Just be You...

Hello everyone,

Nothing like leaving a challenge until the last minute but I have been working on this Get Picky Inspiration Challenge #3 for the last few days in between helping my sister clean up her house and business after the floods, so it has taken me a lot longer than I wanted it to. 

Now, I know you are probably wondering what on earth did I use for my inspiration....simple....the orange in the flames and candles really stood out as well as the silver and blue tones and not to mention the pattern wall paper.

Loved using the Pink Paislee Parisian Anthology Papers.  Sprayed it with some Graphite GM, rubbed it in until you could see the pattern behind and then sprayed some Jazz Blue GM on top of that, and rubbed it. Just a very simple layout but I love it!

Thanks for stopping by....I appreciate all your comments!
xo

I feel like scrapping...

and this is what I am playing with!!!  Super cool!!

Thinking of all my family and everyone else down in the SE corner!! What a horrible ordeal for the whole of Qld! A Christmas/New Year that none of us will forget anytime soon!

Love to you all
xxxx

Guest Designer...

I was very excited to be asked to be January's Guest Designer for the new Challenge Blog "SHOW US YOUR STUFF"!!  I was provided with this awesome sketch along with some flowers from Pretty Petals.

Sketch:

(Cheeki Boy):

Just a few close up's of the Pretty Petal's flowers.

My little Finlay being his usual cheeky little self!!  He thought he was so clever that he could fit inside this basket!!

Hope you all had a lovely weekend. Ours was good, nothing out of the ordinary.  Brad was on call and didn't get much of a weekend.  Work is so busy at the moment as you can expect.  Oh well on a brighter note, I am nearly caught up on jobs.  Hope to do some scrapping this week!

xo

CHECK THIS OUT!!!

Check this giveaway out!!! How awesome is this girl! :) What an amazing RAK to win!

Go HERE to find out all the details!
xo

Top 10 for 2010

Okay, so I am a little late with mine, but better late than never hey!  Out of 148 Layouts that I did last year, it sure was hard to pick 10! But here they are for no partcular reason or order.

Thanks for looking :) Have a super duper weekend!
xo

New Challenges....

I am sure most of you have all seen the new challenges for January 2011.  Here are a couple that I did as part of being on the Creative Team.

WHITE WITH 1

White + Royal Blue or Navy with Banners.  I found this one a little difficult.  Not sure why, I fussed and fiddled for ages, with this and that and finally I was happy with this. 

(You love the sand between your toes)

My banners are fabric just stapled on to cardstock.

KRAFT IT UP

This month the challenge is to create a layout on Kraft with "SUMMER" as your inspiration, you are also required to use "a SUMMER" word in your title.

I am not usually a Kaiser fan but I totally loved the Seaside range.  It was exactly what I was after to do this challenge. Spot the little birdie pin from the Chip Chop Shop.

(Summer Fun)

I made this flower...love it how it turned out!

Love those little cute star fish and whale button!

Go on over and check out all the other CT samples...lots of gorgeous inspiration.  Can't wait to see your entry.  And a huge welcome & congratulations to the new CT members at Kraft It Up.  Look forward to working with you.

Have a fabulous Friday!

xo

I'm Home!!!!!

Hello to you all :)

First of all HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!! Hard to believe that its 2011 already!! Wishing you & your families all a very happy and healthy year.

Well since I last blogged, so much as happened! Where do I even begin to tell you what the last 2 weeks have been like for us!!

Thank you to all you gorgeous girls out there that have left messages on my blog, emailed, text etc to see how we have been fairing in the recent floods. Its always nice to know that others care.

So without writing a novel, lets just say I am VERY happy to be home....

Since we left home, we have been stranded waiting for floodwaters to drop, to get from one town to the next, we cut our Christmas holiday short with family just so we could get out and start heading north before the water levels rose too high.  Water was lapping the road edges, roads were being shut behind us as we proceeded to head north in the pouring rain. Only to reach Rockhampton (3 hours east of our town of Emerald) to hear of the major flooding that would occur in our town.  HEARTBREAKING, DEVASTATING, STRESSFUL, HELPLESS are only some of the words to describe how were feeling along with the LONGING of wanting to be at home, knowing that there was no way we could get home anytime soon. 

STUCK.....all roads home were closed!

BUT....we were one of the handful of people in this community that lives in the area that was left high and dry.  SO VERY THANKFUL.

So we knew that it would more more than an overnight stay till we could get home, so overnight motels were out of the question with two energetic boys!  So we stayed here....

Capricorn Resort at Yepoon....totally worth it! Sorry dodge photo, pulled it off the internet!

More holiday photos to come!!! We managed to do heaps of swimming, relaxing, shopping, walks along the beach and catch up with some friends.

Driving into our town the other day, we were SHOCKED at the condition of our town, just about every house has piles of furniture and other household goods stacked out on the footpath, waiting for it to be taken away.  The town is dirty....mud and debris everywhere...something we have never seen before. My heart goes out to these people as I don't know how I would go if I lost everything...

Anyway, I have oodles to do, lots of household chores need doing after being away.  Brad will be super busy at work now.  Being a sparky, his phone will be running hot!  Mines are still shut because of all the rain so he will be working in town for a while getting our community up and running again.

I have lots to catch up on here in the scrapping world, so bear with me...I will be around to visit you all in the next few days! Hopefully I may do some scrapping soon too!

Till then....
xo