Scrapbooking Made Simple

here is another of my retreat weekend layouts. I saved alot on this layout as I only paid for the monkey... everything else is left over from a class we did on the friday night.

Here's one of my retreat weekend layouts: I saved by using a cricuit to cut "busting" out of cardstock and using my velvet puffy marker to do "out ". Also I only used one piece of cardstock and half a sheet of patterned paper. My embellishments were cut from that patterned paper.

I have now joined Facebook.. for those of you who'd like to follow me there check out Kyra Patterson and ask me to be your friend... all friend requests gratefully accepted..(insert girlish giggle here)... lol

I have just received a blog award from Anne P at http://scraptastic-stuffblogspot.com, thanks so much :) I gratefully accept this award and would like to thank the academy (Oh wait that's my other speech)....LOL Here are the rules: 1) Accept the award, post it on your blog together with the name of the person who has granted the award, and his or her blog link. 2) Pass the award to 5 other blogs that you’ve newly discovered. Remember to contact the bloggers to let them know they have been chosen for this award. My 5 Lovely Blog Awards go to: 1. Ryan runs Europe 2. Sofia Daily Photos 3. Toadberry 4. Critical Masses 5. Angela Daniels

My sister in law has set her first challenge (she's on the design team at Roll2Create) Check out her blog at : http://scraptastic-stuff.blogspot.com/ I love this challenge as it challenges you to use your pattern paper to create the embellishment... So a paper embellishment you made yourself... I did this on a few of my layouts on the retreat and love the originality of your pages and the $$ saving.

You need to check out this cool paper piecing article at scrapbooks etc. I love paper piecing as a cheap way to embellish your pages. http://www.scrapbooksetc.com/techniques/paper/pages-with-paper-pieced-accents

My weekend scrapbook retreat at daisy chain scrapbook store at nambour: O.K. guys I had the BEST time 23rd and 24th of May. I went on a scrapbook retreat with my best scrapbuddy and her work colleage and while we were there I made a new scrapbuddy. I was so lucky to have her at our table. She helped me with one of my layouts (I'll show you in a future blog), it looks fantastic! If you're looking for a retreat to go on this is definitely the one in my opinion. The cost was $175. That gave us two nights accomodation and all meals along with unlimited scrapbooking time at the store. As well as one class and two demonstrations and heaps of freebies. The weekend was a "happy days" themed weekend and the daisy chain girls went all out to make everything fit that theme. We watched happy days and grease too! Friday night we stayed up till midnight and Saturday night it was a 2am bedtime. I know there were other girls who stayed up later than us but we wanted to be ab...

Hi everyone well here are my creations for the mothers day stall at my kids school. The boxes were free but they had writing on the top and sides so I had to cover those areas with paper. The metal embellishments were provided by the school as well as the sayings.