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I PARTIED hard at the scrapware blog party!

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had fun........

scrapware

check it out - I know you want to *wink* *wink*

Just to share....

Here are the little christmas tags i 'lifted' from the blog i mentioned in my last post. I have added my own twist to them for a couple of the kids. Used my cuttlebug for the skull and the hearts. Man I love that tool.

I made this 40th birthday card for my sister. not for her but she asked me if could make on for her, big enough for a group to sign. I really like the finished product. She LOVED it and made me a cd and sent it in the post! thanks sis love ya! xx

Lisa xx

Ahhhhh.... thats better.

I have just returned from the hairdressers. A much needed pampering! I was starting to become the re-growth queen!!! I feel soooo much better.

Last night was the fourth installment of the Sheree Mcgee classes - beginners classes. Now im not a beginner scrapbooker but i thought i would join for fun and who knows i might learn something new........ Every lesson I have learnt something new! It has just been fantastic and ive really really been enjoying the 'chats' with the other ladies in the classroom. If you havent done an online class before you should! even though there is only 2 lessons left you can still join and still have access the classes that we have previously done. And guess what?! It's FREE! How generous is that of Maria! There is of course the option of buying the kit which is really really great and has every product you will need to complete all six lessons. You can check out the class here.

I have not yet mastered the art of linking. Lou did help me out but i couldn't work out how to do it that would just have a word instead of the entire link. Like above, how would i just get it to say -here- and highlighted purple instead of the entire thing. Or if i wanted to link to someones blog i would just want to put there name hightlighted. Do you get what i mean? Can someone help me out?

I saw some amazing little christmas tags on the Anna's craft cupboard blog. Fran made the with her cuttlebug red tag sale alpha die (just the tag die) and scalloped the bottom with the fiskars threading water punch and the just look great. I will take a photo of them and post them later. They turned out so cute and im going to add all the kids names to them for their chrissy prezzies. Do you make your own tags or just buy them? I have always bought them but this year iv made my own and it feels good!

(i dont know why this is underlined - i don't know how i done it and cant seem to undo it - still working this blogging thing out)

I do want to leave you with all four of the layouts i done for the classes. As they go i will add the layouts at a later date.

Silly blogger (must be a man) put all my layouts here in the wrong order that i selected them in. Maybe its me and should i do it backwards next time??!!!

This is from the class last night -lesson 4. We had a super tallanted guest teacher too you can probably guess who it was by the signature stitching!!! Yes it was Leeann Pearce - so very full of knowledge and such a laugh too! This is not at all my style of scrapping - but i am there to learn so i done everything in the class. Its rather full on looking for me but I love it and had a ball stitching and ripping! Thanks girls.

This was lesson 3 stamping. I love stamping and have a small collection -bit of an understatement...... it was layering you stamping. Such fun and again i learnt something i would never have tried. And it turned out pretty darn alright! It is a photo of two very cute kids. Cohen and my eldest neice Jessica - she is such a loving stunning girl!





lesson 2 was distressing and inking. I knew all about distressing and inking the edges but had a blast during this. Is a photo of cohens teny tiny foot when he was a week old. Sock fluff and all!!! I sill after all this time scrapbooking ink and distress my pages. A great technique that i will always use over and over.


Lesson 1 was introducing scrapbooking. just the basics - matting your photo and a journal spot. simple and easy. I decided to do this photo of my sister and I when I was one. Its a typical 70's photo very yellow. I tried to fix the quality of the shot but i just decied to do it in its orriginal form. I added my own flavour to this class.

Well that was a rather loooong post. Congrats if you got through it all!

I do have a little something to share and im ITCHING to get started with but i will have to save it for a future blog episode. I have a six yr old boy who just got off the school bus and wants to tell me all about swimming lessons at school!

thankyou for stopping by! Lisa xx

This one is of Cohen with Elly.

Next is an older photo of Jarred when he was 2. He look so little its hard to remember him this small. I found this photo and thought it would go great with the Basic grey stickers. I bought the stickers thinking they were so cute - but then couldn't scrap them! Do you ever buy scrap stuff and do that??

This is the mini puddings we made on Friday. Drew stayed over the night as it the teachers strike. The strike got cancelled but we kept them off school anyway. I thin 9pm at night is a bit late to announce the cancellation of the strike - don't you think!!?

I love the look on Jarreds face such enthusiasm!!

(still trying to use last years christmas paper stash!!)

I don't have anything to blog about but i did just want to post these 3 layouts I done last night.

I hope you all have the best weekend. Im having an all rounder great week! Ok Im off to watch the new Indiana Jones movie with my boys. I hired it last night and they were asleep by 7.30!!

Thanks for stopping by! :)

New scrapware blog....

Hey check these babies out -

http://scrapware.typepad.com/scrapping_with_scrapware/2008/11/a-new-beginning.html


Aren't they just the cutiest things ever. I am loving the little trees. They would be a perfect addition to any page!!!

Lisa xx

Christmas is approaching.......

SO fast, its only like 33 sleeps away!!! Where has this year gone? I feel like i have missed bits and peices - my boys are growing so fast at a rate that i can't keep up with! Jarred will be 7 in the early part of the year! 7! whoah..... How did i become the mother of a nearly seven year old boy?? I really don't feel my age! lol

Today is the teachers strike, but My SIL did say she seen on the news late last night that it was cancelled at the eleventh hour. I wonder if thats right. I have one of my nephews here who stayed over the night. They are all happly playing outside whilst i type.... i'll see how long that last till someone comes in crying! ha ha ha. They have also been up since the crack of dawn - gggrrrrr!

Ive planned for them today to make little christmas puddings - fake ones made out of Royals melted white chocolate and cut up Glaced cherrys. I did see a version made with jaffas and spearmint leaves - i wish i had seen that before i bought all the goodies! Oh well I will have to do the good scrapping mum thing and take photos to post!

I was the bad scrapping mum last weekend - we bought a hydroslide for our boys and all the neices and nephews on Michaels side were down last weekend so we had it out. Jarred got on it and took to it like a duck to water!!! He done so good - i was very proud! But i didn't take my camera :( Bad Bad me. Next time.

On that note I better go check on the little treasures.....

Lisa xxxx

Ps. Thanks to all the wonderful ladies who left me a welcome comment. I did feel way spech! xx

Testing 1 2 2222 testing.

Ok so its taken me wwwwaaaayyyy to long to get myself a blog. I just want to keep this as a sort of time capsule. A diary of my little family so i don't forget the small stuff. Maybe i should rename it small stuff...... Will have to think about that one. Will keep it short and sweet as i have lots to do today. Will also post layouts and photos of my 3 gorgeous boys. If you have happened to drop by - let me know and leave a comment so i know!!

P.S. If you haven't seen handcock yet - do it!! It's a great movie!!

Lisa xxxx