Stuff

Like sand through an hour glass so too are the days of our lives – ha! I have no idea what I’ve been doing or where the time has gone but it seems the first thing to drop off my priority list is this poor little blog.

Oh well, I’m back again now and as per usual I have a super-size post to publish.

So, what’s been happening? Um...

Krissy from wp is this month’s guest designer for Get Picky. So, the last wp sketch of the month is also the Get Picky sketch – two chances to win a wicked voucher – nice!

Here’s my take on the sketch. I used Basic Grey Lauderdale and it's bright!

 I also decided to share some close-ups to further dazzle you...and to show the rolled corners that I added some flowers to.

Challenge Heaven had a cybercrop recently and this is the blind scrap I did with Becci. 

This is my take on Jess’ number challenge. I lots of fun misting, stitching and painting. I really wanted to used the little MVB cloud but it was broken so I glued it back together and then painted - I think it turned out ok :)

 

A close up so you can see my clouds and just a hint of stitching.

There's a wp cc on right now. There are some great challenges - one for each season. This is my take on Krissy's Spring challenge.

And that's it for me - life is almost back to normal here, we're only waiting on the insurance company to replace a few more items and our new door is being installed on Thursday. Sadly I've just discovered the house on the next corner has been broken into - their door was smashed in exactly like ours :(

Sketch time

Hey ho - let's go! It's Monday again already. I've had a few weeks off from my wp sketchie duties due to my lack of technology so, this is my first June sketch but it's actually the third sketch of the month.

Pictured are Rob's Granny and his Aunty Mo, both of whom are Scots. But during WW2 Rob's Grandpa was stationed in Ireland and their daughter (Mo) was born there. Granny decided to give her an Irish name and called her Maureen. Granny often also called her 'little Irish girl' - could this piece of October Afternoon paper be any more perfect? It made Rob giggle!

Here are few more retreat LOs. This one is based on the blind scrap created by Karen. Thanks Leah for suggesting semi circle bunting :)

Back in July last year I was lucky enough to have a coffee with Kate while I was in Newcastle. Kate brought this photo of us for me to scrap at the retreat.

This is an old photo of Angus and his Grandpa - I wish I knew what Grandpa was saying to have Angus so entranced!

Have a wonderful week!

Me again

Can you tell I'm a wee bit excited about being back in blogland?

After the Wicked Princesses Retreat, I spent a couple days with my sister in Brissie before heading to Sydney for work. I had a blast and in being in Sydney for the Vivid light festival was amazing but somewhere along the way I picked up a very nasty bug. It knocked me out for over a week. Today, ten days on I'm just beginning to feel like myself again.

For the first four or five days I did absolutely nothing - so weird! But once I started to feel a little better I did some creating. The Purple Pumpkin sketch challenge took my fancy so I had a play - other than spilling a third of a bottle of glimmer mist over my LO I think I did ok! More pics taken by Zoe at the Sydney Aquarium. I think the gm adds to the water theme lol. The PP items are the doily and button.

The next day I dragged out my beautiful bigshot and made four cards before retiring to the lounge for a nap. I forgot to photograph the cards - oh so vague of late!

The day after that I decided to do some more scrapping, the fact my hands were still Key Lime was enough to convince me not to use glimmer mist. This one is for the wp kit challenge, I used Owl Soup. Looks pretty simple huh? Getting that printed journalling in the right spot took ages with my addled brain.

After another little nap I decided to start the wp DT challenge - stamping and distressing. Here's how it turned out. Since the photo was poor quality I decided to grunge it up. I had fun pulling out my old letter stamps too. The design of this one is based on an old Inspired Blueprints sketch - always a great place to visit for some inspiration.

In shocking and startling news the ever-fabulous Kate decided to step down from the wp dt. So, that left Krissy to appoint three new princesses - sadly I'm not one of them but a big congrats to Hannah, Barb and Holly - I'm sure you will inspire princesses everywhere. Also best of luck Kate, it's good to see your mojo has returned and I will being dogging your blog to see your latest and greatest creations cos you know I dig you!

In exciting news my wonderful buddy Jules has asked me to be her guest designer next month. I'm so chuffed :)

Right, I think I might have satisfied my blogging desires for today. See you again really soon.

Welcome back blogger

It's four weeks since our stuff was stolen and I finally have a new laptop so I'm back in the bloggy business :) It has been an amazingly complex and frustrating process negotiating our insurance claim. Apart from the two laptops that were delivered on Friday, we still don't have a delivery date on anything else and only the vaguest notion of when our new door will arrive (in the next three weeks - perhaps).

In the meantime I was lucky enough to attend the first ever Wicked Princesses Retreat. What a fantastic weekend! It was so cool meeting and hanging out with all of my cyberbuddies!

I won't subject you to all my LOs in one go but here are few. Krissy gave each of us a folder full of challenges and sketches to work with, such a cool idea! I decided not to take papers with me but to buy and use the kits Krissy had on offer. I then got her post my purchases home :)

So, this is Zoe at Sydney Aquarium. Using the Vicki B kit.

This is a scraplift of one of Kate's LOs - I used a cool Hambly brick overlay. The big flower was made by Kate but I made the orange flower out of a ribbon and gluber - thanks Jules for the gluber, the centre, oh and, the idea :)

By the way glubers are really cool and I recommend you all get some - check them out here. Apparently you can also make your own - splitcoast stampers have a tutorial on the hows and whys - I'm yet to check it out.

This one uses the Splash kit, I love the bright colours and that little flag. I've added some hidden journalling as I wanted to record Angus' scary experience of being caught in a rip and having to be rescued my his mum and a surf life saver without it being the focus of the LO and embarrassing him.

This last one is based on one of Krissy's sketches and also uses the Vicki B kit - love the colours but the LO seems to be a bit flat - think I might have to add a little something to this one (maybe a flourish would do it). The photos are of Janina and I at our mini retreat back in March.

Ah! It's good to be back :) Thanks for remembering to stop by!