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

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 :)

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!

October Sketch Challenge

I have missed out on doing the last 2 months sketch challenges over at Ingeborg's Scrapbooking Competitions Blog because of our move and this month I didn't want to miss out so I did a quick digital layout just in the nick of time :)
This is Murray in one of his mates weddings in Victoria back in 1998 when he had hair!



Credits: Willro&Co Designs 'Complicated' kit

Retreating at the Rock :)

I have just returned from the 11th Wave Rock Retreat by Scrappin' Outback and have thoroughly enjoyed the company of 50 other keen scrappers.


Click on the layouts to view them larger.

My two classes went well and received some good feedback.
Here is my 'Pinwheels & Bunting' Class...




My 'Going Places' Class (multi-photo layout)




Karen taught 2 classes this year...
'School Photos from Yesteryear' class (I made mine into a double layout)


'One of a Kind' Class.




I did another one similar to this too in teals (delicious!) but I am thinking it might be a pressie.




Lis taught two classes but I only participated in one...
'All in the Past' Class. This was a 4 layout class, I did one...




This year Karen gave us a sketch challenge to complete with the twist that we had to add 'something borrowed, something blue, something old, something new'. I made it into a double layout and used our new house photos...


I was able to get 3 layouts done that weren't class layouts.

I had a fabulous time and am in the mood to scrap. I wasn't ready to stop like some years.

The next retreat is on the weekend of the 25th of March :)

For other retreat attenders blog updates click on the below links:

Karen Smith

Sharon Manning

Condy Scrappers

Lis Cassey

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 :)