EMM CROP

Had a lovely time last night at the EMM Crop with Jo & Andrea. Was nice to catch up with Carol-Lea Morgan as well and met some really nice ladies too. Got a heap of stuff done (which is unusual as usually find I'm scrap blocked at these things).

Only 14 more sleeps until Mum & I go on the SAM scrapbooking cruise. The tickets arrived on Friday so now it feels real and I'm really excited. Just looking at the tours to do on shore and making final decisions so I can fax the booking form for that tomorrow. I've finally finished making our tags and badges. I'm really happy with how they've all turned out. I couldn't resist showinf them off at the crop last night and the feedback was very good. I'll take some piccies when it's light tomorrow and upload them. I used the cricut and gee it made it so much easier and quicker to make them. As I had to make 44 tags in total I was so glad I had the cricut.


I love my criut!!!!! I also got three new cartridges as Scrapbooking Emporium had them for sale this week. I hadn't really used the cricut much until I made the tags, but now that I have I can see just how much I can do with it and how much more economical it will be to make my own alphas & embellishments.

As a tool junky (I just love tools) I also managed to buy some new scrapbooking tools to play with this week. First up I got a glass cutting mat and new retractable cutting knife. It's amazing how much easier it is to cut with the glass mat as opposed to using a rubber one. I also got a fiskars hand held craft drill. I was pretty impressed with how easy it is to use and how well it went through some wooden shapes I had. I then managed to get hold of some Basic Grey precision files. These are tiny metal files that will be perfect to fit into intricate chipboard shapes when covering them with paper. Can't wait to try these out.

Well better go The biggest Loser and Grey's Anatomy are on tonight. They ar ethe only TV shows that I watch at the moment.

Reality Scraps...... Week 2

This is my entry for week 2 of Scrapbook City's Reality Scraps comp. The rules were that we had to use the Making Memories 'Cheeky'range of pages. Patterned paper had to be used as the background. We had to use the 8" chipboard that were in the kit, Journalling had to be on the chipboard. I'm pretty happy with the result.... didn't really like those papers and it was soooooo hard to work with them. I made it through to week 3.

Week in Review

Well since I've had such a busy week I thought it would be easier to recap all in one hit.

Monday was my birthday!!!! I still enjoy having birthdays even though it means I'm getting older. Was a funny day a) I started the day pretty sick with biliary colic; b) I had to work; c) since we're on diets in this house we couldn't go out for dinner as we normally would;and d) the kids were at their dad's house and forgot. However I did receive some lovely presents. mark bought me a beautiful red Jag wallet, coin purse and keyring set. I also had some money to go on a scrapbook shopping spree. Mum & dad sent money so I could buy new clothes for my upcoming cruise and my 2 brothers both gave me a lovely willow tree figurine each (I love these little figurines..... if you don't know what they are they look like they have been carved from wood and have no facial features).

Spent a couple of fun days with Jo. Thursday we had a quick trip to Ikea to return a kitchen trolley I had bought that didn't work (surprise, surprise we refrained from shopping in there!!!!). Next stop was Spotlight. Spent some birthday money on a new cutting tool for scrapbooking. Looks like a rotary cutter but with interchangeable fancy blades. I'll have to take a photo of it and post it. We then had a girly lunch and st up the MSN messenger for Club- scrap n' Chat.

Friday we spent the day with Kaye and Melinda. Cruised a few scrap shops and of course spent money. Got some new stamps and a circle cutter. Had a great day.... will have to do that again soon.



This is the Layout I did for the first week of Scrapbook City's Reality Scraps competition. We had to scrap our passion (well that was easy.....stitching is definitely mine) using the 3 bugs in a rug papers from the survival kit. We also had to journal and it couldn't be hidden. We also had to include an embellishment cluster using products from 3 companies. I used alot of hand stitching on my layout and am pretty happy with how it turned out.

Until next time,
Terri x

Digital Scrapping

I've just completed two of the quietest night duty shifts I've done in a long time. This gave me the chance to surf the net a bit and I ventured into some digital scrapbooking sites. I must say that I'm a bit taken with this alternate means of scrapbooking. Some of the kits out there are just so scrummy!!!!!!! A lot of them are free as well!!!!!!

I downloaded some free kits and am going to have a play around.....see if I can work out how to make layouts this way. Now this doesn't mean that if I'm successful that I'll turn my back on paper scrapbooking. I really enjoy the hands on, glueing, cutting, doodling etc. and the off the page stuff. But if I can work out this digital means of scrapping I'll be able to scrap anywhere. On night shift, holidays, anywhere anytime and all I'll need is my computer.

Some of the sites that I found useful where:- www.scrapbook-bytes.com and www.clikchicdesigns.com .

Off to see if the method I've used to start organising these digital elements in has worked. Knowing me I'll become addicted to digital scrapping and start collecting hundreds of digital elements.

Oh I nearly forgot. I found out how to make blinkies so I'm going to have a go at this today as well.

New Fabrics

On the way home from work today thought I'd duck into the Quilter's Store at Auchenflower for a look. I've had an idea for a new quilt in my head for a while so thought I'd see if there was any suitable fabrics. Initially I was planning to buy some pink and chocolate fabrics. But when I saw these colours below I couldn't resist them. The deep chocolates, turquoise and oranges were just too yummy to pass up. I then bought some matching DMC threads to stitch the applique designs with.

Now I can't wait to start designing this new quilt. It will also give me a chance to use my EQ6 quilt designing software which I haven't used as yet.