Another LO

I did this LO for one of the March challenges over at Top 50. This challenge was set by the lovely Vicki (whos birthday happens to be today - Happy Birthday Vicki) and basically was that we had to try a technique that we had never tried before. I have never tried masking and I have never tried raising a portion of a photo up like this. I really like how this turned out and look forward to trying both techniques again.

Removed for Publication

(I will have to make one of those

little 'removed for publication' boxes for

here

heheheeh)

Have a great day all.

Hugs

Anthea

xox

OK - it has been a while, so I thought that I would upload some pics. This first one is one that I did "Just Because". It had been a while since I had done a LO that wasn't a challenge and I really wanted to scrap these photos.

The next ones are from the Top50 March CC which was all about seasons. I found these challenges to be very challenging, but this is what I came up with....in no specific order. There were of course set criteria that we had to meet, but I wont go into them here....if you are interested head over there to check them out.

Spring

Summer

Autumn

Winter

Mystery Challenge

Well, that is it for now. In the process of making 9 little snowmen for the March Embelly Swap - hope everyone that gets one likes them. Have a great day everyone.

MWAH

Anthea

xox

My day with Kathie

Well, if you are one of the Scrapbooking Top 50 gals, or a follower of Kathie's blog, you may know that today we finally got to meet. Kathie was in Benella for the week visiting a friend, so I took the opportunity to go and visit her. I had a great time meeting her and her two lovely daughters. I got tons of photos, but these are some of my favourites in no particular order.....

The kids on the apple.

Tori and Miss Gillian (Tori refusing to do anything but hug Miss Gillian!)

The rocket - see if you can spy the kids.

Kathie and Miss Angela.

Matthew - yep - Master attidude himself.

The gorgeous Kathie.

Tori, NOT posing for the camera despite my pleas.

Miss Angela....

Miss Gillian

Tori, licking the frosting of the babycino plate.

Kathie and Moi (Photo taken by Matthew)

And because Matthew figured out how, a pic taken with the self timer on the camera - balanced quite precariously on the pram......hehe.

Kathie's girls were so well mannered, Tori tried (she is only 2 and half) and Matthew, well he was his typical rambunctious self. By the time we left though, he had settled down a bit and had stopped trying to show off in front of the new girls he was meeting! He tried to tell me he didn't think they were beautiful: yeah right - so why was he trying to impress them so much (very unsuccessfully I might add)?

Kathie, it was lovely meeting you and I truly hope that we can do it again! I might leave Matthew at home though!!!

MWAH

Anthea

xox

Amazing Prize over at Scraphappykat

Now as much as I would love to keep this to myself, to increase my chances of winning, I thought I would continue to spread the Christmas cheer and let you know about the amazing prize up for grabs over at scraphappykat. Kathie and the girls have an EZ Cut machine & Dies up for grabs right now....and ALL you have to do is leave a comment on her blog. How cool is that? Kathie is known for her generosity, but this takes the cake. Pop over and say hello and leave some Christmas cheer. Kathie (and everyone who visits my blog) I wish you all a wonderful and safe Christmas and a year ahead that is filled with joy. May all your dreams and wishes come true.
xox

Not a lot to show....

Hey all....

I guess it has been too long since I have done alot of scrapping. This LO was done as a monthly challenge over at Scrapbooking Top 50 last month. Due to several reasons, this was one of only two LOs that I did all month. This great challenge by Sue was primarily a colour combo challenge where we also had to use a nursery rhyme. I used the rhyme from the book "I love you forever" and came up with this fairly simple LO. (In saying that though, cutting out those flowers is not something I will be wanting to do on a regular basis.) I also finally got to try out my new dymo lable maker....how cool!



I am also participating in a journal tag swap right now and this is what I have made for them. The second one was most certainly inspired by the amazing Tracey, and even though it is pretty different....I really like it. Actually, I have some recent photos of our local neighbourhood peacock and I am wondering if I can incorporate the word 'love' into a LO about him!? Any ideas?

Anyway - that is about it for now.

Hope everyone is well.

MWAH

Anthea

Retro CC

Here are some LOs from the Retro CC this past month at Scrapbook Top50. These are my favourites.

Hope you enjoy!

Bohemian Challenge

This is a LO that I did which required the use of Bohemian style. I had no idea what this meant - but armed with a sample LO from the gorgeous Sue and a some advice from her on what it meant - this is what I came up with. It is a LO of my beautiful niece Chloe.