Happy New Year/Show us your stuff

I'm wishing everyone a happy new year! May 2011 bring all your dearest wishes coming true.

I'm amazed at the internet sometimes.One of my comments on here is from a scrapbooker in Russia.....how amazing is that and what a small world it has become.Enjoy your parties tonight those that are going to them. I'll be curled up watching the fireworks on the TV with maybe a quiet glass of wine or two.(must be getting old!)

Here's a layout about my achievements for the year just gone for Show us your stuff".I'm just scraping in as the deadline is midnight NYE and it is 9.30pm now.The tag is misting over a Twiddlybits butterfly and the organza flowers are hand done.(took forever but effective!) Getting on to not 1,not 2 but 3 design teams was a big achievement for me.I dearly wanted 1 but was fortunate to be asked for 3 plus getting published again after several years.My other achievement was my trip to Singapore.

Let's get shabby-Architecture

Here's my entry for Let's get shabby.The theme is Architecture and features a photo of an arched building.

I used a scrapmatts chipboard archway plus a WIOIN kit.These were 4 photos I took from the tour bus as we travelled around Athens. The paper with the columns on(October afternoon ) goes perfectly.

A Christmas poem to scrap on Scrap the poetry.

A
Shiny
Little star
Burned bright
Full of glowing light
Spreading joy to the night
Christmas time!
A time that fills us with desire
And slowly sets our hearts on fire
We pray, we love and listen to the choir
A jolly Christmas time
The Christmas tree stands so tall and so proud
Takes a seat on the presents as they become a crowd
Looks over the treasured presents like a hovering cloud
Everybody loves Christmas time
It’s decorated merrily with colours and materials of all kinds
It created a place of pleasure and joy for our eyes, and our minds
And many years of pleasure and memories it always unwinds
Christmas
Is slowly
On its
Way
To
Us
If you haven't anything to scrap try this! The link to scrap the poem is on the left hand side of my blog.

Phew! Recovery time

After a mad few days prior to Christmas I've finally come up for air.Hope you all enjoyed your festive celebrations-we did! The kids loved opening their presents,the oldies enjoyed the food and family time together.I was lucky enough to receive some scrapbooking items ,so there is new incentive there for them to be used.
My next project is a mini album featuring our Christmas for scrapmatts.It is partly done and I've taken advantage of Big W's 10 cent photo offer. Happy new year everyone!!

And the winner is Emily P.

Thank you for all your wonderful comments.I love receiving them! We've just finished a yummy Christmas lunch.I asked my daughter to choose a winner by reading her all your first names and she chose Emily.If you send me an email confirming your address I'll post your parcel in a few days.

Final reminder re blog giveaway

Just another reminder about my blog giveaway,drawn on Christmas day.I have several names in the draw but would like more.It isn't too late just leave a comment.
Happy Christmas to all my blog followers.Hope you and your families delight in the joy of the season.
I haven't done any scrapping for the past few days..the silly season is in full swing.Tomorrow I'm off to my daughter's place in Canberra.Today I'll visit my mother and sister and do the gift exchanges.

Crafty sketches using Scrapmatts

Here's a very spotty Christmas layout for Crafty Sketches this month.It was the year we were married and features my husband,mother in law and husband's aunt.I used Scrapmatts reindeers and card borders plus some green bling.my dress in this photo was spotted which inspired the use of this paper.