I crashed a retreat.........

Wow! What a weekend I have had!!!!

On Saturday I crashed a retreat for the day and met so many lovely girls. I got to see Marelle and Eb again and I finally got to meet this gorgeous funny girl......................

I arrived about 11am and had plans on leaving about 10pm, BUT I left about 1.30am!!!!

AND I scrapped!!! 4 and 1/2 layouts!!! Quite surprising for me. So this day was really productive.
There were laughter and tears, lots of new ideas, new techniques seen and lots of inspiration was just oozing around the room. All the girls were just lovely and made me feel so welcome. Thanks Mal for squeezing me in for the day!!

 Here is the first page I did there called 'The Crew' using Echo Park.....................

And this one 'Gramma' was from a sketch at the retreat using Authentique & Studio Calico........................

'Ultimate Slalom Spray' was a blind scrap and I used a mix of a Polly Scrap kit which I loved.................

And when I got home I was so inspired by what I'd done and being around all those very talented women that I kept creating.
This one is for Scrap The Girls for April.................................

When I got home at around 2am, Montana was crying and running a temp of 41.3, while hubby was snoring. So thankfully I got home when I did. But I ended up sitting up until 4.45am waiting for her temp to come down.

So a very exhausting weekend, but oh so worth it!!!!

I am definitely going next year!!

Scrap Elegance May Sale

Well the Scrap Elegance Sale is on again in May and I was so lucky to work with some of the products that Tenisha has in the sale.

Here I have used the gorgeous denim owl button for this page called 'Hanging Around.'

And this one is a pink spotty button used here on my 'Girly?Not' page.

So pop on over and see what other products Scrap Elegance has up for sale and pop back in for the Sale in May. 

Global Scrappers...........

The challenges are up over at Global Scrappers and here are my samples for.............

Manufacture Challenge..............

and Shabby Challenge...........

So pop on over {you do need to register to play along} and see what the criteria are and play along with us for great prizes!!

Scrap Elegance pages............

I've been a bit quiet lately haven't I?

I cannot believe things are so full on at the moment, that I haven't had time to blog!!
I haven't scrapped for about 4 weeks which I have really missed. But with Easter in the middle there, we were away for a week and plus the school holidays AND I re rolled my ankle which in turn has done no favours for my back!!! Argh!

AND I've been teaching classes!!! Last week was fun with a girlfriend and 2 regulars of my classes.

My back is still not pain free which has made it hard to sit for too long to scrap. But I have managed 1 layout last night and 1 layout this morning for Scrap Elegance for the next sale.

I hadn't posted these ones yet for the March sale for Scrap Elegance so I thought I'd pop them up before the next sale and my next samples.

The vinyl and doily fan is from Scrap Elegance and the gorgeous buttons and metal leaves.

The gorgeous mouse button is from Scrap Elegance.

Shame the misting didn't work all that well on the 'my lil squeaker' page and it was meant to be an orange colour. It looks brown here.

Hopefully I can sit back down again today and do some more pages as I have the house to myself and Montana. The boys have gone up to the holiday house to wire it all up for lights and power points ready to plaster next week. 

Have a great weekend!!

Small Things class at Picture 2 Page.........

I will be teaching at Picture 2 Page in Lilydale, Ph: 9739 7299

Here is a sneak peek of the class called 'Small Things' and it uses a Die Cut base paper. A pretty, girly page.
I will be teaching this class on Wednesday 4th April at 10am and the cost is $20 which includes all materials for the page.
If you would like to come along please call the shop on 9739 7299 and book in!!
Hope to see you there!!!

I'm teaching classes..................

Yay!!! I am sooooo excited!! and nervous.

I will be teaching at Picture 2 Page in Lilydale, Ph: 9739 7299

Here is a sneak peek of the first class called 'Diva' and it uses Websters Pages and hand made flowers from the millions of paper flowers you have laying around in your scrap space. As well as technique using paper and water as ribbon.
I will be teaching this class on Wednesday 7th March at 10am and the cost is $20 which includes all materials for the page.
If you would like to come along please call the shop on 9739 7299 and book in!!
Hope to see you there!!!

Lots to share......Scrap Elegance, Global Scrappers.......

Busy! Busy! Busy!

We are finally now in a routine with my son back at school and my job finally cut down to 1 day a week, as well as getting the all clear from the doctors last week that I am infection free and healed up after my surgery 5 weeks ago.

Phew!

Anyway, I'd better get on with it because there is a fair bit I want to show you.

Picture 2 Page

Kaisercraft Hummingbird Collection.............

This is my cover for the A-Z challenges over at Scrap Therapy.......

And this is the page for 'V' for this month............

And I've taken on another thing to do for the year. A 52 week album. A page about each week. I started it after seeing some pages of Kayla's over at Polly Scrap Kits. This is the cover........

I have to catch up with my pages. {oops}

Scrap Elegance

I've recently just joined the team of Scrap Elegance and have loved playing with their products. These next 2 pages were my first for the company to promote the Sales Events they have every month..............

Aren't the buttons just adorable!!!

And a little bookmark.......

Global Scrappers

This was for the Shabby challenge.........

Scrap It With Attitude is a group on Facebook who have challenges, but it

is mainly people getting together, chatting, showing off their pages, asking

scrappy questions etc. It really is a lovely group.
This page was for a challenge to use circles and twine and it won second..........

Oh it's the 29th today, so that means today is the last day to get your Scrap Jacked entries in.
If you miss out, thats ok, a new challenge goes up on the 5th of March!!!

Global Scrappers & Polly Scraps.....................

The new Manufacture Challenge is up at Global Scrappers!!!

And here is my sample.
Can you guess the Manufacturer????

And I because we couldn't go anywhere for the Australia Day weekend because I still wasn't feeling up to it after surgery, I played along over at Polly Scrap Kits and the Polly Party!!

One of the challenges was to have a play with Chevron patterns.
I created this....................................

Keep an eye out today for the winners over at Scrap Jacked and the new challenge goes up tomorrow!!!

A little something I've been working on...........

I've got a few things on the go at the moment and this year is the year to finish what I start.
I have had a few little mini's that I've done the covers but haven't progressed any further. This one though wasn't sitting for long though, along with my Werribee Zoo & Mansion mini's.

This little Maya Road House album I transformed for our little Holiday House we are building. So the album can't be finished until the house is finished, but I can work on it slowly like the house.
I've done it in the colours that we'll be painting and hopefully furnish the inside with.
Grey with white trims and pale yellow for the inside wall/s.

I can't wait to print out the photos from when we first got the land to the stage we are up to now.
I am going to have some scrappy time on my hands to get my projects up to date.
I finish work in a week and I have cut back my days to 1 day a week to spend more time with the kids and time to keep the house maintained.
Plus I am heading into hospital in a few hours and when I get back in a couple of days, it will be strict rest for a week.
So plenty of time to scrap!! {if I'm in the mood for it}

See you all in a few days!!

365 +1 in 2012............

Who is participating in the taking a photo a day in 2012???

I did it last year AND completed it. Just a few near the end to add in.
I use Shuttercal.com to upload all my photos into and it was so easy. Even using the Iphone app made it so much easier to participate in.

But, this year, I wanted to have a hard copy so the kids could look through it.
So I made up these little 7gypsies book covers which are a little smaller than a 6x4 photo.

I plan on one photo per page with patterned paper on the back complimenting the opposite page's photo. On the patterned paper, I plan to journal what the photo was about, where, when and why.

So more like a story book.
I will have the day number or word on each page or photo. I haven't decided that yet.

I've been good so far even though I haven't been doing much due to a rolled ankle last week and doctors orders are REST IT!!
I was able to scrap all weekend so finished my December Daily and starting this.
I know it's going to get a lot fatter than what it is now, so may have to replace those gorgeous binding rings to larger silver ones or ribbon.
The button on the cover in the camera lens will act as an 'anchor' to hold the book shut with some elastic coming from the back cover.

Are you doing it??
How are you recording your photos??