It's Spring!

Happy happy spring day to one and all..... and in celebration of spring I decided to make a card.

Outside

Inside

I was going to make this for a challenge on the American Crafts blog but just noticed I used the wrong range of paper :( silly me!!!  Anyway, I'm chuffed with my card!

head over to

Shoestring Scrapbooking and find out how you can get your hands on this....

Good luck!

Sketches: Creatively Yours... layout 14

This is my last layout for the month of August based on Sketches: Creatively Yours... if you remember last week's layout then you will see that this one is a match.... though I scrapped the two pages as two separate singles I will be filing them next to each other in my album... and because they are photos taken on the same day with the same people, I decided to coordinate the colours... and so now I have a matching pair!

Be sure to check out the Sketches: Creatively Yours blog for more layouts on this week's sketch.

Other exciting news.... Alison asked the design team to stay on for an extra month.... so there are four more layouts from me coming in the month of September!

A few layouts

In between challenges and design team layouts I managed to do a few other layouts too..

This one has taken a while because I first made all the paper piecing bits and then about two weeks later only worked on the actually layout.

I used a Helen Croft sketch for this layout... she has really fun colourful sketches on her blog

And this layout I had planned at the beginning of the year but never got to do it... it's based on a Nuts About Sketches sketch... week 86

This weekend I need to get cracking on my new design team layouts... so will be happily scrapping the time away.

Scrap-U PreAssignmentz

Though classes only start on the 1st of September at Scrap-U... there are a few Pre-Assignmentz going on... so here's what I've done for the challenges:

Pre-Assignment #1 {Back To School Fashion}
Take a picture of a piece of clothing and scrap a LO using the colors as inspiration!  ALSO........include some stitching on your LO!!!

So I took a photo of my fav socks

And then I scrapped this page

The photo was taken by Michelle van Wyk of myself, Judi & Gayle scrapping at the Tsholofelo charity scrap day

Pre-Assignment #2 {Schedules}
Print out a blank calendar for September then "pretty up" that calendar! SO I used my Outlook email calendar and turned it into a pinboard

Pre - Assignment #3 {Lunch Box}
There were 9 lunch bags to pic from for inspiration!

Then.......................
Make a Sandwich/ (At least 3 pp's)
Grab some Chips / (Use Chipboard)
Get some Juice / (Use paint or mist)
Bring a snack / (Use your choice of embellishments)

So this is what I made:

Now just waiting for the really fun to begin on the 1st of September.... why don't you join in too... remember to say that I sent you.

I must be crazy...

or maybe just bored?  But anyway September will be a month of madness for me...

1. I'm going to be here in two weeks...

2. I plan to do as many challenges at Scrap-U (see previous post)

3. and now I've signed up here too....

Want to join in all this madness???? Why not!

Scrap-U

The girls over at ScrapFriendzy are having a Scrap University for the month of September.... and I thought what the heck... add it to my schedule and try my hand at a few of the challenges.... so why not join me in the madness

Let the classes begin!

Oh and if you do join up... go to the Introductionz and say that I sent you!

I made it...

It's official... I made the design team at Nuts about Sketches... yippee... can't wait to tackle these sketches.

Some more blog candy

Thanks to Michelle at Homespun I followed the link for another chance at winning some blog candy

So head over to Rose Blossom Legacies, click on the pic on the sidebar and you too could possibly win this.

Get some lolly

I won a prize a few months back at the Scrapping Nomad.... and now I see she has another great one on offer... so go check it out here!

Lots of love lolly in this one... can definitely have a good shopping spree if you win!