May

Wow can you believe we are nearly half way through May already?

I'm feeling pretty excited this month as i was asked to be the Guest DT this month over at www.artisticdocument.com.au Below is the Challenge I set for the monthly challenge. The challenge is to use one photo, and from that photo use the dominant colour (mine was obviously green) and use that colour for your CS, then you have use white flourish, flowers, title, and some bling. I just have find out what the theme for the CC night is going to be and then i have that challenge to create.

The book below was just a normal note book that i covered for a girlfriend who left work last week. She loves taking notes and we had given her a lovely leather portfolio and pen but i thought i'd make her something that she could put in her handbag to use where-ever she is.

I Used Graphic45's Debutante from the Fashionista collection and the Art Nouveau pics are from Moonlight Journeys Art Nouveau Beauties sheet. They have some gorgeous sheets pics so go look at www.moonlightjourney.com and they are such a great price you can buy loads.

And since it was Mothers day last weekend i made two cards. The first one i made for my mum and the bottom one was for hubbies mum. The pictures on both and the paper and elements on the bottom one came from the Creative Cardmaking magazine issue 22. Its a great little mag for the price. as you get some gorgeous papers and toppers and elements to cut out and make beautiful cards.

My daughters and i did the Mothers day classic walk (4.5km) with a couple of friends. this the pic of me and my two gorgeous girls, Melissa on the left and Cherie on the right. We had a great time chatting and laughing as we walked. then once we had finished and caught our breaths we went to a small market in town (Adelaide) and afterwards then we took my mum for lunch. Zonked it when we got home that is for sure.Well thats all i can think ooops no thats not all. We had the Spa delivered last week. YAY!!! but can't use it yet as we have to get council approval and we have to have a pool fence put around it too. But hoping it will all be done in a couple of weeks. Will definately take pics when its all finished.

thanks for taking the time to look

Almost end of April

Hi everyone, can you believe it almost the end of April. We must be having fun.
Well i have been having fun playing with my Christmas present from Hubby (photoshop elements 9) i've been purchasing a fair bit from scrapgirls.com & also peppermintcreative.com.
There are some gorgeous kits out there and i'm slowly learning how to instal and use brushes and styles for my Lo's. Here are a couple of Digi LO's i did over the looooooong Easter weekend.
the first one

"Welcome to spring i used a freebie kit (NItwit Collections) from a CD that came with the Complete Cardmaking with your PC magazine. It has 4 0r 5 other kits and 25 free romantic fonts. Well worth the money.











The second one I've used papers and elements from different ranges purchased at Scrapgirls.











So now its back to the PSE( and play around with a few more LO's
Thanks for looking.
Oh and in the next couple of days i'll up load some pic's of the page's i've received for my CJ.

I have been reminded that i neglecting my blog. (Sorry Noriel) Just trying think what has happened since i last blogged.

First, this is not something i have forgotten, but my darling mum has been in and out of hospital with breast cancer. She had to have a mastectomy 2 weeks ago. I am in awe of her. She is 71 and when asked if she was ok with what was going to happen her response was "Shit happens"! She has to have hormone treatment only at this point as there are a few other little cancers that are lying dormant. She said she was glad to get home because she was putting weight on in the hospital. all the beautiful food and no exercise.

We also celebrated mum and dads 50th wedding anniversary the weekend before her op. We went to the Bombay Bicycle Club for tea. It was a great night out just family and we had a private room and we just chatted and laughed and enjoyed each others company.

I've done a bit of scrapping too. some for the monthly challenges and some for the CC challenges

so these are just a few of the Lo's i have done. Some Digi and some paper scrapping. I have also done this birdcage. I got the idea from the Magnolia Ink magazine. A lady by the name of Monique had done one (a lot prettier) using T!m Holtz's birdcage die and some of T!m's techniques. I used my own ideas on how to put it together but i must say i'm pretty happy with how its turned out.

Mad March

The above title would have suited February just as well!

So what has been happening in February. Well we have had visitors for the last 5 weeks. for the first 4 weeks i had a cousin from Wales staying with us. 4 weeks is way to long when they don't want to go see other parts of the country and just want to stay around home.

We hired an apartment for three nights down at Glenelg. the only down side to that was i had to go to work during the day while hubby and cousin enjoyed the wonderful weather on the beach and playing golf and culture of a seaside town. ;o( Not going to let that happen again. lol

We also took him to the Barossa for a wine tour of sorts. I think Cherie (daughter) and I had more fun tasting all the wines. I got some gorgeous photos.

This one is taken under some vines at the Grant Burge winery. I'm thinking of having this one put on a canvas.

And

this pic was taken at Maggie Beers Pheasant farm/winery. There is a lake of sorts behind the shop/cafe and we had a walk around the outside. at the end of the jetty there lots of dragongflys flitting around and hovering over the water. I was able to snap this one using my zoom when he/she landed on this twig.

Gary & I had a break way from it all in the middle of Haydn's stay. We had organized a weekend away with friends 4-5 months ago to stay up at Hahndorf. We stayed at the Manna on the main street of Hahndorf. Quite a nice set of units. It was a lovely relaxing weekend. WE literally took all day to stroll down one side of the street and then back up. It was so nice. There was 6 couples and depending on the speed on each individual no one couple actually stuck to their partners while strolling. we all got mixed chatting and window shopping and actual shopping. We had tea at the German Arms one night and the Hahndorf inn the other. Both meals were huge and unbelieveably delicious.

I took this pic walking back to the Motel on the Saturday night. I was trying to get a nice pic of the moon but i was surprised the way the old buildings turned green in the photo.

And these beautiful people are the great friends that we went away with.

My husband worked the the gentleman on the left and the two on the right for nearly 30 years and stil works with the guy in the middle. We have been going out for tea and having our weekends for 15 - 20 of those years. the wives are just as good friends too. A few of us even go interstate together to watch our Beloved CROWs footy team play and there have also been a number of girls weekends in Melbourne.

so that leaves us the last week of February. Well that will have to wait for the next post (possibly tomorrow) as i think i have bored you enough for one post.

February already

Wow i cant believe 1 week of Feb has already gone.
I finished Last weeks tag last night an here it is. Last weeks (wk5) question was "what would you write on your wall (not facebook). The criteria for this week was that we had to use buttons and bows.
This is the front with the buttons and bows

ans this is the answer. I used kaiser clear and black bling inbetween the black flower buttons

Last week i picked my cousin Haydn up from the airport. He's here from Wales for four weeks and this first week has flown by. He managed to get sunburnt even though we told him to wear a hat and sunscreen. so i took a lot of pleasure slapping the freezing cold aftersun aloe vera gel on his back.

He's down south for the weekend staying with some friends that emigrated 6 years ago. So that will help us not to get sick of one another. lol. Next week we are off to Glenelg for 3 nights. He loves Glenelg so they can roam around there or they can play golf while poor me has to go to work.

In two weeks time hubby and i are off to Hahndorf for the weekend with some friends so that will be a lovely break and then the following Wednesday my sisiter-in-law and niece are over for a week. With the final night being Micahel Buble concert. i'm soooooooo excited.

Read a really lame joke yesterday but thought i might share it with you.

What's a Shitzu? A Zoo with no animals!

Yes i can hear you groan. so on that note i will sign off.

Australia Day

Well I'm sitting at home not doing a lot. (Bliss). Finished my Tag for week 4's question which is "What 3 words would others use to describe you?"

Well i asked my daughters and they came up with Special and Lovely/loving and one of the girls i work with told me i was a caring person, so i used those three words.

So here is my tag

Over at Artistic document we had our Cyber crop night on Fridayand once again the girls on the DT and their guest DT Member (my sister-in-law) excelled themselves with their challenges.

I did the Blindscrap which was set by the every lovley Megan, I used kaiser papers and some homemade flowers which i made a few months ago.

and Terri's Artistic Challenge which was making an easel card using a 10 x10cm canvas. I made mine for another girlfriend at work for her birthday.

We are going to our friends again for tea tonight so i better start getting ready.

Have a great Australia Day everyone.

TGIF

Yes its the best time of the week for me. Friday night. No work for two days!
Well the only downside is the bloke over the back with his band practise EVERY friday night.
We cant even have the windows open while watching tv cos we wouldn't be able to hear it.

Another weekend is here. Hubby is working again tomorrow so i'll get the house work done, how exciting, then either scrap or do some power point for work. I think scrapping is winning out.

2 more weeks and my cousin Haydn is coming over from Wales for four weeks. I'm hoping to take 2 weeks off so i can spend some time with him and then with my sister-in-law who is coming over to do some scrapping and also to go to the Michael Buble concert on 1st March. I'm soooooooo looking forward to that. There will be myself, of course, my daughters, Noriel, Krystal, my lovely niece and my gorgeous girlfriend Vicki going together. its shaping up to be a great night.

On a more sombre note, i would like to send my thoughts and prayers to all those who are caught up in the devastating floods in QLD. Its an absolute tragedy. We are doing a collection at work for the flood appeal. So hopefully come Monday and Tuesday we will be able to collect a nice amount.

Also there is some flooding in Victoria so send your prayers for our friends that are suffering there too.

ciao for now.