It's been waaay too long.......

.....since I updated my blog. I always have the best of intentions to keep my entries up-to-date, but so often life gets in the way. Now that I am on holidays for the next 2 weeks and Christmas is pretty much done and dusted, I have no excuse.

My scrapping table is on loan to my brother's family at the moment, so thought I would attempt to catch up on blogs and forums for my scrapping fix.

I spent just about all of last weekend making Christmas cards, which I hope got to their intended destinations in time for the big event. As I get bored with production line scrapping, I made each card slightly different, and used a variety of techniques to keep me enthusiastic and 'on task'. Here are some of my creations.....

My Masters Entries

My first Masters' experience is now over, and after intensively pouring my heart and soul into the set projects, I have just found out that I didn't make it through to the Top 50 (or top 67 as it is this year). Although it didn't totally surprise me, what did throw me was my reaction.... after all that effort, I was more hung up on the outcome than I realised. But it has been a fabulous experience...it pushed me to my limits both physically and artistically, and it is lovely to now be able to share my creations with everyone.
Congratulations to all you wonderful scrappers and artists who have made the cut to the next stage....I hope you survive the tension until the final announcement. I can't wait to see the special edition of Scrapbooking Memories that showcases all your wonderful work.
As for me...roll on next year!

Here are my entries....

Project 1 - My Greatest Achievement

When I first thought about this LO, the obvious road to take for the subject matter was the birth of my children, but I wanted to move away from the obvious, so after a big year of personal change for me, I decided to go with my own personal growth. This is my absolute favourite of all my entries, not only because I love the LO, but because it truly represents me as I am now in 2009.



Project 2 - think outside the square

This LO was made possible by my wonderful Pazzles Inspiration Cutter...it made it possible for me to create any shape I wanted for this project...



Project 3 - Double LO

I wasn't particularly happy with this one, and struggled over many hours to get it to stage where I could bear to start sticking things down...doubles are such a challenge! Looking back on it now after a couple of months, I really am not happy with it, but I love the subject matter...some of my gorgeous friends from the Scrapchat Retreat in May this year, which was another major turning point in my life...thank you girls...I love you all so much!



Project 4 - Mystery Project

My first OTP project...in retrospect, I probably shouldn't have attempted this for Masters, because the mystery project was supposed to represent who you are as scrapper, and I haven't as yet done any OTP projects, but I wanted to show some versatility, so I came up with the idea of a box of inspiration cards with magnets on the back that could be placed on the fridge and interchanged at will. I actually ran out of time, and didn't get as many cards done as I would have liked. :(

Embellished Idol Week 6

Well alas for me, there is no Week 6 Challenge. I got knocked out in the voting after round 5, but I am pleased and delighted to have gotten as far as I did considering the calibre of the competing artists.

Congratulations Chelle (the talent behind Chelley Bean Designs) for getting through to the next round. Best of luck hun! xx

Click on this blinkie to check out Chelle's gorgeous etsy store....you'll be so glad you did!!

Embellished Idol Week 5

I was stunned and thrilled to see that I had survived another week's voting. The number of competitors has now been reduced to 23.
This week we had to do a layout showing 5 places we want to visit or 5 things we want to do before we die....our bucket list.

Embellished Idol Week 4

I am a bit late getting this up here. I was thrilled to get this far in the competition and the 44 competitors were reduced to 27!!
The next challenge was to use the following on your layout...

* stitching
* painting
* layering
* distressing
* chipboard
* a punch

Phew!! What a list...I had to keep checking back on the list to make sure I hadn't missed anything. I really wasn't feeling very well and had very shaky hands, so it's a wonder I got anything done at all!!



Coldplay's music is on high rotation when I scrapbook, so that's what I did my LO about...hope you like it!

Embellished Idol Week 3

I was very thrilled to get through to Week 3 of this competition after the voting earlier this week. Our task this week was to create a monochromatic layout and we were also allowed to use black and white as well.


I actually got this finished well ahead of time this week, and had lots of fun making some of the embellishments as well, without hearing the clock ticking loudly in my ear for once!

Embellished Idol Week Two

I just managed to finish this in the last minute true to my blog name...lol! The challenge this week was to make a layout in the shape of a circle with a choice of themes.... 'Seasons', 'Through these eyes', 'Round the world' or 'Friends'.

The circle layout is not my most favourite thing to do, and I am not totally happy with the finished product, plus a lot of the subtle features of the layout don't show up in the photo...meh..oh well, at least I got it finished....

If you click on the photo, you can see a larger image....
BTW, Chelle's entry for this is AWESOME!