New layouts from Adele and I

Today we went to a birthday party for Seekara's close friend Hope. Seekara and I usually make our presents for friends. Yesterday we made this together for Hope. The monogram letter from kaiser was embellished with stickers and Chipboard by Basic Grey - Euphoria, Collections circle, glimmer mist, Green tara flower, Doodlebug bling. Below is a layout of my husbands progress last year with his shed. I got the idea for leftover stickers from Elizabeth Kartchner and wanted to use left over sticker to embellish acetate and sew around the. I like how the circles turned out and now I am keen to cut down on my leftover sticker stash by making lots of embellishments like this. Other elements on the page below include basic Grey alphabets, Pink Paisley paper, Collections small stars, Love Elsie arrow, Basic Grey stickers and Flair Designs alphabet stickers, acetate.

This layout above, was made using some of the new My Minds Eye Range - Breaking Free. Other elements include Autumn leaves felt, Kaiser flowers, Basic Grey Chipboard, Sassafrass paper, butterfly Cuttlebug die, October Afternoon alphabet rubons, Kasier bling and handmade circle posie made by Nanna. I have had it sitting in a whole heap of sewing stuff that my nanna had given quite a few years back and thought what better use than to incorporate into one of my pages.

I love My little Shoebox designs and I loved these cute little houses on one of their papers. I have made this into a card with some kaiser pearls and Basic Grey rubons added also.

Little Cheekah at 5 months - trying so hard to move. I love these cute little pics. It makes me think how fast this year has gone and how Dec is sneaking upon us again. This page was made using Little Shoebox papers, K & Co ribbon lace, Green Tara flower, Sassafrass felt bird, Heidi Swapp letters & October Afternoon rubons. Hint - Noticed I have made the m in "Moving" from to upside down "U"s and the letter N in Moving also - there are lots of letters that can be converted to replace other letters.

I wanted to share with you some of the layouts Adele Waldron had recently completed. Adele is on our design team and a great friend of mine. I love Adele's clean style when she scrapbooks - her pages always look great, although it is quite hard to convince her that they are great. Here are some layouts Adele has done with the Kaiser Loire Valley range - very nice. And a card!

Enjoy the new week!

Tenaha ;)

Creating with the Newman Girl Guides

On the weekend Rhonda and I had a craft session with the Girl Guides as part of their activities for their annual sleepover event. We had 19 girls aged 5 and up and they created some lovely stuff. Amongst the girls, they made some lovely bird houses, handbags, tissue boxes and mirrors. The girls were all very creative and very polite.

Suzie and Ali had stayed with the girls over night and I must say they do such a wonderful job with the guides here in Newman. If it wasn't for their great work and volunteering there would be no Girl Guides in Newman. It is all because of people like this that we have so many opportunities for our children here in Newman. Now what I have I been up to this week?
I have again been taking the opportunity to use Websters trims (love them!!!) and Sassafras flowers where I can. I have used them on the Christmas layout below. The photo was taken last year at the Newman Daycare Christmas party. The photo of Cheekah was taken by the very talented Anita Lorimer. Thanks Anita - I love this photo.
Other products used in this layout were - Papers from Basic Grey & Creative Imaginations; circle punch; Fiskars Apron lace punch; Sassafras layered flowers; Making memories buttons; Websters red p[om pom trim; Carolee's Creations alphabet stickers; and Basic Grey Chocolate Chip Alphabet.

The layout below was made with a bit of experimentation sewing and ripping papers. I also used on this page - Basic Grey papers, embellishments and alphabets (lemonade range); and ink.

The following layout was made using a kit from the latest version of the Digital Artist Scrapbooking magazine i recently bought online. The magazine had heaps of free kits and it was fun learning new digital skills and creating this layout of my daughter, which I scraplifted the idea from the magazine. I love how it turned out and once i have a little more confidence in it I cant wiat to start exploring a little more...

The layout below was used in a recent layout class. The layout was made using papers from Sassafras Lass (Vintage Yummy); ribbon from American Crafts; staples; Glimmer mist in Burnt Red; Basic Grey rubons (Sugared).

Happy Father's Day

Happy Father's Day to all the special Dads out there. A big happy Father's Day to my Daddy dearest in Kal, my Pop in Perth and my wonderful husband Darryl. We spent the morning pretty much chilling which was really nice - for once. Darryl cooked a lovely BBQ breakfast - YUM! I am sure the day would have been much better for Darryl if his beloved Collingwood could have won their game! Well done Collywobbles - lets hope they find a pie warmer before the next game against the Crows!

Seekara had her first ever sports carnival on Friday. The kindy kids had just one race - the 25m sprint. They were all so adorable with their starting poses. Seekara came a very close second in her race - and she was so very proud to be wearing her ribbon. She could have come last and she would still have been gleaming from ear to ear. She spent the whole time down the track smiling. I was so proud of her, and i am sure all the parents were extremely proud of their kids - they all did such a great job. The Principal, teachers and volunteers for the day all did a terrific job too - the focus at South Newman is participation and not winning. The Principal pretty much called every one's name over the lines as they raced in and all the crowd cheered first to last - it was a great morning.

Now for some more layouts.......

Little Miss Serious Cheekah in this layout above - Nov 08. She still makes that face. This layout was completed using Kaiser papers, Kaiser flowers, Making memories felt, Kaiser pearls, Basic Grey alphabet stickers, Heidi Swapp mirror embellishments, Kaiser rubons and Autumn Leaves stamps. The Kaiser papers and rubons are available at Rtlicious separately or in the form of great value kits. Check out our kits section at www.rtlicious.com.au.

Doing the layout below this week reminds me of how much has happened this year and how quick it has gone - its nearly Christmas again! I am currently working out what to get everyone this year. I have been slack this year though - I usually start organising it all in July during all the mid year sales. Its so hard to work out what to get the daughter #2. Any suggestions please!!!???

The Christmas layout below was made using Basic Grey Wassail papers and embellishments, Chocolate chip alphabet stickers from Basic Grey, Paper from Scenic Route and bling from Kaiser. Watch the RTlicious space very closely in the next few weeks - we are getting the new Basic Grey Eskimo Kisses range very very soon!

A nice simple card below. I put this together with some scraps from my 1st layout. Papers, rubon, flowers and pearls from kaiser, Flower embellishment from Melissa Frances.The "Adorable" layout was put together with Kaiser papers, Making Memories ribbon, My Minds Eye diecut, Creative imaginations chipboard, My Minds Eye transparency, and Blue Eye Dezines felt. The photo was taken by the very talented Tracy Monaghan who is sadly moving on soon. I highly recommend Tracy as a photographer so if you want some beautiful pics for Christmas make sure you log on to www.therapycatchup.blogpsot.com to see how you can book Tracy before she leaves back home to NZ.

The layout below "Achieve" was put together using papers from the Basic grey Lemonade range, Basic Grey alphabet stickers, Fiskars Treading Water punch, Green Tara flower, Websters lace and Basic grey embellishments. This photo was taken last Nov when Rhonda and I won the Home Based - Small Business Award from the Newman Chamber of Commerce and Industry. We were so proud!

Wishing you all a beautiful spring week...

As Tigger would say TTFN (Tata for now!)

TFL

Tenaha

xo