Gift bag

Hi all,

 Yes I am very late in posting this up. Life has been insane with going back to school, hospital trips with head injuries, snakes, fires and we are renovating, my loungeroom is looking awesome.

Here is my Frosted Designs recipe challenge 3 patterned papers, 2 buttons and 1 word title.

The meaning of Upkar is "Gift" in Indian

Buttons

This is sadly my last post for Joy's Life, all good things must come to an end. I had a great time with Joy's stamps, and Joy has some awesome new things coming up so watch her HERE..I felt that it was my time to leave and not only do I have some mind blowing things going on in my life (yes all very good) I also have some amazing things coming up.

Enough rambling from me lol...Here is my layout

I used the All Around Sentiments Stamps a very versatile stamp set that can be used for lots of projects

 

Here is a sweet owl that I have been making in for lots of little girls and ladies, the sweet owls have come to an end for a while though....The owls have been made from denim and good quality fabrics

 

Hope you all have a wonderful coming weekend and I will leave you with a photo of my kids having the best time ever in our back yard on the blow up water bouncy castle

Blog Hop winner

Thank you to everyone that left a comment and became a new follower of mine.

The winner of my prize for the Frosted Designs blog hop is......... Rach1fun You have  7 days to email me cmjsousa@westnet.com.au

Now for the next blog hop...Keep this date free and there are some yummy prizes coming your way

 

Blog Hop

 Hi everyone and welcome to the Frosted Designs Blog Hop!!!

Now if you have come from  Andrea's blog then your at the right place, if not then jump back there and grab her word and look at her beautiful work.

After here you will head on to Jenny's blog and see what gorgeous design she has done.

Remember: That once you have collected the whole phrase, send it off to Diana at danica4us@yahoo.com 

Here is my word!!!  Cold days 

I have a yummy prize to giveaway, become a follower and leave a comment and let me know what you would design if you won this prize.

Which is!!!

 You get 15.00 to spend at Simply Betty Stamps...Have fun there!!

 I have done a Winter acrylic design, I love working with acrylic, you can ink it, cuttlebug it...There are a lot of things that you can do with it, I have cut snowflakes out in it with my Cricut and put white stazon around the edges and the put some rock candy stickles on the stazon

Here is the list if you get lost on the way

Diana 

Andrea 
 Amanda

Jenny

Ashley

Marina M

Lori

Joni  
Martina

Fern 
 Debbie B

Eli

Ali 

Thanks for joining us on the blog hop and I hope to see you around in the coming weeks

Amanda

Check this out!!

Get the paint brushes out, we're doing PAINT!!! This week at Frosted Designs the challenge is paint. So many things can be done with paint, and the beautiful colours, there are so many to choose from.

Here is my little man and he is so the "King of Hearts"

 

Hope your all having a wonderful day

Something New!!!

First up, I have a wee bit of news!! Ok exciting news, your looking at the new Frosted Designs coordinator, this is going to be a great challenge for me, but so much fun and I can hardly wait.

This is how it's looking for 2012

Frosted Designs Coordinator and DT

Frosted Designs Sponsorship Coordinator

Joy's Life Leader

SNR Magazine Staffer

This weeks challenge at Frosted Designs is to create something new, or something to you have been wanting to do...Mine was paper mache...Fun!!! I did kind of feel like I needed a balloon though LOL

I must admit I did stuggle with this page, just having one of days those days, nothing fitted, nothing went together. But this is my little man, and he looks so different now at 4

I hope you all have a wonderful and safe New Year Eve...and here's to a much better 2012 :)

3D

 The winner from my giveaway was Naomi from Showers of Cards and Flowers I hope that you all enjoyed the blog hop
could you please contact me at cmjsousa@westnet.com.au

It's 3D week at Joys life this week and the designers have done such a beautiful job with all their creations

Here is my card..Yes another card!!! cards have never been my thing, but I am starting to have fun and really enjoying what I can come up with. I used the Holiday Occasions Stamp set, 
there was lots of glitter, glossy accents, inks, just to bring it to life. I also used the 25th of December range from Kaiser

SNR News

 If your looking for the Joys Life Blog Hop post click HERE Please continue to follow me and see the next givaway in a few weeks

Right a little OMGFANTASTIC news I can share with you all..

You are now looking at one of the newest Staff Member of Scrapbook News and Review Magazine Wooohooo...After many minutes of running around my house yelling OMG OMG, I calmed down enough to realize that it was really happening.

I am so proud of to one of their staff (can you tell lol)

Jump on over, there is so much inspiration, SNR

Joys Life Blog Hop

Morning/Afternoon, where ever you may be in our world.

At Joys Life we have a Blog Hop going on, lots of fun, lots of giveaways..Come join the fun!!

I have done a Christmas card, hmmm well it is just around the corner (have you done all your Chrissy shopping )

On the bottom part of the card I used (Wishing you a ) Everyday Occasions Stamps and the Merry Christmas came from Holiday Occasions They can be found HERE, HERE, and HERE and the To and From stamps can be found from the very cute All around sentiment stamps HERE

I used the new Bo Bunny range Snowfall ADORABLE!!!!

Now if you have come from Joys Life your in the right place

your next stop with be with Anne from anniebeescraftroom 
so pop over there and see what fantastic creation Anne has in store for you

I have also entered this into a fantastic challenge Southern Girls Challenge-Ribbon...Great inspiration over there. Also Simon Says Stamp has a challenge going ANYTHING GOES.

  
 Here is the the line up for the Blog Hop...But before you go running off I have a giveaway...I will do a random draw and you will win this HOT prize...The winner will have so much fun with this...Also stay around follow me because in a couple of weeks I will have another give away, just because you stayed tuned!!

15.00 to spend at Simply Betty Stamps

 
Joy: joyslife you came from here

  
Amanda: whiteruffles your here now

Anne: anniebeescraftroom your next stop

Annette: aspoonfullofsugarcrafts

Christine: stampynwifesspace


Jennie: earthyscrap

Maria: joyfulstamper


Martha: pattisscrapingtime

Melisa: melisascraftycreations


Stacey: staceyscreativecorner


Susie: thedieshaveit

Tracy thepickledowl

Joys Life- Shabby Chic

I am having so much fun being the DT Leader at Joys life, the theme for this week is Shabby Chic, that spells girl girl girl to me. I wanted to make something special for a new best friend, the three of us are going to have so much fun.

 In the past 6 months I feel that a weight has been lifted, a few changes happened in my life and I can see it was for the best for me...Now I look forward to every day and spending time with some gorgeous people in my life.

Now when my big fat package arrived from Joy the other day..I dived right in and started playing.

Here is a Pillow Box Hanger that I made. I added the sentiment Friends Make Life Sweet

from Yummy Pun Stamps, there is some truely amazing stamps in that set head on over and have a little look you can find them here 

Joy does some amazing crafting herself, grab yourself a coffee and sit back and be inspired for what you read and see from Joys Life

I added a beautiful hand cream from an Australian designer MOR

I hope everyone has a lovely weekend

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.