Guest DT My2Angels and My2Angels Blog Hop Rak Drawers

Hi Everyone, I hope your weekends were all wonderful, I was without computer and had my trusty Computer man Vince out to fix it today, $200 and by 4pm she was up and running. Expensive little suckers these computers. The above layout is one I made for my Guest Design Team position at My2Angels this month. Every item here is from her wonderful site. The instructions are below and all the products are available from the shop at My2Angels

I used a template to trace around some co-ordinations cardstock then inked it then gave it a spray with glimmermist, I placed some old letters on some cardstock and traced around them and then cut them out individually, I glued them on to some acetate (so I could raise them off the page). I matte my photo with Kaiser paper side 2 and then made strips using both sides of this paper under the photo, above and below these strips I added some old music paper. The journalling is using a circle of the pp and a gorgeous October Afternoon label sticker the red underneath is a huge daisy flower with the ends of its petals cut. and the circle saying reserved is a cut out from Collage Press Knave of Hearts paper and a small mulberry flower again with some ends cut off. Lastly I stamped a little party hat (unknown brand) and added it to the a in the title.

The layout below is again for my Guest appearance this month and the stamp I used and all the ingredients are:

Started with some co-ordinations cardstock and doodled around the outside with a zig pen then cut off the scollop of the Crate paper Prudence paper and glued it over the top of some Kaiser paper and made my own die cut paper, using the opposite side of the Kaiser paper, I made a piece with a hand doodled bottom edge coming out from under the photo and over the top I placed a strip of Pink Paislee Artisian tape and added some diamontes on the tape and bling to form a photo corner. I stamped a flower onto the left over patterned paper and some white mesh fabric, cut them out, placed a rhinestone in their middles. The journalling spot is cut out of this gorgeous Pink Paislee journal card and the little letters are Carolee Creations and the numbers are cut out of Collage Press patterned paper, everything is inked with pinecone ink.

Okay, it's time to draw the winners of the My2Angels Blog Hop Raks, and we have drawn the winner of the major Prize RAK is LYNNDA HOSNI super congratulations my girl.

Okay here is a picture of the other 4 Rak prizes and the lucky winners are:
 ANN MAREE, KELLY MASSMAN, ROXY AND DEBBIE super congratulations everyone, thank you so much for participating. I was blown away by the 49 entries. Please email me at mel_o68@hotmail.com and give me your address and I will post out first thing Tuesday morning.

I am off to Amanda's tomorrow for Scrap Monday, (cannot believe it is a fortnight already) so I will catch up with you all during the week. Love Melxx

RAK & Noel Mignon Kit colour challenge, Tag Relay layout

Morning everyone, a beautiful sunny day here YAY, so sick of windy overcast drizzly days, (can't take photos in dull weather) lol.  The layout above was created for the colour challenge at Noel's crop last week, this is from one of Noel's beautiful kits, "Partly Sunny". I thoroughly enjoyed being a little different with this, by the way, the cardstock is actually cut down but the leaves of the sunflower depict the edge of the 12" x 12" layout.

This layout is from a TAG layout challenge, it is so much fun, You start with the same layout, have 2 teams, the first on each team uses that same layout as inspiration for their's and then presents their layout to the next member in their team to copy. It is amazing to see the end results of the layouts. If you would like to see them and Noel's gorgeous kits just press HERE and HERE.

Meeting a friend for coffee today at Riverlink, a load of washing, some overdue ironing, have to do the groceries, then it is Nate's last night at soccer, wow, where on earth did that time go. I can honestly say I will miss it, it has become a great part of our routine for Friday nights. Any other suggestions as to what I could enrol Nate into over the up coming months?

You still have time to enter the RAK giveaway, and as I have gone through some more of my stash, I have decided to do 4 little RAK's to go with it, so there is 5 chances to win now. If you would like to be in the running just leave a comment HERE.

I hope each and every one of you enjoys your day and weekend,  I will be back on Sunday night for the drawing of the 5 raks, Aunty Jan is going to come down and drawer the names out of the hat for me. Thanks everyone for participating in the blog hop, and have a great weekend. Love to you all, Melxx

My2Angels Scrapping Blog Hop & RAK giveaway

Do you want win some fantastic prizes from my2angels?

If you said yes (and who wouldn't!)

Today we are excited to present the first ever my2angels Blog Hop for all of it's talented DT’s and Guest DT’s to show off their creations and for you to view their blogs.
In order to go into the draw to win you need to leave a comment on each of the Angels’s blog, as there will be winners drawn randomly from the blogs … so you won’t know which ones! Then go back to the start at my2angels and let us know you have completed the hop.

Become a follower to get a bonus entry (don’t worry if you are already a follower we will add the bonus entry automatically for you)

The b'day theme of the hop is "Cards" I made the above card using the following:

The sentitment was sent to me in a stamp swap
The gorgeous pink paislee artisian tape The patterned paper I cut the flowers from Little Yellow bicycle here and the gorgeous flower centre pearls here

Okay so I know I don't do many girly layouts so here was an "out of my comfort zone" layout, the ingredients are here and all available from My 2 Angels except those huge red daisy's which came out of the bottom of the flower jar - dust and all. This is me on the left and Aunty Jan on the right on her 60th b'day celebration weekend.

Patterned paper is prima and prima and of course pink paislee artisian tape and I saw this flower made on the Noel Mignon technique site, if you would like to see the tute just go HERE Loads of fun, I just need a little practise. Leaves and bling and bingo card by Jenni Bowlin, thickers, and of course my trusty pine cone ink.

And whilst we are on the hop, I thought it would be nice to celebrate Tracy's birthday at My2Angels with a RAK giveaway, all you have to do is leave a message here at this post and overseas visitors are welcome to be in the RAK drawer too.  But if you would like to become a blogging friend to this scrapnut just press the follow button and I will pop over and visit you too.

good luck and thanks for stopping by!

Oops! Hopped into the middle of this blog hop and want to join in the fun?

Or have you lost your blog trail and need to start again..?.... The starter blog for this hop is my2angels

Next stop in the hop is the super talented Tarryn Stark, heaps of eye-candy on this talented scrappers blog ladies.

Love to you all, Melxx

Bisous - Is it Love

Morning Dear friends, rainy day here today, and I still cannot swallow, I wish I had got some anti-biotics when I took Nate to the Dr. He is really well, nose cleared up and a little bit more of his independence (lol) is back...Thank you so much for your well wishes.

I am guest designer for Bisous - a Canadian Company next month, so I am making some layouts for Suzanne to showcase, I am really enjoying it, she send so much wonderful stash to me, problem was I only received it on 5th August, and she sent them in June.......so I am trying hard to get everything finished. This is Nate's friend Lolita, she is my sister's step-granddaughter, and this is when they met for the first time, she is a gorgeous blonde with a streak of mischief and defiance - so of course Nate was smitten with her.

I designed this based on a layout I found in an e-book I purchased from Ella publishing, actually, I have created 4 now from the e-book, and it only cost $5.99 USD. I love mists still and combined 3 in this one, although a little hard to see. I hope you like it.

Okay, so a little housework, have to go to the chemist, I might grab a dvd for Mr. and then I am spending the arvo scrapping,,,,well that's the plan. Love to you all, will catch up soon. Love Melxx

ps. Forgot to mention Sarah Lou, your gorgeous rak arrived yesterday - can you believe it, that is almost 2 months-  must have been sitting in the PO somewhere as it was a little grubby on the outside, thank you so much.....

My Minds Eye sketch layout

Morning everyone, what a glorious Tuesday morning here today, but I still have my little sick boy, I took him to the doctor yesterday and he has a little chest and nose infection so is on antibiotics, (what a drama getting them into him). Thank you for all the well wishes, he is doing fine.

I went to Scrap Monday at Amanda Taylor's yesterday and finished the above layout for the My mind's eye challenge this month, I enjoyed the sketch and substituted the middle photo with one of their journalling spots. The criteria is to follow the sketch and use 80% at least of MME products, the gorgeous free kit from The Nook was full of So Sophie papers from MME, so very handy for the challenges.

I will be checking out all your beautiful blogs over the next couple of days, loving the great inspiration you all give to me, and now it is time to do some housework and put on "Tooth Fairy" for the 16th time for my little man to watch. After this, some scrap time for sure. Love Melxx

Design Dollies Sketch Challenge

Morning dear friends, Saturday morning and a beautiful sunny day. I have a little man with a cold at the moment, we went to Soccer but came home early, he wanted so much to go but just didn't have the stamina to play. He is fine in every other way, just the nose and guessing in his head. But you know, that means this mum is on muuuuuummmmm duties, or should I say servant duties lol pillow mummmmmmmmm, drink muuuummmm, you may know what I mean here. So it looks like a day at home for us, which means I may get some more scrapping done, well inbetween my nurse duties.

This layout is for the Dollies sketch Challenge, Kristy does the most fantastic sketches and I just had to use this one for Nate's signature head pose when you take his photo, everything on this page is using Bisous products. To get the little grungy circles I just used my pinecone ink stamp pad and stamped on top of some mesh I bought at the junk shop.

I got my new embellies from Sam last night at Purple pumpkin, they are just gorgeous, definately worth a look, but be warned such great value you will want some.

Okay better go and do the housework so I can scrap, will catch up with you all in the next day or so. Take care, Melxxxx

Scrap the Boys Challenge

Hi everyone, hope you are all scrapping up a storm, we have had a lovely week so far, having fun over at My2angels with the relay challenge and on Monday I met Karen B for the first time in real life, she came over with her dear daughter and to say Nate and I had a wonderful time is really an understatement, she came with the most gorgeous cheesebake slice too, I watched her create a beautiful layout, we talked and scrapped, ate and scrapped some more, I had to laugh as

Karen is not only an amazingly talented scrapper but a coffee connoisseur also, so when I asked her if she wanted a coffee, she pulled out this amazing coffee assortment which she just happenned to have in her travelling bag.

 You know the coffee tasted beautiful too. But this is just another memory to scrap and another great reason why I love scrapping, to meet such wonderful people and make lasting friendships. Nate fell asleep approx 15 mins after they drove off, just managed to give him a bath, he had an awesome day and told me he loves Jaaaaa(his version) he seems to like the older ladies, but funny enough they don't put a title on men like they do if a lady does this (cougar) well I don't think they have a name for it ...........

I hope you like the layout I did for Scrap the Boys this month, using flowers on a boys page is certainly criteria I have no problem with "sorry nate" and I really enjoyed creating this layout using the July Nook Kit.

Ange tells me I have a layout in the current Scrapbook Creations, so I am a little excited to see it, my subscription has run out and you know, just haven't got around to subscribing. Will buy a copy tomorrow.

Will check out all your wonderful blogs over the next few days. Love to you all. Melxx

My2angels Birthday relay

Hi everyone, well no laughing at my photo here, but this is me at my 21st birthday party, back in 1989. This is my entry for the Scrapping relay over at My2angels, this is such a fun challenge, pop over HERE to check out the birthday celebration challenges and prizes.

I have instructions on how I created this layout and the products can be found on and you can check them out.

I started with cardstock then got a chipboard piece of any description, I have used a birdcage, then sprayed over the chipboard that you place on the page with glimmermist, wait until dry. The patterned paper is from Prima, I cut out the embellishments I wanted to use ,and inked the edges of the papers, taped and glued down everything, I added some bling by way of a bling stickers and a bling buckle then in the cut out frame I cut out of the gorgeous Prima papers I added my thickers heading which in this case is 21, to go with the theme of my birthday I added a beautiful silver present charm and finally around the outside I made a doodled border , this is heaps of fun and looks lovely.

Can you notice the gorgeous silver present charm I added near the top left corner of the photo, just by placing an order with My2Angels this month you can get some of these for free.

Hope you like the layout, Melxx

A2Z Scraplets sketch challenge, My Rockstar Hero

Morning dear friends, thank you all for your well wishes, all better now, I can tell you though, I have never been sick like I have since having dear Nate. Not that I am blaming him, perhaps it is just a co-incidence?????

This was my July entry for A2Z scraplets, I tried my hand at cutting out the frame of Nate and was happy with the end results. The misting is Denim Blue Glimmer mist and I just love mists and of course a doodled frame with liquid paper in the middle of it for the edge. Just love colouring I think.

This layout is a just for me layout, Nate has always been into loud noisy music and singing since he was 1, so I thought I would use the gorgeous papers & embellishments I bought from Purple Pumpkin, I wish I had all black and white photos or even the 2008 photo in black and white, but I don't have a printer and you know when you just want to do a layout and can't wait to get to the photo lab. I just love the Fancy Pants papers here, they are just so suited to Nate and his antics.

It is a glorious day here today, a little crisp but fresh and sunny, Nate is still happy to be upstairs at the present and is watching one of his fave movies, "Racing Stripes" so I have finished all the housework, will put out the washing and then I am going to sneak in some scrapping, then will visit you all later this arvo. Love to you all and your dear families. Love Mel and Natexxx

Ps. If you are lost for some mojo come and join us at My2angels for some wonderful challenges and prizes with a sketch challenge, and layout relay.

My2angels Birthday relay

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO TRACY AT MY2ANGELS,  and she has asked me to be a Guest Design Team member for the month, wow what an honour, she has the most amazing DT , Tracey Hunter, Taryn Stark, and good friends Corrina Mantegna and Wendy Turner, wow to work with them all is just a fantastic but humbling experience.

She has some great competitions this month, one being a "scrapping relay" which sounds like heaps of fun, please join me in this great contest which might I add has awesome prizes.

Please come and join me to enter the scrapping relay, we'll scrap up a storm.

Teams of 5 will be picked from the entrants - register by leaving a comment HERE

(if there is a day YOU CAN NOT participate in please let Tracy know when you register)

Everyone will be advised ahead of time what day they are scheduled to complete their layout on Sunday morning
Sunday night, 8th August, at midnight I will upload the first criteria eg cupcakes on a layout or could it be a banner or perhaps presents on your layout! You will have to wait and see at midnight on your day of allocation.

The member from each team who are allocated Monday will be required to complete a birthday layout with the criteria incorporated on it.

And then every midnight after that for 4 more nights a new criteria for the team member chosen for that day will be uploaded (ending Friday)

They are to be Birthday layouts and to be completed within a 24 hour period, uploaded to your blog & our gallery BEFORE midnight and a comment left on the my2angels blog so we know you have completed the task

so what do YOU win ...

Prizes are awarded to:

Team prize of $15 voucher EACH to spend at my2angels – criteria is the more products used on their layout that are sold at my2angels and the best description of their layout with links to the my2angels website from your blog

Individual Prize of a $15 my2angels voucher is awarded to the most unique way of incorporating the criteria into their layout and links from your blogs to the my2angels website

And a random prize drawn, of a $15 my2angels store voucher, for one lucky entrant (this is drawn between the teams that did not win the team prize)

It is not who is the fastest, (we don’t want you wasting your products to make something quick and easy that you may not want in your albums) but it's fun in participating, following the criteria and uniqueness of the entries.

LOL but in saying that they must be uploaded before midnight

Come on ... register and join us in the challenge ...

The sketch challenge this month:

Create a BIRTHDAY layout using BOTH of the following 2 criterias:
majority of products available from my2angels and use Wendy's Sketch: I love this sketch and below is my example.

I thought is was a good idea to start doing some I wish layouts for when Nate gets older enough to buy his mum some presents for Mum's day  and birthdays etc, I took advantage of Wendy's sketch to start, I coloured the background paper to add some colour and the perfumes's are my very faves' from Guerlain but running very low, may be time to send Nate out to work........

PRODUCTS USED

Collage Press side B patterned paper
Brown Co-ordinations
Marvy felt pens to colour background
prima paper is the torquoise and white polka dot, and prima paper for the roses cut outs
the Pink paper under the prima is Crate
the pink heart is from an embellishment swap
butterflies are Jenny Bowlin stickers
the little black letters are Carolee Creations
yellow letters are Thickers
Ink is pinecone (all of these great products are available at My2Angels)
 
I have been sick the last 2 days but can feel my scrapping mojo creeping back this arvo, my love to you all dear friends. Melxxxx

Artastic Design Team August

Morning dear friends, can you believe it's Monday, I hate Monday's usually, but not today, I am off to Amanda's which will be great to scrap and I know Nate will have heaps of fun playing with Connor. Thanks everyone for your wonderful support for Wednesday, it means the world to me, this is my DT layout for arTastic this month. Criteria is colours mainly blue & green, a silhouette and a sun on the page. This is Nate with my mum (left) and Aunty Val (right) doing a little dance, nana was alive then and laughing at them. This again was made from the most gorgeous Noel Mignon kit.

A new month means some more beautiful Design team and challenge entry's for me to look at of yours so this is just a short message this morning, have a bit of a drive to Amanda's and when I am home tonight will look at what all of you have been up to.

I told my friend Amber that I would give her a shout out, she said she has been lurking around our blogs of late, can anyone tell me here if Amber needs a blog account to leave messages on posts, I couldn't confirm this when I caught up with her yesterday.

Hope you all have a great day, will catch up with you all soon, you mean the world to me. Love Melxxxxxxx