Random Word

I haven't done any scrappbooking for the past 3 weeks and today, I decided to try and complete 5 pages. I have just finished my fourth page. This layout is another one for  Soul-Scrappers. They have some amazing challenges each month. This one is for 'The Random Word Challenge'. You had to add one of these words to your page. 1.Fashionable, 2.Sleek, 3.Sophisticated,  4.Sassy, 5.Stylish, 6.Dapper

I chose to do a page on my daughter Jacana, because she has so much 'Sass'.

Soul Scrappers, Mystery Bag Challenge #26 'Easter'

 Another page completed from the challenges at Souls Scrappers, this page is from the 'Mystery Bag Challenge #26'Soul Scrappers. The requirement of this challenge was that the LO had to be about Easter. My page is about a cake, I made the family at Easter time. The family, really enjoyed this cake, I even made the birds nest by hand.

Hop on over and join the challenges at Soul-Scrappers. They have some wonderful challenges to reignite your scrappers' block and get your creativeness flowing. Pick 3 challenge for June is; 

1. Thankful theme

2. word(s): thank (s/ful) 

3. bling

4. ribbon or lace

5. colors- yellow and/or orange

6. buttons

7. stickers

 I chose ribbon, the colours yellow and orange and stickers. During Iso, my family have been having a bake-off challenge. Last week was mum's turn to decided on what we had to bake. Yoyo's was the theme. The kids really loved the yoyos.

Soul Scrappers, 'Survivor' Challenge for May.

This Month over at Soul Scrappers for the May challenge for Survivor is to Scrap a Layout that has birds featured on it, there must be a total of 3+. I have added a minimum of 3 birds to my page. This page is of my gorgeous niece Eve! I really hope she can continue to the kind giving child that she is?

Here is a close up of the beautiful Australian flora and fauna, I used on my page. These gorgeous embellishments, are from Kaisers collection, 'Native Breeze'

'Every picture tells a story'

Another page completed off the FB page 'Rediscover your Stash', I love most elements to do with scrapbooking except paint and sprays, they tend to have a mind of their own and never go the way I would like it to go. I got out of my comfort zone and added some on my page. This page is from the sketch in the gallery, it's about my beautiful friend Lee Phia (Lhonglie). I meet this beautiful man in Laos in 2017 and then returned with school children again to help rebuild a school. This photo is of when Lhonglie first saw me and we were reunited as friends.

Grow old with me

Having plenty of time up my sleeve has meant that I can scrap. I love the creative side of this but not the huge mess I make. I take longer to clean up than to create a page. I found this wonderful scrapbooking community on Facebook 'Rediscover your Stash'. They had this sketch on their page. I created my page around my eldest daughter Talia and her fiancee Lachie, they got engaged in December 2019. I love their smiles, it shows how much they adore each other.

Soul Scrappers 'Pick 3'

Being stuck in iso means, I am looking for something to do. I have once again found my happy place, I have reintroduced to myself to doing lots of scrapbooking. 
Over at Soul Scrappers, they have a monthly challenge called 'pick 3', the challenge is to ;

Choose three or more items from the list below to include on your page, card, or OTP project.

1. Sports theme
2. Outdoor scene
3. Colors blue and white
4. Texture
5. Border
6. Brads
7. Sports embellishments

I chose to do a page on last year's' Stadium Stomp'. I chose the 3 elements that are underlined. Due to COVID-19 I don't think I will be running up and down the stairs of the MCG this year.

Soul Scrappers 'Random Word Challenge'

At Soul Scrappers, this month the 'Random Word Challenge'
is to create a Layout about the men in your life and use one of these attributes:
Humble
Fearless
Big Heated
Hard Working
Brilliant
Funny
that best describes him. I decided to do a page on my son Jay because he is always there when you need a hand. He has such a big heart and he is so kind and generous.

I really enjoyed creating this page, I used up lots of little pieces of scrap paper and I had fun fossicking through my stash to find the elements for this page.

     

                                               

April Challenge @ Scrap our Stash

The 1st challenge at http://scrapourstash.blogspot.com/ is to get in touch with your feelings.

You have to choose one of these emojis and scrap how you are feeling.

I chose 'Happy'. My happy place is my family, I love my kids and their partners. This picture was taken on our farm for our 25rth wedding anniversary. I wanted to include all the kid's partners as no matter what happens in life, they are part of our family's history.

Here is a close up of my quote and my little cluster. I really enjoyed doing this page! I have had this paper & some of the embellishments sitting in my stash for years.

'Together we shine like the stars'

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I am part of the "Soul Scrappers Community" and currently we are undergoing a 12-month challenge, 'Survivor'. Each month we are given instructions to follow this month we have to add this to our page

You must scrap a page with as many stars as you can possibly add! Stars can be any form, pp stars, cut out stars, wooden stars, plastic, handmade stars! This is a scrap free page! Anything goes! But I will be looking for the best Handmade STARS! So you can use any theme you want as long as you add millions (well not that many!!) of stars!

I chose to scrap a picture of my husband Nifty. This year in January we celebrated our 25th anniversary. On this our 25th year of marriage, we are to become grandparents and our eldest daughter Talia and her Fiance Lachie are to be married. Fingers crossed the COVID-19 virus doesn't stop this from happening.

Scrap Our Stash -Colour & Stash Challenge

The Colour and Stash challenge over at 'Scrap Our Stash', had a few different elements. You needed to only use the required colours and then the elements on your page had to start with the letters of your name, mine went like this; M- Metal = my brad, heart pin & my little birdie A- Alphabet = the words on my LO R- Rubons= the hanging from my sign ( I haven't used rubons for years) E- Embelishments= leaves, flowers, Butterfly & pearls E- as Above This picture is of me when I went to Laos in 2017, I was lucky enough to take a group of school children on a tour to help work in an Elephant Conservation Centre. This was one of the most life-changing experiences of my life. ">scrapourstash.blogspot.com/">">

Grateful,Year 10 Camp

This week, I was doing some surfing on the net and I found this terrific site 'Scrap our Stash' its an amazing blog that has challenges that challenge you to use the scraps in your stash. Wow, I have heaps of scraps and mega stash from not scrapbooking for so long. Here is my take on their sketch. The picture was from year 10 camp 2 years ago. I really love going on camp! I am positive this won't happen, this year due to the COVID-19 Virus.

This LO is about 2 beautiful children Git & Lisa from the village of Nong Kiaw in Laos. In 2019, I took students and 3 members of staff to Laos where we volunteered. We helped rebuild their school. This Layout is from from the mystery challenge, you needed to add in 1 or more of the following Use the word ‘valentine/s OR Use Heart embellishments OR Use The word ‘Love’ OR add XOXO’s I used the word Love, XO and hearts

'Journey'

Another LO from Soul Scrapper, you needed to use a random word from the following list; 1. Hero 2. Journey 3. Suspense 4. Explore 5. Thrill, Thriller or Thrilling 6. Childish I based my LO on the word 'JOURNEY'. Last year my daughter and I spent a week in Bangkok and then she flew off to Europe to do a Contiki tour.

'Sweet Children'

Last year I was fortunate enough to visit China, the Children are so lovely. Everywhere, I went I was asked if I could have my picture taken with children. I think it was my grey hair that they were drawn to and possibly because I kept saying ni hao (hello) to them. The children would practice their English with me. This is a sketch from Soul Scrappers

'Pretty Ladies'

Another LO from Soul Scrappers. This LO was a taken from a lift, this is of me and my sisters at Christmas time. There are always many photos taken, as someone is always mucking around, pulling funny faces.

'Adventures are the best way to learn'

It has been so many years since I have use my blog and scrapbooked. At the start of the year, I received an email from Soul Scrappers, sending me information on a new challenge. The challenge is 'Survivor', each month you are given and an element of Survivor to scrap. this month it is Fire. I created a LO about my time in China. The page is about an urn where people pay their respects to people that have passed.