Crop Night

I went to my first MK Scrappers crop last night. All the ladies just made me feel like I had been part of the group since inception. I think all scrappers are wonderful, there is just something that makes us all gel together. I wonder what it could be ?
Even though I was late (horribly late !! thanks to the train being delayed, my TomTom getting stuck just before I was about to go, the PC running virus scan whilst I am frantically trying to get the address of the crop, note the address was originally saved on the Tom Tom ) I sill managed to get there and finish a quick LO !!! Had lots of laughs.

This is what I achieved last night :



I have started a little creative note book, where I make notes about what the kids say, what I want to scrap about, stuff that inspires me, the source of my inspiration can be from emails I get from my friends, something I see in a magazine or on the internet, can you believe I even went as far as drawing some sketches that I liked.
I have had the intentions to do this for a while now and wish I had started it sooner.

Today is the 25th and it is "Scrap your day". So far I have only managed to put my book together. I have got some photos for April and May but I don't think I have enough because on both days I forgot it was the 25th and what needed to be done. I think I will start my book from this month and work forward from here onwards. Or I could just scrap various photo's from April and May and not just a specific day.
I am happy to be at home today, I am supposed to be working from home, but have no connection into the office so I guess today I am on leave then. On leave means Scrapping!!!!

Here is my LO that I did for the UKS challenge last week, don't you just love my little man?



I need to confess that I broke my stash diet, see what on ! My very first purchase of Stamp n Up products, and I am sure not the last!!

Something different, a card or two!!

I promised myself that I was going to try something different and do a card or two. Well if you are anything like me you land up buying "stuff" with the intention of doing something with it. But sometimes, more often than not the "stuff" gets added to your other "stuff" otherwise know as "stash" and maybe if you lucky you might just use it sometime in the near future. Well that is the intention anyway !!
I have got such an addiction for paper, ink and scrapbooking stash it is not funny. I bought a 'Ranger Clear Resist Pad " ages ago ! Possibly a year ago if not longer, at the time I had no idea what to do with it but the name sounded cool and I had to have it ! Well today was the day I pulled it out and played a bit and this is the results. I first stamped the mask images with clear resist ink on glossy paper, dried it with my heat gun and then coloured in the background with Distress Inks. I must be honest I really really really like the effect !!

Fathers Day !!

I hope all the daddy's out there had a fabulous day !!!

I managed one LO today for the UKS weekly challenge. What I love about these challenges is it makes you think out the box. I would never have scrapped this photo of me if it wasn't for this challenge, it is possibly the only one I have of me as a teenager and would have sat in an old fashioned album for the rest of its days. Have you often thought as you get older that no matter how many birthdays have pasted that you still the same person ,with the same thoughts, dreams and aspirations as you were years ago. Well I know I am, maybe the only difference is is that I am wiser because of life experiences. Other than that I cannot think that I feel any different today to the way I felt 20 years ago. Maybe one day I will get to a stage where I can say I feel old. At them moment I can't.

I do make cards too

Card making and stamping was what I started with. I used to go to a little shop in Parkhurst ( JHB South Africa ) literally every weekend for classes and inspiration. This then lead on to greater things as in scrapbooking. I definitely do have an addictive nature because I have so many stamps and card making supplies over and above my scrapbooking stash !!! I was thinking this morning while blog reading that I really do need to make some cards again. Here is one of the cards I did for the UKS Cybercrop Card SWAP. I used Tim Holtz Distress inks to make the back ground before stamping and embossing the image of the Buffalo.

BIA Project

A BIA book that I made for a UKS SWAP... Really enjoyed this one as the challenge was to use 3 or more hinges. I hope my Swappee likes it !!!

Printers Tray

It feels good to finish a project that you have been intending to do for ages.
I attended this class at Paper Crazy last year, did the original for dad and then bought another kit for myself. I finally had the guts to un pack it last week when I was on leave and finish it. It took 2 days to complete which really got to me in the end because I was tired of the mess on my dinning room table.
I am really happy with the way it turned out :)