Black Magic Blog

There is a new challenge blog that is about to start up. You have to use the colour black as the main colour and then they give you two other colours to team it with and a sketch to interpret. Recently they had a Design Team Challenge and I gave it a go. I didn't make the team (just as well as I am a bit busy at the moment) but here are the layouts that I did for it. This is the link if you would like to see more; http://www.blackmagicsketches.blogspot.com/

I must admit I had a lot of fun doing these pages and I think that a album full of mainly black pages would look stunning.

Game On - Mystical Scrapbooking

I am still doing the Mystical Scrapbooking Game On Competition. My first three layouts are down below so scroll down to view them. These are my most recent ones;


If you are interested to see what everyone else has done than click on this link to have a look; http://www.mysticalscrapbooks.com.au/photos/showgallery.php?cat=644

Trivial Pursuit

For this challenge we had to use any colour combination of the pie pieces from the game, we had to have three or more sentences of journaling and the title had to be a question. This is what I came up with.

Who's Walking Now?

Scrabble

For this challenge we had to have at least six 1 inch squares, the title had to be in blocks, we could only use two photos and three different colours.
Cupcake Queen

Checkers
For this one we had to use the colours red, black, white and cream, we had to have our embellishments layered and we had to use a crown.

You Two

Lucky I don't mind mess!!!!

It's a good thing that I am not a neat freak, with a daughter who loves to jump right into the middle of anything messy with gusto I am bound to have piles and piles of washing for years to come. What age can I teach Bronte how to do her own washing and ironing???

These photos are Bronte having a late birthday cake. I made up a packed mix carrot cake as it was in the cupboard and had a bash at trying my hand at making it into a lady bug ..... I should have waited until it cooled a bit more. Anyway I gave Bronte the whole cake to see what she would do with it. And she dove in - face first.....soon followed by hands. It was funny to watch, just a bit messy to clean up.

We ducked up to IKEA on Saturday for a look around and I ended up buying Bronte a painting easel, see needs more outside toys to keep her entertained and this was only $30 with a huge roll of paper attached, it also has a whiteboard sided and a blackboard side - it is great. Gotta love IKEA for bargains. Anyway the weather on Sunday was lovely, not a cloud in the sky and no wind - so we ventured outside to paint. I turn my back for a second and a wind gust blows up and knocks the easel over landing on Bronte face first, she then turns herself over and tries to get out. Mind you Tiara is laying beside Bronte (Tiara is Bronte's watch dog, she doesn't leave her side when she is outside) so both Bronte and Tiara are under the easel - I could only see feet and a tail sticking out. Bronte mush have managed to roll herself over because when I pulled the easel off she was coated in pain - front and back, and Tiara had a blue face. Bronte was fine with the whole incident and continued painting. Tiara is still trying to get blue paint off her face.

Blumar's Craft

This layout is a sample for Blumar's, I have put it together to teach on line. Maria runs a fantastic site that has free on line lessons all the time. You just have to sign up prior to the lesson to have acess to it. This class that I am teaching is focusing on distressing techniques. So if you want to learn a thing or two about how to add a textured look to your page pop on over. http://www.blumars.com.au/forum/

We haven't decided on an official time when the class is going to be held, but it won't be that long away.

123 Challenge Design Team

Wahoo!!! I am a tad excited. I have made the 123 Challenge Design Team. We had to do June and July's Challenge and from our entries Charmane and Karlene picked their team. Here are the two layouts that I did to get onto the team.

Check out who else made the team;

1} The 123 Creative Team has been announced!Check it out on the 123 Challenge Bloghttp://ourbrightstarsandus.typepad.com/123challenge/

2} The next 123 Cybercrophttp://ourbrightstarsandus.typepad.com/123_cybercrop/ will be held on Monday 17th of August starting at 7:30pm - we would LOVE to see you there! MORE DETAILS SOON!Winners of the 123 June Cybercrop announced Soon!

Piggy

Bronte and I went to the big toy sale at Kmart yesterday, I was going to put some toys on layby for Christmas.....but we couldn't find anything that we liked. Until we found this piggy. Bronte is mad for pigs at the moment, she gets excited whenever she sees one. So I ended up buying it for her. I took a few photos of her playing with it, until she realized that I was taking photos and then she started to ham it up. A photo I took of Gremlin this morning. He seems to be getting bigger and bigger everyday, even though he shouldn't be growing anymore.