What A Scrappy Blog!

2011-09-07T21:42:00.000-07:00

Jason & his cousin, Lilly.

Daniels cute little teeth
When DJ was running around with just pants on, he looked sooooo much like Mick Jagger! Swaying around all over the place.

Interaction is selective.

A dinosaur sensory park

Yes...he is!

Speaks for itself

My sisters very cute cat, Murphy.

Alix was in a car accident :o/

Friday night - boys night in

Daniel, learning how to brush his teeth. He's so clever!

Awesome tour of Beechworth Prison - Victoria

And some more...

Because it's good!!

My little man :o)

Hard days work

Alix's birthday :o)

2011-07-25T23:08:00.000-07:00

These are a double page spread i made of Daniel when he turned 1. I had taken pics of him on the 13th of every month. I shrunk them in Paint to get them to a size where it would fit on here [but it distorted a bit]. He didn't want to lie still for the last one, But it adds to the overall cuteness ;o)

When DJ sleeps in the back seat, he looks so cute!
My big guy :o)

Daniels fav song. He always stops whatever he's doing when he hears this. I changed it a bit. I like my version better :o)

Out of the mouths of babes. Just can't argue with logic!

The progressive haircut. Take a quick chunk here and a quick chunk there. All before he sees the shiny, pretty scissors in my hand!

The things we take for granted...

Coffee with a friend [and her camera hog]

Speaks for itself :o)

This does too [I really love how this page turned out, with Buzz being illuminated like that]

Bowling with the gals on a Saturday night!

Everyones bath is Daniels bath.

Jason the trendsetter!

HOLY CRAP - I"M FAT!!!

I'd never seen pics of me looking so big before. The friends who were there assured me that it was just the camera, that i didn't really look that fat. As much as i appreciated thier bullshit, as it came from a good place. I knew the truth was in fact that i was that fat, and it was the wake up call i needed! Since i started digi-scrapping in 2008, i've made random fatty related pages, and just stored them or pinned them up in the kitchen to remind me that i don't need to look like this.

[You can follow my progress at Losing 100]

Last week i decided that the pages are no good being stored away, so i set up a scrap book just for my weight loss journey. This is the cover i made....

I found this garage thing at our local tip recycle shop for $1. I bought it home, cleaned it up, and the battery thing is undamaged so all the buttons work. Yaaaay.

DJ at a friends birthday party

I love this page. 2 of my favourite guys! John isn't related to DJ at all, but he loves him like he's his own son. And vice versa. It's so sweet!

2011-06-10T18:08:00.000-07:00

Long time no post! Does anyone checkout this blog anyway? Perhaps my layout ideas aren't as great as i think they are lol

This is Mothers day :o)

Daniel turns one [what a long year. I can't believe we all survived! lol]...
Jason is so desperate to be a 'man'...

Hitch hiking at it's funniest...

Rose. She is quite fearless in all the right areas. And it's just one of the many things i love about her!

These two pages below are a bit [a lot] morbid. I did these for me, because it made me feel better at the time. I won't print them and put them in an album. I onlt put them here so they are somewhere other than a desktop folder.

Driving: Not nearly as easy as Mario makes it look!

Daniel watched in awe as a boy push a car around, pretending to drive it. And so he copied him and has been doing it ever since.

Some lives that never were.

My besties :o)

Probably ourmost fattening time of the year!

My oldest daughter, Alix [Daniels mum]

He's such a lush!Our good boy, Buddy. He's so lovely :o)

Too right!

A funky dead house we found on our travels...

Jason, feeling like freak because he has Autism. So i found all the famous people i could who have it, to show him that instead of it being a disability, it's more of an unfair advantage ;o)

My boys :o)

My love affair with Mother energy drink, only got way better when they released the low carb one! WOOT!

2011-01-29T18:38:00.000-08:00

True Love never dies...

The season....
Buddy, and his little obsessions...

Gotta get started early!

I'm back!

2011-01-27T22:22:00.000-08:00

I got my computer up and running again, Woot! Here are the pages that i made immediatly after installing :o)

2011-01-06T22:47:00.001-08:00

My computer has died. I only really use it for e-mails and facebook etc. But the major thing i use it for is my escape and creative outlet - Digi-scrapbooking!
Now i'm lost!!!
I can do the other stuff when i can steal 5 mins on Johns computer, but i don't know how long it will take to repair my computer.

I guess my house will get real clean instead :o/

2010-12-31T00:26:00.000-08:00

I realise most of our pages are of Daniel, and Rose & Jason have pointed it out [Like maybe he's the new favourite]. But he's the smallest person so he's the novalty. Also, most of Daniels pages are going toward making a baby [scrap] book :o)

I made this page and put it on FaceBook . Then a freind suggested i make it a Mario Kart page seen as we all love Mario Kart. So I made two. You tell me what one you like best :o)

Rose has a cute fashion sense. But sometimes it's just...well.... A fashion faux pas!

Our new kitten, Mango :o)

Christmas day is so much more exciting with a baby in the house!

Arty farty :o)

Silliness...

2010-12-04T16:47:00.000-08:00

Self explanitory :o)

This one too. I made this when i had been drinking a lot, but it turned out pretty good i thought :o) Turning 40

I had a surprised birthday party thrown for me and it was awesome! [still making pages of it] I had a pavalova for a cake :o)

Self explanitory...

Oowww it had to come to this eventualy! I have a problem with self dicipline when it comes to drinking. Unfortunatly i drink large [and expensive] amounts of booze when i do drink. And once i start, i don't want to stop. It's a big vicious circle. So...

Self explanitory

Daniel, just lieing in his pram, looking around, contemplating life.

And that he is!

:o)

Nom nom

Self explanitory

It's all fun and games until the ambo gets called

After a nice warm week, we get snow? Only in Blayney!

Rose woke up with a terrible tummy bug on her birthday. What are the chances of that?!?

Rose is my favourite medium size person :o)

Once he starts crawling, we are soooo in trouble!

Those eyes

Rose getting baptised. I love the big pic. The water rushing off her looks like the old washing away, leaving the fresh new behind :o)

You rock our world!

Jason got the same aweful tummy bug Rose had.

Merry Christmas!

2010-10-04T01:23:00.000-07:00

Yes, definatly....

Self explanitary..
Daniel is one of us. His mother isn't raising him because she isn't capable.

Rose & her boyfriend, Alex.

Spring blossoms are always a beautiful thing!

Daniel started turning into a big crying head. Dispite the early childhood nurse saying that babies shouldn't start solids untill 6 months old, Daniel was starving for something solid in his belly! Once he started eating a little bit, he becaome a much more settled baby!

Rose is getting into the horoscopes. Wait til she realises that what Virgo says today, Leo will say tomorrow! lol

Just coz

Going to the movies. But instead of Rose, we had Jasons best friend, Josh.

Daniel the face grabber.

Self explanitary

Experimenting with colour on Piknic.com

Too true! Look at him, just waiting to spit the dummy.

How 9/11 effects everyone.

Self explaintory

Dreams...

Daniel got bronchitus and just stopped eating. He was in hospital for a week while they tried to get him to eat :o/

2010-08-15T00:39:00.000-07:00

This first one is of our cat, Lotus, who sleeps everywhere but his own bed! The picture of the cat in the bowl came from 123MounetteScrapSesChats, and i really love it, and have been waiting patiently to use it!

With me being nuts about cactus, My friend, Glenda, thought a green bonds suit would look the part.

My oldest daughter, Alix, turned 18

Sleepovers. Talking until you slip into slumberland...

Sometimes Daniel just doesn't want to settle into bed. He just wants to be held. And sometimes i'm quite happy to combine the two :o)

My sister, Rochelle, really worried that Daniel was going to vomit on her, and she knew it was coming!
Jason & Josh at the park

Daniel being amused by ducks.

Just me and Jason

A very special moment in time :o)

[It's relevent because Jason has autism]

Rose is always good for a laugh!

Me & Rochelle.

Well....

One grumpy little man!
Rose, learning to run the church coffee shop
Jason with his friend, Yasmine

Just cute.

Roses complicated relationship

Fire!

2010-08-04T05:51:00.000-07:00

All self explanitory :o)

Missing Mum

Buddy, our dog.

2010-07-04T05:07:00.000-07:00

Our 3 hour line up to get in to the midnight premiere of Eclipse.

2010-07-03T07:09:00.000-07:00

All of these are self explanitory :o)

2010-06-13T19:33:00.000-07:00

Self explanitory :o)

My first pics with Daniel :o)
Another self explanitory.

I love Daniels fingers and toes. They really amaze me!

"Dan in a can"

Just stuff

Jason and his newly formed habit of ditching me lol

Bit arty farty :o)

2010-05-29T00:39:00.000-07:00

Our little cutie-pie...

Recycled teenage dating....
Our watch dogs...that mostly just watch.

:o)

Angel Flossy

Angel Flossy 2

Aawwwwww

2010-05-21T21:42:00.000-07:00

My favourite Mothers Day :o)

Flossy was run over last night, right in front of Rose, Alix and some of thier friends . The speed freak just kept going, dispite Rose screaming :o/
Aawwww Johnny was away for work, and i missed him badly :o/

Gee......

2010-05-19T17:57:00.000-07:00

Alix has her baby.....

2010-05-19T06:08:00.000-07:00

Well....

The Anzac day march with Jasons tiny school We've had Buddy for 12 months this month. He's an awesome dog and i'm so glad he came into our lives!
This one just speaks for itself
Our picnic lunch at our towns lookout point.
Rosie :o)
A little more nuttiness!

2010-04-20T23:11:00.000-07:00

Playtime when it's not playtime!

A special moment....
Alix gets to be the red queen after all >:o)

A colourization mistake turns into a great page!

Mixing with the old folk

2010-04-11T03:53:00.000-07:00

My sister who is a world away :o/

Our day at the park....
......

And this was the most memorable part of the day...

2010-04-07T05:15:00.000-07:00

2010-03-28T06:02:00.000-07:00

We live in a small town with no walking tracks as such. So i'm always on the lookout for nice places to trek around....

John took his Mum out for lunch on her birthday.....

This month in the garden....

We went to see Alice In Wonderland & i saw my own kids in some of the characters. I haven't done Alix yet as she's not too happy with me seeing her in the Red Queen lol

Flossy is very good scrapbook fodder when i'm stuck for ideas!

Alix's growing belly :o)

Better late than never lol

Rose & I....

More Flossy....

John & I having some 'us' time....

Us at the opening of How to train your dragon....

2010-03-11T02:37:00.000-08:00

A nice big post!

This first one is Rose being silly with a store dummy. 'Taking a sale home?' lol

Jason loves minigolf sets to play with in the yard. So John took him to a proper golf course to play a real game of golf. Jason thought that was awesome!...untill about 4 holes in lol

Flossy is always good for when i'm bored but need to scrap something lol

I had to sell my car, whitch i love very much! This is the last time i washed her :o/

Our January garden. Bit dull for that time of year, but my garden needs a lot of work.

Johns birthday. I don't like this page at all and i might end up putting a different one together.

This is my first grand child, in utero. He is so precious!

Jasons birthday. He got a DSi after waiting forever! He got other stuff too. But i bet he couldn't say what they were lol

My babies :o)

John and i :o)

2010-03-07T17:00:00.000-08:00

2010-01-22T02:02:00.001-08:00

I love that bottom photo!

2009-11-09T06:19:00.000-08:00

Trying something simple. I'm not sure weather i like it or not yet.

These are the kids of a friends of mine. I made this page for her :o)

And this year Rose went Trick Or Treating for the first time...

My garden

Continued

[Few mistakes in this one. I must have had a headache or something]

My bestie, with her bestie :o)

Being silly, coz silly is fun

Self explanatory

2009-10-19T05:36:00.000-07:00

Jason tends to sleep in some really weird positions. Here he is in a fetal position, but on his back....funny kid! A friends housewarming party.

Jason and his best friend, Josh
Kinda speaks for itself :o)

2009-10-11T00:06:00.000-07:00

This first one is self explanatory

Any of you who have read earlier posts including Alix will understand this. If not. Alix is my estranged 17yo daughter, who has to make everything a big hairy drama!
Another self explanatory one.

It might look like it, but he's actually havoc on four legs! "Search and destroy" is pretty much his motto for life!

Jason is learning some Karate at school. Here he is, showing us some stuff he's learnt :o)

2009-10-04T06:38:00.000-07:00

Flossy Puss. She's such a poser! lol

2009-10-02T01:04:00.000-07:00

All self explanitory :o)

2009-09-26T03:37:00.000-07:00

This first one is of the dust storm that Sydney woke up to and thought it was Armageddon!

Meh
Trying to get Rose to try different foods is like pulling teeth!

Princess, Our "Winner".

This speaks for itself :o)

Flossy lays around in the darnedest ways!

Jason's train that Sponge bob "drives" stops at various places around the house.

Defiantly!

*Shakes Head* Still in shock!

2009-09-16T00:49:00.000-07:00

We couldn't let the 9th of the 9th 09 go without some pics!

Pretty Spring blooms
A cute church we found in a small town that i really liked :o)

Fathers Day

Rose....well just Rose :o)

My Pet Society pet on FaceBook :o)

Our Town

Couple of game freaks! Jason and his best friend, Josh.

Rose & her new partner in crime, Buddy.

"In His Hands"

2009-09-05T22:06:00.000-07:00

These two speak for themselves :o)

Jason and Rose pulling goofy faces together while sitting on the trampoline.
A metal two seater in my garden that is being used as an ornament because i can't find a couchin to fit it. It looks rustic and funky. Here a particular succulant ground cover has practicaly covered it and it looks even better!

My oldest daughter, Alix [17], who is very toxic, doesn't live with us. She lives in the next state with her father. Whenever she comes to visit, she leaves a trail of emotional destrution behind when she leaves :o(

John and i :o)

The kids and i did a list of our very favourite things to scrap. John didn't do one coz he only has one favourite thing - the computer lol

Jason and i :o)

2009-08-07T22:44:00.000-07:00

These speak for themselves :o)

2009-08-05T18:17:00.000-07:00

I'm really enjoying the Twilight books. Maybe even a bit too much, if that's possible. I read the books at night when i go to bed [mostly] and i read till 2-3 in the morning. I just find them so hard to put down and i'm always so tired. There's going to be a big hole in my life when i finish the series. Isn't that sad? lol

2009-08-04T06:21:00.000-07:00

These all speak for themselves :o)

Twilight 2

2009-07-23T02:17:00.001-07:00

My fav digital scrap artist, Nicole Young [Link on right -->] has scrap challenges. She offers a kit with a theme. We put together a page using that kit/theme and maybe win a prize [yaaay!]With this one, we had to do a Twilight theme page. What do you think? I like it :o)

2009-07-15T02:39:00.000-07:00

Buddy has a habit of stepping over Princess and scamming a free ride. I took a photo of it but couldn't really think of anything to do with it. So i came up with this comical page.

This one kinda speaks for itself :o/

2009-07-13T06:05:00.000-07:00

This speaks for itself :o)

But there was a fault while saving :o(

Good Times :o)

2009-07-11T02:20:00.001-07:00

No pre-teen girl wants her brother slobbering all over her! lol

Well....she just does! Jason in the bath. He was putting bubbles all over his head and then standing up to check himself out in the mirror [as one does] I called this look "Santa Suess". I really love the way the pic on the right looks like he's checking out himself on the left like he's some kind of weirdo. I giggle every time i look at it :o)

Roses & her best friend, Victoria. Thier Netball team helped celebrate 80ys of Netball in NSW :o)

Deep Breath

2009-07-06T07:05:00.000-07:00

Here's a nice big post to catch up!

I made my sister a birthday card using Nicole Youngs designs [Link in sidebar]. It's all Nicoles except for the fonts. I think it turned out alright :o)

Ages ago, on Digifree [also in sidebar] i found this corkboard. [and more recently a chalkboard] I've held on to it for over a year coz i knew i'd find a use for it one day. And here i've used it to compile a lot of photos of Rose at Dreamworld on the Gold Coast. It can be hard thinking of a layout for lots of pics, and this looks pretty good i think :o)

This is a QP made by a woman who has an online store, or is part of a team called Cathy K Designs. She had a kit full of awesome gaming elements. I couldn't afford the kit at the time, so i kept the name when i downloaded this QP so i could go back later. But now do you think i can find her? Noooooooooo! So whenever i look at this QP i just get annoyed lol

This is just cute :o)
This makes me smile coz it was nice bonding time :o)

I was tempted to use donuts and sweets for this page, but i thought i better not lol

Monsters

2009-07-02T02:32:00.000-07:00

Jasons two best freinds :o)

Another flossy page :o)

2009-06-24T02:46:00.000-07:00

Going Green

2009-06-22T14:18:00.000-07:00

I decided to have a go at a kit layout challenge. Nicole Young at Nicole Young Designs is my favourite digi-scrap designer. I absolutely LOOOOOVE her stuff! So here's what i came up with, using her Going Green kit :o)

Little Buddy

2009-06-21T14:51:00.000-07:00

2009-06-20T15:35:00.000-07:00

This page was done with another kit from Soxsational Scraps :o)

2009-06-19T16:46:00.000-07:00

This is a bit girly for me, but it still turned out ok :o)

I'm really developing a things for cloudy scrapping lol
Occasionaly [once or twice a term] i let Rose ditch school so we can have some girly time. Aren't i naughty?

Twilight

2009-06-19T16:30:00.000-07:00

This was fun. We set up the movie at our church so we could watch it on the big screen. The kit came mostly from Soxsational Scraps, with one [or two] bits coming from somewhere else.

Ratbags

2009-06-14T01:18:00.000-07:00

This is a page i put together using Nicole Youngs elements from a kit that i can't remember the name of lol
The photo of the kids didn't turn out so great because it was a pretty small part of a picture and i couldn't clear it up enough as i made it bigger. I might have to redo it :o/

Poppy

2009-06-13T19:53:00.000-07:00

Cactus Love

2009-06-13T01:17:00.000-07:00

I visit a lovely blog [Far Far Hill]who's owner makes very unusually pretty digital scrap booking freebies! I try to remember to comment when i visit her blog and one day i went over there and she'd made this AWESOOOOOME cactus quick page. My eyes nearly popped out of my head i was so excited to find a cactus scrapbook thing, and something so pretty. Because "cactus" and "pretty" don't really mix. But then, when i went to the 4shared download page, She'd actually made the page for me, titled "qp_for_cactus_freek". Well, that just made my week! That was on May 27 and i'm still tickled pink over that! :o))

2009-06-10T08:44:00.000-07:00

Pretty Flossy Puss :o)

Roses netball team. And Rose making sport look fashionable :o)

2009-06-07T19:26:00.000-07:00

I took the kids to the local park on Friday. While there, they had a great time playing together! They don't get along 80% of the time, so when they do, it makes me really happy. I enjoy being around them so much more when they laugh together!
This page has absolutely nothing to do with the park, i realise. But while there i got the idea for this layout :o)

I'm one of those people who LOOOOOOOVES thunder storms! I'll actualy try to make sure i'm at home when i know one is coming. So when i see clouds like these, i get quite excited!

Eye-Pod

2009-06-04T02:29:00.000-07:00

Rose, trying to get her headphones to stick to her eyes lol

Seasons

2009-05-30T09:29:00.000-07:00

I've been collecting pretty autumn photos from around town. Allthough i get quite frustrated at how the colours never turn out as brilliant on camera, as they are in reality, i'm happy with how this page turned out :o)

And here's a cute abstract page of our cat, Flossy :o)

Busy Busy

2009-05-29T14:26:00.000-07:00

These two were from our holiday back in March. I have soooo many photos! I'm just doing them here and there. No hurry.

Me with Spongebob & Patrick

My oldest daughter, Alix, who lives in Brisbane.

The pool at the motel where we were staying. The kids would have been quite happy to spend the whole holiday in this pool! lol
The great portrait that Jason painted of me for mothers Day. Looks just like me, don't ya think??

Jason the aviator designer :o)

The send off page i made for Mr.Marbles, who was run over a few weeks ago :o(

Another holiday page. This was a great blessing for Jason :o)

Rose and i at our coffee spot. She looks like she'd rather be anywhere but there! But in truth, every other photo i took of her, she was pulling stupid faces, so this is it! lol

That's it for now :o)

What Goes Up...

2009-05-18T18:27:00.000-07:00

While at Dreamworld on the Gold Coast, We took Jason on a [way overly priced!] helicopter ride. He didn't go on many rides as he's not a thrill seeker. But he has always wanted to go on a plane so this was the next best thing. Although he enjoyed it, he was VERY glad to have his feet on the ground again! lol

2009-05-18T01:19:00.000-07:00

If i tell you the story behind this page, it will take away from the page. So i won't :o)

Dreams

2009-05-15T14:41:00.000-07:00

Jason adores Spongebob & Patrick! We went to Dreamworld on the Gold Coast [Australia] and when Jason saw the Spongebob show and Nick Central, he was speechless! He didn't even want to put his back to the show so i could take this photo because he might miss something lol

We have heaps of photos from this trip to scrap! Oh to find the time....

Gladiators

2009-03-09T15:21:00.000-07:00

One of our cats, Flossy, has a habit of catching noisy frogs in the middle of the night, and bringing them inside to wake us all up. Rose decided to keep one as a pet for a while. So here's Gladiator :o)

The New Old

2009-03-08T19:13:00.000-07:00

At the end of 2008, The kids school went to the south coast to do some activities. One of them was to go to Old Mogo Town - A gold mining town that is used today for tours. While there, we got our pic taken, and i only just got around to doing something with it!
I really, really like this page. I would have to say that it's one of my favourites so far!

Most elements used thanks to my fav scrapbook artist, Nicole Young Designs. And some were from Derek M :o)

Valentines Day

2009-03-08T15:52:00.000-07:00

This is our Valentines page :o)

Happy Birthday Jason!

2009-03-05T22:25:00.000-08:00

I finally done Jason's birthday page, nearly a month after his birthday! lol
Jason loves Mario & Luigi from Mario Bros. Well, He actually likes Luigi, but Mario goes with him. So this page is right up his alley!

Party Time!

2009-03-02T15:27:00.000-08:00

Jason turned 9 in Feb. Here is the page of his party. I haven't done his birthday page yet [2 days later] coz i'm slack lol

Ratbags In A Suitcase

2009-02-28T14:44:00.000-08:00

This is my first go at making a desktop wallpaper page :o)

Long Awaited Dreams

2009-02-21T22:40:00.000-08:00

WooHoooooo Rock on!!

The 6th of the 6th

2009-02-18T21:29:00.000-08:00

Ginger from Gingers House has tagged me for the 6th picture challenge.
Here are the rules of the challenge:
Go to your photo folder in your computer.
Go to the 6th folder of the photos.
Go to the sixth picture.[no cheating!]
Put the picture on your blog with a description. Invite six friends to join the challenge.Link them in your blog and let them know they have been challenged.
Here is my 6th picture from the sixth folder :o)

Jason goes to a small country school with 11 kids. He has never liked anything near his head except a hat, so when i was at a P & C meeting and the kids were all playing in the next room, Jason came in with a wig on his head and could've knocked me down with a feather, i was so surprised!

I'm tagging:
Spider64

Celtic Girl

Fat Lazy Guy
Diet Coke Rocks
His Adventures
& Pick On The Fat Kid

End Of An Era

2009-02-05T23:31:00.000-08:00

My baby girl isn't so much a baby any more :o/ She's becoming a very beautiful young woman! :o)

The White Ninjaaaaa

2008-12-12T21:16:00.000-08:00

This is a pic i took of Jason but the flash was too bright. I loved the effect though, so i made this...

Peanut?

2008-11-23T21:59:00.000-08:00

I thought i'd have a go at a template contest run over at My Daily Cup. [Using the above template]

What do you think of the finished result?.....

If you want to see the full size image, just click on the picture :o)

Progress

2008-11-11T23:38:00.000-08:00

Check it out. Getting better.....

Again, all items used to make these pages were downloaded from DigiFree [Link over there -->] So i can not claim credit for any of the above elements/papers. I just put the bits together and added photos :o)

Ready..Steady..

2008-10-31T12:55:00.000-07:00

I have been downloading stuff from DigiFree for ages [Link on side bar]. Mostly QP's because i have a lot of trouble sizing the elements to print, and i had no idea where to start with digital scrapbooking.

Last week i bought some scrapbooking software on eBay so i could have a go. I'm just finding my way around it and even though i think it'll take me a looooong time to do all my own stuff, here are my first basic attempts.

I've just worked out how to get a photo under a quickpage [QPs from DigiFree] and put words on it with or without a shadow.

Thanks to the people who made these QPs, they are lovely. Sorry i don't have the links to go with them :o/

Sweet Designs

2008-07-30T22:34:00.000-07:00

I have a hard time with lay out ideas. I seem to go back to the same kind of lay out all the time. I don't know if it's just because I'm a creature of habit, or because i lack scrap booking creatively in that area.
But the above website has some awesome ideas in the side bar for lay out ideas with different numbers of photos. Check it out :o)

Scrap Goo

2008-06-19T09:44:00.000-07:00

You've got to check out this scrap designer! I don't know why i haven't seen her stuff on Digifree before now, because she has some really neat stuff, with frequent freebies. I love her style, it's just soooo awesome!!
Here's her latest offering :o)

Cheapy Idea No4

2008-05-27T19:42:00.000-07:00

You can make interesting pages by recycling comic books [and sticking pages on a 12x12 card] and making your own "cartoon" :o)

Cheapy Idea No3

2008-05-24T19:07:00.001-07:00

I'm doing scrapbooks for my kids, from when they were born.
Here's Rose, my little angel [And has been for 11 years now]
On this page i wanted that worn look on the paper. The background paper has that worn look, but how do you make worn paper out of new paper?
An old trick from art school...
I made a bowl of coffee, using about 1/2 a cup of instant coffee, and disolved it in hot tap water. then, once cooled, I soaked a piece of printer paper in the coffee mixture and dried it. The finished product looks like antique paper. It would look great as pirate maps etc too.
I scrunched my paper up before soaking it in the coffee mixture, because i wanted a creased, crinkled effect, but it looks great without being scrunched too.

Cheapy Idea No2

2008-03-02T14:40:00.000-08:00

I've found that a great way to get cheap embelishments is from wrapping paper. In a lot of little variety shops you can get really nice wrapping paper for around 50c. I found this flower one, and i'll get heaps of pretty pages out of this one wrapping.

I also made the below page from wrapping that just had squares with Happy Birthday written on them, with a star square seporating each word. [I couldn't find the left over paper to show you. I think one of the kids pinched it! lol] I just arranged the letters how i wanted them and scattered the stars. [The balloons & streamers are from Creative Memories] Looks pretty good huh?

Wrapping paper could also be used for backgrounds if you could be creative enough to hide the crease lines :o)

2007-12-29T18:26:00.000-08:00

I added N.B.K to the freebie links list. She does awesome & very detailed work!

Baubles

2007-12-17T21:43:00.000-08:00

Don't throw out junk mail before checking them out for pics that can be scraped! Check out the awesome jeweled bauble above. Won't that look great on a Christmas page?! Especially one regarding jewelry :o)

Next Pic

2007-11-13T21:57:00.000-08:00

Check out these cool photo frames for teen pages!

2007-11-13T16:56:00.000-08:00

The guy who does this work is really talented. How could i not add him to the awesome freebies list!

My Angels

2007-11-11T19:29:00.000-08:00

With is page, I took photos of my kids while they were jumping on the trampoline [So they'd look like they are flying]

Then i printed out some wing sets. I carefully cut around the sides of the kids so the wings could just slide in behind them. I used some of those double sided sticky foam things, to put behind the wings and make them look like the wings are raised.

I got the paper from K-Mart [AUST] and added some extra clouds to make the writting i added kinda look 3D. Then i put the photos of the kids on the paper, so they lined up with the tree tops.

You like? :o)

Funky Phone

2007-11-08T23:34:00.000-08:00

Check out this awesome downloadable mobile phone picture frame. You can find it over HERE!

Fiesta!

2007-11-08T00:17:00.000-08:00

I found this great alphabet set over here. I can't wait to use this on cactusy/mexican type pages! :o)

Us

2007-11-05T11:54:00.000-08:00

Well, i can't show you my pages like everyone else can. Because i don't know how everyone else gets the picture on the computer.
So i took a picture of our family page, that i made over this weekend.
I got the paper and words online, but i don't know what site i got them from [i wasn't planning on starting a scrap blog at that stage]. I will add a link here when i find the site again.
I used silver Christmas ribbon under the "Family". And i put silver corrugated cardboard under, and to frame, our photo. The coloured dots on the cardboard are chipboard.
The page looks pretty good

What's All This Then?

2007-11-02T20:47:00.000-07:00

I have found a new passion, Scrapbooking! But it's expensive :o( So i'm always searching the net to find good freebies that can be printed out. There's a lot out there, but most sites require you to register or join an online club. I don't want to do that either.

So i will add links here to the freebie sites that i find, here. I'll also add pictures of pages i've done.
But for now, A lovely freind gave me a table for my scrapbooking stuff today. So i'll get sorted out first :o)