Sneek peeks and a 52 weeks page too

I've been doing a little bit of scrapping the past few days but not much I can share.

Here is my week 2 page for my 52 week album.

Yeap I still yet to share my first week pages. I am waiting to hear back form Michelle before doing so.

Asher's new additions.and last weeks photo.

Asher all packed and ready for a day at Nana C's on Wednesday.Yeap pretty much crawled out of bed, put on her slippers,picked up her bag and got in the car.I have also been working on my next class over at Just scrapping.

Here is a sneek peek.

Layout.Card.

So if you are a local I would love to see you down there on the 8th February if you can make it. And a sneek of something I have put togther for Purple onion.

As you can tell I have been having fun making more lollipop flowers.

One more week of work then I am on holidays for two weeks. I so can't wait. We are surposed to be getting accredited any day now and I am hoping that they came in either Thursday/Friday, my days off or they will turn up while I am on holidays.

We finally went and seen Marley and me last night and I enjoyed it. Cried my eyes out but I knew I would.

While on holidays Asher and I will have one week together before school starts back and we plan on doing lots of special things togther. Lately we have been joining in on a few kids workshops at Bunnings and Asher just loves it. We have already booked in for one next week and will hope to try and get down to the Sunday workshops they have too.

Anyway thanks for popping in and any comments that you may leave and till next time Happy scrapping.

CHA sneek peeks

I have been seeing a few of the CHA sneek peek popping up on some of the manufactures blogs that I pop into sometimes and some are looking mighty yummy. If you haven't got time to chase up the links to the manufactures blogs then pop into Therapy as Lou is doing a great job of finding them for us and some of the sneek we are getting before some of the big US sites.

Thanks heaps for hunting them all out for us Lou and while you are there don't forget to vote or comment on what you like or don't like for that matter as it is from this that Lee anne will be choosing just which of the new ranges to get in the shop.

You can check out all the links in the CHA winter 2009 thread. Grab a coffee as I am sure you will be there for a while. I was.

Till next time happy scrapping.

First and favs for 2008

It was a year of a few first for me last year so I thought I would share them here with you all along with some of my favorite projects too.

Grab a coffee as you made need it. lol

After having my first layout in a Aussie magazine in 2007,2008 was the year of my first project in a US magazine.

Here is the card that was published in the Oct/Nov issue of Paper Trends.

and my favorite card for the year.This one is a wrap around card decorated on the front, inside and the back.

Another first for me this year was being asked to join the team of not one but two challenge blogs. Scrapping the music in the US and Aussie Scrapjack. I was so over the moon about joining the amazing teams on both sites.

These are two of my favorite pages I have done for STM.

Wondeful world.

I did up this page for one of the challenges before I got onto the dt and it is up in their hall of fame as it won that weeks challenge.

Stay beautiful.

This page was one of the first I did as a dter. The journaling is about how I hope that our missy will always stay beautiful on the inside and out.

This next page was one of the hardest for me to scrap. After being a part of the STM team for about 4 months we were all saddened by the sudden loss of one of our talented team members Alieda. This is a page I made up as part of a tribute album that the STM dters were invited to take part in with some of Alidea's other scrapping buddies.

She lived.Seeing as I joined ASJ in December I have only scrapped the one layout as a dter but it happens to be a fav.

Sweet Asher.A jack of a layout by Sarah Gladman.

Another first for me was being lucky enough to make it onto the Purple Onion Designs dt. They are an American based rubber stamp company.

This is my favorite card using one of their noteblock stamps.

and this is my favorite layout using a mix of their vintage style stamps.

Antics.Another first was to start face to face teaching at Just scrapbooking a LSS near where I lived. I have taught three classes so far and even though I was very nervous at first I enjoy it alot. This is my favorite layout taught there today. It just also happens to be a layout that I did up for STM as well.

Daddy.

I have been teaching and setting challenges online over at Scrap therapy as well as this is one of my favorite layouts done for them.

My Dandy girl.

I scrapped this one as part of an inspiration challenge that I was running last year. This year the challenge will be handed over to another dter and I am moving onto a different one. One that I am looking forward to playing around with.

Durring the year I stumbled on the Hero Arts blog and as I am such a lover of their stamps I decided to try and join in on some of their fun weekely challenges. As a result of winning one of the challenges I was lucky enough to work along side Shari Carroll for a day on the blog.

This is my favorite project done as part of my day.

Gardener.A simple page documenting our little gardener and just how far she would go for extra marshmallows on an icecream cone. 1 bucket of rocks removed and tipped into the bin=1 marshmallow. She ended up with 6.lol

Well I think that is all from me for now. Like a said a big share as 2008 was a year of many first for me. I'd love to see your firsts and favs too if you wouldl ike to share.

Thanks for popping in, any comments and till next time happy scrapping.

52 weeks cover and a sneek of my first pages too

I have fun doing up the cover for my 52 week album last night and here it is.I have decided to go with a 6 by 4 inch mini album so hopefully the pages won't take me too long. Says she who spent two hours on her first 6 by 4 double today.

Here is a very sneek peek of it. I will show you the rest when I can as I am going to use it as part of my Purple Onion requirements this month.

Can anyone see my counter over there or is it just me not seeing it? Looks like I may have to re do it.

Till next time happy scrapping.

52 Weeks, a blog award and a few cards

I've seen a lot of people starting to do the 365 photo a day album. I love the idea but so don't think I'd be able to commit to something that big so have decided to go with a 52 week one instead and take photo on one day each week.

I have just finished the cover for it. Will take a photo and share sometime tomorrow.I decided to start this halfway through the first week of Jan forgetting totally to take a photo for it so seeing as the only photo I took was of my One little word "Start" layout I will start with a photo of my layout.

Today we went out to Bunnings to join in on one of thier free kids workshops and Asher had a ball making a mosaic pot and then had to get a plant to go into it. We ended up getting a Cactus,which she has nicked named Tom and has several times now called a capsicum. lol

After that we headed out to do our food shop and before we started we checked out the toys as she had six dollars she wanted to spend. Lucky for us she found some saddle club stuffed horses she wanted and they were on special for two dollars so she was over the moon to be able to get all three. I told Asher how I wanted to take a photo of either, the pot, the cactus or her ponies and she said all three so we did.

Here is the photo shoot set up which she staged herself. Yeap one of the ponies just had to go in the pot as we haven't potted Tom yet as I forgot to get some potting mix to do it with.I was lucky enough to be given another blog award durring the week by one of my fellow Westie scrappers Janine. Thanks heaps Janine.

Here are the rules of the award.

I'm to list 5 addictions

scrapping

shopping

taking photos of my girl (Ditto Janine lol)

Chocolate

Coffee

and my 5 favorite blogs

I've been given a few blog awards lately and I'm sure if you pop in often that may already know just who most of my favorite scrappers are so I am going to do things just a tad bit different this time by linking 5 of my favorite challenge blogs so here goes.

Inkurable stampers

One little word

Our creative corner

Scrapping the music

Aussie scrapjack

I just had to add the last two seeing as I am part of the awesome desgin teams. lol It is one of my aims this year to try and join in a few challenge blogs of the many that are out there.

I also had a play around with making up some more of those lollypop flowers that I put the how to link up for a few posts back and here is what I did with them.

A thanks card to add to my overflowing stash of made cards waiting for the right ocassion or person to turn up.And a card for my sister inlaws b'day which is today.

Well I think that is all for now so it is bye from me for now.

As always thanks for popping in and any comments you may leave and till next time happy scrapping.

Aussie scrapjack and Scrapping the music page shares

The new challenges are up for both of the challenges blogs I dt for and would love it if you could join in on the fun at both if you have time.

The new song over at Scrapping the music is Hands by Jewel and this is my page.

The photos are of Asher showing three of the lastest additions to her animal collection that Santa left for her last year when she asked for a real pet rabbit,hamster,dog and cat.

The jack for this month over at Aussie scrapjack is Sarah Gladman. You can check out her page on the blog along with mine and the pages done by the other dters too.

This is a photo of Asher that I snapped at her b'day picnic in the park party a week before Christmas.

Well that is it from me for now.

Till next time thanks for stopping by, any comments that you may leave and happy scrapping.

Happy new year all

We had a quite one here and I am so not looking forward to going back to work on Monday but you get that. Roll on April is all I can say. 3 months long service leave. I so can't wait.

I've scrapped my first page and card for the year and Asher has done her first card too. It is Craig's b'day tomorrow so we went out shopping, after I attacked the cupboard at work. Boy that is one job that I am glad is done it was a shambles and I'd be mighty annoyed if those that use the cupboard can't keep it clean. We brought Craig a new game for the Wil, one for her too, and some clothes. Just have to pop out sometime tomorrow and do a food shop and buy a cake to take out to dinner.

Here is my first page for the year.

I decided to join in on the One little word start challenge.

I took this photo on christmas morning after Craig had set up the Wii,had a play himself and then let Asher have a play too. I so love that look of concentration on her face. No that isn't a spelling boo boo either. lol Asher keeps on calling it a Wil not a wii so I just had to spell it that way.

I'll post our cards a bit later on when I have pics of them.

Well that's about it from me for now.

Don't forget to pop into Therapy and see what fun challenges the summer dt have set for us all in the Cyber crop.

As always thanks for popping in and any comments you leave. Till next time happy scrapping.