Been a Bad Blogger

I know, it's been ages since I posted so here I am with all the news about us :)

Firstly the biggest news is my Car died, yes broke down and had total cardiac arrest that not even my Paramedic hubby could revive it!! LOL. But yes, that meant a new set of wheels. Luckily Michael's Dad was here and being a former mechanic and salesman himself he got us a great deal on a second hand Tiida, it's lovely to look at and lovely to drive, perfect for me, small but not too small and well all it needs is Ambowife Numberplates LOL. I blurred out the plates for obvious reasons and I also blurred out the neighbours' house, I'm sure they don't want you looking in their windows hee hee. Okay so here she is... more news after the pics of our new little car...





So what else have we been up to, well Michael has applied to Tassie again but we're not holding our breath. Just waiting to see what happens so we can then get on with life not being in any kind of Limbo. Here's a pic of him relaxing in front of the TV with Shona, who is loving it obviously rofl, can't believe the positions this dog gets herself into and still seems quite comfortable.



As for other stuff, Over at the Studio we are talking a bit about Hybrid and mixing both Digital and Paper scrapping and off the page stuff. Well I didn't know a great deal about this side of Scrapbooking so I went googling and searching on Youtube, well didn't I fall into the quicksand as it were. There is a vertual mountain of videos showing you how to do this stuff. So I did some paper flowers just to see what all the fuss was about and wow I think I am hooked. What's another addiction between friends LOL

Here's some shots of the current work in progress, trying out some shimmer stuff and different techniques

Okay so we don't have a dining room where we are living, this is the front spare bedroom, and where our dining table resides. So it's where hubby makes his books he sells and where I play, if I am not cluttering up the lounge room LOL. Just ask Michael!!  Sorry hun!



This is the top layer of my latest flower, I used some distress inks and some shimmer to give it this look, embossing powder around the edges of the petals, (where it is darker) and then put a fake gem in some transparent glue to highlight the centre, then shaped the petals how I like.



This is the bottom layer and it's the same shape as the top, only I pinched the petals after distressing it and adding some shimmer to it, this one is inked slightly around the edges of the petals.



Not glued together yet but this is what it will look like when it's all finished, what do you think,nice and shiny isn't it!!



Here is a photo of the shimmer on another flower I made and put in my latest digital CU Kit. doesn't it just sparkle so pretty!!?



Okay so this is the latest offerings in my store, I know I know I am not pumping out kits like I used to but I have a lot to do at the Studio behind the scenes and it doesn't always leave a lot of time for playing. Plus I am cleaning during the week.

This is my CU Vintage Paper Flowers set, yes like the ones I just showed you. They are 50% off till the 4th July then full price

As you can imagine they did take a while and some cost to create and then extract so they aren't as cheap as most of my kits but so worth it I think.











Thanks for reading my lengthy post and I hope to see you over at the Studio for some fun in the Chat Room, this Monday 4 or 8 pm est (USA time) For you Aussies that is Tuesday Morning :)

You never know what I may be giving away as a treat for coming along

Hugs and be safe

Tracy

Freebie Clustered Border

Okay here's the freebie I made today from my new kit Gone a Courtin'

Download HERE

enjoy!!

New Kit is up Gone a Courtin'

This New kit "Gone A Courtin'"is a pretty collection of 15 textured Papers and 50 elements to scrap the love in your life. Be it your spouse or friends or family members, hey even your pet, this is the kit for you.

Available at SAS and DPH, so check it out today if you're in the mood for love LOL.  Totally corny eh!!

Included in the element pack are:

* 3 Bead Scatters
* 2 fabric labels
* 2 fourishes
* 1 doodle heart element
* 1 felt heart element
* 3 ric rac'd strung tags
* 1 wrapping bow
* 1 single frame
* 1 double frame
* 1 smaller strung tag
* 1 paper frame
* 1 stitching with holes
* 1 gold safety pin
* 1 camelia flower
* 5 love word bits
* 1 blank word bit
* 5 ric rac
* 5 flat ribbons
* 1 frayed folded ribbon
* 2 butterflies
* 3 bows
* 1 fabric flower
* 5 buttons
* 1 love heart tree
* 1 gold rose border

Here's some previews for a closer look :)

Okay I'll be back later with a freebie or two. I have the dentist at 2pm urgh!! so it will be after that for sure

Tracy

The new Miranda Extras are instore now

A 30 piece set of extra elements to add to Miranda, in store now



8 great BB pages to scrap quickly with Miranda

Available instore HERE



Keep an eye out for the SAS newsletter too you might get something as a bonus, hint hint

Well the voting is on for one more day in the SASy lady competition and out of the 19 designers left only 10 will go onto the final and 4th round to duel it out to see who will be our next 3 SASy designers. So check it out here and vote for your 3 favourite minis, the free minis are in the gallery HERE You have to register to vote.

Good luck to all our contestants they are coming up with some wonderful designs, and this round they aren't allowed to use any commercial use items so it is a real challenge for them all!!

Congratulations also to Flower Scraps aka Deanna aka roacha914 who gave birth this last week to her beautiful new Daughter Evelyn, check out the cutest pics on  De's blog

Just before I sign off, here are some pics I took with the zoom lens on the canon. There were a heap of Lorikeets in our bottlebrush tree out in our front yard so I snapped away in action mode to try and get some closer in shots of them, I took about 150 photos but ended up with a few quite good clear ones, here are just 3 of my favs.



Okay gotta run, things to do dinner to cook and all that LOL

Have a great day all

Tracy

Commercial Use Freebie

Well I have a commercial use freebie,  I thought some of the ladies in the designer competition might like and well I thought some of my readers might like it too so here it is.



Download Here

So the voting is on and the girls are very nervous, just like we all were last year. So if you would like to vote for your 3 favourites in this years SAS-y Designer Competition you have until midnight on 9th September (that's in the US est frame)

So not until the 10th September at 3pm  Aussie time.  You have to be a registered member of stoneaccentsstudio.com to vote and while you are there check out the gallery and download some beautiful kits HERE There are 50 entries in this first round so I am sure you will find something you just have to have LOL

Here's a link to the poll  VOTE NOW , good luck to all of the entrants this year :)

So some of you may be aware that on Saturday I turned 40, yes I am on top of that hill looking down on you all LOL. So we had a lovely quiet day and went out for dinner that evening, I had a yummy steak and dessert, and yes I ate every mouthful LOL. Michael got me some movie tickets and a new drink bottle holder for my bike, the kind you can put vertical on your handlebars so it's a lot easier to use that the one I had.

And I bought a new camera, a Canon eos DSLR 1000D it's gorgeous and it's got a zoom lens bonus too so the commercial use freebie is my first offering from that. Christopher bought me a camera too, but I had already got this one so he is going to take it back and hopefully get the money and give that to us to help pay for this one.

Here's a pic

Okay so that's it for today I might be back with some of the layouts I created with the kits from the competition, mitsybelle and I split them between us and managed to get every kit scrapped with. Phew LOL

Have a great day/night

Hugs

Tracy

Check out the gallery

I just found out how to add a javascript gallery to my blog, so exciting LOL

So if you click on the gallery link on the tab at the top of the header it will take you to my gallery

of layouts created by me with my kits.

I am thinking of doing another one to show off my CT's layouts too.

So since you all just had a look and got excited with me LOL, here's a freebie Quickpage for you

all. Have fun with it :)

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Here's a layout I made it from using my new kit Red Wine n Rag Time

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Tracy

Look what's new and ON SALE!!!

I am now exclusive to SAS and to celebrate, my New Kit "Red Wine n Rag Time" is on sale at 50% off!!!

That's crazy, you get it for just $2.25. But only till the end of July!!

Check it out in my SAS Store today

16 papers for cropping and 52 pieces to play with in the element set.

Keep an eye out for the freebie samples coming to my blog very soon!!

A Preview of the Freebie While I Wait - Link Now posted

For the zips to upload that is LOL. The links should be up soon.

Firstly a big THANK YOU SO MUCH KISS KISS KISS AND HUGS

to all those who voted for me, or even those who tried to but were having problems with the site.

I appreciate it so much.

If you download this one AND you like it consider casting your vote and if you don't like it don't vote for me but for the kit you DID like the most.

This is my next freebie for you over at stonaccentsstudio.com.

If you haven't joined SAS this month and want these freebies you best run over there and register.

The Designer Competition Gallery

You can download 33 kits from last weeks round and

33 from this weeks round, once they are all uploaded.

So why not join, they have a download a day on at the moment too. There's heaps going on for theirBirthday Bash throughout September.

Well it took me about 36 hours non stop to design this kit. And NO SLEEP!!

That's where it got it's name, cause today, Sunday here, I anticipated being Lazy and doing nothing.

But I'm not LOL.

So this Kit "LAZY SUNDAYS" IS MY FREEBIE FOR THIS WEEKS ROUND.

It's HUGE over 204 MB of pretties.

So that means 20 Papers, 20 Elements And a bonus Quickpage, just waiting for you

The kit includes:

20 Papers

4 frames

1 furry fastener

1 shopping bag

3 Bow Ribbons

1 plain Ribbon

4 digitally painted Flowers

1 Tag on a string

1 floral bulldog clip

a journalling block

a stitched denim patch

and a zipper

and the quickpage....all for free

ENJOY THE FREEBIE

Sorry these files are no longer available,

to purchase the whole kit please see my TTS Store

Plus.... You never know what I might put up here for you to ADD to your stash of Lazy Sunday, so keep your eyes peeled for the freebies here too. I'll be back later with the links and a little surprise maybe, we'll see!!

So the voting commences on Monday at 6 MCT that's in the US. Here in Australia that is 9am Tuesday morning. So join now so you can VOTE for the next Sassy Designer. As before, you can vote for up to 4 Designs and you must be registered there to vote and to download.

Here's a Layout I did with the Kit

I hope you all like the kit and get a lot of enjoyment out of all the kits this week. I have seen Mistybelle's and it's so pretty. Mistybelle lives here in Australia too and she is another who stayed up all night to finish her kit and get it posted LOL. WE love to Design.


My little blinkie I made with my New kit "Lazy Sundays"

HUGS

TRACY

PLEASE VOTE FOR ME

Fallen Heroes by Ambowife

HERE

http://www.4shared.com/file/61901289/1cd05029/Ambowife_FallenHeroes_Papers.html

http://www.4shared.com/file/65907987/2619e900/_2__Ambowife_FallenHeroes_P2_and_elements.html

http://www.4shared.com/file/61895097/a8d9be82/Ambowife_FallenHeroes_P3.html

http://www.4shared.com/file/61907243/75dba9e7/Ambowife_FallenHeroes_P4.html

http://www.4shared.com/file/61853519/61e869bb/Ambowife_FallenHeroes_P5.html

IT FINALLY IS POSTED AND YOU CAN VOTE FOR AS MANY AS YOU LIKE AS LONG AS YOU CLICK THEM ALL AND THEN CLICK SUBMIT!!!

Make sure you activate your account via the email SAS sends you so that you can download and vote!!

And keep an eye out next monday cause there are 4 weeks of this and if I get through to the next round there will be another free kit next week. MONDAY

GOOD LUCK TO ALL THE CONTESTANTS, YOU ARE ALL AWESOME IN MY EYES!!

HUGS

TRACY

September colour challenge freebie

Okay so here's my mini for the SAS colour Challenge this month. Hope you all like it.

Leave love and don't share send those who want it here or to SAS

Elements

Papers

Now for those of you looking for the voting page to vote for me or anyone else for that matter, we are still waiting for it to be posted. If you find it could you let me know, all the contestants are tearing their hair out LOL. I'll post the link here as soon as it is up.

VOTE HERE FOR FALLEN HEROES FREEBIE

Hugs

Tracy

Okay So I've been Lazy!!!

You know how it is, I have had an inspiration drought
these last few days and Michael has been off and home
so I tend to feel a little guilty if I spend every minute
on the computer when he's home LOL. Mind you a lot of
the time he is studying too, so there ya go!!! Even!!

Well If you want a freebie run over to TerrellS blog and
grab a QP or two, she has posted 8 so far so better be
quick LOL.

Alright well I am going okay with the Weight Watchers so
far, actually I am finding it quite easy but then I haven't
had to go out to eat or supress my Chocoholic fantasies of
late LOL. So the big test will probably come when I am in
Melbourne, I know that I will not have to worry when i am
at my Mum's as she is always eating healthy so it should be
smooth sailing there and she walks almost every day too, so
I will actually have company LOL. No, Michael doesn't come
along with me on my walks LOL. I was a bit peeved today as
I got a little not from the PO letting me know we had a package
there and so I decided I would walk so I did. It's the right
distance for my walk so that will be my walk out of the way for
the day LOL. Little did I know until I got there that they are the
only PO in the whole of Sydney that isn't open on Saturday
morning. GRRR. Anyway so I didn't have to worry about the walk
being broken. LOL.
So that's that, I am hoping for a great loss on Monday when I
weigh Myself. I have a good feeling LOL.
And I don't know if it is just in my mind but I feel like I've lost
weight LOL.

Onto Scrapbooking LOL.
Here is the first one.


This is my Mum and her great Aunt, I used
Demiurgia's Frangipani kit for these.



Auntie Sadie Using Dablues By TerrellS.



These are my cousin's Girls feeding the ducks in
Northern Ireland.
The kit is Summer Whispers by Terrells.

Beautiful Glitter Kit by Scrap Carli is the one used to
scrap this pic of my Mum and My cousin's daughter Carli,
no you aren't seeing double, that's her
name too!! LOL!!



The same kit Beautiful Glitter by Scrap Carli and this one
is of my cousin Jacqueline, top pic is with my mum and
bottom pic is with her mum My aunt Betty.



Quiter's Stash by Calico Designs (Christine M Stone)
available at sss.
This is Carli again with mummy this time LOL.



Another LO of Gabby learning to knit!! This is Quilter's Choice
by Calico Designs again.



Alright this is a pic of my Grandparents on my Mum's side,
don't you love old heritage pics LOL!!
The kits used are all Terrells -
Summer Whispers, Heritage Freebie,
Announcement Blog Freebie

Okay so that's it for me, I have to get going on some other
things now so have a great day!!!
Hugs
Tracy