Scrap Mixers

Here is a new challenge site I found.... it's a new concept and really sounds like fun. Why not give it a try too.... shhh can't spill all the beans just yet.

http://scrapmixers.blogspot.nl/

Looking forward to a year of creativity.

Goodbye to 2015

The year is heading for it's end... and in one way I can't say that I am sorry to see it go. It's been a tough year for our family health wise but also a good year... we have lots to be thankful for

This year started off on the right foot... lets see if we can recap:

January
Visit with the family from Canada
Aaron starts high school

February
Scout camp for Aaron
Mom, Aaron & I participated in the Cansa shavathon

March
Mom & I went to Wyndford for a weekend

April
School camp for Aaron
Hot air balloon trip for Mom & I - absolutely awesome experience

May
Theresa & I went to the Midlands scrap... wonderful creative weekend away

June
Family weekend away at Magalies Park, including a ride in the Harties cable car

July
The start of the ouch.... broke my sewing machine needle in my finger
Aaron got pneumonia
Mom fell and broke her hip
Scrapping at Helderfontein with Theresa

August
Keith went to Canada
Mom recuperating from her hip op
Lots of theatre shows
Another weekend at Magalies Park and a hot air balloon trip for me and Aaron - breathtaking
Began training a new lady to take over my job while I will be on sick leave in Oct... hectic!

Sept
Family from Qatar and Cape Town visiting and celebrating Mom's 75th birthday
My hysterectomy

Oct
recovering from surgery at home (but worked in between)
Keith's birthday

Nov
A week trip to Wynford for Mom & I... perfect place to recuperate
My birthday - and work year end function at Madam Zingara
Aaron's birthday
Aaron's bunny died suddenly

Dec
Finished school year... end of Grade 8
Family holiday in Scottburgh
Bumper bashing and back spasm
Christmas - a quiet affair
Lots of physio
Keith finally finishing the new bedroom extension


Phew glad that's all behind us. A few other highlights include:
Lots of scrapping classes done with Jowilna.... not too many pages 100% completed this year but I did learn lots.
Did many hours of overtime and private work which helps to pay for my scrapbooking
Read over 60 books this year


So now it's on to the new year... here's hoping that 2016 will be good year, full of lots of blessing and adventure.

Scrapbook Challenges - Sketch 462

I seem to have missed posting this one... gulp... only by like 3 months (today being the end of March 2016)! Guess that's why a catchup session is good....

Remember, you can always check out the blog to see more layouts with the sketches.

Scrapbook Challenges - Sketch 461

Can you believe it's already a week into December? Wow. Christmas is around the corner and 2016 is just a little further... soon we will start the count down to the next holiday. BUT for now, I am just trying to get through this week before the holiday starts. Thankfully I got to do some scrapping yesterday so feel a bit more relaxed.

This layout is about my niece, from a few years back.... been meaning to scrap these pics forever but couldn't get it to work. This sketch was perfect for them.

Check out the blog for some more ideas with this sketch.

Scrapbook Challenges - Sketch 460

Where to start? so much happening in my little brain right this moment that I think I am going to explode! Emotions running from happy (birthday weekend) to sad (one of our bunnies just died) to absolute frustration and nearly anger (waiting for my new cell phone to be delivered after a month of delays!)..... grrrrr. But I can also add very thankful to the list to for the five nights of rain that we had last week.

I am also so very busy at work and with my private job that as times I don't know whether I am coming or going. At least the school year is now over, besides going to fetch the report sometime in December... Aaron wrote his last exams today.

I sure am hoping that sometime in the not toooooo distant future I will actually get some quality me-time and be able to scrap up a storm. At least I did do that just before the end of my sick leave so I can show you this week's layout for the sketch reveal.

This is another page from our boat cruise for last year. I made the rays by simply laying a scrap piece of paper on my background and then drawing in the sections I wanted. Cut this up and then cut out each section in the pattern paper. I cut red strips which I then just laid over the joints and hey presto a fun page put together. I added in the extra stickers and such off  the sticker sheet that came with the range of paper that I used.

Check out some more ideas on the blog.

Scrapbook Challenges - Flashback Friday Sketch #225

Wow what a weekend...started with my birthday on Friday... had an awesome day with our work year end function at Madam Zingara. Yesterday we went to the Joburg Theatre for the pantomime of Sleeping Beauty... what a great show. Today we all went out for lunch to celebrate both mine and Aaron's birthdays. Truly a packed weekend. So needless to say I never got around to posting my layout for Friday's reveal, so here it is now.

I really had fun creating this page. I used a page from the Couture Creations collection that I won a few months back for my background. Firstly I made an autumn coloured piece of paper with a variety of inks from which I diecut a few trees. I then used the negative of this to shadow ink the tree in green along the bottom of my page, before pasting the diecuts over this. Was actually quite chuffed with the end result.

There are once again more pages to see on the blog, so go check it out.

Scrapbook Challenges - Sketch 459

It's two days to my birthday.... slowly getting excited... for no apparent reason than it's my day.... oh and my work are treating us to Madam Zingara on that day too for our year end function... so typically no work! hehe.

I decided with a few of the sketches that I am doing this month to tackle the leftover photos from our boat trip last year... slowly working through them and crossing the layouts off.

To make my photos work for the sketch I rotated it 90 degrees and then replaced the pretty flowers with cogs to tie in the with games Aaron was playing.

Check out the blog for some more inspiration on this sketch.

Scrapbook Challenges - Sketch 458

Phew six weeks of six leave have now come and gone. Today I went back to work. Doc gave me the all clear yesterday. The few aches and pains and tiredness I still get will eventually subside... just need to keep taking it one day at a time and get over a major op. I hope to find some more time soon to scrap... a couple of busy weekends coming up but hopefully I can squeeze in a few hours of me time.

This page is from our boat trip last year... the teens were supposed to meet morning, afternoon and night for activities but due to the scrappers having commandeered the same venue, they only met at night... which meant VERY late nights for Aaron but he did seem to enjoy it.

Check out this week's blog post to see some more layouts with the sketch.

Scrapbook Challenges - Flashback Friday Sketch 232

I was away last week at Wyndford... oh what bliss. Got back midafternoon on Friday but just didn't feel up to blogging (Sorry!). So better late than never, here is my page that I did for the Flashback Friday post, which by the way, is of a sunbird taken at Wyndford in 2014!

There are lots more ideas to see on the blog too.

Scrapbook Challenges - Sketch 457

Well this is my last week of sick leave but also in a way my best... Mom and I are at Wyndford for the week... rest and no worries about anything with lots of sightseeing thrown in.

I managed to scrap LOTS on Friday... did all my November DT commitments in one day... scrapped six pages. This one is one of them:

As I am away from my blog, I can't link to the actual post, but remember you can find this sketch on the blog and see what the rest of the team are doing. (link updated!)