New month, new challenges

Who can believe it is June already?? Where has this year gone?? The new month means new challenges. Here are a few LOs that I did over the weekend while I was on retreat :)

First up, The Scrappiest Sketch # 122

This LO was created with the April (and a bit of May) Boy kit from What's Old is New. Awesome boy kits !!! Check them out if you haven't already (but please make sure you leave something for me ;) )

Up next is White with 1 The Criteria was to use

WHITE/RED/CIRCLES OR POLKA DOTS

Next up is Black with 2 and the criteria is to use

BLACK/TEAL/STRING

Please excuse the bad images. My camera wouldn't play nice and let me upload the pics to the computer, so these are from my iphone.

Make sure you check out each of the challenges and play along to win some great prizes.

Have a great day
xx

A few to share

I was lucky enough to be asked to be GDT over at Wicked Princesses this month. The lovely Krissy sent me the "Blue Bird" kit and it is a fabbo kit filled with goodness !!! It was a little different for me as I don't generally do anything "girly".

So far I've created 2 LOs and a canvas. I am working on another LO and hope to have that finished soon. My first LO was the "Sunshine" LO for the BITW challenge and you can see that in my previous post. Here are the others

On the canvas I've used papers as the background, alphas, traced around flowers, cut out butterflies and used lots of paint :)

The new challenge at Black with 2 is now up and the criteria are

BLACK/RED/RECYCLED ALPHAS

Only 9 days to go until I'm off to the Wicked Princesses retreat in Brissy. Going to be a great weekend, and i get to spend it with my gorgeous friend Tam. Now all there is to do is work out what to take !!! Best get on with it.

Off to work now, but I will be taking time to come visit everyone tonight :) Have missed seeing what everyone has been up to over the last week :(

Thanks for stopping by, have a good one

xx

May challenges

I can share the news (and I know I'm late !!), but I was lucky enough to make the CT over at White with 1 !! Until this year I had never even applied for at CT position, and now I'm fortunate enough to be on 4 great teams :) I'm looking forward to working with Mel and the other girls over the next 6 months.

The May challenge is up and the criteria is

WHITE + ORANGE + SCALLOPS

Here's my example

I love this photo of Aidan. Thought the orange complimented the photo quite nicely :)

If you haven't played along before, make sure you head on over here and check out the other CT examples. And, the prizes are fabulous this month so don't miss out.

Black with 2 have a new challenge up, and again, it was quite a challenge for me. The criteria is

BLACK + METALLIC GOLD + MULTI PHOTOS

The black and photos I could do, but the gold.....hhmmm.... really had to put my thinking cap on for that (but I guess that's why it's a challenge :) )

Here's what I did

Hope to see a few more people join in. To see what the rest of the CT did, visit here

I will be back tomorrow with more to share. Working on a couple of things at the moment and hope to have those to share soon too.

Thanks for stopping by and leaving some love :) I really love reading everyone's comments. I haven't visited many blogs this last week due to personal reasons, but, that will all change this week and I can't wait to see what everyone has been doing.

Have a great day
xx

A Little Bit Addicted....

to Red Tulip Easter Rabbits !!! This was the inspiration for my LO for the next challenge over at Black With 2.

The challenge is to use Black (dominant color), with yellow and fabric. Being a scrapper of boys, I don't have a lot of fabric in my stash, so all I could find were fabric lollypop flowers. Not very exciting, I know.... But, here is my LO

Would love to see some of my scrappy friends join in on this one. You have until April 30th to upload your creation :)

Do other people go through stages when they look at their work and go "blah". I am at that stage right now. Feel like I'm in a bit of a rut and am looking for ways to try to change it. I see all these wonderful blogs and what the very talented ladies are doing and wish I could do the things they do to get their work looking so fantabulous !!! Would love to know how you pull yourself out these ruts if it happens to you.

It is now half way through the school holidsys. They are going way too fast !! I am enjoying the lazy days and no rushing. We are off for Easter next Friday and I have plenty to do before then.

Best get on with it. Off to the shops with the boys today and then promised a game of Mouse Trap :) Football training after that, and hopefully I get to finish a couple of LOs I'm working on tonight.

Thanks so much for visiting. It really makes my day :) Your comments are super and I love reading every single one of them

Have a great day.

xx

Black is Back !!!!

Morning all

What a wonderful morning it is here today. Sun is shining and skies are blue :) Great day for washing and doing all the chores, but not for me today. Today I am scrapping !!!! There are so many challenges - gotta love the first day of a new month. And this month, I plan on getting some of them done !!

Black with 2 is back !!!! and the first challenge was a REAL challenge for me.

Black, with LAVENDER (eekkk) and glitter (double eekkkk).

Here is what I managed to find in my stash

I was going through my photo stash and found this one of myself and my bestie from 10 years ago on her wedding day. My, how time flies !!!

I'm rather pleased with how it turned out. I've used no paper on this, just paint, doileys and cardstock to create the background. I have also used one of Krissy's fabulous MVB large black roses, some prima, kaiser and my glitter is the kindy glitz.

So make sure you check out all of the awesome DT work, and come play along.

I've also been making another cake. This was our Celebration Cake that we completed in class last night. The navy blue didn't turn out how I had planned, but other than that, I'm pleased with it. I'm really enjoying making cakes :)

OK, enough from me today. Off to go play with my papers and paints.

Thanks for stopping by

xx

Woot woot - More exciting news

Hi everyone

Hope you're having a great weekend !!!

Black with 2 is back and I'm excited to say that I made the CT !!!! Was totally surprised when Eve emailed me asking to be a part of the team, but am really excited about it.

Check out the announcement here, and check out the talented ladies who are a part of the team.

Well, I'm off to hang washing and then scrap :)

Hope you're having a good one.

Thanks for visiting. xx