My Big Girls in Highschool

Tayla is loving highschool so much! I took this photo of her the day before school started. She is just so happy now!!

This layout is for another monthly sketch challenge for Ingeborg. HERE is the sketch. I chose to go digital this time :)


Credits:
Shabby Princess 'Happy Go Lucky' kit
Willro&Co Designs 'Clipping Masks'
Gunhild Storeide 'Paper Date Wheel'

First for 2010

To keep me scrapping each month I have decided to do Ingeborg's PageMaps sketch challenge each month as I haven't been overly inspired lately. HERE is the sketch and below is my take on it.



I do have a few more sets of photos to scrap now that I am back from holidays so maybe this month I will get some more done.

Another Challenge Layout

I have had a go at this months Sketch Challenge over at Ingeborg's Scrapbooking Challenges. THIS was the sketch.


Using Cosmo Cricket 'The Boyfriend' range

And a quick layout with the photo I edited a couple of weeks ago...

Using Basic Grey 'Lime Rickey' range

I Scrapped!

Last night I scrapped for the first time since the Wave Rock Retreat! My friend Ingeborg from the SoF forum has started a new challenge blog so I had a go at this months sketch challenge.

This layout is about Ashlee and her new guitar :)

Basic Grey - Lemonade Collection

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...

Sewing..a layout

I have scrapped these photos before in paper, but I found this cute girlie sewing digital kit today so did a digi version as well.

Credits:

Chrissy W 'Sew Cute' kit

Willro&Co Designs 'Stitching' and 'Haberdashery' kits

I Got Messy!

I was inspired last night after looking at Anthea's blog at THIS post and decided I would give the 'alpha background' a go..but it wasn't as easy or nice as I had hoped....I think it would work better with spray paint to get into those gaps nicer. I painted cream paint on first then sprayed over it with glimmer mist.I would like to try this again using a different technique at some stage....can you actaully get acid free spray paint??

Here is the alpha's placed on the kraft card before I started painting...great for all those chipboard alphas you can't make words out of!!

and the finished layout...

I used the Cosmo Cricket 'Girl Friday' range.

Happy and Carefree

I just fell inlove with this quickpage when I saw it today and just had to use it...
My journalling reads:
'We are now in the cold months and I look back on these photos of the girls having a ball at the beach and long for the warmer days. I am over being cold and not being able to get out and have fun without rugging up. Bring on summer I say!!'

Credits: Holly Designs 'Carefree QP' Find it HERE (scroll down a bit)

A Guitar for a Lifetime

This layout is about my Mum and her guitar. She got this guitar when she was 14 and still has it at 60! She was 18 years old in these photos...do you ever wish you knew your parents when they were younger? I do...

Products are all from the Crate Paper 'Lillian' Collection :)