Author: Caroline

  • An OTP & new layout

    A (very) pink Princess door hanger for the Mystical Scrapbook OTP challenge.

    And I finally got round to starting my Scrap Your Happy album.

    Didn’t get round to finishing my WDY LO (lost a pic somewhere between the study & the kitchen table & I cannot find it anywhere) but will hopefully get it done today/tonight.

  • Another new layout share

    I seriously love this layout.

    This little cutie was a gift from mum & dad on my 30th birthday (last month). It’s one of my favourite pressies (still waiting on the mp4 player pressie from hubby but that’s another story ….. grrr at slacker eBay sellers)

    Did the layout for the Mystical Scrapbooks Music Madness challenge. Working on my We Dare Ya challenge tonight so will hopefully have another layout share later today.

  • Layout sharing & a cyber crop

    We Dare Ya layouts 3, 4 & 5

    Challenge 3 – My Obsession (not the best pic)

    Challenge 4 – Favourite Things

    Challenge 5 – Bling

    And for the Mystical Scrapbook Music Madness challenge (8 weeks with each week having a musical theme)

    Jazz

    Metal

    That’s it for now. Don’t forget to pop on over to Mystical Scrapbooks on Friday 29th Feb to join in their Cyber Crop.

  • Scrapbooking? How do you motivate yourself and still enjoy the process??

    (& a layout share or two)

    A new challenge over at MS – Rock Your Blog. Giving us prompts to blog about. This week’s prompt –  Scrapbooking? How do you motivate yourself and still enjoy the process??

    How do I motivate myself? hmmm forum challenges & sketches mainly. I usually find a challenge or a sketch (sometimes even a layout in a gallery or mag) sparks an idea that I have to scrap. Other times it’s just an element

    I find I need to organise time to scrap otherwise I never get anything done LOL The knowledge I’m creating something for future generations (& kids when we have them) keeps me motivated (no matter how discouraged I get when I get knocked backed after submitting layouts – all that’s important is that I like my layouts right?)

    Anywho onto the layouts. MS had their monthly Cyber crop over the weekend. I missed a fair bit cause I’ve had a shocking migraine (ended up in bed on Sunday because of it) managed to get four challenges done thou.

    Challenge 1 – scrap a day in your life…incorporating a list

    created using Prima Paintables from Prima Hybrid (I’m LOVING these)

    Challenge 2 – produce a layout using both hearts and flowers, but the hearts have to be HANDMADE

    (I love this pic) Made the heart & flowers using chippie, wedding dress material, felt flowers & heart brads.

    Challenge 3 – you need to make a card using the word LOVE and something red as an embellishment

    Challenge 4 – the challenge is to make and decorate a gift box (using a template)

    Okies that’s all from me today.  Have a great day!

  • Another two layouts

    For the Mystical Scrapbook Sketch challenge

    & the colour challenge (just need to ink the title)

  • We Dare Ya Challenge 2

    Well I was gonna do some scrapping tonight. Got my WDY challenge page done & then meh. Don’t know what I want to do. Got other challenges to do but just can’t motivate.

    Gonna share this then go play a game of Need for Speed lol

    Loving the Urban Lily papers atm

    okies I’m off for some NFS

  • A couple of new digi layouts

    So I know I’m on Laura White‘s CT but I seriously love her products & want to share with you her AWESOME doodles, more specifically her Notebook Expressions series. Seriously awesome.

    Anywho I’m starting a digi art journal & here’s two pages from it using Laura’s doodles

    Cover by Jackie Eckles
    Alpha & Doodle by Laura White (Princess Lala)

    Page by Jackie Eckles
    Doodle by Laura White (Princess Lala)

  • OTP, Art Journals & Cyber crops

    Got the OTP challnge at Mystical Scrapbooks done. The challenge was to alter a mint tin BUT the tin had to serve a purpose.

    Here’s my first (yup I’m making two) – a change tin.

    Two cyber crops last night, one for ScrapWorld & one for Mystical Scrapbooks. Only got one LO finished thou. I’ve decided I am doing an art journal this year (after buying one last year & not doing it lol)

    One of the MS challenges was to create a page that shared our 2008 resolutions. The page had to include a pic of ourself, journaling in list form, use black, white & one other colour (I chose purple) & some bling. So anywho I’ve made this my first page of my 2008 AJ.

    Still have to scrap a blurry pic (& use 10 brads min), a page with purple pics, a page about a game & a page about my scraproom. Fairly easy as I have ideas for all of them. Will share pics later & update the great scraproom adventure 😉

  • The Great Scrap Room Adventure

    (originally posted on my personal blog)

    So I have a room. I’m going to use this room from scrapbooking. I’m going to blog about my adventures in setting up & organising this room. Along the way I’ll share pics, layouts & hints & tips.

    ATM I scrap on our kitchen table, only real problem with this is hubby & his mates also use said table of a weekend to play D&D, so your’s truely has to clean up the table every Saturday. Anywho, there is a room on the back of our garage that I’m gonna turn into my scrap room/cropping space (so I can have friends over to scrap). Only real problem atm this room out the back has no net connection, that & my computer for out there (yeah I own two computers – we have 5 working computers plus a laptop & numerous non working computer at our place – hubby’s into computers) is sitting in bits cause I needed a hard drive for another project (yup I’m a computer nerd ;))

    Will post before pics on Saturday. Feel free to share pics of ur room or any sites you think are helpful.

  • 2007 Christmas Cards

    (moving more craft stuff from my personal blog)

    Here’s some of the Christmas cards I’ve made this year.