A weekend scrapping....bliss

Well actually I had Friday off s well, so three days in which I could scrap...as well as a few other things..it has been bliss!


The Little Scrap Book Shop held their first Cyber Crop for 2011 & I had to join in too..

This LO of Pete, Hayden & Madeline is based on a great sketch of Anna's, plus needed to use golden, summery colours....loved working with those I must admit...

This sketch of Dee's is fabulous isn't it!  I have made this one & will post tomorrow to a friend in the US who has had some bad luck lately...love these colours!

This LO is of little tiny Sally Eva Bartlett & was for Lauren's great challenge, to use a baby photo & some chipboard...so been waiting to scrap these gorgeous photos of Ali & Dan's first born, with piccies that Jadie took....was a sweet child!

Last but certainly not least is Belle's wonderful journalling challenge...where song lyrics were needed...

 

How lucky am I to have had time to scrap this weekend, with all that is going on around us!

Take care....Debi

The next page in the scrap...

Next page in 'My Place in the Sun', my back garden....my oasis...

This really is a lovely challenge....

Take care...

The beginnings of a scrap

What a brilliant idea of Jane Howden, from her blog Scrap Beginnings!!

This will be a year long project about my place in the sun....I really love the concept & have begun with my first page about my front green & shady garden. My steep driveway doesn't look to bad from this angle!!

Read all about it here & if you would like to join in as well, there is absolutely no pressure, & there will be even some little gifties!!


http://scrapbeginnings.blogspot.com/

Recipe...

Really dark green Bazzill, scrap of 7Gypsies pp, part of a gorgeous Tattered Inspirations Kit, Twiddleybitz chipboard fence, BG label & ribbons.

Take care...

Love Debi

My word for the year 2011 is FIND

 

Following Ali Edwards idea of an inspirational word for the year, Manon at ScrapBoutique proposed we work on a LO of that 'special' word.

I decided mine would be FIND for 2011, so had fun cutting out...oh how I love that now, & using a photo that my Jade took on New Years Eve with a couple of sparklers.

I wish to find the fun, the sparkle, the joy, the happiness, the time, the real me.

My glorious garden

 

Just a lovely little snippet from my back garden taken on 1/1/11 with my new Nikon D3000 camera.  

Hope you are all doing OK, & not in the path of the Brisbane River.  My children aren't luckily, but still one has had home flooding problems again....but not to the extent that it could be.

Take care....

All about me...

 

All these LO's are about me....

I am working though a wonderful Soulology Project at Soul Scrappers & LOVING it! Giving me lots to think about & challenge myself with....

Working 9 to 5

 

The movie poster inspiration for January at From Screen2Scrap is the 1980's flick '9 to 5'!

The Diva Demand is -

Photo from the 80's

Clock

Red title

So this is my little LO, of my dear little children in 1982....aren't they both super dooper! I even have a little Avon bath time clock bottle that was full of bubble bath, that I am pouring in! Perfect!

How about you have some fun & join in with us..hope to see you there!

http://screen2scrap.blogspot.com

Sandie's Place

 

So the year starts with a whirl & a flurry of scrapping, & over at Sandie's Place we are working on a scrapping challenge too.

This challenge was to use - rubons, & incorporate the letter R...well only succeeded a bit.

I have used rubons, my little rubon robins plus round red spots, some really nice regal corner rubons, 2 rosy red hearts, & royal red pearls.

But it was fun though!

Thanks Sandie!

1/1/11 - New Years Day scrapping

 

At Soul Scrappers, this challenge was set by Jami to scrap 'Who means the world to you' had me having fun with this new photo of Pete at Christmas.  It was a great challenge to start the new year off with.

This next LO was from the challenge of  Shazza's titled 'Scrap your Fear' which really was very thought provoking....mine is regarding time being on my side.....tingles down my backbone thinking of it! I used oddish colours with a B & W photo to achieve that 'uncomfortable' look. That was how I was feeling.

Then Marisa's challenge of  'What I Can Not Do Without' proved interesting too.  Well I really cannot do without the internet now, my life blood so to speak :) but thought a LO of a wireless modem seemed a bit boring, so I choose my glorious garden.  Thought of us leaving this home we built 16 years ago & building or buying again are passing through our heads, & it is my garden is what I would miss.  Oh I would take cuttings, & slips & dig up some to take but all the same, I would miss the 'established' feel of it.

Hope you have a wonderfully happy & scrappy year.

New Year - New ARTastic Challenge Blog inspiration

 

What a way to start the year off, but with a brilliant inspiration at ARTastic!

Shelee & Peggy both proposed the Renoir classic 'Luncheon of the Boating Party' for January, & although I choose the christmas colour theme,  it still has all the elements needed for Diva Demand

1. Scrap a celebration

2. More than 3 people

3. Food in the photo

This is a piccie of Pete's Trivia team ' NorfolknChance', a group of terrific friends that play weekly at the Trivia I run with Dave Ash.  I found these elf  & santa suits & we now wear them each Christmas!

It would be great if you joined in with a LO of your own.  Hope to see you there!!

http://artasticchallengeblog.blogspot.com 

Last day of 2011

Isn't time an amazing thing!

Here we are at the end of 2010 & already the calendar is filling for 2011...I think it will be a very happy & scrappy year for me.

Here is a quick LO that I worked on in a couple of hours while our lovely visitors were out...just a lazy ride down the Kalang River...

And 4 baby cards I worked on too, using my new Peter Rabbit stamps...I have always loved Beatrix Potter & was so happy to find these & at a bargain price too! Must duck out to Spotlight today & grab some for Shelee too.


Best wishes to you all, & hope you find something beautiful in what you do.

We will open the book.  Its pages are blank.  We are going to put words on them ourselves.  The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year's Day.  ~Edith Lovejoy Pierce

GLEE Club at Soul Scrappers

Soul Scrappers is running a challenge series based on GLEE Club - that magic show. 


Lots of great challenges, quizzes - oh you know me well!, competitions and best of all lots of great prizes (over $500 worth of prizes). Come on over and check it out here.....

GLEE Club officially starts on the 22nd January 2011, but you can earn some Early Bird points right now by getting in early.


Note - If any of my lovely followers join GLEE Club at Soul Scrappers & participate in at least 3 challenges you will receive a RAK prize from me!  


How about it??

A Very Merry Christmas to You

I want to wish you all a wonderful, wonderful Christmas Day, a brilliant holiday time & a special family time too.

Love to you all,  xxxxxxxxx

December CC at LSBS

 Last weekend saw a few LO's for the December CC at LSBS...& I must admit I was able to do a few, & it was great in this hussle & bustle time of our Christmas season to do my crafting..

To start with a little card I made my darling daughter.....

My LO using 'Joy' in my little sweeties cooking..

My kitty cat Scuzzi....she is a wonderful girl!

 And a LO of a happy but cold Melbourne day, waiting for a tram with Pete....

Til next time.....keep happy!

12 Days of Christmas.........

I just cannot believe my luck.....I have won a prize in the Imaginisce 12 Days of Christmas Blog Hop.....wooooo hoooooo

I am so fortunate!! What a special treat!

December 6 - Fifth Day of Christmas

Prize: The Brand New ibond and the Complete Cottage Christmas Collection

And the winner is...

  

Sweet treats!!

 

Christmas comes but once a year....yay! And so I cook...I love it!!

I have been madly making all sorts of little edible treats & so far the choice has been - Mini Plum Puddings, Almond & Apricot Shortbread drizzled with white or dark chocolate, Mini Fruit & Nut cakes, Rocky Road, Turkish Delight & Walnut  & Ginger Bark, Almond Blondies....

A slab of the Bark with Turkish Delight & Ginger, before I broke I into pieces, with Mini Plum Puddings in the background.

Hope you are enjoying this lead up to Christmas. I love it!

The long CC

At LSBS they have been running a CC that has taken a few weeks...& it has been a great idea, so I have joined in with these...

I was fortunate to have won with my little Dingle LO...

I love this photo of Jade, so I have worked on another LO of her in the fascinator...

And here she is on the golf course at Coolum...relaxed & happy!

Margs 'bits & pieces' feature!!

Til next time....

The Mystical Nativity

What a wonderful inspiration for December at ARTastic!

It is a very intricate painting my Botticelli...& I really love it, now that I have spent a great deal of time looking at it...

So here is mine...titled Our English Christmas, & I have credited dear Melinda for her very clever little twig idea...

What a profound painting this was of Botticelli!! Full of colour & wings & love, & that is what I have used as my inspiration.

I have scrapped a photo of my man & lovely daughter at Christmas, a few years ago when we visited England.  Our daughter was working over there & having never travelled OS it gave us the 'push' to go. It was freezing cold, but yet so english & so lovely, we had a marvellous time!!

I have included all the criteria I believe & enjoyed doing so I might add! I have made a stable out of twigs off a tree in my garden, & that was inspiration from my scrapping friend Melinda Spinks. I have hand cut 2 little angels, & embossed some chippie pieces just to help set the scene.  I had fun sanding the Core-dinations cardstock, to give a mottled effect & ended up with a rustic, yet precise LO.

Thanks for stopping by.... love