My life. The blogable bits.

Well, I haven’t scrapped in a while, but I have had some ideas running around in my head. I finally managed to get one of those ideas down on paper for this fortnight’s Journal Challenges challenge.

I never took any photos of Luke when he went to speech therapy. At the time I didn’t deem it appropriate. I was cleaning out a cupboard and I found his flashcards, so I decided to use them to tell the story instead.

A layout for the Journal Challenges blog. This fortnight’s prompt is “Listen up, because this is important!”

A little embarrassing photo there of me. As Steve likes to say “I wish I had seen your school photo’s before we got married.” Yeah well…

I have 2 layouts to share today. The first is for the cybercrop happening over at The Scrapbook Establishment. It was my pleasure to set the inspiration challenge.

Here’s the inspiration:

Here’s the other criteria for the challenge:

1. Your layout must be either pink or blue or a combination of both pink and blue. You may use black/white or a hint of another colour if need be.

2. You must include a tag on your layout. Mine is tucked away, but it is still there.

3. You must have a repeating element on your layout. I repeated the use of fabric and butterflies.

Here’s my example:

I had fun making the fabric flower, they seem to be pretty popular at the moment, but I think it takes up too much room. Still, it is nice though.

The other layout I have to share is in this month’s Scrapbook Creations. It is in Ngaire Bartlem’s Top Ten feature. The topic was ‘It’s all about me’. I didn’t think too much about the content in the photo until after I had scrapped it so I was unsure whether it would be published or not, yes, it is a ruski alcopop in the photo. Oops.

I drew the heart and cut it out of an old pizza box, because lets face it, I have plenty hidden in a wardrobe. I covered it with some old postage stamps. FYI the best place I found to buy stamps was on ebay. I think one pack I bought was like $3 for 200 stamps. I love them for their vintage feel and the colours in them. I also used one on my Master’s entry for the picture. Very handy as a little embellishment.

Another layout, this one only took me 5 days to complete. And I wonder why I never get much scrapping done. Truth be told, I love the creating more than the finished product. I did this layout for this fortnight’s prompt over at Journal Challenges. I am totally digging symmetry at the moment. Another thing, I don’t own any glimmer mist. However, I do own a mini mister spray bottle and some food colouring. It’s not shiny like the real stuff, but it works for me nonetheless.

Before I go, you might want to check out this tomorrow night:

So. Here we are again. So soon. This time with a layout. I know. It’s been a long time coming. This layout was started about 6 weeks ago now, maybe even 7 weeks. A long time, anyway. I originally started it for one of the Journal Challenges prompts. I guess the thing that held me back from finishing it was the journalling. I had so much to write but only a 14 x 6cm rectangle to do it in. So. I decided to get to the point. And I did that yesterday and I am liking the fact that it is finished. That I have my thoughts down. And I will let you in on a little secret. Crocheting through a piece of cardstock is hard. Especially with cooking twine. But worth it.

PS. That’s Kate in that photo with Nan, not Amy. Oh no. The poor kids really do look like me!