I was lucky enough to win a place on the #30 days of list challenge for September.
Most of you that know me know I HATE journaling, and find it hard to put down in words what needs to be said....and also I HATE my hand writing!
I thought this challenge would be a great opportunity to start making lists as a way of journaling (im thinking baby steps....)
#30 days of lists as I said before runs throughout September giving you a list prompt for everyday of the month.
So here are the first few pages...(sorry for the bad images...its very hard to photograph the journal)
Front cover...
List 1
New this year
And the list reads...
*Moved House
*Holiday in Bundaberg
*Got my flavourstone cookware
*Joined Scrapmatts Design Team
*Got an Ipad Mini
*New Kitten
*5 female Guinea Pigs
List 2
Projects Im currently working on
And the list reads...
*#30 Lists
*Scrapmatts DT projects
*Scraplounge CT Layouts
*Vegetable Garden
*Sewing Guinea Pig pouches
later today List 3 will be available (its an American thing and they are behind) and I can share that hopefully tomorrow xxx
Wow cant believe its already hit September. I love September...why I hear you ask???
... cos its my Birthday on the 11th!!!
Getting back to the scrapping...
This month over on Scrap Lounge we are creating layouts based on....yep...you guessed it...BIRTHDAYS...so I was a little chuffed that it fell in the same month as my Birthday (although....I didn't scrap any pics of me for the challenges....)
First up as always we have our Sketch Challenge.
This months sketch was designed by the talented Jody.
And here is my example...
This layout is of Fletcher from his Birthday this year (he was 9)
and the next challenge was a colour inspired challenge based on this image...
and here is my layout...
This is my friends daughter Alyssa, she is so cute...this pic was taken at her 3rd birthday party and she was dressed up as a Princess.
you have to have your image uploaded into the gallery by Midnight (NSW time) 30th of September
And don't forget the Cyber Crop...it will be running from the 13th-16th of September.
I was on a roll last weekend when joining in on a 'blog challenge catch up' which the lovely Charm from Charms Creations organised over Facebook. this is another layout I completed
(others still works in progress)
The Scrap the Girls challenge for this month was to create a layout using the recipe of :-
*flowers
*masking
*doodling
*chipboard or veneers
And this is what I created...
Happy
I have used some Scrapmatts chipboard butterflies, my fav mask at the moment - hexagons, 3 different flowers from my stash and doodling around the hexagons and doily to highlight them a little better.
The DT were asked to create a project based around father's for Fathers day and to create 3 cards...here is what I created...
My Layout for Father's Day...
You don't raise heroes, you raise Sons...
I decided to create a layout of my Husband and our two boys, the quote on the paper worked really well for this layout...along with the awesome Scrapmatts chipboard I used...
I used one of the circles (CB8001 Circles 01) I embossed it with copper coloured embossing powder, after I had heat set it I quickly used a stamp to make impressions onto the circle. I then rubbed some brown ink over the circle and then rubbed over it with some paper towel to remove the excess and I got this awesome vintage/rustic look.
This was a fun card to create. The tree is made by rolling patterned paper into little rolls and then cutting them so they gradually get smaller to the tip of the tree.
There has been soooo much happening with my family this last month that it has been impossible to get time to blog :(
But this weekend I am trying to 'catch up' so Im sorry if there are too many posts for today...LOL
There are still a few days to get your entries in for the Scrap Lounge challenges for August. They were based around the theme of 'Home is where the Heart is'
The Sketch Challenge was created by me and looks a little something like this..
And here is my layout...
There's no place like home
This is our new place where we are currently living....
And the technique challenge was: Create a layout using hearts and circles in your design..
And this was my example...
And these Guinea Pigs went wheekwheek all the way home
Seeing as the theme was around 'homes' I thought I would do my female Guinea Pigs home...
Earlier this month we also had a Cyber Crop also themed around 'home' although the CC is over for the month I wanted to share my layout with you.
My challenge was to create a layout of your favourite room where you live and you had to include journaling on why it is your favourite room...
You have until the end of the month to get your entries in
and if you are new to the lounge...tell them I sent you :)
