As part of my stint as a Guest Design Team member over at CIS I have been given the opportunity to set a new ongoing challenge. Please check this out and give this one a shot. Basically I have uploaded a LO which you are to take inspiration from, then you upload the LO you created and someone else uses your LO as inspiration.. Clear as mud? lol Just check it out hehehehe
Friday, 15 February 2008
Sunday, 3 February 2008
More VC layouts
I've been madly scapping the last couple of days in an attempt to get as many of the Nook virtual challenges done as I can. I am having so much fun with these!
Okay - the first LO is my grandparents; aren't they gorgeous? They've been married 50years now (actually 51 this year) and I pray that my marriage will be that strong in 50 years.
The challenge for LO#2 was simply to scrap silly photos. As the mother of two clowns I have plenty of these - so this one was easy!
LO #3 was for a #5 challenge - the idea being that if you used something you used 5 of it - 5 patterened papers, 5 buttons.
The last LO is my fave! This is Dane's school portrait; scrapped with the awesome BG Reces range - love this stuff.
Okay - that's my report for today :) If you're reading this you've probably got a fair bit to catch up on anyhow - I guess that's what I get for not posting regularly. ;)
Saturday, 2 February 2008
Virtual Crop
MyScrapbookNook are hosting a VC this weekend and it is AMAZING!!!! They have the COOLEST prizes; international competitors are welcome, and there are over 30 challenges on the board, with prizes for at least 6 of them. They award point for each challenge completed and the person with the most point at the end of the crop wins Queen of the Crop; and a MONSTER prize pack. So, in my best Molly Meldrum voice; do yourself a favour and get yer butt OVER there... now!!! Oh and if you do; make sure you introduce yourself and post a least ten little comments somewhere, so I can score an extra 10 points for bringing a friend. hehehe
Now in the light of the VC - here are a few of the LO's I've done for it so far:
The first is possibly my fave at this point; the challenge was simple enough - use a transparency somewhere on your LO. I used the hambly 12 x 12 and cut it down. These pics were from our pre Christmas photo shoot. No matter what I did I could not get Lydia to look at the camera; but I love the pics I ended up with. Especially the one of Dane and Lydia together.
The second was for a hidden journalling challenge; pics from our QLD trip of Lydia having her hair cut by Andrew's cousin.
Now in the light of the VC - here are a few of the LO's I've done for it so far:
The first is possibly my fave at this point; the challenge was simple enough - use a transparency somewhere on your LO. I used the hambly 12 x 12 and cut it down. These pics were from our pre Christmas photo shoot. No matter what I did I could not get Lydia to look at the camera; but I love the pics I ended up with. Especially the one of Dane and Lydia together.
The second was for a hidden journalling challenge; pics from our QLD trip of Lydia having her hair cut by Andrew's cousin.
As always, thanks for stopping by - I'll have more to show in the next day or two.
Friday, 1 February 2008
My first EVER Design Team spot!!!!
OH I AM SOO SUPER EXCITED!! I have been offered a guest design team spot with the amazing team at Crafting In Style this month! This site is awesome - but then if you read this blog you already know how much I love the CISters, so it is a huge honour to be offered this spot. Ally has sent me a gorgeous pack to play with, the results of which I can't share yet, but will do as soon as she publishes - so watch this space. MAKE SURE you pop over this month to see all the awesomeness that the DT have planned - there are loads of challenges, a wonderful sketch (check that out at the stylish sketch blog here) and a great cybercrop planned for next weekend. Tell em I sent ya!
Sunday, 27 January 2008
But wait there's more!
Good morning lovely people. Another few LO's to share. At the moment CIS is having a bit of an impromptu party while the Boss Girl is away for the long weekend. The DT girls have set a few challenges and it's all a bit of fun - so head on over. Lizzy has challenged us all to chose a sketch from the CIS Stylish Sketch Blog (check it out here) This particular challenge is a pretty good one for me - cos I've been using the sketch blog a WHOLE lot lately. There are loads of sketches on there, a bunch of CISters have contributed to the sketches and there are samples of every single one. Perfect inspiration spot for when the Mojo has left the building. (Gosh, I sound like an AD!)
PS2 is my entry to that challenge. It's based on one of the older sketches - called Creative Bliss - by Jolene. The Balinese show pics were really hard to scrap - scrapping night time photos is tough, cos you wanna use dark colours, but that invariably makes the whole page too dark. So I'm not real happy with this LO - but at least the pics are scrapped. If you've got ANY tips for scrapping night time pics, please share them :)
The techno babe LO is probably my current fave - simply cos I finally got around to scraplifting the very talented Karen Brierley. Karen regularly uses the negatives from her chipboard alphas, and they look ace. This is such a great way to get more outta your scrapping dollar - so that's got to be a good thing. The Last LO here is for the monthly dare also over at CIS. The challenge is to use a style of handstitching on yur LO that you've haven't put to paper before. I have been summarily un-daring in stitching on LO's, so for me I had the pick of pretty much ANY stitch.. and true to style I stayed boring and went with cross stitch ;)
Once again, thanks for stopping by!
Saturday, 26 January 2008
So I know I said I'd post a couple of layouts each day; but my camera batteries died and I couldn't find my charger... so even though I wanted to share; I couldn't. However - the camera is now equipped with fresh batteries; so here they are.
These first three were my entries in CIS's January cybercrop. If you are at ALL scrap inclined, then get yourself over to crafting in style on February the 8th for their next CC! The challenges are fab, and the chatter is always a load of fun, and you have from Friday night until Monday lunch time to get the challenges done.
I'll post more over the coming days; didn't want to overload you all at once. Thanks for stopping by.
Monday, 21 January 2008
After some gentle prompting from Kate I realised that it's been over 3 weeks since my last post... WOW I SUCK! hehehe so I'm gonna be posting every day for the next few in an attempt to catch you all up on all that's been happening here.
School holidays are nearly over and I gotta say I am not COMPLETELY shattered. These holidays have been a little dull for Dane; we haven't been anywhere or done much that's real exciting because we've been trying to reign in the spending a little. Lydia's still not talking, and getting increasingly frustrated at her inability to communicate. This in turn is driving me bananas, so all in all not the most peaceful household. I've been making a real effort to provide some good ol' fashioned entertainment so we've been doing all sorts of things to fill in our days - painting with a cup of water on the fence, making dough people and painting them, lots of Lego... lol. This past weekend we all went (Andrew included) down to Cape Schanck for the day. we packed a picnic lunch and walked down the boardwalk and explored the rockpools and caves around the point. It was a GORGEOUS day and an awesome way to spend some family time together. Far better than sitting on our butts around the house; the kids had a ball and we all got a decent workout climbing up and down over 225 steps! Lydia even managed the climb up them on her own, which I thought was pretty impressive.
I've also been scrapping a bit over the last week or so; did the three challenges for the CIS CC, and am trying to keep up with the 14 layout in 14 days challenge set by Kaz at CIS too. So I will post some layouts here over the next few days.
On the Lydia front - we have an appointment to see a speech therapist on the 30th of Jan, so hopefully will soon have some answers, and maybe even a few strategies for helping her out. She starting at a new daycare centre this Thursday; and they seem pretty switched on and keen to do whatever it takes to help her a bit; hopefully it's only a few little things to give her a bit of a push-start.
Well that will do for today - will be sure and report back with some more tomorrow; and a few layouts to share.
Love n hugs
Dee
School holidays are nearly over and I gotta say I am not COMPLETELY shattered. These holidays have been a little dull for Dane; we haven't been anywhere or done much that's real exciting because we've been trying to reign in the spending a little. Lydia's still not talking, and getting increasingly frustrated at her inability to communicate. This in turn is driving me bananas, so all in all not the most peaceful household. I've been making a real effort to provide some good ol' fashioned entertainment so we've been doing all sorts of things to fill in our days - painting with a cup of water on the fence, making dough people and painting them, lots of Lego... lol. This past weekend we all went (Andrew included) down to Cape Schanck for the day. we packed a picnic lunch and walked down the boardwalk and explored the rockpools and caves around the point. It was a GORGEOUS day and an awesome way to spend some family time together. Far better than sitting on our butts around the house; the kids had a ball and we all got a decent workout climbing up and down over 225 steps! Lydia even managed the climb up them on her own, which I thought was pretty impressive.
I've also been scrapping a bit over the last week or so; did the three challenges for the CIS CC, and am trying to keep up with the 14 layout in 14 days challenge set by Kaz at CIS too. So I will post some layouts here over the next few days.
On the Lydia front - we have an appointment to see a speech therapist on the 30th of Jan, so hopefully will soon have some answers, and maybe even a few strategies for helping her out. She starting at a new daycare centre this Thursday; and they seem pretty switched on and keen to do whatever it takes to help her a bit; hopefully it's only a few little things to give her a bit of a push-start.
Well that will do for today - will be sure and report back with some more tomorrow; and a few layouts to share.
Love n hugs
Dee
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