I've been into it and loving it

A couple of LO's I've done recently.
More use of those wonderful Crafters Workshop templates. This time a 6x6 Daisy Cluster template with glimmer mist. This was exciting.
And this one is using the new Fiskars Lever punches. See some more things I made here.
TFL lianne

Challenges and photos

A new challenge in the Scrapbook Studio forum for August here. My LO above. It's called some things old, some things new. I have a little pile of stuff lying round on my scraproom desk, leftovers from other projects usually. The chipboard strips were in this pile as were most things on this LO, so I made them into a fence (old chipboard). Old tool is the tree punch. Old metal is the wire for the fence. New patterned paper was the background one I made myself with a Crafters Workshop template, newest rub on is the little bird and newest stamp is the grass one by Montarga. Fun challenge!

Photo a Day - Day 6 - My craft area. Nothing exciting really. This is just my desk in a corner of my tiny craft room. I'm still waiting for my new room to be finished. This is tidy too, eekkk, doesn't look very tidy.
Haven't been able to get photos for Day 9 and Day 10. But hope to get one for Day 11.

Photo a Day - Aug 6th, 7th and 8th

I could not bring myself to take a photo just yet of my craft space - it is an absolute mess. So today I shall tidy it up and then take a photo.

But I do have a portrait photo for Day 7 of my cute cat Tink, though she looks a little grumpy here, probably because I was hassling her so much for a photo.

And this is a photo for today, Day 8, of my son James heading out for a surf. A sport that has been the centre of our lives for many years. I love watching him surf.

back later with my craft space photo I hope.

TFL lianne

Photo a Day - Aug 4th & 5th

Day 4 - Somewhere you go everyday - this was a hard one other than the obvious. But when I looked down at the car stereo I realised, yes, that IS something I do everyday I'm in the car. I go to ZM 91FM on the radio. Yep, especially love it in the morning.

Day 5 - What's on your TV - Tonight I watch Vampire Diaries. Thursday nights on TV2.

And todays photo is - Your Craft Space - I'll back tomorrow with that photo.

TFL lianne

Photo a Day - Aug 3rd

Day 3 photo for the Fiskars challenge. The prompt was "In my Garden".
The first spring flowers in my garden. So happy to see them. Means summer is on it's way.

Photo a Day - Aug 2nd

How long can i keep this up!! Blogging that is. I can do it!! Anyways heres my day 2 photo for the Fiskars challenge. The prompt is "What do you read?"

Heres my photo of what I'm reading at the moment.

TFL lianne.

Surprise!!

Yes it's me back again. Been thinking about blogging again for ages. Found some cool downloads from Pugly Pixel and Kitschy Digitals to do a new banner etc which got me all inspired. The free downloads at Pugly Pixel are great and some real cute ones at Minitoko.

Check out the Photo a Day challenge on the Fiskars blog. Kim is giving ideas of what to photograph each day which I LOVE, so much easier and she has some great prompts coming. Today's prompt is FOOD. Here's what Rob cooked me for breakfast and an extra photo of the food pickings from my garden today. Then a photo of the first broccoli from my new garden - pretty proud of that one.

background - tattered page texture from Flickr

Tape Strips - Pugly Pixel

I did this LO for a Scrapbook Studio challenge. I photographed it last night so not a great photo. The challenge was to do a 12x12, use fabric, a stamp (love my new doilie stamp), chipboard and hand cutting of patterned paper. Tick to all those.

And here is the sneak peek of the class I'm teaching at Megan's Retreat.

Tape strips and Medallion - Pugly Pixel, Button - Minitoko

TFL lianne

Orange

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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