6 Layouts in a night

There is a bit of a story that goes with these layouts. If you want to read it go to SoF under 'I have a Scrapbooking Testimony'.

Gotta be quick cause I have to go to work....

Gotta love Felt!

I have just used felt on my layout for the very first time! I told the girls on SoF a while back that I can't buy felt in Narrogin so the lovely Tam and Karen sent me a heap! Thanks so much girls. I was inspired by Ngaire's blog to do a felt rainbow on my layout...and then it kept going...raindrops, flowers, grass, stars....I am sooooo happy with how it has turned out.

Murray is heading off for the week so I intend to keep all my scrap supplies on the kitchen table all week and to see how many layouts I can get done while he is away. I'll be teaching kids worshops most days, but at night it will keep me occupied.

Just a reminder.....if anyone has any masculine layouts they would like to submit to my masculine scrapbooking blog please email them to me on mgsmith1@bigpond.com

Family Heirlooms

At the moment I am working on a layout all about our family heirlooms....well I haven't actually started the layout, but I have done a photo shoot of the items we have. We have items from both Murrays sides and my sides which is great. Here is a collage of some of the collection (not all in this collage)

This is one of the layout topics for the Book of Me course we are running at Country Scrapbooking. Country Scrapbooking will soon be an online store as well as a shop front in Narrogin WA.....keep an eye out for more news!

Edited to ad.....I have finished my layout...here it is

Kid's Holiday Workshops

I fell inlove with this Bella kit when I saw it yesterday and just HAD to use it. This layout is for a kid's distressing technique class I am teaching in the school holidays.

Every school holidays our local scrap shop "Country Scrapbooking and Accessories" holds 2 weeks of kids workshops. These holidays I am teaching;
*Distressing Techniques layout
*Pirates Treasure Trove
*Princess Diary
*Basic Jewellery Making (necklace, bracelet and earrings on tigertail)
*Canvases
*Accordian Book
*Set of 3 cards (scrap style)
Each class runs twice a day, first for the 5-8's then for the 9 and overs.


I am really looking forward to working these school holidays. Murray is taking the girls away for the first week but for the second week they will have to come along to work with me and either join in on the classes or watch DVDs.

New Masculine Layout Blog

Yesterday I spent the whole day staring at a photo of my husband Murray I wanted to scrap and was totally uninspired. This happens a lot when I try and scrapbook men. I have no problem scrapbooking girlie layouts because you can add flowers and ribbon and girlie stuff, but when it comes to Murray, he doesn't appreciate those elements on his layouts. Anyway, it got me motivated to start a blog just about scrapbooking our MEN. It's called Masculine Scrapbooking Layouts and I would love it if you would email me your 'manly' layouts so I can have a variety of scrappers layouts on it. Also, I would love you to (if you feel lead to) add my link to your own blogs to advertise it a bit.
I'm looking forward to watching this new blog grow with a wide variety of Masculine layouts.
Gayle

~September 2007 Layouts~

These are my pages for Allison's CJ on Worship. The first page is my worship ministry testimony and the second page are my two fav songs at the moment.
Boy, it's September already!

Here are my first layouts for the month.

~August 2007 Layouts~

My layout for the Scrap of Faith competition "What Scrap of Faith means to me"

Got three layouts done yesterday while looking after the scrap shop for Kerri while she was at a field day. This first one is back in 04 at the Great Australian Bight. I used my new stamps from Cass...love em...will be using them a lot more! Here are some more old photos from 04 (trying to get all my older ones scrapped).
And a ride on Puffing Billy in Victoria....very simple LO...but I really want to get my older photos done so I can go onto other projects.
Errin and I went on a photo shoot again today because she ran out of photos to scrap. We both scrapbooked this photo today with the same bible verse. Check out Errins blog for her take on it. A quick layout before tea. This layout is about Tayla's Beanie Kid obsession. Each Beanie Kid has a BK#, birthdate and personality description.

Errin and I made these prayer journals yesterday as part of her discipleship training. It's designed by Nat Mardon and the instructions were a free download from Scrap of Faith. Click HERE for the instructions.
This is the inside cover including a pocket for notes and the first section for Prayers of Adoration (telling God how much I love him).
The 2nd section is for prayers of Confession and Forgiveness and the 3rd section is for prayers of thanks (for all the wonderful things God has done in my life and for answered prayers)
The 4th section is for prayers for things I need... like special blessings, healing or guidance. The 5th section is for prayers for others (family, friends, my church, the lost etc)
And the 6th section is for things I feel God is speaking to me about.
This is the second page for Mum's Life Album. This is Mum's parents. I'm really enjoying making this album.

I had a vision of this layout while praying for our town about 6 months ago and felt tonight that I was to do it. The verse is 2 Chronicles 7:14 "If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land"

Another quick digital layout cause I was bored and I have some cool new kits to use. This kit is a freebie by Isabelle Cyr. Ok..I have made two cards today out of scraps and it got me thinking that maybe I should make a challenge for myself to make a card every time I do a layout out of the scraps. Thought it was time to have another go at digital scrapbooking. I love these mini kits. They are Weeds and Wildflowers creations. I love the look of doodling on layouts and can't do it myself so these kits are great...it is already done for me! This layout expresses my love for photography...since 1990 when I got my first camera at 13.
These are my nieces and nephews (and 3 girls)...all the grand kids on the Smith side. I made this layout for my friend Errin. She is a new christian and this layout is to remind her who she is in Christ and how God sees her. This is an Explosion Box I have made for a class sample for Father's Day. I have kept the 'decorating' quite simple so everyone can get it finished in the allocated time.
This layout is for a Scrap of Faith Cybercrop Challenge. The challenge was to 1. create a layout in white/pink/green 2. make your own embellishment (the flowers) 3. add a bible verse. So this is my interpretation. The bible verse reads "What matters is not your outer appearance - the styling of your hair, the jewellery you wear, the type of clothes - but your inner disposition. Cultivate inner beauty, the gentle, gracious kind that God delights in." 1Peter 3:3-4.

~SoF Circle Journal - Round One~

I have signed up with the Scrap of Faith's first cirlce journal. For those who don't know what a cirlce journal is I will explain. There are 12 ladies in our group. Each lady has her own theme to her journal...mine is "Words to Live By". Each month my journal gets sent on to a different lady who creates a double layout for it, so at the end of the 12 months I will receive my journal back with 12 double layouts in it each a different interpretation of my theme. There are some great themes the other ladies have chosen and I am looking forward to exploring them as they are all christian related themes.

So here are my pages.

This is my cover.

The intro page that explains to the ladies participating what my theme is.

The sign in page..the ladies select a tag and decorate it and add some infp about themselves.

My double layout on my theme. I have chosen 5 Bible verses that challenge me to live my life as a christian.

I have kept it pretty simple cause I wasn't very inspired today.

Gayle

~July 2007 Layouts~

These next three layouts I did while on holidays in Esperance. I had so much fun scrapping with my Esperance friends again. Another very late night...
This is my cover page for my mums LIFE album. I can't really go any further now until she finishes writing her memoirs. I'm so excited about this album though. Got some awesome photos to scrap!
Breezy at 4 weeks old....I love her little smile in this photo. This is the first time I have used my MM foam flower stamps and I've probably had them for a year. First time using Bazzill Bling too.
Ashlee's first go at snorkelling with her dad.
Here is my first layout for the month. This is Murrays parents and all of their grandkids. Not too happy with this one, but I love the photos of Bree trying to jump off the spring board at Kulin.

~June 2007 Layouts~

Well this has been a VERY slack month of scrapbooking! Hopefully I will feel inspired to scrap more often soon. Mum is here to stay at the moment and has bought all her old childhood photos with her so I have been busy scanning them in and gathering details about each photo. She is also in the process of writing her life story, so soon I will be able to scrapbook my mums history. I am so excited! I have also got her wedding dress here (and it fits me!) so I will try and get some photos of it too.

Here are this months layouts.
This layout is about my Bible and how as Christians we need to read God's Word to grow closer to Him and how it is our weapon in life's battles. The photo opens out to reveal my journaling and photo of my Bible. This layout was scraplifted from a layout by Karen Latham. Thanks for the inspiration Karen...love your work!

(click on the below journaling to read it) The other journaling page on the left is verses about reading God's Word. This layout is from last months challenge pack at Country Scrapbooking.