It’s been a long month and I am looking forward to the kid’s finishing school and getting ready for the Christmas break!  So what would December be without some Christmas fun!  I have decided to do a ‘Christmas page’ for my recipe challenge this month at Colorful Creations BUT I haven’t restricted it to a Christmas theme.  The recipe has some great ingredients you can use for any type of theme page – I just took the easy route and made a page from some of my Christmas photos!

I have listed a number of ‘ingredients’ for the ‘recipe’ to get the creative juices flowing:-

·         Red AND Green papers ONLY

·         Numbers

·         Minimum 2 photos

·         Metal AND Brads

·         Border punch

·         Scrunched up paper

·         Decorative ribbon (I used a ‘snowflake’ one under the basket)

Here are my example:-

These two sweet cherubs are of my godson and his sister from Xmas last year.  They are showing off their gifts I sent to them.

-          I have used a little poetic licence and the page does show some ‘cream’ but majority of the page should be RED & GREEN

-          I used a strip of numbers down the RHS of the page

-          I have two photos of my very sweet Godson & his sister

-          I have used a metal sign that says Noel & a heart brad

-          I scrunched up some paper and it looks like some ribbon ruffled

-          My decorative ribbon is the ‘snowflake’ looking one under the basket

 

So check it out http://colorfulcreations.ning.com/events it would be fantastic to see your pages and join a group of fellow scrapbook enthusiasts!

PS. Just to entice you a little more – if you join in the fun at CC you will be in the running to win a RAK from me!!

 

I also have a TAG CHALLENGE at CC and thought you might like to join in the fun and see what you can create - especially since we are approaching Xmas and everyone will need tags on their presees. 

Here is my sample:-

 

This month I thought I would add a little ‘recipe’ to the tag and help you create one (or three).  How bout you add these few little items to your tag:-

·         Decorative ribbon

·         Flower/s

·         Metal brad

·         Felt

·         A Christmas or festive word

 

Enjoy Creating!

TAG CHALLENGE!

This month I thought I would put a little twist into my Tag challenge at Colorful Creations -just to make it a little more interesting.  I have created a Name Place Tag for your table setting that can be used for any theme – birthdays, weddings, thanksgiving and of course - I am getting in early - I have created one for Christmas!

Here is my sample:-

Then after you have used the name tag on the table you can then double up with the tag and hang it on your Christmas tree for decoration!  On the back of the tag I have written Reflections of 2012 – this way you can write down all the fun things that happened all year and then when you pull it out to decorate the tree next year – it’s like a little mini time capsule!

AND if that’s not enough – I have created a card with the Name Place ‘Plate’ when you are finished with it! Waste not want not I always say!

 

 

How simple is that!!

So head on over to Colorful Creations and get a head start on those Christmas decos!

HAPPY DAYS!

LETS CROP!!

This weekend at CC we are having a 'Give Thanks' Crop starting today!!  We have some great games that have already started and members are joining in with enthusiasm!  If you want to get some scrapping organised we are posting some great crop projects so click on the icon and join in!

SEE YOU THERE!

Also, I am celebrating my Grandmas 90th Birthday this weekend!  Its a milestone and a half and we are happy to be together with her as a family and especially with our extended fams!  She absolutley looorves flowers so I thought it would be appropriate to make her a flower card with lots of flowers on it LOL!  Colorful Creations has a challenge called PLUS ONE and since it is PINK-TOBER this month I thought it would be great to make the card in PINK!

I put a ribbon on top so she can use it as decoration and put it on a door handle.

The card will be signed by all the family so she can have it forever!!

There you have it!  Run along to Colorful Creations and get Cropping!!

TAG CHALLENGE!

Let’s get SPPOOOOKY this month with TAGS.  Since we are in October I thought it would be a good opportunity to create a tag to add to any page, gift or home décor for Halloween!!

Check out my Tag for the Challenge over at CC.

I had alot of fun with this tag and am looking forward to adding it to one of my pages of many Halloween photos I have to scrap! LOL!

Happy Days!

It’s time to get hairy scary this month and join the Halloween Fun!  Australia usually doesn’t celebrate Halloween but it is catching on more and more every year!  We see many children dressing up in our local neighbourhood and see plenty of neighbours decorating their houses and joining in the fun!

Sooooo, u guessed it - my Challenge for Colorful Creations this month is 'Halloween' themed!  My husband and I never really understood halloween since it seemed more like an American Holiday but we were lucky to experience the holiday when we visited USA with our children a few years ago.  These photos are one of many that I took the day we walked the streets of West Virginia on the Halloween Holiday.

My recipe Challenge for the month is as follows:-

• Halloween Theme
• The colour Orange
• Minimum 2 photos
• Use the word Spooky/Creepy/Scary/Bizarre/Kooky
• Create your own element i.e. my example is the spider and the witch head.
• Tearing/Ripping

 Take jump over to CC and join in!

It’s a beautiful Spring day here today and was happy to be outside in the sun enjoying some rays! After playing with dirt in the garden then go shopping for a new BBQ (boy didn’t realise there were so many – some were full on outside kitchen set up!) I managed to finish this page for another challenge I have at Colorful Creations - I call it TAG MAD!

Now to explain my tag mad - I am doing a regular tag challenge at CC and decided to put a twist on it this month and encourage members to use their tag on a page.  The only criterion was to have the words “moments” on the tag.

Here is my tag for the Tag:-

Here is my page:-

So what do you think? Join in the fun at CC - there are heaps of different challenges for you to choose from - so come along and get some creating done!

HAPPY DAYS!

We are once again at the beginning of the month and there is SPRING in the air!!  It has been a wonderful feeling with the sun on my face & a bit of warmth in the air!  Now that it is 1^st of the month its Colorful Creations Challenge time!  My job as DT is to create a RECIPE for a monthly challenge.  I have listed a number of ‘ingredients’ for the ‘recipe’ to get the creative juices flowing:-

·         Ric Rac

·         Stitching

·         Minimum of two photos

·         Journaling

·         Metal (this can be a brad)

·         1 Fussy Cut element (this can be ANYTHING as long as you find an item to ‘fussy cut’ from your paper stash)

I ended up creating two pages this challenge (it is not part of the challenge) because I couldn’t fit all four photos on the one page!  Plus I wanted to keep in with the same theme!

Here are my examples:-

 

-          The Ric Rac is on the top & bottom of the printed paper

-          My stitching is found as x-stitch on the top & bottom of page 1

-          I have two photos of my very handsome brother LOL!

-          The journaling is found on page 2

-          My metal is a green plain tag on page 1 & a brad in the flower on page 2

-          The Fussy cuts are found around the page i.e. Boy with the aeroplane, kite, jar etc

 

So check it out http://colorfulcreations.ning.com/events it would be fantastic to see your pages and join a group of fellow scrapbook enthusiasts!

 

PS. Just to entice you a little more – if you join in the fun at CC you will be in the running to win a RAK from me!!

 

HAPPY DAYS!