Shimelle's Online Crop

Shimelle has done it again :) I've been having a scrapping lull and haven't really been in the mood but in the last six hours I have created five LOs!!

Shimelle's online crop started yesterday at 6pm with a cupcake challenge. I was amazed when I looked through my papers this afternoon and found that I have no cupcake paper at all. But I did remember buying some cupcake fabric last year so I dug that out for this LO about Connor's favourite part of making cakes.

Shimelle loves her woodgrain and asked us to scrap her LO with a woodgrain title for the next challenge of the evening. I used a big photo of Bailey's first walk and stamped using the banana frog woodgrain stamp (although the bottom worked better than the top). For the first challenge of today Shimelle asked us to scrap using four squares as a background. I condensed the sqaures slightly as the photo is fairly small and it allowed space for some journalling and doodling around the edges too.
The 2pm challenge was to lift one of four LOs. As luck would have it I had started a lift last year, so I took the oppurtunity to finish it off for this challenge :)It's times like these that I am glad I am a messy scrapbooker :) I pull bits out for LOs and then I don't like them but they stay on my table. So I had some scraps left over from previous LOs and bits of material and all sorts laying around on the desk so I was able to put this LO together. I love the hearts which are an idea I got from Kathleen Glossop.

Thanks Shimelle :)

Up for Anything: New Beginnings

I've removed the journalling from this one, but this is my entry in to the CJ 'New Beginnings'.

Starter for Ten: 'Christmas Traditions'

The Starter for Ten CJ this month saw me scrapping Christmas Traditions. We always put our letters for Father Christmas on the bird table. Robin takes it to him, and also tells him if we've been bad or good this year :)

AMOP The return

The CJ I've been doing for the last two years hosted by Alicat, 'All My Own Photos' came to an end last month but we decided to stick together for another round so here's my entry for March 2010 'New buddy'. I couldn't find paper that inspired me so I used some sacking instead and I like the feel of the LO as a result.

The Studio Challenge

Another weekend, another challenge from 'The Studio'. Amanda wrote 'This week I want to see your boy pages! Whether you have a son, a brother, a husband or a father, lets see them on a layout! And because this is, after all, a challenge - you can't use BLUE!'. Okay, so I may have cheated just a teency, weency bit but since I have a new boy in the house it seems a shame not to scrap about him. This one also doubles up as my Chinese Whispers LO for Group 1, lifted from Debbie's 'Poser' LO:

Happy Easter

Happy Easter everyone :)

Well, the weather has actually been pretty kind after all. On Friday we had a lovely trip to Brighton and ate fish and chips in the sunshine on the beach! Yesterday we spent the morning in London doing some window shopping and enjoying ourselves, again in the sunshine and this morning I've been doing some gardening.

Today is Sunday so it's challenge day on 'The Studio'. To be perfectly honest I'd forgotten that it was my turn to do a LO this week but luckily the LO I did this week for my Chinese Whispers life fitted with the premise, and is what I was going to scrap about anyway :) So in today's challenge Amanda says 'Well, spring is here! Is everyone else as excited as I am to have warmer weather on the way? So this week, let's focus our layouts on the theme of "New Life". Interpret that however you like! Happy Easter!'

New life for me right now means Bailey, our puppy so here's the LO :)

Prize Draws

Welcome to April everyone :) It started off so promisingly down here with glorious sunshine and I was able to get out in the garden this morning, but the sunshine dissolved in to showers after lunch sadly. Tomorrow we're off to Brighton for a day trip and it's looking like rain then too- sigh!!

But now on to more cheerful things- PRIZES!!!! I have lots of winners to announce :)

There were four lovely LOs created to be in the draw for the £10 Indigo Mill voucher from Sarah, Sarah, Caroline and Jenny. And the randomly selected winner is Caroline and here's her LO.

The signed copy of 'Paper, Scissors, Death (Kiki Lowenstein Scrap-N-Craft Mysteries)' by Joanna Campbell Slan is on it's way to a new home with Toni who had this to say:-

Alma is the very lucky winner of $10 'My Little Bit of Whimsy' gift voucher thanks to Kathleen. Here's Alma's LO.

Papermaze sent me a pack of prima goodies for five lucky commenters and those randomly selected people were: Brittany(27 March 2010 20:19), Natalie (22 March 2010 19:34), GrammaR (22nd March 2010 07:19), Jimjams (20 March 2010 16:49) and hlcarroll (20 March 2010 22:27).

Terri was the random winner of Nic's giveaway :)

Winning the Basic Grey stamp set from Craft Emporium is my5bratz:

The Pencil Lines Sketch Book is yours Jenny

Thank you again to everyone who joined in and congratulations to the winners. Please can you email me your address and I'll get the prizes to you after Easter? rebekah_brumby at yahoo.co.uk