Exciting News!!

I made the Design Team for Lets Get Sketchy !!  My first layout will be posted on the 5th March and I can't wait to get started!!  I have had a peek at the upcoming sketches and they look fantastic, so if you like sketches or just want some inspiration head on over to Lets Get Sketchy.

Lets Get Sketchy will have a new sketch challenge every Monday. They will have a monthly random drawing for a winner, but you must play along with at least two of the challenges to be eligible to win the monthly prize. With a challenge every week, there will always be a fun sketch to play along with and some inspiration for you from our design team!!
Cheers 

Another sketch blog and DT Call!



I found another sketch blog that is just starting up and you all know how much  I LOVE  sketches!!!!  The first sketch will go live on the 1st March.  Go to Lets Get Sketchy to see the DT call sketch..... Here is the sketch and my interpretation...One of my darling Grand-daughter Emily, she is sooo beautiful inside and out!! It didn't scan very well, it's too overcast here to take a good photo. 

Wish me luck, I would love to be on their DT.

Cheers

Good Good News!

I got accepted for another 6 months on the Nuts About Sketches design team!!!  As I have mentioned before I love Shawn's sketches as she does great multi-photo layouts which I love doing! I have so many albums of photos that I had printed years ago just sitting in the cupboard and it is soooo good to get them finally scrapped.

Here is the sketch and the layout I did.



and here is the layout I did.

 

She does make my heart sing in every way!

Cheers

TRY AGAIN!!

What a month it has been!!!!  Got home from the shack on the Friday after having the 6 Grand-children for a holiday and poor Montana had the Gastro bug that was going around, little darling.....and that started it....I got a phone call at 2.30 am Sunday morning from Hayley, she had started vomiting and had to go to the hospital could I come around and watch Montana...the vomiting had bought the baby on and as she couldn't have it naturally, she was rushed into theatre to have an emergency C on Sunday morning.....  I am bless with a beautiful baby boy!!!  He is totally totally gorgeous!!  DARBY JACKSON TOOLE....So that makes it 8 darling grand-children now.

Anyway, Mark (Hayley's husband) got the bug on Monday...I got it on Tuesday..and my hubby got it on the Wednesday and poor Montana still had it!  We all couldn't go to the hospital so we didn't pass the bug on and poor Hayley couldn't have visitors...it was one heck of a week!!! But all good now, with Hayley and bubs doing well.

Soooo, back to my scrapbooking which I haven't posted for awhile so here goes!!.....

These are all layouts I have done for the DT at Nuts About Sketches love love Shawn's sketches!

Wow, just checked back it's been Oct since I last updated any layouts!!  Where did the time go????

Here is this weeks sketch...199 Darling Cooper out on Hayley's farm back in 2004



Next sketch 198..My Mum with Travis's 3 children

Sketch 197...Christmas 2005..I have had these photos in an album for years, glad to scrap them!

Sketch 196...Tom's 12th Birthday.. he's growing into a handsome and wonderfully thoughful boy

Sketch 195..Hayley's 29th Birthday. Look at Montana isn't she the most gorgeous little cherub!!

Sketch 194...Cooper again on the beach.

Sketch 193...Cooper again..LOL  He's ALL BOY!!

sketch 192...Montana playing my Mum's old piano, she loved it!!

sketch 190...Cooper again...being his cheeky self!

sketch 189...Sweet darling Ebbony when she cut her face.

sketch 188..Hayley, Montana and Mark at the Kadina Family day footy.

sketch 187...Montana watering Daddy's garden.

sketch 186..I don't realise how many pages I do of Cooper!! Here he is dancing in the puddles-he had a ball this day running, jumping, rolling and sitting in the puddles!

 Sketch 185...my darling Cooper on the beach at Black Point years ago.



Well if you have come this far thank you for looking, sorry it was such a long post, will definately be updating weekly from now on!!!

Have a great day



I'm Back!!!!!!

Hi, I'm finally back to updating this blog, it's been a few months and a lot has happened!  I had my knee operated on in November and it really rocked me!!  Having 2 lots of surgery in 6 weeks really took it out of me.  But I'm on the road again and getting back to my normal self, whatever that is!!  LOL

I'm down the shack at the moment with 3 of my grandchildren enjoying the beach, beautiful!

I've been trying to keep up with my scrapbooking for Nuts about sketches  and Shawn has done some wonderful sketches, love them!  Here are the ones I have done since my last post, might be a bit long so grab yourself a cuppa. Well I will have to come back when I'm on my computer at home, I'm on my laptop and it won't let me upload any photos, this is why I don't add to my blog as often as I should, just don't understand how things work or how to get them working!!!! 

This weeks sketch

Finally got this weeks sketch finished!!!!  My mouth has settled down quite a bit now, so feeling a lot better!

Here is sketch 183 over at Nuts About Sketches ........

My eldest Grand-daughter Emily, she is such a beautiful young girl!

I also used this as my DT layout for Out of the Hat ....I was sooo running out of time this month with everything, I combined the October challenge at Out of the Hat which was to use Purple/yellow, felt and torn edges...I used the colours, I used felt for the yellow in the banner and I wet and tore the PP along a scalloped ruler, with the sketch from Nuts about Sketches and I really like how it turned out!

Cheers

It's been a busy month..

September has been and gone and now October is here and nearly over....where does the time go!!!  Someone asked me today if I have finished my Christmas shopping.....WHAT!!!  Haven't started, there's still plenty of time...isn't there??  

It's been a busy month..... had all my top teeth out and new plate put straight back in!!  Wow, was I bruised and swollen, looked like i had been 10 rounds with Mick Tyson!!  LOL  Once the swelling in the gums goes down and I have my plate refitted, I think it will be fine, now I just have to put up with all the sore spots from the rubbing!

Plus I have been babysitting my darling little Grand-daughter Montana most days....wow she is such a gorgeous little girl!!  I love her so much! Plus school holidays!!

Anyhow on to the scrapping.... here is what I got done inbetween everything!  Sketch 180 over at Nuts About Sketches was a double layout with lots of photos...loved it!

Week 181

Week 182

Alot of photos of the grandies enjoying the beach.

Cheers

Marilyn

This weeks sketch..

...from Nuts about Sketches and it's a beauty!  I did another photo of Granny's 80th birthday.

Cheers



Another Sketch from Nuts about Sketches

Here is this weeks sketch from Nuts about Sketches , it's a double layout which I LOVE!!  These photos I had printed 5 or 6 years ago and have been sitting in an album all this time and that is what I love about Shawn's sketches, I can always find photos to use.  These are of Cooper, Tom, Abby, Emily and Renae on the bikes in Renae's backyard at Dublin.  Here is the sketch and my pages:-



They had sooo much fun!

About Time....

I updated this blog!!!!  I've been missing in action for a few months!  Just busy with everyday life, babysitting my darling Grand-daughter Montana, picking up grandchildren from school, teaching my card and scrapbooking classes etc etc etc. 

One of the main reasons I haven't is because this blogger thing was just not working for me...couldn't get my followers to show and couldn't follow other blogger and everytime I tried to add something to my blog it disappeared and I didn't know how to get it back!!!!  Well.....I upgraded my internet explorer and guess what happened...I got my followers back!! Yah.  My computer is a FEW(lots) years old, poor thing but this will have to do for awhile yet.  So now I just need to find the time to keep it up to date.

I have missed uploading a lot of my scrapbooking pages but I might get around to it some day but for now I'm just going to start with what I have been doing lately.

First up, my wonderfull news that I have been accepted for another 6 months on the Nuts about Sketches design team, I love this wonderful blog run my Shawn, she designs the sketches herself and she uses lots of photos...which I LOVE...I have so many photos!!!  

Well, I will start with this weeks sketch...

and this is my version of it...

two of my darling Grand-daughter's.  Aren't they gorgeous!!

I have used very old Cherry Arte paper and my Martha Stewart punches.

I will update again VERY soon!!

Have a great day.

Cheers

Marilyn