A New Grandaughter

Exciting news just before Christmas with the birth of Marissa. Congratulations to Alicia and Cameron. A little sister for Nathan.

This is my very first LO on Marissa. I have used a Chookscraps December sketch...........

Chookscraps October Pack

LO's I created using the Bo Bunny Splendor range from the gorgeous October Chookscraps Pack..............

Chookscraps December CC

My sample LO's for the CC.

Challenge 1......

Challenge 2.......

Challenge 3......

Wipeout

Round 2 of Wipeout finished the week before Christmas with my LO 'What a Cutie' winning the round. I now progress to the Scrap Off at the completion of all five round. I had fun participating in this round at Uproar 2 Scrapmore and loved all the challenges.

Round 9........
Round 8............

Catching up

December is such a busy month and I have been neglecting my blog, some what!

Lots to catch up on, including some exciting news.

December S4L Challenges

Sketch...................

Recipe Challenge.............

Bingo with a Twist..........

Wipeout Game 2

I have made it through to Round 5 of Wipeout at Uproar 2 Scrapmore. Enjoying this competition, heaps of fun.

Round 5..........

Round 4..........

Round 3..........

New Design Team Announced at S4L

Excitement at Scrapbooking 4 Less yesterday when Shelley announced her new design team for 2009.

Woo hoo, I made it!!

Congratulations also to Toni and Beccy who will remain on the design team from this year. They will be joined by four new design team members Linda, Fran, Kelly and myself.

Look forward to working with all these talented ladies along with Shelley.

A big thank you to Shelley.

These are some of the projects I submitted for my application:

OTP items........................

Cards..........................

Wiped Out!

Last night I got Wiped Out of Game 1 Round 9!

This is my entry for Game 2 Round 2..........................

Wipeout Game 1 Round 9

Voting is happening now for this round to decide on the final two for the first Game of Wipeout..................

Wipeout Game 2 Round 1

OMG I am still participating in Game 1 and Game 2 have commenced. This means I have to scrap a LO every night!! This is the first LO for Game 2...........................

Billy Joel in Melbourne

Saturday night I went to the Billy Joel concert at Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne. Its was an awesome performance by the Piano Man...................

Wipeout Round 8

Round 8 and we are down to the last 4 scrappers. Challenge 8 x 8, something to do with trees, flowers, chipboard and some red. I created this LO for Rebecca's BOM...................

Wipeout Round 7

Challenge: Black, white, red and green with the words Christmas and Friend....................

November Challenge

The November scraplift challenge for Uproar to Scrapmore. I have used the gorgeous Basic Grey Granola papers to scrap some more of my holidays pics from WA...........

Wipeout Round 6

I am loving this comp being run at Uproar 2 Scrapmore and have made it through to round 6.
This challenge was 12 x 12, no straight edges on backing cardstock, inking, kindy glitz, stamping, flowers and bling. Fantastic challenge and this is what I created..............

Altered Record

This gorgeous OTP project I did at the Heirloom Scraps Retreat at the beginning of the month. The class was taught by talented scrapper Kylie Symons. Thank you Kylie I love it.............

Wipeout Round 5

Challenge........white space

Weekend Crop

Last Sunday I headed down to Tarcutta for a crop with the girls from Heirloom Scrapbooking. It was a fantastic day and I created these four LO's....................

Wipeout Round 4

This round the LO had to be predominantly brown, have a bracket and journalling...........

Chookscraps CC DT Challenge

Each CC the Chooks get to challenge the DT Team. This months challenge was to scraplift a LO from a magazine, 2 colours only and a punched element.

I have scraplifted my LO from Scrap Creations No 59, Nicole Finlayson's LO called My Forever Friend. Loved this, thanks for the inspiration Nicole.........

Retreat Layouts

Couple of Layouts to share that I scrapped at the Heirloom Scraps Retreat....................

Chookscraps Girls Crop In Auction

Last month we held a Crop at Chookscraps for Girls Night In to raise money for breast cancer. I won one of the auctions, a LO scrapped by the very talented Jolene Pienaar.

Arriving in the mail on Thursday was not 1 but 2 gorgeous LO's on my kids. Jolene I love them. Thank you so much.

Wipeout!!

I have been participating in the Wipeout challenge at Uproar 2 Scrapmore and have made it through to Round 3.

Round 1..................

Round 2................

Round 3................

Chookscraps CC this weekend

Pop over to Chookscraps and check out the challenges, games, chat and fun happening at this weekend's CC. There are my sample LO's:

Challenge 1...................

Challenge 2...................

Challenge 3 which was a scraplift. I have scraplifted a gorgeous LO of Susan's.

123 November Challenge

Layouts for Chookscraps