one photo, three ideas

today at scrappn was at my house,  Kerry had the great idea that Debbie, herself and i should scrapbook the same photo of the three of us, worrisome as us three girls can be quite competitive (mostly Debbie!). 

Anyhow here are our three layouts

Debbies

Kerrys

and mine

they all turned out so very different.  catch ya xx

Happy Mothers Day xx

Happy Mothers Day to all my lovely blog readers and big hugs to those who mothers day isnt quite as happy as it can be.  I remember my first mothers day with out Josh, he had died three day before and it sucked BIG time But I have two WONDERFUL kids who make me feel like the best mum ever!

Yesterday was National Scrapbooking day, which is odd because really it is International Scrapbooking day and did I scrap?  oh yes I did  Megan over at Better Scrapbooking ran a online challenge and I uploaded my photos this morning but here they are so you can see first hand. 

This first layout Megan gave us a sketch to copy and this is what I did,  I used a lace cardstock I brought from the warehouse as my stencil and sprayed it with Glimmer Mist, I am sooo happy with how it turned out
of course these photos are quite old and before Josh got sick, what cute boys I have x

lol more sibling pictures but so up to date, take at Easter, at you guessed it Hine's wedding. Anyway Megan gave us another sketch and this is what I did....

Last challenge I entered was one that used stitching,  I hand stitched up the side of this layout, I really wanted Geo to stand out so used alot of red to zoom your eye in.... hope it worked

And this last layout I didn't enter online but I worked on it for a couple of days,  This is my Father In Law who passed away many years ago.  I do love this photo, we don't have many so every one is special (and I did more spraying with glimmer mist can you see what my latest addiction is)

I hope you all have a wonderful day I know Im going too, one of my presents today was from my darling son and his oh so clever girlfriend (who knew what to buy me) was a dymo label maker,  I have been looking at layouts for MONTHS now that have labels used for journaling and thinking I wish I had one of those but have not got around to getting one yay now I have one, thanks Scott and Mel you rock xx chris

wow where did that week go?

goodness did anyone else notice that first week back at school went really fast??  so what did I do this week... Monday with Eilish making Mothers Day cards (and did you know I made my mum an awesome card popped it in the post so it would make it on time and pooh forgot to take a photo).  Tuesday was spent with my dear friend Kerry cleaning out her shop (well not anymore hurrah!!).  Wednesday mmmmm ok Thursday ooh thats easy I went into ccf (child cancer foundation) to drop off 18 sweet adorable trays of chocolate ready for our mothers day mini pamper day on monday.  If you want to see this is the link to kerrys trade me listings too sweet too she has some yum stuff and some delish tins just right for scrapbooking stuff!  Layouts well here is yet another from the wedding :)



luff ya all
xx

better do some scrappn

look better scrapbooking's April news letter is out click and have a read.  http://www.betterscrapbooking.co.nz/ some of my fellow design team have some great ideas.  I had to do the OTP item and made some awesome covered boxes for Miss Geo.

cute I know.  this month I also attended my beautiful eldest nieces wedding, Miss Geo was the junior bridesmaid and guess who I took the most photos of?? yup Miss Geo, did get a couple of family snaps and some lovely ones of Master Scott and his lovely lady Mel.  Here is the layout I did

Mel has a crown on just because I like to tease her that she is the future Queen.  And just because I love to share with you all here is my two kids together (awwwww I hear you say)

ten years between them ....sigh, they grow so fast, And just to add here is the little monkey that is between them, those wonderful nieces gave me the big flowers from the church to take up to Josh's grave sweet I know

They where so big they covered up his whole headstone,  Nice though as on the 2nd May it will be 13 whole years since josh died,  Im not sure where time has gone, until I look at my kids and think....thats where it went!

to finish on a happy note I just sent some time away in Whangamata with my bestie Kerry and our two girls, lots of scrappn and laughing and drinking, last happy snap of Miss Geo and I

catch ya later xx

birthday week

I have a few photos this week so I will just get stuck in

First, my $1000 winning scratchie, yes some people do win!!

Next my delightful son and his girlfriends giving me their best couple look (NOT)

Miss Geo is 12 years old today and here is her mouse cake

and lastly my eldest niece is getting married on Saturday to her lovely man and I wanted to make her a special card, so I did xx

So its a bit of a long one

busy busy thats me.  first up better scrapbooking newsletter has a couple of my layouts in it. 

And here are Aprils challenges for Better Scrapbooking

April Layout Challenge - Create a layout using chalks.  You make like to use chalks for your title, on a border or on the edges of your photo mates.  Lets see how many different techniques with chalks you can use on one layout.  Have fun, and get messy.
April Photo Challenge - Perspective, perspective, perspective.  This has been inspired by the winning photo of March's photo challenge.  Take a photo using an unusual perspective.  Who knows you may even inspire next months challenge (LOL)
April Project Challenge - Create a fun Easter Basket - with some lovely decorated eggs inside (these eggs could be bought chocolate eggs if you like).
April Card Challenge - Create a fun pop-up card of your choice.  You may like to create an interesting way for a pop-up to pop-up.

All entries to the online gallery challenges need to be uploaded to the online gallery before the 30th April.  If you are unable to upload your photo feel free to email it to http://nz.mc961.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=megan@betterscrapbooking.co.nz and she will upload it for you.
All entries go into the draw for a fun scrapbooking prize from Better Scrapbooking Ltd. 

And then wow I have had a fun weekend.  well Friday night really, remember how I said I won an Auction for a crop night with Trina McClune and Louise Williams well we have had it and what a awesome night,  Trina made us all feel so welcome and even her Hubby had done baking YUM, the table looked fab and she had made us STUNNING bags with goodies in them, Louise brought DELICIOUS ginger slice (how did she know that was my favourite??)  anyway see photos

 Lovely Ladies having fun!

 Delish bag with my intials on it and yum yum goodies that where inside

So Thank you very much lovely ladies for the wonderful night!

another day scrapping

today is the day I meet with my friends to scrap away the hours, I'm working on my mum and dads cycle holiday album.  My folks cycle all the time, mum even has cyclist calve muscles (cute i know) anyway they keep going down to Otago to cycle the rail trail.  next week will be their third trip so I though I should do an 8x8 album for them, stole their camera and took all their photos.

scrapnn people cycling isn't that easy

oohhhhhh so cute look at my mum and dad I love them to bits!!!

mum loves to take photos and is quite good at the self portrait thing.

catch ya later xx