Helen's giveaways

Speed your way over to Helen Tilbury's blog quickly and get in it to win it... she has two giveaways going to celebrate her 3rd anniversary.

Shoestring Scrapbooking - Design Team - Reveal 8

I feel really bad that it has taken me so long to post this layout.  This is the last layout that I made using the wonderful kit that I got from Shoestring Scrapbooking back in June.

I loved the tools on the paper from Kaisercraft but had to find just the right photos for it... and these ones of Aaron exploring the MTN Sciencentre in Cape Town were just perfect.

If you are looking for great scrapbooking goodies at very reasonable prices, be sure to shop online at Shoestring Scrapbooking.

Nuts About Sketches - Week 177

It's the first reveal for the new design team for Nuts About Sketches.... and boy have they done a great job.  Unfortunately I was so sick over the last week that I never got to do my layout.... but it is planned so will be coming soon soon.  Here is the sketch though that you can work on.

EDITED: I managed to scrap my page for this sketch about two weeks ago....

This page is about a bunch of mushrooms that sprung up in our back garden during April... they were so very interesting to see.  I used leftovers from a previous Scrapkits page to do this layout.

Scrapkits completed

Over the last few months I have also managed to complete a few of my Scrapkits that I subscribe to.  Feast your eyes on these:

These pages are full of interactive flaps and booklets... so lots of photos get used... my kind of scrapping.

Some past layouts to show you....

I haven't been posting too many layouts here lately besides my design team commitments, so I thought it was about time I showed off some of the layouts I've done over the last few months.  Be prepared for lots and lots of them....

Layouts from my 2008 album

This next bunch are all from my 2009 album

 

 

And so there you have it... a whole bunch of layouts that I created over the space of two months.  More to follow in another post.

Nuts About Sketches - Week 181

The first week of holiday has come and gone and we are busy counting the sleeps till Aaron comes home on Friday.  I haven't managed to get nearly as much done this holiday as I usually do, but it has been a good break so far.  Doing lots of friend visiting this week so even less is getting done... not that I'm complaining as it is great to catch up without a little guy nagging to go home!

On to this week's awesome sketch from Nuts About Sketches

I chose to scrap photos from a school event from last year.

The kids had the opportunity to get up close to a cheetah... everyone got to stroke it too.  I had sent my camera in for the day and so got some photos to record this great occasion.

I added the paw prints on to my layout using a glue rubon and then adding some gold foiling.... just a subtle yet effective detail.  The pattern paper was all out of my scraps box - yay!

Be sure to check out the rest of the design team layouts... they have done another great job this week.

Nuts About Sketches - Week 180

It's the first week of Aaron's school holiday... he luckily gets two weeks off at this time of year.... lovely mommy holiday for me!  I hope to get lots of scrapping done but also need to get a few other important things tackled over the next two weeks... here's hoping!

Well with it being Monday it must be sketch day.... so here is the new one from Nuts About Sketches... a lovely double pager.

My layout is all about Keith and his new contraption he bought to chop wood... and of course Aaron had to have a go too... so they became lumberjacks for an hour or so one Sunday afternoon.

I'm chuffed with myself for this layout... I used a sheet of denim paper and also the wood paper that I have had in my stash for absolutely ages.  The "ribbon" I used was actually a strap off one of Aaron's drinking bottles that he never used.  The blue lettering is from Shoestring Scrapbooking.

Now that you've seen my layout, check out the rest of the team's layouts on the blog.

Nuts About Sketches - Week 179

A new week means another sketch from Nuts About Sketches.

My layout showcases my boy having fun on the pc with my best friend's son.  I managed to use a few scraps on the page as well as both sides of a double-sided Cosmo Cricket piece of paper.  I added in an extra pic as I couldn't choose which one to leave out!

Be sure to check out the blog this week to for lots more inspiration from our great design team.

Catching up with Google

If you are a regular reader I'm sure you know of my fetish for Google pages.  Well I have been storing up a few to show you.

17 August 2011

24 August 2011

5 September 2011

9 September 2011

16 September 2011

Lots of fun and interesting facts.

Nuts About Sketches - Week 178

Second week of September already... this year has flown by and the weeks keep disappearing.  In just a few months it's my birthday and then Christmas... ouch!!!

Here is this week's great double page sketch from Nuts About Sketches.

My layout is of the day Aaron went to Maholoholo with Papa & Granny in the July school holidays.

As there were soooooooooooo many great pics of all the birds and animals, I decided to make the top section of the sketch into a flap and put all my little extra pics underneath.

Now go to the blog and check out what the rest of the design team has done.