I'm actually getting my craft on!

Well over the Easter long weekend I thought I would play along with the Cyber Crop over at Scrapbooking from Scratch.  They are setting 3 challenges a day for the 4 days.  I have decided to scrap mostly wedding photos as I would love to get this album completed!  Today I managed to procrastinate all my uni work and complete the 3 challenges set (plus the bonus one).  We are going away to the Coast next weekend so I really do need to find some time to study this weekend.  Might have to listen to some lectures before bed tonight!  Here are my creations.

 This was for the bonus challenge.  You just needed to scrap a page with the quote "Be Yourself....everyone else is taken".  I just used scraps of paper (I actually got them out of the bin that's in my scrap room) and lots of buttons.  And you still cant tell that I have used any of the buttons.  I have way too many!!  My inspiration behind this page was from the Video that Paige Evans put on her blog.  I seriously LOVE her work!!

 This was the colour challenge.  The colour combination was Green, Pink and Red.  I used lots of my old Kaisercraft 6x6 paper pads and more of my buttons.  I also used a cut from my Cameo to mist the 'You are my sunshine' onto the paper.  I love this picture of X......he is ALWAYS pulling the things out of the kitchen cupboard....it drives us crazy.  Really hope he grows out of this soon.

 This was a sketch challenge.  I left this one pretty plan and didn't really add all that many embellishments   I have used mostly Dear Lizzy papers and just one Cosmo Cricket one.  I really do love the pictures of my nieces on my wedding day. They looked gorgeous!

This was the quote challenge.  We needed to use the quote "Life is Good".  I cut it out on my cameo.  Didn't really add much to this either.....think with the misted background.  I do have to say though that Life is definitely good with these two boys in my life!

Thanks for looking at my latest creations.  I hope that you have a wonderful Easter and that you get some craft time as well.

I love reading blogs and this is how I spend most of my down time after work each night (when X has gone to bed of course). And I have many blogs that I just adore and check almost daily to see if a new post is up.  While browsing one of my favs the other day Our Girly World, I stumbled across a sketch challenge!!  I thought it looked fun and that I would give it a go.  It was fun to scrap a wedding picture!

I know it doesnt look that much like the sketch......I love doing sketch challenges but then question after I have made the page how much it is similar!  ha ha ha  Thanks for the wonderful challenge.....and thanks for motivating me to scrap a wedding picture!!  :) 

Sorry the picture is crooked - I took it on my phone!!

I have been busy.....

.......doing this:

 

 

It turns out, Weddings are extremely time consuming (and especially when you have as much bad luck as we did......the worst luck pre wedding lead up means the best luck in a marriage right??) and take up every single waking moment!  We got married on October 13th and it was a perfect day.  I am IN LOVE with my professional photos, and cant wait to scrap them.

I have slowly started to create some more scrapbook pages, so I will share them next time!  

In other news.....I am going to be studying next year!!  Working full time, being a mum AND studying....I think I have gone mad!!  Hopefully it all works out!

A Gorgeous Giveaway

Well I'm a bit late to the party (better late than never though) but here is a wonderful giveaway from a truly gorgeous lady!! Head over to Maria's Blog......trust me you will NOT be disappointed (her work is AMAZING).I will be back to post shortly with some pictures from my hectic life at the moment!!

Our local Show

Today was our local show!! We took X and went with some friends!! We had a great day!! They have a little boy A who is only 3 weeks younger than X so we get together regularly for playdates! The boys loved the farm animals in the petting zoo and all the excitement of Sideshow Alley! It was so nice to go to the show with kids - even though they are only 8 months old!! It will be crazy next year, when they can actually ask for things!

Here are some photos that I took to remember the day!!

They had all these cool dinosaurs that X just couldn't take his eyes off!!

Loving all the farm animals. He wasn't scared AT ALL! Just wanted to touch and pat everything!

Loved sitting on the display tractor! Maybe he will be a farmer when he grows up?? ha ha ha



He loved the little tractors too.....although not as much as the big one!! :)



His first go of putting the balls in (this case) the duck!! He needed a lot of help from his dad, as he just wanted to eat the balls!



Playing with his prize. I love this picture of my two boys at the show!! Love them to bits!!

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Daring you to Scrap Entry

Well I have completed another challenge!! YAY!! This one was for Daring You to Scrap. This was lots of fun and I really enjoyed making this page (notice a theme here....photo strip photos, misting and lots of photos of X are a few of my favourite things at the moment).

The criteria this month was to use 'old school photos' such as Photo Strips or Polaroids! I am loving photo strips at the moment as I am getting to use all the 'out take' photos of X. In these photos we had a mini photo shoot in the back yard to show off his first mohawk!! I just think it was one of the cutest things ever!!!

Thanks for stopping by!

This page was actually created using one of the AWESOME kits from Polly Scrap Kits. Love the kits there!! :)

This page also featured a super cute robot button from KittyRobot!! Love it!!

123 Challenges

I actually scrapped this month.....and thought that I would enter some of the awesome challenge sites that I always look at and say that I will enter....but never do!! Over at 123 Challenge the March Challenge was:

Colour - Metallic Blue (I painted the numbers with blue paint and Kindy Glitzed over the top, the thread used is a metallic blue, added some sparkly and shiny brads and jewels, I also made a dark blue flower out of satin material, used blue glimmer mist and also coloured in some pearls so that they were shiny blues as well)


Word - 123 (used in my title)

Technique/Embellishment - use something organic (I used wooden letter tiles)


Of course I have scrapped the adorable Mr X - I just cant seem to scrap anyone or anything else at the moment!! We spent the weekend in Brisbane a few weeks ago and we went to the Brisbane Museum and I just wanted to get a nice picture of X to remember the day, although there was NO WAY he was going to cooperate.....so unfortunately what you see, really were the best photos we got of him. ha ha ha I am loving photo strips at the moment - so I have printed some out and used these rather than bigger photos!

Thanks for visiting!!