3 generations

I really like Kaisers Base Coat collection. It's fun to do some really masculine pages for a change. I love this pic of my nephew with his Dad and Gran, taken on Mothers Day.

I had a cortisone injection this week. I am in two minds about it. I think the pain is less, but there is a lot more stiffness and I don't feel well, my head is woozy and I am so tired even though I am sleeping well. Hopefully things will pick up this week and I will get more scrapping done.

Another months goes by.....

It's amazing how quickly time goes by when you are doing nothing. I have been pottering in my scrap room mostly making cards and yesterday I went to a scrap day at my LSS and managed a couple of LO's and started a couple more.

 I think I might have got the inspiration for these from Pinterest and quite enjoyed making these.

 These photos were taken on Mothers day. It was good to get 3 generations ...... My Mum, Me and my girls.

and this is 2 of my girls with their cousin Tania when she came to stay from NZ in January.

I have finally seen a specialist about my back. I get to have a cortisone injection this week, then an MRI next week and another visit with the specialist. So hope to have a better idea of whats happened to me and how to get better by the 11th June.

Meanwhile back to scrapping.....am even going to do a little bit of patchwork this month.....have a weekend away planned with a friend to relax and do some sewing for a change.

ULO's

I have decided that its time to go back to all the unfinished LO's and try to complete them.I started these 2 in January and just couldn't quite work out how to finish them. Well inspiration has finally come and here they are.

 This is my darling nephew at Xmas. Boy was he excited to get this big truck and his Uncle was just as excited to give it to him.........."Boys and their Toys"

and this is Erin just enjoying Xmas.
I used 2  papers in the My Minds Eye - All is bright range and was able to mix and match and then add a few embellishments. Simple really......but still seems to take me ages.

Well my back is still playing up........so wont be back at work just yet...... need to see the Ed  Dept Dr to see if I can go back, don't want to risk doing any more damage. I have a specialist appt in 2months, but am hoping o be back at work before then.

Meanwhile I will have lots of time for scrapping.

Pinterest inspiration

I love looking at all the ideas on Pinterest. One idea inspired me to make these 2 cards

At my local SBS they have a monthly challenge pack. I have used this months pack to make this LO of my DD1 Graduation. Love working with red and black. There are more pics of Erin's graduation so I am sure I will be doing more LO's of this mile stone in her life.

I am still suffering with my back problem, but at least I can scrap now.........so many ideas in my head.....where to start.....

Wow!!! Can't believe it's been nearly a year since my last post.

I have really struggled with my scrapping over the last year. I started a number of projects but was unable to finish them.Over the last month or so things have picked up and I have a couple of LO's to share.

This is a very simple LO making the most of the pp and a series of snapshots taken of my DD2 - Caitlin on her 23rd birthday. We had such a fun night  and that's what I wanted this page to be about.

I worked with these ladies over 30 years ago (Yikes!!!) and we had a little reunion earlier this year. Again it's a simple LO using the most of The pp.

Lastly this was a CSI challenge that I did in January. I love the colours and embellishments that I used on this one. Last year My wonderful children gave me a horse drawn wagon trail ride through the Swan Valley. Something I have wanted to do for ages.  This LO means a lot me as I will treasure the memory of this day forever.

I have injured my back and am on some fairly strong pain medication.I can't drive, work or even do housework :) But I can sit at my scrap desk sooo hopefully I an produce some projects to share over the next few weeks.

CSI 19

Starting to feel better, though my voice is still not right and I tire very easily. Anyway I have managed to do another CSI challenge

     I had a lot of fun playing with gesso and paint and a Tim Holtz mask to create the BG then I went through some old photos and found these ones of Erin cuddling Michael just after he got home from hospital (20 years ago). I hand made the rosette flower and used cicles alot.

Back to work tomorrow - I hope I can make it through a whole day.                                                               

What to do when you have no voice

I have been sick for a week now with laryngitis and synisits. Can't talk  -can't work. What to do!!! I thought I would get lots of scrapping done but my mojo had also gone. I have struggled all week to do the latest CSI challenge, finally finished it this morning only to find the internet wasn't working-so frustrating. Anyway I am back on-line and got in with 10 mins to spare... phew!!!!

This is my dd1 when she lived in Sydney and it talks about how living on the other side of the country from all her family and friends helped her grow into the woman she is today.

My voice still hasn't returned, The Drs say rest as its viral they can't do anything. So it looks like another week of work. Hopefully my mojo comes back and I will have created heaps. LOL

CSI 15

I am back into doing the challenges at CSI
and this is the one for this week

This is my darling nephew at his 5th birthday party. 'Let the wild rumpus begin' was the inspitation this week hence the colour scheme and the monsters.
Only a couple of days left til I have to go back to work, I didn't get as much scrapping done as I had planned but still happy with what I did do.

Something old is new again....

Remember these frames from the 90's?

They look so tired and dated so I thought I would give them a bit of a revamp.

Am very pleased with the results. I have another one to do but that will have  to wait for now.
Well thats one thing of my to do list. Still got heaps more to do.

Bounce, bounce, bounce

Easter was such a busy time for me I ended up having no time to scrap so I didn't get CSI 13 done by their deadline. I am going to share it anyway.

This is Michael when he was about 3. We were at his Uncle Bruces place in Byford. Michael just loved the trampoline - look at his big smile.
I have joined a camera club and been practicing with my DSLR. I took this photo on Manuel and another on auto and this is the first time the manual one came out better. I think I am finally getting there!!!!
Anyways its holiday time for me for the next couple of weeks, so I hope to catch up on some of these  unfinished projects I have got lying around here.

CSI 12

Yet another busy week but I have managed this weeks challenge over at CSI. We were given a monochrome pallette which I thought would be so easy, but it wasn't. Anyway I ended up doing a very simple LO of my Mum on her wedding day.

There is a hidden journaling behind the photo talking about this being the beginning of a very eventful life.
Only 4 days 'til Easter and the beginning of holidays for me Yay!!!
Have a good week :)

What a busy busy week

These lasts 2 weeks have been super busy and I missed out on doing the CSI 10 challenge but I have just managed to scrape in this week.
CSI 11

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I have Scrapped some old photos of the kids taken in 1997 and talked about how I liked climbing trees when I was little and then I took my kids to the local park to climb trees.

Enjoy your week and hopefully things have calmed down now and I wont be so rushed next time.

CSI 9

http://csicolorstoriesinspiration.ning.com/ Here is my LO for this weeks case. I am so pleased with this photo that Jane took (Thanks Jane) We all look so happy even Michael has joined in and I now have a photo of his face. Maybe it was because I'm not taking the photo or maybe he is finally starting to manage his condition. Either way I love this photo and had fun scrapping it.
Have a great week and hope to post here next Sunday.

March tag

http://timholtz.typepad.com/my_weblog/2012/03/12-tags-of-2012-march.html

Here is my version of Tim's March tag. He showed us how to make mosaics. It was really easy. I have used a different BG as I don't have a wood grain stamp and I used a cuttlebug butterfly. I didn't have any metal flowers so i made this one using the tattered flower die and glossy accents.

CSI 8

some of you will be aware that my sister-in-law Lucy got married at my place in January. I just got the pics from Jane (Lucy's sister) and thought these 3 would be perfect for this weeks challenge at http://csicolorstoriesinspiration.ning.com/. I also checked  out http://showusyourstuff.blogspot.com.au/ and used their latest technique using texture paste and string.

The light blue outline behind the photos is a star made using texture paste and string. I have then gone and covered most of it.
I had a lot of fun playing with this one. I have used texture paste with stamps and paint and glimmer mist and, and ....... (I think I might have got a bit carried away) Anyway I love how it turned out and I think it reflects Lucy quite well with her love of art and pretty things.
I am sure there will be more wedding photos featured in the coming weeks. Thanks for the great photos Jane. I hope you like the LO Lucy and hope you and Tony don't mind being featured in it.

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.