I've Been Busy Doing Challenges!

This layout is for the second September Challenge at Scrap the Boys. Mark and Connor have a fantastic father/son relationship, and I love how it just doesn't all come from Connor - Mark idolises Connor too, which is lovely.


I made these lil denim embies by layering different denims, and using a Tim Holtz stamp on the small one. Love how they turned out....

I've also been participating in the Colour Room challenges. This was last weeks challenge - I was a bit put off at first with the colours and the sketch, but decided it WAS a challenge, after all. Anyway, I was pleased with the result.

I have used Fancy Pants "Happy Together" Papers - these papers are divine, and I intend to do more playing very soon!!

I also used some of the booootiful new Prima Branches, and sprayed some white flowers with Glimmermist to add the purple.

Well, that's it for me atm - I'll be back very soon with some shares, at least with the rainy weather we've been having, I've had a chance to do lots of scrapping!! LOL!!

Thanks for popping by my blog :0)

Playing With Fancy Pants

Well, I DID try to get myself together to try out for the Fancy Pants Creative Team - but then Connor got sick for 3 days - very clingy and also vomitting, so washing filled my time... then I got sick with the same bug, and simply could not do anything else but laze around in bed.
Anyway, I'm kinda kicking myself, because I could have sent in any project with Fancy Pants, I have heaps of layouts with Fancy Pants - but I JUST wanted to do something especially - just that obsessive side of me I guess...
Anyways, I did this layout using the Rusted Sun Range, this range has the most awsome colours - rich earthy browns, as well as brights - and even MY nemissis Purple! Eeeeep!
LOVE this range - must use it more...LOL!

This layout is about my Mum and Dad and Connor - I really miss my Mum and Dad, and what I miss most is the cosiness - the idea that I can just pop around the corner and grab a cuppa....
Oh well, even if I stayed in Ipswich, I still wouldn't be able to do that - because not long after I left for Mt Isa, they moved to Bundaberg... Still - it would be nice to live in the same town as them....
Starting to catch the make your own flowers bug - these one I cut out using my Nestabilities, folded all the petals up to create some dimension, inked them and layered them with glue dots...


This was going to be my altered item - I altered a Maya Rd Letters tin, and made some cards to go in there - all out of Fancy Pants Roadshow..
I painted the tin with the Tim Holtz Dabbers - LOVE LOVE LOVE these - if you love using paint, you will too - you can use them on anything, they dry quickly, no mess to clean up, and then blend beautifully. Really recommend them if you haven't seen them yet.
Also handmade some flowers - just the accordian pleated ones, which can be a bit tricky, but I like the effect :0)

What Do You Think??

Of the new look for my blog?? I'm not too sure about the header though, first time I have ever tried adding a photo using a different photo editing site, think I need to do a few more things, or add a new photo.....
Anyway, as promised, here is what I have been up to scrappy - wise lately.

This layout I did for a mini cyber crop at SNB a while back - I did a small tute on how to create embellishments like this snowmant out of texture paste.

Had so much fun playing with lots of different mediums on this layout, as you can see, I am still making my way through the photos I took on our recent holiday to the snow....

This is my sample for this month's challenge at Kraft It Up - just sent it in a month early - oooopsies......
Haha
Pop by the blog for the criteria if you haven't already done it, there are some fantastic prizes....

This layout was for a mini class during the last cybercrop at SnB a while back, I demonstrated how to make embies like this snowman using cardstock and texture paste...

This layout was a "Just Cos" layout - I used some of the gorgeous Theresa Collins Travel Ledger goodies, currently available at SnB.

Well, that's it from me for now, I have a small child nagging me to get on the 'puter - he loves this new program called Reading Eggs - put out by the ABC, and it is a really good reading - based website game. Cost $50 for 6 months, and we have already got our money's worth - after only 2 weeks! LOL! Ticks all the boxes for beneficial computer based teaching aids, and Connor loves it - can't complain when it is helping him learn to read!!

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:0( My Little Man is Sick...

How do I know he is sick? Aside from the fact that he is vomitting every couple of hours and not eating a thing -always a good sign :0p) -
- He is quiet, and if you knew my gregarious talk at a mile a minute son, you'd know that is soooo not him.

-He is still, my full of action race-around boy is actually happy to flop on his bed/the lounge and not move.... Poor little guy, I know he is VERY sick because hardly anything keeps him down for long, and he has been like this since about 5.00 yesterday afternoon....

On a brighter note, one of the reasons I have been MIA from blogging is that I went on a school camp - which was fun, just very VERY tiring, because as a teacher you are on duty for 24 hours every single day....

On the second day we were very lucky to go to Whitehaven Beach and Hamilton Island. How lucky are the kids in Mackay?? When I was a kid, we only ever took our school camps to Little Yabba Creek at Kenilworth, the best we got was to swim in - the freezing by the way - creek.

These kids get the Whitsundays!! Mind you, they couldn't swim, with all the safety forms to fill out, to take them swimming too would be a nightmare - and as for swimming in a creek, you'd better make darn certain there were no crocodiles, would be a bit difficult to explain to parents.....

Anyways, here are some photos, this is the beautiful Whitehaven Beach - one of the top 5 listed as the most beautiful beach in the world.... It's very easy to see why, it is just so pristine....

This is the chapel on Hamilton Island - very popular for weddings.....

This is the view from one of the resorts - not a bad life eh?

A view of the marina on Hamo - pick a multi million dollar yacht, any yacht......LOL!

Thanks for stopping by - I hope to get some scrappy goodness up in the next couple of days.

Cheers!!