Tomorrow!

Hi everyone! Tomorrow is the 1st of July, and do you know what that means? Yes, I will be announcing the winner of my giveaway!! If you haven't got your entry in yet, make sure you go HERE to get your name in the draw :)

Tomorrow is also the Sassy Scrappers Blog Hop, where there will be some amazing prizes up for grabs. Here's a little sneak of the layout I'll be sharing with you tomorrow...


See you then!

Up 2 Mischief!

Good morning and welcome to all my new blog readers! It's been great to see such a fabulous response to my giveaway :) I hope you all had a fantastic weekend. I had a very relaxing weekend at home, hanging out with the kids, watching dvd's and doing lots of crafting. Lucky for me, Em is still craft obsessed and she loves to hang out with me in the craft room. She has been making all sorts of little creations, from scrapbook pages and off the pages items, to dolls clothes and bags. It's all so cute! She is keen to start her own blog, but I think she might be a bit young for that yet, but stay tuned for a 'Guest Blogger' post from her soon ;)

Seeing as I've been scrapping with lots of new Kaisercraft goodies, I can't share those layouts just yet, but I did finish of this layout that I started last weekend...


I'm still chipping away at my older stash of papers, and these ones are BoBunny Flutter Butter. Love the colours in this range!


Now how cute is this little Purple Pumpkin Gumnut Babies button? I've been dying to use that on a page!


And I love this Purple Pumpkin Green Heart button too...


Now, I don't know how well you can see it under there, but I've tucked a little handmade lace flower behind the papers there, and it was super quick and easy to make, and the best part - no sewing! I'll be popping up a little tutorial for those on here soon :)


Well, I've got a busy day of flower making ahead of me today, to get ready for the Purple Pumpkin sale next week, so I'd better get cracking. Hope you have a wonderful week!

Check it out - It's HUGE!!

As promised here is my HUGE GIVEAWAY! I had so much fun putting this lot together and I can't wait to send it on its way to its new home :)

Lets have a closer look...


So in this giveaway, the lucky winner will receive a set of Kaisercraft Magnolia Grove papers, with matching die cuts, stickers, stamps, rubons, pearls, flowers and ribbons, as well as some pearl trim in pink and white, strips of coordinating blank carnival tickets, and Purple Pumpkin buttons.


But wait! There's more...


The winner will also receive 2 6x6 Imaginisce paper pads, chipboard from A2Z Scraplets, 8 x 5m packs of twine, MORE Purple Pumpkin buttons and dyed doilies, Fancy Pants Journalling note book, My Minds Eye die cut and stickers, Prima Flower Vine, Kaisercraft Rhinestone word, Imaginisce Roly Rosies, Imaginisce Stickers, and an adhesive tape runner.


So how does that grab you?

Here's how you can be in the draw to WIN!!

1. Be a follower of this blog :)

2. I would really appreciate it if you could blog about this giveaway, and if you could post it on your facebook, that would be awesome!

3. Leave a comment on this post :)

This giveaway is open to ANYONE, ANYWHERE! Entries will close at midnight on the 30th of June, and the winner will be announced on the 1st of July.

GOOD LUCK!

A Layout & Exciting News!

Yes, I have more exciting news, but first of all I thought I would share a layout. This is the page that I submitted to the Kaisercraft design team call. I also submitted another page with my application, which was from one of their Saturday Sketches, but this one I made especially for the dt call...


I love that sweet photo of my babies! Not that they're babies anymore of course, they are huge! Jack especially is really starting to look like a young man, rather than just a boy these days, but he'll always be my baby boy to me :) :)


Apart from the corrugated cardboard and the paper doily, everything on this page is Kaisercraft.


I love the Sweet Nothings range, it was so easy to scrap with, and that wooden word...I LOVE it!


Now for my exciting news!!


I was thrilled to be asked to join the fabulous Sassy Scrappers design team! The other girls on the design team are all amazingly talented, so make sure you check out the DT announcement HERE.

I'm feeling very lucky and grateful to be starting on two wonderful design teams, so check in here tomorrow for a HUGE GIVEAWAY. See you then!

My Exciting News!!

I have just been BUSTING to share the news that I'm on the 2012-2013 Kaisercraft Design Team!!! I'm so excited!

At the end of last year, I finished up on the design teams I was on because I just wanted to scrap 'for me' for a while...but after a little bit, I found that I really missed being on a design team. So when the Kaisercraft design team call came up, I knew I just had to give it a go. I'm so happy to be on this fabulous design team, with so many talented scrappers! If you haven't seen the DT announcement, you can check it out HERE.

Now I'll be stalking the postie for my box of design team goodies. I can't wait!!!

Hope you have a great week!!

Today's the Day! - 12WBT

Yes, I've signed up for 12WBT!

I'm always 'planning' to go on a diet, and I'm always 'planning' to exercise, but I never actually do. But I bit the bullet, and actually signed up, and now I'm actually raring to go. Actually, I didn't realize quite how unfit I was, until I did the fitness test yesterday, and nearly coughed up a lung! And I only had to run 1 kilometer! I pretty much collapsed at the end of it, so that was a bit of a wake up call, and now I'm looking forward to being a lot healthier from now on :)

So before I go and do my workout DVD, I have a quick layout to share...


Another old photo, this time of Jack and my mum, when Jack was around 4. I used My Minds Eye papers, and some Purple Pumpkin buttons. Love those heart buttons!!



Well, it's workout time for me now!! Eeeek! Hope I make it through the whole hour or so!

Hope you have a great week!

Kaisercraft Saturday Sketch #3

Good morning! I should be busy working right now, but I just wanted to stop in quickly and share this layout I did for the Kaisercraft Saturday Sketch...


I was lucky enough to win last months sketch competition, and my prize was the gorgeous Magnolia Grove papers and embellishments. See that background paper? Well, it's got this gorgeous velvety texture, and it's so pretty that I almost didn't want to use it! But of course I did, and I love how this page turned out. That's one of my favourite photos of my favourite people - my parents and my babies :) :)


And here's the sketch I used...


I turned it upside down, but other than that, I kept it pretty much as it is :) I'm hoping I get a chance to finish off the other Kaisercraft Saturday sketches tonight, because this month they were all fabulous!!

Hope you have a great day!

Happy Place

Yes, I'm still here! We had a busy weekend, starting with a full day at the kids school fair on Saturday. I was working at the Trash & Treasure stall, so I hardly saw the kids all day, except for when they needed more money. I only took 4 photos that day, and they were on my phone, so I'm still trying to figure out how to get them onto my computer, lol. I've been doing LOADS of scrapping too, none of which I can share just yet, but I do have this little page that I whipped up the other day...


Just a quickie page, using an old, old photo of Jack. I think he was around 3 or 4 here. At our old house, we had one of those plastic cubbie things (actually, we had two joined together), that the kids just loved. Jack used to love putting a blanket on the top, and putting a chair in there, and he'd stay in there for ages by himself, reading the toy catalogues. He used to read the Thomas the Tank Engine catalogue for hours too, until it completely fell apart. So cute. I miss those days when the kids were tiny.


Well, I've got a busy day ahead of me, so I'd better stop procrastinating!!! Hope you have a great week!!

We're Back!

Our camping weekend was so much fun! The kids had an absolute ball, exploring, roasting marshmallows, and all that other fun camping stuff. The days were beautiful and sunny, but the nights were freezing cold. We all went to bed with about 4 layers of clothes on, but it was still hard to get warm. I really wasn't expecting it to be quite that cold! Once the sun came up it was just perfect though, and it was just the right temperature to go out hiking without getting too hot. I didn't take quite as many photos as I'd planned to, but there were around 230 all up, and here are just a few of them...


The kids were all rugged up here, for an early morning walk down the creek. It was so cold, and it looked like steam was coming up off the water!


Emily in her favourite spot, right in front of the fire. (and yes, they are Jack's hand me down pj's! I didn't want to take her nice girly pyjamas camping, and poor Em kept thinking people were giving her funny looks for wearing boys pj's!)


Climbing around the boulders at the underground creek. Such an interesting place, with water running underground, and then coming out in little waterfalls over the rocks.


Jack loves his cups of tea! I think he drank more tea than I did while we were camping!


This one makes me laugh. Em found this birds nest, and was planning to take it home to keep some of her toys in!


I love this one too. Jack had a huge meltdown on one of our big walks. He just sat down and refused to move...but he got over it eventually :)

Well, I have a mountain of smokey laundry to tackle, then hopefully some scrapping time later on. Hope you have a great week!

We're Going...

Camping this weekend! It's going to be freezing, but the kids CAN.NOT.WAIT!!! It's been years since we last went camping, so I'm looking forward to getting lots of nice outdoorsy photos, and making some wonderful memories with Jack and Em. And I've already got the PERFECT papers to go with the photos I'm going to take :) :)

Hope you have a great weekend!

Laugh - HBS May Sketch

Nearly Thursday already? How did that happen? Monday was a public holiday here, so I guess that always makes the week go fast. I've been so sick and fluey, it's amazing I know what day it is! The poor kids, when they went back to school on Tuesday, I sent them with morning tea only, and I'd written out their lunch bags for tuckshop. But it was only when I was heading out to pick them up in the afternoon that I suddenly realised that I had the wrong day - I was thinking it was Monday, not Tuesday! Tuckshop doesn't open on Tuesdays! The poor kidlets, they were starving when they got home! Although they both still had an apple in their lunch boxes, so that made me feel slightly less guilty. If they were hungry enough they would have eaten it, right?

So anyway, today I finally started to feel a little bit better, and finished off a layout that I started last week. This one is for the May sketch challenge at Handmade By Suzanne...


These are the types of photos I love the most. Not posed, not forced, just capturing the moment. I snapped this one while the kids were watching a magic show at Currumbin. I didn't really watch the show, but watched the kids faces instead. It was so funny, the looks of extreme surprise, with huge open mouths, and then bent over in fits of laughter. They loved it!


I used Bo Bunny Ad Lib papers, and the chipboard alphas are from Kaisercraft. And here's the sketch I used...


I actually stuck pretty much exactly to the sketch, which is a bit of a change for me, but it was just so easy to put together :)

Well, I've got a nice crafty day ahead of me tomorrow (after I do a bit of housework that is!), so hopefully I'll have some more layouts to share very soon :) :)

Thanks for stopping by!

And The Winner Is...

Thanks to everyone who stopped by on The Scrap Kitchen NSD Blog Hop! And a big hello to all my new followers :) I wish I could give everyone a prize, but there can only be one winner...



Congrats! Please email your address to samjackem@yahoo.com.au and I'll get your prize out to you :)

And to everyone else...stay tuned!! I have a HUGE giveaway coming up VERY SOON!

Future - BITW Challenge

Will you take a look at Jack in this photo? The poor little guy was trying sooooo hard to do a nice smile for his school photo, I think he must have almost strained something, lol! And he's really stretching his neck out there too! I still love it though, he was such a little cutie when he was in grade 1. Sometimes I almost can't believe he's now in grade 6!! Where did that time go?!


So this layout is for a word challenge at the moment at Bird is the Word. To use the word 'Future' in either your title or journalling. I want this page to be a sort of title page for Jack's grade 1 photos in his school album, so I have used the word 'future' in my journalling...


Did you spot those cute definition badges? They are from Greatest View, and I just love them! And the papers are all Bella, from a few different ranges. I've decided to keep the school albums very simple, so this was a nice quick page using up my scraps.


And I just have to post this photo on here too. This happens all the time...


Some of you might have seen on facebook a few weeks ago that a stray cat wandered into our home, and decided she might move in. From the very start she acted like she'd lived here all her life! We were never going to get a cat, because poor old Jack is super allergic to them, but this little critter has other ideas. Still not quite sure what to do with her, I know we shouldn't keep her, but who could resist that sweet face? And EVERY time I try to photograph a layout she jumps on top of it and just stares at me. A bit of a camera hog, I think! Or maybe scrapbook pages just feel nice to sit on, LOL!

Hope you have a great day!

It's Not Often...

It's not often that I get photos of the kids with their dad. It's even rarer that I get photos of the kids with me. I have plenty of photos of the kids with my mum and dad. And heaps of them with their friends, but I really need to make a point of getting into more photos with them, and snapping more pics of them with Patrick. I'm sure they'll really appreciate it someday.

So when I took this photo of the kids with their dad at a wedding we went to last year, I knew I just had to scrap it! They don't always see a lot of their dad, so this was just a really nice moment...


I used Kaisercraft Bonjour papers for this layout, as well as a heap of Kaisercraft flowers, but my favourite thing is that wooden 'Cherish' word. I love it! I got it at Spotlight the other day, and I think I just might have to duck down there and see what else they've got.


Well, it's the start of the month, so I've got a bunch of scrappy challenges I'm hoping to get stuck into. If you know of any great challenge/sketch sites, I'd love to hear about them!

Thanks for stopping by. Hope you're having a great week!

Kaisercraft Sketch #3 April

Happy Monday! Here's another layout from my weekend scrapping, this time for the Kaisercraft Saturday Sketch #3 April...


And here's the sketch...


I have to admit, when I first saw that sketch, I nearly put it in the 'too hard basket'. It looks so tricky! But I did a bit of a mirror image flip of the sketch, and changed some of the elements, and I love how it turned out. I used mostly Sweet Nothings, with a bit of Hunt & Gather for this layout, as well as some of the wooden flourishes, and an A2Z Scraplets chipboard word. Here's a few close ups...


I love that photo of Em. It was taken by a local photographer, and unfortunately it was one of the only decent photos from the whole shoot. I was so bummed, but at least there was one or two good pics.


Well, it's time for me to start making those school lunches. Hope you have a great week!

Weekend Scrapping - Kaisercraft Sketch

Well, I didn't get quite as much scrapping done this weekend as I had hoped, but I got 2 layouts completely done, and another 2 half finished. And I've got a pile of about 15 now waiting for journalling!

This layout is for the Kaisercraft Saturday sketch #4 April...


Love, love, LOVE that Fine & Sunny range! Although the weather here at the moment is dark and dreary, and very wet, so photographing this page was quite a challenge!

I just had to pinch some more of Em's googly eyes to pop onto the cute little sun again...


That girl of mine is skateboard crazy at the moment, and is constantly out on the road riding her 'Penny'. Luckily we live in a nice quiet little cul-de-sac, which is full of lots of little girls her age, so on weekends and after school, they all play out there. I love it because I can see her the whole time, but she thinks she is out doing her own thing. There are no boys in our street though, apart from a couple of toddlers, so poor Jack is a bit left out, although he does join in on the odd game of tiggy :)

Well, I suppose it's time for me to go and tidy up my scrapping desk so I've got room to maybe squeeze in another layout today. I'm a bit over all this rain, but it really is the perfect weather to do some scrapping!

Hope you had a great weekend!

Outback Spectacular!

Here's another of our photos from the Outback Spectacular. I just smile whenever I look at this photo, it was such a fun, happy night! This was taken right before we went in, and the kids were getting pretty excited!!


Em was determined to wear denim to the show, so she suited the cowboy 'theme', and I'm glad she did, because it goes just right with that hat, lol.

I used Bella papers on this page, and a cute Handmade Halo glass pebble for the centre of the chipboard circle. Here's a little close up...


And this is the sketch I used. This layout is a little bit different for me, but I really like how it turned out.


Well, I've got a scrappy weekend coming up, and hopefully I'll be able to finish a few more challenges before the month is up.

Hope your weekend is wonderful!