Bright and summery

here is one of the other pages I managed to complete on Mothers Day. I'm still trying to stick to my plan of using an item from my stash on every page that I have had for more than a year (this page includes the black and white flower and the black chipboard scroll)
I tried to make this page nice and bright to tie in with the bright fun photo. I also used one of my handmade flowers (the red one) and think it suits the page well.

Thanks for looking
Donna

Holiday page

Its been a while between posts again, but its been so hectic lately. I did manage to squeeze some scrapping time in on Mothers Day (because it was my day after all), and I managed to finish 3 pages. Below is one of them. This photo was taken on the Gold Coast 2 years ago and I recently bought the transperancy overlay, thought they went well together. Well I'm happy with the final result anyway.
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Donna

Niece and Nephews

My sister recently gave me this photo of my niece and nephews and I thought it was gorgeous and it was screaming to be scrapped. So i chose some summery colours and embellies and this is the result:

(sorry about the colours looking a bit washed out, just couldnt get the right shot)
I have used lots of items here including: Stampin up, cosmo cricket and kaisercraft pp, stampin up punches, kaisercraft rhinestones and rubons, prima packaging, my own handmade felt flower, cre8tiv felt pieces, 2 bugs in a rug stickers, jenny bowling journal spot, maya road flowers, misc chipboard, bazzill, stampin up hemp twine.
I am trying to use at least 1 scrapbooking related item that is more than 1 year old on every page I complete at the moment to get through some of my stash. (And I know I am not the only one to buy things coz we love them, them they sit in the stash forgotten about for ages!!)
So on this page the items that are over 1 year old are the word stickers, chipboard piece and the yellow flowers. So I managed to used 3 things instead of 1! Yay.
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Donna

challenge page

After challenging my friend Aleta to use my scraps from my page Crazy Kid (see a few posts below) this is her result. What a good way to make use of leftovers that would probably only sit around in your stash for years and years, never to be used again.

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Donna

scrap retreat photos

Well below is a bit of photo overload from the scrap retreat. So I won't talk much, just wanted to share some group pics and some pics of my fave layouts from the weekend.
Group photo by day:

And at night when all the freaks come out:

Here are the layouts (well some of them anyway)
This one I really love:

This was one of my favourites:

Here is another page created with the studio calico kit:


I even used some of my handmade flowers on this page:



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Donna

crazy kid

A quick post to share this new layout of my son. I used some paper and accents that I got while on retreat (they were left on the swap table and I swapped some items for them). Thought they'd be great for a boys page and I think they work well. I have some bits and pieces left over so I am going to challenge my friend Aleta, to use them on a page for herself.
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Donna

My Winning scrap page

I am very excited to have finally won a scrapbooking contest. Below is the page that won the category of 'Favourite page' of the weekend (Along with 1 other page).
Various items were used including Kraft cardstock, Penny lane and Stampin' Up! pp, Stampin' Up! antique brads, chipboard pieces, kaiser flowers, thickers, cosmo cricket tiny types, misc leaves, ink, and the fabulous looking doily and hat pin were given to me by Anne at the Scrapgirls retreat as a thankyou for the Stampin' Up! demo I did at retreat. The hatpin was made by Anne (who is very clever indeed) Thankyou, I love it and it really made my page!!!
Thankyou to anyone reading this that voted for my page.xx

Thanks for looking
Donna