A Shabby Birthday

The challenge, to help celebrate their 1st birthday, from Let's Get Shabby, is a layout depicting birthdays and evidence of stamping. I must say I discovered some stamps that I had forgotten I had, and put them to good use on this layout. I love Kraft cardstock and found the Dotted Girl paper great to match colours of inks etc for stamping. The little cup cakes are all embossed with clear embossing powder to help them standout on the page. I thought I was finished the lo and was certain it needed something, but what? The light bulb came on when I saw a packet of party poppers in the drawer. You guessed it, I popped a couple and used their contents on my page as an embellishment. Now it really is a party page!!!!

A Premiere Kit

Bought this kit yesterday from Scrapbooking Premiere. Changed it a little to suit the photograph of Barry and Jan, parents of the bride from my previous post. I had fun doing this as you can just follow the instructions; get a result without too much brain strain.

http://www.scrapbookingpremiere.com.au

Kraft it Up Challenge

Always wanting to use more photos on your page? Kraft it up's challenge is to use 4 to 6 photos on a layout. Having just attended a very special friend's wedding, I used this challenge to scrap some of my photos.

I decided to use a heart as the first base, and forgive me Christie, but I cut you in half, to allow the heart to open and reveal some passport size photos of the parents and the bridesmaids in side. I love the ruffle ribbon and it hides the edge of the heart well. Used a lot of ink and a couple of stamps to embellish the inside of the lay out. Had fun doing this one, thanks for the challenge http://www.kraftitup.blogspot.com/

Hey!! Another one....

I'm on a roll.....Kraft it Up's challenge this month is minimalistic. I don't think I have done any minimal los since I started scrapping so this was a challenge in itself. Had to keep saying "leave it alone, don't touch it!!!" to myself otherwise there would have been more than 3 elements on the page.

Finally a page!!!!!

Seems like forever and it really is but I finally have had some time to myself and did the sketch challenge from Scrapbooking Premiere. Have quite a few photos from Bowen athletics and this sketch allowed me to us a couple.

Bowen Athletics Carnival

A big weekend for us just gone. Our annual trip to Bowen for the Athletics Carnival was quite successful. Kendall had 10 events, which he placed in 6. 1st in 800m walk, 800m run, 400m sprint and 1500m run, 2nd in hurdles and 3rd in 200m run. Dana, who is not really an athlete but does excel in the race walk, placed third in the 800m walk, her first real medal as generally she has only got the participation medal for athletes 7 and under. She was stoked and so were we. It just goes to show you have to find your niche in each area of your endeavours. Kendall and I are off to Rockhampton next Sunday for him to compete in the Caprincornia Cross Country. He will be representing Mackay District. We also have a dance workshop next weekend so everything is on a timetable so we can get to everything. Have a great week!

Let's Get Shabby Challenge

this time is about autumn colours and our inspiration was a beautiful quilt. I decided that both the colours and the quilt were inspiration for me and it reminded me of doing samplers and cross stitch and patchwork all together. I had photos of the family competing in a cross country event recently and suddenly a light bulb went on; the words cross and country could also be used in craft!!! So my layout, which I have designed to hang, is based on patchwork, using the photographs, samplers, using different stitches and buttons, country feel, with cotton laces and fabrics, and of course the beautiful autumn colours both on the base paper from My Minds Eye and the fabrics. I cheated a little and used an X for the word cross, so it could either be a big cross stitch or a shortcut for the word Cross. I really had fun doing it, even if the machine played up a little doing the stitching. Check out Lets Get Shabby's site for more inspirations!!!