Life seems to be rushing by so quickly lately and I can't believe it is almost 2 months since I last updated my blog.
I am trying to get my scrapbooking room organised and it seems to be taking FOREVER, but I am on the downhill run now and it is starting to look really great. Dean's Mum gave us an old kitchenette from her house a few years ago and we are currently doing it up. We are almost finished so I will upload some pictures tomorrow.
Here is a layout I finished recently as well as a few cards that I made from a Kaszazz kit that I purchased.
Love Nic xxx
In my last post I mentioned that I had created an album for photos of my 40th birthday party. I have finally finished the album and am really happy with how it turned out.
I haven't added alot of embellishments as I really wanted the photos to be on show.
Here it is.
Love Nic x
May has been a crazy month for me with heaps of things happening. I went on a scrapbooking retreat at Country Papercraft on the first weekend with Sharyn, Amie, Jenny, Shirley, Julie and two lovely ladies that I hadn't met before Hayley and Robin. I had a fantastic time with heaps of laughter and fun. We have already booked in for another weekend in November so I am really looking forward to that. I spent the weekend at the retreat making an "All Occassion Mini Album" using a tuturial I purchased from Paper Phenomenon. While making it, I decided to be a bit self indulgent and instead of making it for someone else, I decided I would make it for my 40th Birthday party which was to be held the following weekend. The album turned out absolutely beautiful and I am so pleased with it. I am currently putting photos in it now and will upload pictures of it when I am finished. Well, getting back to the title of this post, I am falling a bit behind in my One Little Word projects but am determined to get back on track and finish all 12 prompts during the year.
So, below I have photos of my prompts for February and March.
February's prompt was a "Vision Board" of sorts that related to your word and the March prompt was all about "Taking Action" by setting a goal, a timeframe and getting it done. Ali's goal was to clean out her office so my mind immediately went to something very boring like "clean out and organise the storeroom" but when speaking to Kristy about the task and moaning to her about how I wanted to do something crafty, she came up with a suggestion about making a craft project my goal. So, I decided I would create a canvas that my scrapbooking idol Gabrielle Pollaco had recently posted a tutorial on. I am really pleased with how it turned out.
Love Nic x
March
February
Just over a week ago, Dean and I arrived home from a 13 day cruise to New Zealand (Mum and Jock also came along). We had a fantastic time and going back to work on Tuesday was very hard!! Normally when we go on a cruise, I am ready to get back home but this time I was quite sad for our holiday to end. We got to meet Jock's Sister and also his Brother and Sister-In-Law so that was really great and we met heaps of really nice people on the cruise. I have posted a few pics of us below.
The same night we got home, my next door neighbour came over with a HUGE parcel that had been dropped off by the postie. When I opened it up, it was full of scrapbooking goodies that had been sent to me by a gorgeous lady named Sylvia who we met on our last cruise. I was blown away by this amazing gesture of kindness and really appreciate the amazing friends I have.
Love Nic xx
Yesterday I had Kristy, Tanya, Dee, Kathleen and Jenny over for a Stampin Up! workshop presented by Jess Kassman. Jess created 5 fantastic cards for us to make and it was so much fun. I am loving making cards and think I will be making alot more in the future.
Here are the cards we made:
P.S. If any of my family members that read my blog get one of my cards that you have seen on here.....remember to look very surprised when you get it and act like it is the first time you have seen it :)
Love Nic xxx
Back in June last year, I attended a retreat in Bruce Rock. Whilst at the retreat, the beautiful and very talented Amie and Sharyn both helped me create two albums from scratch. I just got the "bones" of the albums done at the retreat and have been very slowly working on completing the first one.
It is now finished....YAY!!!!!
I might still add some bits and pieces later but at the moment I am really happy with it.
I had far too many photos to fit the album so I made a heap of little mini albums that slot into it.
Now I just have to finish the second album before attending another retreat in May and convincing the girls to help me start another album!
Here are the pics!
Love Nic x
I had a lovely day today, firstly Kristy, Simone and I went to the Boulder Markets and had a wander around then Kristy, Tanya, Dee, Jenny and I had an afternoon of scrapbooking.
I decided to have a go at completing the Stuck?! Sketches 15th January 2013 challenge and I was really happy how it turned out as it was the first 12 x 12 layout I have completed for ages.
Love Nic x
Here is my layout:
Here is the sketch:
