Google @ the fair

Wow the guys at Google are getting more and more inventive with their logos.... nearly missed this one today..... if you scroll over the logo you get an upclose view of an area and can see all the tiny details.... like this....

Such fun and so surprising when you open your broswer!  I just love these.... they really brighten my day.

Nuts About Sketches - Birthday Celebration 2

Our second sketch for the birthday celebration at Nuts About Sketches

My layout for this sketch

I saw all those little blocks and decided I need LOTS of pics.... perfect for a trip to the zoo photos.

Remember to get creating this week to stand a chance of winning an awesome prize.  You can link your layout to the post on the blog before the deadline.

Nuts About Sketches - Birthday Celebration 1

Today is Nuts About Sketches's THIRD birthday.... wow that is a lot of sketches to use for all our layouts.  To celebrate Shawn will be revealing a sketch a day for a whole week.  If you create layouts from these sketches(you need to email Shawn with them.... details found on the blog) you could win an awesome prize.

Here is the first sketch.

This is my layout based on this awesome sketch.

I was very chuffed with myself in creating this layout..... I altered the flowers from green to brown and heat-embossed them.  I did the same with the main title lettering which was animal print!  And look, I even stitched by hand!

Check out the blog for more inspiration.

A Royal Day

Today was a VERY special and REGAL day... the day that half the world was looking forward to.... the Royal Wedding.

THis is the Google pic for Google.co.uk in celebration of today's occassion... very cute.

Aaron & I spent the day glued to the tv.... we watched all the pomp and ceremony from 8:30 this morning till after 3.  This evening we had a rerun of it again..... went to a friend's house for supper and to watch a recording of the whole ceremony.... lovely to watch it a second time with friends.

So how did you spend your day of the Royal Wedding?  This one brought back lots of memories of Prince Charles and Princess Diana's wedding.... loved it all.

It's Freedm Day

Today's Google take on South Africa's Freedom Day.... so clever.

Google is fluttering today

Lots of pretty birds are appearing on Google today... all in celebration of some guy's birthday.... so I looked him up on Wikipedia...

John James Audubon (April 26, 1785 – January 27, 1851) was a French-American ornithologist, naturalist, hunter, and painter. He painted, catalogued, and described the birds of North America in a manner far superior to what had gone before. In his embrace of America and his outsized personality and achievements, he represented the new American people of the United States.

There you have it....

Nuts About Sketches - Week 158

Happy happy Easter everyone.  With yesterday being a holiday, I spent my day scrapping and didn't touch the pc too much so never got around to posting this week's sketch.... here it is now:

Seeing all that space for photos I had fun deciding on my layout.... so I choose to do lots of pics... I'm sure you won't be surprised!

I got the photos off of Beautiful Creatures Facebook page and then used the ones of us that were taken at the show, plus our ticket.... just a fun memory of a great afternoon.

Remember, the birthday celebration for Nuts About Sketches starts on Saturday... you are in for a real treat with lots of sketches and layouts.... get your scrapping cap on and you can start creating so that you can win the awesome prize.

Google surprises

Today is Good Friday.... the best day on the Christian calendar I think.... as it reminds us of the sacrifice that Jesus made for each one of us.  Salvation, Grace and Forgiveness.... absolute blessing.

And then.... I switch on the pc today and hit Google and what do I find.... that today is also Earth Day.  Do yourself a favour and go to Google the mouse over the pic and see it change.... lots of fun.

A month of kits

Besides my normal scrapping and doing my design team layouts, I decided that April would be the month to catch up on my kits that I have..... so I started by finding photos and then printing some and 1-2-3 started tackling one kit after another over the last few weeks.... and here are the results:

These are all by Scrapkits.

 

 

These two single pages were actually a double layout but I didn't really have any photos for it so turned it into singles.

 

This one has a flap with lots more pics underneath.

On top of all of these, I also did a class at the Scrapping Studio and made this awesome page:

The page actually has an extra page (2 double-sided flaps) which goes in the middle.... so that it looks like this:

I still have a few more that I hope to tackle in the next week or so, so be ready for another long report back in a couple of weeks.

Happy scrapping!

Nuts About Sketches - Week 157

Where did the week go?  It's already Tuesday and the first week of the second term of school is behind us.  In two sleeps Aaron has another week off school.... and I have a week off work.... all these lovely public holidays!

Today is also a milestone day in our family.... Keith (Daddy) is flying out to Canada tonight.... excited but anxious too.... it is his first trip back to Canada since his arrived in South Africa when he was 8.... and he is doing it all by himself.  Please keep him in your thoughts and prayers for the next two weeks.

Right back to business.... here is this week's awesome sketch from Nuts About Sketches:

My layout came together quite easily for this one.... with a few minor changes in photo sizes...

I also managed to only use SCRAPS to make this layout.... plus I made a dent in my brad stash too.... 1-2-3 layout done!

Make sure you check out the blog for the design team layouts on this sketch.... and don't forget the birthday celebrations coming up on the 30th of April... I've been working madly on getting layouts done for this so there will be lots to see then.