I forgot how much work it is to sell your house. My God!!! I feel like I'm hardly ever home with all the viewings etc. We did get an offer though, but it was really low and we countered and I guess they didn't like it so now we're back to the beginning again. Well, at least the small repreive while the offer was pending was a nice rest from all the vacuuming. :D
I do have a lot to update you all with. This will be a long post so bare with me. I thought about splitting up all the news into a couple of posts through the next few days but with my luck I'll be back into the home showings and won't get back on here for another month so best to get it over with now.
First on the agenda, I'm no longer designing for Clipper Street. They emailed me the other day saying they were gonna stop the designs until the new year and re-evaluate things. I'll miss desinging for them and seeing my layouts up in the store, but on the other hand I'll also have more time to do work and layouts for me, which is a bonus. So, for those of you who looked for my stuff in the store, you will have to check out the blog more often (as I try to update it more often) for any new creations.
Last night I hosted my last Scrappy Hour at Scrap Shotz. I'm not done there yet, just with all the new DT over there it's the last one I do before I am finished in April (or is it March???).
Anyway, I found these 2 really cute gift ideas and couldn't decide which one to use so I did both. I found these ideas on Youtube (not really that creative myself to come up with this stuff... hehehe)
This first one is called a "Bag-a-lope". You can take an envelope and make a small gift bag with it. Very cool.
The second one is a candy bar slider. I really liked this one. It's neat how the bar slides out.
You can find the instructions for all this at Scrap Shotz
here. I'd really like to see any projects that you make. If you aren't on Scrap Shotz, please leave me a link to your project so I can take a peek.
If you're still reading, thanks, we're almost done.
I picked myself up a Slice the other day. If you don't know what the Slice is check it out. Just click on the picture.
The Slice is a personal die cut machine. It's cordless, small and portable, and has some of the cutest shapes and fonts. I've been playing with it like crazy to try and get the hang of it. The learning curve is really very small. I have a Cricut machine but I think I'll be using this one a bit more. I'll post some fun creations with it soon.
And lastly, just some pics of some recent work I've done. And maybe some not-so-recent work that just didn't quite make it to the blog yet.
These 2 layouts I did for Clipper Street using some new Basic Grey Eva and Offbeat. I thought it would be neat to show how you could do virtually the same layout, one for a boy and one for a girl.
Thanks to my friend Jess for letting me use her photo of her little guy Josh.
I used some more Basic Grey on this one. I just LOVE this Ambrosia line. I'm not a real fan of orange but this paper certainly converted me!!
For this one I used some gorgeous MME Laundry line. I've been waiting for this ever since I saw the pics a few months ago. Beautiful papers. This layout will be a kit at Clipper Street (I think). It's basically all the product needed and instructions to complete this layout. I used some Maya Road chipboard snowflakes and covered them with double sided tape, cut it out and covered them with glitter. Looks very cool IRL.
This was another layout for Clipper Street. I used the very pretty Bo Bunny Beau Jardin and a Hamby transparency.
We had an Online Crop again this last weekend at Scrap Shotz. I'm sorry I didn't post about it before the weekend, just so freaking busy. There were some great challenges and you can still check them out
here.
We again had a "Gives Back" challenge. These challenges are a wonderful idea that we started a couple of crops ago. Scrap Shotz picks a charity and for every layout completed for the specific challenge Scrap Shotz donates $5. This crops charity was for Alzheimers Disease. I'm not sure how much we raised yet.
Here's the layout I did for this challenge. I used some yummy AC!!!
And here are my challenge layouts.
This one was a monochromatic challenge. Again, used that yummy Basic Grey Ambrosia.
And this one was a challenge to take a photo and turn it black & white and leave part of it colour. I used some very lovely Amy Butler papers. I've had these papers for ages. I was saving them... for what I don't know but I think I'd rather use them.
And these last 2 were for Clipper again.
This one was for another kit using the Mr Campy line from Cosmo Cricket. Not my usual style but I think I made it work.
And this last one used the SEI Windsor collection. And yes, I did cut the flocked flourish out of the pp by hand. Just me and my trusty craft knife.
Well, that's it for now. Thanks again for those of you who stuck through this long post to the end. I hope you enjoyed looking at my projects and maybe I inspired you to create something today.
Cheers!
Make sure you check back on Sept 1 for the reveal layouts for this gorgeous kit. 
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