Blogs!!!

So I was going to upload some pics of crafty things I had done. But as I recently received my fourth ecraft (this ones working right now touch wood :)), I was adding ecraft blogs to those that I follow. I got carried away in Denise's purplepaperparadise blog catching up on ecraft posts by her lol. So here it is the middle of the night and I am only just getting around to posting lol.

On the upside I was reminded that I need to take my blade cap off to cut the thicker materials and then succeeded in cutting a piece of card I couldn't cut the first day I got my newest ecraft so it was worthwhile to be waylaid lol.

So firstly here is another mini notebook. This one I made for my mum. her favourite colours are red and aqua. It was a bit of a nightmare for me because even though the colours work well together I am not used to working with that much brightness...

I have used the sizzix heart shaped locket die again. I was going to do another opening heart but for some reason my grungeboard and my chipboard ended up being different sizes. I had no problem the first time. They are both painted, maybe I used different paints. But the grunge ended up being at least 1/2 a cm smaller than the chipboard bottom layer. We see a lot of the same elements in this design that we saw in the first design just changed up a little.
The above pic shows the embossing layer, this next pic shows the dangly bits :O

This is a very quick card I threw together for a neighbours lil girls birthday party. Watercolour pencils, prima flowers, triple thick (the bottom flower has one layer of it), pearlex and a quickutz trio stamp were used to make this card.

This next one is for a card I made a couple of hours before going to an 18th birthday party. As I find it hard to do man cards it took me a while to get my head around it, but I got there in the end. This card is also a gift card holder or even a money holder if you want it to be.

As you can see nothing flash but the birthday boy was very happy with it and that's all that counts...

Back to the subject of Blogs again. I have added some blogs that I follow to my sidebar. Some are ecraft bloggers and then there is Tim, can't leave him out as I think aat least 1/4 of my scrap supplies are his lol. Becky Flecks Page Maps. If you don't know who she is check it out. Awesome !!!! Maybe not quite so much. I have found a couple of other utterly brilliant blogs I will add in the near future.

Anyways I best get to bed as its heading towards ungodly o'clock again and I have loads to do when I wake up as usual...lol

Happy Scrappin'
Purple

The First One

So here I am doing my first proper blog... I tried this once before a long time ago. I think I posted twice and forgot about it lol... It was an msn in general type of blog from memory. It was years ago, never really gotten into it.
I have a facebook but not a twitter or myspace or anything else..
I follow a couple of other blogs and now that I have my own blog I will probably end up checking out more.
I am unsure how any of it works, so it will be a learning curve.
I did manage to upload a crafty display pic of an altered notebook that I made I will see if i can add another here :) Only one way to learn right?

The above image is of flowers I made using the flower shape at the top of the photo. The flower comes from the Ecrafts fundamental 1 cartridge.

This is another altered journal I made. The heart opens up to reveal the persons name this was made for. It uses pearlex, patterned paper, Prima notary stamp and prima flowers, acetate, grungeboard, gold crackle paint, the heart locket and key is a sizzix die, stickles, ink (mostly cranberry adirondack), Mindscape stamps for the clear embossed bacground, various ribbons, charms, brads and bling.

I am a slow scrapper. Seems to take me ages to get anything significant done. I am a messy scrapper. I always have a big pile of mess around me... Seems if I put someting I was using away I want it five minutes later lol. As I scrap In the kitchen and my paper/cardstock storage system in in the kitchen and my craft cupboard is in the loungeroom it can be annoying to keep getting up to get what I need. Although I could be much better organised. I am trying to learn techniques to be faster (any hints welcome).

I have been watching drew from youtube and ustream. he is amazing and extremely fast (cardofmyeye on youtube and ustream). Creating whole mini albums in a couple of hours. I wish! lol. But one thing I have noticed that might make it a little easier is that he tends to use either a paper stack or papers from the same range. I am going to try this and see if I can do something similar to create a mini.

Youtube is my best friend. The amount of video tutorials I have watched and the techniques I have learnt are unbelievable. If I post a technique that I learnt from a youtube video I will say. I am unsure if I can post links to other peoples things as of yet so need to learn how it all works. But I will tell you who and what where I can.

Anyways this post is getting long and rambly so I shall sign off and try to start crafting enough to post on here what I am working on regularly. Thats my aim anyway :)

Purple