Its nearly March!

Don't forget to register for our awesome competition 'The Amazing Race' which will be launched on Monday over at Mystical Scrapbooks! My layout is the first one, and its ready to go, I can't wait to show you all.

Last night I went to a Stampin Up party at my friend Linda's place, held by Ness. Ended up getting a card and a tag done, and finally a layout after everyone else left. Can't show much of my work at the moment...until tomorrow when all my deadlines will be public anyway, but here are the little things we did at the party last night.




Oh, and I totally forgot to brag....my niece Emma got two more layouts accepted by Scrapbooking Memories magazine this week! So excited for her, and she's pretty chuffed herself. So tonight we typed up our lists of products and packaged up our parcel with our layouts in it, ready to send off to SM on Monday. Woo!

Off to bed now, after a 1am finish last night, tonight I am knackered. I have finished off the month with 35 layouts finished and I'm so happy with that. I have also finished off the month knowing that I'm a total friggin paper addict...Emma & I have just finished sorting out my cardstock and printed paper...and holy crap, there is sooooo much here. I hate to think how much money value would be sitting in this little old scrap room of mine! ;)

Bye,
Sar

Class with Lisa Warren

Oh my goodness, this girl has some talent! I always love her classes and am so glad I went along to this one, making a family tree layout. I adore how this turned out! Thanks Lisa for your instructions, and thanks Loz for taking the beautiful photographs that make up my layout.



Don't forget, only a few days till the launch of our Amazing Race comp over at Mystical Scrapbooks! Awesome prizes up for grabs, head over to the forum and sign up to our comp asap. Three sleeps to go!

Cheers,
Sar

I cracked Scrapbooking Memories!

I've been told that SM are the hardest mag in Australia to crack...but I've done it! Got an email today saying that my 'New Cubby' layout (which was from my Mystical DT kit) has been accepted for publication. Doing the happy dance here...come on, dance with me...hehe... ;)

So a few things to share, the current Stuck?! Sketch which is Sketch #75 which I completed the other night. Finished it off with an awesome flourish from Cricut's Storybook cartridge. Thanks Loz for the loan of the cartridge babe, it is just awesome and I'm REALLY tempted not to give it back...LOL!



Then a quick double I did of Cooper's 4th birthday last year. I have trouble with doubles and LOTS of pics, so be nice...I know its not my best work...



Today I scrapped with my SIL Hayles. Would've been an awesome day had it not been for the distractions of husbands and children! We still had a good day together, but maybe not AS productive as we would've liked. I only completed one layout, which I did actually start the other night just by painting the cardstock base. It was then left to dry and I did the rest today. This is one of my faves of late.



I actually did this for the Scrap The Girls blog which for this month to include Ephemera on your page, which is something non scrap related. I chose to use a clothing tag. I have no idea which item of clothing its from, and its definitely not from the outfit Bronte is wearing in this pic, but I thought the words 'Whirly Girl' suited my heading of 'You make my heart spin'.

So like I said, the boys were here and were meant to be looking after the kids so we could scrap. I can hear you laughing already...but this will make you laugh even more...here is Miss Bronte AFTER she has managed to eat a stamp pad that Cooper had been playing with. Mind you, this happened downstairs in the toy room where the boys were sitting with the kids. How could this happen, I hear you ask? Well, Damo & Daniel's eyes were of course glued to the TV screen on which they were playing playstation...

Anyways, here was the result!



Boys, can't trust them to do anything properly hey... ;)

Thats it from me for now, I want to head off and do some more scrapping, I have a LO half finished and I can't leave it like that overnight! It might feel neglected or unloved, and we can't have that.

Cheers,
Sar

29 and counting...

Thats how many LO's I've done so far this month...so more LO's than days in the month, and I've beat last month's tally. Geez, if I keep that up and beat the previous month every time...that'll be a damn lot of scrap pages!! ;)

Here are the three pages I did at the Friday night crop at Scrapbooking Delights.

This is for Sara's Colour Challenge at Mystical Scrapbooks for February. Loved this colour combination, and am so happy with all the elements on the page. The Buzz and Bloom acrylic bird is to die for, isn't it!?



Then this one which is this month's Sketch Challenge by Peta at Bon's Scraps. Lots of white space, had to be on white card and include buttons & hearts. Think I covered everything.



And lastly this one just because, thanks so much Lisa for showing me this awesome doodling technique...as you'll see in the upcoming LO's I did this weekend, every single layout features the same doodling!!!!



Then Saturday night Emma stayed over, we scrapped but I can't show that one just yet.

Sunday I had a scrap day at my place and was joined by Hayley, Doreen & Kindra as well as Miss Emma. We had a great day but the kids were a big distraction as usual, I only ended up with two layouts for the day, which is unlike me.

Finally I have completed some of the Stuck Sketches for this month, this is Sketch #73.



And Sketch #74.



I finished another one late last night, but haven't photographed it as yet.

Other than scrap stuff, not too much else is happening in my world. Daniel is at work doing OT, the girls are in bed, Cooper is watching 'Stanley' and we've just had an absolutely MASSIVE thunderstorm, with the most spectacular lightning I've seen in a long time.

Nearly time for Cooper to get to bed, so I'll make a move and start the proceedings...

Seeya,
Sar

More Exciting News from Me!

Its all happening in my scrap world at the moment...I have been accepted on the new Design Team for the challenge blog White With 1! I am really excited about this and can't believe I made it through when there were so many applications submitted. Can't wait to get started and work with this amazing group of girls. Here are the layouts I submitted with my application, which also included the White with White layout I showed you a few posts ago.




Our mini vacation turned to absolute crap when we had nothing but rain, rain, rain the whole time we were in Port Macquarie! They had floods, torrential rain, I couldn't believe it. We were cooped up in a little unit and couldn't get away from eachother, which is never good. The Tuesday was horrible because we were all cranky, but we made the most of it on Wednesday and went clothes shopping and scrap shopping, then out for dinner and Cold Rock which was fun. We also managed one swim all together on the Wednesday arvo, it wasn't sunny but it wasn't pouring rain either. We woke up Thursday to an absolutely gorgeous day, only to have to pack the car and come home. Daniel took Cooper & Georgie for a swim for about an hour before we left, and poor Coop was so sad, he didn't want to get out of the pool and begged to stay longer. I felt so sorry for him, we'd been talking up our 'holiday' and how much fun we'd have. Oh well, what can you do, we'll plan another holiday soon. It will be hard for the next 18 months or so as Daniel is about to start his Undermanagers course, but we'll work something out.

The only pics I managed from our trip were the morning we left in the pool...




BUT, what else could I do when we were soooo bored and the rain wouldn't stop? Scrap, of course! Here's what I ended up with, plus there is another one I can't show just yet.

This one is a Pagemaps sketch that is this month's sketch challenge at Anna's Craft Cupboard. I love this page (and I know you will too, Loz!) and I mean every word, I wish Loz & I lived closer and our babies could play together more often, they would definitely be the best of friends.



The next one is the February Sketch over at Mystical Scrapbooks, the sketch being designed by Cookie.



I used a February Pagemaps sketch to FINALLY scrap these snow photos of Cooper that I've been putting off for 2 1/2 years. I'm loving the end result, and can't believe I actually used some of my old TLC kit products (god forbid!).



A just because LO of Cooper when he graduated from the baby class at swimming to the 'big boy class', including his certificate.



This was the February sketch at Scrap of Difference. Finally some more xmas photos scrapped. Why does it always seem such an EFFORT to scrap christmas photos, I don't get it, but it always seems hard!



And lastly, this one was this month's Aussie Pub Calls Roadmap. I had so much fun TAKING and SCRAPPING these photos of me and Daniel, just mucking around! He was making the most stupid faces you've ever seen, we were pissing ourselves laughing and Cooper was trying to get involved (as kids do!). Finally I got a decent smile out of my husband, even if half our faces are chopped off....LOL!



Well thats it for the layouts for now, I did manage three more at the crop at Scrapbooking Delights last night, but today is so rainy and dismal that I'm not even going to attempt to photograph them. I did get back out to Scrapbooking Delights this morning for their big sale, thanks Sandra for the bargains and can't wait to see what you fill the shop up with now!

Emma is here, I've had a good day of getting organised and some of the mountain load of washing in my laundry done. We have the girls coming for a scrap day tomorrow, so I'm really looking forward to that.

I can feel a headache coming on, I best go get a coffee and stop it before it starts!

Bye for now,
Sar

New Mystical Competition starting soon!! Sign Up Now!

Were getting ready for a new competition at Mystical........Are you ready for a trip around the world??

Well then, pack your bags and scrap kit and register for our 6 week competition online now and be in to win some awesome prizes!….Including all new CHA released products.

The competition starts on March 2nd. To enter you need to be a member of Mystical Scrapbooks forum and gallery.

Sign Ups: Open now and close at midnight February 28th
Challenges: Start Monday 2nd March
Duration: 6 Weeks Elimination style
Themes: Based on the featured Countries

Rules: Amazing Race will run for 6 weeks. The competition will commence at 9am EST on Monday 2nd March 2009.
See our competition forum for more info and the full set of rules…

I'll be back soon with a MASSIVE layout update!

Mystical Reveal (and a fire!)

Today being the 15th of the month, it is reveal day for the Design Team at Mystical Scrapbooks. I have just uploaded my layouts to the Mystical Gallery with details on all the fab products used from the Mystical Scrapbooks shop. Here are the layouts, but make sure you check out the gallery to see exactly what products I've used.




So today was an exciting one, let me tell you...




I had a visit from the local fire brigade, and no not for the usual visit or whatever because Daniel is one of them. Can you believe, my dishwasher caught on fire!!?? I couldn't. I was downstairs in the laundry washing/folding/sorting clothes, trying to get organised to leave for our trip tomorrow morning. I walked upstairs to take some clothes up and could smell smoke straight away. I walked into the kitchen to find flames coming out of my dishwasher, I was in shock! I rang 000 straight away, the guy on the phone pretty much told me to shut all the doors and leave the house but I couldn't do that...so went downstairs, grabbed an extinguisher from the garage but then I couldn't get it to work. Found another extinguisher in the vacuum cleaner cupboard and managed to get this one going. I put the fire out, but smoke continued to come out of the front of the dishwasher. So then I left it as there was no way known I was opening it to see what was going on in there! Turned out it was the electrics in the front that had caught fire, but its done a great job of destroying my dishwasher and damaging my kitchen bench. There was ash and crap everywhere, so that was just another job to add to the list for this afternoon! Thank god Emma was here, she was outside with the kids at the time which meant I didn't panic about them and concentrated on putting the fire out...I think if I'd been alone with the kids I probably would've grabbed them and sat outside waiting for the fire brigade to arrive. God knows how far it would've gone and how much more damage there would've been! It was classic when the boys arrived, they couldn't believe it was my house and we spent the whole time laughing about it, and Daniel not being here to help me when my own house catches fire!!! I think its classic in the pic that our mate Kev took his shoes off and didn't put boot prints right through my house! LOL! All turned out good in the end, someone was looking over me today thats for sure.

So apart from that, my house is a bomb with getting organised, the car is just about packed, I'm getting tired. Georgie has been my little troublemaker today...first she decided to take her nappy off before going to sleep this afternoon. You can just imagine how THAT turned out. Then tonight she found the moisturiser (which I crazily left out after their bath) and look at her, little devil...




She's always good for a laugh though, and I needed one tonight!

I better go, its nearly 10.30pm and we're meant to be getting up at 4am or something stupid, so talk to all at the end of the week.

Cheers,
Sar