A Happy Scramper

A Blog Award and a Verve Card

It was such a lovely surprise for me tonight to receive this Blog Award from Therese. Thank you
so much Therese for your kind words.....Therese is a wonderful card maker who lives just a little further down the coast from me and she is one crafty friend that I have actually met in person.....you must go and check out her awesome work!

Here are the Liebster Award deets.....

What is the Liebster Blog award?

Here is a quick explanation. ‘Liebster’ is German for ‘dearest’. The award is a ‘share-the-love’ arrangement, given to inspirational bloggers with less than 200 followers.

Here’s the to-do list of any Liebster award recipient:

1) Thank the giver and link back to the blogger who gave it to you

2) Reveal your five blogger picks and let them know by leaving a comment on their blog

3) Copy and paste the award on your blog (see above)

4) Hope that those you award forward it to their favorite bloggers!

 

Picking 5 blogs is of course very difficult - how do you narrow it down??....I decided that I wanted to highlight 5 fab Aussie girls whose work I enjoy checking out.....here they are....

Liz Weber - Liz has always been so supportive of my work and leaves lovely encouraging comments on my blog often....I really appreciate that Liz - thank you! Liz makes beautiful cards - always so feminine and pretty!

Alicia McNamara - the wonderful founder of Aussie Cards for Sale who has been a big supporter of my cards - check out Alicia's blog for regular crafty posts and a taste of life in Tamworth.

Nerrida Mitchell - one of the most amazing Aussie scrapbookers I know - her work always inspires me and I love working with the gorgeous Manor House Creations flowers with Nerrida, our fearless leader:-)

Natalie Hearn - creates beautiful, stylish, tasteful cards that I always admire either in the magazines or on her blog.

Dayna Howard - another DT member over at Shop and Crop who has a wonderful bold, layered scrapbooking style that I always oggle at for ages - as I try to take in every little detail.

I hope you enjoy popping into these ladies blogs and seeing their fab work.

Before you go - I do have a card to share tonight..............

my last entry for the Verve sketches for this month...here's the fourth and last sketch for Feb....

.......and my card.....

Thanks for your visit tonight - see you again soon!

xLinda

Verve Feb Week 3

I'm on a roll now with the Verve February Sketches.....this time it's #3 with a delicious sketch from

Laurie Schmidlin...........

Laurie looooves layers as I do so this sketch was so much fun to play with:-)

Papers are again from Kaisercraft's Chapter One paper pad; sentiment is from Papertrey's Inside and Out Birthday set; filagree heart is from Jenni B Collection (Spotlight) and the cabouchon flower is also Kaisercraft :-)

Thanks for dropping in today! Have a fab one!

xLinda

Kitchen Reno

It's FINISHED :-)))

Thought I'd just pop up some before and after pics of the kitchen for those who may be interested...feels great to have it done!

 

BEFORE......no overhead cupboards, limited storage, fridge beside oven didn't work well, 20 year old oven/stove falling apart, congestion always in corner at sink/stove/bins, hated the white sink, no rangehood.

AFTER........overhead cupboards and lots more storage, swapped fridge and pantry so kitchen triangle works better, moved bins to separate bin drawer to alleviate congestion;  everything built up to ceiling for streamlined look, rangehood at last, lots of drawers for easy access, every drawer and cupboard soft close, benchtops are higher, pull out pantry drawers so things can't disappear into the pantry depths anymore:-))

We are very happy with the design and products from Kitchen Connection. Also loooooove the glass splashback in Blast Grey 2 from Cutting Edge Glass at Burleigh. 

Thanks for sharing my kitchen happiness :-))

xLinda

Verve Feb Week 2

Hey there....how are you this morning?

It's a wet one here in SE QLD...in fact we've had 4 inches of rain overnight!....and it's still coming down. Poor DD is off to help out at her school's Open Day - can't imagine too many people will want to trudge around in the rain checking out a prospective school today - much nicer to stay snuggled warm and dry at home - as I plan to;-))

Actually we have everything crossed that the installers (remember that kitchen reno?) will be back this morning to put the rangehood back up and get all the last little details finished so our kitchen is ALL COMPLETE. Can't wait:-))) I will have photos once it's all done.

Apart from all of that, I do have a card to share for another Verve Feb Sketch....this time for week 2 which looks like this......

I couldn't go past the Kaisercraft Chapter One paper pad again....I think I'll make a set of cards with it for my Verve sketches this month:-)

Apart from this I have been designing the March Card Kit for Shop and Crop....using the very cool A Boy's Life from Echo Park....it's a lot of fun to play with:-) Look out for that next week.

I should be back before then though - with this perfect rainy crafty weather I plan to play with a few more challenges this weekend:-)

Bye for now...

xLinda

Getting back on track...

Thank you so much - I really appreciate the comments left and have been able to think about how I can happily dive back into my papercrafting again.

I was feeling overwhelmed by the number of cards that just sit in my cupboard and I remembered that 12 months ago I bundled a pile up and sent them somewhere they'd be appreciated. I needed to do that again !

It felt great!

Just clearing out 25 or so cards has cleared my head and my cupboard a little and now I feel happy to make more. I feel a need to make more - for some reason that's important to me - I don't enjoy just making for the sake of it.

I also plan to bundle up a small number of cards each month and send them off to a family member or friend who will be able to use them as they see fit.....a little RAK I guess.

So, I feel reinvigorated to get crafting again and enjoyed playing last night with one of the current VERVE sketches. It's been a while...and I do love the sweet VERVE sketches....here's # 1 for FEB....

I played with the delightful Kaisercraft One Chapter 6x6 paper pad...I am loving it!

Love the sentiments in the Inkadinkado Friendly Advice set :-)

Hope your week is going great so far. 

I am looking forward to my day off tomorrow to catch up with some DT creating....I'll be back to share something again soon.

Cheers!

xLinda

 

 

I've lost my way....

I must admit to having lost my way a little with my papercrafting. I've been scrapbooking and cardmaking for 10 years now and I've never felt like this.

At the moment I'm constantly questionning why I would be bothered making cards when I have boxes of them on my shelf, very few of them are selling anymore and I can never give as many as I make.

I think about scrapbooking but then wonder why should I bother when my albums are sitting unopened most of the time and will anyone really give a hoot in the years to come. It's sad to feel this way. I am not enjoying it and would love some words of wisdom or advice if you have some. I really want to feel good about this hobby again.

It's been a lean week or so for papercrafting but this afternoon I have finally finished a card for my niece who turns 11 this week.....I enjoyed playing with the pretty Kaisercraft Chapter One paper pad.

Thanks for visiting and please know that if you do leave a comment it will be greatly appreciated.

I hope to be back again sooner rather than later :-)

xLinda

Door Hanger

Hey there....I hope you're thoroughly enjoying your weekend.

I'm popping in to share a Door Hanger I recently created with gorgeous Manor House Creations flowers and the sweet Scrap Cake patterned papers.....I used the beautiful Bright Side of Life papers.

The "T" is from Kaisercraft and the turquoise bling is Nest-a-bling to coordinate with the Nestie Shapes.

Manor House Creations flowers used were Pink Taneisha; Blossoms; Cutie Pies – Teal and cream, and Springtime – Pink along with the sweet small Rose leaves......love them:-)

Thanks for dropping by to check out my little corner of blog-land.

I hope you have a great start to the week!

xLinda

Happy Days

It was a Happy Day here with our kitchen bench tops installed and the plumbing all finished. Here's a pic....

(buckets of water weighing the sink down until everything is set)

Now it's just the splashbacks, electricals, plastering and painting to go and we're all fully functioning - can't wait :-)))

How's this for a flashback ......

(source)

Were you a Happy Days fan? I loved it as a kid but Dad was veeeery strict about what we watched and he thought the Fonz was a very bad influence on us young impressionables (Heeeeeey??) so we very rarely managed to watch it - only when Dad wasn't around lol.

These days are all,
Happy and Free. (Those Happy Days)
These days are all,
Share them with me. (oh baby)
Goodbye grey sky, hello blue.
There's nothing can hold me when I hold you.
Feels so right, it can't be wrong.
Rockin' and rollin' all week long.

I had some rockin' and rollin' fun with Echo Parks' Happy Days Range from Shop and Crop. With just a page of Chipboard Accents, some Core-dinations Cardstock and a few sheets of  Happy Days patterned paper these practically made themselves lol.....

 

I hope you will have Happy Days this weekend. Thanks for dropping in to see what I've been up to.

Bye for now....

xLinda

Manor House Creations Valentines Card

Hey there...how's your weekend going?

It's all fun and games here - we're onto day 5 without a kitchen as our kitchen reno takes place - boy having no kitchen is so inconvenient lol! But - looking forward to the end of this week when we should be done or very close to it - yay yay yaaaay :-))

Here's a few reno pics for you -

Firstly, what the old kitchen looked like.... sorry about the dark pics :(

This was Wednesday afternoon - our old kitchen gone ready for the new!

And this is how it looks right now.....waiting for benchtops and splashbacks to be cut and installed...

We're going white again but with overhead cupboards and lots of drawers this time round :-)

Anyway - onto the card making now hey!

Here's a card I created for Manor House Creations....ready for hubby on Valentines' Day:-)

I've used the beautiful MHC Blossoms – Airlie & Esperance -and the brown flower detail I've fussy cut from MHC packaging :-)

Thanks for popping in today to see what I've been up to.

Enjoy the rest of the weekend - hope to see you again soon :-)

xLinda

 

Shop and Crop February Card Kit

Have you fallen in love with Echo Parks' new Yours Truly range?

I certainly have:) I had lots of fun playing with all the gorgeous coordinating Yours Truly goodies along with some sweet Basic Grey Laser Cut paper, bling and rub-ons in this month's Card Kit for Shop and Crop.

You will receive instructions to make the following 4 cards - and have plenty of lovely left overs for a few more :)

....look at that gorgeous Basic Grey Laser Cut paper - it is delish!

 

Such fun goodies to play with - I hope you'll head over to Shop and Crop and check it out.

Thanks for popping in....

See you again soon I hope :)

xLinda