Embellish it Week 3 - Stitch it.

Wow week 3 already!! This comp is going really fast and the entries this week are all just amazing!! I just love seeing how every one interprets the challenge. Its just amazing how different everyone's LO's are.

Weeks 3 Challenge was to incorporate these 5 things in your LO...Hand stitching, felt, beads, bling/rhinestones and doodling. We were also asked to create our own embellishment using some of these things from the list or all of the above.

So pretty good criteria..and I just lovvvee hand stitching!! My inspiration for this weeks challenge was my daughters clothes she wore in the photo..

These are just my favourite clothes atm of hers...beautiful colours and so much detail.

Ok so from this I created this LO...Hope you like...

Below I recreated the Felt flower from her Jumper...Also you should be able to see the beads I hand sewed on as well and more stitching tehehe.

Next is a close up of the butterfly I recreated from Savannah's Jeans.. this embellishment took me the longest to do..but so worth it...

More Close ups...

Lastly the journalling...This in particular means alot to me as its written from her daddy for her...Jamie asked me a couple of weeks ago "how come I only ever do layouts from my perspective and not his...lol so here it is baby I hope you love it as much as I do. BTW how beautiful are his words for his little girl :D Makes my heart skip a beat and sing!!

Thank you for stopping by...make sure you head on over and leave some love for all the other entries here.

Love Belynda-Lee xxx

Embellish It - Week 2...and some ATC's

Here's my take on Weeks 2 Challenge. The criteria was to use cool colours, paint, some kind of title/lettering, a flower and lastly a hybrid element. Had again tons of fun creating this, here is my take on the challenge.

I painted the background using bubble wrap and the green paint was painted on using a toothbrush, then I smeared bits of the edge of the paper with the brush. Really like how this has turned out :D

Have Incorporated the Prima packaging on my layout, love how it looks on the layout. Also one of my hybrid elements is the journal spot at the bottom of the packaging.

Another hybrid embellishment is the journal spot underneath the I love you. More Prima packaging :D

My handmade flower is another hybrid embellishment...You cant see it too clearly but what I did was typed Mother and Son over and over again in word then ran some cotton fabric through my printer and whaa laa..I now have some journal fabric and out of that I created this flower and also the remaining fabric is behind the photo.

Lastly if you can kinda see I have incorporated some cork paper, Love this, I think its going to be a new favourite thing of mine hehe. Also I'm totally lovin the wire mesh atm too. A nice touch to anything I reckon.

Anyhoos for some more amazing layouts in this weeks challenge head on over to Scrap 'N' craft with T here.

Lastly here are some recent ATC'S I've swapped out. One being a Wild West swap and the other being an Apron Swap.

Oh I do have some exciting news to share...Little Miss Savannah-Rose has just started attempting walking, she's little miss independent now..doesn't want us helping her, she thinks she can do it all on her own LOL. The most steps she's taken has been seven now..So I think she will be well and truly walking by 10 months :D Also she has her first tooth with the 2nd one on the way. Alex on the other hand has been sick this week, poor Little tyke, hopefully he's better by Friday for kindy. So here's to hoping for a healthy week for us and anyone else out there thats feeling under the weather.

Thanks for stopping by..Have an awesome day!! xx

Belynda-Lee

1st Layout for the Embellishment Comp :D

Here's my first layout for Scrap N Craft with T's Embellishment Competition. The criteria for the layout is you must use paint, doodling, use 3 different patterned papers and also interesting ways to journal and title. You also had to make your own embellishment with its own criteria which was to include, paint, stitching and 3 colours. I hope you like my first take on this weeks challenge, really was alot of fun.

My interesting way of doing the title was I went into word..found the font I wanted to use..I then printed it on baking paper, glimmermisted the font and washed it over the font to take the edge of the ink. Lastly I coloured it in with water colours.

My handmade embellishment was the cupcake. I used gesso as the icing then painted it and added beads into it with a button and cherry on top. I also stitched on the wrapper as well as doodled. Does it look good enough to eat?

Well that's all the scrappyness I have to show you for today. Next time I will show you one of my latest ATC's I've created for a swap..Wild Wild West was the theme :D I'm also in the process of doing an apron themed ATC swap too, will soon be able to show that one as well.

I'm really in the scrappin mood lately due to the fact I have awesome scrappy friends and also on Saturday a few of the girlies and I headed to the Brissie scrap expo. Was so great to catch up with alot of online friends, shop the day away and be inspired. Thanks for a great day girls..luv yas all!! Anyhoos I've gotta run..the kidlets, Jamie and I are off for coffee and babychino's :D Have a great day gorgeous people!! xxx luv Belynda-Lee AKA Lyn.

Wow what a week :D

Hey bloggers/friends...
Wow what a week we've had in our household...It began last Saturday with a surprise visit from my Bro, Alyssa and my gorgeous nephews. Little cheeky buggers snuck in my room at 6am and surprised the heck outa me. Still half asleep and groggy from a hard night with the kids I jump outa bed and wrapped my arms around my bestie!! My week couldn't of started better. So we dressed and went garage saleing...had a coffee and planned a last minute scrap night. So all day I rounded up friends, prepared and cooked food with lys, then sat down and enjoyed a wicked night with my awesome buddies and scrapped and gasbaged the night away till 3am!! We had such a wicked week with lys and the boys, I definitely think the kidlets are going to miss each other, they had a brilliant week together...we truly got to see them interact with each other, was so funny seeing their little selves having conversations discussing toys etc. AHHH to be a kid again aye?? So they left today :( but I wasn't so sad this time because they will be back again in another 3 months for my cousins wedding :D
Also on Monday just gone my Fiance's parents arrived :D Alex was just so thrilled and excited to see them and has been gallivanting around with them all week too, giving me a much needed break. They are such great grandparents to the kids, they truly are lucky to be loved and spoilt by them...Our kids are truly blessed. They do pretty well to see them at least 3 times a year, not bad considering they live in wagga wagga. So its a huge 2 day trip for them but totally worth it. Hopefully soon we get to visit them. They leave on Tuesday, so its going to be very very quite soon. Then its time to get back to routine and structure LOL.

Anyhoos...Ok guys I'm terribly sorry but not much scrappin had by me in the past couple of days LOL, as you can see I have been heaps busy...My head is spinning with many ideas tho for upcoming layouts. So stay tuned. Until then here is a sneak peak for a Guest Design team spot over at Mad About Scrap. I was so thrilled and honored to have been asked my Leanne to do a couple of layouts. Anyhoos full reveal to come :D Also some past completed ATC's :D Enjoy.  

Ok guys take care, I will be back soon :D Much love Belynda-Lee xx

Hi Bloggers :D
I've been told I need to update more lol, so here goes....I actually do have alot of scrappin goodness to show you, but that'll have to wait for now, I am awaiting the glorious sunshine to make my photos brilliant :), its been raining here for the past couple of days.
Hope ya'all had a great weekend doing whatever it was that you were all doing. My weekend was terrific..Jamie calls me miss social butterfly now, poor thing I haven't spent the past 3 Saturday's with him as Ive always had something come up and sadly its really his only day off we can actually do anything together. Oh well i'll make it up to him, dinner date I think in 2 weeks, cant this Saturday as he's got work on. Anyhoos on Saturday night I did head of to my good friend Angie's house for a much needed scrap night with the girlies :( My poor mum's always wanted to come along to a scrap night, so I thought I would take her along with me to see what the fuss is about hehe. So along with mum and savylicious and a car full of scrap we made our way to Angie's. Usually when I go to a scrap night, I never actually scrap but gasbag the whole time, this time however I was actually productive and completed one layout...Wahooo, this has been a first for me lol. We had such a great night, with fabulous food thanks to ang and some scrumptious dessert courtesy of em and lots of goooooddd conversation and laughter :D Thanks Ang for being a great host and organising a wicked night, cant wait till June now for Dalena's Scrap night :D The layout I created I will hopefully be able to show you soon, it was actually a layout for a guest DT spot I was offered :D I'm really happy with the way it turned out, I got to play with Fancy Pants Roadshow collection :D
I also have a few ATC's to show you...and also need to get my ATC freak on, I have sooo many to catch up on.

Oh oh I do have this bit of excitement to show you, Its one of my Layouts I did last year while I was pregnant and its in this months Scrapbooking Memories mag...

This was actually my 2nd time published in the mag, not the first, so that's a little mistake plus the spelling of my name, but oh well, still really excited to see it in print.
On the family front we have all been really well. Alex had a great week.. On Thursday at his kindy the children were given the opportunity to bring their grandparents to kindy to show them around and to share morning tea with them. Was such a great day, he got to show nana around his kindy room, got to play many activities with nan and also got to paint with nan, and to everyones surprise we actually had 3 birthday parties on. So he got to stay and have a party as well. We were very full by the time we left and poor Alex didn't wanna leave. Savannah-Rose actually had alot of fun aswell, playing and eating and got to paint with nana also. Here are just some pics of nana with the kids.   

Also I cant believe how quickly time is going...Savannah-Rose is almost 9 Months already!!! She is finally starting to get some wispy bits of hair, much to my delight :D She has begun to try and stand on her own and is constantly saying mum, bub and finally said dad for the first time last week...Still no teeth yet, but honestly I am not complaining as I'm still breastfeeding and I remember the first time Alexander bit me, OUCHIE MAMMA I tell ya!! I just wish time would slow down, we have already started to plan her very 1st Birthday party along with Alex's as well. Tis going to be a huge week, 2 birthday parties, a hens night which I am organising and a wedding with a heck of alot of visitors. WOW, please months go slow....hehe.

Well pop back tomorrow, hopefully the weather is great and I can show what I've been up to. Happy Minda.

Belynda-Lee AKA lyn xx

                                    

Layout Share.

Just a quick post today...kidlets are waiting for a bath and breakfast. LOL I definately have my priorities right...sorry babes. Yesterday I finally got some time to myself to finish of this layout, I'm really really proud of it, but let me tell you it wasnt always going to look this way, originally I was going with sassfrass papers, but it just wasnt working for me, it was too bright and colourful and I wanted this layout to have some sophistication to it. So instead bo bunny did the trick for me, but do not worry sassfrass I have plans for you.

This beautiful photos of my kidlets were taken by my best bud Alyssa Vollman Photography.

You prehaps can't see, but I glimmermisted the doiley, the journal tag, a flower and slightly the background.

 You could say I went crazy with the misting.

How gorgeous are these flowers!!! The main middle gold one was handmade by Lisa K, all the other 5 flowers were handmade by me :D Alos the chipboard underneath the flowers were gesso'd, then painted gold then I used a crackle medium.

This butterfly has been laying around my house for about 5 years, It was just getting wrecked, so what better way to utilise it...scrap it. Looks much better on this layout then hanging from my candles on my dining room table.

For this Layout I used, Bo Bunny papers, Doiley, Fancy pants Stamp, Lisa K flower, Handmade flowers by me, mesh, ribbon, buttons, string, versa, white pan, journal tag and kaiser pearls and lastly glimmer mist (tattered angles).

Thanks for stopping by. See you all soon, I am currently creating some more ATC's and also have another layout almost finished :D

Belynda-Lee AKA Lyn

xxx

A big belated Happy Mothers day to all you yummy mummies out there!!! I hope you all had an awesome day with your kidlets and your mums. My day was great, starting bright and early, I'm sure the kids would of let me sleep in if they had a choice, but nope mummy dragged them out of bed for the monthly car boot sale :D I did pick myself up some vintage goodies, a really gorgeous vintage frame that opens up to reveal another frame and also a really nice jewelery cabinet in which I plan to alter :D After that the kids and daddy took me to maccas for breakfast then we had a relaxing day lounging around at home watching dvd's and sleeping with a bit of scrap thrown into the day. I haven't finished the layout yet but I will leave you with this ATC card I made last week, it was for a closed private swap and the theme was something sweet. I used and printed out a stamping up stamp, I coloured the stamp in photoshop then printed the required amount. Once assembled I used beads to represent the candy then I used dimensional magic over the top of the beads a few times to make it appear as though the candy was in a glass bowl. I'm really pleased with the way this atc turned out.

On the scrappy front hopefully I'll be back with a layout tomorrow :D
Hugs Belynda AKA Lyn.xx