My Creative Sketches Challenge

Morning my scrappy friends =) Hope everyone has had a fabulous weekend. I have a couple of layouts to share that I created over the weekend. The first is for My Creative Sketches. It is a photo taken on Saturday of Hubbie & I on a bush walk. I really wanted to do a bright and fun layout to kind of lift the mood a little! DH has just been made redundant after working for a company for over 10 years along with 300+ other people. He has gone off to work this morning as just one of two remaining employees. I can't imagine two people just rattling around in a huge building. So life for us is in limbo at the moment. He works in a fairly specialized finance field so how easy it will be to get another job, we don't know yet. Or if we will have to move interstate, if we will have to downsize our house + all my business plans for the next 6 months are hanging on what will happen with his work. So basically, I just wanted to do a layout about 'no matter what happens we still have each other'!

Some hidden journalling

And this is one I did for the sketch challenge at Handmade By Suzanne. It kind of a took off in another direction for the sketch though. Has happened a lot lately lol. My hidden journalling for this one reads..'From the time you were first able to talk I have been able to have whole conversation with you when you sleep. This week...

G -"Mitch, time to get up"

M - "I Can't!"

G - "Why?"

M - "I am making a new colony"

G - "Really.."

M - "We are called the Rubber Duckies"

G - "I see"

M - "Quack!"

And no I won't let him live this down anytime soon lol!

Have an awesome week girls! TFL xox

Sassy Scrapper Page Kit

Morning girls! Just dropping in for a quick share of my new page kit that just went up last night at Sassy Scrapper. Last time I looked just one left so you will need to get in quick! This is a two page kit using the new 'No Limits' range from Heidi Swapp which just arrived this week at Sassy's...

I also have another, I guess you could say, reluctant share. Every now and then I purchase a range that is completely out of my comfort zone just to test myself to see if I can create with different things. In most cases it works out well. Well this month I chose Jenni Bowlin which I have never used before. And well, this range is weird, I am sorry but it's weird! It almost got binned 3-4 times but I persisted and this is what it came out like. It was for a challenge which  I decided I won't embarrass myself and enter it...as well, I don't really like it lol. Why am I sharing then? Well I don't know, I guess it's good to show the failures as well as the successes I suppose lol

Hope everyone has an awesome weekend. I am hoping some scrappy mojo returns after a pretty lack luster week xox

Simple Things

Afternoon ladies. I've had a nice break from scrapping for a week and now with the delivery of some new goodies, my mojo has returned and I am itching to get back into it. I created this layout last night for a sketch challenge at an American ning site. However it kind of got away from me though and ended up looking nothing like the sketch lol. 

The layout is about the things in life that make me the happiest are always the most simplest of things. I have some hidden journalling on a tag behind my photo which reads "Hearing 'I Love You' from those that mean the most to me. Good coffee. Sunday sleep-ins. Having a laugh over something silly. Getting goodies in the mail. A genuine compliment from a friend".

Thanks for dropping by. Hope everyone is having a fabulous week. G xox

New London Market Page Kit

Evening ladies! Just dropping in to share my new page kit I have created for Sassy Scrapper. It is has been created using the gorgeous new London Market range by Pink Paislee and latest release Prima flower. These kits make a fantastic gift idea if you have friends or family interested in starting to scrapbook as they come with everything you need including embellishments and full color instructions. My last page kit sold out in 8 hours so you will have to get in quick! To check it out, click here.

Scrap Africa April Challenge

Back again with another share =) I have promised myself that I need to pack up my craft desk and do something other than scrap for the rest of the week. This layout is for the current sketch challenge at Scrap Africa. My first time playing along at this site, lots of gorgeous DT examples and a great sketch so how could I resist. This LO is of hubby taken a few years ago on a holiday in Paris. He doesn't get scrapped very often, mainly as by the time he gets home from work it is too dark for photos and on weekends he tends to be walking around the house in his daggy clothes ready to mow lawns and do boy stuff in his shed. 

He has a desk in my craft room now where he sits and does his thing ( usually online gaming and watching star trek re-runs on his laptop - yes he's a geek!), while I scrap. Mid way through this layout I had an attack of the giggles. When I looked at the page it sounded like I was calling him Old & Curious and an unusual odditie. I couldn't stop laughing and I think he thought I must have been sniffing my glue instead of creating with it =)

Thanks for looking and for all your lovely comments. G xxx

Kraft It Up April Challenge

Second post for the day and another challenge ticked off my looonnnnnggg list this month, this one is for Kraft It Up. The challenge this month is to use Kraft + 3 Kraft items. This layout is of our family cat ( aka 4th child), Oscar. He has this habit of needing to sleep smack bang in the centre of a room, flat on his back, limbs in the air and even occasionally has his tongue poking out. It is the weirdest thing ever and always makes us laugh how he looks like something dragged in from the side of the road.

And as I sit here now writing this, he has decided to join me at my desk and I have had to take a picture to share. Guess where he has decided to have a snooze....(Just to make a liar out of me lol)....I am guessing he must like it =)  I seriously couldn't have set this up if I tried, how cool is my cat lol!

Get Creative & Punky Scraps April Challenge

Morning ladies =) I can't remember if I mentioned it or not, but I had a wee bit of a prang in my car a few weeks back. No one hurt ( thankfully) but my car is not so hot! Unable to drive it until it gets repaired ( 21st of May sheez!). I have figured out however there are certain advantages to no having transport. With just one teen left in the house who is pretty low maintenance, I have two options to fill in my days. Housework and scrapbooking. And with only so much housework to do, I think I have managed to enter a record number of challenges so far this month with no slowing down! The way it is looking I may have something new to show every day for the next fortnight lol. This layout I have done for the Get Creative sketch challenge along with the inspiration challenge at Punky Scraps.

In other news, I have had one of my layouts featured by one of the editors at ScrapbookUpdate.com which I was thrilled about! It is a business and industry site which has just launched a new weekly series called Gallery Highlights. If you want to have a sticky beak, click here.

Will be back again tomorrow =) TFL xox