Scrapbox March Sketch Challenge

Well I did last months sketch with a couple of days to spare but this one I did on the first day the sketch was up.

Here it is



a great sketch to work with thanks

Chrstmas Inspiration and contests

My contribution to the build Up to Christmas at Sketchbook this week was Christmas ornaments made from ring boxes and a gift box - I got the idea from my sister who saw something similiar in a magazine using matchboxes.







After I had put these up at Sketchbook - Scrapbook Outlet announced part four of their contest so I decided to use a couple of the lids from the boxes to create these as my entry



Scrapbox contest week three was to create a table ornament and I created a little mini lolly holder out of kiti bags. Had some fun glueing things onto the kiti bags NOT.



Scrappin' patch is about to do their round one reveal of the NIC HOWARD layouts so will be able to share mine soon - new round was announced today before lunch which is toscrap in the style of Mou Saha - which when I first saw it I thought it would be a bit tricky but was inspired and have created mine and it was uploaded this afternoon (you won't see this until two weeks time).

Scrapbox Christmas Challenge week two

As promised here is my layout for the contest week two. the criteria was to do a layout using non traditional Christmas colours as you can see I went PINK!!

Im still here!

I haven't blogged for a while being creating instead and I had run out of broadband. Lots of Competitions, ATCs, challenges set and inspiration creations for Christmas for the Sketchbook. Sit back and relax this post is long!

The Sketchbooks having a Buildup to Christmas where Me and the other contributors are providing some inspiration for Christmas every day except Sundays for the whole month of November. Here is the three items I have come up with:

Matching Bag and tag



Mini Xmas canvases



Christmas list board



I have also set the Friday night Challenge for this week. the challenge is to use haberdashery on a Xmas layout, card or OTP project or Xmas traditional colours on a non Christmas layout - Have a go you have until midnight the 16th of November to get creative. Here is my sample:



I am also a forum member at Scrapbook dreams. They have weekly challenges., monthly challenges and ATC swaps (which I am really enjoying). Here are a creations creations I have done from there:

Weekly Challenge



ATC swap Four Picture perfect -needed a photo on the ATC



I have been joining in Scrapbox's Xmas competition as well - the first challenge was to do a Layout costing less then $10 mine was under $8 (all the bling adds up) - here it is



I have also being participating in Scrapbook Outlets competition and week 2 was to do a set of three Christmas Cards - here are mine - must be feeling patriotic hey!



And if you still here here is my layout for the Scrappin Patch's fortnightly sketch



Thanks for hanging round thought I might do a catchup as have an extra three boys having a sleepover for Brendans Birthday and they might just be settling down now. More to Share on Monday - Have a great week.

Some layouts to share

Just a couple of layouts to share for a couple of challenges
Sketchbook fortnightly sketch



Scrapbox Monthly Sketch - love the ambrosia range from basic grey

My weekend getaway

Well a 26 hour getaway... Tracey from Scrapbook Dreams forum came up with an idea to have a real life get together last weekend at a beach house (a rather large beach house). Due to other members commitments there were just three of us there - Tracey, Kirsten and myself (and their families). I had a great time and it was great to have a break from everyday life. It was great to meet Tracey and Kirsten - I was a bit nervous as I'm quite reserved but with the wonderful company and common interest it was nothing to be worried about - Thanks Ladies. Well I packed 10 page kits up to do various challenges and managed to complete 9,and almost complete one. I finished the 10th one today but won't be able to share just yet. The Scrapjacked layout from the previous post was one of them. One other I can't share just yet as have to ask someones permission to put on my blog as they are in the photos. ( I thought I had done 11 but miscounted)

Here are the others (as this is a long post I won't be putting my ingredients down -if you have any queries just ask in a comment and I will get back to you):

Black Magic Challenge



Sketchbook Fortnightly sketch



Scrapbook Dreams September sketch



Scrappin' Patch Fortnightly sketch



Scrapbooking By Design September sketch - my Favourite



Puzzle sketches September puzzle pieces



Scrapbox NZ September sketch

A Productive Friday

I had a long day yesterday - awake at 6am and back to bed 4am today but is was very productive. Kaitlyn had four hours of kindy and then had lunch and slept for almost two. They have been having 'Olympics practice" at kindy for their Olympics the next two weeks and she was a bit worn out. So I had the morning to clean house , catch up with the washing finally and did a layout in the morning and while she was asleep did another (see two previous posts) and caught up with blogland. We then had the normal pick up from school , dinner and getting the kids to bed. I then had another four hours to do some scrapping (layouts later). We then woke the kids up and watched the opening ceremony of the Olympics and had a midnight feast of chicken nibbles, chips and other goodies including a batch of peanut brownies baked at 2:30am - something different and a bit of fun.

Here's the layouts created last night:

Cherish - Girls Night in Challenge at Stampin' Scrap



products used
Basic grey paper and tag
American Craft alphas
lace trim
Heidi swapp alphas
Kaisercraft Pearls
Chipboard Butterfly

Stay close - Scrapbox NZ August Sketch Challenge




Products used
Prima paper and tag
Kindy Glitz
Kaisercraft Gems and flower
American craft alphas
basic grey chipboard heart


Programmed to play - Scrapbooking by Designs August Sketch




products used
two busy moms, cosmo cricket paper and prima paper
brads
basic grey tag

Boys TV Addicts - Scrap Savvy Ad Challenge




Products Used
Kaisercraft superhero, Scenic Route and Cosmo cricket Paper
Carolees creations mini alphas
fancy pants stamps
whisper ink

LOTS to share

I have been beavering away at some layouts two the last couple of days and four in the last couple of hours well the kids have been drawing.

First up is my layout for KIWI JACK ME UP - jacking Heidis from SBBD layout.  I have put the transparency over some my minds eye paper and put embellishments over the top. I did it last night - I just love this photo.



Next up is a layout for Scrapbook dreams weekly sketch - you had to use a least one rubon.



The next four I did today.

This layout is for Stampin Scrap sketch for the week - I flipped and rotated the sketch this time.



This layout below is for Scrapbooking by Design's July sketch - I love how it has turned out - I bought these papers to do part six of their contest but didn't use them.



Next up is a layout for Scrapbox NZ sketch challenge for July - Katie doesn't look like she is enjoying that fluffy.



Lastly the next layout is for Scrappin Patch's fortnightly sketch which will be based on votes by readers of their blog and finishes tonight at midnight.



Some enabling for you Scrapbox NZ is having a 30% sale on everything until the end of July.  Their Bazzil cardstock is only 0.69 cents per sheet - needless to say 74 pieces found my trolley

: ).

One Sketch - two layouts

Well Scrapbox NZ and Paper Pesto had the same sketch for interpretation this month so I decided to do them one after the other the top one is for Scrapbox and uses some Basic Grey Figgy pudding range papers and the second for Paper Pesto uses their Kits mainly including their very first kit. They are a bit different from the sketch but I have taken the paper blocks idea and put them on both.

Scrapbox NZ April monthly sketch challenge.

This Months challenge at Scrapbox NZ was to do a double layout.  In the sketch itself the photos were bigger (two large ones) but I have used some 6 x 4 and cut them to fit with the sketch.  The sketch also had the photos going over the edge of the one side to the other which I didnt want to do.  The papers I have used are the new basic grey cupcake range which I won six pages as a spot prize at NZ Scrapbooks Basic grey preview breakfast - ooh the waffles were scrummy.

Scrapbox NZ monthly sketch challenge.

I have been busy as you can see from the last few posts. I really wanted to use some of the goodies from my new paper pesto kit so used them for this challenge.  You don't have to just do Love layouts with this kit its very versatile. 

I will upload some 12X6 layouts tomorrow that I did tonight -they are so quick to do (I did four!).  I did them for a challenge that Kelly set up as a spin off for Moniques recycle challenges she set up for the weekend over at Scrapbooking By design.  I don't know if I will have the time to do the others but I have set one up myself. Go check it out via my link on the right and you could get a RAK from me.

Scrapbox NZ Monthly Sketch Challenge

I found another NZ challenge gallery and forum over at Scrapbox NZ and did this layout for the January Challenge. Kaitlyn really had a look as if to say dont eat my cake. A look we get a lot these days stroppy little girl!