A couple more layouts!

Today my darling husband that I love dearly gave me some time to myself and took care of the kids for me for awhile.

I had time to scrap TWO layouts already today!!! and im scrapping again tonight so ill do another one then :)

The second one didnt photograph well cos its raining today. its not as noticable on the first layout.

Catchup post #3 - Photos of me!!!!

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Marni came out to Moranbah and we had a sleepover! woohoo so much fun! Big girls can have sleepovers too :D and while she was here we got some pics of each of us! Here are the fav ones of me. Im so glad we got some of me with the kids cos I dont actually have a nice one of me, brianna and liam all together.

This photoshoot was Elsie Flannigan inspired - but some pics are more elsie than others :)

Catchup post #2 - layouts since December

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These are the layouts I havent uploaded to my blog. There are three layouts missing from these cos I did a layout for Tam, a layout for Terri and a layout for Marni that I either forgot to photograph or I cant find the photo! doh!

Anyways, here they are! The last one on this list has been accepted for publication by SC.

BLOG COMPETITION!!!!

Im gonna be doing quite a few catchup posts over the next few days so I thought Id throw in a random competition. Cos ive been so absent my visitors probably arent visiting! so my blog is a very lonely place (boohoo! haha).

So here is the go ... I want you to put a post on YOUR blog that is titled "Karen Day wants to Say ..." and then the body of the post must ONLY SAY:

"Purple Monkey Dishwasher"
http://karen-day.blogspot.com


and THAT IS IT!!

I know it makes no sence but thats the whole point :) its meant to be nonsence :D so go do that and then post here telling me where u set it up. Ill do a lucky draw and the winner will get a set of Sassafrass Lass Acrylic stamps that ive had sitting around here and havent used because I already have something similar :)

drawn in ONE WEEK! so go and spread the monkey love!!!

Catchup post #1 - magazines

ok .... so ive decided that just too much stuff has gone on since I last posted. and im feeling a bit swamped to try to catch it all up at once. so im gonna do it in bits :)

first post is regarding magazine stuff!

I got another two layout acceptances to Scrapbooking Creations yesterday!!! woohoo!! I got a new layout that Ive yet to add to my blog (maybe will tomorrow!) and also an older layout already here somewhere called "LOL and be happy". So super excited!!! :)

Also, in the current Scrapbooking Creations I have two layouts. On the first page of the Quickgrabs section I have my alltime FAV layout Ive ever done - called "Spring is everywhere". I just love that layout!! And on the first page of the "black and white" gallery I have "You are amazing".

In the current For Keeps they have announced the winners of the Awards of Excellence and I was blessed enough to be a winner!!!! yayayayayay!!! sooooo excited about that! I won the Creativity section. This was the section I wanted to win because I do try to be creative in how I scrap! So I have a layout in this publication about that, but also another layout in the "Four or more photos" gallery.

I think thats all the magazine updates! haha.

Tomorrow Ill be back with another catchup post! cyas then :) ill be here i promise!

OMG I am so bad!!!! haha

thanks to christmas holidays and new years Ive been a very norty blogger!!!! blame santa!! LOL

anyways, stay tuned for a long long LONG update post and then i promise I will be better from now on. I have to if I want something other than a lump of coal under the tree next christmas!

hopefully will have longer post PLUS a competition up later today :D

holla!!!!!!

guess what!!!! I had 5 magazine acceptances last week ... four in the one day!!!! So that was definitely a good day :D Two of the layouts accepted by SC are in the previous blog post - "luv u" and also "beautiful". If you scroll further down the page you will also see "laugh" and also "besties" ... these were also picked up by SC. How awesome!

This forced me to update the listings of upcoming and previous layouts in magazines and I cant believe it but now I have eleven layouts in upcoming mags. Im in the next 4 issues of FK!!! I guess Id better go get a subscription now! :)

Thanks to the girls who came along to the "Please Santa" class at Crafting in Style on Sunday night. We did the following layout:




All the layouts you did are awesome :D

Im so mega excited! Tomorrow night Im doing a class with Erica Glover! My kit arrived today and its filled with gorgeous stuff that is just SO Erica! I wanna play with it now but obviously I must maintain composure and wait till tomorrow :D

Ive been sick for a few days so Im heading off for a nap. The kids are at a friends house :D aaaaah peace and quiet!!

Luv yas!!! MWAH!

eeep Im such a norty blogger!

truth be told - I went into Mackay or a week for a holiday and since I got back the kids have been sick and I have been slack!! So that is my reasons :D I cant believe its been nearly a month. If it wasnt for forums people would have thought Id fallen off the face of the earth!

Something exciting this month! I have a layout in the current SC that I had forgotten about. So that is a nice surprise :) I think its on page 112.

Here are some of the layouts Ive been working on during November.

The following layout was for a sketch challenge at a CC. But it wasnt close enough to the sketch so I had to redo it. I got a bit carried away :D



This next layout is the remake of the previous one .... this time you can actually see the sketch design! haha. Im not too keen on the papers used in this layout but its the only papers I had that were only pink and white - the other challenge criteria.




This next one is using a photo of me, brianna and my mum but its BLURRY!!! so frustrating cos we are all smiling and looking at the camera - very hard to do!!! The layout was taught in a class by the wonderfully talented Marni Telford.


I love this layout! i tried a few new things with this. marni has inspired me to be more creative with my layout shapes so for this i got 3 strips of paper and glued them together. this made my layout be not exactly square. u can see the cream paper is up at the bottom and at the top. lots of distressing and sewing and even a bit of paper piecing! this is based roughly on a becky fleck sketch.

Over at Crafting in Style Ive started a 10 week stamping inspiration course! If you are anything like me, you have bought a fair few acrylic stamps and while you use them sometimes you are SURE u can more out of those gorgeous little things! More techniques, more ideas, more inspiration!!! So starting this week we are going to be getting down and dirty in the Tips & Techniques section of the CIS forums. There will be paint, ink, felt, fabric, paper (i cant give too much else away!) flying left right and centre ... making a massive creative mess!!!!!

The stamping technique focused on this week is stamping on cardstock and then colourising with crayons/pens/watercolours/coloured pencils!!! You can check out more about this in this thread.

Here is the first example I created:
I stamped a AL journalling stamp, then blended a light green around the edges with coloured pencil, then added a chipboard title and topped it off with a hambly overlay!!!




Here is my second example (this layout was also done for a CC at Chookscraps):
For these stamped images i stamped with umber versacube, then doodled over the top with a zig marker, then highlighted the flowers/butterfly with colouring pencils. the butterfly is handdrawn.


And here is one last layout I have done! This was also for the Chookscraps CC. ive tried to portray how agitated i can be sometimes by the scratchiness of the doodling over the blue alpha stickers, the stitching around the tab folder, and also how ive gone over my journalling a few times.



Phew thats alot of layouts to upload at once. Ill be my normal blogger self now :D

Once last reminder. Dont forget the class im teaching this sunday at Crafting in Style! We are doing a Christmas layout so get in the festive mood!!!

Have a great weekend everyone!!

Busy like a bee!!!

Ive been busy as a bee working through my scrapping todo list!


CHRISTMAS CARDS FOR SCRAPBOOK'N'BITS:

Firstly Id like to share a Christmas card I made for Scrapbook'n'bits with some stamps I recieved from them. they were groovy little stamp sets that retail for about $4 each i think? very cute and very cheap!!! just the way i like them ;)

This is just one card of the seven I made. To view them all go to the forum here.

Inside the card:


To make the above card I cut two rectangles out of bazzill, inked them with blue then stapled them together along the top in a crisscross pattern. I then stamps the inside and out and decorated with silver kindyglitz - you cant have christmas cards without glitz!!!! haha. Lastly i tied some ribbon around the top and secured it with a very christmas looking bow!


STAR'S PREGNANCY MINIALBUM!

A friend of mine is about 10 weeks preggers and she has been suffering TERRIBLE morning sickness that lasts all night and all day. vomiting and diaohrria! poor poor girl! i really feel for her. she is getting quite down! so ive made her a little minialbum to hold a few photos of her growing belly and a spot to journal on!

Lots of colours and glitz to make her feel a bit cheerier!

Its made from a tag book that ive covered it with MME papers and decorated with BG rubons, green tara & prima flowers, ribbons, AC thickers, HS damask stickers (im obsessed with these!), paint and lots of silver kindyglitz!!!

there is one double page for each trimester.