Some more photos!

Purple Monkey Dishwasher winner announced below!!

I have a dillemma ... or dilemma ... however you spell it! I did 12 layouts in 14 days, then got a bit burnt out so havent scrapped in 6 days. And then when I went to scrap I had no ideas! I always do that. When I havent scrapped for a week its always hard to get back into the swing of things. Itll just take me a layout to come back :)

But here is a card set that I made yesterday. They were both made from one sheet of SR kraft. I LOVE my heidi swapp stamps. I also have the "happy birthday" one. and they make cardmaking so cheap and versatile!!!




I took some more pics on Friday of Liam and Brianna. Here are my favs out of the shoot:











And on Australia Day we went out for afternoon tea and couldnt resist the waterfeature in the middle of town! The kids had a ball! (and got very very wet!)

Competition Winner!!!

The winner of the comp was Lis (http://lifeinsegments.blogspot.com/)!! so girly! email me: karen (at) tkday.net with ur postal address :D congrats!

Thanks everyone else for playing :D

Some photos, comp update, and some BIG NEWS!!!

My little man has decided he is finally going to start walking!!!!!! at 15 months of age he is now toddling everywhere. So I got the camera out yesterday and got some snaps. The first is my fav :) If you click on it to view larger its easier to see that the weed in the front has the focus while liam and everything else is blurry.







Plus, last week I was chatting with some girlfriends and they were saying that they didnt have any nice pics of themselves. So I threw a "Photo Party" on Tuesday and we took 188 photos in 2 hours ... that is with looking after the kids as well!!! we went nuts. and the photos are just amazing! We got about 10 nice photos of each girl, but these are my fav pics from each shoot:

Elisha (I LOVE the first pic of her and her boys hands):




Chantelle:




Kelly:





Jamey:



BLOG COMPETITION UPDATE:
You have till tonight at 7pm to get me some comments saying you have Purple Monkey Dishwasher lovin on your blog :D Win some Sassafras Lass stamps!!!
See here for more info



BIG NEWS:
Ive joined the Scrapboxx Design Team :D woohoooooo!!! :) I am so looking forward to this new adventure and part of my scrap-life :D Maria is just fab and itll be alot of fun I reckon!!

Thankyou so much to Crafting in Style and Scrapbook'n'Bits for letting me be on your DTs during 2007. I have put personal notes on the forums for each of you!! Thanks for your input on my designs, the support, products, encouragement and inspiration you have given me during my stay in your DTs. I sincerely appreciate it :)

Chookscraps Cybercrop

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Just quickly, I added a feature to my blog so you can subscribe to my blog. Itll automatically send you updates through your email when I post here. Very handy!!!

Lastnight I realised that Chookscraps had a CC on so I ducked over to check out the challenges. They have to be up before midnight tonight so there wasnt much time. But I managed to get two layouts done lastnight for it before bed. So that is FOUR layouts in one day!!!! that doesnt happen often for me :)

This was for challenge 3 - a sketch one:
this is a layout warning the teenage girls of the 2020's that there is a handsome ladies man coming their way. I included a girl hambly robot for the whole "future" theme. and from the photo it looks like he is checking her out! haha



How cool is this robot!!!! three cheers for Hambly!!

This was for challenge one: negative space, stamps and at least 2 photos. This was a quick one cos it was already 10.30 or something when I started.


And this morning I did this layout - "Perfect Fairytale Wedding". Im slowly scrapping all my wedding pics!!! :) I used leftovers of a class ages ago to do this one. the kit was so yummy!!

Today is day 14 of a "14 layouts in 14 days" challenge. Ive got 12 done. So I gotta do two more but i dont think ill make it cos im going out tonight!!! boooo!! oh well. Im happy with 12 layouts anyways :D

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