Scrapbook Divas Crazy Crop Week

... starts ... TODAY !!!

So check out all the challenges, fun and chat HERE. There's prizes and RAK's throughout the week so come and join us.

It's also Divas 4th Birthday month so Michelle has already kicked off the celebrations with a store-wide sale. When the stock is gone though, it's gone so BE QUICK.

How ironic ...

I posted last time about how excited I was to finally have a LO accepted for publication ... and then what do I find in my in-box today??? Yep, another acceptance ... but ... it's for the SAME LO!!! This time Scrapbook Creations want my "Family" LO ... but I've already sent it off to Creating Keepsakes.

WAAAAHHHH!!! Not fair ... but kinda funny, sort of ...

Anyway, moving right along to some eye candy ...

This first LO is my sample for Scrapbook Divas March Mystery Challenge. The challenge this month is to create a LO with NO patterned paper. Yep you read right - none, nil, nup, nadda ...


But it's not as hard as you might think ... hints ... use a large photo, or a heap of smaller ones, dont be afraid of "white space" and "balance", you can go nuts with your embellies such as alphas, die cuts, flowers etc. You could even create your own backgrounds and accents with stamps, masks and like I've done on my Kraft, Maya Mist.

Remember you have until midnight on the 28th March to upload your entry to the correct gallery to be in the running for $10 Diva Dollars.

This next LO I created for the FAS weekly challenge over at Scrapz.Biz.

And this one here is for the WC weekly challenge at Scrapz.Biz too.

Can you believe that I managed to complete all 4 weekly Scrapz.Biz challenges? What an effort, well from a procrastinator such as myself LOL.

So til next time ... hope you'll leave me some love :o)

Little toot ...

I got happy (e)mail this week :o) An acceptance from Creating Keepsakes (Aussie Reader Gallery) for my "Family" LO I did using the Divas February kit. Happy camper here! I've posted it off so now I eagerly await the commissioning letter just so I know it's REAL.

On Thursday I wasn't feeling 100% so I decided to forget most of the housework and relax ... by scrapping. This is what I created ... thanks to inspiration from the lovely Sheree, who presented the Scrapz.biz weekly Build It Up challenge.

I didn't have a shadow box handy (and the scrapping budget is a big faz zero ATM) so I just took the glass out of an old frame instead. Not quite as effective but it will have to do.


This next LO is for 3 Angels Scrapping Feb sketch challenge.

And this last page is my entry for the Feb challenge over at a brand new challenge blog called Kraft It Up. As the name suggests it's about using KRAFT products. This month's challenge was to use Kraft (duh) and lots of distressing.

I used some Maya mists (hmmm, these are becoming addictive as I've recently added a few to my meagre collection), lots of inking and roughing up the edges of the papers. I also made the circle flowers - just punched 3 different size circles, misted with water, scrunched and unravelled them, stuck a brad in the middle and da-dah!

Lots of pics for you

Ok, so today's pics & news first ... it's been raining ... AND raining ... over 6 inches in the last 10 days actually so we're happy little farmers here ATM.

These pics I took earlier today when we went for a drive around the area to see creeks and rivers running.

It wasn't long ago I took a photo looking in the same direction (NW) as this one except it was a dust storm rolling in. This picture today is a sheet of rain coming in. Oh and notice the green!


This photo is looking up our driveway - there's water flowing over it from the paddocks in afew places, not too deep, but just indicating that the paddocks cant soak up any more, at least not keeping up with the amount of rainfall.

This dam is full, almost overflowing in fact because the water running into it cant go anywhere else now than over and out. But that's ok ...

This is showing the water running into it from the paddocks up behind. Actually our paddocks are to the left and behind me, what you see over that fence is our neighbour's.

So that's all the excitement around here on Valentine's Day LOL.

Onto other news ... 2 weeks ago our daughter Caitlin started school. Here she is on her very first day of Kindergarten, we are so proud of her. She went off without any dramas and has been pretty good about the whole school "thing" in general. So grown up ... sigh ...

And on a creative note ... here's some LO's I've created using some yummy new stuff in the Divas Shop - "Bright Day" from an Australian Company, Paper Inklings.

I must say I'm not a fan of purple, or lilac or anything like that, but I really loved working with this range and was so surprised at how the pages turned out.

Divalicious Feb 2010 Kit

Here's what I've created from the gorgeous February Divalicious Kit from Scrapbook Divas.
It's only $35 for a lovely mix of vintage inspired papers and embellishments along with some cute and pretty fresh goodies too. Be quick though because I think Michelle only has a few left, if she's not already sold out!!! And it's not quite February yet.

You can see more details of my LO's etc here ...

Hi everyone, just popping in to share some LO's. At the various sites I hang out on, there's been various versions of "use your stash" challenges and activities. I haven't kept up with them all unfortunately but I've been playing along with my own version LOL.

So here's some work, mostly using old stash, trying to whittle down that pile to justify new goodies LOL.

This LO of my husband is more about the words of the song which is on Lee Kernigan's new CD which he got for Christmas. It's a beautiful song and I'm sure it's written just for him LOL.

And yes I'm using up more old stash like these Kaiser pp's, Thickers and Thicker shapes and these cute little wooden buttons which you will find scattered throughout so many of my LO's over the years. My girlfriend found a box of them at a garage sale back when I first started seriously scrapping so she gave me a heap and finally, I seem to have used them up. Shame in a way cos a girl can never have enough buttons.

This LO is for my Product & Technique challenge over at Divas this month. The challenge was to create a LO (or other project) using lots of layering and at least 1 element that was 3 or more layers. My flower embellishment is in fact 8 layers in all!

Better late than never ... I dont think I put my Christmas LO's up when it was actually Christmas LOL. Silly me 'eh. This LO was for one of the 12 Days of Christmas over at Scrapz.biz (and thanks to the lovely Heike I was the lucky day 6 winner - I got 6 different festive scrapping goodies, all totally divine).

And finally, I had started this LO before we left for Christmas in Brisbane using the products in my 3 Angels Scrapping Guest DT kit, but didn't get to finish it til we got home. Everything except the flowers and bling is Basic Grey Eskimo Kisses range which was just gorgeous.

Tonight - Friday 22nd January - over at Divas we're having our "chat & scrap" evening. Log into the chatroom from 7:30pm AEDST for all the fun and join in Bingo and the Blind Scrap challenge too (RAK up for grabs).

I've finally got some LO's to show you but, rather embarassingly, they are not a great start to my DT duties, isn't that terrible. But hey, I'll subject you to them anyway. It can only get better from here right???

Anyway, there was method in the madness behind this first page - Nat's challenge of using 10 scraps of pp & c/s plus assorted alphas - so I did a crazy patchwork with my scraps (most of them I didn't even trim) whacked on a picture, some alphas and a few simple embellies.
It was actually a fun project.

This next LO is a scraplift (yep, and I'm supposed to be a DT member LOL) but the LO on the October Afternoon blog caught my eye so I just had to have a go. Besides, it was very quick and easy so it was a bonus. I used up some old American Crafts pp, some old and new tree embellies, plus some old foam thickers some of which I turned this way or that, or cut, to make the required letters.

Hopefully next time I'll have some much prettier eye candy for you. Thanks for looking anyway :)