Hop hop hop....

around Blog world with me and Scrapbook Challenges

I joined this website in the last week or so and discovered a whole new world of sketches (yippee!) and challenges.  This weekend of course is "National Scrapbook Day" in USA but it's celebrated worldwide too... and I'll be at the Mega Scrap Day tomorrow with Scrapping Studio.... can't wait.  But for the rest of the weekend I will be hopping around on this blog hop.... so come join in the fun.


The blog hop starts on Pamela's blog where you can also win a giveaway.
Then if you go to the Hop On board you can find members blogs to hop too too (I will be there!)

And lastly I will be scrapping this sketch this weekend for this hop

EDITED.... 2/05/2010.... here is my layout for this sketch challenge (I will upload a clearer one once scanned)

So head over to Scrapbook Challenges, sign up and say that I invited you.  Most importantly.... HAVE FUN!

I did it again.....

WIN that is! hehehe.... remember this post about the Summer Challenge at In2Crafts?  Well I WON!  yippee.... so next time I tell you about a competition.... ENTER it too and maybe you could win!

And what did I win?  not too sure... but it's a selection of scrapping goodies.... will have to wait for the postman.

Sketches: Creatively Yours...

The next sketch and layouts are up ... go check them out here and see what the other design team members did.... plus there is an extra special assignment.

long weekend

The weekend is now a  memory of the past.  I wanted to do L-O-T-S of scrapping but ended up having to be IT specialist for two days for my Dad.... trying very hard to get his PC up and running again (unfortunately the modem is giving us hassles!). What with doing washing and ironing too and also a bit of reading and church on Sunday morning, I didn't scrap nearly as much as I had hoped to.... but here are the ones that I did do...

A Jenni Bowlin layout from ISE 2008

A pre-made layout from last year's Scrapping Studio's Mega Scrap Day

Two kits from Scrapping Studio

And then there was the layout in the previous post for Scrap-A-Tale's challenge, on for my sketch design team submission for May (coming soon) and finally this one.....

A Candice Greenway inspired layout....

I've ALWAYS said that one day I want to scraplift a "Candice" layout.... and now I have ... with a few twists.  I'm sooooooooo chuffed with how it turned out.  This was done for my final challenge over at Scraptivity.

And so that was all the layouts I made this long weekend... busy me!

Scrap-a-tale Challenge 2

When I saw the sketch for the challenge this month at Scrap-A-Tale I just knew I had to enter... and here is my layout....

Look at the stars

with Google today!

Okay maybe we will have a bit of a problem today doing this as it is RAINING! and oh so cold... brrr.... autumn came and went and now it's a wet winters day.... not nice!  But at least it's Saturday and we can stay home.

Earth Day

It's Earth Day today and of course Google are in on it too!

So don't forget to do your bit today towards saving our planet.

Some more to show you

On Saturday my friend Theresa came over to scrap... she did wonders... two doubles half finished and two singles completed.  In all that time I barely managed to do 3 singles - the last two took about 1/2 an hour but the first one.... boy did I battle to do it!  And the reason being.... I didn't have a sketch, a plan or nothing!  It was my layout for the spring challenge at Scraptivity...

We had to use a "recipe" to do the layout and once I was finished I was very chuffed with it... just took forever to put together... hehehe

This is what we had to do.... scrap using SPRING:

For the "S", please use either " Shimmery Paint " or "stamping":
For the "P", please use a "printers tray" or "pink":
For the "R", please use "red" or "rub-ons":
For the "I", please use "ink" or "inchies":
For the "N", please use nine of something. It can be anything! But, certainly nine beads could be easy to include.
Finally, for the "G", please use "glitter" or "gaffer tape". And, if those are not in your stash, and you're unable to purchase any of the tremendous kits shown here in time, you may use "green":

So I used stamping, pink, rub-ons, ink, nine circles and green.... quite please with the results.

I then made these two pages:

And just after Theresa left, I managed to do another layout...

So four more done of my 2008 year layouts.... and I'm ahead of schedule again on my layout-a-day goal... good feeling all round.

Commenting DOES pay off

Come on ladies... it really does pay off to leave comments on the blogs you read!

I've just WON again.... just by leaving a comment .... here.... hehehe again (!) I was the only ONE who did so the prize is all mine!

Sketches: Creatively Yours... cards

I don't go for making cards as a rule (besides all those card kits I made for Aaron's school for valentines, that is!)... so I didn't create one for the design team.... but you can check out the sketch and examples here.