Fingers Crossed and Crazy Hair

We have our fingers and toes crossed for tonight when we watch Top Gear on SBS. I entered a photo of Stephen's Triumph into a competition on their website a few weeks ago and it was chosen as 1 of 20 finalists. People have been voting for their favourite pic and the winner will be announced tonight. Very exciting!

It was crazy hair day yesterday at school with a gold coin donation for charity. I think I spent an hour and a half crimping hair the night before and this is the result. Pretty scary hey?

This is a layout for Bonsscraps cyber crop challenge 1. Criteria: yellow and orange fibres, spiral journalling and a list of 5 things.

The flowers are Alison Ellis pp and vellum - so girly I love them. I used the fancy pants big board flowers as templates.

Melissa has worn this Belle dress to death. She was 3 when she got it for christmas and wore it just about any occasion possible for the best part of 3 years. Good job it stretched to fit.

Short and sweet from me today. Have a wonderful weekend:-)

More Layouts

I've been busy finishing layouts for the 123 cc and for Bons Big challenge.

Backyard Blitz and Play are both for 123 March cc. I've managed to do all 3 cc challenges and the monthly challenge so I'm happy with that.

This is my layout for round 5 of Bons big challenge. The criteria was green and white with creative flowers and a quote. I love Emma's hair in this photo. I remember her having a quiff for ages as the top bit grew before the rest of her hair.

This is my attempt at braiding Melissa's hair. Emma did the other side first but Melissa made so much fuss that I had to finish off this side. I'm not very good at braiding but this actually worked out pretty well. It even stayed in over night and she kept it like this for school. It looks very sweet.

Last week of school, then the holidays yeah. I really enjoy the holidays - no rushing to get ready in the mornings (unless I'm working) woohoo!

Rain!

Wasn't it great to hear the rain friday night and yesterday. Let's hope we get many more days like that soon. I can't believe it's been 2 weeks since my last post so I'll try to remember what's been happening.

Yesterday was a catch-up with the girls, from left to right: Bon (from Bonsscraps), Fleur, Vicky and me. We went to Scrapbook Lady in Pakenham which is a fantastic shop. There were lots of things I hadn't seen before. Didn't buy much though, just stocked up on Bazzill and bought some Provocraft chipboard alphas, 1 sheet of pp and a few flowers. Very restrained. Then we went to Robert Gordon factory outlet which is where the photo was taken. I bought some beautiful pie dishes for $2 each - bargain!
Fleur gave me my prize for her card challenge on her blog. She was very generous - a chatterbox doodling genie, collections chipboard tiles and a bag of chipboard swirls and little words. Thanks Fleur:-)



This is my layout for Bonsscraps 4th round of her Big Challenge. The challenge was to use brown and blue, interesting photo corners (I stitched mine), and doodling aroung the journalling. Luckily it got me through to round 5.

















The first layout above is for 123 march monthly challenge which was black and white, stitching and more than 3 photos. I painted the frame in black then spattered it and the alphas with white paint. Lots of fun! The flowers are made using MM foam stamps. they've been hidden in a drawer for a while so I thought it was time to get them out again.


The second layout is for one of the 123 cyber crop challenges. No cardstock, a quote and hearts.



I did this layout for Scrapbook Divas cc on friday. We had to use puzzle pieces and 2 pp's. The journalling says: "We are 4 pieces of the same puzzle, seperately we are unique, together we are family".

And lastly I just had to share this pic with you of a sunset in the week.



















Have a great week:-)

It's the long weekend here.

I haven't done much scrapping wise lately but Fleur had a challenge on her blog to email her a birthday card as her blog was one year old. This is the card I made. I got the idea from a party invitation that Emma received recently. I use some Fancy Pants pp, HS gerbera, K& Co jigsaw piece and even some old CM stickers! The tag just slips inside the card and you pull it out with the ribbon. I'm pretty pleased with how it turned out.

I caught Emma and Melissa by surprise when they were playing on the computer here!

I did this layout for round 3 of Bon's Big Challenge. The criteria were:

* pink, black and silver,

* quote from a song,

* 2 to 4 photos

* round (open to interpretation).

I stuggled a bit with this but I like the effect of all the pink circles. I've mostly used Alison Ellis pp here.

This is a quick card I made for the Alison Ellis cyber crop last night. Criteria was flowers, paint and ribbon. I used one of their invitations as the background of the card, stamped the sunflowers with stazon ink and painted them with twinkling H2O's. Unfortunately it looks a bit washed out in the photo.

Emma is madly packing for school camp. She leaves tomorrow and comes back on friday so she is very excited. Stephen is also packing as he is going down on tomorrow afternoon just for the one night. It's great how the parents get the opportunity to join in things like this, not that you'd catch me going - I enjoy the peace at home too much!

We went down to the Bright 'n' Sandy festival this morning but it was a bit disappointing. We watched a cooking demo with Alan Campion and his daughter Mia which was good then wandered around the stalls. I thought there would be taste-testing but there wasn't, only plates of food and glasses of wine for sale. There weren't many stalls either so we actually didn't stay for very long. At least we got out of the house today!

Thanks for reading and have a fun week!