Two sneak peeks

Two.



One my second project as Shimelle Laine's CT team member, I am loving her polka dots papers. This one is so pretty and feminine, irresistible. I even got my sewing machine off the box, I enjoyed playing the paper, primas and thread.

Another peek is for a little project of mine, I borrowed another of Shimelle's polka dots paper but is a completely different project altogether. If you have a little time, please let me know what you think of what you see, I'd love some feedback. Thanks.

My brother is over just for the weekend, so not much time to play but I just want to tell I am alive and well! Have a good weekend!

Inspiration

I went with a friend and my daughter to the "Art Fair 09" in the RDS. We didn't get to see everything - the drawbacks of going with a 7 year old, but some really beautiful paintings, ceramics and photos.

My favourites were: Alan Boyle Ceramics, some of his works can be seen here. Patricia Murphy, painter. Sharon McDaid, painter. I didn't buy anything, our house is a mess at the moment, but one we get it sorted, I'd love to get some paintings by Sharon McDaid, her landscapes are full of life and atmosphere.

Shimelle Digitals

Yipeee!!! Look at me here:

I'm part of Shimelle Laine's Baker's Dozen!

Baker's Dozen is a group of girls which will design with Shimelle's fabulous digital artwork . We are Shimelle's Digi Design Team.

We are:

allison http://hugharts.blogspot.com/

anso http://glitteradventure.blogspot.com/

avital http://www.creativityprompt.com/

dolly http://dollysdreamings.typepad.com/

elisa http://hybrid-alien.blogspot.com/

helen http://lovingthetraditional.blogspot.com/

karen c. http://redartscrapping.blogspot.com/

karen m. http://talesfromthescrapheap.blogspot.com/

kate http://libertycottage.blogspot.com/

nadine http://hello-love.org/

rani http://www.scrapyoga.typepad.com/

sheri http://www.auntierere.blogspot.com/

yvonne http://yvonnes-inkyfingers.blogspot.com/

All items from the Long and Winding Road DigiKit. It is a super easy kit to use. Being a slow scrapper, I was surprised that I managed to finish this layout so quickly. At first I thought the paper suited a feminine layout (and it does) but when I looked again, I saw that the shape resembled fireworks. Then it was only a matter of changing the colour (originals in blue and pale green) and I was almost done. Oh, the joys of digi scrapping! But yes, I'll print the layout in paper, I didn't buy a A3 printer for nothing!

Please go and check Shimelle's digi shop at Two Peas, and also the blogs of the other DT members for more Winding Road layouts.

Watch this space

I am very excited by a new opportunity that was given to me. Everything will be clear tomorrow, watch this space.

And finally a LO, it is a bad photo, I'll repost it if a managed to get a better one today.

It is a Halloween photo with Halloween paper and embellies but a bit unconventional as the photo doesn't show my daughter's costume and the journalling has nothing to do with the occasion.



"Every girl’s mother thinks
that she has got the most
beautiful daughter in the
whole wide world.
But somebody’s gotta be
right.
And I have the sneaky
suspicion that it could be
be ME.

Halloween 2009"

Based on a sketch by Séverine
verine. She's one of my favourite scrappers, and I just loved the sketch. I made it big to adjust to my somewhat myoptic style but I think it looks better in the original version.

Paper by Creative Imaginations, bought in Craft Supplies. I kinda spoiled it to suit my design needs - the best parts are not seen!

The cute bat is a freebie from Paper Crave.

Did you have a happy Halloween?

The kids had a party each to attend and the weather was mild enough to go trick or treating so they had a great time.

Here's one of my favourite photos, just a portrait of my little witch.

Another great news is that, the new PaperPlay DT was announced, go and check this amazing girls. Sandie, Kate, Julie and myself are still there too.

I haven't finished a layout in weeks and am really missing my fix, scrapping and crafting in general are my fix, my way to relax and feel good. This freebie by Shimelle Laine has the words to describe what scrapbooking means to me.

I'll be back soon!

Without my trusted laptop, I haven't been scrapbooking nor cardmaking much - I'm sorta hybrid, I feel like trying to run with my legs tied together.

But I haven't been iddle, I have been working on a little project of mine. And I have received great news today which I'll share as soon as I can. (They are both craft-related by the way).

Not topless but laptopless

The poor thing is either very sick or terminally ill. Anyway, with the school midterm break and sometime to find out if can be fixed and have it fixed or buy a new one, it will be 2 to 3 weeks, plus a week to reinstall all everything.

I'll be browsing and checking the forum, but won't be posting anything in the blogs in the meantime. Maybe a blessing in disguise to let me pursue the creative activities which don't need a computer. Sigh...

See you in a few weeks.