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.

Nuts About Sketches - Week 137

November has come to an end.... boy only a few days left till Christmas now!  This week's sketch is up on the Nuts About Sketches blog... and the design team have once again done a marvelous job... so be sure to check the layouts out.

In keeping with Christmas being around the corner I decided I had best get some of last year's Christmas photos scrapped.... here is my layout:

In my brother's household they have a variety of traditions that happen year in and year out... and as we were spending Christmas with them Aaron got included in all the activities.... in these pics they kids where making Christingles and then on Christmas Eve they read a poem all about them... I included a bit of the description about this as my journalling on the layout.

Nuts About Sketches - Week 136

Along with all the craziness of the last week there is still the fun of revealing the latest Nuts About Sketches sketch....

and my layout....

I had taken photos of each puzzle that Aaron built... and somehow wanted to include them all on this page.... so I ended up cutting them into puzzle shapes and voila... there they all are!

Check out the blog for yet another week of stunning designs.

Happy Birthday

TO ME!!!!!

Today is my day.... yippee.  I was sooooooo hoping to sleep in but noooooooooo..... Aaron woke me with the sweetest "Happy birthday my 42 year old Mommy" at 6:15 this morning.  After a snuggle or two he decided to make me breakfast in bed.... toast and coffee.... he did admit to burning the first slice of toast so had to do it over.... even put bovril on it for me... mmm yum.

This afternoon my Mom is taking Aaron and myself to see The Nutcraker ballet.... going to be such fun.

Nuts About Sketches - Week 135

Monday has come and gone and it's time to show you another sketch and layout from Nuts About Sketches

For my layout I turned the sketch 90 degrees.  I used a new range of paper from {Art from the Heart} designed by Tracy Schimper... this is such a fun and playful range.

There are some stunning design team layouts this week... so be sure to check out the Nuts About Sketches blog.