Christmas LO

Here is my final LO I will be entering in the Gold Coast Show, just got it finished in time too since I need to hand these in tomorrow. I was starting to feel like all my LO's were looking a bit too much the same so decided to try a different style. This LO is inspired by the wonderful Leanne Pearce. I don't think I've got quite an much going on in the page as she does, but it's a good departure from my normal style. I really like the finished result of these sorts of pages but I struggle to busy them up when creating them.

LOTS of Kaisercraft products on this LO because I picked up a whole heap of embellishment packs from there Moorabin outlet store last time I was in Melbourne. Who could walk past 20 packs for $10? Especially when each pack normally retains for between $5 and $15. I don't care that they're 2 years old.

So, I'll be dropping off my entries tomorrow and the Show will be next weekend. I'll let you know if I win anything!

Bonnie and Thai Cooking LO's

Here are another two LO's I will be entering into the Gold Coast Show. This first one is Ben's dog Bonnie for the Pet category. I purchased the frame from Scrapmatts over a year ago and have just been holding onto it. I think it works really well with the little photos of her.

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This second LO is for the 'Open' category so you can enter any theme. I chose to use photos relating to the Thai cooking class Ben and I took on our honeymoon. I love this page because of the orange, it's my favourite colour and it seems to be a big favourite of the Thai people too. The class was a lot of fun and has inspired Ben to cook a lot of curries now we have returned.

My Scrap Room and Happy Birthday LO.

 Some people are very clean scrappers and some people are disorganised scrappers. I have to admit that I am just a disaster when it comes to organising my scrapping. I'm constantly getting halfway through projects and then just putting them on the group behind my desk. Here are some examples:

My mum recently purchased an organisational trolley for me so I could have some more storage space. This lead to a pretty big re-arrange of the entire craft room, including the wardrobe to the right of these photos. So far I've managed to keep everything nice and clean. You can see the improvement:

For those of you who are just after the scrapbooking, here is the LO I created for the 'Celebration' category for the Gold Coast Show. I think it's almost there but seems to be missing something. The photos are from my 8th birthday so almost 20 years ago.



New Sister and Eternal Love LO's.

As I've mentioned earlier, the Gold Coast Show is coming up soon and I want to get a few scrapbooking entries in this year so expect my blog to get busy for the next few days. This LO is my first baby themed LO ever. I've used the sweet Baby Mine range by Fancy Pants Designs. Photo is of the birth of my little sister some 25 years ago.

This is my wedding double page LO. For some reason I really struggled on this one. I normally sit down and complete pages in a day, two at the most. This one dragged on for a whole week and I while I think it looks nice it doesn't have the punch I was hoping for. Any suggestions for improvements are appreciated.



Timeless LO

Here is yet another wedding LO. :) I have so many wonderful photos to scrap I just can't help myself. Anyway, I've tried to do something a bit out of my normal style for this time one, since I was starting to feel all my LO's were looking a bit samey. This one has lots of fabric and texture. I've used two different kinds of lace, flowers from Prima (I don't normally splurge on these but figured since it was for my wedding I was allowed!), Kaisercraft, Pretty Paper Petals and some unnamed ones. Chipboard is by Kaisercraft, Scrapmatts and House of Scrapbooking. Doily is handmade by my mum. :)

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On a more personal note, the Gold Coast Show is coming up again soon and I'm thinking of entering again. Those who have been reading my blog for a while will know that I entered back in 2009 and did quite well. The only reason I didn't enter last year was because we were going to be down in Melbourne that weekend and I wasn't able to collect my entries. Anyway, I've just seen the categories for this year and about half of them require the submissions to be double pages. :( I've only created about 4 doubles in the five years I've been scrapping and two of those were done as classes! Any tips or advice would be most appreciated. 

Happy Harvest and Purple Pumpkin Giveaways

Want a chance to win a great Happy Harvest pack? Me and the Little Rascals is giving away 6 double sided papers and a bunch of matching embellishments. It's well worth becming a following of Sam's blog as she does some lovely LO's. I really like her crisp design work.

Sam is also the owner of Purple Pumpkin which is having a massive giveaway too. Purple Pumpkin sell a great range of brads, buttons and embellishments.

Baby Card

One of Ben's work colleagues is going on maternity leave and she stated she would enjoy it if everyone made her a card rather than gave her a present. I made the card below to go with our gift of a nappy bag and blanket. The elephant is because the lady has a very healthy baby growing inside her and Ben made the comparison to an elephant earlier in her pregnancy and the nickname has stuck. :)

The card itself was a bit challenging because the gender of the baby is unknown and I have NO baby supplies in my stash.

The Walk LO - Kaisercraft Saturday Sketch July #1

Here is my entry for the #1 July Sketch for Kaisercraft's Saturday Sketches. I have a whole heap of different Christmas papers by Kaisercraft but my problem is none on them match the whole pile of Christmas embelishments I have! For this LO I've used the Home for Christmas paper range, Christmas Carnival stamps and Belle rub ons and brads. Wooden florish, pearls and rhinestones are also all Kaisercraft products.

Here is the sketch I worked from:

My Husband LO

This is my entry for the wonderful Once Upon A... Sketch blog. The Journalling Criteria: Who is in the photo? Name the person in the photo and at least 1 fact about them. This can be personality, character, talent , achievement etc. but it must be at least 2 sentences long.

I was actually inspired from the journalling criteria to use the journalling card below and the rest of the design flowed from there. The photo is one of those taken by Daniel Sheehan on our wedding day. The brown scalloped circle is actually quite a few individual punched circles which I stuck to the back of the vine circle. Chipboard by the fantastic Scrapmatts.

The sketch provided by Nadia:

Greatest Gift LO

Another 'just because' LO. I created this one during my first home-crop with two girls from work. They hadn't done much scrapbooking before and asked me to give them some pointers. It was good to have people I could share my hobby with and they have decided we should get together another day to do it all again. :) It did make me realise I have purchased a LOT of supplies over the last 5 years so I might need to go without any new purchases for a while.

Anyway, the LO just came together pretty easily and is of my and my dad on the day of my wedding.