Artastic Challenge Blog DT layout

Hello dear friends, hope you and your families are well and warm, super cold here in Ipswich it is 11am Sunday here and Nate and I are still in our Pj's - I am not sure if I should be ashamed to say this or not.....never stayed this long in them.

This is my DT submission for arTastic Challenge Blog for August.This month
Becci Sunberg from Lime Tree Creations gave us some gorgeous products to work with, those doilies are made so beautifully, you just have to pop over and check this lady's amazing products.   Criteria for August is 1 ribbon - I used the gorgeous product from Lime Tree Creations. 2nd criteria - a child playing - Well this is playing to my little man - I have to add that the Whipper Snipper or SHIMP SHIMP as he calls it was not plugged in. 3rd criteria was to put paint on your background, I love the colour blue and used it on my Kaiser grid stamp.

Mum and dad recently came back from Cape York for a holiday and she bought Nate lots of goodies, but in the packet was a little tiny crocodile figurine but mum said to him "careful he bites" and this is Nate pensively openning the bag and he just laughed when he openned it.

Because I print out my blog I have started to add achievements of Joy that I receive so when it is printed I can see them. I was honoured to be mentioned on the Get Picky site for this layout from July. Wow I was stoked.

I am getting much better at the time management thing and looking forward to spending time catching up with you all, your work so inspires me. Thanks for your friendship. Melxx

Show us your stuff, A2Z,ArTastic.

 Hello dear friends, this is my layout for Show us your stuff this month, firstly their was a gorgeous sketch by Sara, who hails from my area and I did one of my first classes with, apart from the sketch you had to scrap a winter photo, this is Col and Jan and me....on a cold day of recent weeks, I cooked them dinner and it is a rare photo of us just being together, these guys are my family and Nate loves them very much. Ipswich had it's coldest day on record last Thursday with a maximum of 13 degrees....our winter is here......gorgeous Rachel Funnell is the Guest DT for them this month too.

As you all know I have just recently printed out my blog and although sometimes looking at my gorgeous son doing some crazy things may not be scrappy creative, the book I received is a recap of my last 2 years so now I feel propelled to add a little photo of him each post, I am usually with him, but as I start work next week the whole routine we have had until now will change no doubt. He is so cute, even toothless....

I was stoked to find I won the DT Artastic layout for last month, what an awesome sight, so many great prizes each month, I am proud to be on this amazing DT.

The criteria for this month is HERE, check it out, the sponsors are amazing.

And I had the honour of winning the A2Z scraplets sketch challenge for May, I am again honoured to win this great challenge. Might I add, it has been a while since winning any challenges. lol

They have an awesome Blog hop starting tomorrow night at 8pm....I love a good Blog hop.

Hope you are all well, been dreary, overcast and at times rainy here today, thank goodness for scrapping and my favourite thing, blog hopping. Looking forward to your inspiration...Melxx

ArTastic challenge DT Layout

Hello everyone, this is my layout for ArTastic DT this month, the criteria is 1. a bright layout, 2. and animal somewhere - owl (gosh I hope that qualifies as an animal) and 3. circles somewhere (3) and well I used the gorgeous My2Angels pins and inked them to match the layout (the bike, scooter and boys @ play). these are so versatile by the way.

This is our Mayor and he is so awesome, I love him, Ipswich has just grown and got so much more amenities & activites since he got in. Saturday night we are attending the outdoor Pictures here, it is so much fun and Toy Story 3 is playing, we have the DVD but just go for the fantastic atmosphere....although raining heaps here so we'll have to see.

And here is little Master Nate at our new play group called "Play and Learn" he has so much fun and the best thing is he can make the noise and leave the instruments there. He tries out the guitar, drum, symbol and they have a huge parachute which I have to admit is heaps of fun for me with him too. This is our Wednesday's now out for 12 weeks.

Hope you are all well, I have to tell you that I am so enjoying blogging at the moment, wow, we are all going to have some amazing memories to show our next generation and this makes me so proud. Love to you all, Melxx

Artastic Challenge February, Nook kit (December)

Morning everyone, this is my layout for Artastic DT this month, you know I am not quite ready to do a layout about my past year and the turmoil that it came with but the criteria was 1. Has to be something  about me 2. Have wings on it (my butterfly) and 3. a mirror image or 2 or more photos of the same subject. So this is about my love for my dog Max, he is so old and still loyal and he means the world to me, I cherish everyday with this man and I have asked him every year for the last 4 years to be my valentine and he just wags his tail....he is the perfect man for me (at this stage). lol

This layout is just for me but I will put it in the Nook Kit Gallery as it is their amazing December My Mind's eye kit, every kit is just stunning and whilst I have the Christmas photos out I am determined to scrap all this year's, but I still have some from 2 years ago to scrap (go figure) I will get to the others......(will I?)

This is a picture of Nate at 6months old, if anyone can tell me where the time and my figure has gone, please let me know, I think I was size 10-12 here and oh gosh this little man is now 4.....

Love to you all. Melxxx

My little Shoebox August Sketch, Artastic Challenge for September

Morning everyone, hope your week is going well so far, just over hump day so that means it's downhill to the weekend, busy week so far, went to Amanda's on Monday, Tuesday's lady's group and yesterday, well just caught up with blogging and you know just how when you sit down at the computer you can sought of lose track of time........way too much inspiration out there

How gorgeous are thes amazing My Little Shoebox papers, this layout took me quite a while to complete, I hand cut those little green 3/4 scollops around the circle, and the banner also, I just love fussy cutting - can you tell...

Ingredients: base "Green - Treehouse range", the circle I used a plate as a template, this paper is also from the "Treehouse range", and the little cut out cars with are just so super gorgeous are from the "Away we Go - road trip" range, the pink base for the banners is from "Simple Life - Front Porch" now the gorgeous doily and that awesome owl button come from Purple Pumpkin, gotta visit this one, and the letters are felt thickers from Making Memories. This is an awesome sketch you can see it Here

This Frida Kahlo painting is the Artastic inspiration painting for September, it is a great challenge this month, the criteria is for 1 point have a photo of you or family member with a pet, 2 points do the layout in shades of brown and orange and for 3 points add a tropical flower. Now below you will find my submission, I based my layout on a Ali Edwards Sketch because I really was more excited about doing the journalling on this layout, these two have a special relationship and I just had to document the memory of it. I hope you like it. Here is the link to Artastic Challenge site, and I would love if you decide to do a layout you would mention that MEL sent you, the main reason is to let Shazza know we love her site and love to encourage others to play along.

Before I go, I have to tell you what I caught my boy doing the other night, I was sitting at the kitchen table (where I scrap) and low and behold he grabs the chux and t-towels and starts taking the griller etc out of the oven, and places it on the floor (cold not hot) and starts cleaning, well I got up as quick as I could and grabbed the camera and well, not sure why he wanted to do this but I am so glad I have the proof that it happenned.

Please Note:  the picture you are seeing here does not depict the mess that is on the kitchen floor whilst he is working on the inside........and once the cleaning duties were over there was an even bigger mess for mum to clean, but in saying that, wow I was still super impressed with the attempt....

Okay, sorry for the long post, don't forget the Purple Pumpkin reveal on Friday night, Amber and I are setting our alarms for 7.30pm so we don't miss out on any goodness HERE.

Love to you all, you mean the world to me, being able to blab about my creativeness and my little boy. Love Melxxxxxx

Artastic Design Team August

Morning dear friends, can you believe it's Monday, I hate Monday's usually, but not today, I am off to Amanda's which will be great to scrap and I know Nate will have heaps of fun playing with Connor. Thanks everyone for your wonderful support for Wednesday, it means the world to me, this is my DT layout for arTastic this month. Criteria is colours mainly blue & green, a silhouette and a sun on the page. This is Nate with my mum (left) and Aunty Val (right) doing a little dance, nana was alive then and laughing at them. This again was made from the most gorgeous Noel Mignon kit.

A new month means some more beautiful Design team and challenge entry's for me to look at of yours so this is just a short message this morning, have a bit of a drive to Amanda's and when I am home tonight will look at what all of you have been up to.

I told my friend Amber that I would give her a shout out, she said she has been lurking around our blogs of late, can anyone tell me here if Amber needs a blog account to leave messages on posts, I couldn't confirm this when I caught up with her yesterday.

Hope you all have a great day, will catch up with you all soon, you mean the world to me. Love Melxxxxxxx