Scrapbook Essentials Fortnight Challenge

The fortnightly sketch challenge at SE was one of Megan's sketches, and on first glance for some reason I thought where the journalling strip was, was actually another photo, so went off and printed my photos. Then discovered I didn't have oval cutting templates small enough ... so out came the corner rounder (compromise ... I can do it sometimes!!). So no room for journalling where it is on the sketch so decided to flag the title and use the tag for journalling instead. Quite pleased with how it turned out in the end ... don't you just love the little poser! :-)

Photography credits to Amy :-)

National Scrapbook Day

Saturday was National Scrapbook Day ... I didn't get all done that I wanted, but still achieved a bit. Finally getting those photos scrapped from our July 2005 holiday that I have had printed off for AGES! We have been having trouble with our computer running really slow, so Lyndon decided to fix it on Saturday! As a result my journalling has been hand written! Not that classy, but oh well ... I did try to be neat! These LO's are from the challenges that SE had over the weekend.

Cape Reinga, 90 Mile Beach and Gumdiggers Park are for the Friday Night Challenge, which was to use scraps, left over stickers etc. that were lying on your desk. We were allowed to use a new piece of cardstock for the base ... so I had green card strips and black stickers ... had enough for the Cape Reinga LO, but the 90 Mile Beach I had to make the i, e, a and c using other letters (you can tell if you look!). The stickers for Gumdiggers Park were from another set I had opened. Not particularly fussed on the stickers, but they fitted with the left over challenge!

The 1st challenge for NSD was to create a card or something for Mothers Day, so I made 2 cards (won't show here!!). Now I just need to get them in the post!

The 2nd challenge was a LO with something to do with scrapbooking and ourselves. So ... this is my space here in KL :-) It's for my BOM, and I ran of time to do journalling, so think I will do another LO to go alongside this one to explain why I scrap and why I enjoy it. (One day ...!)

3rd challenge was to create a LO that had at least 70% of your favourite manufacturer. I chose Wild Asparagus from All My Memories. The only things that weren't were the brads, photos and the ink I used to sponge the edges.

I also have about 3 other LO's which I have stuck down the photos, but still need titles, journalling and some embellishments.

Scrap Your 'Art Out

I have been busy scrapping :-) Yippee ... such fun (well for me anyway!). I like making in-roads into the HUGE pile of photos I have waiting to go into albums.



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"1st Day @ School" was for the Friday Night challenge at SE. I love that photo of Aaron with his arms out so straight :-)

"Whare Runagna" was for the Fortnight challenge at SE. (I really like this LO -think I will use it for a few more) :-) (Finally doing some photos from our Russell holiday we had in July 2005 with Lyndon's family. )

Also ... don't think I have blogged this but I "won" (random draw) a RAK from SE for a LO I did for a Friday Night challenge of Aaron amongst the daffodils. Very exciting ... looking forward to getting that. :-)

Last night I participated in an on-line crop with Scrap-n-Crop. Was great fun actually. It was 3 hours and each hour a new challenge was posted. We had till 9am this morning to post our LO's, but there were prizes if you completed first. The first challenge was a LO using plain card stock (no patterned paper) and whatever embellishments we wanted. I found that really easy as I like plain card! I did the one of our visit to The Parrot Place at Kerikeri (July 05). Second challenge was to create a LO with a photo of a smile and the title of the LO had to be smile and you had to journal about why you liked the smile. So I did the one of Aaron laughing his head off (yeah ... more than a smile!) on his Nana's knee (hope Nana doesn't mind being on my blog!). The third LO was to use a photo of yourself and write 7 facts about yourself. Humm ... okay another page for my Book of Me! :-)




And the big bonus was I won a RAK for my facts layout for using my name. Cool huh! Will post a photo of it when it arrives.

So my next challenge is to create a LO using ONLY the stuff from my Paper Pesto April kit ... I've started and am finding this really hard actually. I didn't realise just how tempting it would be to go through my stash and add extra bits!

Shhhh ... they are both sleeping!

While the little darlings are both asleep I thought I would have another catch up! This is what they were up to this morning - Aaron pushed the cot across the doorway to make a "tunnel"!


Yesterday Lyndon and I had a "date" hee hee. Tess came to clean and she minded the kids as well for us while we went out. They were both asleep when we left and I think Aaron had nearly 2 hrs sleep, which was good. Lyndon and I went to this little Italian restaurant about 10 minutes drive from home. Very nice :-) Although I didn't particularly relax knowing what Maddison has been like lately and leaving them with Tess. Anyway worries weren't necessary as she was fine with them - at least she said she was and Maddison wasn't screaming her nut off when we got back which was a bonus (as soon as she saw me though she held out her arms and that was that!). She has become so clingy it's embarrassing. If Lyndon picks her up from her sleep she's fine with him until she either hears my voice or sees me, then no-one is good enough for her except for me. It's a nice feeling (sometimes), but I do like to share her - especially with her Daddy!!! :-)

Maddison is teething again. This time it's her top teeth, her top front tooth on her right has been showing for about a week and today she's been particularly grizzly so I checked her mouth and good gracious - that is one mumma of a tooth! No wonder she's been grizzly! She's going to look like a little rabbit if both front teeth are that big!!! I'd like to take a photo - but she's not at all obliging.

Okay - so here's the cards I made for Lyndon, one for his birthday and the other for our wedding anniversary (obviously!). The photo is a bookmark which I tucked into an acetate pocket. Notice I compromised - instead of buying him something lacy I added lace to the card!














And some LO's ... Janine did a LO for a challenge at Scrapbook Essentials and I really liked it. You can see Janine's LO here. So ... it's inspired me to give it a go. The challenge was this:



And here's my take. It's for my BOM - and I did a double layout. My BOM is 8x8 size and I had to do ovals rather than circles as I don't have circle templates big enough (shame ... something else to add to my wish list!!) Journalling reads: A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person. Easter Saturday, 15 April 1995. (Wasn't I skinny and didn't Lyndon have a lot of hair!! hee hee)