my365days

Winners of my RAKs

noreply@blogger.com (Charmaine) — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 06:33:00 +0000

Okay congrats to

Kat
Jacque
Rachel
and Jenny

i couldnt leave a msg on two blogs...so if you could please email your snail mail addys to
sizefamily @ hotmail.com ( no gaps though...this is to stop spamming) i can post these out to you...possibly as early as monday:)

Thanks for your comments girls and i hope you enjoy the goodies coming your way:)

Im actually posting this at 5.09pm on saturday 21st march so im not sure why its showing friday???

RAK

noreply@blogger.com (Charmaine) — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 05:47:00 +0000

I won a rak from Jaimie Emmerton way back in december.....the only thanks she wanted was for me to pay it forward....so finally thats what i am doing.

Because i have been so busy with out fruit season this is the first chance i have had to post it up.

Now included in the 3...possibly 4 RAKs are

papers, ranging from basic greys 2 scoops, crate paper, scenic route, american crafts, cosmo cricket, coredinations cardstock, rubber stamps, foam stamps, rubons, stickers, ribbons, laces, frames, big brads, page templates, templates, magazines, kaiserkraft wood shapes, chipboard shapes and much much more.

Please note there will be some packets that will have had some things used out of them, but there is also some things that havent been opened.

I had an absolute ball going thru the aewsome pack of goodies Jaimie sent me and im hoping that someone else will get the same buzz as i did.

For your chance to win all you need to do is check out the layouts on my blog and tell me which of my layouts you like and why......leave me a comment and i shall pick 3 (or 4) comments at the end of the week and let you know who the lucky winners will be.

I will pop all the names in a hat and get my two kids to pick the winners. Sorry but the raks will be posted in Aust only...sorry :(

On to popping up some recent los.....like today:)

There is so much i could and should have done today but i am so tired of working and picking and cutting fruit that i decided to be totally slack and si on my butt all day......unfortunately i now have a headache LOL

Good luck to all:)

LO 1....a sketch lo from Bons scraps

LO2...a just because lo of me...using a sketch from Lucy Chesna

LO3...a just because pic of the kids having H2O fun back in dec 07

LO4....a chllenge again over at Bons....using the youngest buttons and handwriting....my youngest child with my youngest neice

LO5...my entry into scrap boutiques passion for fashion 1950's comp

noreply@blogger.com (Charmaine) — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 03:25:00 +0000

Some recent layouts for different things...in no particular order

1 a just because lo of me as a bub

2 a challenge a scrapboutique...scrap a lo using 1980's as your inspiration....we were married in 1989 and since ive never scrapped a pic yet i thought id use our pics

3 a predigi pic of my ds as a little fella...and a friend...i played with the pic in ps

4 a lo for scrapboutique...cant remember what for :(

5 a lo based on the 1960's again at scrapboutique...decided to scrap a pic of my parents wedding...they were married in 1968

thanks for looking

My first ever scrapjacked entry

noreply@blogger.com (Charmaine) — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 08:45:00 +0000

Thanks for popping by:)
And thanks Kate for the inspiration:)

noreply@blogger.com (Charmaine) — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 09:26:00 +0000

Okay this ws supposed to be the next lot but it will actually be the first lot LOL...one day i will work blogger out

alrighty....

1 is dh and me...i had to use song lyrics from a movie in my title...but what i forgot was that i had to use a sketch and brads as well *sigh* i dont mind i scraplifted this from Belinda Venables blog,....thanks B,,,its a take of your pretend LO.

2 unfinished lo of you gorgeous family.....i cant believe how tall the kids are....leigh is 180cms tall...

3Dh and me again this is a challenge from Scrap Savvy i think *oops*...i had to chose a set of lyrics from a choice of three...i chose, Iris by Goo Goo Dolls.....he is my soul mate and he has seen me broken as well as fixed:)

4 a lo for ASJ this month....Kate Mason is the jackee....first time ive entered this comp:)

and thats it for another few months LOL

noreply@blogger.com (Charmaine) — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 09:17:00 +0000

Now i have been seriously lacking MOJO for ages...today it reached 47 degrees and i too was on fire :) I scrapped five layouts today.

I want to share those as well as the others i have done only since the beginning of the year:)

In no particular order and i shall do the rundown at the end of the post with dot point where and what for.

1 this is a pic of my friend and i from a couple of years ago...the quote i have wanted to use for such a long time with this pic...i had misplaced it, so i was glad when i found it again...y best friend is my sister that fate forgot to make.

2A challenge over at scrapboutiqe hosted by Jan....you had to scrap something about you that you love...mine is learning to accept myself a bit better than i did before:)

3A sketch from Scrap Savvy for their Feb sketch challenge...pics of dd and her friends at her 13th party

4a page done for the almanac that i was doing over at scrapboutique but i ran out of time and never uploaded....i was really struggling with the mojo here....can you tell LOL

and 5 Stash Stompers Sketch challenge held by Liz over at scrap boutique:) I actually love this LO thanks Liz

Now i have to pick up DS from work and shall be back...oh and i just realised this post will kinda be upside down Doh!

Happy New Year

noreply@blogger.com (Charmaine) — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 06:01:00 +0000

My first post for 2009....

I guess my goal or one of them...is to post my layouts here rather than on my other blog, hope ully i can keep a better track of them here...well thats the plan anyway LOL.

Usually im too late to upload for any challenges and stuff so i shall upload here...wish me luck:)

Okay the first layout is a colourcombo challenge 103 that i didnt upload heehee.

The second one is my lo for scrap savvy, one of their challenges.

Enjoy and seeya later

char

Hiya

noreply@blogger.com (Charmaine) — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 10:39:00 +0000

I had the privledge of holding two challenges as part of Scrap Boutiques Fabulous Forties Cyber crop recently.......I had a ball thinking up clues for the girls and the challenges i set.

Challenge one was to complete a LO using a non coloured photo of a relative further back than your grandparents and tell a story about them.

The second was a birthday card challenge that i set .....make a card for a man in your life.

The girls did a fantastic job and i loved seeing what they came up with:)

Attatched are my samples:)

Thanks for popping by today

And because Blogger does it all backwards

noreply@blogger.com (Charmaine) — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 08:04:00 +0000

and i couldnt be bothered working out front to back and vise versa here are the last layouts i have to share

goggle eyes and cousins are a just because lo

u2 and all grown up are for SB......u2 was a chinese whispers and all grown up was a challenge

Thanks fo popping by...id love for you to leave a comment...there is a RAK in it for someone:)

take care Charxx

Odds and Sods with some crop los thrown in

noreply@blogger.com (Charmaine) — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 07:58:00 +0000

Okay this is a mish mash of stuff...

1 a just because....dh and our youngest neice after her daddy died......the kids looked up to uncle darrel as a role model:)

2 youngest neices and her chokkie brown eyes...gotta love em

3an old pic of ds...before braces

4 lo done fro scrap boutiques Decathlon as part of the scrap olympics.....there were 10 criteria to follow and i got em all:)

5 okay a recent pic of ds..... layout done using a scrap boutique challenge....use five diff alphas or chipboard on your lo.....

A whole page of crop layouts...i was on fire that weekend:)

noreply@blogger.com (Charmaine) — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 07:55:00 +0000

All of these were done in great company, lots of laughs, lots of chatter, sometimes quiet but lots of fun:)

second page of crop layouts

noreply@blogger.com (Charmaine) — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 07:50:00 +0000

All of thse layouts were done recently at a get together with scrap with some local scrappy girls:)

More layouts

noreply@blogger.com (Charmaine) — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 07:18:00 +0000

Apologises if i have doubled up on any los

1....a challenge fromn Scrap Boutique...scrap birthday photos.....this was taken using the timer on the camera:)

2 A lo for Crafting in Styles.....monthly title competition...i chose Big brother (duh:))

3 A lo for Scrap Boutiques Faster challenge at the Scrap Olympics...where i represent Greece so i had to use the flag colours and 5 circles

4 another scrap boutique challenge.....i (think) for the olympics too

5 A chinese whispers layout which i have also put into my almanac:)

Busy this weekend

noreply@blogger.com (Charmaine) — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 23:40:00 +0000

Ive been cybercropping between work commitments....:)

They arent very good pics sorry but its pretty overcast today

and lastly!

noreply@blogger.com (Charmaine) — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 23:16:00 +0000

Some more lo done this weekend....

not happy with the colours its hard to get a good photo today:)

second posting.....although its obviously the first LOL

noreply@blogger.com (Charmaine) — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 00:03:00 +0000

Some more layouts to share

first one....i did as a make believe masters lo for scrap therapy....although i missed the cut off and im not 100% happy with it anyway...it is an 11x11 lo and i scalloped one edge jsut for something different....

the second one...ur cousins...a lo using challenge ideas from HMITM?

5 patterned papers...check

4 chipboard elements...check

3 rubons...i used 1

2 clear elements...i used heidi swapp alphas

1 ephemera or non scrapping item.....like what....pass LOL

third one was done using a kit i had here from like 2 years or more ago.....i chnged the cs colour and reversed the paper and played with a couple other bits and i love how it turned out...i love to see my boys horseing about

fourth one ....Dd all dressed up...again with nowhere to go...i really struggled with these pics so i avoided the colours in the photo and picked out papers i liked instead and worked around them:)

tflxx

Been busy

noreply@blogger.com (Charmaine) — Sat, 31 May 2008 23:55:00 +0000

I have been too busy to upload but here is some things ive been working on and have jsut gotten the chance to upload them......thanks for looking...the 5th person to leave a comment will receive a RAK from me so check back:)

Okay first one...done as a sketch challenge over at ScrapBoutique...thanks Liz....

second one is a blurry pic of DS that i just needed to scrap....not happy with it but its done i guess:)

third one a lo of my dd doing what she does best...making people laugh:) i love her to pieces

fourth one was a speed cscrap challenge also at scrapboutique...this was so much fun to do and it was done in like 20 mins or something:)

fifth one is my take on a sketch challenge over at Scrap Savvy.....i have used glimmer mist on all the chipboard for you girls who are interested in what we can do with that stuff:)

stay tuned for another post too...

tflxxx

Inspired by.....

noreply@blogger.com (Charmaine) — Mon, 19 May 2008 22:55:00 +0000

...............my friend Belinda:)

B i knew what i wanted to do with this pic as soon as i saw it......i just had to wait for my package to come from Chels at Scrap Boutique so i could do it....

Belinda also photoshopped the photo for me and it is now one of my favourites of dd ever:) Thanks B for the inspiration and the pshopping:)

I have called the layout *You are my dream come true* I never expected to get a little girl and she has made our life complete:) I love you Zo......and i love my bestest boy Leigh too:) Love ya Matt:)xx

Two more

noreply@blogger.com (Charmaine) — Sat, 03 May 2008 23:55:00 +0000

Heres a couple LO i did lst night and this morning.

For the My Girl LO this was a challenge over at Scrap Therapys Cyber Crop being held this weekend....go on over and check it out!

We had to use things that came from the word

F....felt/flowers...i made my own felt flowers frim instructions by Helen Williams (i think)

R...ribbons

I..ink

E..eyelets...i used mine to hold my ribbon folded over for the flower stem

N..notepaper....scenic route for my title to sit on

D...doodling...only in the corners.....didnt want to wreck the lo :)

S..Spots...well they are on both the ribbon and the title box:)

The gorgeous photo of my DD was photoshopped by Belinda and she did eye sparkle......didnt she do a fab job! I love this pic of DD (which i took:)

The other LO was (very) loosely based on a blind challenge from back on March 19th also held at Scrap Therapy. I got these pics of DS printed last night and do you think i could work out how to scrap them.....thats where i love blind challenges in that they say to get 2 pieces of patterned paper and i usually grab what ever is about cause i dont have much of a stash and i love how this has turned out:)

Thanks for visiting....I hope you read my header guys:)

Happy Sunday Charxx

Blind Challenges

noreply@blogger.com (Charmaine) — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 22:09:00 +0000

are so much fun.........this Joy layout one i did on the weekend for Scrap Therapy for a blind challenge.

Blurry was a *just because * layout inspired by a lo i did a lift of at ScrapDoodle.....i was just looking for some inspiration

the third Strong was a Technique challenge at Scrap Boutique held as part of their CC this weekend gone.....

we had to use a technique we had never used before.......i used wax scribbled on the background and then sprayed it over with glimmer mist that i received as a RAK.....i had never used that before either

I won a gift voucher for that one,,.....i was very excited about that:)

thanks for looking

Take care Charmainexx

A challenge

noreply@blogger.com (Charmaine) — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 22:46:00 +0000

Belinda ( http://belindasescape.blogspot.com/ ) dont know how to do it to come up as just the name....has challenged us to do a layout using no patterned paper...so heres mine:)

I am also accepting the pics from where you live challenge howec=ver ive not had time to do that one yet,,,but i am promising i will....have some ideas in the pipeline:)

Thanks for visiting

charxx

Two more to share

noreply@blogger.com (Charmaine) — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 03:23:00 +0000

Mat is my DS i was to use a sketch as a challenge...i reversed the sketch so it would work to cover all the purple space under my strip of scenic route paper.

The blue one is a use your scraps challenge.....this was a quick and easy LO to do,,,and fun.

Two brand new layouts

noreply@blogger.com (Charmaine) — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 01:31:00 +0000

These are the first 2 layouts i have done in our new house...yippee.

They are done as part of ScrapBoutiques Mini Easter Challenges....

The first one is of DD taken on Sat and the challenge was Colour Combo....i was given Pink brown and flowers....quite easy i thought until i found that i had no photos and after having trouble with the kiosks AND the wireless printer i finally connected up the little canon......im s not elling that at the garage sale LOL

The second layout was to use a techique found in the how to section of SB. I chose eyelets ......:) Pretty simple really. The pic is of DS about 2 yrs ago before braces:)

Thanks for looking:)

Some completed Layouts

noreply@blogger.com (Charmaine) — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 05:38:00 +0000

most of these are challenge layouts that i never get around to uploading,,,,,im hoping i shall be forgiven for uploading all of them here as we havent moved yet and so we dont have broadband.

Not even sure how i shall go uploading these files.....when they come up then i shall say what they were for...wish me luck:)

Okay first one....my sons cute butt altought the photo is about his new bike he saved his apricot cutting money for. $525 i might add! Im not sure where this challenge was for i think chookscraps........

Second one...My Lad this was a chookscraps one that iloved doing...we had to use like blue, green, brown, white and orange in the colour scheme...i loved this layout....a candid shot of DS.

Old Ruins was a Scrapboutique challenge,we had to use the lyrics from "I still call Australia home" in our journalling.....and in actual fact im not sure if you can read the journalling in this but we lived under this tree as youngsters,,,,,and im mean lived......there were 5 kids and 2 adults and we lived in a EH wagon......im not sure how we did it. We also lived on the river bank about oh five minutes away at Cobdogla,,,,,,yes i had a crappy childhood.......BUT i am so much stronger for it:)

Now Closed this is a Scrap Therapy Blind Challenge i did on friday night....this was taken at Nappers Bridge....not so far from the Old Ruins site....on this side of the bridge from where the pic was taken there also used to be an old houseboat we used to play on as kids:) But its gone now:(

Youth...well i did this one because DS was driving me CRAZY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I have some hidden journalling behind this pic and i went out to scrap as he had made me so upset at the time....so it is plain and boring......notice all the tiny little dots......?? Painstakingly done when all i wanted to do was scribble LOL.....

Anyway i hope you like what i have shared and i would love to read any comments you would care to make:)

Thanks Take care Charxx

more eye candy! Enjoy

noreply@blogger.com (Charmaine) — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 10:24:00 +0000

Some more eye candy before bed LOL.......