A reminder of summer

Brrr cold, rain and stormy outside. The frontlawn is covered in broken off branches from the Kowhai tree. Winter. I am so not a winter person…
Perfect time for a little summer reminder. Had so much fun doing this mini album about Rainer and my lil’ summer trips for my DT stuff over at NZScrapbookShop . using the yummy BasicGrey Boxer range. I designed and cut our various shapes of cardboard by hand… I so need a quickcutz or something. ( Rainer, I hope you are reading this!) Distressed a lot as well as inking up with white for that washed up look. Rather like the way it all came together.

Made a acrylic page- cut our from a giftbox- for the back to keep it nice and tidy.
Oh and dont forget to swing by to admire Hannah’s cool work over at Paperpesto!
TFL and have a wonderful start to the week
xx Ilka

Sneakies

Oops another week just zoomed by! Another cold, what’s up with that? I thought not smoking is supposed to make you healthier…. I never had as many colds as this year.
Still – I am soooo proud of myself J, I survived my first party and drinks as a ‘non smoker’ a couple of weekends ago. Yeah I know…what a lame social life I have. One party in six months;p
And what’s going on with the internet in NZ? Our broadband is as fickle as a candle in the wind. Today I downloaded the same email 9 times!!! before the connections was up long enough to download the rest of emails. I had to write this post offline and then copy/paste it into wordpress. No catching up with blogs or surfing at the moment L
Makes me wonder if all those storms damaged something. I know all is supposed to be underground etc but it’s been so bad since the storms…LOL and me & Rainer are too pooped to ring up slingshot and listen to : All our lines are busy at the moment, please hold blabla for an hour or 2 ;p

Whine whine, can you tell I had a stressful day?;p Enough of that and onto the fun things.

I had an absolute blast creating with this month’s PaperPesto Kit called the “Passages of Time” Collection.  This kit will go on sale July the 10th. Love that many of the papers are double-sided, especially good mileage from the gorgeous Theresa Collins Journaling papers. My absolute fav’s are the cool Heidi Swapp tapes , the date stamp, the wee mini alphas and and;p 

Here are some sneakies. You can see the full LO’s over at the PaperPesto blog

 

 I dig those pearl brads!

 

 TFL J Hope you all are keeping safe and warm!

Xx Ilka

 

Scraps

Quick update – scrapcamp was just awesome!!! Fab job and my thanks to Lianne and Yolande! A lot of fun with Lee, the Kims, Andrea, Jackie, The Paperpesto Gals, Kelly, Lisa and too many names to mention them all. And woohoo I got to meet the lovely Shell and saw her awesome book about the backyard remodeling!!!

And woohoo it’s official now, PaperPesto has invited me and Ann to stay on as permanent Designteam Members until the end of the year! I am so chuffed about that!!! Just love their kits and the PaperPesto Gals are just such truely lovely ladies, I’m proud to be involved with them

Oh exciting news!!! My ‘What’s hot’ LO was picked for this months Kiwi Jack. How cool is that? Makes me feel very special! Thank you!

Loved working with the kit from NZ ScrapbookStore!! Yummy BasicGrey Boxer stuff!
My gorgeous Ronja, so engrossed not realizing I’m taking photos!

One of me and my huni of course, all in style with our shades on;p
We even made it into the BasicGrey gallery;p

Another proud father daughter LO Aren’t they just cute?

And one for fun!

There is so much new stuff in the NZ Scrapbook Store, Kaiser, Cosmos, Hot of the Press, Prima… and woohoo I am heading up there today to catch up with the lovely ladies and have lunch with the gorgeous Ann and do a little shopping. Maybe even staying on for their Prima promo evenings…
oops best get ready..
Will try catch up with your blogs over the next few evening!
Meanwhile keep dry and warm! TFL!
xx, Ilka