Everything Baby

Some baby cards I made last weekend scrapbooking with a couple of friends. These of course go with the prams I made recently. Though I have one more pram to make. All boy cards, so many boys at the moment.

This is my favourite

I love playing with twine at the moment.

I raised the plane with dimensionals and then used

glossy accent. (the photo doesn't show it though).

Thanks for looking and take care.

Hugs

Mel xxx

Baby Prams

I've been very busy making these prams (tutorial here). So many friends are having babies at the moment. It's so lovely and I get to have lots of cuddles. I actually started these ones back in late November I think, but with Christmas and New Years, and just generally being busy with two little ones. It has taken me forever to finish them. So glad they are done now, one thing off my To Do list. Yay!!

Sorry, lots of photos. Just showing different angles and details for you. I really enjoy making these sweet little prams even though they take so much time to make. It's nice giving something hand-made. I don't know about you but I love hand-made goodies.

Thanks heaps for looking.

Take care.

Mel xxx

Keepsake Box

I made this keepsake box (tutorial at Splitcoast Stampers),for a dear friend's little girl who turned one back in January. (I know, I haven't been very good posting lately). I thought she could use it as a memory box and place things like her first hair cut curl or hospital Id bracelet. All those keepsakes that we treasure. She could even use it for her daughters hair clips, jewellry and so on.

I chose purple as this is the colour of her bedroom. I love bling and decided to add lots of pearl and rhinestone flourishes to pretty the box up and make it very girly.

I made a card to match. This is a close up of the charms

I added - a little bear and heart.

Thanks for looking and have a wonderful day.

I have more to share and will post them later.

Hugs,

Mel xxx

Lollipop Ladies Challenge #14

Happy Wednesday lovely friends. I can't believe how quickly the year is going, middle of Feb already. It's time for another Lollipop Ladies Challenge and this week we have colourful smarties with the added bonus of Hearts. Perfect when we have just celebrated valentines day.

Here is my card for the challenge

I originally thought of the colours of the smarties and then as I sat down to create this card I focused on the hearts and the idea of love. I love this Sarah Kay image. It's so sweet and innocent. I'm also slowly getting through my stash of old papers. Here I have used Sassafras Indie girl. You can't see it very clearly in the photos, but I have cut around part of the flowers and stuck the image under, as if he is standing among the flowers. They are glossy accented as are the punched hearts.

Check out the rest of the design teams creations here. They are amazing.

I want to say a big thank you to Marcia and Sammi for letting me be part of this wonderful team. I have loved working on the Lollipop Ladies Design Team and made some wonderful friends.

All the best to the new Candy Stripes. I look forward to seeing your creations each fortnight.

Thanks for looking and have a fabulous day.

Mel xxx

Lollipop Ladies Challenge #13 - Minty Fudge Goodness

It's that time of the week again where we offer you some deliciously divine inspiration to sink your teeth into...literally!!

Today the Lollipop Ladies have these sweet morsels of Mint fudge and the extra challenge is Polkadots.

Here's my take on the challenge: focussing mainly on the

Polkadots and using some greens in the paper.

I have been wanting to make one of these backpack gift boxes ever since I first saw them on Splitcoast Stampers. They are so cute. The papers are MME Jack and Jill "Life is Good" collection. I love these papers so much (I had to get more from the lovely Marcia at The Stamp Spot. The twine is from her shop too.) I love polkadots and the colours, are so gorgeous. The ribbon, cardstock and buttons are Stampin Up.

We had some amazing entries for last fortnights Licorice Allsorts challenge. You guys are definitely rocking these challenges. Please pop past the Lollipop Ladies and check out the fabulous creations from the rest of the DT. They are awesome and so inspiring.

Thanks for checking us out.

We hope you are inspired.

Have a wonderful Wednesday.

Mel xxx

Lollipop Ladies Challenge #12: Licorice Allsorts

Happy Wednesday to you all. It's that time again for another Lollipop Ladies challenge. Wow, these fortnights go so fast. As you can see from the above photo this time around we have Licorice Allsorts to inspire you. Remember you can create anything you like - layouts, cards, off the page.

I made this sweet little box which holds 3x3 notecards.

I was inspired to make this little box using the colours of the Licorice Allsorts. I chose to make a square box to make it look like a Licorice Allsort too, well kind of. I am so into making off the page items at the moment. I really enjoy creating them and giving them as gifts. I used this Basic Grey Phoebe paper I had as the circles reminded me of the round licorice pieces.

Pop on over to the Lollipop Ladies and check out the rest of the DT girls creations. They are awesome. I love seeing what we all come up with each fortnight.

Thanks to everyone who entered our Jubes challenge last week. It was great to see so many of you challenging yourself. I will get to everyone's blog over the next couple of days and finish writing comments to you all. It's wonderful to check out your fabulous creations and I look forward to seeing what you all create for this fortnights challenge.

Have a great day and take care.

Mel xxx

Personalised Wedding Card

I was contracted to make this card for some friends of my DH. It is the third wedding card I have made for them and they always ask for a personal, special creation that includes interests and likes of the couple getting married.

This cards requirements was something to do with grapevines and solar cars. I had lots of problems trying to find papers with grapevines on them but found this awesome piece of chipboard by Dusty Attic. I added rhinestones to make some of the grape bunches and add some dimension to the card. I originally wanted to use pearls but could not get the colours I wanted, but I think the rhinestones work nicely and add some bling.

I made the card into an easel so that they can stand it up. Underneath the silver heart is a piece of solar panel that my DH cut out of a solar garden light for me. This is the little piece for the groom's interests. I added the couples names at the bottom using AC puffy thickers.

Thanks for looking and have a lovely day.

Mel xxx

Altered Notebooks

Happy Monday friends. I know I haven't had too much on my blog lately but I have been busy creating. These little notebooks I altered for my SIL's for Christmas. I had heaps of fun making them. I chose colours to suit each SIL individually, that's why they are so different. The first one has the Cosmo Cricket Delovely range and the second notebook has Basic Grey Wisteria papers. I won these from Scraphappykat. Thanks Kathie. I weaved some ribbon through the crochet flower to create my own embellishment and added a Prima flower centre which I bought from Marcia at The Stamp Spot. Marcia is currently selling her business, so if you are passionate about your crafting, residing in Australia and interested in running a successful online store head over here.

I will have more to show you soon.

Have a wonderful Monday.

Love and hugs,

Mel xxx

Thank You Card

Hand made rolled flowers with glitter.

Woah, it's been way too long since I have posted daily. I made this thank you card in early December and forgot to blog it. Oops!! I think I was so busy preparing for Christmas that blogging just went out the window. Anyway I am back into it now and will share some more creations with you soon, but back to the card above.

I used the yummy Summertime papers by Echo park which I bought from the lovely Marcia at The Stamp Spot. I wanted to make it quite simple and neutral as it was for a very special couple from our church who are like family to us, so it couldn't be too girly. These Echo park papers are perfect for fresh, fun cards. I hand made the rolled flowers and sprinkled lashings of glitter on them. The letters are American Crafts Chipboard glitter letters and the butterflies are from my favourite Martha Stewart punch. I sponged some blue on all the edges and added a couple of rhinestones. You can always do with more bling right!!

Well that's it for now.

I promise to be back soon.

Happy New Year (just a little belated), and I hope 2011 is a blessed and wonderful year for you.

Take care.

Mel xxx

Mmmm Sweet Jubes - Lollipop Ladies Challenge #11

It's the New Year and time for another challenge from The Lollipop Ladies. This fortnight we have yummy sweet jubes with the added challenge of glitter/sparkle.

This is my take on the challenge.

A view from the top.

I made this with a special little girl in mind for her birthday which is not too far away now. I think it is so sweet and can be used for anything - jewellery, hair accessories or even notes with her wishes and dreams on them.

I found the tutorial here at Splitcoast Stampers. I used Basic Grey Phoebe papers, lots of Kaiser and Prima rhinestones and SU ribbon. The rub-ons are SU as well. I have had them in my stash for a couple of years so it was good to finally use some of them.

Pop on over to The Lollipop Ladies and see the yummy goodness the design team have done this fortnight. Hope you join us and have a play.