My TV fix

So I love me a bit of reality TV and my favourite ever comes back on again tonight.

Can't wait for this, they're mixing it up again at the beginning of this season.

My other current favourites are this:

I'm picking Christobelle to win though I reckon Laura has a good chance as well.

And also love this show, the final is tomorrow night:

And not a reality show but the best ever Kiwi show is returning on June 2nd. Oh I can't wait - I have all 4 seasons on DVD, so looking forward to this:

Tilt-shift

While browsing the net the other day I found this fun site called Tilt-Shift Maker.
You can upload photos and it will manipulate them so that look like models. Its kinda fun and some mindless entertainment for a few minutes. Here's a few I did:

My original picture of downtown Auckland taken from the Birkenhead ferry:


And here's the Tilt-Shift version:


Isn't that cool? Here's another pic - this time with people in it: Daryl and Isla sailing (original).


And here's the Tilt-Shift version:


I don't think that one's so good. It seems to work best on scenic pictures especially with buildings or vehicles etc in them. I really like the first one though.

Mother's Day

Yesterday was lovely. I got to have a sleepin - Luca was nice and obliging! While I was doing that Isla made me this card with a bit of help from daddy. She did all the green stamping - didn't she do well! Green is her favourite colour at the moment. On the front of the card she had drawn me a spiral. Well done Isla!

Then her and daddy went and picked me up these flowers. Aren't they gorgeous? She was so proud to be bringing them to me in bed. Thankyou Isla, I had a lovely day!

Kits for Sale

So I have finally got some scrapbooking kits up for sale on Trademe. They're really great value - you get approx 6 sheets of cardstock, 25 sheets of patterned paper and various embellishments all in a coordinating kit, so everything's there for you to scrap with. I even have some on for $1 reserve!

All the kits are different - I have 5 on there at the moment but I still have some more to put up as well as some tools too. So it's worth checking out!

Here's an example of one of the kits:

Kit 1
Cardstock x 6

Patterned Paper:
American Crafts Play Pin The Tail
BasicGrey Blush Tease
Cloud 9 Chocolate Chalet x4
Cloud 9 Christy & Friends Alyssa’s Stripes
Cosmo Cricket Hello Sunshine Blowing Bubbles
Daisy D’s (part piece)
Heidi Grace Birthday
Heidi Grace Bouquet Flowers
Heidi Grace Bouquet Trim
Heidi Grace Bouquet Words
Heidi Grace Garden Flowers
Heidi Grace Garden Flowers Décor
Heidi Grace Garden Jersey Stripe
Heidi Grace Garden Mini Flowers
Heidi Grace Midnight Kisses Décor Stripe
Heidi Grace Only Time Mini Floral
Heidi Grace Heidi’s Cute Cakes Flower
KI Memories Bloom Canopy
Making Memories Audrey Scallop Circle
My Mind’s Eye Magnolia (part piece)
Prima Morning Song Collection Little Miss Sunshine
Prima Morning Song Collection Happy Go Lucky
Scenic Route Loveland Garnet Street
Scenic Route Loveland Ruby Ave

Embellishments:
7Gypsies 97% Stickers Princess
Cloud 9 Simple Thoughts Clear Epoxy Quote Stickers
Cloud 9 Vacation Title Rain Dots
Cloud 9 Vacation Words and Shapes Rain Dots
Cosmo Cricket Hello Sunshine Journalling Card
Hambly Journalling Spots Transparency (part piece)
Hambly Mini Graph Transparency (part piece)
Heidi Grace A Little Bird’s Tale Dimensional Word Stickers
Heidi Grace Heidi’s Cute Cakes Jumbo Cardstock Stickers
Heidi Grace Only Time Cardstock Alpha Stickers
Heidi Swapp Girl Fuzzy Rubons
Making Memories Friendship Velvet Stickers
Pink Paislee Vintage Moon Star Sticker

See! Heaps of stuff!!!

iNSD

{Inter}National Scrapbooking Day has come and gone. The digi world seems to really get into it - loads of sales, contests and freebies to download. I spent a bit of time downloading some huge free kits only to delete them because they weren't quite "me". There are so many designers out there with awesome stuff but I am finding I am attracted to a select few right now. Which is good for the wallet, lol. I did manage to make a few purchases over the weekend:

Some wordart which I'm loving right now.

A 365 element kit. (Not that I'm actually doing a 365 project but will still be handy).

A couple of templates which I plan to use for a first year album for Luca.

And some kits. The first two were only $1 each!

And this one was a freebie, the only one I liked!

Sale time!

It was sale time at a couple of my favourite digi stores over the weekend so this is what I got.

An absolutely gorgeous kit - I can't wait to play with this one!

Some paper block templates. I've been eyeing these for a while, I reckon they'll be rather useful.

Some monthly border frames. I want to do a monthly album for Luca's first year so these will be perfect.

And a tutorial on blending modes, something I want to learn more about.

Yum yum

Mmmm, we made gingerbread cookies on the weekend. Ever since I bought a gingerbread man cookie cutter last year Isla has been hanging out to use it. Well it finally came out of the packaging and we did it! Mmm they tasted good. We made gingerbread men and gingerbears. I have thoughts of having a regular cooking afternoon with Isla though I need to make her a new apron at some stage. Her previous one has disappeared so one of these days I'll get around to making a new one.

First digi layout

Ok thought it was about time I shared my first digi layout. This is pretty special as it's Luca's first picture as well. I'm loving doing these - i just need a laptop now so i can be more portable!

Credits:

Photogenic Kit by Paislee Press and Audacious Designs

Wordart by TaylorMade Designs

Datestamps by Amber Clegg

Wire Heart by KStudio

Font is Travelling Typewriter

This is happy.

We're getting lots of smiles and little gurgles now. So nice.

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Also I will be putting up some kits on Trademe tonight I think. Will post a link when I've got them up.

Ch-ch-changes!

Yep times are a-changing! I've decided to no longer do paper scrapbooking - I'm going fully digital! I love digital so much, its actually something I've been thinking about for a long time now. The time just finally became right for me. I'd got to the point where I was really over the amount of stuff I'd accumulated and wanted to simplify. So the great thing about digital scrapbooking is that everything is on the computer - no mess! Will share some digi layouts soon but in the meantime I have to figure out what to do with all my paper scrapbooking stuff. So I thought maybe I'd make up some kits and try to sell them on TradeMe. So that's what I've been doing this afternoon. Not sure what price to put these on for yet but each kit is awesome value and is jampacked full of yummy stuff. Here's a peek.