Some challenges to share ...

The NCJS group had its monthly Cybercrop two weekends ago and I finally had the opportunity to get some scrapping in (even with a trip to the country on the Saturday!)

This one is a double page using more than 5 photos. Keeping it simple and uncluttered was my goal.


This layout is based on a monotone design - the photograph of my Great-Grandfather is in beige tones so I decided to keep with that colour in different shades.



I thought I'd save time and do a Digi Layout - not as simple as I thought. This one took me about 2 1/2 hours (I did lose my work once when Photoshop crashed!) It was a bit of a play - not quite turning out as I imagined but I learnt some more things along the way.


Till next time ...

Happy Birthday Chris!

It's my baby boy's birthday today! Well, he's not really my baby as he is 36! But, for all mums, we know that our children will always be our babies no matter what age they are! Chris is my eldest and my only son. He is now married and I am waiting to hear the big news that he is going to be a father.

Here is a layout of Chris aged 4 - he only rarely had a sad face but it usually meant he felt really sad!

This next layout is one page of a double - I am still waiting for Chris to give me back his baby photos so that I can scan and scrap them. It shows his growth over 35 years.

I spent this afternoon at Paper Heaven, with my wonderful friends, doing some scrapping. Each month, for the past 20 months, we have been meeting to focus on an album that is about our lives - we are the About Me group. So, it has been a natural progression for all of us to get to know each other very well and to become buddies! I was doing some photos of 70's weddings! Love the fashions! Will share them when they are complete.

I'm off to complete two cybercrop challenges, courtesy of No Crap Just Scrap and the generous Anna Costello from Anna's Craft Cupboard. I always love a good challenge!

So, till next time ...

Scrap Challenges to Keep Warm

What can you do on a weekend when the rain is falling, the air is icy and your child cannot play sport because she has a dislocated thumb? Scrap of course! What a perfect weekend to be inside, cosy and warm and creating. The NCJS group held its weekend cybercrop challenges and gave me some inspiration to get some of my 'old' photos ready for albums.

Here are the two challenge layouts -

Our beautiful little dog Molly died earlier this year and it was a bit emotional to re-visit these photos of her as a cute, fluffy puppy.

I still have a few of these photos to scrap - they were professionally done (by a person who wanted to be a photographer) and are very cute! The trouble with alot of our older photos is that they are not very interesting - I think that's where I need to get creative with my layouts!

I have a bit of a dilemma at the moment with getting my photos professionally printed or doing them myself. I scanned a heap of photos from when my eldest two were younger and decided when Harvey Norman had their printing special a couple of weeks ago, I would get them done there. I was very happy with the quality of them.

I do worry that the ones I print will fade quickly and I feel more confident that professionally printed ones will last a lot longer. The only problem with not doing them myself is the limits to the sizing. I guess the jury is still out.

Well, as this week is going to continue to bring blasts of wintery weather to us southerners, I shall continue to make use of my nice, cosy and warm scrap room.

So, watch this space ...