Nuts About Sketches - Week 143

Wow check out Nuts About Sketches blog this week for some fantastic layout ideas based on this sketch

For my layout I decided to do photos of the 2010 Scrapbooking Convention.... loved how it all turned out...

Enjoy browsing the blog to see the rest of the teams' layouts.

Nuts About Sketches - Week 142

The first sketch for 2011 is up at Nuts About Sketches.....

My layout is a rare one .... no photos of people!

As we needed to use a "really long title" I went hunting for some inspiration.... kept thinking about the poem "ducks a-dabbling, up tails all" from Wind in the Willows.... but as none of these ducks were "up tails all" I used a different verse.... hehehe.... love how it all turned out.

Go check out the rest of the layouts from the design team.... there are lots of variations on this one.... love the inspiration.

Productive first weekend scrapping

I spent a lot of this first weekend of 2011 scrapping.... I had over 600 photos printed on Friday and so now have a whole lot of scrapping planned for this year.  The first lot of layouts were all "premade" ones... so 1-2-3 and they were done.

This layout I made at a scrap day at Scraptifity, where we made a whole album using the same range.... as I don't really scrap like that I thought I'd use the layouts as I get photos to match.  The flowers were from the kit received at the 2008 convention, which is what this layout  is about.

This layout was one that we made at the convention in 2006... it's a Becky Higgins one.... It had sat around for so long that unfortunately the paper got a bit faded in the sun.... but I decided to do it anyway.

 

The next group of layouts I made at the Mega Crop Day in May 2010... needed to find lots of pics to match.... which I managed to do :)

 

This layout was from the Mega Crop Day in Oct 2009

This last layout from was the Scrapbook Convention of 2009... I always said that it was toooo 3D for my liking but after doing the Prima layout last year and loving it, I decided what the heck and found photos to finish this one off... loved how it finally turned out.

Seven double pages in one weekend.... wow!  Really got the year off to a good start.  I also managed to do a single page for my Nuts About Sketch design team committment.... so that post is coming next.

Happy New Year - 2011

Happy New Year to all my friends, family and blog readers.  I pray that this year will be extra special and that whatever you plan to do will be done to the best of your ability.

God bless you today and all year long.

Nuts About Sketches - Week 141

Here is the last sketch for 2010..... just sneaking it in before the year sneaks out the door!

My layout for this sketch

The "golf" border across the top I received from a very dear friend.  It was actually all one... a 3D border sticker but I pulled it apart (carefully!) and managed to get two so that I could have a continuous border across my page.... such a fun idea to stretch your supplies just a little further!

My final wish on this post is for you to have a very HAPPY NEW YEAR'S EVE.... don't party tooooooo hard that you can't enjoy your NEW YEAR'S DAY!

Merry Christmas

I wish all my friends and family (and loyal readers) a very merry and blessed Christmas.... we are off to the Berg from tomorrow for a week... so happy holiday time too.  Chat at the end year.

Catching Up

Christmas is around the corner and if you are quick you could win this yummy blog candy at Shoestring Scrapbooking... on till 22/12/10

EDITED 3 JAN 2011:  I found out this morning that I WON .... what a great way to start the New Year!

Nuts About Sketches - Week 140

Where have the weeks gone?  Only two more weeks left of 2010!  Here is the second last sketch for this year from Nuts About Sketches.

Two years ago we spent the last day of the year building a puzzle.... this was the perfect layout to showcase our hard work.

Go to the blog and check out the other delightful pages done by this great team.

Nuts About Sketches - Week 139

Wow the weeks sure are rushing by.... sadly all I seem to have time to post lately are my design team layouts.... hopefully things will calm down slightly in the new year and I can get back to some regular updates.  Here is this week's great sketch from Nuts About Sketches

I put together a simple layout showcasing Aaron's school prizegiving from 2009.

I'm quite chuffed with this layout.... besides the two sheets of cardstock, everything else used on this layout is from leftovers.... how's that for frugal scraping?

Now go to the blog and check out what the rest of this awesome team have put together.

Nuts About Sketches - Week 138

In amongst everything else going on, the clock just keeps ticking by and another week has come and gone..... and look at that it's time for a new sketch from Nuts About Sketches.

For my layout I decided to do pics about the boys making supper.... man style!

The title isn't actually cut off.... it's the way my scanner works :(

Go check out the blog post for some great takes on this sketch by the other team members.... you will be pleasantly surprised.