Another Wicked Princesses Sketch Challenge Layout

I have just finished Krissy's 2nd November Sketch Challenge over at Wicked Princesses Forum. I have used the Cosmo Cricket Circa 1934 range.... and oh boy, I am loving this range! I seem to be heading towards more muted colours lately, not so much brights at all.... Must have something to do with old age hee hee
The layout is of a gorgeous girl called Katie, who is one of our good friends from Withcott that we go water skiing with every summer.
So here it is!

I used a Fiskars 'postage stamp' border punch on the photo for something different, I really like the effect that it gave.

We are heading away on the motorbike this afternoon and I havent packed a thing, so I had best finish up and do that before I have to pick the girls up from school this afternoon!

Thanks for dropping by and have a scrappy weekend
Donna xxxxx

A Christmas Cyber Crop @ Scrapbook Savvy

                                         

Tell the truth...have you scrapped ALL your christmas photos from last year?! I bet you haven't.

So this month at Scrapbook Savvy we are cybercropping CHRISTMAS with the aim to have those Xmas 2009 photos scrapped and in albums before Xmas 2010 rolls around in four weeks time.

We'll be playing from Friday 26 November with nearly a week till deadline at midnight Thursday 2 December.

 

Find out more in the forum here

wow... what a day!

My day started at 5am with the alarm blaring telling me to get out of bed and go and do my first PT session, I was a bit scared really at what he was going to do to me lol... But it was GREAT! we did some warm ups on the bike, rowing machine, treadmill and the step.  And then I got really scared as he have us some boxing gloves and pointed us to the direction of the punching bags..... That was awesome, poor Vicki was worried I was going to miss the bag and get her lol. And then we did some push ups (Omg didnt he realise that I am TOP heavy???lol) and then some sit ups. By then it was nearly time to go home... a few stretches and we were out of there! We are going to do it twice a week, roll on Tuesday, I cant wait! (and i say that now, i might feel differntly when I wake up in the morning hee hee)

And then off to work I went, we were quite busy so my work day didnt end until 4 instead of 2... and then I came home to a couple of happy parcels... One was from Peta at Scrapbooking From Scratch with a kit and some Alphas (cause I dont have anywhere near enough bahahahahahah) And the second one had these in it

I got these from Scrap Boutique

They go really well with this tshirt that my gorgeous Cousin Sar sent up to me <3 <3

it sums me up pretty well dont you think???? hee hee

ok, now some real scrapping!
Yesterday I played along with one of Krissy's sketches over at Wicked Princesses, she has a new one every week, here is the Layout I did for the first sketch for November

I really loved how this one turned out, that punch that I got from Scrapbooking from Scratch Retreat is getting a huge workout lately

ok, I had best get off here and think about getting dinner ready ;)

Thanks for dropping by

Donna xxx

Stuck?! November Challenges

I am loving not having to work everyday now.... I am getting heaps of scrapping done!
I managed to get both the Stuck?! sketches done this month

so if you are looking for a great challenge to do before the end of the month there is still time to pop over and play with this months sketches!

Thanks for visiting

Donna xx

another share for today :)

now, dont fall over... but this is my 3rd blog post for today! I have been scrapping up a storm! the weather is rainy and cold, so a good excuse to scrap lol ohhh and that Craig has been out watching car racing with his mates!

this one is for the Sar's Savvy Random Kit Challenge the criteria is:

 you must include the following on your page:

- Fussy cutting

- Glimmer mist

- White space

so here's mine :)

sorry... had to take that one our for publication.. Yahoooooo!

The next on is for Anthea's Savvy Sketch challenge

and the last one is for the Scrap the Girls Blog, this month it was a puzzle sketch

you had to use every peice of the puzzle only once.... I usually dont use this much paper on my LO's but it is one way to get through my stash so I can buy some more hee hee

Thanks for looking

Donna xxx



MME Fine and Dandy Tickled Pink

I love the bright colours that are in MME Fine and Dandy TICKLED PINK... truly girly... I am sure that I am not going to have too much trouble using it all up :) You can find this range plus the                   TRUE BLUE  range over at Scrapbook Savvy

thanks for looking
Donna xxx

White With 1

This is the first time that I have played along with the White With 1Challenge.  The criteria for this month is

Your colours are White, Yellow and you need to Journal directly on to your layout, this can be your cardstock or patterned paper, you can not use journal blocks, strips etc.

Here is my take on this months challenge
 

Thanks for looking
Donna xxxx

Scrapbook Savvy November Colour Challenge

Sara has set this colour challenge for us this month over at Scrapbook Savvy

This month, with the beautiful spring weather we have been experiencing (in between the rain) we are being inspired by the following image.

white, green, blue and pink

I love this colour combo... nice and fresh and girly :)

here is my LO for this challenge

 it of Sar, Emma and I...our road trip to Scrapbooking From Scratch Retreat that was held in Branxton in the Hunter Valley in Late October... I am one lucky girl to be able to get away for these retreats and spend some time with the awesome girls on the Savvy and SFS forums..lots of wine and laughs!
thanks for a great time girls mwah!

OMG! my favourite scrapbooking store is having a SALE!!!

Scrapbook Savvy is having a sale - starting right now!!!



25% off storewide (excluding kits & vouchers) plus 10% off kits!



Yep thats right, all kits are now 10% off - even the few current ones that are still in store!



Head over and grab a bargain!



Finishes midnight Monday 22 November 2010.

New Start!!

Well, today is the day of my new start... I have put so much weight on this year through no excercise, drinking too much and crap eating habits, The real shock was my doctors appointment last week when I was weighed and measured and the doctor told me my BMI was too high and I was well and truly into the overweight catergory... So I set a challenge to myself to start back swimming and walking and today is the day! as soon as the girls get on the bus and I put the last load of washing on the line I am off to the pool and then go for a half and hour walk before my appointment at 10......

I have even shouted myself some new runners as my otherones were quiet old and not very comfortable... I love ASICS!

and I pulled out the kick board that I bought last year and removed the plastic (*hiding in shame*) and my swimmers still fit! yahoo! i didnt want to buy another pair as these have hardly been worn.

ok... off to the clothes line and then to the pool!

have a great day

Donna xxxx

Kraft It Up

I hope everyone has a great weekend! I spent a couple of hours at my LSS with a couple of friends that I used to scrap with years ago.. It was lovely to catch up with everyone... I only managed one and a half LO as I had to leave to go to Kirsten's Squash Presentation night :( but I am sure there will be others!

This is a LO that I started yesterday for the Kraft It Up Challenge for this month .... the criteria was


This month at Kraft It Up we are on the look out for some funky and inspirational ways to jazz up your pages using Decorative Edges….
So we need you to use KRAFT and some way to add DECORATIVE EDGES to your layout….


Think punches, scissors, diecut strips (Sass Lass papers are a good example of these) Diecut papers, specialty ribbons (pom poms) and crocheted trims just to name a few.

I didnt need any encouragement with this one... I have have a HUGE collection of edge punches (do many that i NEED to work out a better way to store them... any ideas???)

ok, here is the LO that I have done for the challenge

Thanks for looking!!

Donna xxxx

Layout overload!

I wont blog all of my Layouts that I did when I was on my holiday all in one go.... that would definately be a HUGE overload lol
These are the ones that I did after the retreat and back at Sar's.... the mojo was certainly flowing there, I think it helps that she has the Shop right there for inspiration lol

 

                                        

 

Thanks for looking!

Have a great day :)

what a wonderful 12 days!

Wow! what a wonderful time I had for the last 12 days!!! I have caught up with lots of friends and family!

I arrived in Wollongong on Wednesday the 27th October and my gorgeous Cousin Sar and her family drove to Sydney to pick me up and then on the Thursday Sar, Em and I headed up to Branxton to a SFS retreat at Peta's house!

 

And that Cheeky Peta suprised us with a visit from our gorgeous friend Sara!

our creative mess! 

 The Savvy forum girls

 the whole gang

it was great to meet this gorgeous girl IRL, we have so many things in common... I cant wait to meet up with her again

We got home on Sunday afternoon and headed of to Sandra's halloween party... the kids had a great time!

I was in Wollongong for Melbourne Cup day so we decided to play ladies for the day.. we went to Diggers in the city for lunch but when they started singing we were out of there heehee

we Ended up at The Grange Racecourse and we had sooo much fun people watching!

it was an awesome day!  Leesh and Linda are sooo much fun.. loves you!

And the reason that I stayed for so long as it was this gorgeous girls 30th birthday

 OMG! what a fun night that was!

ok.. best go and start unpacking my bag and catch up on all this washing that I found this morning gggrrrr..

Love Donna xxx