PIECES OF ME

Yes it has been like forever since I last blogged. Life does tend to get busy and things, like a blog, do tend to be neglected. Can't say that this will change but we all live in hope. So I had a lovely scrappy weekend with my two gorgeous friends Kim Ewins and Rachel Funnell and looking for something to scrap came across the latest challenge at Kraft Plus, I can see clearly now , I can see clearly now, you have to use something see through. I found some photo overlays that I have had for quite a while and used it under the lovely pic of my Dad (deceased) and my son. Really fitted in so well with everything, used also some yummy scrapmatts chippies, Jillibean alphas and some old Echo Park pp. This was the first time that my Dad had seen his latest Grandson and I love the look on his face. Cheers to all Annette

Black & White + Kraft, what a great combo for the latest challenge at Kraft Plus Challlenge . I had the perfect pic of my gorgeous neice Clohe and used Kaiser Art is Life pp, stamping around the edges was inspired by Kraft Board #2 as was the use of the die cut doily shape thingys. From my stash were the two cute little Melissa Francis resin frames and flowers. Bakers twine, ribbon and black gems were from old embellie kits from My2angels scrapping shop. Lindys Stamp Gang Spray in Frozen Jack Frost was perfect for the splatters.. Thanks for looking. Love and Hugs Annette

I stumbled across this lovely challenge blog via my friend Kim Ewins and really like their October Challenge. The challenges are based around a piece of artwork with other criteria and for this month the added was a vintage style. This is the artwork for October a beautiful painting titled 'The Green Parasol" by E Phillips Fox My take on the Challenge has these lovely old pictures of my brother and I taken 3rd February 1963. I used as my inspiration the lovely shades of green in the painting as well as the pinks in the flowers. To keep with the vintage style I used lots of inking with Ranger Coffee Ink, lovely ribbons, small brown buttons, large owl button (how gorgeous is that) butterflies fussy cut from Collections, die cuts, prima stamp and wooden love from Craft Queen. I used creamy brown thread for sewing and leftover thread was tucked under elements on the page. The large green and slightly smaller pink flower I made and like the rest of the page inke...

I recently went for a lovely stroll around Orange Botanical Gardens with a dear friend Sharon. Of course I took my camera with me as spring is such a beautiful, and fav, time of the year here, with the amazing zoom I have on it I took this gorgeous pic of a honeyeater doing its thing. Fast forward to the latest challenge at Kraft Plus Challenges which is Inspired by Nature and I knew that I had the perfect pic for it. I used a couple of different stamps - Kaisercraft Arty and Prima Marketing, Lindys Stamp Gang Mist, Scrapmatts leaf, dyed muslin, die cut leaves and twig, black tiny twine, small prima green flower, lasercut chippy butterfly, larger handmade flower, brown leaves and for the nature element seed pods. Loved this challenge so go and have a look at all the amazing ideas there already. Hugs and love Annette xo

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Ok if anyone is still linked to or following this blog hold your socks cause I'm blowing out the cobwebs and I'm back baby. Anyway enough frivolity I would like to share my take on the awesome challenge over at Kraft plus March Challenge which is all that glitters. I decided to go the gold way and the perfect pic is this beautiful sunset photo from when I was in Fiji.  I used lots of gold embossing, gold stamping and stencilling, gorgeous scrapmatts chippies (leaves and dragonflies), gold prima flowers and black alpha stickers, washi, cw stencil and gold material star from Craft Queen as well as strips of pp from Kaisercrafts All that glitters range and the word Magical is from Twiddlybitz. The larger chippie and little gold shelly type stars and hearts and silver boat wheel charm are from my stash as is the plasterers tape which I stamped with gold ink. Just love how this all came together, and pretty quick as well. Hugs and love till next time Annette

Hello again, would like to share with you all my take, as Special Investigator, on  Case File 124 at CSI. It is such a soft pretty palette and just perfect for this pic of one of my gorgeous neices, Shelby Jade.   I solved the case by using all the colours -  Sunrise Shadows -  grape color, taken from the background in the bottom left  - 142.54.92  Petal Pink -  pale pink, taken from the flower  - 250.226.224 Fairy Dust -  white, taken from the petals -  255.255.255 Dawn Glow  - light orange, taken from the background - 249.209.140 Morning Sun - pale yellow, taken from the highlights in her hair  - 249.240.197 From the Evidence -  I used butterflies, glitter (on the flowers and butterflies), flowers, rub-ons, stars and ruffle. EVIDENCE - CHOOSE AT LEAST 2 CLUES butterfly glitter flowers rub-ons/stamps ombre wings stars check/plaid pattern ruffle watercolor swirls tiny brads bokeh photo eff...