October 2011 Wave Rock Retreat layouts

Well I have finally gotten around to uploading my layouts from the retreat 2 weeks ago! (Thanks to a reminder from Lissa)

I was able to get 5 singles and 3 doubles finished as well as helping Karen in the shop.

It was such a great weekend once again with all new tutors!

These two layouts are from Mistra Hoolahan’s classes.  I LOVED getting dirty and learning some simple but very effective techniques.

 

These next 3 layouts were from our trip to the snow in Melbourne in July.  I have done a double layout for each of the girls albums and will do another double for our family album.

 

Here is Tayla with her ‘Think it over’ baby she brought home from school for Child Care..

And Bree’s Basketball team.  A very quick and simple layout…

Tayla and Ashlee mud skiing with Bindy at the Schroders in Victoria…

So that's it :)

I did really well in selling my hair accessories at the retreat with a total of 48 sold :)  I’ve just put some new Resin accessories on the blog today if your interested: www.twocanstitch.blogspot.com

I’m off to Lissa’s tomorrow and hope to get some more scrapping done :)

Next week I am doing ‘A Week in the Life’ by Ali Edwards (Google it to find out more).  I will be taking my camera with me where ever I go and taking photos of everything I do (minus the private things) and then at the end of the week I will scrapbook an album about my week.  I plan to upload my photos here each day so you can follow along if you like!

See you soon.

Gayle

Baker

We had a scrap night last night with Lissa and Lisa but only managed to do this one layout.  It’s great catching up with friends though, even if it’s not very productive.

Bree loves to make up her own recipes…here is her Nutri Grain Surprise :)

Weekend Scrapping

These are the 5 grand daughters on Murray’s family’s side.  A while ago I did the 5 grand sons page.  These gorgeous photos were taken on New Years Eve last year. 

For Mother’s Day this year I wrote my daughters a letter and gave them each a piece of heart jewellery…

Our youngest girl Bree and the things she likes to do at 10…

 

Murray participated in Movember last year…

That was heaps of fun getting out the supplies last night for a scrap :)  I had to get up extra early today though and clean up all my mess I made ready for a meeting at my house at 9am…that's the good thing about Digital scrapping!!…no mess :)

Beautiful Kit

I found this gorgeous digital kit online today and just had to use it straight away! You can download it HERE. I used PageMap sketches from the 2nd book...loving those sketches.

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...

Curls...

The girls and I had a big birthday card making day last week and I got inspired to make a layout when I saw these papers and diecuts. I have had them for about 18 months now :S About time I used them!

June Sketch Challenge

Ingeborg released her June Sketch challenge from PageMaps today and I couldn't help myself and did it straight away :) I tipped mine on it's side cause I didn't have landscape photos to suit it.


This is Bree just before her school disco last week..she looked so cute with her curled hair.

Credits:
Katie Pertiet at DesignerDigitals.com 'Rose Garden Mini Kit'
Willro&Co Designs 'Stitches' kit

I haven't been doing any scrapping lately, but I do have a new set of papers I want to use. Just got to print off some photos and get motivated :)

Wave Rock Retreat Layouts

I just had an awesome weekend away with 60 other keen scrappers. It was Scrappin' Outback's 5th birthday and 9th retreat and had a jam packed weekend full of scrapping, laughs and great food with heap of wonderful women.
Amy and I travelled up early Friday morning thinking we would be one of the first to arrive, but at 9am the place was already filling fast with some ladies already scrapbooking and others grabbing some stock before anyone else got in there first ;) Hopefully I can add some photos of the hall and shop to this post once Sharon gets back and emails me some..hint hint :)

I taught my 'Paper Embellishments' class on Friday arvo...
Feminine version using Crate Paper 'Lilian' collection


Boy version using Crate Paper 'Orbit'


On saturday arvo I taught my 'Those Things we Do' class...
Feminine version using Cosmo Cricket 'Early Bird'
I had a few ladies ask me what the font in the journalling was...you can download it HERE


Girl Version using Cosmo Cricket 'Girl Friday'

Masculine/Boy version using Cosmo Cricket 'The Boyfriend'

and Sunday arvo was my 'Power Scrapping' class which is where they scrapped 5 easy layouts in 2 hours.
Using October Afternoon 'Cherry Hill' collection

I was able to get some other layouts done too. This one is from Lis Cassey's 'Celebrate' class but I changed it to bush walking and used the gorgeous Cosmo Cricket 'Earth Love' collection...

Ashlee dressed as a clown for school...

The girls in Esperance on the holidays...

And at the Parker's farm about the bridge Tom build...

I ran out of photos by Saturday afternoon so Karen announced that I would scrap other peoples photos for $15 a page to go towards cancer research...that raised $45 yay!

It was such a lovely weekend and I loved meeting so many new ladies..hopefully we can get to know each other even better at future retreats :)

Clown Girl

I had a scrapping night with Amy and Lisa last night!! It's been a couple of months since we have been able to scrap together so it was great...although we didn't get much scrapping done...

I did get this very simple layout of Breezy done...

Not Very Productive

We had our craft day at the church today...after a long break. In 3 hours I was only able to complete 1 layout :( My problem being my lack of photos!! I really need to get onto that so I can start thinking about my classes for the Scrappin' Outback retreat.

Here is the layout i completed. Those gorgoeus flet accents and ribbons are by Mindy Terasawa.

This photo is of Bree right before our Youth Service on Saturday night. Ashlee picked her clothes for her :)

Biker Breezy

A layout of Bree's first ride on Murray's motorbike...

Credits:

Julie Marie - Life Captured kit

Red Leaf Digiscrapping- Old Lunch bag Freebie (journalling spot)

Studio Flerg - SYTYCD Week 1 Alpha

Willro&Co Designs 'Vogue'

Here is the latest product release from Willro&Co Designs called 'Vogue'. Nice and girly...for a girly girl kinda girl. This kit can be purchased at the stores listed in my sidebar under Willro&Co...
Here are my layout examples...


The Kit

The Elements

The Papers


The alpha I used in Bree's Animal layout is also a Willro&Co recent release called 'Draft Alpha Outline'...you can also get it in a bold.