LOTS OF SCRAPPING

I have been rather busy scrapping my heart out the past few days and here is what i have  come up with the first layout is of my little man Mason i have used an old kaiser range on this one .

The next one is Mason and Klaire at xmas time again using the kaiser Belle papers and the 3rd layout is my son Chris and his beautiful partner Maddy i used the leftovers of kaiser Belle papers on this one too .

Last but not least is Mason again using the laters kaiser papers from the Q3 magazine they have a comp going and this is my submission to the competition using the FREE papers from the magazine .

Thanks for looking

WORK AND SOME NEWS

Well i have been a little quiet in the scrapbook department of late , life has been terrible hard as a lot of you know coping with the death of a child is not the easiest thing to have to face in ones life .
Anyway i have a little bit of work and news to share with you ,
the first layout here is one i have done is of my late stepson Joshua ,
this is going to be hung on my living room wall with my other sons formal photos that i have scrapped .
The second page is one that was done for scrapbudz last cybercrop its a challenge set by DT nick called 54321 challenge ...
Now to my news finally after 2 long years my work has gone to print Kaiser craft were the first to publish me in the Q3 magazine ...i scored a copy of it last week thats my page in the centre ...
Also an American magazine
SCRAPBOOK NEWS AND REVIEWS have picked up 4 of my pages and they go to print tomorrow ..
Its been a good start to 2010 for me so far , putting the dramas of a few things aside i am confident i will have a far better year ahead ..
hope you enjoy looking at my work thanks for taking the time to read my blog
take care
Hugz
Eve xxxx

2009 IN REVIEW

Happy new year to everyone who takes the time to read and comment on my blog , here is a look back on a year i wish to forget ((except for some bits of it )) ,
the year started out with my son drew in hospital fighting for his life with a staph infection that he picked up in the local river , after some weeks of recovery things started to go back to normal only to have the same son bashed by a 40 year old leaving drew with some mental disabilities .
We cruised through to the middle of the year and everyone in my house became ill with swine flu and as most of you know i was the one who came out the worst with pneumonia and a lung operation .
We had some milestones during the year my eldest son chris was promoted to manager of kmart and he also found himself the most beautiful girlfriend who we all adore .
We sadly lost our fury friend Misty due to a terrible cancer and then we welcomed a new fury member to the family Bella the border collie ...Mason started to talk this year after some months of speech therapy that really took him no where .
Then hubby and i celebrated 8 years of marriage together and a beautiful weekend away to renew our vowes on sydney harbour ...We were thinking this would be the perfect ending to a somewhat shit year of ups and downs ..
But it wasn't going to be this way at all on dec 19 i got the call that all parents dread ...my hubbys son Joshua was in a head on collision with a truck on QLD notorious Bruce highway south of Rockhampton , sadly Joshua passed away in the accident he was only 19 years old and just became a daddy .
So there is my year in review its been a shocking one , who knows why our family have been struck with such horrible happenings but one can only hope for a brighter year ahead .
RIP Joshua John Brown

A LITTLE BIT OF WORK TO SHARE

Hi everyone well i have been busy doing a little scrapping in between getting ready for xmas and running the business and being mum to 5 full on kids ..
Below is my latest creations i hope you all have a very Merry Christmas and a Happy safe new year ..

This layout is the first of many to come using my wedding renewal pics .


This one is from the scrapbudz girls night in , sammi done a sketch and this is my take on it .


Next is the hot choc monthly challenge , chocolate with lavender and vanilla cream .

This one is the scrapbudz monthly latte and cram challenge

latte or cream with blueberries and vanilla

These are some candles i have altered for my table at xmas time

and this is my take on Annies blind challenge

for the girls night in at scrapbudz

MY WEDDING VOW RENEWAL WEEKEND

On Saturday the 21st November hubby and i spent an amazing weekend in Sydney to
renew our wedding vows , we decided to go all out and dress up and hire our original
photographer and make a full weekend of it .
Our best mate and his lovely partner Mick and Rosa joined us all the way from Canberra
and the day went off with only 1 hitch , this being that i forgot to have alans suit trousers hemmed up but all was not lost as i had magic velcro dots with me so i used them ..
but other than that it was a perfect unforgettable day , the weather was beautiful the company was great the food on the captain cook cruise ship and the service was outstanding ..
So here is just a hand full of the pics i hope you enjoy looking at them ...
take care
Eve xxxx

PS please click on the pics to see a full sized image as they are in high resolution

SOME RECENT WORK TO SHARE

Hi all well its been a while since my last post ...life has been busy we have been painting our house ...that was supposed to be done last october but was put off due to a visitor so its taken us 12 months to get it happening again ...
Its looking rather great so well worth the wait ..
Here are some of my latest layouts that i have done over the past month ...
hope you enjoy looking at them .


Just Me ---- is a challenge that Annie set at scrapbudz for the latte and cream challenge .



Mr Cool---was my last DT example for sweeties sketches
sadly this one never got put up as the blog closed ...



This one is shabby chics latest challenge

A layout i done of my beloved MISTY ..who we sadly lost this year

This Kiss--- a challenge i done for crafty sketches

Enchanting --- a challenge for the HOT CHOC challenge at scrapbudz

Thanks for looking till next time

HAPPY SCRAPPING

Eve xxx

TOOT TOOT

How excited am i ....2 months ago i sent off neumerous layouts to kaisercraft and today i received an email back to say one of my layouts has been chosen for consideration to be published in the Q3 magazine ...
I am so shocked and happy as this is the first time i have been picked up for publication in a real paper magazine ...so hopefully i will make it to print ...

SCRAP OVERLOAD

Hi everyone , well i have had a bit of a scrap overload this weekend first up i have 3 of the 4 challenges to share with you that i done at scrapbudz !!GIRLS NIGTH IN !!! this is now replacing the boring old cybercrops .I will share the 4th challenge with you later this week as its not finished as yet .

Red & Black challenge ----set by Sammi

Sketch challenge ---set by Eve (me)

Patchwork challenge ---set by Annie

This layout is one i done a few months ago but forgot to share it with you all , my son Mason learnt how to blow bubbles with a bubble blower left over from klaires party back in july .

The next 2 images are sneak peeks from the up and coming challenges

at my new shabbychic challenge blog ...thought i would give you a taste to tantalize your scrapbuds ....lol

thanks for looking till next time

Happy Scrappin

Eve xxxx

DOING THE HAPPY DANCE HERE!! + SOME WORK TO SHARE

Hi everyone i have had some super news this week

and i am doing the happy dance and cant take the smile off my face .

I entered in crafty sketches and guess what ....yup i won first prize

Then i joined in at the cybercrop over at scrap with v and i have just taken out first prize there for the second challenge .

OMG 2 wins in 1 week im now going to have a fat head for a month hahahah

thanks to ness at crafty sketches and the DT girls at scrap with v for giving me the oportunity to enter my work ...

here are the winning pages ...

crafty sketches blog challenge

scrap with v challenge #2

Also here is some work i have done over the past week

i have scrapped heaps but i can once again only share some of my work as most of it is DT work

but you will get to see it very soon .

The first lo is for my new shabby chic challenge blog , pop over and take on the challenge its a lot of fun

Next is just a page i scrapped for my own pleasure its of my son drew and our puppy Bella when we first brought her home .

Third lo is another entry for for the crafty sketches challenge blog

and the last lo is a layout i done for the scrap with v cybercrop it was a challenge set by kim kendell but unfortunatly i didnt get time to enter it but thought i would share it anyway .

well till next time

Happy Scrapping

Eve xxx

NEW CHALLENGE BLOG

Calling all shabbychic/vintage scrappers a new challenge blog has hit the net and they are looking for a DT to join in on the fun . So if you fancy yourself as a shabbychic/vintage style scrapper send us 2 of your layouts to shabbychicblog@gmail.com Dt call closes september 25th so get those entries in girls .http://shabbychicbutterflysandbows.blogspot.com/

A LITTLE SCRAPPING

Hi everyone well i have a bit of work to share with you ...some DT work and quite a few pieces of challenge work from scrapbudz ...
hope you enjoy looking at what i have created
Eve


Above is my take from the card sketch at sweeties sketches for the month of september ....


My take on the layout sketch at sweeties sketches ....


Nicks challenge from the scrapbudz cybercrop


sammis challenge from the scrapbudz cybercrop


My challenge from the scrapbudz cybercrop


Annies challenge from the scrapbudz cybercrop

Hot chocolate challenge at scrapbudz ...set by

Annie requirements chocolate with aqua and white

and a bird .

The all new Latte and cream challenge at scrapbudz set

and created by Annie ...i chose cream as my base color

for this challenge .

SKETCH CHALLENGES

Hi all well i have been doing a little scrapping that i can share with you ..i entered in 2 sketch challenges this week first is the august 15th challenge at crafty sketches and the second one is my take on the sketch from over at TATS ...

thanks for looking

Eve xxx