I've been creating

and loving it.

Here is what I have done.

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ARTastic.

The new challenge is up. This month it is a painting called the bath by Mary Cassatt and when I first seen it I knew just what pics I was going to scrap.

Dreamer


When I was doing my xmas card photo shoot out back I got Missy to sit on an old upturned bath under Missy's tree in the backyard. It used to be in my Nan's backyard and we do have intentions of doing something with it but not too sure just what yet.
At the moment it has a few of Missy's treasure sitting on it and hanging from the tree are a few treasures as well. I gave her some scrap ribbon and card today and she took them out side and created away. Tied the ribbon to the card and then hung it in the tree next to an old little bike bag that has been hanging in it for a year or more.

I have used paint on a butterfly from the Vintage butterfly set the Art nouveau corner and ink on the 1800 script background stamps from Purple Onion. Thanks for the inspiration Missy Mandy. I so love the effect you create with paint and stamps.

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Purple Onion

I have done up a few valentine cards for the Purple Onion blog. This one went up during the week.

Love U.


I used a heart from the Doddled hearts set.

Make sure you pop in as there have been some really sweet samples posted from the other girls.

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Lime Tart

Philippa sent me out some Prima felt leaf sprays to do a product challenge with. Here is what I did.

On the first one I used it as it was and layered some Prima vines sprays over it.

Tramp fun.


and on the second one I shabbied it up a little by swiping it with some texture paste and ink.

Our garden angel.


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52 weeks

A few of you have been asking about the finished album and in one word all I will say is

"CHUNKY"


Now to either find some bigger jump rings or tie it up with some ribbons.

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I friend from work is leaving to go and live in Tassie. After making a card for all the girls to sign for Tam, who got engaged recently I made another one for Ally.

Have fun spreading your wings.


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Just scrapbooking

I finally got around to scrapping a layout for my next heritage class. Jordie and Lou asked if I wanted to take it over for a while and thought I would give it a go.

Here is the class layout I will be teaching next Sunday.

Picnic Antics.


and this is next months one.

Sitting pretty.


Well if you have all stayed around till the end. Thanks.

Till next time thanks for popping in, any comment and happy creating.

some scrapping and pics too

Well it has been a busy week and weekend out here.

Here's a little run down.

Working Monday and then of to a friends place to scrap for a few hours where I spent the whole time there living up to my name as the Queen of fiddle. Playing around with photos and papers for three hours and leaving with a layout sort of started.

Tuesday we had a visit from these two cheeky boys, their mum Justine with bubs on the way.

Just love them all to bits and am hoping to try and catch up more often this year. Living nearly an hour and a half way makes it a bit hard, add to that work and a 2.30 school pick doesn't help either.
The boys are real rough and tumble boys and Missy although had fun after about three hours of rough housing, her egging them on at times she had had enough.

Friday was spent out at the shops much to Missy's disgust, food shopping and then home getting ready for a crop at a lss where I spent another three hours on that layout from Monday night.

As it has been hot out here this weekend we haven't really done much at all. Popped out for a little bit on Saturday morning and have then vegged out at home for the rest of it trying to keep cool.

Today I just couldn't help but laugh at my crazy girl. Yeap here she is in her PJ's, we had a pj day today, sitting in the Reenie's basket. lol look at those legs she sure does take after her dad.

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Here is some scrapping that I have done lately.

3 steps.

I forgot to share this one with you all last week. Photos are of Missy dressed up as a great white shark for Summer themed dress up day at school. Yes she was a shark as they hang around the beaches here in Summer and that week we had a few sightings and it was all in the news. She new exactly what she wanted to look like and just wearing a grey shirt wasn't good enough as great whites have white bellies. Lucky for her I had a white singlet stashed in the back of my drawer. She drew the fins and mask as well. I was just the put togetherer.

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Purple Onion

This is the layout that I was talking about before. Took me nearly 6 hours all up.

Attitude

Photos were taken on xmas morning where Missy was waiting out front for Santa to come round in the ute. We were all surprised when he called out "Merry xmas Asher" so we think he had some inside information.

I have used the Vinatge journaling label, the straight stitch from the Stitches set and the Harlequins

I have also done up this card for a friend at work.

Congrats


She got engaged recently and everyone at work put in some money to buy her a pressie. I tried to make a three fold card so that we all had room to write in it but I couldn't for the life of me get it to work so have added a fold out insert in the middle.

I used the Vintage Damask Background stamp along with a sentiment from the Hopscotch sentiment set.

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Mystical scrapbooks

Over at Mystical I have been part of a photo swap. I swapped photos with Nat and here is what she has scrapped for me. Thanks I love it.

Christmas photo shoot

and here is what I did for Nat. Minus it's title. I wasn't too sure what to use. I had a few ideas but couldn't decide so took the photo without it and have spoken to Nat and have decided on

Life back then

Also over at Mystical they are cybercropping. I managed to do two challenges.

This one for Christine's blind scrap.

Xmas kitty

and this one for Ellen's sketch.

New toy.

It is one of the last pages for my 52 week album from last year.

Here's that last one.

Last

lol Seeing as I started of the album with a photo of the first layout I scrapped in 09 I thought I'd end it with my last.

I am so glad that I managed to keep up with it last year. I must admit that towards the end the pages were pretty simple and done just to get them out of the way. lol not like 6 hours on one.

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Lime tart

Over at Lime Tart the recipe challenges have started back up again. You can check it out on the blog.

Here is what I have done

Happy birthday.

The challenge is to use red white and blue along with a star embelishment. lol I turned my scrappy stash inside out to find a star embellishment and I couldn't find anything so just imagine the button on the bow is not round and has five points on it.

Well I think that is about it from me for now. I am going to get myself and early night I think.

As always thanks for popping in, any comments and happy creating.

Some pages to share and last chance at the shabby rak

Hi there all I have a nice and relaxing weekend if you forget my stuff up on Friday night that is. I had my stuff all packed and headed of to one of my lss for a Friday night crop and I had my Fridays all wrong. It is this Friday. Oops Lucky I am only 10 mins or so away from the store.
It's wasn't a big loss as I did get to do some scrapping. I just did it at home instead.

Here is some of what I have done lately. Others will come later when I can share my Lime Tart and Let's get shabby projects.

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52 Weeks.


Artastic

I have joined in on a this challenge blog for the first time. The challenge is to be inspired by a Pro Hart painting.


and this is what I created.

I was inspired by the bright colours in the painting and decided to scrap some photos of Missy unwrapping one of her b'day pressies using bright colours and a portion of a Prima vine.

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Scrap Therapy

Are having a cyber crop this weekend and if you have time play along. The challenge deadline is 12 midnight tomorrow.

Here is what I created using a sketch by Allie.


I had fun doing this page. lol I just kept on adding things left right and center until I had to say no more.
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Lets get shabby

The last of three guessing games is still running but only for a few more hours now. Pop on over and check it out.

Well that is all from me for now as always thanks for popping in, any comments and happy creating.

Xmas and new year wrap up and my favs of 2009

Oh dear I am such a naughty blogger. I have just realized that I haven't updated my blog for a little while. Oops lol I think I have made up for that in this post. So you may want to grab a coffee.

Ok here goes.
Xmas Missy was up at 6.00 and all excited about the pressies under the tree and in her stocking.
Here is one of the few I snapped. She wasn't sitting still long enough for me to get many.lol
Her favorite pressie from Santa is her Bop it. Just loves it.We had breakie here with friends Jane and Jim and Santa came round on the back of a ute to deliver some lollies out front. Here is Missy waiting for him. Not very patiently mind you.We were all surprised when he called out Merry Xmas Asher as he tossed the lollies out from the back of the ute. We think Santa had words with Uncle Gareth. lol After our friends left we headed up to my parents place where we caught up with my sisters. Missed my brother and the five kids this year as SIL refuses to spend xmas lunch with anyone but her family.
After that we came home for a bit then headed out again, down to Mandurah to spend dinner with Craig's side. Home late and we all crashed.
The next few days we did not that much at all. I took Missy out to the movies to see the chipmonk squeakel with a friend, we went and seen Avatar with friends the next night.
New years was a quite one. Friends over for dinner and videos. We we so engrossed in the video that we didn't even know that new years had passed.

As for scrapping well I have done a bit, mostly working with my next Lime tart dt kit. Boy it is yummy. Want to see just what I have been playing with then pop on over and check it out on the blog. I've been having fun for sure.
Here is a little of what I can share.
52 Weeks.
Well no more pages scrapped yet. Have the pics printed though.
A birthday pic
A Christmas pic
and a pic of this layout.I created it for a challenge over at Artistic and seeing as I started my 52 week album with a pic of my first layout of the year I thought it would be good to finish it with my last.
I am so glad that I kept it up. I so didn't think I would. I will have to take a pic of my chunky album.
I also played along with two challenges at Mystical and created this layout for my friends sisters albumand this one for our family album.I also managed to finish of my last dt layout for the year over at Just scrapbooking using one of the pics from Missy's birthday photo shoot.
Favorites of 2009.
2009 seen the start and ending of some great scrapping vetures for me and I thought I would share with you all my favorite projects from each one.
ASJ
Lou asked me to join her extremely talented team. I had a lot of fun jacking last year and I am staying on for this year.
This was a scrap diary for last year. lol I just finshed altering this years one a little while ago.
Scrap Therapy
After 1 1/2 years on the dt there it was time for me to move on.
This page was created for a sketch challenge during one of the cyber crops.
Scrapping the music
It was also time for me to leave my first ever challenge blog team. This is my favorite layout done for one of their challenges.Ad this-blog no longer active
After playing along with one of their challenges I was asked to join the team. I stayed on for about five months.Lime Tart
I joined the very talented team. My first ever kit club dt spot. I am enjoying playing with the scrummy kits that Philippa puts together.
Here is my favorite Tart layout although it isn't mine now. lol I scrap napped my friend Julie's gorgeous little girl and she has the layout now.Purple Onion
Not a new dt spot last year but Michelle has asked me to stay on for the next year.
Just scrapbooking
Not only did I start teaching here but I was also asked to join the design team.
Here is my favorite class layout and my favorite dt layout.Let's get shabby
Would have to be one of my best ever scrapping accomplishments this year. After a chat with my friend Mandy where she said she was going to try and find a shabby challenge blog I mentioned to her that I didn't think there was one and that she should start one. Well that was just the push that she needed and Lets get shabby was born.
Here is my first project created for our challenge blog.and here are a few just because layouts.

Well if you all have made it this far you have done well.
Till next time as always thanks for popping in, any comments and happy scrapping.

She's nine now.

Yeap my baby turned nine on Thursday. Here she is blowing me a birthday kisses. I took a similar photo last year and thought I'd try and do the same each year or as long as she will let me.lolThe little monkey in her hands was one of her pressies from us. A few years ago I altered up a shadow box I found at a market for $3 that just happened to have 24 little windows in it for an advent calendar. As some of the windows were bigger I made sure that the 17th was one of the bigger ones and a small pressie always gets popped in the advent calendar. Jojo was wrapped up pretty tight to fit in but he did.

We got her a DS and a few games for her b'day and she loves it. Will probably take her a while to get the hang of what to do with some of the games we got for her but that is all in the learning I guess. She also got from us a little pet shop play house, wii game, an outfit along with a xmas book and pjs, that has become a tradition of sort each year.
From her grandparents on Craig's side she got Mario cart for the wii, a puppet, some bathers, boardies and a rashie. From my parents she got boardies and a rashie along with her first bottle of real perfume as she calls it. Barbie stuff.
From other family she got some books, a fairy ornament, a mirrored jewelry box, a dvd and her first real make up set.
Totally spoilt but you get that. She had a sleep over with two friends on Thursday and I took them all of to the local fun station for a play and lunch the next day. Lots of fun was had by all three girls.

52 week catch up.
I bet you all thought I had forgotten about it but seeing as it is only a few more weeks left now I wasn't going to stop now.
Week 45
Asher's pal hoggie

Week 46
Dancing concert rehersal

Week 47
I can't show as it is a pic of one of the cards that are going to be published in the new year.
Week 48
Dressed as a xmas rock angel for a xmas dress up day at school.
On my rock angel page I have used some of my purple onion stamps. The small pine tree, happy holidays note block and the Skinny dip alpha.

I also made up some quick gift tags using the small pine again and the Christmas sentiments from the mini sentiments set.

and a gift box using the Happy holidays note block again. lol I made up the box then tried to pop in the pressie and the bangles tied onto the front wouldn't fit into the box with the rest of it.

I also needed a few more Xmas cards to post out to family so I grabbed my Dec a la tart kit and made some more cards similar to the ones I made before and there is still heaps of paper left in the kit.

I played along with this months sketch challenge over at Artistic and this is the page I did.

I so couldn't resist scrapping the pics of Missy jumping into the water finally and it wasn't a fluke or a once of as she was doing it again on Saturday. Yeah Missy.
Well that is all from me for now. Two more days of work for me this year and bot will they go slow.
I also want to wish everyone a safe and happy Xmas and new year.
Till next time thanks for popping in, any comments and happy scrapping