Frosted Designs-Die Cuts

Hi all,

Today I have a double layout to show you. This is of my son and his first day of Kindy...He was so excited and every day after that has just been a blast for him. He is very popular there, which is so good because he was so shy at the start. He has even got a little sparkle for one of the girls there, and she is absolutely stunning, long dark curly hair and blue eyes...A beautiful little doll. I am so proud of him and all he has achived over the last year.

Frosted Designs has a Die Cut challenge on, come on over and play around for some fun and a fantastic prizes from Copic markers...I love using Copic Markers and they donate the best prizes

Family

This week at Frosted Designs is families. This Layout is very special to me as I have never done a layout of my parents before, but I love the way it turned out. I used  IOD Iron Orchid designs paper range. Everyone has photos of their family, so for you chance to win this suprise package from Pizzazz Aplenty, take a look at this week challenge for Frosted Designs

A new found scrappy friend Maria has some amazing inspiration at her Linky party, don't miss this one...A lot of fun....Linky party are my favorite, you get to see so much talent, and this is is not all scrapping...best you go and have a look!!

 This range is so pretty, I highly recommend that you buy this one

My Beautiful Parents

Quick Scrap

I went into a fun challenge today, you had 30 minutes to do a layout and it had to have pink in it EASY!!!! I have girls.

Double embossing????? Not sure!!! Well let me tell you, get your embossing ink, rub it over your letters, then sprinkle you embossing powder, tip it off, yes yes I know, we all know how to do that...but then we are going to run it through the cuttlebug...GORGEOUS effect...Have a go, you'll love it. That's double embossing!!!

Sorry to tell you but it's Monday tomorrow :( Hope you all have a great week.

Here is my little girl...I used the Miss Nelly collection from Kaiser Craft

 

EXCITING NEWS!!!!

 When Joy approached me and asked would I be her DT LEADER at Joys Life I was seriously over the moon...Hello who wouldn't want to be a leader at Joys Life. 

Oh and I just had to dob my Best Friend into being a leader as well. Tracy is very talented and is going to be loved in blog land, I wouldn't have wanted anyone else to help me run this smoothly.


Joy has the most amazing blog, please head on over and have a little looksee!! Joy crafts like you wouldn't believe, I don't know anyone that can keep up with this lady...Joy is one of the sweetest ladies I know...We will have some fun and exciting challenges with a little twist for you. Shhhh... and a few other things, but you'll have to wait and see...

SO COME OVER AND JOIN IN THE FUN!!!

Little bit of ..off the page

I have had heaps of ladies ask me how I got the crackle effect on this canvas that I did. Well let me tell you that it was not a hard thing

First I painted a canvas (whatever colour you like) I did green on this, then I put black soot distress paint over the top which you can get from Scraptique Peta is gorgeous and is very happy to help you in anything that you need. I met Peta last weekend and she is beautiful, I will continue to buy my products from her, amazing prices and super friendly service what more could you ask for in the scrappy world. I then sprayed green glimmer mist over the top. The effects where outstanding, of course the photo does not show this, but you get the idea...If you have the chance get the crackle paint have a play because you can come up with some great stuff. My canvas does look different and unusual that's why I had so many women ask me about it...

Here is my mini canvas

Guest Designer

As you will notice over the next week or so  I have used the same photo a few times but for good reason, I normaly make a layout for myself and one for the kids so when they say goodbye and leave the nest they can take their albums with them and I won't be left with nothing. It's lots of work, but very worth it in my eyes.

I was featured as Guest Designer this week on Pink Cricut, Yahhh!!! love that place... The gorgeous Sarah does some amazing things from day to day. I love getting up first thing in the morning grabbing my coffee and reading what she has come up with yet again.

 I have to admit I don't display all of my work. But I think that my work these days has been turning  a bit shabby chic, my girls albums are looking really good.

Fabulous Friday Challenge this week at Frosted Designs is a Recipe Challenge.

You have to use 4 from the list. Seriously it's that easy!!


1. The color yellow
2. Ribbon or lace
3. Chipboard
4. Flowers
5. Misting or inks
6. Buttons
7. Stickers
8. Rub ons

  

The very gorgeous Patsy from Prairie Bird Boutique

has sponsored us this week.

Just have a look at this prize Frosted Designs has to offer

The prize contains

                                Shabby Wrinkled Halloween and Festive Fall ribbon bundles
                             Attic Finds Ribbons Fading Violets and Autumn Sunset bundles
                                                                              PLUS
                                                           $20 gift certificateto use in store

Drop in and have a look around her store, there are so many goodies to buy, plus Patsy is so friendly.

Prairie Bird Boutique

 

Hope you all have some wonderful scrappy plans for the weekend

I was so excited about getting this post up after I had submitted it to my DT, that I forgot lol...Very busy week here in the Sousa house, lots going on. My husband has been in Perth getting a Diploma. I'm so proud of him and what he has achieved in the past few months, it's been long and hard on all of us, but we are working through it. It has been really hard on my little man, he really needs another boy around the house, to do "Boy Stuff" with.

Frosted Designs this week has a fantastic challenge on, that I know we all can join in, (if you have a blog that is haha)  Use all those different fonts you have and link up

Hope your all enjoying the weekend

2nd time published

Sorry will show you all what has been published in about a month....Yahhh I'm pretty excited though

Graphic 45

 Well I didn't ever think that I was going to get to do this post, but and I am only a little late with getting my DT work up, nothing too bad.

I have also had some information passed onto me that I had a comment by someone, I was called an expert!! They also said a few other things, that was so lovely that someone was watching my work so closely like that, Thank you!!

 The challenge this week at Frosted Designs is to use postage stamps, tags, envelopes, on your card, layout or projects. I am really excited about this because it is one of my favourite companies that is sponsoring us, Graphic 45!!! I love their range. Not only did they give us an amazing prize for the winners, but they are the fantastic people to work with.

I hope you all have a relaxing weekend.

Cartridge Giveaway

Morning all!!

   Over at Eva's Scrap N' Cards, Eva is giving away a cartridge. You need to go and have a look at her blog it's so so cute. Become a follower of hers and get enjoyment out of seeing her work she does. It's so nice to go blog surfing and run into talented ladies like Eva.

Hope everyone is having a great start to their week, I know I am.

Kaiser Craft

Hi all,

   This week at Frosted Designs we are having a challenge on Flourishes, sounds pretty doesn't it!! Have a look at what some of the other designers have done here. You can also meet our new and very talented designers.

I was given the opportunity to use kaisers 2 new Christmas packs being released in September. One is December 25th and the other one is Silly Season, how exciting!! It is an amazing pack with so much in it. I have both of the packs and will be using lots of it coming up to Christmas.

This is my oldest daughter getting ready to put the Christmas tree up a couple of years ago. I have made a hanging scroll

For your chance to win the fantastic prize, go over to Frosted Designs and enter in the challenge

Hope you all have a great weekend.

Ribbon Hanger

Now you don't have to stuff your ribbons in bags or boxes anymore, they get all crinkles and then you spend half your time getting all the creases out., it is very practical and easy to take with you on crops.

Here is my tutorial on a great ribbon hanger

Cut a 12x12 piece of chipboard into 9 pieces of 4"x4"

I have used about 30 you can use more or less though.

Then down the bottom cut a 3" long slot, coming in from the

sides half an inch and then measure half an inch from the bottom

Then paint each one all the different colours, I have even

painted one in Christmas colours for my Christmas

ribbons. This is up to your imagination how many colours

you would like, I did for example 2 pinks because I have a

lot of that colour ribbon. I also painted both sides

Then paint each one all the different colours, I have even

 

once you have painted all of them, get your croc-o-dile

punch a hole right in the middle of all of them

you will need a large clip ring to attach them all to

 

 

Now for the fun part!!

Attach all your ribbons and watch it come

together

Now I don't have my ribbons stuffed in the little bags

anymore in the cupboard, where I can not see them

and they also don't get any crinkles. I am yet to add many more

ribbons to this as I keep finding more bags of ribbons

This is half of ribbons, I have not put all of them on, I keep finding bags of ribbon and have brought lots in the last week as well, so what you see here I would have three times the amount more to go on, and it will fit.

When taking it with you to crops or wherever, just grab a plastic bag and put all the ribbons in it and then tie the handles to the clip ring and your good to go.

Another thing to remember to when threading your ribbons on don't pull hard because the chipboard will break with some thicker ribbons.

A very quick one of these ribbon hangers is also get a coat hanger and do the same. I like this one though because I have colour coded it.

This is also very handy for sewers.

Any questions please message me.

CLOCKS

It's all about clocks this week over at Frosted Designs and the other designers have done some pretty hot work, you can see them here.

You can also see our new design team here as well, I'm pretty darn excited to see all the fantastic work that is going to be going on over there.

Here is my layout of my youngest daughter, I hope you enjoy!!

I also hope that everyone has a nice relaxing weekend.

Frosted Designs DT

OK this has turned out to be the best week ever with good news coming from every angle
 ;-))   I'm on the DT for Frosted Designs again for a start......

Here is the list of amazing designers over there, please stop in and have a peek at their blog,

Fabulous Friday teams:

Amanda
Andrea
Ashley
Barb
Becky
Debbie B.
Diana
Elisabetta
Erin R.
Jenny
Joni
Lori
Lydia
Priscilla
Roberta
Teresa

Sadly we had to say goodbye to some amazing ladies, I wish them all the best on their crafty way

Amanda

Exciting news!!!!

Out of Blogworld and into a magazine, it doesn't get much better then that

YAHHHHH!!!!! One of my favorite layouts of all time, has just been published in SNR magazine. There is some mind blowing amazing work from some of the best designers in there, and I am holding my head up high that I got published in their magazine....Woohooo

Hope your all having a wonderful start to your week

Animals

This weeks challenge at Frosted Designs is Animals. Do you have a favorite pet or maybe been to the zoo, link up you projects and join in the fun, and if you don't you might miss out on this great prize from Nikki Sivils, I have been chatting a bit with them and they are just gorgeous people. Just like last weeks sponsors Copic Marker, they were very generous in giving us some wonderful packs, Thank you Ashley your a gem!!

I used normal cardstock and lightly wiped over with brown stazon this gave it a grungy look.
Other papers are Kaiser Crafts Grunge Rebel and Making Memories Just Chillin. Now for my lettering I used acrylic, cut out on the cricut, I use alot of acrylic on my work, I love it, it's strong and you can do lots with it, I have embossed my letters and the brown stazon. I am going to say one thing....My husband named our dear dog before I got with him, I had no say in it...he is getting on now, in fact we had the census man come to our house the other night and he stepped over him knocked on the door stepped back AND that's when he woke up...Great guard dog, just perfect!! lol...Well the ears photo, that was just great timimng with the camera

Frosted Designs challenge

The challenge this week at Frosted Designs is colouring, anything that you have Copic markers, gel pens, paints, mist, pencils, just colour your image and press that Mr Linky button here.
Each week we have some very talented ladies that enter the challenges and this week is no exception, there is some fantastic work.

Head on over here, to see this weeks prizes sponsored by Copic Markers...

Also we have another special surprize for you, PINKY is our Guest Designer this week, what a treat to have her with us, she would have to be one of the sweetest ladies I know, there is nothing that lady doesn't get up to in craft world. Grab a cuppa and come on over and watch the hot tutorial that she done for us here

Hope you all enjoyed your weekend.

Circles

For the past couple of weeks life has not stopped, I have been jet setting all over Australia, so unfortunally have not had time to blog and only a little scrapping going on, I only wish I had the life to scrap all day every day.

The challenge this week for Frosted Designs is to use Circles anywhere on your project. I love doing my girlie pages so lucky to have these sweet little girls of mine, but never forget the little man in my life either, all three of the kids have been so good for me lately they all just go with the flow, so the speak!! I'm one lucky mum.

Winner

 
The winner is  Number 13.....Cherie from  http://oneheartscrapper.blogspot.com/  CONGRATULATION!!!!
Could you please email me with you postal address so I can email your prize to you cmjsousa@westnet.com.au

Thank you to every one that played along on the blog hop, All of us at Frosted Design had a blast, it was great to see so much work from some very talented people out there

Amanda x