Scrapbook dreams Circle Journal

Back in October last year I decided to participate in my first circle Journal on the Scrapbook Dreams forum. A few weeks ago I received my finished Journal which has been all over the country. It is so amazing and I love it and thank you so much to the ladies that contributed their talent, time and money into probably the largest journal in the group.

The topic I chose was the A to Z of me as I thought it would be interesting. I chose to do an 8 X 8 journal due to the topic.

The Cover



Welcome and sign in Pages



The sign in page was made up of tags made by each of the ladies with their names and forum names on. The tags:



My page



Shell was the first to get my journal and this is her striking page



Lee was next with her lovely page with some bling and great alphas



Tricia with her beautiful page - I love those butterflies - one of my first cuttlebug dies too.



Next was Michelle with this gorgeous page I love the colours and flowers



Here is Tracy's - Great idea with the flaps so there was more space to write.



And here is Ngaere's Page - an awesome page with heaps of embossing



This is Jane's page - I just love the school look about it



Here is Rangi's page - love the clean lines (something I struggle with) and different colour rectangles.



Next was Lianne's turn and here is her cute layout - love the bugs



and for the journals last stop it went to Esthers place and here is her lovely page which was great as there was enough space for a photo.



Here is the sign out page which includes ATC's with a monogram of the initial of each contributor to the journal



and here are the ATC's



and finally the back cover



Thanks again Ladies for your contribution to my journal which is a real treasure.

Inchies and ATC's

Over the last few months I have been involved with a few ATC swaps and Inchie swaps at scrapbook Dreams and one at SBBD and have not shared won my blog.

My first ATC swap was Fairy Tales and here is what I got (the bewitch one is mine)



My second swap was flora and fauna (mine is the one with the felt tree and stamped bird)



The third swap was to use a photo on a ATC - mine is the NZ themed one



The fourth swap I hosted and it was a celebrity swap. I did Johnny Depp movies and kept the sleepy hollow ATC.



Yet another swap saw some christmas ATCs being done and a summer ATC swap as well. My Christmas one is the reindeer one (it has been damaged) and the big stamped sun is mine in the summer swap.





Our favourite Drink was next - mine is the Zero coke one.



My last one that I participated in at Scrapbook Dreams theme was bugs and mine is the one in the centre



My first one at SBBD was cats - I chose the tiger as it is my favourite cat.



I have done four inchie swaps at Scrapbook Dreams - 3 three inch ones and 1 one inch lot. Inchies are similiar to ATCs they are just square and can be more dimensional. The little ones theme was little things and I used a little bead shaped like a ladybug. The black and white set I have put on a black canvas - with mine being the creative heart. The other themes are Christmas (green with stamped Christmas trees)and rainbow (green was my colour).










Thanks for looking

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.

Scrapbook dreams October Sketch challenge

I have not done many layouts recently. I have been very busy at the Scrapbook Dreams forum with ATC's, Inchies and a circle Journal (my first one) so decided to do the October Sketch. It is a multi photo sketch with the theme been Collections and as my collection of home made teddy bears is packed away I have done a layout with my scrapbooking products collections and instead of photos have used the products themselves.

Here it is:

Recent Guest Sketch Designer Layouts.

Well before finding out about my contributor role at Sketchbook I put my name down to two forums to be a Sketch Designer one at Stampin Scrap for October two layouts and two sketches using some of the product from Stampin Scrap shop - the other forum is Scrapbook Dreams. Great practice for the contributor role.

So first two are Stampin scrap and last one is for Scrapbook dreams (done very quickly this afternoon).

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