What a nice surprise! -Posted by Angela -UK

The other day I received this nice little package in the mail and we all like getting little surprises right? It was from Hope over at Pixie's Ponderings just as a thankyou for following her blog! Now how nice is that! It was a neat little napkin with all kinds of birds(this will be great with some of my projects) and a nice little tag card. Thank you Hope !

I also got a nice little surprise at school from one of the teachers I work with at school. For those that don't know I volunteer a few days a week at the local village school with the infants class (pre-1st grade in USA terms) Now all three of these grades are in one classroom and the teacher has to have multiple lesson plans for all the grades. I give the teachers alot of credit because it is very hard work. I really enjoy helping out in there and last week I happened to be needed there all week long. The teacher gave me this wonderful little bug box as a thank you for helping. Now it was a bug box for a reason. That week on Friday we went out to the nature area and studied what animals live in that environment(mostly bugs), hence the lady bug.

So as you can see I have been blessed with alot of kindness this week and in return for that my Sister and I would like to give out a little kindness. So if you leave us a comment we will enter your name in a drawing for a nice little surprise! Just as a thank you for being kind! We will draw the winner on July 1! Hope you have a wonderful week. Angela

Angelas post - New ATC for MAY challenge

Well since my finger is feeling better although I will be left with a nice scar as a reminder of my stupidity, I made another ATC. For this one I used Misc Bo-Bunny papers and stamped Close to my heart flowers. I cut and layered the flowers and added button centers and a little lady bug charm. the lace and ribbon are from my stash.
This ATC Card is for the Craft Den May ATC Challenge - Flowers and for the Totally Papercrafts Photo Challenge(photo below)
thanks for peeping! Have a wonderful day. Angela

Photo Inspiration for Totally Papercrafts Challenge

Basic Grey Week 18 challenge

This is my entry for the Basic Grey week 18 challenge which was a colour combo. the colors were Blue, Gold and white. For the papers I used Basic Grey Boxer for the darker and wisteria for the lighter. I used gold edged ribbon from my stash and smooch gold accent ink. the stamped images are from tim holtz and Inkadinkado. If you like my work please leave me a comment as they are greatly appreciated by both myself and my sister. Thanks Angela

School Project- april 2010-post from Cathy

Here is my new design team project for April. I was given these school themed papers from the paper company. i loved the papers and found them extremely easy to work with because they coordinated so well. I used a metal lunch box style like tin that I have had for some time- not really sure who makes it. I covered it with quickutz brown vinyl. I cut the letters out of thin sheets of metal through the quickutz. Inside is all the pages labeled pre (preschool) through 12. some have pockets some do not but more pages can be added along the way. Hope you enjoy :)

What have I been doing....

This weeekend was time for Catching up on a little miniature project work at least that was inbetween the beautiful weather. I am working on my Scrapbook store miniature. Of course there is no miniature stuff out there for Scrapbooking so it all has to be handmade and that requires alot of time so this project will be slowgoing and a learn as you go. Here is the wide shot of what I have completed so far. The slatwall is made from chair railing board turned opposite and the paper trays are thick acetate sheets cut down. all the hanging items on the slatwall are held in with pins that were then clipped down and all the hanging items are in plastic. The picture below shows my index finger to show you the scale....

and this is the little
Scrapping table notice the work in progress. It is a real miniature layout with Belles picture. I also created a tape runner and papers from Jillibean soup and even a distress ink pad and pen. I am so way crazy....the floor is wood planking with moulding around the edge. All the furniture is stained medium while I left the floor neutral.
I know I have my other blog and I will try not to duplicate posts between the 2. I put some other posts with a beautiful rainbow pic and some other projects over there too. So pop on over and take a peek. So now it is up to my darling sister to let us know what she has been up to. Happy monday. Angela

Lucky me

Here is my latest design team submission. it is a chipboard book titled Luck Me. I used a cream colored chipboard book from BoBunny and then colored it with ranger color wash inks. that gives it that great tie/dye color washed look. the paper in the book is from the Line Lucky Me. hope you enjoy and feel free to ask any questions or comment! This was posted by cathy even though it says angela- still figuring out those details!!!

Ok... so here I go!

Ok so here I go...... This is my first blog entry ever and I have to so say it is a little intimidating to someone that did not inspire to be a writer ..LOL! I apologize in advance for my grammar and run-on sentences!
Yes my wonderful sister angela or Ange as I refer to her has begged me to enter the world of blogging with her! I guess it can't be that hard to talk about what I love....SCRAPBOOKING! So let's start, my name is Cathy and I have been scrapping for about 8 years. I was also pushed in to doing that by my wonderful sister Ange! See when I started out I was a card maker- stamps mostly and I really did not have any interest yet in the scrappin world... well, 8 years later OMG I could not be more in love with it!!!! See, Ange was always the artist in the family, she took after my mother who had a natural ability to create beautiful drawings and art! As my mother put it (in a very nice way) she didn't know i had an artistic bone in my body till I started my cards and scrapbooking! to be honest I didn't think I did either! But now all that has changed and I believe I am an artist in my own right! See you don't have to naturally be talented, sometimes it needs to be developed and a true enjoyment for something can create more then you can ever imagine! So when people say " I'm not that talented", " I can't do that" I just want to say well, I couldn't before either but now I can! So here is my first entry hope you have enjoyed. :)