First challenges for 2011

You must be thinking Wow 2 posts in 2 days.
Well Hubby is at work and i'm on my own (DD1 is a sleep in the family room) so i have been doing some scrapping. Oh yes, i nearly fell off my chair when i finished the LO too.
so here are what i have done in the last to days.

The first two are the back and front of The 52 question challenge that Marie at Artistic Document is holding. Each Sunday she will be posting a question and the criteria for each tag. This first Question is What i wish for in 2011 (not a resolution). the criteria was Collage. So the first pic shows the back and my answer.



this second Pic shows the front and the question.

I used BasicGrey's Chablis form the Periphery range on the front and back and Kaiser Cle from the Le Chateau range, back and front. I also used Kaiser's key, lace and flowers on the front from the Devonshire collection embellishment pack. the flower on the back i made using T!m Holtz's Tattered flowers die and paper from an old book. spritzed them with water. scrunched them and added a kaiser brad int he middle then inked the edges in distress ink, faded jeans.

No this Lo is for the challenge set by our Guest designer Noriel. MY sister-in-law. I was so proud when it was announced that she had been chosen so i though it fir for her challenge to be the very first Lo i did for this year. Her challenge was to use only 6 inches of the paper, top, bottom, left or right, but it could only be in 6 inches. We could use as many embellishments as we wanted BUT NO flowers were allowed. she's tough! So a few girls did mention that it was a good way to use up papers with patterns down one side. I love those girls and their ideas. Well i had plenty of papers given to me last mothers day that i could use. I finally settled on this one and i loved the picture of the boys in our family. It was taken at my nephew's 30th birthday back in August 2010. It's not often that we all get together like this so photo op in the making.

Well the child (26) is awake and will no doubt want some attention before she goes out.

Thanks for Looking.

Happy New Yeatr

A few days late with the wishes but as you can tell i'm not one for updating on a regular basis.
Oh well.
The Kitchen and renovations are all finished except for curtains and a new fridge. And i'm loving it!!! I've never cleaned my kitchen as well as i do this one. Yes i hear you the novelty will wear off but hubby will make the most of it while he can.
Didn't have the nicest start to December. It was the hardest for my daughter which i found very hard to cope with. She's still having times where she doesn't cope but i hope a New Year will bring new happiness for her.
Christmas came and went far to quickly. We had a lovely day with Mum and Dad coming for breakfast. We also had a niece, Rachel, (Yay i got her name right) who is from Wales and is/was in Oz on a working Visa. she is a beautiful girl, not just in looks but in personality too.
Lunch was Hubby, myself, Cherie, Melissa and her boyfriend Todd and of course Rachel. We had quite a few laughs and some had a snooze after. Then in the evening we went to our dearest friends for tea. over all a really lovely day.

Hubby spoilt me and gave me Photoshop elemtents and Premiere elements. I've had a go at doing a digi Lo but there is still a lot of practise to go. I may just do a course on Photoshop so that i don't waste his money. lol.

New years was a fun night as we went to a friends 40th birthday party. Hawaiian theme so we all had to wear lei's. mine was white fragipani's which lit up and flashed. I wore a dress which has the hibiscus all over it ( i bought it in Hawaii). Had a few wines and a few more punches (alcoholic of course)

I started back at weight watchers before christmas and have lost 2.5kilos. my aim is to get to 64kg. so 18 more to go. I didn't go over the christmas break so i was happy when i wiehged in on Wednesday night that i had stayed the same. i've been a good girl and kept track of what i have eaten each day.
Had a lovely surprise visit from my sister-in-law and her darling husband on Monday. They are over in Adelaide and staying with some friends. We caught up with them again on thursday but i can't wait till the end of February when she comes back and we go to the Michael Buble concert with our daughters and my best girlfriend Vicki.

Well i've rambled on and i hope i haven't bored you to much.

Hi everyone. These are the last two Lo's i have done for this months challenges over at Artistic Document. The My girl Lo is the colour challenge. you had to use the colours in a pic as inspiration. I used the pinks whites and greens from the pic.
My girl is My gorgeous daughter Cherie celebrating her 25th birthday last year. She's come home for 12-18 months to save to build her own house.



The second one is the Sketch Lo. Both challenges are set by our gorgeous Miss Kym. This one is of my equally gorgeous youngest daughter Melissa and her boyfriend Todd. We had gone over to Melbourne to celebrate our nephews 30th birthday (which is the same day as Melissa's) and the two of them were goofing around.

Hi everyone, didn't think i'd get to do this in time but........
Over at Artistic Document we are having a blog hop challenge. We all set a criteria on our blog and then go to the others to get their criteria to do a Lo. There's also a thread for the non bloggers to set criteria.

Mine is masking. use what ever medium, ink, paint, chalk.....
this is a lo did a few months back.

Have fun.

Not much to report on the Reno's since my last post.

the study/scrap room is painted and my scrap desk is in and almost full again. Once the spare room is empty the DD1 will be moving back home.

All our appliances are ordered and the kitchen goes in on the 27'th of this month. picked some colours for the family room and just have to pick some tiles for the kitchen.

Haven't done a lot of scrapping this last month.but got a few of the CC challenges done at Artistic Document.

this one was for the blindscrap for the CC we have each month. This is my gorgeous sister-in-law Noriel (scrappin girl) the picture was taken last November while we were in Melbourne and we celebrated her birthday and my hubbies birthdays.

these two OTP's were for Challenges set by our DT memeber Megan a talented NZér

The "S" was one of the CC challenges and the bag was for themonthly challenge. I'd crakled the bag and had made the butterfly dress form for a swap we did a few months back and thought it tied all together fairly nicely.

Not a very interesting post tonight but i'm on my own and have no one else to talk to so you all have to suffer. lol

Can't believe how time flies by so quickly. We are half way through September and i don't think i've done any scrapping. I did make two cards but forgot to take pics. One was for Fathers day and the other was for my mums birthday. better not tell you how old. We took her out to tea with my brother and his family. It was fun catching up altogether. We gave her a ticket to see the Russian Ballet perform The Nutcracker. Teased her a bit saying she was going on her own. lol. She was over the moon.

Well the Renos have started. I am sitting in an extremely empty study. There is only the desk that the computer sits on. All my scrapping and craft stuff is either in the garage or in the spare room until hubby gets to paint in here. A couple of before and during pics

The lunatic in the bottom pic is my darling daughter. Never misses a photo opportunity. lol. It looked like a bomb had gone off when i walked in the door from work. I just keep reminding myself IT IS FOR THE GREATER GOOD. not for man kind obviously buthubby wants me happy. god i love him.

Well i've rabbitted on enough for tonight. i'm off next week so hopefully i'll get a chance to scrap.

Caio for now.

Well another nothe has gone by and i've remembered to putup a new post. Well the renovation work that i mention last time has begun and as far as the kitchen side of things are concerned we will be living out of boxes for the next 6 weeks. Oh well it will all be worth it. Didn't believe it Thursday night when hubby and i were cleaning til 10pm. Wont be getting my scrapping room back in order for at least two weeks so i'l be carting things in and out each night. :(

I've been able to get four LO's done last month. This first one was for one of Artistic Documents Cyber Crop challenges. (Terri's Traditional Travel). this was a trip we made with my sister and brother -in-law last November to Tocumwal for golfing. As you can see, Sis and I didn't play golf we ate instead.

this next one was for the Blindscrap challenge (which i won, Thanks Toni) the pic was of me having my Starbuck coffee in Penang. Hubby and i have started a tradition of having a starbucks coffee when we go on holidays. so far we have had one in Singapore, Sydney, Hawaii and Penang Oh and Glenelg in SA.(we stayed there for three nights for a short getaway and had a ball.)

this one was the colour challenge for our regular monthly challenges (this is Kyms Challenge) The colours were pink teal and white. The two love birds in the pic are my youngest daughter and her boyfriend at her 21st birthday.

And this one is another of Terri's challenge's. Apparantly i inspired her with what techniques and what ingredients she wanted us to use (which is basically everything i buy but never use) So Thank you Terri you made me get off my butt and put some purchases to use. lol. We had to use alcohol ink on chipboard and embossing (eg cuttle bug or big shotz), masking and journalling.

So thats all i have done this last month, not very exciting. Ohh but i did go and see The Sorcerer's Apprentice. Brilliant light hearted movie. I won a double pass to see the preview screening and took the youngest daughter with me. We had a really good laugh. make sure you go and see it.