Enjoying the Sunshine!

Sunshine! Oh how I love thee!!

Is it bright and sunny out your way? It is here {standing near the window to soak up the rays for a minute}! I LOVE SUMMER!! Though I hear it's gonna be an El Nino this year, so hot hot hot hot and dry dry dry. But I reckon I prefer that over last year's wet and cold summer! We didn't go to the beach once over Dec/Jan! Lucky we'd had our beach holiday at Yamba and Arrawarra in September or Jai would never have known what sand felt like between his toes!
Anyway, here is a page I did recently with pics from the end of summer ealier this year.... remember when it finally got hot in February? Weird! I was so happy when the sun finally came out, cos it meant we could start having picnics in the backyard {clapping hands}. We've already had so many lunches out the back this Spring already, I'm sure Summer will see us out there plenty more!
Fun stuff on this page: The tree sticker at the top, which I layered on with a bird rub-on. I never do that- layer rub-ons I mean, and I'm not sure why, cos this tree was begging for a little birdie! I should layer them more often! And I love the "woodgrain" print BG paper, and chevron paper and washi tape. Oh this page contains my Top 5 (current 5 fave scrapping products!) PP, Stickers, Thickers, Washi tape and journalling spots! {High Five!}
Happy Long Weekend!
:) C

A Jai Page and my current Top 5.

Hi y'all!
Nearly our little bubba's 1st birthday! It's been a mad week of crafting (paper cones, cupcake toppers, party games etc), cooking (cupcakes, birthday cake etc) and painting (the pergola that we have been saying we'll paint for a month, and now it's time for the party we're doing the mad rush last minute paint job. Why oh why do we do that??!!) So I haven't been doing any scrapping. In fact, I did 2 pages when I visited Yvettes and that was the last I've done! {smack for being so slack}

So anyway, here is a page I did a while ago, I haven't photographed my latest pages. I must do that!
What a little sweet-cheeked boy. I did go in and add the date after I took the pic of this page too, it was November 11. That's 6 months ago! {whoosh! Time flying past again}.
Fun stuff on this page: the punched circles (top left) are actually the "negative" left behind from my oversized scalloped edge punch! How awesome to be able to use the "negative" punchout too! The little sticker of the 3 little birds is off our personal Return Address Label. Isn't it the sweetest! And I love those cars on the printed tape.

So almost 2 years ago, I did my Top 5 scrappin items. I remember posting about it, (you can read it HERE), and so it's time I decided my Top 5 again!
So here are the Top 5 things I can't do without on a page at the moment. I must remember to do this every year cos it's fun to see how my likes do or don't change over the years!

1. Patterned Paper-I NEVER use plain cardboard any more. I guess it helps me reach my goal of using up my paper stash!
2. Tape- washi or printed sticky tape. LOVE IT! I was pointing out to Yvette that I don't do pages without a bit of tape on them at the moment! (This page is no exception!)
3. Journalling spots. Yep, still love them!
4. Thickers. Still love them too!
5. Stickers. I like word stickers mainly, which you can see on this page too!

So 2 years ago my Top 5 were:
1. PP
2. Journalling Spots
3. Thickers
4. Rub ons
5. Lace Paper (mostly cos I'm trying to use up my massive stash of this!)

Hmmm... I see a few things repeated there. I think I might have to start using stamps on my pages, or a few more new and interesting things! Time to refresh my scrappin!
What are your Top 5?
:) C

New Order of Things... and a Question??

Oh look, 2 posts in one day! Awesome :)
Yvette and I both put in a 2 peas order last week, hers arrived Weds and mine arrived on Thurs, only a week after submitting it! {Happy Dance!} 2 peas is much much much cheaper than buying at the local store. Sorry I'm not buying Aussie, but when the price is almost double, I can't refuse it! 2 Peas were having a sale, plus gave an extra discount so I got a whole bag of new supplies that I am super super excited about using! Sorry the pics aren't the best, I was rushing cos I was eager to play with the new stuff! Mind you, I haven't yet, I've sifted through it, drooled over it and layed it all out on the dining table. But I've done a page since it arrived and I'm too busy trying to use up old stuff to even touch this new stuff! Do you ever do that? Buy new stuff then not use it cos it's too good? LOL! What a terrible mentality.
Anywho, new stuff got Yvette and I into a conversation about what our top 5 products are. Then I was thinking about what my top 5 probably would have been 10yrs ago when I started seriously scrappin (was it 10 years ago?! OMG! What was I, like 12? Dream on. I was 18. Man that time has flown.) So I'm thinking these days my top 5 are:
1. PP
2. Journalling Spots
3. Thickers
4. Rub ons
5. Lace Paper (mostly cos I'm trying to use up my massive stash of this!)

and 10 years ago my top 5 would have been:
1. Coloured Cardstock
2. Stickers
3. Punches
4. Computer Journalling
5. PP

Isn't it funny to think back on how your style has changed over the last few years! LOL! Wanna see a really embarrassing early page of mine? This is from 2003 about a trip to Cradle Mountain. See 4 my top 5? Coloured cardstock (not even a nice colour!!), Punched snowflake, computer journalling and strips of PP. How embarrassing. Hey, see those 2 snowflake square medallions on bottom right. Did you see one on my recent page of the Grand Canyon!! LOL! I knew they were OLD!!
So what are your top 5? And what were they when you started scrappin?
:)C