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Hi there guys.... I have some exciting news....

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I have been lucky enough to have been selected for the Artfull Crafts Design Team for this year - woop woop!  You will get to see a lot more of me in future on the Artfull Crafts Blog, which you can find here, and in their Gallery, here.  They also have a great Facebook page, which I suggest you follow as well... you don't want to miss out on any of the goss, new releases, or the fab giveaways/competitions that Liz runs :)

Now some of you won't know me, as you will have arrived here direct from Liz at Artfull Crafts.  I'm a local yokel who loves to scrap, bake, sew and read, and this blog is an eclectic mix of all of my hobbies.  I haven't utilised it much over the past year, but certainly plan to blog a lot more from here on in...

What have I been working on lately?  Well, I am away to Nelson this week for Scrapfest by the Sea with my Mum (and am really looking forward to it), and have today made my first ATC (Artist Trading Card).  I haven't ever been a fan of the generic ATCs that you find on Pinterest etc, so decided to put my own spin on it.  And of course, it's PINK!

The beginning of the 'PINK' mess...

The finished product

To put it in perspective, here it is with my snips...  It's pretty tiny :)

ATC cards are typically 2.5" x 3.5" in size.  That's a pretty small canvas to work with.  I have to say that although it took me ages to get started, once I got my head around the tiny dimensions, it was fun.  I'm off to go make some more!!!  What now?  You should go and check out who the other DT members are - there's a lot of us :)  Looking forward to a fun year working with these lovely ladies.

Toodles,

Well hello there....

Yup, it really is me.  I know, it's been an ETERNITY since I posted here... but I do have an exciting reason to get back into it, promise!  (and to those of you who have just arrived here via the Scrapfest blog hop, welcome!)

That's right peeps, I finally made the decision this week to sign up for Scrapfest by the Sea, in Nelson in August.  I have known Trina for a while, and have even had the privilege to be one of her teaching assistants in the past, so I know that this girl knows her stuff.  Anything she puts together will be fabulous fun, and so amazingly well planned.  I cant wait!  My mum Rosie is coming too.  In fact she signed up months before I did!  So we are both really looking forward to a fun, girly long weekend together, and it's only 22 weeks away....the countdown is on :)

For you Scrapfesters out there, I'm Beck/Becks/Becky.  I am 38, married, and have a 9 year old son who often thinks that he knows more than his mother does, although this is rarely the case.  I have been scrapping for 13 years, and also delve into a bit of self taught sewing from time to time.  I work school hours (for obvious reasons) at the local Council, love to bake, and enjoy catching up with friends and family in my spare time.

Mum doesn't have a blog, so she gets to ride on the coat-tails of this post. AND she, by the way, is awesome!  We share the same sense of humour, and are not afraid to laugh at ourselves when we do something stupid (which can happen from time to time!).  My sisters tease us about hanging out together doing our 'geeky' or 'nerdy' papercraft, but I know they love us both really.  Besides, I know that they like what we can come up with when being creative...they are often the subjects of said creativity, so they'd better like it!  Here's me and Ma at a class together... picture of innocence, right?  Yeah right!

Anyway ladies, you won't miss Rosie and I when we are at Scrapfest, we'll be the ones laughing at each other!  I look forward to meeting you all in 22 weeks time :)

Now, this blog hop thing...  I decided I'd better make something crafty to put in this post, so I have very quickly whipped up a super cute Easter Chick treat box to show you:

I have to confess that it was SO not complicated...thanks to my favourite scrapbooking and paper crafting tool, my Silhouette Cameo.  I downloaded the cutting file from the online store lickity-split, and I had it cut out and glued together in minutes!  Sadly I haven't done a lot of other crafting lately, with other things on our plate here at home, but I am very much looking forward to getting my scrap on in Nelson soon.  See you there!

So now I pass the torch... pop on over and visit Elaine at her blog here...