kaisercraft argentella

is gorgeous. I bought a new stamp folder last week and it comes in a raw form for you to build and decorate. The folder holds 20 stamp sets. Had been wondering what papers I was going to use and then as soon as I saw these gorgeous black and white ones I knew!!

I also finally got a pull-ez. Really wanted the black one but none left so I settled for blue. I did think I owned heaps of ribbon but I still have quite a few holes left in mine to fill so great excuse to get some more.

Spread the love.

A couple of weeks ago Debbie Johnson gave me this blog award and I kept forgetting about it. You are supposed to choose 6 people and spread the love award around. I've only put 4 here cause it doesn't seem that long ago since I did a couple of these.
Sarah, love Sarahs list on the sidebar of her blog with all her scrapping challenges.
Anthea, I know I've put Anthea down here before but her cards are just gorgeous. She's earnt herself a well deserved spot on the basic grey challenge blog and is being published. She's also set herself up an Etsy store.
Mel Cook, if you haven't been to her blog for a while then go an have a peak at some of the way cool stuff she's been up to lately.
Tammy James, sorry if your sick of these things Tammy but I just have to put you here. Your pages are awsome.

im in a rut

creatively. I've been moping around my craft things for the past 2 weeks feeling like I don't know what I'm doing and that I'm not very good at this thing anyway. Usually if I feel a lack of a mojo I will make some cards to get back on track but I haven't been bothered to make them either.

I've spent the last week doing this page. Different from my other pages and not sure yet if I like it or not. It started cause I felt like colouring in and had some Prima paintables in my stash. I've also used Prima rue 88 and creative imaginations dare to dream papers and mesh which I've had for ages too. The rest of the products are; pink paislee paper, heidi swapp mask, corner and clear circle thing, prima and green tara flowers, maya road metal blossum and key, k & co brad and hambly rub on.

ive found the

most inspiring blog. Have a look at the details in this work, gorgeous.
Kirstens blog.

Basic Grey bittersweet

These are 2 layouts that I did on the weekend for Chandon Craft. I so loved using this basic grey paper. I think I have to get some more and make some cards. The papers gorgeous. I used the Heidi Swapp damask stamp and Autumn Leaves stamps on this page too cause I think they matched the paper perfectly. I have so many stamps and after going to create08 last week have been inspired to use them more on my layouts instead of just cards.

heidi swapp

I haven't been on since the Heidi day but it was awesome. I had the best time and am happy to have learnt a couple of things. This is a card I made for Jords teacher as a thank you for the past 2 years. She's been amazing. It was only a quicky 15 min. thing but it done with one of the techniques we used on Tuesday. I have used Heidi Swapp masks before but never as successfully as what i did at the class. I have a renewed love of them. I have a stash a Tim Holtz inks and his blending tool so knew what I was doing with these but it was nice to use them in a different way. We did use the Ranger craft mats on the day and they are the nicest surface to work on. This week Chandon Craft got them in stock...guess what I'm buying tomorrow? :)
I love the shadow on the card from the clear butterfly.
I did get her to sign my name tag from the day because I'm wanting to use it to use it in a layout. Am so busy and so tired will upload pics of our classes when I get a chance to go through my goodies.

better go to bed

im up early in the morning

HEIDI SWAP!!!!!!