CSI 7

Firstly I am rather excited to have passed 1000 views to my blog!!! Thank to everyone who visits here. Secondly even more excited to have my LO for CSI no 6 to be chosen to go on the watch list!!! As there is quite a lot of LO's uploaded I think this is quite an achievement.
On to CSI no 7

The colours for this one were quite hard to work with, Light violet, light green, pink, dark grey and red. Isn't there a saying "red and green should never be seen" and pink and red don't go together. Anyway I am quite pleased with the result. the details of the challenge are here http://csicolorstoriesinspiration.ning.com/ if you want to have a look. I am having fun with these challenges they are really making me think "outside the box" and I am getting LO's done.
Have a good week.
Bye for now.

12 tags of 2012

I loved doing Tim Holtz 12 tags of Xmas. Well now he has decided to change it this year to 12 tags of 2012. It's worked on the same principle as his Xmas tags only you get a whole month to do each tag.
here is my take on his Feb Tag.

Of course it's all about Valentines Day. I don't usually do much for Valentines Day but I did enjoy doing this tag. As usual I don't have all the products Tim used but managed to substitute what I did have.

CSI no.6

I had no idea what to do for this one and after a hectic week I had decided not to attempt this one. Then yesterday afternoon I had an idea and thought I would have enough time to get it finished. Unfortunately I am a very slow scrapper and my simple ideas always turnout to be bigger than Ben Hur. But despite babysitting my 5 yo nephew today I have done it.

The details of the challenge are here http://csicolorstoriesinspiration.ning.com/. This is my DS Michael on the Amity in Albany. He would not let me take a photo of his face so now I have this lovely pic which I think is very telling of where he was at, at that time.
I must get back to babysitting. My nephew is so much fun I am really looking forward to being a grandma - if that day ever comes. Have a good week. :)

LUCKY

Here I am again 3 posts in 3 weeks. Pretty good for me!! Any way this is my Lo for CSI no.5

You can check here for the challenge http://csicolorstoriesinspiration.ning.com/
This is my DD3 when she was 6, a few years ago now hehe. I took this photo to show her in the dress Gran had made, but Helen always had her toy "Lucky" with her and he became the focus of the photo. When I showed Helen this photo She was so excited because this was "The Lucky" the first one she had and that was all she saw. Anyway it was fun doing this LO it is a bit different for me as I don't usually put so much stuff on a LO. I used lots of punches and some lovely die cuts that Alz gave me (thanks Alz) and I used some of the huge stash of pp that I have.

CSI 4

Here is my version of the next challenge at http://csicolorstoriesinspiration.ning.com/

I have used all 5 colours, a frame, glimmer mist, stripes, tulle and rhinestones. For the journaling I chose to reflect on what Tory could be thinking and I asked other members of the family for their thoughts. Apparently "found mah noo behd" is "kitty speak" for "found my new bed".
I am really enjoying these challenges and if i can keep up I will be doing 1 LO a week.