I have had a pretty busy week scrapping, well busy for me! As I said earlier I have entered the Ultimate Champion at http://scrapbookessentials.co.nz/ there are some amazingly talented competitors and I don't expect to get any prizes, I just love the challenges and it makes me think about my scrapping a little bit differently. So last week I completed the warm up challenge. If you click on the link you should be able to read the journalling, if not and you want to read it leave me a comment and I will put it in here. I really enjoyed this challenge! I got Isaac and Tobyn to help by painting the background. I love the colours it is so bright and fun.
The first official challenge required us to make 2 of our own embellishments. It took me a couple of day to think of what to do and one morning it just popped into my head. SO I knew I was going to make some clay hearts and to a layout about Steve and I. I made the hearts that night but it then took me a few days to actually have the inspiration to do the layout It was a challenge just to find a photo of Steve and I, the most recent one was taken 4 years ago, so I decided to go with our 'engagement' photo. I am pleased with how it came out, though again it pales in comparison to some of the other ladies work.
So far each of my layouts has a little bit done my my kids. Tobyn made the heart in the middle of the layout. So now onto the next challenge.
On Saturday evening I joined the other ladies at http://scrapbookoutletnz.co.nz/ for the crop. It was a lot of fun and I have never scrapped as fast as I did that night!
I made these cards in 1 hour! And I love them. The challenge was to use one piece of patterned paper on a b'day card and a wedding card.
Then we had a scavenger hunt. And Jenny and I won, doodoodoodoo! Jenny and I worked hard on a hunt previously om SBO and Jenny got the final answers and kindly shared the monthly kit and add on with me. This time we did it completely on our own steam but sent our e-mails at the same time, and I won a voucher to use at the store YAY.
The design team also set challenges to gradually do over the next week. The first one was due on Dunday evening. We were challenged to scrap about a name, could be it's meaning, nick names, etc I chose to list the other names we had for Tobyn. I did this layout in a couple of hours. I don't like scrapping so fast, I don't have enough time to really think about it, get the placement right etc. I do like the layout and I am glad I have done it. Tobyn found it very interesting too and wanted to know why we chose Tobyn not Jacob. So there is another layout to do!
Steve turned 40 on Tuesday! We went out for dinner with his parents and that was very nice. I gave him a handmade vouvher to buy a piece of artwork. I was going to get him a multi CD player but he went and bought himslef an 80GB iPod while he was away so there goes the need for a multi CD player! He said he is looking forward to going shopping for some artwork. Tobyn decided he wanted to get him a game. WHen we went looking he was looking more at games he would like to begin with, in the end he chose up-words and it is a great game for us all to play.
We are having a party but it isn't going to be until later in Sept. We are just too big procrastinators! But when it happens it is going to be alot of fun!!!
I have got the builder just arriving to fix the hole in the garage that is due to the dryer vent not being put in right and causing moisture that we didn't notice until the dark mould started showing through, grrrrrr! So better go talk to him, ciao for now
3 comments:
I really love both your layouts for the SE comp, especially the fact that your boys helped with them! So sweet! I agree, it is a pretty daunting competition with some of the ladies in there, but at least it is fun and we'll get 7 layouts done at the end of it! ;-)
Very cool how your boys helped with the LO's. My favorite is the name one. love your take on the theme and how you managed to combine the different pp's and alphas so it does not look busy but only interesting!
Those are such great l/os! I love the hearts that you made and so cool that your boys helped you. We make a good team - next time we split all questions :-)
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