World Card Making Day

The World Card Making Day is taking place on Saturday, October 3, and card makers from all over the world will be celebrating the joy of creating and giving handmade cards. Moxie Fab World has this World Wide Blog Tour in their blog, and will every day until October 3rd show some amazing works from amazing bloggers from all over the world, it all started yesterday !!

How would you like to celebrate the day?

If you check out World Card Making Day website you will find a lot of ideas on how to celebrate. You can also upload your card to the WCMD gallery to share your work in the worldwide celebration and become eligible to win a prize on both the Paper Crafts Connection blog and the Moxie Fab World blog! Prize winners will be announced on Tuesday, October 6.

If you leave a comment here in this post on my blog, you will get the chance to win some great prizes!!!

And if you click in to Maxie Fab World blog and leave a comment there too, you will even get one more opportunity! (Limit; one comment each person per blog!) Comments will close for this opportunity at midnight on Sunday, October 4. (your timezone) Prize-winners will be announced on Tuseday, October 6 on the Moxie Fab World blog. The prizes will be shipped directly from the manufacturers. All the prizes that will be offered will be shown each day on the Moxie Fab World blog, so please make sure you drop by everyday for the whole week!

This is my card .......

I also created this cute little jar, while I was going..........

Thanks so much for popping by, and have fun making your cards for World Card Making Day.

Carole xx

A Little of that and a Little of Bo Bunny

If you love all things spicy, you will just fall in love with all of the papers, cardstock stickers and coordinating embellishments that make up Bo Bunny Collection: Kitchen Spice!I created this fun "Whats Cookin Home Cookin" sign for my mums kitchen and lets just say she loved it.

If you want to see more Bo Bunny Yumminess just pop on over to the Bo Bunny Blog and take a look at Whats Cookin".

Carole xx

Karen Foster Project

Well finally, here is a set that I have just made with the new Karen Foster Design "Birthday Collection". There are plenty of cute bits and pieces about this collection, not only can you get the papers you can also buy the gorgeous stickers, stackable stickers, ribbon and Birthday Bubble Brads, all perfect for you Birthday projects.

Materials Used:

Blow Out the Candles Stickers

Birthday Stacked StickersCakewalk Pattern PaperLets Party Pattern PaperBirthday Birds Pattern Paper

Step 1

From the "Blow Out the Candles" Stickers I used the "Make A Wish" sticker, which I stuck onto cardstock and cut around, then just put aside.

I then cut out the birds and the Happy Birthday Banner from the "Birthday Birds" pattern paper and then put aside.

Step 2

I trim a red piece of Prism cardstock the 17 x 23cm and folded in the middle. I trimmed the bottom of the card with a piece of the "Cakewalk" pattern paper cakes, which I stuck to the bottom, I then cut out pieces of extra cakes and using some foam tape, layered them over the top of the same shaped cake, as you can see by the bottom photo.

I then trimmed the top of the card with a zig zag border, and using the "Happy Birthday" Banner which I cut out earlier stuck it to the card as shown in the bottom photo, and finished off with buttons and some Dimensional magic.

A close up of the birds and banner on the card.

Step 3

To create the bag, I cut a fancy top to the bag using a zig zag border, and I then cut out a red circle for the middle of the bag with Prism cardstock and embossed the card using my cuttlebug.

I covered the bag with the "Lets Party" pattern paper as shown in the top photo, and then added the circle and I also trimmed the top and bottom with Prism red cardstock.

I used the Birthday Stacker "Cake" Sticker for the centre of the bag, and finished off with the "Make A Wish" sticker which I trimmed earlier and then foam taped it onto the bottom of the stackable sticker.

I finished off with a couple of presents on the top right hand side of the "Make A Wish" Sticker.

Well that is it quick and quite easy to create Karen Foster Design party gift set, if you want to see more go and check out the Karen Foster Website.

Well a little more tomorrow.

Carole xx

A Little about me

I promise Karen Foster is coming very soon lol !! lets just say other things have got in the way this week, lots going on and I had to hold off.

Well, things are changing in my life more and more,Chaise is nearly 4, which is amazing, time has just flown by and I know I don't normally share these things on my blog, but I have been trying much harder to get a healthier balance in my life, and to share most of the time with my family, working out and of course scrapping, and there is no doubt I love to scrap, but I also love alot of other things in my life as well. I look around and more and more people are leaving the scrapping behind and are taking up new ventures, or just enjoy more time doing other things, which is just how it goes sometimes, OK, I am not doing this, it is part of me well .... for now, but things do change, and other interests come along.

I have been jogging now since late December last year and I am enjoying it more and more, I am going further and further, and finding I need more and more, and spending a lot more time on keeping myself healthy and happy. As a family we bought ourselves a Jet Ski, Yes a Jet Ski and we are loving it, I got my boat licence as well as my Jet Ski Licence just so I could enjoy the experience more and have fun with the family and just enjoy being outdoors.

So this is it now, more active, a lot more time out and about, but still enjoying what I love which is scrapping.

I have a couple of photos to share, just enjoying time in the sun, we are at Awonga Dam, a huge lake, and an absolutely gorgeous place to be. This is me and Sarah, yes she is driving.

Mike and Chaise, just havinga ball.

And yes, here is me, I just love it !!

I know a little bit weird for me lol, sharing so much about myself, but there you go !!

Some scrapping to show tomorrow, have a great weekend.

Carole xx

Hi everyone, Icreated a little something for the Bo Bunny Blog, Christmas in September, just getting you ready and organised!! There are some really great ideas over at the Bo Bunny Blog, so pop on over and check them out, and if you leave a comment you could win yourself some yummy "St Nick" products.
I created this clipboard book, from the back page of the Cascading Album and a cloth peg, lets face it, we don't always use the pages in our mini album, so it is great to keep them and create other ideas from them, I used "Tis The Season" Collection, very bright and really gorgeous colours. It is a reminder clipboard for all the things that I have to organise, especially my cardmaking hopefully lol !!
Oh BTW I haven't fogotten about my Karen Foster Project it will be up later today or early tomorrow as soon as I get it finished lol !!

Have a great day.

Carole xx

Pink Paislee Fun

I have some Pink Paislee to share with you today, I created this cute "Love" plaque for Scrapbook Creations magazine for August. I just love this photo of Sarah and Chaise together he was only about 4 or 5 months old in this photo. I used the "Spring Fling" Collection from Pink Paislee to create and embellish this project, and I loved the yummy "Spring Fling" Clear Stamps.

I created this next project for the Pink Paislee Blog, using the lovely and one of my fav collections "Cupid" I just love the colours to this collection and all the yummy tags and alphas are so gorgeous.

Well just a quick one today.

Carole xx

Karen Foster Designs

OK, this is my first post of Karen Foster Design Goodies. Well I have cheated with this post because these items where already created, but I just had to share these first as I absolutely love the New Baby Girl Line introduced at the beginning of this year, so very cute, it really is adorable to create with, so many embellishments ideas. I created "First Stages Baby Journal", a "Little Bag", and a "Card".

For these items I used the Karen Foster Design "Baby Girl" Collection:

Pattern Papers

Ribbon

Clearly Stickers
Stacker StickersLittle Princess Stickers

I will keep you guessing for next week but I will have a little step by step as well. I also used my yummy Cuttlebug to emboss the cardstock "Spots and Dots" embossing pad, and the lace punch was Fiskas Fancy Scallop Border, I also used my yummy chalks to enhance the edges to my projects.

You can find these set in the August issue of Stamping and Papercrafts.

Thanks heaps.

Oh I will have a little Pink Paislee to share tomorrow.

Carole xx

Bo Bunny Quote Challenge

I created this layout for the Quote Challenge using the gorgeous "Bo Bunny Ella Collection", so if you would like a bit of a challenge and a bit of fun pop on over to here and check out what other projects the Bo Bunny DT have come up with, and maybe create your very own project.

This layout showing how caring Sarah can be towards her little brother, and how much they mean to each other.

Tomorrow I will share some Pink Paislee projects with you.

All the very best and happy scrapping.

Carole xx

Twiddley Bitz

Next up, with my catch up lol !!

I created this cute little Twiddley Bitz "Girl Purse" for the Aussie Scrap Source Blog using Basic Grey Porcelain pattern papers and chipboard, gorgeous products, and I think they really went well with the photos I had of Sarah, I loved all the cute birds and butterflies as well as the bird cages, so adorable and of course I had to layer, with a little distressing.

Also, don't forget to pop on over to the Aussie Scrap Source blog, they have a terrific challenge going on at the moment using colour matches, and you could win some gorgeous prizes, so if you like your challenges, this is one just can't miss, enjoy !!

Have a great day, more catch ups tomorrow.

Carole xx