fun playing with their product and creating these. Look out for more because I still have lots of bits left! :-)

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Thanks so much Darkroom Door for the privilege of being a guest artist for you! :-)

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Darkroom Door

Check out Darkroom Door's blog today and over the next few days to see what I created for my Guest Artist spot :-)

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If you are interested of course! ;-)

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ATC Swap

I participated in Darkroom Door's September "Anything Goes #2" ATC swap. I made a couple of sets ...

And I got these beauties back in return :-)

I completely missed out on October's swap, bother it! But I am definitely going to join in for the November one which is using the "Seaside Collection" :-)

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It's very exciting when these little works of art arrive in your mail box :-) If you want to join in see here for details.

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LO's, Kids & Halloween Part 1

First up ... managed to get 2 more LO's done yesterday for our holiday album (both of Maddison's birthday). I have no idea where or who's blog I found this from, but I found this sketch blog called Sketch Savvy and I like it :-) A lot of her sketches have 6x4 photos on them which is great for me with this HUGE pile of photos I have already printed.

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First up "Baby Doll" - I used this sketch. Tipped it on it's side and because I had 4 photos instead of 3 I just trimmed them to make it work for me.

The scallop edge is Bazzil Just the Edge pieces and they were green but where I had stored them the sun had been at them and they were really patchy with fade marks .... so to fix it I got out my fav olive vine glimmer mist and sprayed it :-) No where near as noticeable now.
This "Wings" LO I used this sketch. Just used a couple of my many butterfly punches instead of circles heheee. Haven't done the journalling yet ... will probably print onto cardstock I think rather than hand write. Also used a Darkroom Door stamp that says spread your wings :-)

Do you know how extravagant I felt using all the bling on these butterflies and on the circle bit on the above LO???? Such a crazy feeling - I have lots of bling (in pretty much every colour!) but I felt naughty using so much hehee
Maddison is extremely stoked that I have used so many pearls on the butterfly LO :-) I told her to count them, but she gets to 6 and things go a little haywire after that! ;-) (She can count to 10 no probs when she's singing "once I caught a fish alive" though heheee)
And here's the "liddle fella" giving me a little smile ... he grinned and I grabbed the camera and clicked so unfortunately it's slightly blurry, but I still like it because it's so him :-)

Giving his neck a wee rest ;-)

Enjoying his new book from Grandma :-)
This morning at school Aaron had a Halloween parade with the elementary school and a party in his class afterwards. I walked down to join in :-) Here he is as a dinosaur bird. (I'll find the correct name of the bird and put it in the Halloween Part 2 post tomorrow!)

Showing the back of the costume - when he held his arms out it was like wings. Very cool. (p.s. the little princess behind him ... that's his girlfriend! ;-) hehee)
They had games. The kids were split into 4 groups and there were four activities. Aaron's first one was a marble race. They had a bowl of marbles and they had to carry them on a spoon and put into that little orange pumpkin you can see without spilling any!
Drawing on a balloon (I won't mention how many popped!!)
Aaron drew a few things ... ghosts (which you can see), people and scribbles!) and then asked me to draw a ghost and pacman! hahaa
Shaving foam mess! They spread it about, wrote their name in it, made pointy buildings, and basically got it everywhere!
Twister. Aaron got to spin the needle as there were 4 kids in his group.
After the games they had a lot of orange snacks :-) Carrot sticks, rock melon, twisties, little packets of pumpkin seeds, pumpkin & orange muffins, fairy bread, orange wrapped Halloween chocolate! The juice boxes were carrot and some other fruit :-) And in amongst it all were lots of little spiders! hehee

Sure was lots of fun. Tonight they are having a Trick or Treat Halloween Party at the school so we are all going - costumes and all! ;-) I will blog all about that tomorrow (Part 2). :-)

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Guess what arrived at my place yesterday :-)

My box of fabulous goodies from Darkroom Door for my Guest Artist stint. SO MUCH stuff ... I was giddy I tell you! Looking forward to creating with it and showing you then :-)

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Here's a few things I bought myself which I can show you now! ;-)

Okay I think I have rambled on long enough. Enjoy your weekend & thanks for visiting.