Mt Gravatt Show - Winning Enteries

I just had to show everyone the two Scrapbooking Pages with which I won the First Prize for Scrapbooking. 

I loved the photo of my grandson enjoying himself at the park, the way he was laughing while enjoying the ride on the big tyre.  I had wanted to do this page for quite a while so I took the opportunity of doing it to put into the competition. 

The page is showing the way he enjoys himself whenever he goes to the park.

The second page I was trying to show the love between my daughter and her husband on their wedding day.  It also showcases the hundreds and hundreds of flowers I made for the wedding - for her bouquet, the bridesmaids bouquets and the many many flowers used as table decorations, on the back of chairs and scattered all over the receptions. 

I just wish to thank all the organisers at the Mt Gravatt Show in all the different sections like Cottage Craft and Cake Decorating.  Without all your hard work and voluntering your services activities like this wouldn't happen.   

Mt Gravatt Show - Champion Scrapbooker

 My daughter can be such a pain sometimes but this time all her nagging has finally paid off for me. 

She was putting some of her beautiful decorated cakes from Tara's Sweet Surprise into the cake competition at the Mt Gravatt annual show.  She harped and harped that I should put something into the Scrapbooking competition. 

So I decided to put in a selection of articles that I have made over the past twelve months and also decided to make a scrapbooking canvas showing my her Wedding.  

The articles I put in included the canvas of the happy couple, her bouquet, a scrapbooking book showing their journey from engagement to wedding and also a sample of the invitation.   

I have to give a big big thank you to my daughter for all her nagging as I won Champion for all the group or articles I submitted. 

In the next couple of weeks I will show you how I made the bouquet and will also show pictures of the little book showing the happy couples journey and how to make the flowers for the bouquet along with more about the invitation. 

A BIG THANK YOU TO MY DAUGHTER TARA FROM TARA'S SWEET SURPRISE

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New Supervisor

Where I work for my day job, we have been going through a big restructure and I was fortunate enough to get a new supervisor.  I have known the wonderful lady for a number of years but was never fortunate enough to have her as my supervisor before. 

How this could be seen as sucking up to the boss, but on my second day in the new team happens to be her birthday. 

Hence the beautiful card below - 

I made the card especially in the colours she loves (mind you they are my favourte colours as well).

I used a mixture of papers for this card, some of them I do not know where they even come from. However for future blogs I will try and endavour to let you know what materials I use. 

Christmas in July.

I had some fun this weekend after I found this frame in the back of the cupboard of my craft room I decided I needed to do something with it. I know it is a bit early for Christmas but sometime you just have to go with the flow.  

I first made the tags making sure that they fitted in the frame and didn't look to full. Then I enjoyed cutting Christmas dies, picking all the different papers I used along with the embellishments   I tried to keep to the white and golds but just had to add the red nose to the reindeer. 

Hope you all enjoy this lovely piece.