New Online Shop NOW OPEN

Woohoo,
I have been working so hard getting this ready and it is now up, running and live.

I am so excited.

The new online shop now has great looking colours, enlargements of products and even video of products.
Also the online shop now has PayPal.  With PayPal you do not need to have an account with them to use it - fantastic.
PayPal enables you to pay using your credit card with the comfort of security when paying for your orders.

I have also added some new product that has not been online before either.  I will be adding even more product as the week goes on.

Have fun checking out and purchasing from our online shop. http://www.betterscrapbooking.co.nz/shop/

One thing hasn't changed - our great service!

Happy Scrappin'

May Challenges at Better Scrapbooking

Not so many entries in the April Challenges, Here's hoping for more in May but there were still some winners!!

Photo Challenge - Perspective, perspective, perspective.


This was one AWESOME photo!! Congratulations Jenny!

Project Challenge - Create a fun Easter Basket


Oh Congratulations ME!!!

And now for the May Challenges

Layout Challenge - Layering Embellishments. This is one of the trends in scrapbooking at the moment, layering. You may like to layer a flower over some chipboard with a stamped imaged layered on top of the flower. Let your creativity take flight with this one and see what fun things you can layer on a layout.

Photo Challenge - Reflections. Take a photo of a reflection, it maybe in a mirror, shopping window or like April's winner in the sunglasses.

Project Challenge - Tribute to Mum. With it being Mother's day this weekend why not extend it out to the rest of the month and show how special your Mum is to you by creating a tribute to her, it might be a canvas or mini album or something else.

Card Challenge - Waterfall Card.
Create a Waterfall style card. A waterfall card has about five decorative card squares that are mounted on a sliding strip. When the tab is pulled they open like the leaves of a book.

All entries to the online gallery challenges need to be uploaded to the online gallery at Better Scrapbooking before the 31st May. If you are unable to upload your photo feel free to email it to Megan at megan@betterscrapbooking.co.nz and she will upload it for you.


All entries go into the draw for a fun scrapbooking prize from Better Scrapbooking Ltd. I look forward to seeing your entries!!!

Happy Scrapping!

Fabulous

I thought it was time to spend a little bit of time creating so today I thought I would make my Mother's day card for my fabulous Mum.  She does not yet follow my blog so it is safe to show you.

On this card I have used Bazzill Desert Coral Dark cardstock as well as the Basic Grey Curio Collection Cotton pattern paper.  I also used the Fabulous word stamp and a butterfly stamp.  I used Stazon ink so that I could safely colour in the butterfly (and use watercolours if I wanted, unfortunately I could not find my daughters water colour pencils).  I also used two different ribbons, one satin and one ric-rac.  For the strip of pattern paper under the stamps I used the reverse side of the Basic Grey Curio collection Cotton pattern paper.

Very pleased with the results

I managed to do this card quite quickly but I think it was just because I already had a plan in my head.  I do hope you get some time this week to create something special for your Mum.

Better Scrapbooking April Scrap Pack

Earlier on my blog I talked about what I got in the April Scrap Pack HERE
And here is what I created with it


It's All About The Accessories
When I saw these papers I immediately thought about these photos of Abbey with ALL her necklaces on. She spent ages making them and then wore them ALL for days afterwards! Too darn adorable!


Fashionista
Abbey in her Tinkerbell outfit for the Fairy Festival, accessorised with wand, sunnies, flowery tights and ballet shoes ... a total Fashion Icon!!!


Abbey's Style
What does Abbey like in April 2011?
*Bear
*My Little Pony's
*Jewelery
*Tinkerbell
*Princesses
What a real GIRLY GIRL!!!


Glamour Girl
Abbey has her own Sunglasses but of course Mummy's are bigger and better!!! And look sooo much better on Abbey!

So if you would like to know how I made all these, as well as what the other Design Team members did with their Scrap Packs, pop on over to Better Scrapbooking and check out the May Newsletter

As Promised

Well I was able to make some lovely little Easter gifts and they were welcome and received well by the recipients.  Here is a photo of what I made:

Last day of the school holidays - sigh.  Back to school next week - sigh.  Back to the school drop off's and pick ups, making lunches and all that goes with the school run - sigh.  Ahh well only 11 weeks to go till the next school holidays.  These holidays have been so wet I think we have spent more time hibernating at home that anything else.

I have enjoyed the school holiday kids workshops that we had.  Over the two sessions the children made 7 projects. Here are just some that they made:

Next week in the kids classes we will be making something for Mother's Day.

Have you made your Mother's Day card and/or gift?  Don't forget!
I will be making mine during the week, will show the the result sometime next week.

Have a great weekend everyone!

Happy Scrappin'

Good Friday

So how are you spending Good Friday?

So far I have done some exercise (feels good to do that first thing in the morning), I little bit of treasure hunting and I have made 17 little Easter gifts for our small Simple Church group tomorrow.  I have not yet taken a photo of them all but I will and put it up here on the blog.  Very proud of my efforts.

Well yesterday our piano finally left - big family issue - but it is gone and now we can get on with the next chapter of our lives.  Our lounge is not looking very large and for a change ... tidy, and not just because I tidied so the movers would be able to get the piano out.  Mainly because there is less "stuff" around.

I am enjoying the start of a long weekend, looks like it might be busy with all sorts of things including some potential changes to the online shop - I will keep you posted (good changes by the way)

Well Happy Easter everyone!

Basic Grey Curio Collection

Last month I got some awesome goodies in the mail from Better Scrapbooking. They were from the Curio Collection by Basic Grey


Curio Cotton


Curio Heirloom


Curio Ophelia

As well as the papers I also received some Basic Grey Curio Clips


Along with the Curio Collection I also received:
Bazzill Patch cardstock
Bazzill Yam cardstock
Orange Flowers
Black Pearls

And this is what I created ....


Reflection Of Beauty
This photo was taken at the Auckland Zoo, it was just a fluke that I happened to get Abbey's reflection in the glass!


Hush
My beautiful baby boy! How fast he has grown! I sure miss my babies when they were this small.


Funny Faces
My cheeky girl!!! This was a Positive/Negative photo shoot, she was so cheeky throughout the whole sitting, some of these funny faced pics are my favourites!

Go check out the Curio Collection at Better Scrapbooking!

Proud Mum

Today my darling husband had a day off work.  We both took the chance to go and support our youngest daughter with her school triathlon.  It was so great!  She was a part of a three girl team, each did a leg of the race.  They started with the run, then the bike ride and lastly the swimming.  Miss M did the swimming leg of the triathlon and had to swim 20 lengths of her school pool.

It was really funny because when they got to the pool everyone rather than swimming were running the lengths of the pool.  Miss M jumped in and ran one length then began swimming.  She discovered she was actually quicker swimming than those running.  It was so awesome to she her go.

When she was done she ran off to the finish line with me in tow.  Thankfully my husband was at the finish line using the video on Miss M's camera to catch her crossing the line with all her friends and classmates cheering her along.  Miss M was so proud of her achievement and so were we!

Injured Soldier

Oh dear.  My poor Mum went tramping - like she does most weekends - but last Sunday just before the end of the tramp she took a nasty fall and has ended up breaking her arm just near the wrist.  She spent 7 hours at the hospital on the Sunday afternoon, got her cast and then was told she would have to go to another hospital on the Monday for a CT scan.  This was another 8hour wait the following day.  She was so lucky to have a friend there able to help her with both of these.  She rang me on the Sunday night just before going home.  I felt so awful not being able to be there.  But the rest of this week I have been able to help her with bits and bobs.

But this friend that helped Mum on Sunday, it was also his birthday on Sunday, so during this week I made him a little combined thank you and birthday gift.  I remember before I gave it to Mum to give it to her friend to take a photo:

It is so nice having a craft where you can make such lovely things to give away and brighten up their days.

I made some cards this week as well, but gave them away before I remembered to take a photo - silly, silly me, always take photos of things when they are finished LOL!

Glitz Design and Bo Bunny

Oh my goodness.  I had the opportunity to attend a workshop last Friday with the teams from Glitz Designs and Bo Bunny. These workshops were amazing and so much fun.  It was so nice to sit down with other retailers and scrapbook and get excited about what we were doing and what was available. (I am almost always excited about scrapbooking as I love this hobby so much)

As you can see we had a lot of fun.  Thank you to everyone that made this workshop possible - Kays Company, Glitz Designs, Bo Bunny and Cherry Lyn Dies.

I was able to get some photos with our instructors, so with Glitz Designs we had:

Ginger and Laura who are very talented ladies with such a wonderful range of scrapbooking products.  Here is my album that I made in their class.  We were using the Love Games Collection for this class.

Of course I also made sure I had my photo taken with the Bo Bunny ladies as well Jerry and Megan.  Now poor Megan only arrived in Auckland for the class on the Friday morning.  We all felt so sorry for her, she basically got off the plane and came and taught the class.  There is dedication for you.

Here is just a bit of my album that we made in the Bo Bunny workshop.  We were using the Timepiece Collection for this project.  I love Bo Bunny products.

Now I am excited to let you know that I will be bringing in some of the Bo Bunny and Glitz Designs products as well as the SRM stickers, so keep an eye out in the online shop and Better Deals newsletters.  We will also keep you up to date with new arrivals on Facebook so be sure to join us on Facebook.