I married an Ironman..

and I say GO TEAM YATA!
Mark completed the Port Macquarie Ironman on Sunday the 5th April, the day of his 40th birthday. So I wanted to quickly pop in and give you his stats -
he finished in 11 hours, 40 minutes and 34 seconds (11:40:34), and overall finished 614, out of over 1400 people. A stellar effort darling, we are very proud. Ok a few snaps, as I am so tired, we just got back today. I will do a full update with more pictures, and some exciting news next week...

Guest blogger

I had my first guest blogger over at http://www.rememberwhen.com.au/ last week, which I really enjoyed. It was fun working with the new Bazzil Swiss Dots and Just the Edge products, so easy to use and I think the effect is really nice. I also love sharing creativity with everyone. Thank you for your comments. I also love Emmy and Ty Kim and Leia, and think it looks different because i managed to make purple, pink and red work together. Head over to RW again next Thursday to see my next guest entry.I thought I would pop in and share the 2 layouts i did for Lee, and say bye for a week or so whilst we jetset to Port Macquarie. During our epic holiday my husband not only turns 40, but will complete his first full Ironman. He has done many trialthalons and 4 half ironmans, but this will be his first full Ironman. Which consists of 3.8 km swim, 180km bike and 42.2 km run, of which he anticipates will take him 11.5 hours, but is striving for 11 hours. It is very exciting, and we wish him all the best, and will be there supporting him with our team Tshirts (lovingly made by me, hehe, which was a drama in itself).

Ok enjoy this week and I will see you soon with holiday pics.

Love Kaz

here are all 23...

Gee scanning and stitching together and then uploading 23 layouts is hard work. Especially when my stitchng program decided it would play funny buggers. Anyway I finally sorted them, so here they are. I hope you like them. I must say I was really happy with the majority of them. I love the simpleness of Father of the Bride, and the boldness of the Take time. I really love Explore, and am fond of the other 2 beach ones. A great effort overall I think, considering there was alcohol involved, LOL. I am feeling very creative at the moment, which is great.
Ok I have to make a couple of baby cards.
Catch ya soon, and TFL (thanks for looking) I love having you stop by. Why not leave me a comment and tell me your favourinte LO!

Just poppin in..

How sweet is this little card. It is all SU. The stamp set is Big Bold Birthday, and it is staying, which is great because I own it. And it is so handy for birthday cards for any age. I have been busy creating the last 2 days, in between kids and household chores. I have also been oggling the new 2009 - 2010 Stampin' Up! catalogue. It is really delish. I am so happy with it. I especially love the designer series papers, and one lot I pre ordered sohould be here Monday, and I can't wait. If you want a catalogue, feel free to email or call me. They are $12.95 or you can have a free one with any orders over $100. Current retiring stamps will be gone in just over a week and don't forget the inks are going up by $2.00 each from the 1st April, so now is a good time to stock up on your fave colours, or colours you are missing from your supplies. I just ordered 10, and then i am only missing 4. My colour caddy looks very full.
Ok night night, I am off to work night duty to help pay for my $400 wish list (I was being very good too).

Cheers

Using scraps

I have been using the same papers on more than one layout recently, because I am sick of the waste. And today I had a sick day to recover from Gastro at the weekend, and I did a layout, and had these little babushkas and scraps of paper left over. I had Annie's challenge (to herself) of making 24 cards from scraps on my mind (sensational love, good luck), so thought perfect. It was so easy and I love it... The paper is from the new Kaisercraft Mumma babushka, which is very cute.

I took the kids to Deni on the weekend to see our favourite person, and well.. before we even got out of Melbourne Emmy had a vomit, and had 3 by the time we got to Deniliquin. She was ok the next day, but Harry had 2 vomits in the early hours of the morning, but then was ok the rest of the day. I then developed the big D the next morning, and vomits that arvo, oh lord what a weekend. Thanks for putting up with us Kim, we lub u so much. I think my body had a melt down after my mega scrap retreat followed by working all week, and then travelling 4 hours. So today was a relaxing day at home with no kids.

And now I am going to bed, why can I never go to bed early???

An Award

Annie H over at http://www.scrapbookhub.com.au/ has bestowed upon me the honor of Premio Dardos Award :

The Premio Dardos Award acknowledges the values that every blogger shows in their effort to transmit cultural, ethical, literary, and personal values every day. The Premio Dardos award acknowledges the values that every blogger shows in their effort to transmit cultural, ethical, literary, and personal values every day.
The rules are:
1) Accept the award, post it on your blog together with the name of the person that has granted the award and his or her blog link.
2) Pass the award to another 15 blogs that are worthy of this acknowledgment. Remember to contact each of them to let them know they have been chosen for this award.The blogs I have listed are all talented, giving and generous creators ...please go visit their blogs and pass on some love and appreciation for all they do and share...

I have to thank Annie H very much, she is a dear sole. Unfortunately I don't have 15 blogs that I routinely visit,

but I will nominate all of the girls in my links, who I do visit often, and value their creativity -

Annie K -http://greetingsfromannie.blogspot.com/

Leia - http://www.leiacontd.blogspot.com/

Sarah -http://sassydesigns.wordpress.com/

Chris -http://stampstuff.blogspot.com/

Gail -http://www.stampwithgail.blogspot.com/

Anne Marie -http://www.stampeasy.blogspot.com/

Flick -http://stampinwithflick.blogspot.com/

Andrea - http://andreayoung67.blogspot.com/ ( don't wait up for the updates, LOL, but she is a genuinely beautiful girl, who can scrap the arse of a photo!)

Ok nigh night,
I am recovering from a touch of illness on the weekend so best go to bed.

First time published!!!

Woo Hoo...

I made a real effort last year to submit some cards to be published in a mag. And I couldn't believe it, the first time I made a set of cards specifically to be submitted (not just one i I had previosuly made and had sitting in my stash), I had one accepted. This is really a nice feeling. It makes you feel worthy as a creative artist (LMAO). And I don't know why a magazine publication makes me feel validated, but strangely it does. So here it is in all its glory in Vol 14 No 9 of Australian Cardmaking Stamping and Papercraft, on page 72. It was a nice simple little masculine themed card, but effective I think.