Thursday, October 27, 2011

prepare to be amazed...

Last night I went to visit a friend who had just moved into her brand new (and very beautiful) house. This was both for research purposes but more to have a chat and a glass of wine (and chocolates) in her very lovely new lounge room. Sigh, I want my new house now...

Anyway, I had a little house warming present for her but no card - So I MADE A CARD!! yay! A very simple card, lets face it but a card none the less.



The chip board tree and house are form Bella Blvd, so cute. And of course some Twinery twine, finally got to use the Maraschino reddy one- it is about my fav I think.

And today I finished a lo that was inspired by this weeks A-Z challenge at Scrapbookers Anonymous, this week bought to you by the letter 'C' (now the kids are big -I miss sesame street). And as I had a huge stack of Crate Paper (I love Crate Paper so much), I did another unusual thing for me, this lo is just about all matching lines -Neighbourhood and Emma's Shop - coincidentally as this Lo is about my very cute niece, Emma and her excitment at using her favourite cousins umbrella! I usually mix things up a lot more, I did add the little basic grey yoyo and the alphas are from BG as well and some very. very old Pink Paislee


And now that I am no longer on the DT for Southern Girls, I can enter this weeks challenge, Polka dots and Stripes. How cool is that?? They are after some more Australian and NZ entries for this week, a very cool prize awaits someone.

I really need to housework now so I guess that means I will be scrapping a lot (ok avoiding housework is what I do best...). have a good one. xx

Ps still a couple of days to go in Another Freaking Scrappy challenge site's two October challenges, not many entries yet so you would be in with a really good chance to win something very cool - head on over and check us out! x

15 comments:

Louise F NZ said...

GORGEOUS!!!!!!!!!!!! Love your card and your layout is fabulous, thanks loads for playing along with us and of course it is totally wonderfull to see you.

Mia said...

Ooooh, whose house???
My installation and grading got postponed!!!!!! till next Tuesday - will it ever end? So we will have to get together after that. In the meantime might see you at school. I'll be the one dumping cra- oh, I mean treasures from my car boot in the back room of the frogs classroom for the white elephant!!

Lydia said...

Adorable layout! I love those papers and embellies. So glad you played along with us at Scrapbookers Anonymous!

Irini said...

BANG!!!!!!!!!!
that was me I fell off my chair!!
YOu made a card and a cuuuuute card at that!!!!...I am so proud LOL LOL
Keep at it we having challenges all month at Get Creative....how about giving it a try LOL LOL
I love Henry's layout he looks so cute....all those curls yummmm
why do they grow up???
hugz
irini

Laura said...

Love the card and the layout is cuuute!!

TeenaBugg38 said...

Karen I love your blog....not sure I have ever said it before but I do!!! Sweet card but the layout blew me away!! And what a cuter photo of Henry too!!!

Julie Tucker-Wolek said...

Loveeeeeeeeee the card!! LOVING that tree and birdhouse! And loveeeeeeeeeee the lo!! AWESOME design! I love Crate too!! Thanks for playing along with Scrapbookers Anonymous! :):):):):):):):):):):)

Mitralee said...

Very lovely layout and sweet card! I got my challenge page all done I had better link it up!

Eli said...

very very nice! I like them!
Great work!
Eli (Scrapbookers anonymous)

Theresa said...

super duper cute!!!! love the photo and all the cute embellies. you even got some chipboard on the card.
Thanks so much for playing along with us at Scrapbookers Anonymous. =)

Deb Hickman said...

What a fun LO and live the cute card. Thanks for playing along at Scrapbookers Anonymous.xxxx

li-bee-ti said...

Look at you! making a card, and such a cute one too! :)) it's lovely!
And your lo is a fabi one! I love your mix and match.

Lea said...

Aww, what a cute layout. I love what you did with the umbrella and the tag. And simple cards are the best cards, I bet your friend loved it! Thanks for joining in the fun at Scrapbookers Anonymous!!!

Anne Pennington said...

LOVING both of these, Karen !! Pink Paislee is great, no matter how old it is! Thanks for playing along with Scrapbookers Anonymous!!!

Ros said...

Karen, I loved the card and the champagne and the gorgeous tea towel and most of all that you could pop in and chat. Thanks for coming over and sharing in our excitement and your dreams for your own home. We are very excited for you and wish you all the best in all your plans. Thanks again, xx