A few thankyou cards

Well today was our final Mainly Music of the year much to the disappointment of Jerremy and his friends.  I think a few Mum's will miss our Friday get togethers as well!!

Here are a few of the cards I made for the ladies who lovingly give up their time, every week, to make Mainly Music possible for us.

Jenny's Card

Sonja's Card

Judy's Card

Michele's Card

Michelle's Card

All made based on a sketch from Scrapbooking Memories Forum - November Sketch Challenge

Hope you like

Jilly xx

Back Blogging!!

Do you know what is so significant about the 25th of August 2009.......It was the last time I blogged.  OMG where has the time gone.  Here I go again, letting LIFE get in the way of my internet obsession.  How dare I LOL.
Anywho, my plan is to blog backwards from here to that point.  I will put it in correct date order but you will know that anything you read between the 25th of August till now, the 27th of November has actually been added today, after the fact.  Shame on me LOL
I promise never to do it again.....umm till the next time.

Jilly xx

Christmas Tags - Back Blogged

This year I have wrapped all our presents in red and white striped paper.  Simply stunning I think.

At our last monthly scrapping get together I made a few gift tags as a make and take for the gang.  I had some supplies left over so spent a few hours today making up these beauties.  I was really happy with how they turned out.

Materials used: (I'm shocking with details - get used to it!!)

Tags cut on cricut

Random cardstock

Kaisercraft Merry Christmas stamped in silver

Gold stamped edges

Kaisercraft Christmas Tree stamp in purple
Rhinestones in co-ordinated colours
Kindyglitz

I should have taken a photo pf the back.  I stamped on the journalling lines from the same Kaisercraft Christmas set and wrote on it with while uniball pen.

Still have a few more to make - but I just love how they turned out.

Jilly xx

Myles' Birthday Card - Back Blogged

Yes Jerremy has finally been invited to a Birthday party - invitation and all.
This is the card I made for Myles - I just can't bring myself to buy another card, why would I!!

I am really proud of this card because I didn't use a sketch, I actually had an original thought and went ahead with it.  It took me about 30 minutes roughly, I'm a bit of a slow thinker!!  Now it wasn't all that advanced but, hey, we all have to start somewhere.

Materials Used:
Cricut for lettering - don't know what happened with the shadow not being the right size but I still went with it anyways!!
Random cardstock and paper - as usual
Clear Hooray! stamp repeated 3 times
Random Ribbon
Car sticker popped on foam tape
Kindyglitz

Jilly xx

What to do with napkins - Back Blogged

I watched a neat video the other day that was showing how to iron napkins, with glad wrap to cardstock to give a really cool texture.
Here's the link
I wanted to see what they turned out like and here is a pic of the finished article.

I only had 'Wiggles' napkins and they weren't very good quality but the end result was still quite good.

Give it a try yourself you will be surprised with the results.

Jilly xx

An old blog is new again - Back Blogged

The first blog I created was Jilly's Place back in 2008.  Are you surprised to know that I had never posted anything to it?
I have decided to spilt all of my scrapping from my personal stuff so Jilly's Place will be operational from today.  I will have links between the two so if you are interested in what we are up to outside of the scrapping world drop by and don't forget to leave me a comment or two :)

Jilly xx

Where have the past two months gone...whoops make that 3 months!!(written on the 27th of November 2009)

This is where I start my back blogging.  Confussed?? well so am I, I have to remeber all that I have done now!!

Jilly xx

A Day with A Friend

Jerremy and Christopher were born on excatly the same day about 8 hours apart. There were 3 boys born on the 18th of July 2006, the third being Zac.

It is really great to compare these guys as they go through their 'stages'. Chris being an only child, soon to be a big brother. Jerremy, essentially growing up an only child with lots of extended family and Zac being the youngest of 3.

Chris was so keen to climb over the 'bridge' with a little help from me. In the end he was virtually doing it all by himself - clever devil. Jerremy has inherited his mother's fear of heights so would baulk at the 3rd of 4th rung. He did eventually go all the way over, conquering his fear.

We got the boys together for a play date to make Father's Day gifts. They painted paddle pop sticks and we made them into photos frames with a photo of the day.

A Day of Scrapping

Well I have done it!! I have finally finished a LO for a challenge ([NoCrapJustScrap])and it is not even the end of the month. I started it yesterday and came unstuck when I decided to try to make the rubon. Instructions that I followed can be found here http://www.rubberstampingfun.com/rnapage.html
My only advice would be to NOT spray hairspray on the print after to seal. It tends to react with the ink and go speckled.

I loved using the cricut to cut the tools and in hindsight I probably should have made the mower a dyecut too.

But all in all I am very happy with the way it turned out. Look out world...do I have some LO mojo or what????

I also spent some time scrapping with a friend today. The kids had a play date and I helped her make some cards.

This is what we did.

I think she did a fantastic job and the cards look just great.
We are going to make Father's Day gifts next week so stay posted.

[NoCrapJustScrap] August Card Sketch Challenge

Yah another Challenge down

Here 'tis

Used the cricut to cut the ribbon holder tags.

Love these Kaiserkraft Stamps. Stamping is so much fun...now why didn't I know this sooner??

Wow...what a night!!

An invite to dinner saw my little mate and I out with friends for a yummy steak at the Cattleman's Bar and Grill.

Had a little catch up to do when I got home with CYBER SCRAP BINGO...so many words to cross off...what fun.

Getting late but decided to start the challenges of the weekend, 123scrapbook and scrapbookingmemories.

Finished the August card challenge. I am so pleased with how it turned out. I hope Scotty likes it.

One Challenge down...now...can I do a LO??

#4 - Merry

Card #4 - Completed today

I tried outlining the 'merry' and I tried writing inside it. Not sure which way I like it better.

www.123scrapbooking.com.au

Rudolph Club #3

Yah I have finished two more cards.

#3 - Christmas Twist

Visit 123scrapbook.com.au

Awesome Gallery and Forum

7 Weeks have passed....................

My, doesn't time fly when you are having fun....or in my case buying a house...well it has been fun too, I must admit.

http://www.scrapbookingmemories.com.au/scraproom/index.php?content=all&chunk=arbu&user=4145

I have just uploaded a few images of some recent card to my Scrapbooking Memories scraproom.

Will put them up here in time.

Quick one for now....bed is calling me

Nighty Night x

Rudolph Club 2009

This year I have decided to get organised BEFORE Christmas instead of not being organised at all.

I have joined to Rudolph Club on 123scrapbook.com. Every two weeks they are providing us with a new card layout and full instruction on how to make it.

I am making 3 of each card so at the end of the 24 weeks I should have 36 carefully created cards. The biggest problem will be deciding on who should receive on. They should go to friends and family who will appreciate the time and love that went into making them. So if you receive a store bought card from me this year know that you didn't make the grade!!

Here is the first one I attempted, titled 'Peace & Joy'. It incorporated a few new techniques and was very fun to make.

The Second card is '25' I started this last week and finished it yesterday.

My biggest challenge is not having the same materials and having to improvise.