Melbourne Zoo Trip

I'm pretty sure by now, ya'll know how much I love digital scrapbooking. I would never be able to complete a page like this if it wasn't for my beloved Apple.

Remember - Photo Inspiration

This week over at STAMPIN ROYALTY we have a picture inspiration challenge for you to play with. Here is my project, (using the colours in the cushions on the bed) that I have come up with.
I know what you are thinking, ANOTHER MDS project. But, hey, its a fantastic programme, and if I can use it, ANYBODY can.

The Good Life

Over at STAMPIN ROYALTY this week we have a sketch challenge for you to play along with. Once again, I am playing with my MDS from Stampin Up, and believe me! Its AWESOME! I am loving the flexibility of the programme, and the clarity. Its so easy to use. 

Here is the sketch below if you want to play....

Another MDS Layout

This week over at Stampin Royalty. we have another colour challenge for you to play along with. 

Looking at the colour this week, it was a pretty easy choice of project for me. I have been having a lot of fun using the My Design Studio from Stampin Up. It is incredibly easy to use, even on my iMac. Even better still, this was an 8x8 template. All I had to do was change the colours to suit and add my stamps and photos. Done....

Here are the colours that you need to incorporate into your project.

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Black and White with a pop

This week over at STAMPIN ROYALTY we have a challenge for you with the theme Black and White with a POP of colour. I thought for this project I would use the new My Design Studio template called Annual Report. So I didn't fill in all the details on the front page because, well, the year isn't quite over as yet! But I just wanted to have a little play to see what I could do with it. I must admit, that using My Design Studio, makes changing templates extremely easy to do.

So, head on over to Stampin royalty and check out what the other girls have come up with.

ANZAC 2014

This week over at Stampin Royalty we have a picture inspiration challenge for you to try. Looking at the picture below, see what you can come up with. I thought that this ANZAC layout would be a pretty great match for the colours and the chevrons.

A Day at the Races

This year my son Daniel wanted to go to the Kyneton Cup and see what all the fuss was about. So, off we went for a little look. I created this page of our Day at the Races using the picture inspiration below. Well, I used most of the colours from the picture, with a little help from Stampin Ups MDS program. Have I told you how awesome this program is yet, I'm sure I have. Although, we had no idea what we were looking at as the horses ran around the track, we still enjoyed ourselves.

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Daring Adventure

Here is my submission for the Stampin Royalty colour challenge this week. I chose to do another page layout using My Design Studio by Stampin Up. This program is so easy to use, and remember there is a 30 day free trial. The colours are listed above, which are quite nice together. Click on the link below to see what the other girls have come up with. They are awesome.

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Stampin Royalty Picture Inspiration

Here is another 8" x 8" double page layout using MDS. I am so in love with this program from Stampin Up. This layout was created using the picture below as my inspiration. There just so happened to be a template available on MDS that fitted perfectly. Have a look at what the other girls have done with the same picture.

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Single Layer Challenge

Oh Boy. The challenge for this week at Stampin Royalty is Single Layer. Oh man, did I struggle with this one at the start. I sat for hours with a sheet on white card stock in front of me, hoping that inspiration would come. Argh. Nothing. So, after many hours, I decided to jump onto MDS. Create a new project, resize the project to the card size I was after, went through all my SU digital stamps, and hey presto. This is eventually what I came up with. And, without tooting my own trumpet. I love it. Although I did use my Copics to colour the Poppies and stems.

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Anything goes at Stampin Royalty

Stampin Royaltys' theme for this week is ANYTHING GOES. I thought that this challenge would be a piece of cake, but I had so many ideas floating around in my head, it was difficult to decide which one I would go with. I decided to scrap them all and play around with MDS from Stampin Up. Amazing program, once you get the hang on it. I created a double page spread 8.5" x 11". I had never attempted a Landscape digital page before, as we Australians struggle to get page protectors for this type of page. Becky Higgins to the rescue. I found these page pockets in a mixed set I purchased on the weekend.

Stay tuned for more MDS projects, as I am already hooked. Have a look at what the other girls have some up with this week. Here is the link for you.  

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Sorry I'm Late

This week at Stampin Royalty we have a colour challenge for you to try. The colours are shown below. I used the MDS program to create the coloured flowers from the Button Up stamp set. I then coloured them to the colours in the challenge, and hey presto, we have our card. Have a look at the other cards that the girls have created using these colours. I am sure that I am going to case one or two.

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Scrapbook Challenge - Stamping Royalty - Guest Designer May

Wow, how chuffed am I that Stamping Royalty have asked me to stay on for another month. Awesome. So this weeks challenge is a Scrapbook Challenge. (Right up my alley) if I don't mind saying. So here is my page.

For those who know me and my family will know that this is the perfect layout for my youngest son Daniel. Standing next to large dump trucks in his work clothes. Heaven. So, having said all that, pop on over to Stamping Royalty (link on right hand side of my blog, under Wednesday Challenges) and have a look at all the other Designers work. So much inspiration. I may even have to case a few other pages for myself.

Pre Christmas Celebrations

So before the Celebration for Christmas happens in our house, usually there is a Christmas Concert or two that needs attending, apart from the Christmas Cocktail Parties, Block Parties and the wrapping of presents. Here is a page I finished to show Daniel in his first Christmas Concert in Primary school. He was one of the shepherds. As you can see by the dressing gown and tea towel, costumes were not really difficult. Slowly, but surely, (2002) I am catching up with my scrapbooking.

Stampin Royalty Challenge 103 Christmas - Winter

Stampin Royalty - Anything but a card

This is the very first time I have submitted a scrapbook page into a challenge, so I will see how we go. It is definitely not the best set of pictures I could have used, but they are part of Daniel's progress, and that is something that I have to document. I have used Becky Higgins Project life papers, although I did a little photoshop with the background paper. The template came from Crystal Wilkerson.

Something a little different

Well, it would seem that I have not done any scrapbooking for a while now, and it is the thing I love doing the most, so I thought I would post my most recent page layout for you to see. The page is a double spread layout 24' x 12'.

Okay, so you will notice that the date on the bottom of this page is 2002. That would mean that in another months time, I will be exactly 10 years behind. I think I had better try a little harder in future. There you go, my first New Years Resolution.

The template came from Crystal Wilkerson

The Designer Paper came from Becky Higgins - Project Life

Design your life - Big Picture Class - Real World Colour Page

Here is the final page for the week long class. This theme is based on certain colours we are given to use in a certain layout. Great fun. Not to mention all the information that you can use regarding balance, colour choice. I am going to definitely make more layouts using these templates. 

So now I'm off to begin Week 2.

Design your life - Big Picture Class - 2nd Pages

Here is the 2nd layout in my Design Your Life album. This is a 8.5 x 11 inch layout, showing my favorite things in my scrap room, although the photo of the card stock is not my card stock, it's a photo off the internet, but gives the general indication. This is the first time I have finished so many pages in so little time.

Design your life - Big Picture Class - 1st Page

This is my first 12 x 12 page. It's my eldest son Nathan, driving around our back yard on my youngest son's tractor. Don't ask!

Design your life - Big Picture Class - Title Page

Finally, after looking at 'The Big Picture - Design your Life' class, I decided to give it go. So here is my Title page for my album ready to print and go. The first weeks class is all about balance. I have finished the first week, which I must admit, took me two weeks, but Yes, finally I have finished - completed - something. I will add more album pages as I get them finished. If your interested in the class, the website is:

www.bigpictureclasses.com

I am doing a digital album first to see how I go, but looking so far, I will definitely do another one in normal format.