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Orange

2009-08-27T09:17:00.005+12:00

We're coming to the end of the Colour Me Happy month on the Fiskars blog. We're onto the colour orange now and there's just one (or two actually) colours to go. Here are some orange veges all cut up and ready to roast. There's carrots, orange kumara and butternut. YUM!!

And a yummy orange Flickr mosaic for you.

And some orange wood.Looking forward to putting all the coloured wood photos I've collected into a mosaic too.

TFL lianne

Summery yellow

2009-08-23T21:40:00.008+12:00

It's all yellow on the Fiskars blog at the moment so I had to post my fav yellow photo as seen in my blog banner above, taken last Xmas.

And a cool yellow wood pic from Flickr.

A sweet yellow mosaic from Flickr

LO I've just done just because

And a LO I've just done using my green photos for the Colour Me Happy challenge.

Oh and my green photo TFL lianne

Getting a bit behind

2009-08-18T09:07:00.006+12:00

Oohh I'm getting behind on the Colour posts. First I forgot to post my Flickr fav, I'm kinda going for a wood theme here, and blue mosaic

And now we're onto GREEN, check out the Fiskars blog for LO's and photos.

Cool Green wood door and gate and a beautiful green mosaic.

And thanks Penny for the link to the Flickr Commons. Fantastic.

And Penny asked about the NZ Numbers calendar we were doing awhile back. Actually I have been thinking about that because we just need one number. All we need is number 27, so if you are reading this and still want to participate, lets all look for # 27 and get this calendar finished.

I have put a tutorial on the SSDT blog for the metal flowers on my ATC if anyone is interested.

Back soon with my green photo.
lianne

Purple and Blue

2009-08-16T17:39:00.009+12:00

Better late than never - a purple jellybean for the Colour Me Purple challenge, LOL. Last one in the packet too.

And my blue photo for the Colour Me Blue challenge (last day today). One of my blue glass bottles on my kitchen windowsill.

Really want this book and love her blog.

Really want to make a skinny scarf like these. Love her blog too.

And one day I want to make some of these, just as colourful.

And here's my latest ATC for the ATC Dares. I'm going to put a tutorial for the metal flowers on the SSDT blog.

And how divine are the new Websters Pages line. My favourite is the Postcards from Paris range, and we have them in the shop already. Iris Babao Uy does the most amazing work with them.

Back soon

lianne

Colour Me Purple

2009-08-12T09:20:00.007+12:00

Oops nearly missed the Colour Me Purple days on the Fiskars blog, last day today. I haven't found anything purple to photograph yet, hope to find something by the end of the day, but here's some cool photos from Flickr.

A gorgeous Purple mosaic

and this photo I love

Colour Me Pink

2009-08-06T20:23:00.011+12:00

PINK is the colour of the moment on the Fiskars blog. Check out all the Pinkness on there. I couldn't resist taking a photo of this pink tulle, the way it was all bundled up so full of yummy pink texture.

And of course I did a PINK search on Flickr and look what I found

and this And I love this PINK mosaic and this one

TFL lianne

Aprons and Birdcages

2009-08-05T09:03:00.005+12:00

I mentioned in a previous post that Rachel and Kate inspired me to make this apron for SENZ, and here is the photo I promised Rach of us at SENZ together in our aprons. Hehe, cute aye!!

The little things I've been playing with, these Twiddleybitz birdcages, so cute, and a little needle felted mumma and baby bird inside.
Back soon with some Colour Me Happy and the new colour PINK.
lianne

Colour Me RED

2009-08-03T09:00:00.007+12:00

To make you SMILE, I hope.
I did this last year for a photoless challenge, just thought I'd share it again since it has lots of REDNESS in it.

We are having a Colour Me Happy month on the Fiskars blog for August. Find the details here. RED is the colour of the moment. Here are some sweet red hearts for you.And I love to look on Flickr for colour inspiration. I love love love this photo. Here is a cool mosaic of lots of yummy RED goodness.

We'd love you to join in the fun, look around you for cool colour shots.

lianne

Oh so sick

2009-07-21T08:10:00.004+12:00

I was sick, so sick. But we got through it. I soldiered on with Codral for the whole weekend, I would have been a mess without it. I hardly had a voice, my head was throbbing, my throat was burning, but we did it. Poor Nickie was the same. Now I'm off the Codral, don't like taking anything other than Panadol usually but just had to for the weekend, and I'm letting this revolting flu work it's way out itself.
It was my nieces 21st on Friday night too and I felt so sick going up the Skytower. But what an amazing restaurant. The food was stunning and the view incredible, even though it was a bit cloudy. Love how you go right round in just under an hour I think it is. Just wished I'd felt better to appreciate it more.
So great to see people at SENZ, sorry if I wasn't very talkative and poor Yolande was so happy to see me and I felt like total crap at the very minute she came over, I was just ready to take my next Codral fix. Catch up soon I hope Yo.

So here's the fabric LO I taught at SENZ :)
And the Home CanvasBack soon with more projects I've been working on.
lianne

SENZ this weekend

2009-07-14T08:07:00.007+12:00

We are super busy getting ready for SENZ this weekend. I am teaching 2 classes, one is full and the other about 3/4 full, should be fun fun fun.
Here's a sneak of them:I have also been busy making samples of some of the yummy product we will have there including the Heidi Swapp Invisibles which I've used in this LO. They are the coolest thing, I've rubbed different coloured chalks over the background to give this dreamy effect. And I love the Prima vines, how cool are they. This photo is crap sorry, sooo much better IRL.The adorable Websters Pages Sweet As Cherry Pie range - if you are doing my HOME Canvas class you will get a nice surprise. And one of my favourite Collections range things - the owl, he is so cool when he's made up.
And I am pretty proud of myself for making this apron. Last year at SENZ Rachel and Kate wore cute as handmade aprons and I was determined to make one this year, so I spent the day on Saturday making this. I found a simple half apron pattern on the net and then just added bits to it including a pocket (clever me) and kept adding and adding and I still have a few more things I want to add too. I'm so proud of me, hehe.
My lovely work friend Nickie is now blogging, check her out here

Hopefully be back with more soon.
lianne

Finally we have Broadband

2009-06-28T08:23:00.009+12:00

Yes finally Broadband has come to Port Waikato, so I may be able to get on here more often. It is so much quicker than before, SOOOO MUCH QUICKER.

I am on facebook now too, I'd love to add you if you are on there. Check me out.

Some stuff to share:

Firstly a project I did for Mothers Day for Fiskars. I love the quote, so so true. It is hanging in my scraproom at the mo.

We've been playing at work with all these cool shadow boxes and altered projects using products from Twiddleybitz, Collections and 2Crafty. So much fun. The photo in this shadow box is of my Dad and his sister. How cute, I think they are off to school. I was so pleased with how the photo came out after playing around in Photoshop to get it that colour.

And this is another project using the back of a canvas and some little houses from Collections, so much fun to put together. Can you find the 3 birds?
Now that I have Broadband I hope to share more often, but then thats what I said before, LOL.

Sonya and Carol are holding a Winter Warmer competition on the Scrapbook Studio forum if you are interested. It's not too late to join in. They have great prizes too.

And the latest ATC Dare is up - Your Favourite Quote. Here are my contributions. The first one is my favourite quote at the moment (Emily Falconbridge inspired). And then i just had to turn this cute little 2Crafty house into an ATC too, with a great quote.

So sad that Michael Jackson died and he had such a sad life really. A great performer. Loved his music.

TFL lianne

Catch up - Big Time

2009-04-21T08:36:00.005+12:00

Well I have lots to tell really. It's been a month.

Firstly, NZ Dares is finishing up after the next dare. Pretty sad really, but just not enough interest anymore and too many other things going on. Vicky has posted the last dare and it is a good one, so would be really great if lots of people took part. Love to see some of our old darees from way back. :)

Fiskars is doing a photo a day thing on the blog. I've done pretty well with mine, only missed a few days. Here's my fav photo of mine so far.

Also, I'm running the monthly challenge this month on the blog. Check it out. There's a great Fiskars prize going. It's all about Circles and Stitching - create something a bit different with your circles. Here are a couple of LO's I did for it.

Lots of exciting things happening on the Fiskars blog at the moment and coming up.

Check out the monthly sketch challenge on the Scrapbook Studio forum. Here's my LO for it.and here's the sketch, compliments of Basic Grey. ATC's for the latest ATC Dare - houses.

TFL lianne

Happy St Patricks Day for yesterday

2009-03-17T09:32:00.014+13:00

Yes I went a bit silly yesterday. I stopped at our local dairy on the way home from work and asked our lovely dairy owner if she would do me a mix of green lollies and she said yes of course. How kind of her. She said I was an interesting Mum - I didn't tell her it was just for me and Rob, LOL. I bought lemonade and added green food colour, which I also added to the mashed potatoes and the green cupcakes I made. Talk about green food colouring overload. Probably really bad for you but I had fun anyway.

Numbers, numbers.

This is going very well. All we need now is # 23, 27 & 29. Go check them out here, what a cool bunch of numbers to choose from. And thanks to Ruth (Roo) for adding a heap of numbers recently, to the pool.

This months Qtea kit is so cute, full of yummy doggie, nature goodies. Here is a LO using it.And I love making these little canvas pictures with fabric. Some of the fabric and trims here are from this months and past Qtea kits.
Here is a LO I did for Scrapbook Studio using some new Making Memories papers - Animal Crackers. OMGosh it is so cute. I love the star die cut paper and the animals and letters are cut from another paper. I have been dying to find a use for the little Piggy Tales pigs tales and I found it - check out the close up. I'm going to use one on a card too. All these are in store at Scrapbook Studio and the Bazzill dotted swiss cardstock too - oohh yeah so yummy.

Our latest ATC swap has a 'Sea' theme. Here's a peak at my cards.

TFL

lianne

Lately

2009-03-09T07:59:00.003+13:00

For NZ Dares latest colour dare.
For Qtea kits using the yummy Feb 'Hearty Gelati' kit.

Cards using the Petite Cafe memo sheets from the Qtea Feb kit which have these cut fold up characters on them.

TFL

lianne

More calendar numbers

2009-02-12T08:59:00.013+13:00

Penny has added more numbers and days of the week to the group. Wow Penny they are awesome. All we need now are 11, 14, 21, 23, 26, 27, 29 and 31 and we will have a great selection to choose from. So excited to print out my photos.

Here are my ATC's for our latest swap on the Scrapbook Studio forum. The theme is CATS. Mine feature my cat Tink.

And a LO I did for the February daily inspiration on the Fiskars blog. Mine was to find inspiration from something around your home. So I had this 60's wall plaque which jumped out at me when I was looking for inspiration. Maybe it will inspire you or something around YOUR home will. If it does link here on the Fiskars website or here in this post. If you are looking for ideas to get you started on some LO's check out the Fiskars blog for some great ideas each day in February.

Also Jill has set a great challenge for February. Repetition. Check out her goregous sample here.

NZ Dares 2009

2009-02-08T12:20:00.008+13:00

Check out the new NZ Dare for 2009. What did you learn in 2008.

Here's my LO.

I've used lots of Qtea kit goodness from last months kit.

And you should see this months kit full of yummy Gelati goodness. Can't wait to get stuck into it.

AND we have 2 Feb kits to give away at Scrapcamp, thanks Danielle.

It was beautiful on the beach yesterday (in fact all weekend, it's gorgeous today too). Here's a couple of photos I took, the first one in the morning about 10am and the other in the evening about 8pm.

Happy Waitangi weekend NZ.

lianne

Happy Birthday Baby

2009-02-05T09:28:00.002+13:00

It's EMMA'S bithday today. She's 17, can you believe it!!

You know I was thinking, why can't I remember every little bit of her growing up, every minute of every day. What she looked like, what she did, what she said. That's why photos are
SO IMPORTANT.
How would we remember otherwise. I wasn't into scrapbooking when James and Emma were little, or I would have recorded so much more.
If you have little ones now, DO IT, photograph them and write it all down, because when they get to 17 and you're remembering what they were like at 7 - YOU CAN!!

Here's a LO I did for her using the Crafters Workshop templates.

And the card I made her inspired by an ATC swap I'm doing with the theme of CATS. That's our pets Rio, Tink and Otis.

lianne

Hello February already

2009-02-03T08:22:00.017+13:00

Have you checked the Numbers album. You have to sign in to see all the photos. I think all we need are 9, 11, 13, 14, 21, 23, 26, 27, 29 and 31 and some days. Trina and Cherie have been so enthusiastic, photographing numbers everywhere. Awesome!!

Thought I'd share some links. When I come across a cool site, I always email the link to myself or to work to share with the girls, so I went through them and picked out a couple to share with you guys.
If you have a Cuttlebug here is a cool blog with great challenges and tutorials.

Found this lady, cool arty scrapping

and this lady through the Tarisota newsletter

ATC's and other art here

Gorgeous work here

Scrapcamp is coming up soon. It is going to be the best esp with our friend Rach Hosking teaching 2 great classes; but unfortunately it will be our last. I mean are we in a 'recession' or what. I don't know, but it certainly seems to be affecting the industry everywhere. So sad, I certainly hope it doesn't affect too many of the maunfacturers, they just keep bringing out such incredibly gorgeous stuff.

Here's a LO I did last year for the Purple Onion DT call. I love scrapping flower photos, because I LOVE flowers I suppose. Very cool stamps, and easy online ordering too.Thanks for dropping by.

lianne

Numbers, numbers everywhere

2009-01-27T11:22:00.009+13:00

We're starting to get some great photos of numbers and days of the week in our Flickr group. Check them out here.

Join in if you want, the more the merrier. And it doesn't matter if we have more than one of the same letter or number, it just gives us more to choose from to personalise our own calender. It's very exciting!! I was thinking we could use whole or part of the words for the week days. That would look cool I think and may be easier to find to photograph. As Raewyn said there is a SUN Place in Henderson if anyone lives up that way.

A little card share:

Card 1 using BG Ambrosia

(instore at Scrapbook Studio)

Card 2 using 3 Bugs Home Grown (so cute) and the Crafters Workshop 6x6 Orchid template

(both in store at Scrapbook Studio and are being released at CHA as we speak)

happy number finding

lianne

Do this cool Numbers Photo Calendar with me

2009-01-23T08:25:00.006+13:00

I LOVE this!!!

I want to make one!!!

SO I was thinking, hhhmmm thats not going to be easy to find all those cool numbers to photograph. I need 1 - 31 and all the letters of the days of the week. So I've been brewing a plan. I thought what if other people wanted to do this as well and we all took photos around New Zealand of cool, funky numbers and letters and grouped them all together and then we could pick the numbers we like and all make our own calender from numbers around New Zealand.

HOW COOL WOULD THAT BE!!

So then I thought I could post it here and see who was keen and then set up a group in Flickr for people to add their photos and I'm sure in no time we'll have our NZ Numbers photo calendar.

HERE'S where the idea originated. They have a link to groups already set up on Flickr with numbers but I wanted mine to be ideally my photos but I soon realised that would be too hard so the next best thing would be photos taken by people I know around NZ.

OK, so who's interested. Leave a comment and if we get enough people I'll set up a group and we'll start taking number and letter photos. Can't wait to get this going and see who wants to join me.

lianne

new LO and TTV's

2009-01-20T15:18:00.008+13:00

We have new Basic Grey in at work. I did this LO using Ambrosia. Love the designs and colours, reminds me of hippy days. YUM!! LO inspired by this LO of Dina Wakleys. AND, I have just discovered Textures for layering over photos or TTV's or whatever they are called. Much easier then brushes I reckon. Here's a photo I did quickly yesterday, remember this is the first one I've ever done, I just grabbed this old photo to experiment on, LOL, look at James' face. But honestly, so easy, has anyone else used them. I love them already and there's so many on the net for free. Check them out on Flickr.
Have you seen the new Crafters Workshop templates being released at CHA. Oohh my goodness. Check them out here. Esp this one and this one.

lianne

First projects of 2009

2009-01-17T09:56:00.005+13:00

Firstly thank you Amanda for the Lovely Blog Award. I'll post it in my next post along with some other lovely blogs.

This is a LO I've just done for Fiskars using more of the Cloud 9 Christmas Joy Papercraft kit.
And these are some projects I did with the Jan Qtea kit. The lavender satchet is made with goregous fabric, trims and a crotchet flower from the kit. How cute is that fabric.

Sauce bottle labels punched from notepaper in the kit.

And yep that's my homemade tomato sauce, YUM!! Haven't made any for a few years but was determined to this year. I'm making more this weekend too.And a LO using some of the kit. FUN!! Qtea has such funky kits.

have a nice weekend

lianne

2009-01-15T09:22:00.006+13:00

Yay I've added some more links to the sidebar.

Thanks Kirsty, Sonya, Louise, Rachel and Carol for your links.

Also check out my 'So Inspired By' links - these are the people who most inspire me at the moment with their incredible unique creativeness. LOVE, LOVE, LOVE them.

And check out the other ladies on the Qtea Kits DT with me - more awesome inspiration for you. And we're all staying on for another year. So cool.

I've also added a couple of sites to my Cool Sites list at the bottom.

AND one of my fav lines at the mo - Websters Pages - can't wait to see what's next for them.

Here's a Lo using WP.

I'll leave you with these little birdies I made that I love. You can get the pattern here. Scrapbook Studio has an awesome range of designer fabric instore and online.

lianne

BLOG REVAMP & HELLO 2009

2009-01-14T09:20:00.005+13:00

Yep I'm back with a vengeance!! Spread the word!!

I've revamped my blog, updated links, will be adding some more links and hoping to post regularly; can't promise, but here's hoping. I've updated all the links in the sidebar, alot of you had changed to WORDPRESS and alot hadn't updated their blogs for a very long time too.

Now I need some new links in my sidebar so link me up in the comments and I'll add you.

I'll be back later with some more pics of things. See those cute vases in my banner - James gave me those for Xmas and the roses are from my Mums.

In the meantime here's a couple of favourite LO's from 2008.

lianne

Fiskars Birthday Bash & NZ Dares

2008-07-24T16:02:00.003+12:00

It's Fiskars 10th birthday in Australia. And next month, the Fiskars ANZ blog has been running for 1 year. Wow. Two huge milestones! To make it a fun birthday the ANZ leads have decided to throw a big party. There are already a couple of challenges up on the ANZ blog (click here to see them), but come Saturday and Sunday we're going to be having a heap more challenges, games, inspiration, and fun!!!!
On Sunday we've also lined up the 5 USA Lead Ambassadors to come and visit and have a 'live' chat on the blog. Here are the times around the world if you'd like to join us:
12 pm Melbourne (Sunday lunchtime)
2pm Auckland (Sunday afternoon)
7 pm Los Angeles (Saturday night)
10pm New York (Saturday night)
3am London (Sunday morning)
The way it will work is we'll be online at the above times and will 'chat' with them in a post on the blog. Just keep refreshing your computer to see more, new questions and answers. Can't wait!
And no birthday would be right without prizes and you can bet your boots we've got a HEAP of prizes to give away during the weekend.
So do come and join us and don't forget to tell all your friends!

AND
guess who elses birthday it is.
NZ Dares has been running for 2 years now and it's also our 50th Dare. So go check it out and check out all the cool LO's that have been posted for the dare.
Also an awesome prize up for grabs from Qtea kits.

Here's my LO.