yes it’s nearly that time again, the Studio Birthday Bash is just days away.

Our STUDIO ANNUAL DESIGNER COMPETITION sign up thread closes midnight on 31st August so if you want to get in on this fun competition rush over to the Studio now. We have amazing prizes this year, the winning 3 designers will score a wacom Bamboo Tablet and the top 10 will get an Atomic Cupcake certificate, wow!!

Even if you don’t aspire to becoming a digital scrapbooking designer there are already 78 contestants signed up for this contest and so for our Studio Members that means 78 free minikits!!! How cool is that! come on over to the Studio and become a part of our community to grab all these goodies. The contest runs all of September and we have lots going on during our Annual Birthday Bash.

Also mitsybelle Designs and I are running the annual Studio CT LAYOUT COMPETITION, if you’d love to be part of the amazing creative team at the Studio jump to the sign up thread here, we’d love to see what you can create with our kits. And you’ll get some lovely kits along the way

Okay so I know I have been real quiet when it comes to blogging. I am so busy with life and work and the Studio that I barely have the time anymore but as always I promise to try and be better at it.

I have collaborated with Linda Cumberland and Moon Designs on a fabulous masculine feel kit called Monsieur, you can check it out here. I loved working with these ladies, the designers at the studio are the absolute cream of the crop in my opinion, both as designers and as wonderful women.

Mitchell and Gregg by bcalberti - studio CT member

Verkeerspark Assen by Renee – Ambowife CT

Berkhout by AJR65 - Studio CT

Chat Layout by Camperchow - Ambowife CT

Have a great week

hugs

Tracy

I have a new kit to show you all and also some exciting news at the Studio.

Firstly I’ll tell you all about the great things happening over at the Studio. WE now have a commercial use store, everything in this store has been quality checked and approved, nothing gets into the CU Store at the Studio unless it has passed our Quality Testing.

Plus it’s nearly that time again, September is always buzzing at the studio as it’s our Birthday Bash time and you know what that means, the next Designer Competition is nearly here. Come on over to the forum and sign up for this year’s designer competition it’s soo  much fun you will learn heaps and you will make tons of like minded friends who love to scrap and design. So come on give it a go, you’ll never know if you don’t try.

Check out the Sign Up thread here

Firstly here is my newest kit “All Together Now”

full of lots of pretty elements and soft textured papers this kit will fill any girly page with delight.

Check out the previews for closer inspection.

Included in this kit are 13 papers and 40 elements including:

bows, flowers, scattered glitter, glittery butterflies, buttons, a clock, beads, a tag created with Moon Design’s fabulous tag shapes (thanks Tan) Sting, an envelope, pins, natural extracted elements, frames, stitching, lace, photo corners, all in pretty hues of pinks with a touch of brown.

all elements and papers created at 300 ppi for optimum print quality.

See our commercial use store for matching cu glitter styles, patterns and sheets in one set.

Check it out here in my Studio Store it’s 30% off for one week only.

I plan on doing some clusters to put in the store too as well as of course a freebie or two, so check back soon for those.

Have a great week all

Hugs

Tracy

Firstly the biggest news is my Car died, yes broke down and had total cardiac arrest that not even my Paramedic hubby could revive it!! LOL. But yes, that meant a new set of wheels. Luckily Michael’s Dad was here and being a former mechanic and salesman himself he got us a great deal on a second hand Tiida, it’s lovely to look at and lovely to drive, perfect for me, small but not too small and well all it needs is Ambowife Numberplates LOL. I blurred out the plates for obvious reasons and I also blurred out the neighbours’ house, I’m sure they don’t want you looking in their windows hee hee. Okay so here she is… more news after the pics of our new little car…

So what else have we been up to, well Michael has applied to Tassie again but we’re not holding our breath. Just waiting to see what happens so we can then get on with life not being in any kind of Limbo. Here’s a pic of him relaxing in front of the TV with Shona, who is loving it obviously rofl, can’t believe the positions this dog gets herself into and still seems quite comfortable.

As for other stuff, Over at the Studio we are talking a bit about Hybrid and mixing both Digital and Paper scrapping and off the page stuff. Well I didn’t know a great deal about this side of Scrapbooking so I went googling and searching on Youtube, well didn’t I fall into the quicksand as it were. There is a vertual mountain of videos showing you how to do this stuff. So I did some paper flowers just to see what all the fuss was about and wow I think I am hooked. What’s another addiction between friends LOL

Here’s some shots of the current work in progress, trying out some shimmer stuff and different techniques

Okay so we don’t have a dining room where we are living, this is the front spare bedroom, and where our dining table resides. So it’s where hubby makes his books he sells and where I play, if I am not cluttering up the lounge room LOL. Just ask Michael!!  Sorry hun!

This is the top layer of my latest flower, I used some distress inks and some shimmer to give it this look, embossing powder around the edges of the petals, (where it is darker) and then put a fake gem in some transparent glue to highlight the centre, then shaped the petals how I like.

This is the bottom layer and it’s the same shape as the top, only I pinched the petals after distressing it and adding some shimmer to it, this one is inked slightly around the edges of the petals.

Not glued together yet but this is what it will look like when it’s all finished, what do you think,nice and shiny isn’t it!!

Here is a photo of the shimmer on another flower I made and put in my latest digital CU Kit. doesn’t it just sparkle so pretty!!?

Okay so this is the latest offerings in my store, I know I know I am not pumping out kits like I used to but I have a lot to do at the Studio behind the scenes and it doesn’t always leave a lot of time for playing. Plus I am cleaning during the week.

This is my CU Vintage Paper Flowers set, yes like the ones I just showed you. They are 50% off till the 4th July then full price

As you can imagine they did take a while and some cost to create and then extract so they aren’t as cheap as most of my kits but so worth it I think.

Thanks for reading my lengthy post and I hope to see you over at the Studio for some fun in the Chat Room, this Monday 4 or 8 pm est (USA time) For you Aussies that is Tuesday Morning

You never know what I may be giving away as a treat for coming along

Hugs and be safe

Tracy

This is what I am giving away this week to all attendees. If you want to come and chat and scrap with us you can log in at the Studio and then head to the chat room in about another half an hour from now to join in.

It’s a lot of fun

In Other News…

My little green daewoo finally died and we had to get me a new car on the weekend. I picked it up yesterday and it’s a dream so far.

We got a Nissan Tiida in gunmetal grey and it’s quite a change having power steering and reverse sensors and lots of other gizmos in my car. I am taking a little while to get used to all the features and driving and parking it but I am sure it will all come the more I drive it

It did sap a lot of our savings though so Hubby will be working overtime to try and get us back up in our savings. Poor Sweetness!!

But he does have a super happy and grateful wife

Okay off to get ready for my chat

Have a great week all

Hugs

Tracy

I hope everyone else had a lovely Mother’s Day too.

We had a great NSD at the Studio with a scrap-a-thon, I was up at 4am to take part and I managed to get a heap of layouts done, well for me it is a heap LOL.

2 pm chat with Piggyscraps

3pm chat with Amber of RubyLane Designs

4pm chat with Michelle of shelly Marie Scraps

5pm chat with ME

6pm chat with Jeanette of mITSYBELLE Designs

7pm chat with Janice of JWDigiscraps

And I love all the pages I made Yay!!

I have been playing around with my blog as you might have guessed. I downloaded a free wp layout after struggling to edit one I had bought. I am finding the free ones are more user friendly if you want to make it look more your own style with custom header and background. I guess you can’t have everything, sigh.

Well that’s me for now, not a lot of stuff to talk about of late, Michael has an interview with Tas Ambulance so crossing some fingers that we get a good result there, if not we will finally be able to make a move to settle properly in Sydney for good.

That’s that for now, take care and Happy Scrapping

Hugs

Tracy

It was a quiet day, Michael had worked the night before so slept most of  it and in the evening we ended up not going out for dinner even, he looked just way too tired for an outing. So we had bacon, eggs and chips for dinner LOL. Not real romantic but quite yummy.

Happy Anniversary My Sweetness.  Can’t believe it’s already been 6 years, where do the years go?

I made the Card I gave Michael with some pics from the ceremony on our big day

This is the Photoshop file

And Here is the created card

My photo was a bit dark as it is quite miserable here today so I had to lighten it, that’s the only reason the color of the paper isn’t quite right.

I may have to visit my friend “The Gamut warning tool” with the paper I used 

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It’s ANZAC day here in Australia, this is our Memorial Day for those who have defended our country in Action. Most of you will know my father was an Army Warrant Officer and I am very proud of all he did while he was in the British and Australian Defence Forces.

As I do each year since I created this mini for the SAS Next SAS-y Lady Designer Competition, here is the remembrance kit I created. It’s more Americana than Australian but I am sure a lot of American Scrappers could put it to good use

Download 1

Download 2

Here’s a few pages I did with pics of my Dad using this kit, they are from a few years ago. When I made the kit

Thanks for reading and have a great weekend

Hugs

Tracy

With 60 elements and 18 papers you are sure to create some gorgeous pages, cards and hybrid items with this beauty. But it isn’t limited to just Mother’s Day items so you can use it all year round!

Eternal Love

available only at The Studio

Keep your eyes peeled for some freebies here on my blog and on Jeanette’s Blog as well as in the Studio Newsletters and Jeanette’s Newsletter which you can sign up for on her blog

If you are quick you can grab this kit for 25% off, one week only so by midnight next sunday it will be full price again.

Here’s a page I did with it today for Carmen’s Speed Scrap

And for good measure here’s Jeanette’s too

Here’s a cluster frame for you all

Download Here

Have a great day everyone

Hugs

Tracy

Okay so last week’s chat went well, we always seem to get a great page out of my Chinese Whispers Chat sessions. Great collaboration to create a page together.

Here is the page I made with last week’s instructions

Here is a freebie Clusterframe for you all that coordinates with my latest kit Replenish

Thanks to all who managed to come to the chats they are so much fun

Have a great weekend all

Hugs

Tracy

12 papers and 38 elements
Available in the Studio HERE
Thanks so much for looking!

I am having my usual Monday night chat at 8pm est today so come along and join in the fun of a chinese whispers game and chat and scrap with us at the Studio Chat room

Here’s the attendance prize

Hope to see you all there

Hugs

Tracy

I hope you enjoy using these pieces

Download here

Have a great week everyone

Hugs

Tracy