Mum's entry for Lime Tart competition

As Mum doesn't have a blog I am uploading this unreal LO she has done of my Great, Great Grandfather & Grandmother on their wedding day. The criteria was black, white and one other colour. I love the result. Check out the comp here - winner is picked by random and there is a December Full Tart Kit worth $59.95!!

by Leanne Kroschel

Very slack....

A friend asked me on the weekend to see some of my layouts, which is great because it has motivated me to update my blog! It's pretty hard to fit 5 months of scrapping in 1 post but I'll give it ago. It's been a busy few months....been scrapping a lot more 12x12's and have really been loving the space to play and create. Mum and I also went to the Creative Edge classes in September in Adelaide, will post pics of our creations soon. Jxx

I made the flowers in the LO below. The butterfly comes from some material I found at our local sewing shop that I fell in love with.

This was for a pink, red and yellow challenge on The Boxx . I had been wanting to scrap these photos for AGES.

My Hanson Bay layout was a challenge to scrap holiday photos on The Boxx.

This was one of the first 12x12's I had done in a long time.

The next few are layouts done for the Scraptherapy Make Believe Masters Comp.

I mananged to win the round with this Layout:
I also had a crack at becoming a Design Team member on the Boxx, I was lucky enought to get through a few rounds, here are my entries :

Well, that's it for now - I know there are so many more that I haven't put up.....I really want to concentrate on some more of my Library of Memories for a few week and Christmas Cards. Jxx

So much for backing off...

I have nearly done a page a day since my last post! A couple 12x12's which I haven't done in AGES and I really enjoyed. Finally scrapped Gem's 2nd Bday from Jan...will post in the next few days when I get around to photographing. Here are the 8.5 x 11's:
this one below is for the ColorCombos Galore challenge this week:

I think I'm seriously addicted....

I think I have come to the conclusion that I spend WAY too much time scrapbooking so, I'm going to back off a little (at least until we get our new kitchen in!). In the mean time here are a few of my more recent creations...
This one here of Grant and Jack was for my Library of Memories homework. I have always wanted to scrap these and make this connection between the photos and thanks to Stacy Julian, now I have!! If you want to know more about Library of Memories/Photo Freedom check out Stacy's blog here.

This one was also for my Library of Memories (LOM) homework as well (All About US) I can really start to see Stacy's philosophy working. I found this photos behind the 'Mum and Me' tab in the All About US Drawer and was blown away that I had 3 photos a year apart so similar!

This one of Ma and Gemmy I created for my LOM homework (People We Love):

Pumpkin Pink

Check out these cute new zoo animal chipboard embellishments from Pumpkin Pink designs. My faves are the elephant, tiger and giraffe. There are endless things you could create with these little beauties. I love the fact you can leave them as is or personlise them to match your design. Head over and check them out...

On a roll...

Managed to get 2 LO's done tonight - not masterpieces by any means but I just wanted to get the memories down....The next 4 weeks I will be concentrating on LO's for my Library of Memories course....see Stacy Julian's website for more info.

Last night's scrap-a-thon...

Yesterday I decided I had too many photos, too many memories and not enough to show for the ideas I had - SO i decided to do 3 no frills pages with a 40 minute time limit for each...they are all photos from the last few days. I have been really drawn to the Project 365 for this reason - current thoughts and memories.....I want to do a lot more pages like this in the future.

Today's efforts....

Since being motivated by the girls over at The Boxx, I am going to attempt to complete a Project 365 (Photo/Layout per day) - I do realise it's already May so I'm calling mine an Everyday Life Journal..... no frills scrapbooking...use up stash - not too much thought put into the design - as Ali Edwards says just concentrating on words + photos. I kind of like this idea - and I am going to modify it slightly - not everyday just whenever and I may keep it on going - since I have now taken on Stacy Julian's Photo Freedom and Library of Memories which is non chronological it will be kinda cool to have something on a yearly basis of everyday snapshots. The other thing that appeals to me is that I can use my everyday snapshots - which I do like but always end up editing for a 'good' layout - I kinda like looking back at our old family photo albums and seeing the kitchen table and what's on it. It's a real snapshot into everyday life and not so picture perfect.

Here's the 1st - not too sure of my format yet (this one is 8.5x11) but this could get a bit cumbersome - needs some extra thought.....

And the other one is a photo I have had laying on my desk for a couple of weeks and have had the 'zzzzzz' idea from Moi at The Boxx:

Here are some of my latest creations:

Firstly for The Boxx weekly challenge - Brown, Pink Aqua and White:

And secondly for last weeks

challenge on The Boxx :

Finally....

okay Tania - you can get off my case now - I have finally set up a new blog to showcase my creations. So where do I start? I'm in one of my 'got too many things on the go and don't know where to start' moods so here I am doing my usual thing and starting yet another project! Anyway, I'm hoping this blog will ease my creative burden so I can share things spontaneously and in no particular order - well that's the theory anyway....

So to begin with here are a couple of pics I took of the kids looking for puddles the other weekend. Mum probably should have checked there WERE puddles first before psyching the kids up to splash in them. They were nearly happy with my pretend puddle I spied but it didn't quite cut the grade - oh well, I tried...