Miracles Are For Those Who Believe

Here is one of 12 layouts that I completed
for the competition over at Little Scrapbook Shop.
We had to complete 12 layouts from 2006 - a look back on the year. It was a great challenge. It was sponsored by 12 different companies.
This layout using Urban Lily papers was my
favourite. The photo is of my nephew, Kai.
His parents were told that he may never walk,
but here he is on Mothers Day 2006(he was 3yrs
old standing up taking his first steps - the best
present anyone could receive. The quote I have used is -
"miracles are for those who believe".....someone
said this to me a couple of months ago and I say it
to myself everyday - I always believed Kai would
walk someday, somehow.....now he actually runs
around. He truly is our little miracle!!!!!!
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Happy Mother's Day

Well girlies, Happy Mother's Day to all of you today and special
thoughts and prayers to all those mum's in heaven.
Kids greeted me nice and early this morning with handmade cards and special little goodies from the school Mother's Day Stall.
We are off to mum and dad's this afternoon so that should
be nice. Its a little fresh here this morning but its going
to be a lovely day.

Oh forgot to mention that I have a set of cards in the latest issue of Australian Paper Crafts magazine and I have just sent my Little Green Dress off for publication too..........very exciting.

What a week.....

Well its been a busy week girlies........sorry I haven't popped in for a while now.

Monday was our 13th Wedding Anniversary. Sean had to work during the day and it was the kids day off from school....so hence, not much doing during the day. However, my friend dropped around for a cuppa and gave us a lovely card. On the inside of the card it read "to the lovebugs".....I just loved that!!!!! They gave us 2 coffee/cake vouchers at our favourtie coffee shop. So Sean finished work a little earlier and my friend offered to look after the kids so we could grab a coffee......and the cake of course!!!!!!
It was lovely. Sean mentioned to the girl at the shop that it was our anniversary, she wished us well which was nice, when the coffees came out she had decorated the saucer with chocolate sauce lovehearts.........very nice touch.

Wednesday was our Mother's Day Luncheon fundraiser at a beautiful old fashioned restaurant at Berwick. Soup/Main/Sweets..........very yummy and a great day had by all.

Stars last night, not so good but then I have been doing a lot of socialising..............LOL.

Fish and Chips tonight and then tomorrow is Sean's 38th Birthday..........may go out for another cuppa...........we shall see.

Hope everyone has had a great week and that you have a fun filled weekend.

Luv Sandie

Had a great day today!!!!!

Well girlies, I had a great day today.

The morning was taken up with typing out instructions for My Little Dress/Handbag which is to be published in APC magazine in a few months. I figured out it was a lot easier making the dress than actually having to work out dimensions of dress etc........LOL.
The I popped into the florist where I sell my cards - Flowers by Jo. I hadn't been in there since Valentine's Day so since then I have sold 27 cards which is pretty good....so I collect $108.00 next week.....that will come in handy.
Popped into the newsagents before picking up the kids from school to find another set of my cards in APC #64 - nice surprise.

Weighed in at STARS tonight and lost 300grams which is a bonus for me lately.
Sold one of my cards to one of the new girlies there, she didn't know I made and sold cards and was rather interested....so that was nice.

Planning to go shopping tomorrow, hopefully for clothes......they are feeling the pinch lately, so fingers crossed I can find something decent.

Bye for now......luv Sandie

i"ve Been Tagged

Ok, here I go - i have found out from a few people that I have been tagged. Well this is all new to me so here I go.........a few things about me.


1. I am 38, married to my best friend Sean - our anniversary is on the 30th April and that will be 13 years up - wow that's flown.
2. I am a stay at home mum to 3 great kids - Emily who turns 12 in August, Tammy turns 11 in September and Josh turns 9 in November.
3. My no.1 passion is to make/sell/give handmade cards I have had several published in Stamping & Papercraft and Australian Paper Crafts magazines.
4. I am a Piscean and I am a romantic at heart to the point of being ridiculous....oh well!!!!
5. I worked in the National Bank for nearly 10 years (where I met Sean) and haven't returned to the work force just yet. Waiting for the kids to be self sufficent although Em is off to secondary college next year and that wont come cheap so may have to find part time job....pooh cack.
6. One of my favourite things to do is to go to a beautiful cafe, we have a fantastic one in Pakenham on Lakeside and to share a latte and a big FAT piece of cake.
7. I have PCOS and find it to rule my life - I should lose weight for health reasons although the d isease is partly to blame for weight gain......hmmmmmm.
8. I luv to make people happy and try to be happy and positive myself, but we all know we have those days....but today is a good one, so I'm rolling with that!!!!!.

Well I think that will do for now - don't know how many secrets I was supposed to share but that will do for now anyway....LOL.

So this is where I get to tag someone else.........ok Wirg, Trace, Kim, Relsi, Lavs, Celeste and lucky last Lisa .........phew........time for a cuppa!!!!! Luv Sandie

My Heidi Grace Competition Win

Here we are - this is my prize that I won in a
recent Heidi Grace Competition through Australian
Paper Crafts Magazine. I had to say in less than
25 words what my favourite HG range was.
I stated that the Vineyard Range (mauves/greens)
was my fave, and I won..........I got a phone call
from Jessica about 2 weeks ago to say that I'd won
I was so shocked...picked it up from the post office
yesterday...couldn't believe how much was in there
chipboard, flowers, ribbons, pins, buttons, stickers
vellum......all sorts of goodies.

StampinUp Techniques Booklet - Cards

I was flicking through the lastes Technique Booklet from StampinUp and decided to use the
sample cards as ideas to go by to create my own
cards using much the same ideas slightly changed here and there.....I was happy how they turned out.

Dame Edna Party - Funny Photo Challenge

This is the second card I made using one of the funny
photos in the gallery at The Stash. The photo was
of a pair of white shoes with umbrellas over each shoe
very silly photo but it was in red/white so I opted to
make a mothers day in red/white.

Dame Edna Challenge - Funny Photos

Ok here is a card I made last night at the Dame Edna
Party over at The Stash. I popped some funny photos
into the gallery and everyone had to be inspired by
one of them and create a card/layout or OTP. I was inspired
by the funny photo with a lady with yellow shoes, orange
raincoat over the shoes (yes!!!) and a red handbag. SU
stamps and red/orange ink, red/white/yellow cardstock.

Hello Possums!!!!

Here I am possums......all frocked up and ready
for a fun night over at The Scrappers Stash.
Come along and join in the fun.......there will
be lots of laugh - I think I'm one of them!!!!!

A little bit excited!!!!!!!!!!!

Just had to share my news girlies......I had two emails from Australian Paper Crafts magazine to say that my little green dress/hanger and handbag have been accepted for publication. On top of that a set of 3 cards I made on the weekend have been accepted too.
Plus next month and the following month I have cards appearing in the same mag..............I am so pumped and just had to share my excitement.

Priceless!!!!!

I asked Em
and Tam if
they'd like
to join in the
Kids Challenge
at LSBS...this
was the first
time I actually
asked them...
of course they
said yes....I am
so proud how
these cards
turned out.
They took
so much time
to do them...
but they were
so proud of
themselves!!!

Beautiful

Here are some of the shots I took at the park
last week when we met mum and dad for lunch.
The day was absolutely perfect......happy how
the shots came out too.
I completed this layout for a challenge over at
LSBS.

Our Little Miracle

Here is a layout of my nephew, Kai Jacob.
I took this photo on Thursday - the day we
left mum and dad's after a few days holiday.
He had this surfie type t-shirt on navy with pink
writing - this was for a challenge at LSBS
Cybercrop - I just luv these photos!!!!!

Layout - Sanded and Squares

Here is a layout I completed also for the Sanded
and Squares Challenge. I kept this one fairly
simple as I just luv these photos and wanted
them to speak for themselves.
Stamps by StampIt and StampinUp, white signo
pel for doodling and journalling. Sanded photos
and added two square brads to each photo.

Sanded and Squares

Ok for this challenge we had to use squares and sanding.
So I stamped some daisies onto square card and then used
the corner punch to give rounded edges - so that would make
it a round square or a square round!!!!! LOL.
I used green white core card and sanded the edges of the
card. Chalking and Versamark were also used.

Dream

This is a card I made for a challenge at LSBS.
We worked off a sketch that Cath designed.
I used StampinUp stamps and the famous
Daisy Wheel that I luv to use and burnt orange
jute. Happy how this one turned out.
I never used to like orange, now I luv to
challenge myself.