This Tinsel is Making Me Itchy!!

Huh? I hear you say! I promise this will be my last blog post for the weekend! LOL

The 3rd Inspiration challenge is up over at Get Picky and this is the picture you need to draw inspiration from:

I was inspired by the subtle hints of blue as well as the silver on the christmas tree. And of course, because there is a christmas tree, I used Christmas photos and the colour red and created this:

I have used some Cosmo Cricket 'Mitten Weather' 6x6 papers that were blue and red. You can't really see it in this photo but I have also flicked some silver paint across the layout. I found the chippy tree in amongst my stash of Basic Grey 'Oliver' and thought it looked a little Christmassy, so I added some full stops from the Thickers to make little decorations. The red Thickers matched the glittery tinsel in the photo too.

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Dad & His Girl

Gotta love rainy days - it's a great excuse to sit and scrap! And that's just what I've been doing. This layout is for the January 1st sketch at Stuck?! Sketches:

Once again using October Afternoon - 'Seaside' this time. :) Sorry for the dull photo - rainy weather might be good for scrapping but not so good for taking photos. :(

Hope you are having a great weekend. Thanks for stopping by...

Sand Man

This months challenge at White With 1 is to use White with Navy/Royal blue and Banners. I am having a little love affair with banners at the moment (LOL) so thought I would play along. Here is my layout:

That pp is navy but it showing up more like black in this photo. :? When we went away back in November last year, we took the kids to the beach. Lachlan wanted to be buried in the sand so Luke started covering him and then got a little carried away! He turned him into a giant sand muscle man (not sure what's going on with the legs though!)

I have used a bit of Glimmermist, OA and Pink Paislee papers, and string. For the title I traced around some Pink Paislee chipboard letters to make my own from the OA patterned paper. It's a great way to save the chipboard alphas for another layout - you never seem to get enough of the letters you use the most!

And once again there is a lot of doodling.

You may have seen by post below about one of my layouts appearing on the Crate Paper blog. If you go and leave a comment on the blog telling them that mine was your favourite you can win a prize pack. And if I get the most votes I can win a little something too. I would very much appreciate it. ;)

Thanks so much for stopping by and for any comments you may leave.

Excited!!

One of my layouts using the Crate Paper 'School Spirit' range (that I got in my DT pack from the Little Scrapbook Shop) is up on the Crate Paper blog today!! You can see it here.

The Pigeon

I have some scrapping that I can actually share! :) This is a 'just because' layout. We finally received our mail after not getting any for 3 weeks due to the flooding in our local town. In there was a parcel from The Little Scrapbook Shop with some yummy new October Afternoon goodies inside. :) So I created this:



It's a layout about the homing pigeon that came to visit us last year (you may have heard about it if you are on Facebook). I have used a mix of 'Campfire' and 'Modern Homemaker' as well as using up some older bits and pieces from Cosmo Cricket, Sass Lass and The Chip Chop Shop.

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Kraft It Up

January's challenge is now up on the Kraft It Up blog. The challenge is to create a layout based on the theme SUMMER and you must also use a SUMMER word in your title, using Kraft cardstock as your base. Here is my take on the challenge:


Head on over to the blog to see what the rest of the CT have done - including some new faces! Congrats ladies!! :)

Well Hello 2011!

I hope it doesn't go as fast as 2010! I hope you all had a great New Year's - we had a quiet BBQ with the neighbours and were in bed before midnight. We're becoming old fuddy duddy's! LOL

With the new month comes a new challenge over at Scrap The Girls. This months challenge is to scrap your favourite summer memories or moments. This is my layout:

This was Darcie's first taste of watermelon whilst on a 'picnic' over at our other property. It was such a stinker of a day so we found a nice cool spot beside the dam under the shade of a tree. She looks so little in that photo. :(

I would love to see you play along. Thanks for stopping by...