Playing catch up

Well its been quite hectic round here, things have just not stopped, luckily this weekend was nice and quiet, had a beautiful day by the pool on sunday, must remember to upload those pics.

Managed to get 2 layouts completed, aswell as 2 sets of atcs, One for the 6th atc swap for SBBD theme is fabric and one for Scrapbook Dreams Swap theme is summer.

also last week i received my christmas atcs and christmas 3x3 inchies from scrapbook dreams swap, they are all just beautiful, was some lovely happy mail :)

Heres my 2 layouts first one was just cause i felt like it, have been finding some really beautiful photos of my mum from her teens and twenties that im just loving scrapping

This one is for Sonyas Challenge over at the Scrapbook Studio Design Team blog http://designteam.typepad.com/my_weblog/challenges/ all you need to do is complete a layout of one of YOUR highlights or all of them for 2008, if you decide to join in, the prize is a set of Tim Holtz Alcohol inks and Blending Solution.

I decided to do a layout of the weekend, our group of girls went down to Tulas in Papamoa, unfortunately Amy wasnt with us, shes still in London, but it was good to have the girls all together, just us for the weekend, this is my second highlight of the year, dont have photos of my biggest highlight and i wouldnt have a clue how to scrap it anyway, full mental block with that one :D

Bossy Scrapper #20

Well had a lovely day at playcentre today with Lachlan, must really remember to take my camera one day, although am very scared as that place is full of gunk and goo lol.

Finally got to sit down today and finish my layout for the Bossy Scrapper over at SBBD, i did a layout on my mum again, found a beautiful old photo of her and just love it. you will have to excuse the crappy photo, as my scanner is just not working at the moment.

Heres the requirements

*12 X12'" background card or paper

*Piece of co-ordinating c/s or pat paper about half to two-thirds the size of your 12x12

*Create a journalling block using stamps

*Add anything round, whether its bling, buttons or brads
*Get creative and make a frame or fancy mat for your photograph or at least one of your photo's or you have more than one.... or you can use diecuts or whatever if you have to make them
*Add some ribbon/lace or string

*Add a title using letter stickers or rub ons , these can be regular alpha stickers, rub ons, thickers etc

ATC Dare #5 - 80s Fashion

The new dare is up over at http://www.atcdares.blogspot.com/ and its 80s fashion.

Took me a lil while to come up with an idea, but then i thought about my fave movies from that time, flashdance, dirty dancing, and footloose, and those leg warmers out of footloose a definite symbol of the 80s

so heres what i came up with, found this awesome picture on the net and of course it wouldnt have been complete without the mesh.

SBBD Monthly Competition

These are the November rules

COMPLETE ONE SINGLE (OR DOUBLE) LAYOUT - ANY SIZE OF YOUR CHOICEYOUR PAGE MUST HAVE AT LEAST ONE OF THE FOLLOWING:

1. CUT OUT DESIGN FROM PATTERNED PAPER
2. ANY TYPE OF FLOWERS (AT LEAST ONE)
3. LACE OR RIBBON (OR BOTH)
4. BOOKPLATE e.g METAL/CHIPBOARD ETC (AT LEAST ONE)
5. AND LASTLY MUST HAVE A GRUNGE FEEL TO IT (e.g DISTRESSED/INKED/PAINTED/GLIMMER MISTED OR ANYTHING ELSE YOU CAN THINK OF ETC AT LEAST ONE)

I decided to do a layout of the beautiful photo that Lachlan took of my mum, just love it, i used kaiser craft paper, BG big bookplate, junkitz lil bookplate, ink, chalk, paper flower , ribbon,
and a few other bits and bobs really pleased with the results

Finished Another Set

woohoo, managed to finished my 1940's atcs this weekend since Lahclan at his dads, along with organising and finishing my cards for the Halloween swap for Scrapbooking By Design, also been working on the Swap 7 for Scrapbook Dreams, which is about your favourite drink. only just remembered i havent done the 1930's ones, ahh well they are next.

used cardstock, patterned paper, lace, staples, pearls, inks and kindyglitz,and glitter thread, really love these old movie maidens, they are purely gorgeous, flawless.

ATC Dare #4

The new dare is up over at http://www.atcdares.blogspot.com/


The dare is Quest for Cure (Breast Cancer)


The only rules are: You must use some pink on your ATC and you must also have the pink ribbon logo


Heres my take on the dare

I used a few different patterned papers, tearing, transparencies, fabric flowers and a cute image from http://lisasalteredart.com/ . She's got lots of wonderful images, you should check them out.

Full on Weekend

Well Lachlans birthday party was on sunday, had a wonderful day, as usual made food for an army and had heaps leftover, he got spoilt rotten, and loved his Thomas cake, but he did pick it out hahaha, he didnt like everyone singing happy birthday, so he put his hands over his ears and screamed at everyone to shut up, much to our amusement :D

Me Feeding my lil brother choccy cake :D

I also let him play with my camera, yea my hairs were standing on end thinking he was gunna break my precious baby, but too my amazement he took some beautiful photos, just love the first one of my mum

We also had a few fireworks that night for Lachlan too, he enjoyed it, last year he was quite scared, but he was loving the big bangs, although must admit, each year fireworks are just getting more stink, not worth the money anymore.