Nature notes notebook

Here is a little notebook I made last night.
I wanted a book to write notes on what u saw, where and what month for my photography so I can go back next year looking for similar birds or flowers etc.
I made the cover with patterned paper, the words on my cricut machine but drawn with the cricut gels pens rather than cut, and the birds are stamping up punches. I then laminated the covers and bound the pages using my bind-it-all. The month flower stamps and the lines are also Stampin up.

Scrapbook page - A4 Lake

After a lovely walk through Pukekura park early evening, I felt inspired to make a scrapbook page tonight.
This is a photo I took at Lake Mangamahoe last year. I used a Becky Fleck Page Map from my new book which has certainly helped with my layout...The layout is A4 and the first time I have tried an A4 layout.

Scrapbook page - page maps - Tigers

It's been a while since I made any cards as we had a lovely long weekend which was full of daylight and sunshine. It's been a long time coming so I had to get outside and enjoy the nice weather while it lasts.
I finally got around to making a scrapbook page tonight, based on a page map from my new Becky Fleck Page Maps book.... I took these photo's a few months ago and have decorated the page using my new cuttlebug alphabet, Hippie Chick, the blossoms from boho blossoms punch, SU dsp, the heart from the SU level one punch potpurri stampset, nestabilites for journaling with dotted lines stamp from SU Live your dreams set.

Christmas cards

Here are a few christmas cards....

Plain and simple fifth avenue floral

A few plain and simple cards, the first ones I heat embossed the frame but it looks much smarter ruled with white gel pen... the odd card out is one where I just wanted to see what my new gem stones would look like on flowers...

Plain and simple cards

Tonight I decided to make some plain and simple cards.... They all have dazzling diamonds on them although they do not show in the photos... I used cuttlebug embossing folders which I found at the local warehouse sometime ago..... nice and simple!

Birthday card - inspiration

I recieved this very lovely birthday card today from a friend at work, it's perfect in every way as of course I love budgies and one of them even looks like my 'Kiwi'. The moment I saw the card I was inspired to try to make one myself. My attempt didn't work very well but at least I tried!

Mojo141

I have a colleague leaving work tomorrow for a new job so I thought I would make her a card and it's always easier and a lot more fun when I have a mojo sketch to work from....

Sea views - Photobook

Here is a little photo book I made last night. The theme for this is sea views.... Some photos are from last weekend and the rest are from the last year or so...

Used the bind-it-all for the binding, scrap cardboard covered in paper for covers and then decorated with the fishy friends stampset.

Mojo 100 Day 6

Gosh I can't believe I got so far behind and have only just made my last two mojo's from last weeks 100th celebration. I did so well on the fisrt 5 but then the weekend came and other projects took over.... another cute sketch.

Flower of the month - diary/birthday book

Here is the second book made using my new flower of the month set.
This book is a lot smaller than the first, about 3 3/4 inch x 5 inch.
Since it is smaller it was a little easier and quicker to make.

The covers are covered with patterned paper, spellbinder labels die with lovely saying stamp from Sense of time set. Flowers to top off from Eastern blooms.










The front page with the January flower for the month, Carnation





February - Voilet

















June - Rose

Water colour diary - flower of the month

I was so very excited when I saw this stampset for sale on trademe. Stampin ups flower of the month, must be from the U.S. I fell in love with it instantly and bid like crazy to win the auction.

I have made 2 books so far with this set, this is the first one, 5 inch x 5 inch and bound together using the bind-it-all.

I have covered the covers with patterned paper and used the lovely saying from SU sense of time set, on a spellbinders label die, and added a flower from SU playful petals set.







Here is the first page with the january flower, carnation. I have watercoloured the flowers and the lines are stamped from the Live your dream set.





October flower, marigold














April - sweet pea