My two plastered boys

This is not the sort of photo I was wanting to share today, lol, but such is life.

Obviously no building is happening at present as DH fell and broke his wrist when the ladder collapsed from under him! He's bruised, sore and in plaster for 4 weeks but otherwise fine. We've contracted a building crew to complete the half finished roof so as we don't fall too far behind schedule.

The other injury to Rob, DD Katie's partner, happened 2 days earlier while he was racing his motorbike at Symons Plains. Luckily no break, just a severe sprain. His motorbike didn't fair so well but can be repaired.

There is always a silver lining to every grey cloud...I get to play in my craftroom for a few days!

House update and an inspiration alert.

Building has come to a standstill over the weekend as we await the arrival, on Tuesday of the roof trusses. Today I marked out where the kitchen cabinets will be situated and also where power points will go. Other than that it was just a general tidy up of the site and a tip run.

Here's the completed walls.

Sooo, I was able to spend a lazy afternoon in my studio surfing the net and getting inky!

One of my fave blogs to visit is 'Less is More' where Joy never fails to inspire with her awesome cards.

Well yesterdays card blew me away and I knew I had to create my own version. I followed Joys instructions for the background then added my own stamp and sentiment. The border I created by drawing a solid black line with a marker and then added small dashes of Rangers white enamel accents. I coloured the butterflies with markers then coated in Glossy Accents. I'm thrilled with how this turned out!

Here's Joy's card,

and here is mine.

I'm going to spend the evening playing with this design, changing the colours and just having fun!

See you next time, when we hopefully have a roof!

Here we go again

Scrapping and cardmaking will be taking a back seat for a few months as I put my building skills into practice again.

This morning the foundation was poured for our next building project. There have been a few delays in the past week, so it was nice to finally have the slab completed.

This is the second of three houses that will be built on this particular block of land. The first was completed 10 months ago and we hope to have this house finished by July. Now that hubby has retired from work he can spend more time on the building site, not just his days off like with the 4 previous houses we've built.

Here's a pic from this morning.

I'll be back with regular updates.

Hugs,
Glenda

Inspiration Showcase

I am so excited to taking this online class, taught by Jennifer McGuire.
It has opened my eyes to many new techniques and others that I had completely forgotten!

The class commenced on my birthday and runs through till the 23rd of September. I can tell you that by the end of each video tutorial my creative juices are flowing and I can't wait to get my hands inky.

Here are a few of the cards I've created so far using ideas from the class.

Oh, and as you can see by the photos, it is a glorious Spring day here in Tassie. It's so nice to see blue sky after a long wet Winter.

The bug has a new home...

...Cuttlebug, that is!









Dh built a shelf into the unused hanging space of the closet in my scrap room. It is at an ideal height for me to stand and use my cuttlebug, so I have it set up, ready to use at a moments notice. The magnetic board at the back holds all my Nestabillities and other metal dies, embossing folders are to the right and spare plates to the left. Hanging from the rail above are my embossing folder templates.



It is so nice to have everything at my fingertips, and when I'm finished a project I just close the sliding mirror door. Heaven, I tell ya!

More storage ideas

Now that I have this wonderful new storage system, I needed something to fill it with. The answer... stackable trays! Here'a my favourite, it holds all my Distress and Stazon inks! Each tray is arranged by colour, and being clear, the ink colour can be seen from all sides. Each ink has a foam blending pad attached to the base with velcro. This eliminates the need for individual ink blending tools, (I have just 4!).


The matching unit next to the inks hold all my printer/photo paper as well as specialty card used for Copic colouring.

A whole new look!

I am one very happy scrapper! Dh recently built this wonderful storage system for my freshly painted scrap room! For the first time in many, many years, I have all my patterned paper and cardstock on display and in easy reach of my work space. I'm in heaven!!