NanaAnt's Craft Room

Where does the time go

noreply@blogger.com (Leanne) — Thu, 10 Apr 2014 10:19:00 +0000

Hi, I cannot believe how fast time flies. So much has happened since my last post. I have been busy creating, working and living but do plan to get back into regular posting on my blog.

Back soon.

My new Stampin' Up! website.

noreply@blogger.com (Leanne) — Sun, 02 Jun 2013 10:56:00 +0000

Be sure to check out my new stampin' up! website. Click on the stampin up logo on the sidebar.
The retiring lists are up, the new colours are explained and cataloges can be downloaded in PDF.
Orders can even be made online. Please have a look and let me know what you think.

Tim's Tag cased

noreply@blogger.com (Leanne) — Mon, 27 May 2013 11:47:00 +0000

Hello all,

As i said in my previous post, I wanted to case the wonderful tag Tim made. I needed to make two birthday cards this week, so I decided to use the tags for the front of my cards. As Tim's fabric is not available yet I had to improvise.
For the first tag I used some lovely floral and picked out the blue to highlight.

I have kept the inside simple. Stampin up Elements of Style for the flower and Bring on Cake for the sentiment.

For the second tag I stamped the same flower stamp on some coffee dyed cotton fabric, it turned out quite good.

I apologise for the quality of my photo's. The light in my craftroom is not great.

Thanks for stopping by.

My Blog Makeover

noreply@blogger.com (Leanne) — Sat, 25 May 2013 22:38:00 +0000

Hi All,

I just wanted to give a shout out to Sharon, at Plumrose Lane (Hi Sharon).
I wanted to freshen up my blog design, loved the original design which is one of Sharon's (Whispers of Spring), but wanted it a bit brighter, and I am loving the colour turquoise at the moment. So I contacted Sharon and she has worked her magic. The pale blue is now a beautiful turquoise and the background has a nice crinkled linen look.

I am loving it. Thanks Sharon. Check out her website, Plumroselane.com where she has loads a free blog "stuff" even tutorials, and if, like me you don't have the knowledge or the time to do it yourself, Sharon's rates are great, her work is impeccable and she is a pleasure to deal with.

Cheers

WOW - 12 month's later

noreply@blogger.com (Leanne) — Sat, 25 May 2013 22:23:00 +0000

Hi All,

I cannot believe it has been 12 months since I posted. I have no real excuse, just that life gets in the way. I have been busy crafting, working and looking after my family.

What is it that has got me so motivated that I felt I had to POST about it?
"Tim Holtz" new fabric range. It is amazing, if you haven't seen it check it out HERE. He also has a tag tutorial Here . This fabric is going to add another dimension to our papercrafting journey. I am already planning mini albums, for my boys, as the fabric will add a nice masculine feel.

I love the tag Tim made and I am going to try and make one this weekend. Will have to improvise for the material, I have a birthday card to make for my daughter in-law so I will incorporate the tag into this. Hopefully I will remember to take some pictures.

Take Care.

Blog Candy Winner

noreply@blogger.com (Leanne) — Sun, 13 May 2012 10:48:00 +0000

Happy Sunday all. I would also like to wish all mother's a very happy Mother's day. I have had a lovely but busy day.

As promised I have drawn a winner for my blog candy........

I have put together a collection of goodies, lace, doilies, seam binding, buttons and charms, flowers and a tattered rose distress ink pad.

The winner is..............................................................................................................
Congratulations to "Babe".. Please contact me with your address Babe so I can send out your goodies.

I had a wonderful time last Saturday. Got together with a wonderful group of ladies at Scrapbook Sinners for International Scrapbooking Day. Lots of crafty goodies, good food and plenty of laughs. It was a great day. I made a card and some tags and started another mini album.

Here are the tags, I will show the album when it is finished.

Just a short post tonight to announce the winner of the blog candy. Have a great week all, till next week.

Cheers

Over 1000 Site Visits - Time for Blog Candy!!!

noreply@blogger.com (Leanne) — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 10:13:00 +0000

Hi All, I cannot believe it is the last day of April. Where has this month gone? I haven't been able to spend much time in my craftroom lately, thank goodness for the classes I attend at ScrapbookSinners
I have at least completed some lovely cards and a page from the Family History class. I also managed to complete my April ATC's Lest We Forget(except I did forget to take a photo) and Hearts and Circles.

I will upload photo's on the weekend, my computer is on go slow tonight.

BLOG CANDY..........................

Okay, I have put together a collection of goodies, that will go to one lucky person. To enter all you have to do is sign up as a member of my blog, current members are eligible, and leave a comment. I will select a random winner on the 12th May 2012.

I will also post a photo of the blog candy this Saturday 5th May 2012.

Look forward to reading all those comments and following all who sign up.

Enjoy your week

Cheers

Happy Easter

noreply@blogger.com (Leanne) — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 05:27:00 +0000

I hope everyone has enjoyed the Easter break, I certainly have. I have spent three days crafting and catching up with family. Work has been extremely busy, so I apologise for the time delay in posting.What have I been doing?

Well since my last post I have had a lovely weekend in Melbourne with my good friend Robyn - Cricut-Lover. We spent Friday 30th and Saturday 31st March at Paperific. We had a lot of laughs, got lost a couple of times, laughed some more, walked miles and met some very nice people. Oh and got lots of goodies too.

I have unpacked my Stampin Up "stuff" and had a bit of a play, I have even placed my first order, exciting. If anyone is interested in a catalogue, please either contact me by email or leave a comment, I am happy to send them out.

I have also joined another ATC swap being run by Leonie and Scrapbook Sinners - Details can be found here It is open to anyone, and it is great fun. Leonie and the girls are very helpful. Each months challenge is listed on the blog so you can be well prepared.

ScrapBook Sinners also offer a number of really great classes, these are very informative and great fun and very reasonably priced. I have Thursday cards, Family History, Cricut Anonymous and Mixed Media. Love them all and the girls are so great and extremely helpful, thanks Leonie, Bec, Maria, Deb and Jo.

I am super excited, as I have taken the plunge and entered a Tag Swap organised by Laura Denison over at Following the Paper Trail, This is why I have been so busy over the Easter break. I entered 3 groups, Shabby Chic, French Country and Grunge, so had to make 9 tags for each. I made 10 though as I always give one to Robyn. It was a lot of work but great fun and a real challenge. I will be mailing them tomorrow, as they have to be in the US by the 20th April. I am very excited as I will be recieving 27 back from all over the world, can't wait.

I have to tidy up the craftroom again as it is now really messy. I also have a lot of projects to complete, I have Laura's Mantel clock and Vintage valise, and I want to do the Telephone too. Shame I have to work as I am really motivated at the moment.

I am also thinking of entering the Lessology Challenge #13 I have a set of the Kaisercraft drawers that I did up when I first started, and I did not want to use any of my good papers etc. they turned out hideous, so I am thinking this is a good challenge to shabby them up and make them useful.

Wow now I can take a breath, sorry for the long post but it has been awhile . Thanks for stopping by, I will leave you with some pictures of the things I have made since last post. Please leave a comment, so that I know you have been to visit, then I can cocme visit you.

Special Note: I am in the process of putting together some blog candy for when I reach 1000 page views. All you will need to do is follow my blog and leave a comment. More details soon.

Bye for now

Pictures

1. Card made at Scrapbook Sinners

2. ATC - Home Sweet Home - This was my prototype -so I put it in a shabby frame.

3. Mini Star Albums - I have made three of these as gift for a friend to pass on.

4. Last my Tags - Grunge - using Timmy of course, French Country and Shabby Chic.

Thanks again.

Take Care

Just Checking In

noreply@blogger.com (Leanne) — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 11:49:00 +0000

Hi all, I have been AWOL for the last couple of weeks, and don't have anything to show today. Completed my March ATC cards and my LO challenge for the shop (Scrapbook Sinners) but forgot to take a photo. I have also been catching up on some unfinished family history pages. Will take pho
tos soon.
Unpacked my Stampin up goodies and also reorganised the craftroom (again). I have already written up an order for stampin up, love the punches and matching stamps.

Going to Paperific on the 30th and 31st with my good friend Robyn, we have booked an apartment across the road, can't wait.

Leonie at Scrapbook Sinners has recieved and amazing order of flowers, from I am Roses, believe me they are amazing, and she is selling them for very good prices. I will check back in at the weekend.

Cheers

Scrapbook Sinners - February Challenge

noreply@blogger.com (Leanne) — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 06:41:00 +0000

Hi, I have finally managed to complete the monthly challenge. Okay it is a few days late, but it is the first one I have completed. The challenge is a monthly kit, for $12.00, you receive paper and embellishments to use. You can only use what is in the kit although you can use any inks, paints, stamps etc. Each one has a word or phrase that has to appear somewhere in the project. Febraury's was Country.

My other news this week is that I have signed up as a Stampin Up Demonstrator. I am really excited about this as I love their stuff. Waiting for my kit to arrive, will share with you all when it does.
Have a great week.

Cheers

Scrappy-Go-Lucky..Strut your Cuts Week 8

noreply@blogger.com (Leanne) — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 06:20:00 +0000

Hi. My project for this week was a very simple envelope made out of one 12 x 12 piece of double sided paper. I found this on Youtube - Moejoetreasures.. Thanks Moe.

I actually had one of the carts in the list this week "Heritage". I cut the ornate corner frames from this and then inked them with Tumbled Glass distress ink, to make them a brighter blue.

The white doily is one my mum made, these are so lovely and lacey. She is a very clever lady. If anyone would like to see more of these let me know and I will post some photos.

Thanks for looking in.

Cheers

Birdhouse - Scrapbook Sinners

noreply@blogger.com (Leanne) — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 05:59:00 +0000

Hi All,

Last post for today, as I have to complete my Febraury ATC swaps and have them in the mail by tomorrow. This is short and sweet, just thought I would share a lovely little project that we created in a class on Friday at Scrapbook Sinners. It was very quick and not too difficult to make. If you want more info you can leave a comment, or contact me or visit the Scrapbook Sinners new blog http://scrapbooksinners.blogspot.com.au/ and leave them some love.

Little birdhouse:

Thanks for visiting. Remember if you have any questions, please leave a comment or email me, only to happy to chat.

Cheers

This weeks purchases

noreply@blogger.com (Leanne) — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 05:39:00 +0000

Back again,

Just thought I would share my purchases this week. I was so excited and surprised when my new Cricut - Expression 2 arrived on Tuesday morning. I purchased it from Mandy at www.scrappy-go-lucky.com.au , their service is amazing and postage costs are reasonable and delivery so speedy. Thanks again Mandy. But I have been so busy this week that I haven't had time to take it out of its box, until today, and so far I have only tested to make sure it is working. I will need more time to read up and play with it.

I also bought a Zutter Bind.it.all. My good friend Robyn www.cricut-lover.com had one at the retreat we were at in November, and as I love mini albums I knew it wouldn't be to long before I gave in and got one of these.

My new toys

My Scrappy friend Robyn (not my work friend) picked up some shabby birdcages while on holidays recently, I got two:

A white one,

and a brown one.

You should check out Robyn's blog http://www.cricut-lover.com/ to see what she did with hers. It is beautiful.

Bye for now

Voyager Album

noreply@blogger.com (Leanne) — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 05:13:00 +0000

Hi everyone, I am so glad it is Sunday. I have had such a busy week and cannot believe Sunday is nearly over. I have a few things to show this week, the first is the mini album I have mentioned in earlier posts. This is one I made for a very good friend and her husband. I have worked with Robyn for the last 14 years and she finished up on Friday, to take a well earned holiday on her beautiful big boat.

The boat was the inspiration for this album, I have been planning it for so long, but left it to the last minute (as usual) to put it together. I wanted it to look old, like an old ships log, but I got a bit carried away. Trying to get it finished this week meant a few nights with very little sleep, but it was so worth it. Going to miss you so much my friend.

As I was transferring the photos to my computer I decided to call this album Voyager. It is an envelope mini although it is rather large at 61/2 inches x 9 inches. I used manilla A4 envelopes (thanks sis) and cut them in half. The spine is from the fabulous Laura Denison http://www.followingthepapertrail.com/, it is her "stack the deck" spine easy and strong. The covers are just chipboard covered in Kaisercraft cardstock which I sanded, I covered the spine with sticky back canvas and inked it with Tim Holtz(who else) walnut stain distress ink.

I made tags to go inside the open ends of the envelope pages and added mats and journal spots.
Except for one tag where, as I said I got carried away.

Dory is the good luck charm on the boat, so even though it didn't fit with the album theme, I knew it needed to be in there.

Sorry for the long post. If you stayed to the end, Thanks.

Cheers

Cricut Anonymous @ Scrapbook Sinners

noreply@blogger.com (Leanne) — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 07:36:00 +0000

Monday the 20th February is Cricut Anonymous night, at Scrapbook Sinners in Traralgon. For this week we were asked to make something and bring it along.

Again I had to resort to cuts made previously, so I used a card base made from Art Philosophy, added a stamped image from Magnolia, which I coloured with Copics and added a sentiment. Again I have kept this very simple.

Still have lots to do this week, will be back with more next Sunday.

Cheers

Strut your Cuts Weeks 7

noreply@blogger.com (Leanne) — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 07:22:00 +0000

Hi everyone, I hope you have all had a great week. My entry for week 7 is a very simple card. I didn't enter last week as I have sold my cricut and waiting for my new Expression 2 to arrive. For this week's challenge, I didn't have any of the listed carts so I found a cut of THANKS that I made from George prior to sending it off to its new home with my cricut. The challenge for me was to try and keep the card simple as I loooovvvve lots of embellishments.

This is so not me this card, no flowers, no glitter glue. I embossed the THANKS with the small dots folder in my cuttlebug, added a couple of brads, a rub on and a small butterfly.

Hopefully I will have one of the carts for week 8, as well as a cricut to cut with.

Thanks for visiting, bye for now.

Robyn's Journal

noreply@blogger.com (Leanne) — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 08:51:00 +0000

Hi all,

This is a journal I made for a work collegue, who is leaving for a sea change literally. The base of this is just a spiral bound hardcovered notebook. The kind you can get for around $2.00 in the reject shop. I carefully took it apart, and covered the back and front covers with a lovely text paper by Kaisercraft, then I re-assembled it. To decorate the front I used some of the Tim Holtz metal corners, a door knob and key plate. Lots of pretty ribbons on the spine and a charm, then just flowers, leaves and some bling to make it girly.

I also made the sample card from the Art Philosophy cricut cartridge and stamp set as it is the same friends birthday this week.

That's all from me for today.

Thanks for stopping by.

Cheers

Baby Boy(s) Card

noreply@blogger.com (Leanne) — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 20:08:00 +0000

Hi all, Sorry I don't have an entry for week 6 of Strut you Cuts. This last week has just passed me by. I did have some things that I had to finish and one is a card I made for a lovely young lady I work, with who gave birth to twin boys this week. Congrats Shelley.

The basics for this card came from Enfys over at Going Buggy It is a double pocket card made out of one sheet of 12 x 12 double sided paper. I decorated it with some navy velvet ribbon, some spotted washi tape, and some trinkets. The stamp is from my Art Philosophy stamp set an the paper is from Kaisercraft. I made some tags, added some twine that I purchased at Scrapbook Sinners in Traralgon.

Card without the Tags looks like this:

I made some elements from another sheet of paper into tags:

and inside the card I just added another tag element:

Thanks for visiting, if you like my card please leave a comment. I have another project that I have completed and will add that to the blog tonight, so call back later to check it out.

Bye for now

Strut your cuts - Week 5

noreply@blogger.com (Leanne) — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 01:59:00 +0000

Hi all. For my week five entry I have made a 12 x 12 layout. I did not have any of the 5 listed carts, so I used Cricut Essentials (which was given to me by the lovely Leonie from Scrapbook Sinners in Traralgon).

I cut large flowers at 5" and fit these behind my matted photos, then I cut stems (which are hard to see in the photo) and smaller flowers to make the flower garden. The small butterflys where punched from stampin up punch and the large from a Martha Sterwart punch. I added some Kindy Glitz to sparkle things up bit, I really enjoyed doing this layout.

The two fairies in the photo's are my beautiful grandaughters, and its hard to believe they will be 10 this year.

Thanks for stopping by. I am hoping to complete some of the things I have been working on, will post as soon as I finish.

Cheers

Strut your Cuts week 4

noreply@blogger.com (Leanne) — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 05:51:00 +0000

Happy Sunday to everyone. Boy it has been hot, and no aircon in the craftroom, just a fan. I have completed a card for week 4, again I did not have any of the 5 listed carts, so I resorted George again. I cut a heart and the text Its you day, and added an Anya stamp I colored with copics, I also used copics to color the test as it was cut on white cardstock, this way I can match it to the colours in my project. The leafy swirl is one I purchased on ebay, very dainty. Looking forward to week 5. Hopefully I will have some carts to choose from.

On holidays next week, so hoping to get some inspiration and complete some of the projects I have on the go. Will post when completed.

Have a great week everyone.

Cheers

Strut your Cuts week 3

noreply@blogger.com (Leanne) — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 09:07:00 +0000

Hi, this was the project I entered for Week 3 of the Scrappy-Go-Lucky Strut your Cuts Cricut challenge. The purpose of the challenge is to get us Cricut fans (fanatics) using all of our cartridges. Five different carts are listed each week on the scrappy-go-lucky blog, and the Circuting in Oz facebook page. Using one or all of the listed carts you can make a project of your choice. For more info read the details here.

My project was a little gift box. I made three out of one 12 x 12 sheet of double sided paper. This is not my idea, a crafty and very clever friend gave me one of these at Christmas, thanks Robyn (Check out her blog here.) I cut the flower using my George cartridge, as this was the only one I had, and just layered and inked it a bit. The stem is the letter J and the leaves are little obelisks.

The challenge closes on Sundays at 12.00 midnight WA time. I didn't start preparing until 10.00pm Sunday, had it finished and uploaded to the Facebook page by 11.00pm, so it is really quick and easy.

The make one of the boxes cut a piece of double sided paper 8" x 4". Score are 4" on the long side, then mark the centre of the short side. Score from this mark to the outside edge of the centre score line. Fold on all score lines, you should see it taking shape. You will need to punch a hole on each side at the top to thread a ribbon.

If you have any problems understanding my directions, just contact me and I will email a template.

As you can probably tell, this is my very first post, so if you find any issues with the site, please send me an email or leave a comment to let me know.

Thanks for stopping by.

Cheers