Ros Davidson, Independent Stampin' Up!® demonstrator, Melbourne, Australia

Top 5 scrapbook layouts and top 5 OTP

This post I am sharing my top 5 scrapbook layouts and top 5 off the page projects (OTP). Funnily enough, all my layouts are from my 2010 and 2011 December Daily albums. I guess I haven't scrapbooked too much of late... Opps.

December Daily 2010 - day 3

December Daily 2010 - day 7

December Daily 2010 - day 8

December Daily 2010 - day 13

December Daily 2011 - day 5

Top 5 OTP projects

Ivy's first year box

Easter thumbprint art

Recylcing leftovers

Teachers gifts

Top 10 cards for 2011

Each year I try to narrow down my favourite creations for the year and these are my top 10 favourite cards I made for 2011.

My mum's birthday card for Sketch Friday Frenzy

Summer mini catalogue blog hop

Just add ink meets Sketch Friday Frenzy

 

My niece's birthday card

June Making Merry Monday card

 

Delicate doilies

Sympathy card

Brick wall technique

Girly card

Faux silk

I'll be back with my fav scrapbook layouts and OTP soon.

Christmas gift tags and layout

This year I made my own Christmas gift tags using the stocking tag punch from the summer mini catalogue. Of course, I could have used the stitched stockings stamp set that coordinates wonderfully with the stocking punch but I used the reverse side of my wrapping paper to create coordinating tags. I hand stamped names using my calendar alphabet and numbers stamp set.

While I am talking about the stocking builder punch, it is NOT carrying over into the 2012/2013 idea book and catalogue. Once stocks are depleted the item will be unavailable.

I loved this years present wrap so much, I have included it in this years December Daily.

Materials used:
Stamps: Calendar alphabet and numbers, winter post
Ink: Basic black
Cardstock: Real red, whisper white, bashful blue
Punch: Stocking
Accessories: White bakers twine (summer mini catalogue), big shot, perfect pennants die

Mini Christmas tree

Now that I've had a few days R  & R after our Christmas celebrations, I am ready to spend some quality time with my craft desk :D

I do have a little Christmas tree that I haven't shared. In this post, I mentioned about the tree I will make each year and add to my collection. Apparently, I don't have photos of my other trees on here. Must remedy that before I pack all the Chrissy decorations away. I've taken some quick pics before I forget.

Shimmer tree I decorated this year

Close up of tree to see it's shimmer

Trees made previous years

More trees from previous years (the one on the left Nikki made for me at Kinder a couple of years ago)

I used a chipboard tree painted with acrylic paint and spritzed with homemade shimmer paint (Stampin' Up! frost white shimmer paint mixed with isocol rubbing alcohol.)

Teacher gifts

Edited: I've included this in the current Just Add Ink challenge but forgot to read the rules properly before I linked it! Whoops.

Today marks the end of kindergarten for the Davidson children. Over the past 5 years (Josh did 3 year old kinder as well as 4 year old) we've had countless artworks come home, excursions/incursions and lots of friends made. These are the gifts (and boxes)I made for the kinder teachers (and what the school teachers are also receiving). Each decoration has a photo of the kids with their name and the year written on the back (in their handwriting).

I used a bunch of supplies I had in my stash except for the jump rings I had to go out and buy... Bah!

Box on it's own

Photos of the kids I used

Josh:

Nikki:

Drew:

Bella:

If any family are reading... STOP NOW.

Family will be getting a variation on this decoration instead of a Christmas card as I never make cards for immediate family. I'll be using the photo I sent with all my Christmas cards. 

Supplies used:
Cardstock: Whisper white, basic black
DSP: Retired redish papers
Punches: 1 1/4" square, scallop edge border, round tab
Big shot: Tasteful trim die, big shot machine
Accessories: Organza ribbon (retired), real red 1/8" taffeta ribbon, silver glimmer paper

Rocky road

After reading about Retro Mummy's rocky road, I was inspired to make some. It was very simple and oh so yummy. The batch didn't last long and I have to make another one quick smart. I'm wondering how it will taste with milk chocolate instead of white? Any ideas?

Christmas cards

Now we are a week out from Christmas, I've finally sent my Christmas cards in the mail. As I mentioned in the post yesterday, it has been hectic around here of late and hasn't left me a lot of time for crafty. I've started on the teachers gifts for school and kinder and have to have them done by Tuesday (for kinder). Yikes, as I have to get some other supplies to finish them off and we have family in town too.

This is the photo of the kids I included with all the cards

Each year I also include a blurb about the kids and us and here's what I wrote:

This week...

This week has seen:

- Very little crafting but still taking photos for my December Daily
- Drew lose his 2nd tooth

- Bella's kinder concert

- Nikki get glasses

- Josh and Nikki get their school reports (Drew's is coming on Monday) and I'm super impressed with their efforts at school this year. There reports are glowing! :D

- Me win a free stamp set from Stampin' Up! for being a winner in So Shelli's creative challenge

December daily - day 5

It's silly season here and if you've been following my blog you'd notice I haven't posted many days of my December Daily. I just haven't gotten around to doing this yet and as I am planning my album to be a hybrid, it is a case of what I have time to work on right now.

My day 5 page begun like this:

I scanned in a copy of a drawing Drew did in Computer and added it to my Ali Edwards template. I then printed the template, added in some chipboard lettering (and stitched them in place for added security!) and had Drew write "by Drew" on my ipad. I printed out his handwriting and traced over it to complete the page. Of course I could have added Drew's writing in prior to printing, but I wasn't that organised! *Smirk*

Finished page

Close up of Drew's handwriting

Faux silk background

This is one of the cards we made in my recent techniques class. We focused on the faux silk technique.

Close up of the faux silk panel

I am running classes all next year, techniques classes are held the first Friday of the month at my home in Skye. I will repeat classes due to demand. Classes for 2012 will begin in February with the embossed folder technique.