Catch up - Big Time

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Still around!!

Checking in with my bi-monthly post here, LOL.

The Fiskars blog is having an 'Around the World' game. Check it out, leave a comment and say I sent you. Click here.

Rock the Pipecleaners. The latest NZ Dare is a fun one. Go here, join the fun and be in to win an awesome prize from Shabby Chic Crafts. Here is my LO. They are such cool little things to twist and turn into all sorts of shapes and you can get them at the $2 shop. So cheap.

Our next dare is a big one. It will be our 2 year anniversary and our 50th dare. Monique is setting the theme and that is special too because she was the winner of our first ever dare, how cool is that. We also have some very special Guest Designers. So look out for that dare next Friday. It will be GRAND!!

This was very cool. Vicky asked me to be the featured scrapper in the June SBO ezine. Totally rapt I was.

Scrap the Teenz latest theme is about Teens and their pets. Here is my LO.Have you been watching the So You Think You Can Scrap challenge over at the Scrapbook Studio forum. It's really heating up now. Check out the awesome LO's in the gallery.

Recent LO's for Qtea kits. I love these kits so much, they are such fun to work with. Check out the Winter Add On one, looks so fab.

Ok that's it for now I think. Hope to get back a bit sooner next time. See you then.

Scrapcamp was the BOMB!!

What a really wonderful, great and awesome weekend. Can you tell I had a great time. I don't have any photos yet because we used Yolandes camera but if anyone has any can you please link us up in the comments here. I'd love to see some. Kelly's classes were a great success, thank you Kelly, you the best. And thanks to all you lovely ladies that came and made the weekend such a great success. It was so nice getting lots smiles and hugs from you lovely talented and kind people.

So You Think You Can Scrap

How fun is this!!

Scrapbook Studio (aka Scrapbooking by Design) are hosting a competition for 7 weeks starting on the 30th May, and the winner will receive a digital camera PLUS an optional position on the Design Team for 6 months. Each Friday a new challenge will be set for a scrapbook LO to be completed. How exciting!

There are also great prizes for 2nd and 3rd place winners.

Check the forum for more information soon.

Please email scrapbookstudio@xtra.co.nz to register your interest by 30th May.

New NZ Dare

Check out ths latest NZ Dare from Sara Jane to use this ad as inspiration. Sponsored by The Scrapbook Store in Nelson.

My boys birthday and some LO's

A random act of blogging, LOL, because I don't do it much these days and I would like to but I hate doing it on my computer at home. Today I'm at work super early so have a chance finally.

It's James birthday tomorrow, happy birthday dude, 19 years old, whew where did that time go man.

Anyway, thought I'd share a couple of LO's while I'm here.

This first one is a canvas I did for NZ Dares and the start of my obsession with Kobi Yamada quotes particularly the She ones from this book. Here is a link to a list of them. I used goodies from a Qtea kit and Fiskars letter stamps. It is for my scraproom wall when it ever gets finished.

We have a huge range of awesome designer fabrics at Scrapbook Studio now and I wanted to do a LO using this gorgeous floral fabric. I also used the very cool Bazzill Stitchz templates at the bottom there. Yummo and so easy. And another Kobi Yamada quote; also some Qtea kit stuff.

I did this LO for the Qtea March kit and it won me a spot in the SIS TV Catwalk last week. So rapt. Another Kobi Yamada quote too, hehe.

And this LO was a Scrapjack of Janine Langer and was one of the favourites. Rapt again!!!

And this LO of my Dad for the latest NZ Dares to 'scrap a childhood memory'. What a great dare. It made me realise how many childhood memories I need to get down on paper not just in my head and telling my kids, it needs to be written somewhere. We are very lucky to have this dare sponsored by Digital Scrapbook Place.
Lastly, Book of Me month at the Fiskars blog - each day we're posting BOM prompts. Some great ideas for LO's, check them out each day. This LO was for April the 2nd - What did you have for lunch today?

Easter fun

Check out the Fiskars blog this Easter weekend for some great games, challenges and prizes.

Scrapcamp 08 Details

Check here for all the details of our next rockin

SCRAPCAMP

to be held May 23rd - 25th at Rotorua.

Wahoo. It's gonna be so much FUN! FUN! FUN!