No Fear of the Trendy trees

I finally caved in and bought the trendy trees stamping wheel. I already had the stampset (free from Convention) but I hadn't used it much because it usually involves lining it up with the stamp-a-ma-jig and I wanted to do that neat line of trees on a scrapbook page...

I just knew if I bought the matching wheel I would start using the whole stampset and it worked.

I couldn't put the wheel away ... I plan to use it to make wrapping paper and all sorts of things.

Here are the trees at the bottom, I have used markers direct to the rubber stamp. A very easy technique, a bit like colouring in with pencils (or markers) onto the rubber, breathe loudly on the rubber and stamp it onto your paper.
I have used colours matching the photos: pretty in pink, pink pirouette, so saffron, almost amethyst, ballet blue, and old Olive.

Next I created a journalling box with my new stampset: Gallery (from the new spring mini). I stamped another three of the trees with the markers and mounted them on the square scallop punch. I mounted them up on dimensionals for impact, like little pictures of trees on a wall.

The title "No Fear" is stamped in Lovely letters alphabet in kiwi kiss ink, rolled into old olive ink.
My little Jess has no fear it seems, when it comes to roller blading down the steepest hill in our suburb, her dad showed her how to zig zag down the hill sideways and that was it. I am so glad she doesn't have a billy cart (at least not yet)!

Materials used:

Stamps: Trendy trees, Trendy trees wheel, Lovely letters alphabet, gallery.
Cardstock: Textured 12x12 pink pirouette and kiwi kiss. Whisper white.
Ink: kiwi kiss, Old olive.
Stampin' Up Markers: Old olive, pretty in pink, so saffron, almost amethyst, ballet blue.
Accessories: Square scallop punch, stamp-a-ma-jig, dimensionals adhesive, snail adhesive, Signo white gel pen, old olive ink cartridge for the wheel handle.

Sisters scrapbook page in bella bleu

I haven't forgotten my scrapbooking - I have many pictures to scrap, just so little time.

Scrapbooking contains more elements and usually a title to be stamped and cut - so they take a little more time for me.

This is a photo of my beautiful sister at her birthday lunch ... it was a lovely sunny day at a friend of hers home, a simple but wonderful lunch, champagne, chocolate cake and cups of tea. Don't mention that I was having such a relaxing lovely afternoon that I was running late for school pick up... !

It is fairly simple with the heading stamped on vellum, attached with silver brads. Two paper flowers attached with build a brad centres. I have used circles cut from the bella bleu paper. The flowers are punched with sahara sand cardstock, stamped with the en francais background stamp in not quite navy and then the petals cut, ans scored with the bone scorer from behind. The second flower I actually put through the crimper ... either works, I think.
The cardstock is Not Quite navy textured paper, Sahara sand, Bella Bleu Designer series paper.

Vellum for the heading and fifth avenue floral flowers. The title is stamped with Lovely Letters stampset.

I think I might add some hidden journalling about the day, the date, the place, perhaps a photo of the other people there, why this was a special birthday (a milestone one ... )

Ice skating Birthday Scrapbook page

Since I showed you the cake, I thought I may aswell share the scrap book pages I made to celebrate Jessica's 6th birthday. Above is page one of a two page spread.Materials:

Stampsets: garden whimsy, Be happy, Lovely letters, Happy everything.

Cardstock: Textured Rose red, Whisper white.

Paper: Bali Breeze DS patterned.

Ink: whisper white craft ink, stazon black

Accessories: Clear buttons, Circle scallop punch, scallop edge, white signo gel pen.

Here's some detail of the buttons:

(I love how you can stamp on them with stazon ink, or embossing powder too - here I've just adhered them with doublesided tape so you can see the stamp underneath.

My daughter loves butterflies and lady beetles, so the garden whimsy stampsets with their spots seemed to match the

paper and the spotted top my girl is wearing.

Her smile tells it all - for how many years will fairy bread get a girl so excited!

A magical life ...

Don't our children live a magical life? In the school holidays they wake up as early or late as they like ... breakfast magically arrives on her own new table (a late birthday present from Ikea)... and entertainment is at your beck and call (well most of the time) ... and what I like best is how they can live in a fantasy, magical moment that goes on for hours. Believing in magic and your own dreams, that seem to come true more often than not.

"Mum I wished for a double six and it came true - its magic."

"I was just thinking of aunty and she rang on the phone!"

"Look at this leaf - isnt it beautiful?"

So I have been scrapbooking a bit this week, to use up a stash of photos and play with my patterned papers. This one took a bit of cutting out, but is something you can do sitting on the lounge while sharing the magic with your family.

Materials:

Cardstock: Grey textured and whisper white.

Ginger Blossom Designer series Paper.

Stampsets: Lovely letters and Big deal alphabets.

Marker pens: Regal rose, gable green and green galore.

Rhinestones and ribbon (from my supply stash).

White gel pen.