Up for a challenge?

Thanks to Michelle at SA Homespun, I've been introduced to a new challenge blog... so why don't you also check it out...

So go to http://www.betterscrap.com/ find a challenge and participate... if you do all four challenges per month you can win a prize.  I definitely need the inspiration to scrap... I'm sooooooooo behind on my goal of a layout a day that at this stage I won't get there!

Scrap-a-tale Challenge - August

This month's challenge at Scrap-A-Tale is to create five cards.... we'll for me who doesn't often create cards unless it's in a pinch, this one was a great challenge.  Here's what I managed to put together:

1. A boy's birthday card (this is a scraplift of one of Tracy's cards)

2. A pretty birthday card

3. A Thank you card

4. A small square birthday card (based on this week's card sketch at Sketches:CreativelyYours)

5. A teenager's birthday card

and this one got it's inside decorated too....

Now at least I have some cards in my stash waiting to be used... think I might just start making a few more of these in the future!

Sketches: Creatively Yours... cards 4

These are some lovely cards on the Sketches: Creatively Yours blog today that the design team made.... go check them out here.

Prize pack with a difference

While posting my PageMaps layout I was browsing her site and saw that Becky's sketches are used on a few others for competitions... well you know me... click click click and find out what's to see.  Well, I found another sketch blog to read and they're giving away a prize this month...

So go check out Ingeborg's blog and see what's on offer.

PageMaps Contest

I've followed PageMaps for years now... I simply love Becky Flecks sketches.... well this month she has a competition out for a prize from Scrap Attack Scrapbooking and I decided to give it a go.  Here's my take on the sketch

I will be scanning this one properly next week so will put up a better pic then, just needed to get it up before Sunday's cut off date.

Giveaways galore

Tracie Hudson has three different giveaways going on on her blog this week... if you haven't yet checked them out... see them here:
1. http://lifeandtimesofa12x12addict.blogspot.com/2010/08/lil-give-away.html
2. http://lifeandtimesofa12x12addict.blogspot.com/2010/08/sharing.html
3. http://lifeandtimesofa12x12addict.blogspot.com/2010/08/sharing-some-more.html
4. http://lifeandtimesofa12x12addict.blogspot.com/2010/08/one-for-boy.html

Have fun

Today is my lucky day

I just found out I won... TWICE!! hehe.

Around lunch time I was browsing Facebook and saw the announcement for the Rapid Studio photo competition.  So went to check it out and found out I won third place.... thanks to you all for clicking on my photo... it sure helped!

And just now I was going through Google Reader and saw that I had won this mag on Kim Starre's blog... can't wait to read it when it arrives from the States.

Just some family news too..... Aaron has been running a temperature since Thursday last week with a horrid snotty nose.... anyway, yesterday I took him off to the doc and after giving him meds now he is definitely on the mend.  Doc did book him off from school for this week.... also because it's so cold and we don't want him to get any worse.... so we're having a peaceful week at home.

Scrap The Boys Giveaway

A few weeks back I was introduced (through a link) to a wonderful blog... called "Scrap The Boys"... this is a challenge blog where all the layouts are about boys/men and are in manly colours... so up my street seeing as I mainly scrap Aaron! hehe.  Anyways, they're having a giveaway... so go check this out.

These would be so nice to have in my collection.

Sketches: Creatively Yours... layout 12

Wow August is here and it's another month full of sketches and layouts for Sketches: Creatively Yours.  This is my layout for this week:

I managed to use up some old scraps on this layout... a nice quick and easy one.

Be sure to check out the Sketches: Creatively Yours blog for the rest of the design team's take on the sketch.

Vote for me

I posted a photo on the Rapid Studio's site for the Mzanzi Moments competition... you will need to scroll down quite a ways to vote for me... or just pick your fav one... I won't mind... hehee

Here's the link