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Hi everyone, just to let you know that I'm still here. I've been unwell over the past week, and I'm slowly getting back in to my craft projects.

I encourage you over the weekend to try a new technique or two. I have a few projects that I need to finish and will hopefully be able to share them with you next week.

Hope you all have a good weekend and thanks for visiting my blog.

Mini Flip Album using Tags

The past couple of days, I have working on a Mini Flip Album made using Tags for a challenge. I had no idea what I was going to do.

So I started off cutting the tags out from chipboard. I then painted both sides with gesso. Then I decided to use some stencils and texture paste on one side of the tags. I had a kind of idea of what I wanted to do, just didn't know how it was going to work. I took three Stampin Up inks (Going Gray, Strawberry Slush and Pistachio Pudding) and sponged over both sides. Once I was happy with the colour, I left them to dry.

Now the hard part, what was I going to put on the tags. In my stash I had some beautiful pink and cream rose stickers. I knew once I saw them, this was what I wanted to use. Before I went any further, I covered the back of the tags with some stripey patterned paper I had with colours that I thought would go with everything. I cut out some floral swirls from the green card stock and layered/glued these behind where the roses would go. I used Kaisercraft Friendship Sentiment stamps on each of the tags. I put some kindy glitz over the texture paste to give it an extra sparkle. Then I punched out silver glitter butterflies to go on the tags.

Overall, I'm really happy with how it has turned out. Here are a couple of photos, the first is of the album closed and the second one is of each of the tags.

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Smile....

Today I have a scrapbook layout to share with you. With the photos, I was trying to get a nice photo of my daughter Emma smiling. Well it took awhile....  I decided to use the three best photos on this layout.

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A moment captured forever.....

Today, I have another scrapbook layout to share with you. The photo is of my parents on their wedding day. I really like the way that this layout has turned out. I have used Kaisercraft Antique Bazaar Collection Bronze paper and Green Tara Fantasy Blooms Ochre flowers.

The saying on the photo reads "These memories will last a lifetime".

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Pelicans

Today I have layout that I put together at a class yesterday at Craft Inspirations. Chantalle McDaniel taught the class - she is a wonderful teacher.

I chose to use photos a friendly pelican that I saw when we were on holidays at Hervey Bay earlier this year.

Here are a couple of close photos of parts of the layout.

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Book Card

Today, I have a book card to share with you. This was my first attempt at doing this style of card. I wanted to use the Form-A-Lines Seaside Fun Set designs. I found a verse that I liked and hand stitched that on the inside. I really like the way it has turned out.

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Screen Cards

Today I have a couple of Screen Cards to share with you.

For this card, I have used the Fanciful Cats Stitching Pattern from Form-A-Lines. The main card is quite easy to do. I used the Stampin Up Decorative Label Punch for the base of the screen panels. If you don't have this punch, you can either cut it by hand (doesn't have to be as decorative as the punch design), or you can use spellbinder dies (or something similar).

This is another version, that I did. I used the Willow Stitching Pattern, also available from Form-A-Lines. I also added some gold stickers.

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