Sometimes...

Life gets you down... especially when you have the flu!!!!
Does anyone want it cause I'm over it.... really!

But at least I felt better on the weekend to participate in the cc over at Chookscraps!
So here are my layouts....




There's one missing but I can't upload it yet as it was a blind scrapping challenge so I can upload it Wednesday... I think!

This is my tag...

It's the first time I've tried the resist ink technique over heat embossing... happy with the way it turned out!

I also managed my layout for the challenge for guest designer for chooks as well, but not sure if I can share it here... will find out...

Now I know you visit... so would love to hear what you think of my layouts... please?????

No photo today... but I did scrap some more challenges!

This one is based on Groundhog Day, so the criteria was 6 photos/pattern papers or flowers (I went with photos!), a shadow on the title, and a repeating shape.



Challenge 5 was a word challenge... love



And finally I did the second sketch challenge...

Did you hear the silence???

Cause I did.... the kids are back at school and dh went off to work so I had the house to myself today and for the next 2 days!!!! This is why I took a week off work!
I love them.... but sometimes I really need the quiet!



So in my year of learning to relax what did I do today.... scrapped of course!!!

These 4 monthly challenges from Chookscraps...

This one had to have Blue, 2 photos and a reference to friendship



This challenge was based on the legend of the snowdrop, had to be on a white background, contain wings and a teardrop shape.



One of the sketches...



And a word prompt challenge... the word was sacrifice.



There's 3 more challenges and another sketch, so depending on what I feel like doing I might work on them tomorrow.

I hope everyone in Queensland stays safe.

Yeh I've been slack...

well I have and I haven't...

I've cleaned house, done the washing, scrapbooked and what I really wanted to... relax!

So there's been no photos... you get that!

But scrapping... yes...

I've been working on 2 whiteboards for the last couple of days. I've done them up so that they can go on the wall above my scrap space, and I can put layouts on them on display and be able to change them.

So here is what they look like...



Each board....





And here are some details pics...









And yes I know one board is darker than the other... I was hoping it wouldn't be noticed, but it is... but there were problems on the creating side... the question is, how noticeable it is, and whether I should try to fix it or if it will make it worse...
I will wait and see...

Happy Oz Day!

The boys and I have had a nice relaxing day.... went down to the markets this morning and bought some new fuchsias, then we visited mcdonalds and got an icecream and a coffee for me!
And then home and we've been watching movies all afternoon, while I've been tweaking my storage...

I now have a lovely ink shelf....




It worked really well. This was a wooden CD tower. I removed the black plastic strips that held the cd's and put it on it's side. Holds the larger ink pads perfectly.
I made the small boxes and they hold embossing powders, glitter and inking tools.
An old spice rack holds the colourwashes and glimmer mists.

And this is the whole top of my shelving units...



And with that I've been tweaking the embellishment storage and now it's all neat and tidy and labelled!



So with all of that, I've decided that my clip it up really doesn't work for me. Especially as Charlie Brown likes to play with anything hanging on it!
So I have it up for sale... a Base unit and tip tier, heaps of clips and dividers and some pouches.

So if you're interested, or know of anyone who is, just leave me a message and I will contact you.

And of course I have a couple of pics to share....

Charlie Brown who was going to go away with dh for work...



And my baby boy in his regal pose!

I didn't forget...

yeh... well... maybe just a little bit.....lol

but I did take a pic yesterday...



It was actually taken for the chookscraps photography challenge... and is off my little visitors that I can never get rid off!

And I had one more challenge to finish... the card...




It was based on a sketch and I made mine a trifold card.

and because it's cold wet and raining (and has been for the last 2 days) I didn't take a pic today... oh well...

Hot!

Tis very hot here today... and of course I spent most of the day cleaning out DS2's room...

but now all the rubbish has gone gone gone!!!!

And I got one layout done today for the chooks challenges...

So here are the ones I have done...

Challenge 1: handmade flower, ruffles, red embie and a journalling block.



Challenge 2: 2 words or less in the title, Reference to yourself, at least 1 tag and two main colours...



And Challenge 3 was a sketch...



Now I think I might go sit outside for a while and see if I can cool down... way too hot!