Some sad news...

Yes.. Jenny at Really Just Ribbons has announced that she is closing down her shop.
She will be welcoming a new addition to the family soon and has decided to spend her time focussing on her beautiful children.
I'm so sad to see her go and all the beautiful ribbons she had. And I have to thank Jenny so very much for giving me the opportunity to be on her Design Team. It was the first DT I'd been on and I had an absolutely wonderful time playing with the ribbons and I am going to so miss it.
But on the flip side... Jenny is having a closing down sale... so if your ribbon stash is looking a little bit sad head on over and get yourself a bargain!
I think I left some in the shop... lol
Thanks Jenny for such a wonderful time and all the best for your new addition.

A home among the gumtrees...

This is just a quick share....

Scrapbooking 4 Less had a CC last weekend with the theme being A Home Among The Gumtrees... so as you guessed it the theme was all Australian....

So here are my 4 layouts from the challenges that Michelle had posted...





And also going on at S4L has been a lot of challenge the DT, so I've had a couple of challenges for that to do...thanks Beccy!



And then there was also the S4L whisper layout....


and also the DT Pack challenge....


So it's all been happening at S4L....
and there's more in coming up... A Blind Challenge tomorrow... this is going to be heaps of fun
and coming up in August is a S4L National Scrapbooking Day with heaps being planned....

and here I was thinking I hadn't done much lately... :)

The lo that missed out....

I thought I should share this layout... I did this one for the Scraptacular comp in the Kerrin Quall style.
It really was a hard choice an unfortunately this one missed out... but I still love this one...

So onto other things... it's been a bad week... very very bad week workwise. Everything that could possibly go wrong did yesterday and at one point we were looking very lucky to get the paper to the printers. But as normal, Dave and I did it and the paper came out on time. And of course... no thank yous from management either.

So what else... well I did a new stamp binder and I really love this one. Very simple, very cheap.
I bought some 3L file strips and used them to hold zip lock bags in the file and made up the binder for it.
Here are the pics....



I've stuck the stamps onto transparency sheets cut to fit the bags.
It works really well as the stamps won't fall out of the ziplock bags, and I can add as many as needed to fill the folder without it costing an arm and a leg.

So I guess I had better go scrap now... lol

WOW!

What a totally and utterly awesome prize pack!
Thank you so much Shelley and Beccy!

OMG! OMG! OMG!

OMG OMG OMG...
Last night the winner of the Scrapbooking 4 Less 2008 Scraptacular was announced.... and it was my name... OMG OMG OMG
And yes... I'm still in shock...

I want to thank Shelley and Beccy for a wonderful competition...
It really was hard researching the various styles of well-known names in scrapbooking and then doing a layout based on their style.
It really pulled me out of my comfort zone and I've learnt so much about scrapbooking...

And I have to thank Lisa and Kelly, the other finalists and everyone who entered a layout... all of the layouts were totally awesome! Well done everyone...

So here are my layouts for the final round....

This is the Kerrin Quall style layout....



This is the Marah Johnson style layout....

sorry this layout has been accepted for publication....

And this is the layout done in my style...



Thank you once again Shelley and Beccy!

You know... sometimes it takes a kick to realise just how precious life is.

DH went into work this afternoon on afternoon shift to find out that one of the guys he works with was sucked down a chute when he was repairing a blocked valve. Apparently when it let go, the peas in the chute flowed down, and he went too...
He was very very lucky to be able to keep his face and an arm free of the peas, otherwise he would have suffocated...

It could have so easily been dh...

Things like this make you realise just how precious life actually is!

yeh yeh slack I know! But I have been busy you know....

There's been a fair bit of scrapping, working on the family history, work and then there was a trip to Perth thrown in for good measure! lol... so yeh.. busy.

So what scrapping have I been doing... well when I remember I will tell you. :)
I know there was the Scraptacular round 4 layouts, but I can't share them here atm, so if you want to look you will have to head on over to Scrapbooking 4 Less to have a look... especially as 1 of the layouts took me 3 hours just to lay out, without sticking anything down on it... and anyone that knows me, knows that's not the way I usually work....oh dear, the things I do....
But that said, I'm really really happy with the way they've all turned out!

And what else...

I know there was a layout for the word inspiration challenge for S4L... one of Busta

now isn't he just the sweetest.... yeh when he wants to be! :)

And I can't remember what else.... blame a faulty memory... overwork or whatever you will!

Ok I'm off to do some more scrapping.... I've got 7 layouts done of my 20 that I need to do for the Use your Stash challenge at Scrapboxx... yes I'm sorely in need to do a lot more than just 20, but hey... one step at a time...