I was working on a blog train contribution for June and got sidetracked by making marble in Filter Forge. I can’t decide which design I like best, nor can I decide which individual papers I prefer, so I’ll just leave them all here and you can make the choice!
Click on the links below to begin your downloads.
They are so pretty, aren’t they?
When I went on maternity leave before having my first child, I was ready to be productive. I had a long list of things I wanted to do: set up the nursery, buy all the pretty little clothes, reorganise my pantry. You get the drift.
What I actually ended up doing? Rewatched The X Files in it’s entirety and ate Doritos.
I now find myself in a similar situation with lockdown. I was going to read books, bake my own bread, homeschool my children, cook every meal from scratch … basically, I was going to turn into a 60s housewife with modern appliances and fewer jellied dishes.
What I’m actually doing: hanging out in my pyjamas as my children trash the place.
Okay, so that might be a bit of an exaggeration, but that is what it feels like a lot of the time. There’s a lot of time spent keeping the children fed and clothed (mostly in their pyjamas, lets be real), catching up on all the schoolwork that we didn’t do the day before, and remembering at 5pm that I forgot to defrost the roast for dinner (pizza for dinner!). It’s just too easy to fall into complacency.
Which brings us to my contribution to the the Pixel Scrapper May blog train. Basically I started out with a grand plan for a shabby chic mini kit for all your vintage needs, but only ended up with a pack of papers. Such is life.
Click on the image to start your download. Hopefully it complements some of the other blog train contributions.
Happy scrapping!
The silly season is upon us and it’s time for family, food and presents.
Short and sweet, today I’ll leave you with some previous Christmas freebies. If you’ve been following the blog for long enough, you may have them already. If you’re a new follower (HI THERE!), they’re fresh and exciting!
Click on the links to be taken to the preview and download page. I’ve checked them all and they’re working, but please do leave me a comment if you have any problems.
Home for the Holidays * Retro Holly Jolly * Candy Stripe + Candy Cane * Vintage Journal Cards * Red & Gold
If you want something a bit more substantial, check out this beautiful Christmas bundle at my Etsy store.
Hope the rest of your holiday is awesome!
Found myself some Christmassy papers! This lovely collection of red, white and green faux-knit papers. They’re very cute and I have some matching knitted ribbons floating around here.
Happy holidays!
Second Friday of December and, like, less than three weeks until the end of the year. Anyone else not ready for 2019 to end?
Anyone else not quite sure where the rest of 2019 actually went?
Happy holidays!
What I was going to do this month was make a whole Christmas kit, split it into bite-sized bits, and then offer it every Friday until the end of the year. Then at the end of December you’d have a nifty little kit for all your sparkly Christmas scrapping.
What I’m actually doing – digging into my stash and finding some backups because I have approximately 5 minutes of freedom a day until the end of the month (and year, eek) and I sure as heck didn’t have time to make a full Christmas kit.
But if you scroll below this post you’ll find a cute little Christmas mini kit in a non-traditional colour palette. That’s as good as it’s gonna get this year.
So lets begin!
Happy holidays!
I was in the middle of creating elements for my purple and pink and black and silver gothic-inspired kit, and I thought to myself, I like paperclips. I want all sorts of paperclip shapes. Where can I find paperclip shapes? Then I went looking for paperclip shapes.
I found a typeface instead. Check it out, it’s super cool and free!
And the result was this – a simple little paperclip alpha.
Happy scrapping!
We’re halfway through November. Yikes.
Lots of Christmas preparation happening right now – who am I kidding? Australia doesn’t have Thanksgiving so we pretty much get a head start on Christmas the day after Halloween.
It’s not like I’ve been listening to Christmas music non-stop for two weeks or anything, is it? (Ahem.)
These patterns look like snowflakes. They’re Christmassy without being too obnoxious for mid-November.
Happy scrapping!
I’m a sucker for gold accents on rich, dark hues. This week I have a lovely paper set of navy blue with beautiful and delicate gold patterns. They’re from a retired set of papers from long ago; I picked the best of the bunch, fixed them up and repackaged them into this nifty collection.
Happy scrapping!
We’re well in the middle of spring down here. The transitory rains seem to be over (aside from one midweek rainstorm that came out of nowhere and didn’t seem to impact on the temperature much), and the sun is shining beautifully.
It’s the calm before the storm, so to speak. Only a few weeks of glorious spring sunshine before summer starts to creep up on us. Then begin the road-melting, foot-cooking sand, and dashboard egg-frying temperatures.
That’s summer down under.
This week I have a lovely pack of sunflower inspired patterned papers. And a few sunny gold tones to round it out.
Happy scrapping!