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WOW it seems sooooo long since my last post - only been back at work for two weeks and it feels like I never took any leave. One of the ladies in the office "broke her finger" and is now off for 6-8 weeks - so the rest of our team has had to carry her work load, which has sort of made it extremely difficult to come home and find some time to scrap. I had such a great holiday - we didn't go away but I stayed at home with girls and we really rested well, got heaps of scrapping done,, and spent most days with Kelly, Taiga & Raven. I tell you Kelly & I are almost as bad as Emma & Taiga and we just need to see each other every day and do a little SCRAP TALKING, catching up seeing what Kelly's latest LO"s are. .
I have managed to complete the Dare 14 from NZ Dares, where you had to use circles to inspire a LO. I have used the Urban Lilly range of PP, Heidi Swapp Plastic Letters, plus some rings from kelly, and some buttons to brighten it up.


i have also done a couple of the Embellished Challenges with Kelly and completed this LO of "My New SHoes" for their monthly sketch challenge, I used the new Flourish stamps which I got from
Lisa as being the first person to register on her site - which was extremely generous of Lisa. I read a couple of weeks back on Nic Howard's blog how to use beads on your LO - so I have tried it on the flourish's which I stamped on the bottom, just to give it a bit of Dimension.

Well that's all for tonight, I did tell Kelly that I wanted to do some scrapping tonight, so I am going to sign off now and get off the net otherwise I will not scrap.........

A Couple of new LO's

Friday Night I challenged Lara & Lesley to do a Lo of their children with the chicked pox as Lara's children have it at the moment, so here is my Lo which I have created relating to the theme. I have used all BASIC GREY BLUSH RANGE which I got from my January Kit over at Meg's. - I really love the way it came out, especially with the circle idea. kelly was saying that she find it annoying with the HS letters which are suppose to be adhesive but aren't - I have found that all the L/C letters seem to have no adhesive on them,

Taiga came for a sleepover last night, phew they must be nackered today, because they finally got to sleep aroun 10h30 last night and that was after I sent DH in to tell them to go to bed because they were chattering away. Then around 06am this morning I heard Emma calling Taiga to wake up - LOL - It' was Taiga's 5th birthday party today and I had promised Kelly that I would not get them to bed late - WELL they had one over me - needless to say I think they will both be in bed by 8pm
tonight fast asleep. Just before they went to bed, I took a couple of pic's of them (as a scrapping MUM would) and quickly did this LO last night - I have used BAZZILL CARDSTOCK, Bazziil Flowers, and some heidi Swapp Plastic letters, the Frame is homemade covered in Creative Imaginations paper. I have stiched around the edges and then did my journalling around that. I used the BLUE VERSA COLOUR INk to ink the background as I could not find quite the right paper to put behind the photo's.


thanks for looking.

Lisa's January Challenge

Lisa has started the first challenge on the new forum. You need to use a clock in your challenge and use the work TIME on your LO. Here is my take on this challenge :-

Here is my challenge which I did for my eldest daughter Abigail which is 11 and starts intermediate this year - TIME FOR CHANGE"

Products used,
PP - BASIC GREY BLUSH RANGE
LETTERS - HEIDI SWAPP NEWSPRINT - CHOCOLATE BROWN
CLOCK - STICKAPPOTOMUS in a CHERRY ARTE TAG which I have inked with three different colours of Versa Colour ie. BROWN, PINECONE AND PINK
Ribbons - MAYA ROAD
Flourish - Borrowed the stamp from Kelly - I think it's Autum Leaves not sure though
Ric Rac - Paper

HIDDEN JOURNALLING READS :-[/b][/u][i]Dearest Abigail - It's time for MUM to accept that your'e growing up now, you will have lots of new changes in 2007, starting intermediate, on the verge of becoming a teenager, a whole new set of friends, just always remember that MUM is always here for you - no matter what or how embarrasing it might be!

I must just say that I had soooo much fun with girls during the holidays, we went to the beach & swimming almost everyday. It was back to work & the normal way of life on Monday which was pretty YUCKY!!!!!! Kelly & I spent almost everyday together, and we got lots of scrapping done, I did some of the challenges on the Embellished Forum which was pretty Cool but KELLY the scrapping queen that she is, WON the cyber crop challenge - WAY TO GO KELLY - your LO's were stunning.

Janine's 12 Day Challenge (Continued)

All the fun & excitement of Christmas is now over and I have been scrapping up a storm, managed to finish all my LO's for Janine's Challenge.

"FAMILY FEAST" - Challenge # 2< I made my very first HAM ever, and my DH & DD thought I would crazy taking a photo shoot of the ham, but they just don't understand how proud I am of having made it. Tyson enjoyed the bone on Christmas day.

CHRISTMAS EVE - Challenge 11 was spent with my very good friends, and we had our Christmas Eve dinner with them. I have done the LO sort of like a Colour Blocking theme however instead of using paper for the colour blocking I have used the Rubons.

Next was Christmas Day Challenge # 10 - I have done two LO's of Christmas Day, one of the morning where Santa had left all the pressies and the other where the girls were playing with their new toys. The day was spent just with our family together, we had a late breakfast followed by a couple of games with the girls, Abigail got the new CSI game which was quite alot of fun, and Emma got a Polly Pocket Game. Emma also absolutely loved her WHITE BOARD, she says that she wants to be a teacher when she grows up and the most important gift she got was her "POINTER". Such a little angel.

DAD got a hammock from the ladies at work, and put it up, Abigail decided to have a read of her Magazine in the sun outside on Boxing Day, I managed to capture this and created my LAZY SUMMER Days LO for Challenge # 7. - I just love the way this one has come out, I got the vellum flowers for Christmas from Eve (our special friend), and paint around the sides , I even wrote the word "LAZY" out in my very own handwriting - not bad I thought.

Challenge # 12 - all the things I'm Thankful For.... this one was pretty easy - I have used 12 presents / hearts as embellishments and 12 pieces of cardstock cut out for the wording / journalling.

Just wanted to Thank Janine for this great Challenge, I had alot of fun coming up with new ways to creating LO's and it's been awesome having a look at everyone's LO's - I hope you all had a very MERRY CHRISTMAS, and I wish you all the very best for 2007.

laters.

Janine's Challenges - some more LO

Well finally the 15th arrived - I went to buy our Christmas Tree from a place just down the road from work (near Villa Maria out by Auckland Airport), and only for $25.00 what a bargin./.....

Friday afternoon, left work an hour early to go and sneak some Christmas shopping in before picking the girls up from school - WOW having a Christmas List makes it soooo much easier - I managed to get & out of Botany within half an hour and all my Christmas shopping was done, quickly popped home to drop all the pressie's off and managed to get to school 10 mins early for the girls - RECORD TIMING......
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After picking the girls up we went to do the monthly grocery shop and got home around 5pm, afterwhich the girls quickly helped put all those groceries away so they could start decorating the tree. I took loads of pic's but only managed to use five.... here's my take on CHALLENGE # 1 Janine's challenge "The first challenge is around the Christmas Tree

I've used the papers which I bought at Lisa's - the got the SEI Doodley -Doo Holiday collection - it was well work it, comes with 12 double sided cardstock, two loads of lettering stickers, 1 page of diecuts and 1 page of stickers plus some fuzzy iron on transfer's which are really YUMMY.

I scrapped till 1am on Friday night and managed to complete CHALLENGE # 6 as well which was Emma's 1st School Concert held on Tuesday 12th December. It was rather nice to see a concert which does not have your normal Christmassy themes and her class decided to do a dance of the "5 speckled Frogs" which was absolutely adorable. Have used a couple of rubons, some of those YUMMY KI Memory Ponseitta's from (SBO) and just a few odds of ends for this LO



Saturday morning Emma woke up at the crack of dawn, and made her room was nice & tidy as Saturday was the day at Taiga was coming over for a play - Emma was sooo excited and just could not wait, we collected taiga around 10h15am and the two girls played & played and did a couple of crafty things, and just had loads of fun. They decided that they wanted a sleep over, so we walked over to Kelly's to ask but unfortunately Taiga had her someone coming over - nevertheless - the sleepover was postoned until the Holidays. Luckily for me both girls are used to having their photo's taken and I managed to get some really cute shots of the girls, I have decided to make "Making New Friends" as CHALLENGE # 8. I used the scrummy SEI Velvet paper which was used extremely sparingly - simply because it's sooo YUMMY - cannot waste it at all, the letters are from the SEI Doodley-Doo Holiday range and some flowers & little embellishments. The hidden journalling reads "Emma & Taiga met through MUM & KELLY's on-line scrapping.... Taiga came for a play and they played the whole day without on argument or fight - hopfully this will be the beginning of a very long friendship"

The last challenge which I have completed is the
CHALLENGE # 9 - Keeping in Touch - I have used the Photo which was the one we picked for our Christmas Cards, used all the SEI Doodley Doo Holiday range together with some wonderul Poinsetta Flowers and a little bit of bling.


Well that's all the scrapping I've done this weekend, plan to do the rest next week, to everyone who reads my BLOG, I wish you a wonderful Christmas and a very very Happy new year.......

A Big Thank You

Just wanted to say a BIG Thank You to Janine for the lovely challenge, the RAK which I won on Sat and hard work you have put in creating this challenge it is going to be a great deal of fun for everyone entering, NOT TO MENTION THE YUMMY PRIZE......

I am soooo excited to start the rest of my challenges, I popped over at Lisa to get some more Christmas Papers. WOW for those of you who are local you have to stop buy, Lisa has some really nice papers & lots of Christmas Embellishments.

I was soo exicted when I got home, I called Kelly to rush over and have a look at all the papers - Like a true scrapper on a rampage, Kely was there within minutes of my call - SCRAPPER COMING THROUGH......

Emma & Taiga hit it off and hopefully will be having a play date on Saturday,(I see a photo opportunity arising) and poor little Raven the girls kept locking him out of Emma's Room, but at least he enjoyed Tyson's company (our little BIG JACK RUSSEL) who left licking on the face.

I also bought my first subscription for the Monthly Packs over at Megs - I just simply couldn't resist the BLUSH Papers, looks soooooo cool, and have you seen those YUMMY Bazzil Cardstocks..... WOW WOW WOw...

Today is our 15th Anniversay, yes 15 wonderful years together, to Richard my darling husband - I love you with all my heart and I cannot wait for the next 15 and more years together. You are my rock and my best friend,

Anyway, need to get back to work now... laters

SS Arrived!!!!

A very big thank you to my Secret Santa for this lovely surprise I received in the mail today, I love the rubons, they are going to be just perfect for Janine Challenge..... Thank you Thank You - and I wish you a very very Merry Christmas