Kuranda Rainforest

November! Oh my!!! 

Is it just me or is this year speeding by...I'm not sure how I feel about that ;)

With the first day of the month comes a brand new sketch with Lets Scrap Sketches...

...so that much we love!

I saw some new Graphic 45 papers at the Shoppe and had to play with it using some photos of our trip to Australia and the Kuranda Wildlife Centre...awesome day and great photos of us feeding the birds!

Graphoc 45 papers are usually pretty 'busy' for me...loads of pattern and sometimes challenging to use lots of it together...I loved this sketch for adding bits of pattern to get a taste for it.

Cork alphabet...all time favourite...not sure how it'll survive the years in an album...but I don't really care, so there! LOL

Burlap and twine...all time favourite for ribbon...you can probably tell that much about my style :)

I'm sure you'll have fun with this sketch...head on over to the Let's Scrap Sketches blog to see what the other Design Members did with this sketch...check out their blogs as well as you will often see tips or techniques and usually better photos of their projects :)

Happy Crafting my Creative Peeps!!!

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more with this month's Very Merry Christmas!

I know, you might not be in the Christmas mood yet...but this October you can get a great Christmas'y stamp set for only $5.00! It is the perfect addition to your stamping collection because you can use it for layouts, cards and you can make some gift tags too!

It's easy, with any order you place of a minimum of $35 in the month of October, you can get this set for $5 !

I have created a great card today using a 6x6 Kraft card base, our new Pear & Partridge Christmas paper, Cranberry & Colonial White cardstock, our new Burlap ribbon and some Cranberry baker's Twine from our Harvest Baker's twine collection:

  

I started with our pre-done 6x6 card bases and I've scored it at 1½ inches on either side of the center fold:

Then I folded along the score lines so that the center fold comes into the middle of the card...add some heavy duty double sided tape JUST along the outer edge of the card as pictured above:

 I trimmed an opening along the folded edge so that I could slip my Gift Card into the slot...this is why I was careful not to add adhesive too close to the fold as I wouldn't have been able to slide in my card!

I adhered the Burlap ribbon along that scalloped edge of this card base, mounted the sentiment with 3D foam tape and then after I put my gift card into my card, I wrapped some of that great twine around the card twice and tied a bow...this way the person I give this to can just untie the twine and the sentiment will still be attached to my card!

Thanks for stopping in today and if you have any questions about my card, the products I've used or this month's stamp set, please contact me!

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I've got this weeks sketch from Scrapbook Challenges...its a little different and I don't totally LOVE my layout, I went a little bit crazy with spritzers...even inked up some of my photos! oops!!!

I think I'll have another go at this sketch with some different photos and papers and see if I'm satisfied with the sketch then...but sometimes you DO have to stick it down and move on...so this is a perfect example of me doing just that!

I took a couple pictures of my son and his Hockey team at their season wrap-up gathering at the Paintball place...great idea for boys...it was a really wet and muddy day so that added to the experience.

So I spritzed the Kraft card stock LOTS, which looks better up close and I also spritzed it onto the canvas alphabets which I quite liked in the end :)

The Burlap Ribbon from Close To My Heart was a little too wide so I cut it down the centre and adhered it instead...I like the burlap, it reminds me of the dirty man site at the Paintball place!

Here are the double and single page sketches...I hope you enjoy using them yourselves!