12 Tags of Christmas

I have been having lots of inky fun and playing along with Tim Holtz's 12 Tags of Christmas - man how he continues to find all these ideas is amazing, such talent. I especially love how he goes that little bit further and instead of just one technique each day he has lots of other ideas at the end of the post. 

Here are my tags that I have done so far.

Tag 1

Tag 2

Tag 3

Tag 4

Tag 5

Tag 6



Can't wait to see what the last few are like, as he is upto No. 9 , that means 3 more to go.  Those 12 days just fly by.

Thanks for dropping bye.

Enjoy your day.

Karen

Scrappy Cow Retreat

Wow, can't believe it has been so long since my last post.   I could go on about excuses but truth is that I have just been slack and preoccupied with other things and unfortunately the blog lost out.

Last month I went to Margaret River over the Halloween weekend for a scrapbooking retreat with Scrappy Cow in Margaret River.  It was held at Australis and we all had the best time.  Great company, great food and lots of scrapbooking.

Saturday night was dress up and Kareena and friends did a fantastic job with the decorating of our scrapping room.

Here is a snapshot of everyones efforts from the weekend.

I even managed to get some layouts done which was fantastic because I havent scrapped for ages.

It was really nice to catch up with old friends and meet new ones. 

Thanks for looking

Karen







Cyber Crop Challenge

Of the 7 challenges I completed three and here they are:

CC#1  by Elise McKay:  challenge to use Black & White Papers and 1 other colour of your choice, plus Bling Black or you choose.

CC#2 by Leanne Allinson:  Challenge was to use beads or rhinestones (I used both)  doilies and two photos

CC#3 Sketch Challenge by Elise McKay

It was fantastic to get some scrapping done  over the weekend.  I have really missed it and need to find some time to do some of my kits that have been sitting around.

Thanks for looking

Karen

Scrapboxx Cyber Crop

I forgot to post this on Friday.  This was held on Friday night and it was a blast.  The girls set 7 fantastic challenges, unfortunately I only got 3 finished but it was so good as I got my mojo back and was very pleased with the results.

Colour Challenge # 30

This week's colour challenge at Inkspirations is using these gorgeous colours:

Here is my contribution to this weeks colour challenge:

It is a little note pad and pencil set, which would make a great gift and is perfect to have to jot down those all important notes.  I just love the new  Very Vintage wheel and Vintage Vogue they are so versatile.

 items used are from Stampin Up:

cs:            Kraft, Old Olive, Whisper White & Rich Razzleberry

dsp:         Haiku

Ink:          Rich Razzleberry

Stamps:  Very Vintage and Vintage Vogue, definitions

other:    Sizzlits Lots of Tags,  and wide oval punch

pencil,glittered brad and

pti - template

Thanks for looking, have a wonderful day.

Karen

Margaret River Cow Parade!!

In May for the Mother's Day weekend I went down south to Margaret River to see Mum.  Unbeknown to me Margaret River and surrounding towns had been invaded by Cows of the fibeglass kind.

The cows have been created by various artists and went on display back in March/April of this year and in July they will be auctioned off and the proceeds will be donated to charity.  Here is a link to the Margaret River Cow Parade.  On the welcome page there is a link to all of the cows that have been created.  I was only able to photograph a few of them.  There has been an  absolutely amazing the amount of thought, preparation and work that has gone into these beauties.  They are all  incredible.  Anyhow here is a photo of the ones that I actually saw.

Going left to right from top I will give you their names:

I've been everywhere cow                                         Margaret River Visitors Centre

Mooses (Rescue Cow)                                              Last seen at Visitors Centre but moves around

Moothane Factory                                                     Margaret River Timber and Hardware

Vineyard Cow                                                            Quest

Something to Crow About                                         Margarets Forest

Brahman the Barman                                                 Margaret River Hotel

The Winemaker (Half Full Cow)                                Watershed

Dame Edna Tea Patty                                                IGA

Pharmooist                                                                Chemmart

The work in these alone was fabulous.  The Pharmooist Cow was covered in hundreds and thousands of different coloured plastic juice type bottle tops, huge amount of work.  I took the photo from the street side as unfortunately some lovely person/s had picked off some of the lids from the otherside. 

My most favourite cow was the Moothane Factory.  All the parts moved and somehow they had connected it up so that everynow and then it spewed out methane gas, very clever. 

 I spent a lovely morning strolling up the main street looking at these creations and then in the afternoon my sister and I took Mum and Dad and my sister's Mother In Law  to the Watershed Vineyard for a most delightful afternoon tea.  It was a little chilly so it was very nice to sit behind glass walls with the warmth of the afternoon sun behind us. 

Thanks for dropping by, hope that you have had a wonderful day.

A touch of Vintage!!

Over at Scraptivate they have a monthly challenge.  This months challenge was Vintage.  Here  is my contribution to this theme.  I have created an ATC.

I have used a little lace, some pearls, a hand made crocheted flower, a found pearl ended pin, an antique button that came from my MIL's button collection, and I have used shrinky with the new Tim Holtz die which has been highlighted with Treasure Gold - copper.  I inked around the edge with frayed burlap and used a little more of the copper treasure gold.

I hoped you enjoyed looking, have a brilliant day and thanks for dropping by.

Karen