Been a Bad Blogger

I know, it's been ages since I posted so here I am with all the news about us :)

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

A Quickpage for you all

So here is Quickpage number 2 from my Just Because kit, There will be another few freebies from this kit over the weekend so stay tuned :)

DOWNLOAD HERE

Here's a layout I created with the quickpage too :)

Have a great weekend everyone

Tracy

YEAH!! WHAT HE SAID!! Oh And a FREEBIE

We shared this desert, it was so yummy, and no point counting for this special night either!!!

On our way back to our room, this was taken in the haunted cats gallery.I had the best night, and the breakfast was wonderful too!! A very rare and special event, My hubby is such a romantic isn't he!! No wonder I call him Sweetness all the time. Love you my Darling!!!

Now, here is a freebie for you all, practicing for the Next Sassy Designer Competition I am entering at Stone Accents Studio in September. This is for the SAS August Colour Challenge! Comments are always nice and please don't share the links, send people who want it here to my blog!

ELEMENTS

PAPERS1

PAPERS2

PAPERS3

Have a great weekend!
Tracy

My Man's a Star

Yup if you think you saw Taz on "BondiRescue" on Tuesday night, you were right, episode 12, my hubby treating a kid David who had fractured his arm at the skatepark there. He's about half way through the episode. So go check it out if you didn't see it. He's the Ambulance Officer with the long plaited hair. Just click on BondiRescue to be taken to their rerun sight.

Alright onto the scrapping here are this weeks layouts.

I have discovered Artist's Trading Cards and I have done a few for challenges over at rakscraps

I think I have found a new challenge and addiction LOL.

Okay so the Australian Animal ones are a little sneak preview of things to come in my designs. and the one with the beautiful Collie is of Liza Jane, a friend of mine's dog who is now over the rainbow bridge and hopefully having fun with our Hope playing all eternity.

This one with the red is of Me and Dani and Her mum Gai, who is like my second mum LOL. I basically lived at their place for a lot of my childhood weekends LOL.

This one is of my Mum and Jack at her farewell in Hobart. I love these pics, and the kit is Signs of Spring from Terrell Sanzone.
Another layout using Terrell Sanzone's Signs of Spring. This is my Auntie Helen at my parent's Wedding in Glasgow Scotland, 30th March 1968. She was about 16 in this pic. Love the beehive!!
Here is Lachlan with a kit by Shannon Fahrnbach called Egg me On. Isn't he a cutie pie!??

And yes that's Christopher when he was a wee boy!! What a gorgeous child, LOL, can you tell this one is our son who is now 20 years old, I feel like I'm an old woman LOL.

Oh and did I mention that the Koala Trading card made Layout of the Day at Divine Digital!!! Click here to see the post!! Woo Hoo.

Okay off to do some scanning now since Michael is at work and I can use the study for a while LOL. Or at least before I have to tape Numbers. Have a great day, Or night depending where you are LOL
Hugs
Tracy

It's Taz the Ambo!

Hello world, I'm back!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well I just dropped by the blog to see what Tracy had been telling you and found 'Bupkiss'. The holidays are over and I'm right back into the saddle again with the same probationary partner I had before I left. Good thing I like him.

I guess Tracy will let you know what our success is with the IVF cycle that we're currently on, when we know.

I have finished my very first semester of university distance education, I'm happy with what I learnt and my results so far with the sociology course, but the emergency care of mental health,,,, it sucked. Lots of information, none of it useful to me and my job of pre-hospital care.

One really cool thing that has happened, 1st Dec last year I was doing overtime at Randwick station and we got a cardiac arrest patient back, the ZOLL company that manufacture the defibrillator that saved his life, present a watch to all such patients and I had the pleasure of making that presentation on the 16th Nov - 49 weeks to the day after I first met George. George brought his son (about my age) along and Tracy took some photos (see above) it was special. It made it into the Ambulance Service newsletter and the local scandal sheets, the newspaper photo even made it to the local hospital Accident & Emergency Dept.

Well, that's a pretty go spray from me I'll go now.

See Ya'