A visit and a major project

Finally my daughter has come home for Christmas,albeit 3 days late.There is so much news to catch up on and so little time.We are heading back to Canberra on New Years Day.I've put a rare photo of me on here.It was taken on Christmas day.Everyone tells me that I look festive and green really suits me.

I'm currently working on a layout for Scrapbooking memories which is due by January the 7th.It has to feature shoes.The photo is the easy part...this layout has taken weeks, but hopefully will look good when finished.It is very fiddly!

D-lish

D-lish scraps and kits is the store where I can spend my $10 prize for runner up on out of the hat challenge.They have some good bargains there including christmas card packs.I wish I had found those prior to Christmas. I'm thinking of being boring and buying a bazzil pack as I find cardstck seems to disappear when you need it most.
I haven't done much scrapping over the festive season but plan to get busy again now that it is over.
At the Lincraft sale yesterday I bought a florentine border punch for 30% off.Can't wait to have lacy edges on some of my girly layouts.

Happy Christmas

I've just checked my out of the hat challenge and I got runner up for their monthly challenge.
Public Choice - Kylie Symons
Runner - Up - Julene Matthews
Random Draw - Judith Armstrong
Mad Hatter Choice - Amanda Taylor
Summary of my achievements in the past month are:
1 layout of the month Shabby chic
1 runner up layout of the month out of the hat
1 3rd in layout of the month artastic
1 layout of the week mystical
3 cybercrop wins purple and mystical

1 2nd place in cybercrop purple
1 encouragement award for completing a challenge nobody else did.

I hope my readers have a sense of humour.I saw this on Unicornjulie's blog and just had to copy it! Those from Purplescraps will get the inside joke!

In case I don't get back here before Christmas,have a very happy one everybody.

There will be more stunning layouts from yours truly next year.(cough)

Soho good

I'm sure someone has thought of this before but I was doing this layout's title,stuck down Soho and thought what letters do I have left?There was a g,d and 2 zeros.The result was this!

It summarises our morning in London's West End.Erica and I were so cold so we went into a coffee shop for a morning cuppa and some biscuits, which were tied with this ribbon.I kept it for a scapbooking layout.(Isn't that sad?).The result was this.I love the maroons and pinks in this and even the facr that the other ribbon looks like butterflies.

Another design team application

Here I go again.Another application has gone in.(not saying where!).I've included the Moulin Rouge canvas plus 2 of the cards I made recently on Mystical and Enchanted challenges.I agonised ove which layout to submit(they only want one!!!),so I've sent 2 completely different to each other.Maybe 2010 will be my year.After 8 years of scrapbooking,I'm more than ready.

Results of Purplescraps cybercrop.

Well I'm amazed at my run of luck.In the purplescraps cybercrop I received 2 firsts and a second.Melinda drew the names out of a hat so it wasn't necessarily on skill.This gives me $50 to spend on chipboard from scrapping'n'craft.com.au.It will be fun spending all that money!
I've also joined the forum at scrapping2perfection