Hello, and welcome to our 'Nature’ Australasian 'Blog Hop'. If you've arrived here from Danielle Edwards - Scrappychicks, then you're in the right place. If you've landed here by accident, then welcome to the fun! Please join in by following the link at the bottom of this blog.  The current catalogue, which runs through April, May and June, is absolutely chokka full of nature themed products. So many, in fact, it was hard to decide what to share in the blog this week. I'm looking forward to seeing what everyone else on the hop chooses too! After a couple of weeks playing with several of the products, I decided to work with the Butterfly slimline embossing folder for this blog. It's a great product, because it also comes with two layers of stencils to help us enhance the butterflies. As it happens, I spent some time in my neighbours front yard this week, photographing a whole lot of Monarch butterflies. It's great to photograph them when they first e...

    Hello, and welcome to our 'Cosette’ Australasian 'Blog Hop'. If you've arrived here from Danielle Edwards -Scrappychicks, then you're in the right place.  If you've landed here by accident, then welcome to the fun! Please join in by following the link at the bottom of this blog.  This month, the feature paper for Close to my Heart is called 'Cosette'. It has a beautiful range of soft tones that would work perfectly for all kinds of events - a girly day out perhaps, anniversary celebrations, or even travel. To me, some of the designs leapt out at me for my heritage album. Heritage albums are what got me interested in scrapbooking in the first place. I have collected photos for years from many branches of the family, with a view to having them preserved and documented for future generations to enjoy and learn from. I've made a good start, but it's an ongoing passion........ Through collecting photos over the years from various sources, it'...

  Hello, and welcome to our 'All you need is Love' Australasian 'Close To My Heart' Blog Hop.  If you've arrived here from Maz Wood - aMAZing Creations , then you're in the right place.   If you've landed here by accident, no problem!  Please join in by following the link at the end of this post.   With February not far away, there's lots of creative thought around the world for the  upcoming Valentines Day, often associated with young love or perhaps a secret love,  and the sending of anonymous cards. Not so in our house. We have no teenagers anymore, but we will be celebrating our  38th wedding anniversary in March. The recent paper pack called 'Now and Forever' is a beautiful collection of designs in a  colour palette that is right up my ally! So I decided to try and use all of the papers! Before I share my project though, I think it's worth mentioning that although I've been  scrapbooking for over 20 years, I have NEVER, EVER p...