A few things to share :)

It's been a while!  I'm madly trying to catch up some things and have just pushed scrapping out of my list for a short while!   I am busy organising my party!  Have chinese lanterns, have my cocktails sorted - three pink ones hehe, everyone is bringing a dish, so I will only have to organise the chocolate fountain goodies and the mini donuts and pizza scrolls.

I wanted to share this group photo from our recent retreat with Scrapboutique!!  Can you spot my cheesy grin?? hehe

I also did up some super cute little christmas cards with the Scrapz.biz Ticklez kit for November.  The Bauble is actually an acetate journaling page out of the Making Memories journaling booklets.  I just cut it to shape like a bauble, outlined it with a silver pen and topped it off with a ribbon, so super duper quick!  The letter stickers are by Paper Trunk, their new Benny stickers, man alive I'm loving loving those!!!  And I just handwrote the christmas with a white pen.

The next little card, using more of that same acetate journaling sheet, topped off with handcut trees from the MM christmas range. A few ribbon stars and some pearl brads and more silver pen work, more gorgeous Paper Trunk Benny alpha stickers and whala!

And lasly more journalling page bits and pieces and this gorgeous yummy handmade flower that my gorgeous friend Liz taught me at the retreat!  Quick easy and looks super effective!

Lastly, a layout I did at the retreat!  Gorgeous little Lily when you she was only a week old, so cute and tiny!  Using some websters pages, bazzill and a MM journaling page.  Again more Paper Trunk Benny Alphas!  Told you I love them, I think they are like $3.95 a sheet (I think) honestly request them at your LSS if they aren't there, the font is just super fun and the size is just perfect, they come in a range of colours too!!

Those red flowers are very simply a scalloped circle and then I cut in at each scallop.  I use the nestabilities which you can buy from Stamp and Scrapbook madness, together with the Swiss dot embossing folder, also from Stamp and Scrapbook Madness.  They also have printblock albums back in stock!  There is a new yummmo brown!  But the American Craft albums aren't much more exxy as they already come with 10 refills, loads of those came in recently too!

My family have a bit more drama going on atm, so if you are a prayer please keep us all in your prayers, it all seems a bit never ending and sometimes it feels like it could be much easier to just give up than keeping on pushing on!  But I now know I have the strength to deal with all these things life seems to chuck our way, and for that I'm thankful!  Here is one super gorgeous little prayer that our church sent out in their last newsletter!  So sweet!

Dear God:

Please untie the knots

that are in my mind,

my heart and my life.

Remove the have nots,

the can nots and the do nots

that I have in my mind.

Erase the will nots,

may nots,

might nots that may find

a home in my heart.

Release me from the could nots,

would nots and

should nots that obstruct my life

And most of all,

Dear God,

I ask that you remove from my mind,

my heart and my life,

All of the ‘am nots’

that I have allowed to hold me back,

Especially the thought

that I am not good enough.

AMEN

Author known to God

Love to you all!!!  I better get back to it hey ;)