7 More :)

I still haven't packed away all the tables and my supplies from the Scrapathon yet so I have been doing a bit of scrapping in between church, going out to the farm and sleeping....
They are simple layouts but I have really been enjoying scrapping at my own leisure. In preparation for the Scrapathon I put kits together with a PageMap and photos so I have been working my way through those, but it is now time to pack away and return my house back to how it's supposed to be (and I have run out of double sided tape).
Here are 6 of the 7 layouts. I am not putting up the one about Bree's Chicken Pox cause she has no top on.

Ashlee early one morning at the beach...


Ashlee and Tayla at their Aunty Jackie's wedding back in 2002...


Hide n Seek at the Parker's Farm...


Bree with her broken arm when she was 19 months old...



Tayla learning how to ride her bike without training wheels at 6....


Murray's first road train drive on his L's...


Notice how I am scrapping very old photos! I am running out of photos again...argh!

Scrapathon Madness

Last night was our scrapathon! There were 10 of us participating. To add to the sketch, single and double layout challenges I set, I also added a mystery word challenge to make it a bit more challenging. In the end, after 4 hours of solid scrapbooking and friendly competition, Belinda won the 'most layouts' and took home the $50 cash :) Belinda did 11 layouts in 4 hours...I did 5.

I had a great time. We have decided to do it more often...maybe another one in February.

I think because you have a 'competition' mindset, you actually get layouts done, where as in a social scrapping environment, you chat more and sometimes go home with none done. Both types of nights are great and both have their purpose...so lets do both :)

Here are my layouts -

Sketch layout including my word which was 'Love'

Single layout (3 or more photos)


Double layout (4 or more photos)

and one I did once all my challenges were done...

Another Digi

Just snuck another digital layout in using a PageMaps templates before I set up for the Scrapathon tonight.

This photo was taken on a stormy night just over a week ago. We had fish and chips on the beach with the cousins. Was lovely :)


Credits:
PageMaps Digital Template
Kaiser: Loire Kit

A First For Me :)

I have been a digital scrapbooker for 5 years now and today I used a layered digital template for the first time!! I will be using these more often I think!

I downloaded a free template from PageMaps HERE to see if I liked it. (free one is down the bottom of the page). Instructions are included in the download if you have no idea like me.

You will need Photoshop or Photoshop Elements to be able to use these templates.

This is what the template looked like before I started...

and then I opened up the papers I wanted, dragged them onto the template and used the clipping mask function to cut them to the right shape...was so easy...and fun :)

Click on my layout to view larger

Credits:

PageMaps digital template

Julie Marie: Life Captured kit

I am so excited about the Scrapathon tomorrow night!!! Although I did have a nightmare about it last night haha. I only have 10 sets of photos so hopefully I don't get them all done and not have anything else to do.

Will be back sometime on Sunday with the layouts I create at the Scrapathon :D