Love FRee stuff. Love Kaszazz

Just by Bringing a new friend along to any Kaszazz event and referring them to a consultant to join the Kaszazz Creative club, you can earn some great rewards such as this amazing stamping pack worth $65, for FREE. Your friend will also receive a voucher, spend $50, receive FREE pack. I received these goodies with my order yesterday and am wrapped. Ask me for more info.

Settling in!!!

Wow, time just flies on by and I haven't been here for awhile, due to moving house....yet again! Story of our lives, really, and I am pretty much over it. We are in limbo at the moment as we decide where life should take us next! Darwin has been lovely and I could set up permanently here, if it wasn't so darn expensive. We've sadly had to put our Port Douglas house on the market, after almost 19 years living in the most gorgeous tropical town in Australia, the realisation that we probably wont be going back has set in. When I saw the photos of our house ready for advertising, it really hit home. Something to scrap about when the time is right. So now, we are back in a caravan park with the kids, living in the camper trailer and annexe, surrounded by happy, friendly, travellers, and trying to keep up our working, schooling life, with loads of commuting in between, until we decide what to do next. Watch this space!!!
Don't worry, I still have a desk, laptop and plenty of scrapping supplies which I just couldn't live without! I've managed to create a few projects already and although feeling a little unorganised, I had one of these projects picked up by Scrapbooking Memories yesterday! It just goes to show, you can create in the smallest of spaces, thank goodness, it's keeping me sane. I managed to complete my Phototech article this month under these conditions, so must be doing ok!
Here are a few projects to share:

 This is a Scrap Lift from Amy Tangerine! I love her style and her line of papers and accessories. This is very similar to a layout which is on the back of her paper stack. The pic is of myself and my parents on one of their visits to our home in Port for Melbourne Cup in 2011.

 This is some of the Kaszazz new products. The clouds are made from the new rose making dies. When I first saw the dies, I was convinced they were clouds, so I just had to make something using them as clouds. The Eiffel Tower is also a new die, and the stamp and washi tape are from the new May release.

 This was my project entry into the Kaszazz TTD challenge. I am so into the paint splats at the moment. These were made with Distress stains, and you can see the pink chevron impression, which is made with the new stencil and distress stains. All Kaszazz products.

This is to share with a fellow Kaszazz member who is into art journaling at the moment. I love art journaling also. This was one of my entries while we were travelling last year and had limited supplies. I used water colour pencils and stamps for the background, along with rub ons and some cute little plastic embellies I cut from a packet from a new pillow. I have some new entries which I am still working on! TFL

Scrapbook Boutique Blog challenge

I needed to make a Baby card, and needed the inspiration to go with it!!! just loved this pic in this month's challenge over at Scrapbook boutique http://scrapbookboutiquenews.blogspot.com.au/2013/05/a-new-challenge-has-started.html
Here is the image they gave us for inspiration:

And here is my card:

I have used  Kaszazz daisy stamps for the background, and painted Smooch accent ink for the yellow centres and then used a water brush to disperse the ink. The sentiment stamp is from Kaszazz. The scraps of ribbon were laying around my desk and I stamped white butterflies on pink card, and used a scallop border punch for the card under the ribbon.

Kaszazz workshop samples

Well, still trying to find that mojo!!! I made up a few kits with instructions from the Kaszazz website for projects from other consultants. I love that we have privvy to so many wonderful creations and the talent of other consultants and scrappers is always an inspiration. This one is by Natalie Pecovnik, titled Elegant Timeless Page and card. It's a 2 hour workshop and one of the ones I am able to teach. I did up the sample yesterday and put my own twist on it. I love that if you don't have all the products listed, there is always the opportunity to improvise which I had to do with a few products. My version has used the Distress Stain to make the paint splats and I didn't have the faux stitching stamp, so did them by hand with Distress markers.

 I love making my own embellishments, using stamps, punches and distress inks!

 Here's the card!

 And here's the close up of the lovely splats from the Distress Stain Dabber. Will be using this idea alot more!!!!

The story behind this layout is one I wanted to get down. It was the last time the kids saw their Bis Nonno (Great Grandfather). He passed away not long after these pics were taken. he was very ill with cancer. I'm so glad i took the kids, Dave wasn't with us, and Nonno picked grapes from the home vines for the kids to eat while we talked.

using the same colour scheme...

I came up with this:

I decided to stick with the colours i had on my desk as it was getting late. Pulled out a few stamps and some lovely textured card and a bit of Gesso. i re-coloured the twine with a Distress marker. (These markers are so versatile!!!) All products from kaszazz, except the twine!!

And here's a layout I did while still trying to find my mojo!!! Not really how I'd planned it, in fact, I totally changed the photo and idea, to a layout idea I needed to get down, have been thinking about for a long time:

A little while ago, My Hubby, Dave wrote my daughter, Taylah a letter while he was working away. We were all struggling with him being away, so he typed an email to her, which tells her about the day she was born and how he felt. The love he had for her then and the love he has for her and our family now. I cry every time i read it. So I created this layout with that in mind and made an envelope out of vellum and decorated it to enclose the letter for safe keeping!
I have just realised the colour scheme is the same as my two cards- I seem to do that alot, get on a roll and be in the mode for a particular colour scheme and end up with a few different projects out of it!

Distressing Treasures

So keen to scrap after our holiday and my mojo mustve stayed behind in Bali. just could,nt find it. So decided to pull a few Kaszazz d
emos and workshops out to work on. Something I dont have to think about too much. had a play with some Distress inks and embossing for this one. A bit busy in the background. But enjoyed the process.

SBM MAG IS OUT VOL 15 NO 8 MOTHERS DAY SPECIAL

Phototech is on page 60/61. I am proud to have a few

 family members in this one as a tribute to the Mum'S in our family. Very exciting coming home from our Bali trip and seeing this in the store. Bali was wonderful, not long enough.