Today is Alex's 16th birthday.
Here he is in his school uniform but this photo was taken in 2008 when he had dyed his hair blonde which turned out a lovely shade of orange...LOL
Finished its in the gallery at Scrapping Around and now here it is for you all to have a look at. :) I went through a box of family shots that haven't been scrapped and you know there are still heaps of photos in that box but hey its ok they will be in scrapbook albums one day.
Items I used were:-
Canvas from the reject shop
Kaisercraft Argentella collection - FLORENTINE
Kaisercraft Argentella collection - CHANTILLY
Kaisercraft Argentella collection - ALENCON
Kaisercraft Argentella collection - TULLE
Kaisercraft Original Monologue Letter ~ J
Kaisercraft Original Monologue Letter ~ O
Kaisercraft Original Monologue Letter ~ Y
Kaisercraft eggshell paint
Me & My BIG ideas icons - Small Scrolls
Spray adhesive. - Spotlight
I tell you the spray adhesive is fantastic for canvases as I have always struggled adhering to a canvas until now that is.
To all our family & Friends we wish you a very Happy Australia Day. 
I for one am overjoyed to be a citizen of this great nation. My parents, Brothers and I migrate to Australia in 1974 ( I was 10 at the time) from The Netherlands. We became naturalised citizens 3 years later. 
Some photos of the Fireworks at the Geelong Waterfront from last night. 
These are my 7 random photos from week 3. You will see our crazy son, Jess with Blackie, Isacc and myself, Necturines I picked from our tree, The crazy cat Garfield and a really random shot I took when we went to MacDonalds for a coffee. 
Can't say I didn't have a busy week at all can you LOL.
The other day (16th of Jan 08 actually) I created a layout for this month's challenge at Scrap The Boys. 
I used the following items to create it.
Cardstock - Stampin’ Up!
Papers from INK
Stitched rubons in red from TLC
Grungeboard skulls
Brown versacube ink
White ink Colour IT!
Bella chipboard letters
Journal block from Glitz Designs
Journal block from Theresa Collins
Bit slack with these I know but I do have a good excuse for not posting these here earlier.
Our internet is on go slow as we have been shapped back from going over our plan and we are only 3 weeks into the month...Doh! Plus I have been helping the Bossman in getting everything back onto the Scrapping Around website.
So these are my random photos from week #2.
Catch you shorlty with week #3 and an OTP I completed this week :)
Well I have had to have a good long think about things that are important to me and what really isn't and you know My FAMILY are #1 in everything that matters.
Having said that I have had to think about me and Stampin' Up! and as much as I love their stamps and other products I'm not a "party plan" girl at all. Just don't like having my supplies in boxes and waiting for the next booking at all so at the end of this month I am going to give up Stampin' Up!. It's a tough choice but hey it has to be made. I'll live and I won't stress about feeling like I am stretching myself too far and all over the place.
DH's work hours being what they are some weeks its just too hard to work around him and hte boys that are still at home. Plus my commitment to my DT work is much more important to me.
So good bye Stampin' Up! if you are one of my customers I will post a link to some wonderful ladies in early Feb that I know will be more then happy to help you with any products you may wish to purchase from Stampin' Up!
Catch you soon with another post :)
Finally my 1st otp for 2009 is finished and I can share it with you all now.
I Used the following items to create this little wall hanging for Isacc's bedroom wall:-
Kaisercraft pp - Peek-A-Boo - Nursery
Kaisercraft pp - Peek-A-Boo - Lullaby
Kaisercraft pp - Peek-A-Boo - New born
Kaisercraft pp - Peek - A -Boo - First Steps
Kaisercraft paint - Mint
Kaisercraft paint - Eggshell
Kaisercraft wooden letters
Rubons were a mixture of Kaisercraft & TLC/Breezy Designs
Blue ribbon is unknown
This is the last of my CC layouts that I got finished on time. There is still one more to go and it will get done as it needs a few finishing touches.
Step-by-step challenge with Scrapaholix. 
For this layout I used:- TLC cardstock
Kaisercraft pp - Spirograph - Harmonic
Kaisercraft pp - Spirograph - Phase
Bella Corrigationz - BLue
White ink
Olive ribbon for corners on my hidden journaling
Clear Star - with glitter heat embossed
Charlotte and Chloe have 2 new family members of the 4 legged kind. LOL
here is a pic of them aren't they just too cute.
They took Alex and I with them and we too ended up with another family pet.
This is Alex's kitten I think his/her name will be blackie but not sure just yet.
Well I have been having a play with wordpress. There are just some things blogger won"t let me do that I really want to do and that is seperate my DT work from my Stampin Up! and also inform my Stampin' Up! customers on what classes, workshops, crops I am planning for 2009.
These are my creations for the Jan CC at Scrapping Around so far.
Challenge #1A- Page Sketch challenge
Challenge #2 - Mutli Photo Layout 
Challenge #5 Christmas Memories
There is only 1 sleep to go until
the January 09 Cyber Crop
When:- Thursday 8th January.
Theme:- Scrap your Holiday Memories
Start Time:- 7:30pm (VIC)
Where:- The forum at Scrapping Around
There will be Great Challenges, Games, Great prizes to be won and whom knows what else will be in store…so come on over and sign up for some creative inspiration, a bit of chatter and a whole heap of fun.
Hope to catch you there:)
You will now notice that all my links are in blue and all my headers and other special things are in white LOL. I am hoping it will make it easier for you all to be able to follow the links what with my beautiful background from PYZAM.COM
Until my next lot of updates have a wonderful day and stay safe.
Scrap your stash challenge #1 wasn't a difficult one for me, as I have heaps of papers and embellishments etc that are well and truely over 3mths old. Don't we all LOL.
A copyright to me.
This is also a very old photo of DS @ either 3 or 4 Can't quite remember sorry. He is now 22 going on 23 ROFL.
The papers and Cardstock I have used are from Stampin' Up!
The Chipboard is from Bella and America Crafts.
Rubons are from Urban Lily.
For more info on this challenge go check out the FORUM at Scrapping Around. Join up as a member and come have some fun with us as this could end up being a year long challenge who knows LOL.
Ok this may be silly but I normally just use Kodak Easyshare to upload my photos from my camera to my pc. Yes I know there are some basic things in there that you can play with to "alter" photos but honsestly I have a love for Paintshop Pro 9 that I do heaps in (maybe not enough though). So today I thought I would share my week 1 and week 2 photos that so far are my favourites.
Week #2 photo
Here is our ever so hansome and cute godson JJ on his trike begging me for a photo. Couldn't resist since he asked so nicely.
I used the Spotlight in fun effects to darken the edges.
Week #1 Photo
Our hansome soon to be 16 year old giving a ride to Bella on his major new toy that he bought himself with his earning from Toys-R-Us.
For this photo I just had to use the Fisheye effect in the fun effects.
Easy peasy you say and yep it was so if you have a program that you use to upload your photos to your pc go check out what else it can do and hey leave me a comment when you have done it so I can check it out.
Yep I have taken the plunge and made a commitment to myself to take a random sort of photo once a day for the month of January.
I won't post them each and every day but I will post them once a week just to keep myself on track. LOL
So here are photos in no special order from the 28/12/08 to today 04/01/09.
I haven't actually finished a layout this week but have started one so thats a good thing. It just needs some final touches and a little bit of journalling and then it will be done.
Have also started an OTP project which is looking pretty spiffy if I say so myself and will share that as soon as that is finished aswell. I am hoping to have it finished by the end of the week.
We have still had a pretty busy week here what with going out and having friends and family drop in to wish us a Happy New Year. "Spring" cleaning since Sam moved out just after Isacc was born etc you know as a mum, domestic goddess and all the house work is pretty much never ending but once its done it looks great.
Getting a call at 9pm last night from Renee in regard to some scrapping paper storage shelves I have that aren't being used and asking me to drop them off to her was great. LOL, but thats what friends are for and knowing I can pop in on her at anytime of the day and night is pretty cool and a whole heap of fun.
Yippeeeeeeeee its SALEBRATION time with STAMPIN' UP!
There is no better time then now to get some great free stamp sets from the catalogue on the left then right now.
me by email if any of them are of interest to you.
SaleABration runs from January 1st to February 28th 2009.
Customers:
If you spend $100 you can select one of the four stamp sets in this year's SaleABration Catalogue.
Want more FREE stamp sets??
Spend $300 and you will get:
3 of the SaleABration stamp sets,
PLUS a hostess stamp set from pages 17 - 19 of the main catalogue)
PLUS $30 to spend on other items from the catalogue.
Hostesses:
Host a workshop with sales over $600 and get a SaleABration stamp set in addition to the regular hostess rewards.
New Stampin' Up! Demonstrators:
Join my team during January/February and in addition to the super starter kit (product and business supplies valued at $560 for $324, that is 40% off) you can choose an extra stamp set up to $79.95. Please email me if this is a tempting offer and you'd like me to send you some more information. (This offer is for Australian residents only if your in another country go check out the Stampin' Up! website and locate a demonstrator in your country.
May 2009 bring you joy, happiness, prosperity, love and your hearts desires each and every day.
Besides my scrapping goals I am also going to choose one word for this year. My word for 2009 is:-
JOY - the emotion of great delight or happiness caused by something exceptionally good or satisfying; keen pleasure; elation. A source or cause of keen pleasure or delight; something or someone greatly valued or appreciated.
The idea behind the one little word concept is to give yourself something to focus on throughout the year. "A single word can be a powerful thing. It can be the ripple in the pond that changes everything. It can sharp and biting or rich and soft and slow."
Do you have one word for 2009? If so then please leave a comment. I would love to know what your word is.
