Jack me up #5

Here is my take on this months Kiwi Jack me up. I love Delys's black and white layout and decided to stick with her style as much as possible. I really enjoyed using some arylic stamps and hand doodling. Nice and simple but really striking :)

Labour Weekend

Gosh I can't believe Labour weekend has come and gone! I seriously don't know where the year is disappearing too! I hope everyone one has had a nice relaxing weekend.

I know I said that there would be some creative photos but I never got around to getting anything done. I looked at loads of scrapbooking magazines and had a little play with my new cuttlebug so I have loads of ideas, I just need to sit done and get on with it. I did however manage to create a Christmas card and tag for the Labour weekend challenge at Scrapbook Essentials but that's all. I hope to create lots this week so do stick around :)

We've had a lazy weekend. After having Craig's car for sale for a month or so, we hadn't had much interest but last week we got a call from a very keen guy and have now sold it. We are a bit sad to see it gone as it has been with us for many years but we have to keep focusing on the new era of our lives. So on Saturday morning we headed out to have a look around the car yards. We've found a nice white Toyota Caldina that suits us fine. We took it out test driving for a few hours yesterday, and it's a dream to drive! We get to pick it up today or tomorrow and I can't wait! We are hoping to do a roadtrip to Dunedin with my sister to try it out, any excuse to go and check out the scrapbook stores! :p

On Saturday night we had my family over for homemade pizza and another game of Cranium. My sister and her fiance were victorious but we were close on there heels :) It's a such a fun game and we will be defiantly up for a re-match.

I worked on Sunday, it was really busy at work so Sunday night we just blobbed and watched some Outrageous Fortune episodes. Craig and I are catching up on season one and two as we only found out how great this series is last year when they played the Christmas tele-movie!

We caught up with some friends for a walk and coffee yesterday down at the beach and went visiting our familys. It has been beautiful sunny weather here but the wind is so strong!

After reading about Debbie's weekend and her Lemon muffins I have decided to go and whip some up. So that's enough from me, catch you soon!

Well as most of you know, SENZ (a stamping a scrapbook expo) was on in Christchurch over the weekend. Ladies from all over the country made there way to Christchurch for a weekend of scrapping and stamping fun! :) I've never made it to a SENZ show before so I really wanted to head along and have a noisy. To be honest I was disappointed, there didn't seem to be that many stalls dedicated to scrapbooking. I'm not really a stamper, so the stamps weren't of much interest. However I have heard that some of the classes were good, and I did enjoy checking out some of the altered projects. I didn't spend much though, more at the local scrapbook shop. I wanted a set of these Fancy pants clear stamps last time they came in but talked myself out of it. This time there were new stamps in the range and I had to get a pack! :) I also have given into the cuttlebug monster and got one of those! Don't you love early anniversary and Christmas pressies :) hehe

Also a big thankies to Lara, I was lucky enough to catch up with her at the show as I had won a lovely handmade journal from her. I have added my own touches to it and hope to use it for challenges over at "This is me". It's a brilliant blog where you use the challenges to create inserts for your journal answering the weekly questions all about yourself. I hope to get some of them done in my own time, just to capture this time in my life.

That's all from me for now. I hope to create tomorrow so check back as I will post pictures.

Just a quick update on some layouts I have completed for a few challenges. The first is for the Friday night challenge at S.E. I have been trying to get some of my older pics scrapped in the challenges. So this one is of Craig's birthday and the cake I made him. We had to use strip journalling , bling, 3x patterned paper and ink. I am really enjoying getting into these challenges.

The next one is for the S.E first fortnightly sketch challenge. This was more of a challenge as I have never worked with sketches before. they are helpful for many photos though. I have been trying to scrap these photos of the Lyttelton festival of lights for ages.

I now get to come up with some creative ideas for Halloween costumes. Craig and I have just been invited to a Halloween cocktail party and costume is essential. :) It will be a great night so better get searching for some great ideas.

Fun and Sun!

What a beautiful city we live in! It's amazing how much I take for granted living in a city with so much beauty. It's certainly an asset that we have a huge park and the lovely botanic gardens in the centre of our city. Craig and I decided on Saturday to get out and enjoy the lovely weather. We headed into the Botanic gardens for a wander. The place was a blaze of colour with all of the lovely spring flowers blooming! We realised how long it had been since we just went for a walk through them, it's defiantly something to do more often. After our walk we headed over to the Arts Centre and checked out fudge cottage! Yum! We had lunch from the food stalls and sat in the sun and listened to a busker play. After lunch we headed back through the gardens and got more photos. We decided to continue our afternoon with a drive down to Sumner beach then over to Lyttelton harbour and around some of the bays. After an ice cream we parked by a little beach and spent awhile in the sun. It was a brilliant day out and we thoroughly enjoyed some time to ourselves just relaxing. I totally recommend it! :)

I did remember to pack the camera on on this excursion so here are a few photos from our day out.

Today so far has been really good to me, although the weather has turned grotty and is raining. This morning I woke and read my blogs, I've been lucky enough to be drawn to receive one of Lara's beautiful journals. So a huge thank you Lara!

Then I was watching a regional show on TV and they were giving away tickets to a Fashion show/Horse racing/Party on Friday night. It's a pre cup week event and sounds like fun! I got an email almost straight away back saying that I had two double passes coming my way! Wahoo, can't wait! It's going to be a busy weekend, with SENZ on and now this to head along too.

I must now get on with the pile of challenges that have crept up on me, at least when it's raining it's excellent crafting weather! :)

A great website...

Just wanted to share with everyone this very cool website a friend showed me. It has monthly layout sketches for all size layouts and cards too. Well worth a wee visit!

www.pagemaps.com

In other news I was very lucky to have won last weeks "Friday night challenge" over at S.E with the photo frame fridge magnet I made for my Nana.

I hope everyone has a fun weekend planned, I plan to enjoy every bit of sunshine that is predicted so fingers crossed. Have a fabulous weekend and I hope there is time for lots of creativity.