Easter hats!

Easter has hopped around very quickly this year, and soon the Easter Bunny will be hopping into our house and hopefully leaving a few chocolate goodies :)

But before then, we have the Easter hat parade at school.

Here are the two hats I have made for the girls.

Kayla's hat looks much prettier in real life, but here are a few pics of it.

I wanted to cut a bit of the tulle off it, but Kayla liked it like that.  Little poppet.

Here is Emily looking ever so sweet in her Easter hat.

The girls love their little hats, and they will probably wear them out over the next few days.

I hope you all have a wonderful Easter.

I will be back soon, hopefully with some more creating.

Take care

Tiddly Inks Tuesday

Hi everyone and welcome to another episode of Tiddly Inks Tuesday.

This week there is another fabulous challenge on the Tiddly Inks Challenge Blog.

What is it you may ask!!  It is simple really, you have to use clear acrylic somewhere on your card or creation.

Think clear acrylic card, acrylic albums, even shrinky dinks count.

Here is what I cam up with using a square of clear acrylic, which I think may have been the front of an album.

I really wish I would have taken step by step photos, because I love the way this turned out.

I covered the clear acrylic with alcohol ink to create that gorgeous mottled effect.  I then backed the acrylic with book print and sponged around the edges with white paint to give it a frosted feel.

I then added all those beautiful embellishments, and of course the focus point of my project using the delightful Tiddly Inks image You and Me.

If you would love to play along with the fabulously fun challenge be sure to head over to the challenge blog for all the details and to see some more utterly creative projects from the rest of the Tiddly Inkers.

Thank you so much for stopping by today

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

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.

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).

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.