What's been happening!

Wow what a couple of weeks. We were struck down with a horrible, horrible flu. Every time I thought I was getting better, the next day I would feel miserable again. Poor little Emily then got an ear infection, so some yummy antibiotics for her. Kayla and Matt managed to miss the bulk of it thank goodness. But we are all well again and ready to get back into some creativeness.

My computer also had a meltdown. I guess I overworked it with all my demands lol. But hubby is going to kindly let me use his computer, so it is all good. Now I just have to learn how to share with him and not load his computer up too much with all of my things lol.

Needless to say there hasn't been much scrapping going on of late. So I don't really have too much to show you except this little Kaisercraft door hanger I have made for my niece.

It uses the gorgeous new wood flourishes that Kaisercraft have released. Very yummy indeed.

What else has been happening in the Ludlow household? We got Kayla's very first school report....and she is doing very well. Her reading and maths are both at "above grade level" and she is in a little group of kids in her class that are getting extension work for their reading. Cool hey! Very proud Mummy here. But what I am most proud of is that her report card stated that her manners, ability to take turns, share and co-operation is at an "above grade level". I put a lot of value in the academic side of school, but I think it is equally important for a child to be polite, helpful and kind. So very, very pleased. Well that is about it really. We have all been just relaxing and recuperating here. Hopefully the creativity will start flowing again and I will have some more things to show you soon.

Until then

Take care

Winding Down

So the end of my Kaisercraft year has finally arrived. I finished my final Kaisercraft project off this morning :( It is sad to say good bye to this wonderful team, I have had such an amazing time. And the products.....well they were always a pleasure to work with. I feel so blessed to have met so many new friends who I may not have otherwise met.

Ali, Mel and Al, you were all a delight to work for. You are three of the most beautiful women I have ever had the pleasure of meeting. Gorgeous, gorgeous ladies.

So with this being my final week on the Kaisercraft blog (feel free to stop by and say hi), I will have a few show and tells for you.

Today I can share with you a couple of pieces of wall art I made using the yummy Hey Birdie and Le Chateau collections.

This first piece is a canvas using the delightful Kaisercraft Leaf Album and Hey Birdie collection. When I was preparing to start work on this as a mini album, I noticed that when it was layered together it looked like a rose. So I instead decided to make in into a little canvas for my scrap space.

My fascination and addiction for making something to display didn't stop there however. I then carried on to make this little project using the Kaisercraft Accordian Frames and the Le Chateau range.


I love the way this turned out, and I am thinking now I will get a few more packs of these accordian frames and make an even bigger one.

So with Kaisercraft winding down, where to next. Well never fear I will still be creating. In fact this lovely book arrived on my doorstep yesterday and there are a few little projects in there that are begging to be made. Plus lots more scrapbooking and beyond the paging to be done:)

I will be back soon though with some more Kaisercraft creations.
Until then take care

Ella lives here!

I am loving playing with all of Kaisercrafts latest releases. I am particularly fond of Hey Birdie and Jungle Bug. These are two of the cutest little ranges. Not to mention the specialty papers...how fantastic are they.

I did have a layout from both ranges to show you, but my Hey Birdie layout has been picked up by Scrapbooking Memories (yay me). It feels like I haven't submitted for a while, so it was great to receive one of those acceptance emails. I still get a thrill each time I see a layout in print. I don't think that will ever change lol.

I do have my Jungle Bug layout to share though.

This little cutie-pie is my niece Ella. She turned a big two years old recently. How the time has flown by. Don't you just love her little chubby legs. She is such a sweetie.

I hope you have all had a wonderful week. Kayla's kindergarten class is hosting the school assembly tomorrow morning, and apparently they are singing songs and putting on a play. I can't wait for that!

I will be back soon with some more creations.

A little bit of Magic

Long time no post. Or at least that is the way it feels lol. I have been busy with the kidlets and a few other bits and pieces. On the weekend Kayla went to a friends birthday party. It was a dress-up party with the theme of Harry Potter or magic. So as a last minute decision I decided I would make her a wizards hat. It had to be pink of course. It was pretty rushed, but Kayla loved it. Then again it is not that hard to please a 5 1/2 year old (thank goodness). I found it really funny that I can create lots of lovely things for scrapbooking and love it, but when it came to making a cardboard hat I really struggled lol.

Anyway here is my little wizard all dressed up

And a bit more of a close up of that hat...

What else have I been up to? I decided on Monday morning that I would make a few little items for the Mother's Day stall at school this week. It is such a cute little idea. Parents donate little items, and the children take their money and buy little goodies for their Mums. So I decided to make a few simple little notebooks and lolly bags. They are all made using the Kaisercraft 6x6 paper pads.

It is amazing what you can achieve in a couple of hours. They are very simple but I didn't want to spend a lot of time on them.

I hope you have had a fabulous week so far.

Mum's the word-on now!

In my previous post I mentioned that the Kim Archer's Mum's the Word @Home Mother's day workshop was kicking off on Monday. Well it is now well under way and all I can say is wow!!! The projects have been amazing so far, and I can't wait to see the rest. See the one in the bottom right hand corner...that is mine :)
There is still plenty of time to book into this class, so to find out more information or register go here.

On another note I have been busy playing with the Q4 releases from Kaisercraft. Can you believe it has been one year since I joined this wonderful team. How time flies!

Here is a layout I made using the Utopia collection.

I was a little worried about this collection because they aren't colours I would normally choose. But I was pleasantly surprised with how beautifully they came together in this layout.

Next up is a Family History folder that I have made using the Kaisercraft Recipe book and Tea at Elsie's collection. Anyone researching family history would know that the amount of information to sort through and find can be a little overwhelming. So I thought it would be fantastic to put it all in the one spot, safe and sound.

Inside the folder I have used the 6x6 paper pads to make mini-layouts of any photos that I find. These are just simple little pages to tell me who is in the photo.

I hope you have found some time to be creative lately.

Tea Anyone?

Have you seen the Tea at Elsie's collection from Kaisercraft yet? If not you should have a bit of a lookie. The colours in it are so soft and pretty, my sort of papers. I have only made one layout so far with this collection, but my mind has been racing with ideas for BTP projects.

“With each step” by Renee Ludlow – Tea at Elsie’s papers, die cut elements, colour rub-ons, black rub-ons, clear stamps, ink (brown and moss), 6×6 paper pad, Alpha stickers (cream), chipboard alphabet #2, wood flourishes (curls), paper flowers (snow).

On another note I didn't make the Kim Archer @home support team. But I am not disappointed at all, two very talented ladies were chosen and Kim has asked me if I wanted to be Guest Tutor sometime in the future. So that in itself is extremely exciting for me. Yay me!!

Have a fantastic Thursday everyone.

Tick tock-Kaisercraft Round Clock

Hellloooo everyone.

Wow this week has flown past. I have been busy having fun with the girls while Kayla is on school holidays. Emily is loving her big sister being home again. Although at times when they are bickering a little time out for them both wouldn't hurt:)

We have had a few little appointments for Kayla while she is on holidays. The first was with a speech therapist to see if she needed to have any further help with her articulation of a few sounds. It turns out it is only a minor problem and we are going to try an at-home program to try and correct it. We also had to have her hearing re-tested and thank goodness that came back all clear. Only one more appointment to go to, and that is the physiotherapist for her feet. Kayla is loving going to all these places and meeting these new people, it is all so exciting. Little treasure she is.

Talking about how fast these school holidays are going, here is a Kaisercraft Round Clock that I made using the La Di Da range. You can find some quick tips on how I made it on the Kaisercraft blog.

This clock now sits in Kayla's room and she loves it! She knows how to tell the time on it a little bit. Mainly the time when morning tea, lunch and afternoon tea should be served. These are the most important times for her apparently lol.

We don't have any major plans for the weekend. We may venture to the farmers market to grab some fresh fruit and veg, but other than that I think it will be a quiet one at home.

I hope you have all had a fantastic week and that your weekend is filled with fun.

Sew Handy

Oooops! I was going back through my blog last night when I realized that I hadn't yet shared my Kaisercraft Storage Drawers with you. I think I must have posted them everywhere else, but then forgot to post them here on my own blog. I remember telling myself to post them...but I guess I never did (oops). So to resolve this slight error in memory here are my Kaisercraft Storage Drawers using the Made With Love collection.

I decided to turn my drawers into a little sewing box to hold my bobbins, tape, pins, needles, embroidery thread and other little bit and bobs. It has turned out to be one of my most used storage solutions.

So now that I have shared that little creation, what are your plans for Easter? We are having a very quiet long weekend. Sunday we will wake up and do a little Easter Egg hunt around the house, and then we are heading down to Lanyon Homestead for another Easter Egg hunt. I am sure the kids will absolutely love that (it is going to be a surprise). This morning the girls and I decorated a few little eggs. Here is the end result.

Aren't they just they cutest little eggs ever. I found these little shrink wraps at a homewares store, and basically you put the wrapper around the egg, pop it into boiling water for three seconds and voila you have decorated eggs. So very cute, and the girls love them to bits. Tomorrow we are going to get a bit more adventurous and paint some eggs, I may even have to pull out the Kindyglitz for them :)

I hope you are all enjoying your Friday and if I don't pop on again before Easter, I wish you and your families a blessed Easter filled with lots of love (and of course a little bit of chocolate).

Proud Mummy

I sit here today a very proud Mummy. Kayla received an award at her school assembly this morning which I was thrilled to see. She received it for being confident, having a positive attitude, getting along with others and being persistent. She got a cute little certificate and a voucher for the canteen. She was very excited! Also on the weekend was the Charny Carny a school fundraiser. There was a competition for the children to make a pig and Kayla wanted to give it a go. Here is her gorgeous little creation called Rose the pig.

Kayla made most of it herself I just guided her when it came to covering the pig in newspaper before she painted it. I thought she was just going to make a simple pig, but when it came to painting she decided it also needed mud on her feet. So she painted mud. Then Kayla decided the pig couldn't be a nudey rudey and she wanted a skirt for it. So she used a muffin case as the skirt. Then Rose needed a bow which Kayla glued into place. She even curled the little piggy tail before adding it. I was so proud of her end result. She took her time (something she is learning at school) and the piggy turned out fabulous...don't you think.

I have also done a little bit of creating lately, although nowhere near as gorgeous as Kayla's creations. First is a little door hanging I have made for Emily's bedroom using the very cute Kaisercraft mini-stamps. I love these new stamps they are so versatile, great for layouts and cards alike.

And here is a layout I made on the weekend using Webster's pages. This is one of my favourite photos from last Christmas.

Well that is all from me today( I really just wanted to jump on and share Kayla's exciting achievement). I hope you are all well and thanks for stopping by.

Take care

A Kaisercraft Day

Hi everyone.

Today I thought I would share with you the rest of my Kaisercraft projects from Q3. I have said it before, but I think I will say it again that I absolutely loved this Q3 collection. Gorgeous ranges and embellies, I can't seem to get enough of them lol. Here are a couple of cards using Devonshire and La Di DaNext up is the cute memo block made with Devonshire. I love this little memo block. They are so simple to make that they would be great last minute gifts!


Here is a layout using Peachy Keen. I love, love, love these papers but I wasn't really thrilled with the way this layout turned out so I might add something to it later. Then again maybe it is just because there is a photo of me on it lol.

Finally is the Kaisercraft journal. Every girl needs a journal/notebook of some description so I was thrilled when Kaisercraft released this sweet journal. I have used the bold colours of Gypsy Sisters on mine. I love the way this tuned out.

I haven't really got much else to report, we have been just having loads of family time which is so lovely. Kayla is learning so much at school I am so pleased with how far she has come in just the few weeks she has been there. She is learning Japanese and her reading is coming along in leaps and bounds. She loves reading to me at night time now and if I do read to her then I must be careful not to read any words she know or else I am in trouble :) Her teacher has been sick this week and she is missing him a little bit. She made him a cute little get well card which was very sweet.

Well that's about it from me today. I hope you are all well and happy.
Take care.

My Family

Good morning!

Two posts in two days,wow that must be a record of late lol. Anyway I just thought I would pop on this morning to share with you a little BTP that I have made for Kaisercraft. It uses the fantastic new photo display that was released in Q3. At first I wasn't quite sure how I was going to approach it, but I ended up deciding on doing some little snapshots of my wonderful family.

I used the stunning Devonshire collection (one of my new favourites) to create it, don't you just love the colours of it. I absolutely love the way this turned out, if I get a chance I will try and get some more detail photos of it.

Anyway I just thought I would would pop in and share this with you.
I hope you all have a great day.

A little catch up

Wow have these past few weeks flown by. I find that I am having so much fun watching Kayla blossom at school that everything else is getting left behind. However i have had the chance lately to do some scrapbooking and a few other bits and pieces so I thought today I would have a little catchup.
This week on the Kaisercraft blog the very talented Tanya Tahir and myself will be posting our Q3 projects daily. If you haven't had a chance to pop over there be sure to stop by and say hi. Here are a few layouts that I can show you now.

This first layout uses the very fun La Di Da collection. Tanya and I decided it would be fun to create a shaped layout, so I was inspired at the time by Miss Kayla's wobbly tooth (which I am now proud to announce has finally fallen out).



This next layout uses the lovely Gypsy Sisters collection. You may recognize this photo from earlier posts, it is one of my favourites.


This final layout uses the absolutely gorgeous (one of my favourite ranges ever) Devonshire collection. I love all the embellishments and papers in this colloection, i can't stop drooling over it.

I also have a BTP to share, but that will have to wait until tomorrow.

So until then, thanks for stopping by.
Take care

Feeling inky!!

Have you checked out the gorgeous new inks Kaisercraft have released!! If not you can check them out here. They are so much fun to work with and the colours are so rich and vibrant, I just love them. I decided I was going to make a set of cards with the ink set, but I didn't want to stamp. So I decided to grab out my trusty old makeup wedges, hand cut some simple mask and stencil shapes and away I went happily inking. These are the cards that I ended up creating.


A journey....begins with a thought in your mind and the courage to give it a go....and pray it works lol (or at least that is what I did)Just because...you feel the need to get dirty and messy with ink doesn't mean it is always a good idea (especially when wearing a white shirt)

Friends....well what can I say if you have friends you never feel lonely

Thinking of you....and hoping that you like these cards as much as I do

I added some stitching for a little bit more detail and some rub-on sentiments. I have never really done anything like this before so I was really thrilled with the way they turned out. I hope you like them too.

Chat soon

Tooth Fairy!!

Another momentous occasion happened yesterday in the Ludlow household. Kayla got her first wobbly tooth. When I told her her tooth was going to fall out soon, she burst into tears. Poor little poppet. But when she was told the tooth fairy would come she got a little more excited. We go through periods of excitement and sheer terror, but I am sure when it finally comes out she will be very excited. I decided I wanted to make a little pouch for her to put her tooth in, so I Googled the internet for patterns. Then I came across this darling little tooth fairy from this very talented lady and I couldn't resist making it for my big girl. It was so cute and I loved the way the little mouth acts as a pocket to hold all Kayla's special little teeth. So this morning was spent sewing and stuffing this little sweetie, all under the very watchful eye of Kayla. Although she was full of encouragement with comments like "that is coming along great Mum"and "You are doing so well Mummy", lucky she is easy to please lol.

There is some tulle under the flower on her head, but this doesn't show up very well in the photo. She now hangs on Kayla's door in anticipation for the moment when that pearly white finally falls out.

Today I thought I would also show you the two layouts that I made using Kaisercraft's two January releases Made With Love and Shaken Not Stirred. I didn't know how I would go with these ranges because they didn't really fit my style, but I have to tell you they were an absolute pleasure to work with. I love them both!!
Made With Love
Shaken Not Stirred

So that is our news for Sunday!! I still have to get Kayla's school uniforms ready for the week, so I best not delay any longer.

I hope you have had a fabulous weekend
Chat soon