An Under the Sea Pool Party!!!

Yes, I've been missing in action for some time but with good reason, as you will soon see!

My girls both celebrate their birthdays in March and they had their pool party last weekend. The theme was "Under the Sea." I have lots (and I mean, lots) of photos to share with you. Some craft related, some not. Here goes...

First up is the octopus cake and cupcakes that I made for them. You may know that decorating cakes is my other love other than papercrafts. I have to say that this has to be my favourite cake that I have made, and the girls agreed. They loved it which makes all those hours of labour so worthwhile.

Here are the birthday girls themselves and the loves of my life... Demi turning 6 and Mia turning 9.

Next are the invitations. These are the mermaid invitations that Demi gave to her friends...

...and these are Mia's invitations. All hand coloured by moi. :)

Instead of hiding the invitations inside envelopes, I used clear cello bags and decorated them with a thin ribbon, personalised tag  and charm.

This one of the little baskets that I had the girls make as part of the crafting activity. They made these to put the spoils of the pinata into...

This is Mia with her finished basket...

And Demi with her finished basket...

This was the mermaid pinata... She's not the prettiest but she did the job. Ha ha...

Finally I want to show you the goody bags for the guests...

The weather was great on the day and all the kids had a blast! Oh, to be a child again.

Now that you've seen all of that, do you forgive me for being off the radar for a while? Ha ha...

Feel free to leave me any comments. I'd love to hear from you.

Take care.

Andrea

Class Projects

Hello everyone!

A late post for you today to show you tonight's class projects.

First up was a simple but very effective card incorporating flowers cut with the Floral Fusion die and one of the punches from the Itty Bitty Punch Pack. The leaves were cut with the Two Step Bird Punch. The sentiment is from the Happiest Birthday Wishes Hostess set. The colours used were Real Red, Garden Green, Elegant Eggplant and Whisper White.

Secondly, we tried our hand at watercolouring with watercolour pencils and a blender pen. Well, wasn't that just awesome fun?

For this card we used the delightful Elebration stamp stamped with StazOn ink onto watercolour paper. The embossing on the background was done with the Lattice embossing folder. The sentiment is from the Teeny Tiny Sentiments stamp set. It was punched with the Window punch. Again, the little flower was cut with one of the punches from the Itty Bitty Punch Pack.

Colours used were Very Vanilla, Certainly Celery and Pretty in Pink.

Lastly, the ladies chose to make one of the following little Easter gift bags/boxes:

The bags/boxes feature the gorgeous images from the Everybunny stamp set. Boy, are these cute! They were stamped onto watercolour paper with black StazOn ink and coloured with watercolour pencils and a blender pen.

Also used were the Two Tags die, Circle and Scallop Circle punches, Lattice embossing folder, the flower from Itty Bitty Punch Pack, Dotted Scallop Ribbon Border punch, Window punch, Decorative Label punch, Mini Vintage Tags, ribbon, Corner Rounder punch, silver brads and adhesive pearls. I think that's it!

The colours used were Marina Mist, Certainly Celery, Elegant Eggplant and Very Vanilla.

Phew! That's a lot of information!

The lovely ladies from tonight's class really loved their creations, and that always makes me happy. Another great night.

What do you think of our projects?

Well, off to bed now. I hope you all have a lovely weekend. Enjoy!

Andrea

Gosh, it's been a while!

Yes, it has. I have been flat out making invitations for my girls' upcoming birthdays. There was a lot of watercolouring involved with them, which took a long time but I loved every minute of it. I'll share those with you next month.

As soon as I finished the invitations I jumped straight back into trying to catch up on my scrapbooking, and here are the results.

This first page features a closeup of Mia when she lost her first tooth. Aaaaww...

The second page feature Mia's official netball team photos.

I'm just dashing out to take the girls to school so I won't write down a supplies list but if you's like to know any details, please just ask.

Hoping you all have a great day. Take care and enjoy the sunshine.

Andrea

Our Little Neighbour Turns One!

Hi everyone.

Just jumped on here to quickly show you the card I just finished for our little neighbour who turns one today...

Love the little sk8er boy!!!

The colours I used today were Crumb Cake, Night of Navy, More Mustard and Real Red. The background was stamped with stamps from the Extreme Elements set, with Crumb Cake ink. The blue cardstock was torn using the Tearing Edge ruler. The image was stamped onto watercolour paper with Black StazOn ink and coloured with SU markers. The star was punched with the large star punch and the number 1 was cut with the alphabet dies. The sentiment is from Happiest Birthday Wishes.

Well, off to do some more work on the girls' birthday party invitations and other party projects. Their birthday isn't until March but they involve a lot of colouring so I thought I'd get an early start.

Thanks for stopping by!

Andrea

My First Fancy Favour Box!

Woo hoo! I have my first ever Fancy Favor Box to show you today! It's very simple because I was in a BIG hurry. Honestly, it took me about five minutes to make. Gotta love that. Well, here it is...

This die has definitely made it onto my list of favourite crafting supplies! Can't wait for the opportunity to use it again.

Off to bed now. It's late and these school holidays are wearing me out. Ha ha... I love school holidays but they are exhausting.

See you soon. Sleep tight.

Andrea

Some School Scrapping

I think I promised you another card for my next post but instead, I have scrapbooking pages. I've fallen a little behind with the scrapping so I'm trying to get back into it.

Anyway, first up I have a page of Demi wearing her Winter uniform for the first time. Please don't ask me what 12 x 12 paper I used because I never remember the name, but they are by Stampin' Up! Well, here it is...

The second one is Mia's Year 3 photo. I scrapped the class photo too but for privacy reasons I won't post it. Anyway, here it is...

This was the first time I used the Letter It stamp set & I can see myself using it time and time again, especially for scrapbooking. I LOVE it but do you know what would make it the perfect stamp set? If it came with a matching punch! That said, the letters were very easy to cut out with scissors.

Well, that's all for this post but I'll be back in a few minutes with another project. Catch you then

Andrea