My second set of pages

Here are the other two pages that I did on Saturday. On Tuesday, I went in and spent the day with Sue and Robyn at their shop in Sarina. I had a wonderful time, with three more pages completed.
Thanks for looking and enjoy your day or night as the case may be. lol

Scrapping Day and Night!!!

I had a fantastic time yesterday. The quarterly Creative Memories big scrapping weekend at Souths was on again. This time I booked into the day and night session right from the start. Yep, you're right, again I managed to talk and laugh heaps but this time I did get four pages done.
Saturday morning when I woke I thought, mmmm, might stay in bed a little while longer until I remembered I had to pack my gear. That took an hour!!!! By the time I added everything I thought I might need, stamps, inks, punches, ribbons, bling, papers etc, well I needed a damm pack horse. lol

Another great social day. Two of my cousins were there too which was fantastic as I hadn't seen Carmel and Trish for sooooo long. Also caught up with another friend, Grace, who I was overjoyed to see. My friend Kerry managed to do 6 pages so she was pretty happy about that.
The pages I've done are a continuation of my trip to Canberra, the visit to Cockington Green gardens.

I've used my new martha stewart picket fence punch, SU Lovely as a Tree stamp set,
CM papers, SU cardstock, flowers from my stash and brads.
Please excuse all the photos, I'm not a photographer and need heaps more practice.
The sketchs are from Scrapsketch, the first page being this one and the second page, this one number 143.

Thanks for looking and hope you all had a wonderful weekend.
ETA: Due to several complaints (pmsl), I've since shifted the flower in the top layout to put it near the end of the picket fence. The girls in question are now happy!!! They were right too. lol

Companion Scapbook Page

Here is the page that I've done as the opposite to my first one. I used the same colours but just altered the embellisments a touch.
This sketch is one that was given out at the Scrapbooking morning that I went to Tuesday week ago. So I had the huuuuuuge day on the Saturday at South's League Club then went again on the Tuesday for a morning and early afternoon session. The sketch is called Square It/Round It. The idea being to have the rounded corners, circles in the missing section but still be a square format.
I did find it a bit hard to cut my photos down to 4" square and the one that explains what these particular model houses are, I couldn't cut it down at all so I printed the information onto a journalling mat and made it 4 x 4. I think it's worked out well. The original lesson didn't mention matting the photos but I felt the Chocolate Chip brings out the colours better. Also in the missing corner the original lesson had 3 circles largish circles there but as I wanted to match the previous page, I used my flowers and another set of circle stamps I have by Hero Arts.
I kept to the metal elements by three brads on the ribbon and brads in the centres of the circles and flowers. The two pages together look quite ok so I'm a happy bunny.

On that Tuesday I booked my place for the Scrapbooking Retreat being held on the weekend 31st July. So Kerry, Therese, Dianne and I are off to that. Definitely looking forward to it, no cooking, no housework, just sociallising and crafting the whole weekend. Excellent!!!!
Thanks for looking and reading. Have a good day.

It's Finished!!!

I have finished my scrapbook page that I've been working on since Tuesday. I had the photos stuck down then yesterday at Leah's, I ripped them all up and started again. I wanted to combine CM papers with my SU textured cardstock, so I worked out what colours co-ordinated with the papers and have gone from there. Then there was the texture and embellishments to think about, I didn't want a 'flat' page. The sketch I used is one that Mandy gave as a challenge to a Yahoo group I belong to. It wasn't an easy process by any means but I'm absolutely so happy with my finished page.

I used Circle Circus which I have loved from when I first saw it in the new SU catty and was stoked when I found out it was one of our gift sets at Convention. There are sooooo many uses for this set, in particular, some of the circles lend themselves so well to Oriental cards.
It's All Good from last year was another set that I used as well as Lovely as a Tree. Then there is all the 'metal' eg silver brads, filigree brads, buckle and a clip. Actually the buckle was added as a brain storm whilst talking to my friend Robyn who is a scapbooker from way back. Thanks Rob. That strip of ribbon was looking very bland and was worrying me çause I didn't know what to do with it. lol

After using the CM curvey cutter I have now ordered it. The flowers are Hero Arts and my trusty Martha Stewart branch punch and SU eyelet border punches were used too.
I've left the writing, had to take the photo first.

I had an email from Ngaire Anderson regarding a comment I had made on her blog, telling me that scrapbooking, in her opinion, is not about how good the pages look to everyone else but if those pages hold a memory and you enjoyed doing them, then that is what counts.
So after doing my page, I now agree wholeheartedly.
Thanks Ngaire for your words of wisdom.

Another thing I need practice with is my photography skills. Oh well, perhaps that will come with time.
Thanks for looking and just maybe you may like my page as much as I do myself. lol

First ever scrapbook page

Anyone who knows me will realise that this is a very unLeigh like thing to have happened. A scrapbook page by Leigh.

I was invited to a Creative Memories party today, hence this page you see here. We were all given a co-ordinating paper set, journalling square, photo mat and stickers.

This is my attempt. The sticker at the top pointing towards the tent says 'Taj Mahal of tents', just an illusion to the fact that it is the flashiest tent with everything that opens and shuts. lol

My son was wanted to camp at the dam on the farm. He was all prepared the stay the night by himself, then rang me up saying that he didn't feel well etc etc. I knew he was feeling a bit uncertain about staying there alone for the night. So I suggested I pick him up and bring him home to have a shower, then I'd take him back. Mmmmm he said, ok, doubtfully. So that's what we did. Mind you, given half a chance he would have stayed at home and not gone back at all. I wouldn't let him. Thanks for looking.