My very first TSE Cybercrop Challenge

It is that time again over at The Scrapbook Establishment, my favourite time Cybercropping time! This month it is the theme 'Seasons" and I was lucky enough to be able to set one of the challenges for a Layout. So here is the criteria I came up with for my challenge.

1. Spring Things - I want to see spring things on your layouts like trees, flowers, birds, butterflies, animals, anything that is springy!

2. Bright Colours - I want to see lots of bright colours used.

3. Cutting out - by this I mean cutting out elements from patterned papers such as flowers, flourishes, leaves, anything you wish to cut out from your papers to add to your layout. ( If you look at the leaves on my challenge example you will know what I mean by this)

4. Handmade Embellishments - I want to see embellishments that you have made on your layouts rather than the already bought made ones!

Ok so this my Layout I did as an example of my challenge. Yes the photos are a little old they were taken nearly a year ago, but just too cute not to scrap.

Well if you would like to take part in my challenge or the other two challenges that have been set by the fabulous Tanya and Ngaire then head on over to TSE. You have until midnight Saturday 22nd August to have your work uploaded into the gallery. Hope to see you there we always love to see new people around the forum. Can't wait to see what you all come up with.

Thanks for looking and all the comments. Take Care and See you all next time.

My Secret is Out Now!!

I have been asked to be on the Design Team for The Scrapbook Establishmenthttp://www.thescrapbookestablishment.com.au/store/index.php and of course I accepted ,I am both honoured and over the moon about this news I really still can't believe it.
Sadly though the Fantastic Ruthy Clarke has left the Design Team due to other commitments, she will be sadly missed from the team. Her work is truly beautiful and inspirational too you can check out her work here http://ruthclarke.typepad.com/weblog/ Definitely worth taking a look at her blog I know I do all the time!
Well that was my secret and I don't have anything to share at the moment I have been really slack and have had no urge to do anything not even Scrapbboking. Hopefully it passes really soon.
Anyway Thanks for popping in and all your comments.
Take Care.

I have a big secret!!

I have a really big secret to share but unfortunately I can't share it just yet! I should be able to share in the next day or 2 or maybe 3!!!
Sorry about the tease but I am very excited and had to let a little bit of the secret out!
Keep tuned and all will be revealed soon.
Thanks for popping in and Take Care.

A few pages to share

A few pages to share. I have decided to do Beth's little challenge of creating 20 pages before I get tempted to buy any of the new stuff. So here is 2 pages to start my little challenge off.

Photo's from our Hong Kong Trip of course. A few of the photo's have jumped at me straight away and I had to scrap them. I am back to a little creative block again at the minute. Hopefully it passes in the next few days.

Page 1/20. The star ferry at Hong Kong I just had to scrap this photo of Lily that I took on the star ferry. It is just a gorgeous photo definitely one of my favourites taken.

Page 2/20. I got a new camera overseas and I was playing around with the rapid fire and naturally as soon as I saw these photo's I had to get them printed straight away so that I could have a play around. There is 12 photo's in total that I cut Lily out of and stuck on top of each other in there correct sequence. I love the finished result.

Well that's about it for the moment. Depending on the mind block as to when I will have more to share. But for now Thanks for looking and all your comments I love to hear from you all.

See you later and Take care.

Finally some Holiday photo's to share!!!

Well Hello to everyone! I am Back from oversea's and I finally have some photo's to share for you all to look at. I did try my hardest while overseas to update the blog but couldn't access a usb port on any of the computers to download the photo's so this is why you have had to wait until I got back home to do it. Well here are a few out of my 3000 photo's that I took in the 3 weeks that we were away, I hope you enjoy. The trip was great we all had a ball and were amazed by alot of the places that we went to and all of the history behind these places is very inspiring. My highlight was definitely the Great Wall of China it just goes on forever up and down the mountains as far as you can see. All of it I of course loved.

Well I will stop jibbering on and get onto the photo's. Here we go.

Us at dineyland Hong Kong in Minnie's House.

Lily in the Forbidden City.I love this photo I acn't wait to have a little play around with the editing.

Lily walking her little bit of the Great Wall. Kel and Lily on the Great Wall of China.

Kel and Lily in front of Tian'anmen Square Beijing China. Me and Lily outside the Forbidden City, Beijing China.

Our first Panda Bear!! Ocean Park, Hong Kong. The Giant Budha on Lantau Island Hong Kong.

The Victoria Harbour laser and light show on every night at 8pm.

Up on Victoria Peak Observation Deck in Hong Kong

Well thanks everyone for taking the time to share these photo's and of course I don't have anything scrappy to share at the minute where I have been away but hopefully soon I will.

Thanks for looking and Take Care.

We are off to Hong Kong and China TODAY!!!! OMG!!!

I know photo's first but I will explain below!!!!!!

We leave for Hong Kong and China this morning like in about an 1 1/2 hours to be exactYes I haven't fallen off the face of the earth have just been very very very busy getting ready for today. Packing, Washing, Working and all the rest of the usual stuff as well as being a little sick. I haven't even had time to do any scrapping which definitely isn't like me at all but I do however have these pages I can share now. I was asked a few weeks ago if I would be interested in being a guest designer for the inspiration newsletter at The Scrapbook Establishment.

http://www.thescrapbookestablishment.com.au/forum/index.php

I got to work with the new Imaginisce Twitterpated papers, very cute they are so this is what I came up with, I had to also do an OTP project too. Don't look to closly at it as I hate OTP and it definitely won't be the best you have seen, but it's passable.

Well sorry about the weird set up of this post my mouse has stopped working properly so I can't move the photo's to where I want them and I don't have time to fix it so it will have to do. Well I had better be off otherwise we won't be ready when the Transfer guy comes at 7am. Take care everyone and I will do my best to keep the blog updated while we are overseas with photo's along the way.

Thanks for taking the time to look.

I've been Tagged!

I have been tagged by the gorgeous and talented Tanya. You can check out all of her fantastic work here, http://sweetaboutme-tanya.blogspot.com/ she makes the most stunning cards and layouts. So here I go here are the Questions with 8 answers and also the people that I have tagged.

8 Things I look forward to:
1. Going home to my gorgeous partner and daughter.
2. Scrapbooking.
3. Weekends (family time)
4. Going to Hong Kong and China.
5. Going overseas many many more times.
6.When we eventually build in our garage to make our new study/scrap room.
7. Having a shower of a night straight before I go to bed.
8. When I finally get my new digital SLR Camera and do my photography course.

8 Things I did Yesterday:
1. Went to work for half the day. (5am on a Sunday morning! AARGH!!)
2. Checked my emails and blog hopped. (Really should have been scrapping)
3. Was talking to my good friend and neighbour over at her house for about 1 1/2hrs while Lily played with the kids.
4. Had Fish and Chips for dinner.
5. Washing.
6. Dishes.
7. A tiny bit of scrapping.
8. Went to bed at a descent hour.

8 Things I wish I could do:
1. Be a Stay-At-Home Mummy.
2. Live in America and travel around while over there.
3. Get a bigger house or do some extensions to our house.
4. Scrap without interruptions.
5. Be self employed or own our own business.
6. Have a never ending fund of money in my bank account.
7. Organise and de-clutter my house to get rid of all the crap!!
8. TRAVEL! TRAVEL! TRAVEL!

8 Things or Shows I have watched lately.
1. Grey's Anatomy (LOVE this show, definitely my favourite)
2. Desperate Housewives ( is about to start so will be going to watch it in a tick)
3. Mastercheif (My FIL watches it so I saw it while I was cooking)
4. The Wiggles.
5. The Wiggles.
6. The Wiggles.
7. and some more of The Wiggles.
8. News.

People I have tagged:
1. Tracey Wilson
2. Samantha Hauzer
3. Ruth Clarke
I can't tag many other people as they have already been tagged, so this is my short list.

Should be back during the week with some sneaks of the scrapping I have been up.
Take care and thanks for looking at my blog.
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