Week 3 Challenge SYTYCS! Lianne’s style

So this week at the So You Think You Can Scrap? challenge over at Scrapbooking by Design was week 3 Liannes turn. This was the brief and so far this is the one Ive struggled with the most.
You must use at least one example of each of the following on your entry…

fabric/ribbon/lace strips
paint used with an object to stamp
strip journalling
labels (bought or found)
mixed alphas
hand stitching
and… something unexpected…something you wouldn’t usually think to put on your page (think outside the square here girls and surprise us!!)

Can’t say any of these elements scared me. It’s just that I don’t gel with bubble wrap painting or pipe cleaners. Nothing wrong with them, I just don’t use them, the same way some people don’t use vintage dress patterns (on just about every one of my layouts lol) I can say I was horrified to mix alphas… something I think I may now be cured of lol. I still like to sit and stare at my paper and take 15 hours for a page to come together, but now I can see that I can incorporate a pipe cleaner here and there and not have to get out the valium afterward. LOL at myself. So here’s this week…

WORDPRESS ISNT UPLOADING PHOTOS TONIGHT… go here to see my Lianne layout
this is where the bloody layout should appear! WORDPRESSSSS!!!!!???

and I rightfully give all the credit in the world to the girls who can and who love to scrap in this style. It was hard for me lol

Found this site and can say it gives me hope that at least my photoshop disasters won’t end up at the axis of an international marketing campaign… enjoy
Photoshop Disasters

Anyway off to a scrapping retreat this weekend… whooooooo hooooooooooo!

See ya next week, thanks for the drop by!

Lib x

…and I’m back from Sydney…

This is my entry for this week SYTYCS, good luck to everyone… I’m loving how this comp is getting me out of my scrap-rut.

It seems like I’ve been away a lot longer than 24hours. I stayed here..

the Menzies is an instritution in Sydney and about a central as it gets. I had the best time, even though it was a whirlwind training trip. I was there for Time Management and I learnt heaps. Missed Fred The Needle by about 10 mins. BUt i hope to get back there next week while I’m on hols. Heaps more to tell but I’m going to be late for work if I don’t move my butt NOW!!

See ya and thanks for dropping in!

Lib x

When I said blogging daily…..

You know sorta dail-y… in the day-time, well today’s a day!

Anyway… So I’m working all this long weekend, and our neighbours (about a kilometre away) had a party last night God bless them and their 10 million watt stereo! The Singleton Army Barracks have a huge fireworks celebration (well they actually have a few - one is always on the girls birthday weekend - go figure?) over the Queens birthday long weekend… guess that willl stop when we’re a republic lol… so we have a great view of those fireworks… we start to hear the load cracks and we all run out side to ooooh and ahhhh over the prettyness… It goes on for about 15 minutes… like I said it’s huge. Claire said they were sooooo cooooooool!

So there’s not much to say really. The scrap journal is getting a battering with ideas… which is great! but I cant start week 2 for SYTYCS until Ive finished two baby presents for Heidi and Karen who are two of Claire and Charlottes teachers, leaving St Patricks Kindy to have their babies. I promised myself I need to have them done before the babies arrive lol. I will show the pressies here before I wrap them,

need to get going now… here’s a pic (No there isn’t aparently wordpress is on strike at the moment).. just you know… cos

oh and P.S. I’m just clucky and WANT more babies… I’ve no idea who with lol! My biological clock only just started ticking lol, but it’s got one hell of a loud tock! lol Who knows whats ahead. I’m only 36 so time will tell.

*clears throat* ehh eck hem… Is this thing on?

Soooooooooooooooooooo…..

It’s been 8 months since my last blog entry (crikey that’s almost long enough to gestate a whole human lol) (btw I am more clucky now than I have been in my life - I want another couple of babies and yes I probably am insane)… and to say that nothing has happened that might be worth blogging about… well um jeez… not entirely true, I’ve just been busy with… life n that???

Can a girl get away with such a sweeping statement? Let’s see shall we?

So I won’t bore you with every little detail… I’ve made handbags and scrapped a whole 3 layouts. Go me! Anyway hope to keep bloging daily from now on. Yep… who cares? lol … but I took a photog class last weekend with Janine Kaye and I realised that I’m missing out on documenting the stuff I know I’m going to forget… the little (but great) stuff of life… my life… our life. The class was brilliant! Thanks Janine and Sasha. Janine graciously lent me her fixed 50mm 1.4 lens for some shots and I have HAVE HAVE to have one. I was taking pics today inside the house and every one was blurry and as Im shooting pretty much all the time in AV mode the shutter speed is just too slow for my (big) 5.6 lens. I’m lay-bying a p&s at the moment though (just for the handbag you know)… so the $500 lens has to wait a bit… if I just stopped bloody spending on scrap stuff, I’d have the lens in no time lol. Had to have that stuff though… even if I haven’t used it lol

My workmates are at the Sex and the City movie tonight.. poop!… I will go tomorrow… then I will be kiddo free. I have entered the funnest comp (So you think you can scrap? (How cool is that title???)) at Scrapbooking By Design (SBBD) the deal was…

******This week you are scrapping with Meeks Style******
Meek likes to use penwork, to define, to outline, to doodle, to underline, to journal.
She loves to mix up those pattern papers in an eclectic fashion… No co-ordinating, complimentary shades here!!
Meeks most favourite ‘trendy’ thing at the moment is scallops!!
Her all time favourite embellishments are anything in the shape of stars or hearts and buttons or brads
She prefers to scrap 4×6 photos showing real everyday life as it happens, the more candid the better, and loves a bit of humour too!
Meek is drawn to happy, bright colours and stickers of the alphabet and cute variety!
Your page must show at least one example of EACH of the following:
penwork,
handwritten journaling,
a mix of pattern paper,
scallops,
stars or hearts,
buttons or brads,
4×6 photos showing candid everyday life shots
bright happy colour scheme
stickers

and here’s my go… was included in the points tally so I’m thrilled. Its a weekly comp and the scrapper with the most points wins… mind you 50 ladies have entered. I need this to get out of my no-scrappy-just-collecty-buy-more-stuff rut.

anyway……..

g’night… see you tomorrow

Lib x

p.s. nice to see you again… like the old joke

a polar bear walks into a bar and says…. “I’ll have a…………………………

whiskey.”

and the barman says… “Why the large pause?’

The polar bear says..” Dunno, Ive always had them”

ROTFL!

Can you give me Dr. Who’s Number?

I believe he may be the only person able to help me to get the ’scrap-supplies-from-another-planet’ under control… they seem to be taking over this room.. quickly multiplying and covering the valuable space known as my scraproom/bedroom. Oh well I had Mum buy me a doorknob lock last week on her trip to Bunnings, now I know when i get home from work that no one has made me a picture on the pretty paper on the desk, Chuck is a draw-er and Claire is a cutter… makes for one messed up room… more than once I’ve come home to texta on my bedsheets and in random places in the room and my favourite pp in tiny tiny pieces on the floor.

randoms for this week

* i won a double pass to go see David Campbell et al at Jazz In The Vines (Bloody clever = Me)

* as you will see from my comments (thanks Pauline! xxx) we had an awesome class last Wednesday.. Kaiser Craft Xmas tree album at Scrapkatz in Singleton… pictures to follow when I get the problems sorted out.

* work is getting busier and crazier.. the week isnt long enough any more

oddly and apparently some ?weirdo? sent a letter last month to our office and the letter read just these words…

SUPER
DOOPER
ROOTER

What? is that about? That’s all the note had on it… My boss Salena was telling me about it today… sorry but that sort of stuff made us laugh and laugh and laugh, we had some HUGE laughs today, silly crazy hysterical laughing… red headed men Arias… I know it makes no sense but I dont want to forget that mad stuff. I have a function @ the Singleton library to help organise in the next two weeks… looking forward nervously to that.

I had to send my old Kia Mentor to heaven last week… found my engagement ring in the console while clearing all my stuff out. That car was a nightmare, but sometimes you spend so much time and money on something well, it becomes a big (annoying) part of you life. I will miss the big lemon! So long my unfaithful friend.

Speaking of unfaithfull, I somehow picked up a computer virus last month, lost most of my photos (have since recovered some of them) but now I cant seem to get any photos off my camera. So sorry for the boring text post… will try to have the issewes (Kath Day-Knight) rectified soon.

Have a great weekend everyone, I’m off fabric shopping tomorrow for bag material as I’m booked into a class next Friday with Monica Poole (bag pattern maker) Hopefully I can finish the bag and show anyone who might be interested. Cannot possibly be the new scrapping though… not with all the stuff I’ve recently bought from Memory Villa and A Million Little Things… went WAY overboard with Heidi Swapp stuff… had to have the Damask stamp though…Oh and not going to Kiwi scraps this time … kept umming and ahhhing and figured that it was a sign to give up on the idea. Nevermind… I had a great time at the last one… will have to do me for a while… anyway… toodles!

Lib xxxxx

“Why do pirates have both ears pierced? “

“It only costs them a buccaneer!”

Well not only is it talk like a PIRATE day, BUT

ITS MEGANS BIRTHDAY!!!
Go and wish the wee scurvy dog a happy happy birthday! She has a woman’s bottom… (for all the Black Adder fans LOL)

I made these for her…

of course I didn’t, I stole them from a crafty blog… but aren’t they amazing? This is how you make them.

Have a good one, avast! May there be no barnacles off ye starboard bow. Off to get ready for work, have to gather in a few dubloons LOL!

Lib x

Her Most Noble Lady Libby the Indefatigable of Bismorton Shropcake

My Peculiar Aristocratic Title is: Her Most Noble Lady Libby the Indefatigable of Bismorton Shropcake Get your Peculiar Aristocratic Title

Another web-time waster… another night giggling at stupid things on the internet…

Stolen from Tania Davey (Chillibits)

I happen to love the word Indefatigable… means unable to tire… not fatigued, incase the big word had you stumped.

Lib x

A Peek at Memory Trends 07.

A quote (NOT BY ME!) “How about the “swallow on a branch” trend? Will it ever END? That horse has been dead for two years!”

This is a quote in a comments section on a design blog… had a great laugh at it. It will never end! Not if I have anything to do with it. Paper crafters seem to hold on to a trend… it’s a good thing! (*See my new stamp puchase below lo)

… Of course, speaking of trends, now is the time for all good women to come to the aid of their LSS. Yes Memory Trends 07 is nearly here… to save some time, here are the sneak peekeys! Click on the links to see (Some might take a while :-))

Lifetime Moments showcasing My Minds Eye - ‘Festive’ & ‘Out and About’ About time a manufacturer came out with nice Christmas card kits… these ones look great…

LM with the new Basic Grey ‘Figgy Pudding’ a lot like last years with some cute new ones too…

LM Scribble Scrabble (WHO?) I really like these, what do you think?

If you keep an eye on Lifetime Moments, they usually have great updates on new stuff… mind you, who else is a bit tired of waiting for the CHA stuff to come out? Not even out in the US yet.

I have ordered some fat birdy stamps from the US. Crafty Secrets - Bird Notes I found the shop through eBay, great collage type stuff. Hi Pamela! Previously, these stamps have eluded me, much like those bloody Art Warehouse - Danielle Johnson ones I’m still trying to find.

Anyway, that dirty, dirty stop out Megan is on the town tonight, in Singleton, with her best mate and without me! Rona and all the girls from SCRAPKATZ are at the Scrapkatz retreat…. and I am sitting here blogging… humming ‘The Sweet Escape’… and ‘Some day my prince will come la la la la la la’ … feeling VERY much like Cinderella… no sight so-far of a pumpkin coach or a few meeces to act as footmen. Still, I have my….. Um….. Own teeth!
Can’t think of anything right at this minute.

Will get the photos of Corroboree down-loaded from the camera soon to show you how I spent my week. 15 hour days most of last week. A conference for American Tourism delegates, I helped out as dogs body, met some nice people and learned heaps! Just don’t want to do it again anytime soon. The delegates had it so GOOOOOD! Spoiled ROTTEN. The last night of the conference ‘The QANTAS Opal Awards’ had the MOST AMAZING floral centrepieces. They were miniature grapevines, even with rose bushes at the end of the rows. MIND BLOWING! Not quite the same without pictures is it? and yeah dumb bum me was WAY too tired and emotional to get out the camera by then.

It’s a certain dirty stop out’s birthday on Wednesday… get over to her blog and tell her how much you love her… she doesnt believe me!

Anyway have a great Sunday everyone…

G’luck

Lib x

Alias

Aliases

1. YOUR ROCK STAR NAME: (first pet & current car)
Muffy Mentor
2.YOUR GANGSTA NAME: (fav ice cream flavour, favourite cookie)
Mango Monte
3. YOUR “FLY Guy/Girl” NAME: (first initial of first name, first two letters of your last name)
L.Mo
4. YOUR DETECTIVE NAME: (favourite colour, favourite animal)
Pink Saluki
5. YOUR SOAP OPERA NAME: (middle name, city where you were born)
Louise Darlinghurst
6. YOUR STAR WARS NAME: (the first 3 letters of your last name, first 2 letters of your first)
Mor.Li
7. SUPERHERO NAME: (2nd favourite colour, favourite drink put “The”)
The Green Martini
8. NASCAR NAME: (the last names of your grandfathers)
King Kelly
9. STRIPPER NAME: (the name of your favourite perfume/cologne, favourite candy)
Chanel Sherbet
10.WITNESS PROTECTION NAME: (mother’s & father’s middle names)
Claire David

This was on ?can’t remembers? blog, they got it from sisTV.. I stole it and added mine because I thought it was funny how it worked out… no tagging it… just do it if ya wanna.

We’re off to the Broke (local Village) Village Fair, then to Barklay Square for lunch…

Hopefully pics later tonight… should be a great, good day… sunshine, lollipops, good fun!

Lib x

Layouts! No not lay-abouts, Layouts…Pages… Actual Stuff!

I do feel guilty when I go to my blog to start another post and the blog header says,… ever so politely ‘A Scrapbooking Adventure’ well lately it’s been more adventure and less scrapbooking. You see my friends, may I call you my friends? If you are anything like me, you have an innocent flick (your honour) through all the mags at the library , I mean newsagents lol and decide on whether you should buy one of the twenty two available. Then you go home, read a bit of the mag, read bloglines, see whats new to buy, and there’s your scrapping time…. GONE! Nothing to show for it but a head full-to-bursting with ideas and a stash you can’t jump over. *Sigh* No discipline!

So here are the (now what do I say???) layouts for Paper Fantastic. I found out today via Karens blog that PF has had to close to make more time for Karen’s family… and rightly so… just wanted to say hi to the ladies who applied to join the DT. Your layouts were nothing short of outstanding and I felt very inadequate in comparison. So thank you for sharing and good luck with your scrapping goals!

So on to my 4 layouts… Karen asked for 2 and I was having so much fun I just kept rolling…

*Edited to add* No it isnt a dodgy scan… The letters are very random and intended to be crooked, sorta rustic lol Just wanted to try it…

Most of the journalling cards on these are Karens, she made a file of them, cute aren’t they?

I am feeling so sad for Lissy, and for Rona and Graham at the moment. Cannot begin to imagine what you must be going through. Love to Miss Rachie too, sending you some wheelbarrowfuls of love and strength. Hoping the tests at least can answer some questions.

So for now… goodnight & g’luck.

Lib x