Once Upon A Sketch!!!....December 1st

Yes its the first of December!

Yikes that's all I am going to say about it!

Journalling Criteria/theme: The thing I look most forward to in December.

Write at least 2 sentences on what you look forward to in the next month. December is a festive month so your journalling could be about the Christmas season, the holidays, the presents or if you do not celebrate Christmas what does December bring for you that you look most forward to? Note:You layout DOES NOT have to be about Christmas! It can be about anything December brings.

Other ideas for journalling: an annual holiday or celebration, a specific event such as putting up the Christmas tree or pre Christmas traditions you might have leading up to Christmas, family time, snow covered fields or warmer weather, time off work, school holidays, change of weather, new season fruit.

Here is my take on the challenge

the sketch was designed by Nadia Cannizzo

The chipboard I have used is from

Imaginarium Designs

this months sponsor is

so head on over to 

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and be inspired by the amazing design team!!

Weekend Recap...........

Friday Evening:

Watched vintage James Bond with the boyz

 accompanied with popcorn and wine!!

Saturday: all day

Flower workshop at 

Zeffy's

here is the end result

10 gorgeous handmade flowers!

Zeffy is wickedly talented

and I kept saying over and over again

what a fabulous lesson/workshop I took.

Flowers are not my go to embellishment for a layout

I enjoy the latest trend in scrapbooking with the flower laden

layouts and marvel at their beauty

Its just not my style...which is cool....

 but I wanted to learn how to make flowers

and jumped at the chance to learn

so......

If you live in Athens contact Zeffy

she is one talented lady!!

Thank You Zeffy!!.....

So after the workshop

I stayed on a little longer and made a Christmas tag

and of course the beautiful Poinsetta i had just made took

the centre stage...

what do you think?

I love it...LOL

After I stamped my image and misted the background

I applied a layer of Gel medium 

and sprinkled this gorgoeus translucent glitter

It sort of shows up on the tag.....

then started layering and embellishing!

Sunday:

We surprised our little man with a trip to the 

War museum

I was blown away by this cannon....

look at the detailed engraving....

Somehow it seemed ironic something that could cause so much destruction

 could be so beautiful!!..

This part of the museum freaked me out

I cringed looking at these weapons

No comment

One very happy little man!!!!!

Later...............

Once Upon A..Sketch....giveaway!!

Time for a giveaway over at Once Upon A..Sketch, 

because we are feeling a little generous 

and just to thank you for your support.. 

You have a chance to win this gorgeous album kit featuring Melissa Frances 5th Avenue collection...

"Limited Edition Melissa Frances" Kit Contents (kit by Scrap That! - Canada's best kit club) 

Envelopes and Tags Book

5th Avenue 6 X 6 Paper Pad

5th Avenue Sticker Book

5th Avenue Diecuts

2 Mini Envelopes and Tags

Trinkets & Baubles

Diamond Chandelier Drops

“Mom” Expressive Transfer

Vintage Architectural Molding Appliques

Crepe Paper - Light Blue, Pale Pink, Cream, Pastel Green

4 ZVA Pink Transition Mini Roses

6 ZVA Cream Mini Roses

Vintage Seam Binding

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The details

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*you have 1 week from today - this giveaway will end on midnight Friday November 25th ( Australian Eastern Standard Time) 

Good luck!

Get Creative....November 15th

2nd post for the day

I seem to be chasing my tail these days

so.....no more chit chat

here is my layout for the November 15th sketch challenge over at 

Get Creative

my layout came out exactly as I was feeling that day

grungy....

truth be told I actually love the end result

the photo is a little dark...

but the photo is one of my favourites.....

the layout is based on this sketch designed by 

Chryssa

for more inspiration and information about this months prizes

head on over to the blog

HERE


I will be entering this layout in the November challenge for


Kraft It Up
here are some close ups of the journalling

Once Upon A....Sketch

November 15th challenge has gone live

the sketch is gorgeous

 and the journalling criteria is inspiring

Journalling criteria: This time the journalling criteria focuses on YOU as a woman OR ANY female in your life. What is the best thing about being a woman? Motherhood? Shopping? Make Up? Girls nights? Gossip? Your journalling can be as long as you wish and in any language, but you must journal at least 2 sentences on the best part of being a woman.

lots of wonderful prizes 

curious??

go and read all about it

on 

Once Upon A....Sketch

Once Upon A .......Sketch November 1st challenge

It's November 1st and the first challenge is up for

Once Upon A ....Sketch

Journalling Criteria for this challenge:

You need to journal at least 2 SENTENCES on WHEN you started scrapping and WHY?

here is my take

using this sketch!

Yes I flipped it on its side!!..LOL

To see what the rest of the design team created head on over to the

 blog

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