Want to win some...

Oh thanks to Tracy for the link to this very yummy rak up for grabs.... lots of scrapping goodies in there.

So be sure to head over here and get in on the lucky draw... ends 31 July.

Ally Scraps

I entered the July sketch challenge over at Ally Scraps... sadly just found out I didn't win... but the layout that did is gorgeous.  This is what I created:

Please vote for me....

The July challenge at In2Crafts is now at the voting stage... you can see all the layouts here.  Please go to the poll and place your vote.  You can only vote ONCE!

Sketches: Creatively Yours... cards 3

Do you like to make cards?  Well check out this weeks sketch and sample at the Sketches: Creatively Yours blog.... even I feel the need to go make a card or two!

Sketches: Creatively Yours... layout 9

Last week's sketch and team layouts are up on the blog.  Be sure to head over there to check them out.  Here is my layout for this one:

In case you haven't had enough

of the World Cup.... head over to Helen's blog for her RAK of World Cup goodies.  There's some lovely SA choccies in the pile.

Keep It flying

The World Cup and all it's festivities might be over... but we can definitely still keep the flag flying.

You can find out more here or on facebook here.

The end of a holiday

Our long school holiday has come to an end... boy a few weeks back we were all so worried as to how we were going to keep the kids busy for 4/5 weeks... and now it's back to school next week Tuesday!!  Well I can say that it's been a fun holiday for Aaron... he played with friends, went to holiday club and spent two weeks with Papa & Granny.  This weekend we are all going to Roodeplat Dam (just north of Pretoria) for some lovely relaxing family time (with a bit of world cup watching thrown in too I expect!).

Well as per normal when Aaron is away I try and get some major scrapbooking done.... but as stated in one of my previous posts, that simply didn't seem to happen this time around... till this last week!  I feel soooooooooooo much better now that I managed to do .... wait for it... TEN pages since Saturday.  And they're great pages too, even if I say so myself!  Unfortunately for you, I can't show you them all yet as some are for my design team obligation for this month and one is a competition that I'm entering... but here are the rest:

When I attended the MegaScrap Day in May I won a series of free scrap lessons at Scrapping Studio, so I went for my first on on Saturday and created this stunning page:

The rightside page has two flaps on it which open to reveal some more photos and my journalling.  All the paper on this page is from Fabscraps.

Then on Sunday I scrapped this gorgeous page - again lots of flaps for more photos:

I won the notes for this from Homespun Scrapbooking a few months ago just for commenting on her blog!

And then there are these few layouts from 2008

And the last one I can show you is for the July challenge at In2Crafts

The challenge is about Memories and so I scrapped my childhood memory of the Hoopoe's arrival announcing winter.  This layout is a scraplift from Kelly Goree.

So that's that for this week's scrapping and the holiday... next week it is back to the normal early morning routine (sigh!).

Summer Camp

It's time for Creating Keepsakes Summer Camp... and I've decided I will try and take part.

Why not head here and sign up too?

Sketches: Creatively Yours... layout 8

This month's first sketch is up... and wow the designers have pulled out all the stops... especially the guest designer for July... Janis... I simply love her layout.... but you will have to read the blog to see it.

This is my layout for this week's sketch: