July at SUYS

I have been lucky to have both time and mojo recently

and have played with several challenges this month.

I will be posting a few more as time permits, but for now

it's a wintery challenge for us lot Downunder this month at

Show Us Your Stuff.

I used up a bunch of black art pad off-cuts for the layered strips and added 

grungey colour with metallic Tim Holtz distress stains. A little bit of Kindyglitz put

some frosty sparkle on my American Crafts thickers title and the button

on Charms Creations 'mini runner'.

All up a pretty quick and simple page.

Thanks so much for dropping by today

Home-made stencil on the cheap

If you've read my article in the latest Australian Scrapbooking Memories magazine 

you will recognise the stencil I have used on this page.

It's hand-cut (using a craft knife) from a muesli bar box that I salvaged out of the recycling.

It is only simple but I love it. On this page I laid it down and stamped black paint on bubble wrap through it, after I had coloured the white cardstock with some mists of course :-)

The divine crochet was made by Becci Sundberg from Lime Tree Creations 

(she is making larger items these days, her work is superb quality!)

and I also added a square paper doily, foam alpha stickers covered with Tattered Angels Chandelier Glimmer Glam, Dymo journalling, and a few pearl brads from who knows where.

Thanks so much for dropping by

Yours in scrappiness :-)

Paper Haus Spring Fling

The new Paper Haus ezine is coming soon and to celebrate

we are hopping and rak-ing again :-D
Make sure you join us for oodles of giveaways
and inspiration to kickstart your mojo.

This was one of my pages from the December issue

I'm looking forward to getting out my Spring colours now,
even though it is coming into Autumn downunder.

Yours in scrappiness