Entry into Carolina's Circle Journal

I decided to do this round digitally. (thanks Sal for the idea!)
Carolina's CJ topic is answered prayer and here is my entry.


And here is the journaling if you are interested.
This isn’t a testimony of answered prayer as such, but a testimony of God’s love and how he cares about the little things and honours us when we listen to and obey him. My husband and girls were to be away on a camping trip and I was all fired up to get stuck into my scrapbooking. Monday morning came and I felt the Lord say to me “Do the weeding first, then clean the house ready for the rent inspection and then you are free to
scrapbook” My gardens were so bad that I thought it would take me all week and I only really had Monday and Tuesday because I was working the rest of the week. Anyways.. I was sitting in the garden for half an hour feeling very overwhelmed when I had this thought pop into my head to get help with the garden. So I enlisted help from four of our youth group. They were absolutely amazing. Their attitudes and perseverence blew me away....we weeded for 5 hours straight and got it all done in one day. Then came to Tuesday. I had to clean my house to my landlords standard....you know like clean the shower and all those horrid jobs. It took me til 4pm to do everything so by this stage I was getting all down thinking that I had to work for the rest of the week and my scrapping time had gone. Then, my friend Errin came over at 4pm for a quick cuppa. I asked her if she wanted to scrap with me and she got all excited. Errin is usually really tired after work but wasn't this time. Praise God! I got 6 layouts done in one night!! I NEVER do more than 2 in a night or day! I believe because I obeyed the Lord and sacrificed my time to weed and clean BEFORE I scrapped he gave me my time back and enabled me to do six in one night, instead of six in 3 days! I am totally blown away at how God cares about us and how he blows our socks off with blessing if we just follow him and choose to obey him.


Gayle
oh yeh...and the digital kit I used is The Promise Collection by Shabby Princess

My Classes from the Retreat

I forgot to show you the full versions of my classes I taught at the retreat on the weekend.
This first class was to teach the technique of cutting your pages and photos in half to continue onto the next page. Apparently it looks much better in real life.


And here is the explosion box I taught.

Wave Rock Retreat

What an awesome weekend!!! 56 ladies attending the Wave Rock Scrapbooking Retreat this year in Hyden, WA. I was one of the tutors along with Alli Patterson and Sharon Manning. We each taught 2 classes and had great feedback for the ladies.

Here are some photos of the ladies busy scrapping during one of Sharon's classes.

And here are some of the ladies in Sharon's frames layout...

I was able to join in on two of the classes. This is my layout from Sharon's Solitude class.

And my layout from Alli's "Believe you can Live out Loud" class. HERE is Alli's version.

And then I was able to scrap two more layouts in social scrapping time.

Well I must run....gotta work.

Thanks to Karen and everyone who attended for making it such an AWESOME weekend and I can't wait til October!

What an Honour

Yesterday I was asked by Rowena Field of Willro&co to join her Creative Team! Rowena is a Digital designer and has created some amazing kits! I will be also working along side Sally Clifford, Tracey Smith , Karen Latham, and Terrie Logan. We are all Christian ladies who love to share our faith and love for Jesus. As part of this role, I will be uploading my digital layouts at A Cherry on Top, Faith Sisters, Scrap of Faith, Country Scrapbooking, Digi Shop Talk and Blue Bazaar. These are the stores Willro&co's kits can be purchased at.
I am loving digital lately...mainly because I have been trying not to use all my photos...but I also love it how I can create a layout in such a short amount of time and it is completely mess-free!

Tomorrow I am heading off to Hyden to the Wave Rock Scrapbooking Retreat! YAY!! I better get off here and go and get organised!
Catchya
Gayle

One for Murray

I thought it was time to do a layout about Murray. This is him out in the Kalgoorlie bush on one of his goat shooting trips back in 2005. I love this photo of him relaxing in his 'natural habitat'. It's a place he can truely relax and unwind.

Credits: Sande Krieger's 'Rough Riders' Kit from 2peas. Fee Jardine's 'Bloomin' Lovely' cardboard and paint overlay. Sarah Batdorf's stitched photo corner.

Ella's Album - Day 1-9

This is an 8"x8" digital album for my sister that I will eventually print out. I have left the journaling spots blank for them to fill in.

















All digital elements and papers are from the 'Bella Collection' by Shabby Princess and can be found at Shabby Shoppe.

and yet more digital....

If you are wondering why I am doing only digital layouts lately, it is because I am going to the Scrappin' Outback retreat next weekend and don't want to use my photos cause I don't have many left to scrap...grrr.

This layout is using Willro&co's "Chookery" kit and can be found at Country Scrapbooking for only $4 HERE.
I found this photo on Jackie's camera while downloading photos of Ella...so cute.

Those Things I Do

Another digital layout...about the things I do, except I didn't have many photos of me actually doing those things which is a bit annoying...just don't think to take photos of me doing my day to day stuff.


Digital Kit by Fee Jardine "Bloomin Lovely".

Loving Digital

I did another digital before I went out last night. This layout is about what I want to be remembered for.

I just love this kit. The embellishments are by Krystal H from Faith Sisters and the note paper and background paper is by Mary-anne Buchanan from her Terra Firma kit.

Ella's Album - Flowers

I am making a digital 'piece-a-cake' album for Jackie and Graeme about Ella's first days.

The kits are from "The Bella Collection" from the Shabby Shoppe.

Here is my first 8x8 double layout about the flowers they received.