MIA

I know I have been missing in action but I have been very busy doing a digital scrapbook for my Mum's 60th in a few weeks. That has now been sent off for printing and is on its way back to me so I can get some scrapping done - in between organising food and making food for the party in three weeks time!

I have done a couple of layouts in the last week. The first one is for the Sketch Challenge at Scrapbook City - why don't you get over to the blog and have a go - there is a great prize. The second one is a bit of a copy of a layout I saw on the Two Peas website. I have added my own touches of course! They are both done with Crate Paper - School Spirit papers and embellishments. Just love those colours and they match my children's uniform to a T!

Looking forward to getting some more scrapping done before the busy lead up to Christmas.

Couple of New Layouts

I have done a couple of Design Team layouts in the last week or two. The first one is for the colour challenge at Scrapbook City and the second is done with the brand new Bo Bunny Olivia papers. I have had this photo of me and the kids on Mother's Day for a while and just haven't had the right papers. I just love how vibrant the colours are.

I have been buying lots of gorgeous new stuff to play with - getting the time is the hard part - I am doing a photo book for my Mum's 60th coming up in November. Trouble is, I need to allow three weeks for delivery from the US. At least the dollar is really good at the moment and it will be much cheaper than I was expecting.

I have also completed my cards for the Scrapbook City Christmas Card Showcase. Cards are never my strong point but they haven't turned out too bad. I have gone with vintage with a modern twist! I will post when allowed.

FINALLY, FINALLY

At long last my new scrapping area in our new office is complete.

I have waited over six years to have this done and I have to say I love it. It will probably need some tweeking as I go along and it has taken a lot of work to sort through everything and put it in boxes and containers.

I am just waiting for my chair to be put together - I made an attempted but no joy!

New MME Lost and Found

I am always looking forward to the new My Mind's Eye collections when they come in. I chose these papers for my DT Layout which is the "Moments" collection. It is a bit of a yucky day today so not the best photo.

I am really into stripes at the moment - fashion-wise and scrapping-wise!

I will be doing some more MME layouts in the next week or so.

New and Improved Scrapbook City Blog

Make sure you pop on over to the Scrapbook City Blog http://www.scrapbookcityblog.blogspot.com/ and check out the new look. We also have a great competition going with the first week's challenge being to do a layout using one of four Kaiser Craft collections - Lush, Secret Bird Society, Hippy Chick and Up Up and Away - 70% of your layout needs to be Kaiser products. There are some fantastic prizes up for grabs so give it a go!

My layout for the challenge sample uses Secret Bird Society which I looove! I dug out some old photos from nearly 16 years ago on our honeymoon - a blast from the past!

Another Travel Layout

I have so many photos from our holiday to get through that I decided to print some smaller photos to get heaps onto a page.

I love this travel range from Making Memories which really matched the photos well and I dug into my stash for some older chipboard letters as well.

I found out this afternoon that 19 boxes of product is being delivered to Scrapbook City on Monday so guess who will be at Scrapbook City on Monday. I may also have to do a trip before then as the new Prima has arrived today!!

New Basic Grey Wander

I was so excited to be given some of these papers to do a layout with for Scrapbook City. Unfortunately there were only the alphas and die cut shapes to use but they were really nice all the same.

I love the photos of the kids at Hartley's Croc Farm - we had such a great time there. I will also be doing a second page with the WRMK page inserts with photos of the crocs and other animals we saw that day.

Stay tuned as Scrapbook City is starting a series of challenges on the blog. I have done my layout for the first challenge and will post as soon as it is up on the Scrapbook City Blog.

I have also ordered some more things from Etsy and some wonderful storage things for my new scrap area in our office. I will post some pics of my brand new scrap area when it is finished in the next couple of weeks - can't wait!