Twiddleybitz Christmas Blog Hop!!

Hello everyone and welcome to my leg of the Twiddleybitz Blog Hop!  The last Twiddleybitz blog hop was my first and I made some Christmas Cards - I do hope everyone found this inspirational and was able to make at least one!!!

I hope you've been enjoying our Christmas Blog Hop it so far - so many beautiful and inspirational creations and fantastic prizes!

I would just like to say a quick but very genuine THANK YOU to Nic, Andrew, Tiff and the other Design Team members for having me on the team.  I am in constant wonder as to why I was picked!  While unfortunately my personal life is a little "restraining" (shall we say) at the moment, my mind is never far from my Twiddleybitz!!  I have so many projects planned out in my little book but limited time and space atm to do them!  I can't wait to share them all with you but (for now at least) we'll start with my latest and then go one at a time!!!  (I'd love it if you stuck around after the hop :-P)

I have been looking at all the 'card hangers' that have been available in the shops - from the ones that look like a very stretched santa to the silver string will small silver pegs... I've tried a few of these out in previous years and this year decided to improve on them!  I have created my Christmas Card hanger!

I have used an array of Twiddleybitz chipboard pieces and the gorgeous Coloursprays in additional to blossoms and other bits and pieces... I hope you like!  The gold cards and envelopes in the picture are from a class I taught recently at StampAntics in Brisbane - It was my first time back in the 'teaching saddle' and I loved it - I never really knew just how much I missed it!

I also taught a layout class that same day and love the layout sooo much - I really want to share it with you - I hope you like it!  It's one of my all-time favourite pictures of Riley, he is really photogenic so I do have a lot of favourites waiting to be scrapped!  I used a number of Twiddleybitz Chippy pieces and love the sparklies!!

Anyhoo - I really should get on with it! LOL  Please have a looksee at my card hanger, It took a while to create but that was more from arranging and re-arranging the order of the pegs and the embellishments, and mis-cutting the bead string than through any difficulty!!

Please leave a comment below and tell me what you think of my card hanger, and if you sign up to follow my blog as well (or are already following me) I'll put your name in the draw for a very secret and wonderful surprise gift from Santa.

Pegged out at work on our special sound absorbing walls!

The gorgeous candy was put through the big shot, sprayed with Fern Coloursprays and rubbed with Silver to highlight the raised surface.

Poppy spray with a little Lippyliscious and silver rub for the candy, fern for the star with some gold wire and red ribbon, flower sprayed with the coloursprays also.

Lippyliscious sprayed on Poppy for the pegs, fern for the Tweeny trees, walnut and gold for the gingerbread man with large green brads and googley eyes!  Gold paint on the bauble.

Gold paint on the Merry Christmas with 3 red buttons, Fern on the candy and fancy bauble, poppy on the star with music script stamp in black stayzon with gold paint on edges. 

 Fern on the fancy bauble, poppy on the star with music script stamp in black stayzon with gold paint on edges. 

I cut every 15th ball from the gold ball garland (Coles) with tin snips, being very careful not to cut the string, then decided the pegs would be too far apart so cut every 8th ball off as well!  I painted all the wooden pegs, Erin helped me with this - finally ending up the 'golden child' as I knew she always was - literally!!! (spraying would have used too much and taken too long), then I decorated all my chippy and created my flowers.  Before attaching the embellishments to the pegs I made sure I was happy with their order and matching pegs, then glued them on with Pritt gel glue.

Thank you for looking - I hope you've enjoyed my latest creation.  Don't forget to comment and follow my blog to get a secret surprise from Santa  *<:-)

Checkout the Ning throughout the Twiddleybitz Blog Hop for competitions and Prizes, inspiration, and a whole heap of chat!  www.twiddleybitz.ning.com

Your Next Blog Hop Host is Karola Witczac at 6pm AEST.  I can't wait to see her lovely creations!

I'd like to leave you with a little verse that is inside all our Family Christmas Cards this year:

Our Wish for You in 2011





May peace break into your home

and thieves come to steal your debts. 

 



May the pockets of your jeans become

a magnet for $100 bills. 

 



May love stick to your face like Vaseline

and laughter assault your lips!

 



May happiness slap you across the face and your tears be that of joy

 



May the problems you had, forget your home address! 

 



In simple words ............




May 2011 be the best year of your life!!!

Merry Christmas

and a Happy New Year!!

Published for Christmas - thanks Santa! SC 84 - p88

Just wanted to share a little toot with you :-)

It's been a long time since I was published and it's always such a thrill to see your work in print.  Scrapbook Creations issue 84, page 88; My two cards are accompanying the wonderful work of the gorgeous Tiff Sawyer (now a Scrapbooking Memories Master by the way - as if we didn't already know how special she was  ;-)).

I encourage everyone to submit your work to the magazines - it's a great confidence booster and it's a double joy - the excitement when you find out you've had your work accepted and then a few months later when the magazine comes out.




Merry Christmas everyone!

TFL - Mwah! XXX
Jen

Don't forget your envelopes!

It's lovely to see all the beautiful handmade cards around at Christmas but I do worry. A flat colored envelope at best is what I see holding people's Christmas cards (and cards for other occasions!). I'm sorry but I do not want white, gold, silver, red, or even green envelopes holding my cards!!! I want to see decorated envelopes too!!!!

It is a little limited if you are sending things through the post but not impossible :-). And if you are hand gifting your card - the possibilities for decorating your envelope are endless!!!

Why bother? I hear you ask, well - do you like that special gift just handed to you or do you like to rip off the wrapping paper and joke about keeping it for next year? It's just one of those things that make your card, and your effort just that little bit 'more' and especially if you are enclosing money or vouchers or a store-card.

Here are some envelopes I have decorated - fairly plain for sending through the post, a bit of masking and misting using Twiddleybitz coloursprays and ink, even running the envelope through my big shot!!

TFL - Mwah! XXX
Jen

Christmas is coming

A couple of cards...

Very plain but I have limited supplies - it's driving me nuts!









TFL - Mwah! XXX
Jen

A bouquet 60 years in the making...

It may have taken 60 years but my grandparents have finally cut a wedding cake.  Their 60th Wedding Anniversary was last week.

They met when they were 17 years old, him a butcher's apprentice from Lincolnshire and her a young lady from London.  She was walking down the street one day and he wolf whistled at her, that was the beginning!  They waited until they were 21 to get married - to get approval from their families, which didn't come.  They were married in a registry office on the 11th of the 11th 1950.  They worked hard and had a baby in 1953 (my mum), and moved to Australia in 1955 to start over in a new country, knowing it would be hard but doing it anyway - what did they have to lose?

60 years later they have 4 children, 4 grandchildren, 3 great grandchildren and a tight-knit circle of friends, who were there to help them celebrate and see them finally cut their wedding cake.  There is not a more deserving couple.  Still in love after more than 60 years, a true rarity these days.

 I love you Nanna and Poppy.

Green Tara Sprays included in the bouquet.

Has been really busy...

Packing and moving but will have stuff to show soon :-)


TFL - Mwah! XXX
Jen

Melbourne Cup fascinator

To go with my black n white dress... With a matching ring in the background.





'net ribbon', bead spray, blossoms from Green Tara, shimmer spray from Twiddleybitz, and a pearl jewel from Kaiser. Clip from spotlight.

TFL - Mwah! XXX
Jen