January kit arrived from scrapbook kit club yay

Have a look at all the goodies in the bottom picture it is awesome and soooooooo packed of Delicious goodies, I cant wait to get started on this kit and i have some very good ideas for this that i will use along side my winter woodland cart. I am also waiting on a paper add on so i have double of all the PP. The picture on top is off the kit i won for that sketchy Thursday challenge a couple of weeks back, I actually won the December kit but as i already had that Amber was good enough to swap it for a previous kit, I actually done the apple of my eye layout before i remembered to take the pictures so i have already used some of the kit. With the January kit i also took the Card stock add on so i have lots to work with and it all coordinates. If you like what you see pleas go check out http://www.scrapbookkitclub.com/ (Amber if you are reading this i love the new look page) oh remember to tell Amber i sent you lol . i will be back to show you some cool layouts i make from these kits soon

Apple of our Eye

Well this is my first layout i am going to submit as a DT member over at http://www.scrapbookingcraftingfriends.ning.com/ our task for this month was to be based around love or apple of my eye kinda thing, so this is what i came up with though i changed it to our eye. I used the sketch from over at http://www.sketchinspiration.ning.com/ for this who this week are being sponsored by http://www.scrap-room.com/ and let me tell you they have amazing stuff and i know this as i am a member of the cafe club there.

I used the papers for this from a kit i won in a challenge at sketchy Thursdays, the sponsor was scrapbook kit club(I'm also a member of this club too and they have amazing stuff there too lol)

Hugga Ma Lucy

This is a layout from a sketch over at http://www.sketchinspiration.ning.com/ I kept it very plain as the paper was quite fussy i thought. This is a picture of Lucy and I outside our house. When ever we have a hug Lucy started saying Huggamumma or huggadada so this has always stuck, so here i am having a huggamalucy lol

Friends

Here is a layout I made using a picture of my mum my best friend and myself taken at my leaving night . Used this layout as an entry for a design team , ah well i didn't make it but that's OK I'm in one already and I'm sure there will be lots more in the future. I made the flowers myself and they were so easy and also the scallop circle. I really liked this layout too but you want to see the layouts of the girls that were chosen , a total different league lol, but in my defence i am very new to this compared to a lot of people in the blog world, im not even 1 year old lol

KIT CLUBS

Just thought I would post this on here as i had saw the discussion in another NING site. Do any of you feel that where you live you just don't have the supplies that you see others using on forums etc, I know i certainly do stuck out in NZ it seems to me it is the hardest place in the world to buy everything and I'm not just talking about scrap booking gear. ( and i promise I'm not knocking our Local Scrapbooking Stores as believe me I am very fortunate to have one in my street,and boy was she missed during the holidays,But we just dont seem to get the stuff that everyone in the Us can probably as postage wayyyyy to expensive),Another problem i have is i see a club i fancy but the postage is fortunes so therefor not worth it. Well i finally found 2 clubs that offer really cool kits and good postage costs. I have joined 2 clubs simply to top up on what i can get in NZ. The 2 i have went with are subscriptions but you can cancel at any time and also if you wish to skip a months kit cos you don't fancy it then its no problem. The 1st one i went with is http://www.scrapbookkitclub.com/store/Default.asp and i received my first kit last week omg it is jam packed i also won the same kit at a sketchy Thursday challenge the week after i signed up so she has swapped that out for a previous months kit and i will receive it with my Jan kit(arriving any day now) Also she has a huge sale on as she making room for the new release so i went on last night and bought 2 more of her previous kits for like $15 or so each so that could be a good way of seeing a kit ( Remember to say i sent you as she has a cool offer on right now and if you refer 2 people she will give you a free kit)Anyway i had only intended to join one club but when Jennifer Moore put a post on her blog showing off really cool papers i just had to have a nosy so the next club i joined is http://thescraproomblog.blogspot.com/ this is an awesome place the monthly kit is $21.95 and as i said you can skip etc what is great about here is they give you 4 different lines each month with embellies etc i also have ordered a few extra specials with my first month , i have also joined up as a secret scrap sister and i am looking forward to that as it will be so exciting to try out other products i wouldn't have the chance too normally and its a great way of meeting lovely people.( also you get a referral RAK if someone joins up so tell her i sent you here too lol)So has anyone else joined some cool kit clubs , will i be tempted to join a 3rd? Right now i would say a definite no as i did search high and low for one that had really nice papers, i also researched there past kits to make sure the present one wasn't just a one off as with a lot of the kit clubs the papers seemed nice but when you went through their past ones there was more that i wouldn't use than i would so that would be a waste. some are all beautiful vintage style which i love but i am no good at whatsoever, I'm more of a clean line kinda girl(thanks Jackie as I'm sure there is some of your style in their to lol)
well that's all just wanted to post this as i know a few of you thinking of joining clubs so thought I'd share me experience

Quack

Here is a layout i made using a sketch from http://sketchinspiration.ning.com/ though it is 2 weeks old lol just have not had the time to get it done, if you haven't checked there site out you really should as they now have weekly sponsors putting up lovely kits. i know who is sponsoring next week and i swear you wont be disappointed . this layout actually took me a while as i had it on PP and wasn't quite happy with it and it sat on my desk for days looking at me , anyway last night i took it apart and started again. I'm not a huge brown lover but i thought it suited the pictures

Rak Winner for the New years blog hop

Wooooooooooooohoooooooooooo I put the names into Random.org (well i gave everyone a number in the number they left a comment ) and it picked number 7 which was

Drum roll please

Aunty JO congrats girl

can you please send me your address to carolinehancock@vodafone.blogspot.com

thanks for playing along everyone

Cricut Cartridges arrived

Well have i got the best hubby in the world or what. He was late in ordering them for christmas but he still did place the order for me he bought me a whopping 9 new carts for my cricut and boy i cant wait until i have some fun with these, look for some cool layouts soon

Loyal friends

This is a another layout i worked on tonight for a challenge over at http://kraftykat9.blogspot.com you should go and give it a go and you have until Sunday. Thanks for a great sketch Kat. All these papers were in my stash box so added bonus lol.

Water Baby

Here is a layout i just worked on this afternoon for the weekly challenge over at http://sketchythursdays.blogspot.com/ I had to rotate the layout as i had no vertical photos printed off but i think it turned out all right. I managed to use some of my stash which is always a good thing. these are 2 pictures of DD and DH in the hot tub outside our villa(rented of course lol) in Florida June 2008

Works Night Out

This is a layout i worked on yesterday too , i done this using a skecth from Pamela over at http://scrapbookchallenges.ning.com/ This was works night out back in 2005 and even though i look hammered i hadn't even had a drink yet lol, this was taken at the start of the evening. Go check Pamela's sit out it is great with lots going on

Summer Living

Here is a layout i done last night for a challenge over at http://sketchinspiration.ning.com/ this is an extra special challenge as from now on there are weekly prizes , so really you should go check it out, Thanks Trisha for another awesome sketch.

RAK just arrived

Wow another cool parcel in my mail box today and boy was it stuffed of different bits and bobs that I'm sure will come in handy in lots of my layouts. Just want to say a huge THANKS to Kat over athttp://kraftykat9.blogspot.com/ for sending me this, you know why she sent me it?? just to say thanks for being a good follower of her blog , How nice is that? honestly you should go check her out she has a cool challenge on over there just now that finishes this Sunday

Thanks again Kat, I love it all

Scrapbook Kit club December Kit just arrived

OMG this just fell through the door this morning and boy it made me smile. Thanks Amber for an amazing pack of goodies i love everything in it. This is also my first ever kit club so I'm very excited as I'm sure you can tell. Look how jam packed with different bits and bobs it is , one of the reasons I'm so loving this is there's alot in it that i would probably not thought of buying while out shopping so it will make me work outside my box so to speak. I also bought the card stock add on so i had matching card to go with. All of this with the CS add on was $29.50 USD and boy was it worth it (even though i had to ship to NZ its worth it. Well i need to sort through my pictures and get lots printed off to start using this lot. Roll on next week when my Jan kit arrives as it just has beautiful pics in it too(this was late as i only just joined it normally get kit 2nd week of each month)

Friends Always

This is a layout i worked on this afternoon for a challenge over at http://thescraproomblog.blogspot.com/ OMG i love their kit club papers. Anyway the challenge was to make a layout using one picture of a gathering, So this my friends with me at my leaving party last year before i left the UK (from left to right - Tracy, mum, Fiona, moi and Lorraine)

Another way to win blog hop prizes

Check out this site http://thescrapbookspeedway.blogspot.com/2010/01/new-years-blog-hop.html for more free Rak

Scrapbook Challenges New Years Blog Hop

Happy New Year! Welcome to 2010! Also, welcome to Scrapbook Challenges third DT blog hop! :) It officially started at 10am (MT) and will go through Sunday at Midnight (MT)--which is the deadline for qualifying for prizes.

Please go over to http://www.pamelasworldofscrap.blogspot.com/ for your first stop on the hop. Also you will get to see all the fantastic prizes that can be won by taking part on the fabulous blog hop.

In case you don't know...Scrapbook Challenges is a fun group filled with wonderful people. We have weekly sketches and challenges. There are monthly sponsors for the group with fabulous prizes to win. The group used to be on myspace, but we recently moved it off (due to technical difficulties). I am LOVING our new site! And I know you will too. I am looking forward to the new things we have in store for 2010, starting with our new DT! I find each and every one of them totally inspiring, and you will get to meet them all today! Sadly, we are also saying goodbye to some wonderful people, but they are only leaving the DT...they will still be around in the group. :)
Today, every blog you hop to will have a layout that they made that is based on this sketch created by the lovely Pamela

Go here for more goodies http://scrapbookchallenges.ning.com/forum/topics/hop-on

Please note that the end of this post is my challenge so will finish at a different time as the main bloghop one, mines is just a little extra

Above is the layout i made using the sketch and also a picture of a RAK i will be giving away to one lucky person. There are a few ways you can win win my RAK you only have to one of them but you get one draw to win for every thing you do

1. become a follower of my blog and leave me a comment

2. Join Scrapbook challenges and let them know i sent you

3. Make a layout based on this sketch and link it back here

4. Post about this on your blog and link back to me

5. Also if you get a friend or anyone to take part in this you will get an extra draw but they need to tell me who sent them

Remember if you do all the above you will get 5 entries into the draw or extra if you bring more friends I will be doing the draw for my Rak on Friday the 8th of January so you have one week to complete a layout

Look forward to seeing you around

Caz :)

Free Jenny Bowlin

Have you ever saw any of her stuff? great huh! Well if you would like a free bag of goodies all you have to do is check out this blog http://thatscrappygirl.blogspot.com , Easy as ...

Wooohooooo Hubby spoils me

How amazing is my DH He told me to go on to oh my crafts and choose some new cartridges that i wanted so here is what i picked

Paper Doll Dress UP
Walk in My Garden
Animal Kingdom
Everyday Paper dolls
Winter woodlands
CALENDAR

anyway i left this order up for him to pay for it and he was like is that it? So i added these too

Special Edition: EASTER
Special Edition: LOVE STRUCK
Special Edition: MOTHER'S DAY

Honestly how cool is he, so i told him i there's a few of the new ones i would also love but he could maybe get me those for my birthday in March as i have had my eyes on the above ones for a while, I so cannot wait for these to arrive

Blog hop time

Fancy some free RAK?

What do you all plan on doing for New Year’s? Leave a comment to this post over at http://redoaklines.com/ by 11:59 PM, December 31st, Thursday, to be entered into a chance to win at least $25 worth of scrapbooking supplies! Share the news (your blog, facebook, twitter, etc.), and your name will be put into the hat FIVE times. How awesome is that?

go do it now

Christmasy

Here is another layout that i did for 2 challenges I used the sketch from over at http://sketchythursdays.blogspot.com and used it for the challenge over at http://thestudio.scrapbook-101.com/ I kept it very simple and its just a picture of our Christmas table 2006 yay that's 2006 Xmas all scrapped at last lol

Smile

Here is a layout i done based on a sketch from over at scrapbook challenges, I named it smile as we had the camera set up to take pictures and it felt like it took a zillion lol so we were smiling out our box lol, its in the swimming pool down the street from us.

Miss Claus

Here is a layout i worked on tonight for Liz over at http://thescrappiest.blogspot.com/ This was a very easy layout to work with, thanks Liz
That's me almost got Lucy's first Christmas scrapped lol, only two more to go.
The ribbon with the wee bell on it is from a pack of candles i bought the other day so i just had to use it in a layout

Christmas

Here is a layout i worked on today based on a Saturday Sketch from over at Kaisercraft, They put a sketch up every Saturday so go check it out. These are all pictures from Lucy's first Christmas, look at the wee cute santa lol

Brown Eyed Girl

Here is a layout I worked on last night, Its a close up picture of my beautiful girl. She has an absolute fascination with peoples eyes, everyone has either blue like daddy or brown like mummy and she always has to tell the person too, to cute
Finally almost used up all my lilac ave papers lol only 3 sheets left yay

I did this layout for a challenge from over at http://thestudio.scrapbook-101.com/ I had to use layers and a frame of some sort and to be based on a childhood

OMG Sneak Peak Heaven

I just went on the Kaiserkraft blog there and they have up these sneak peaks of their Q3 ranges and I have got too say I think these could be my faves off all their papers yet, I seriously could not choose one of the six as a favourite they are all just beautiful. They seem to have changed the format of

their releases as previously they released the full 6 ranges straight off , where as this time they are doing 2 each per month which i actually like as it means I'm not off rushing to get them all at same time, though its going to kill me having to wait probably. This is the first Quarter that i have wanted each of the 6 different ranges , honestly i love them all.... Liz get your stock ready, I'm going to be nocking your door on release day lol

Here are the range names and release month

Picture 1 - Made with Love - January release
Picture 2 - Devonshire - February release
Picture 3 - Shaken not stirred - January release
Picture 4 - La Di Da - February release
Picture 5 - Gypsy Sisters - March release
Picture 6 - Peachy Keen - March release

How excited am I , how will I wait for these lol
Happy Scrappin

Big Kid

This is a layout i did for a challenge over at Scrapbook Challenges, I used some picture i have of Gary at the park playing with Lucy, they two love the park lol, Don't know who's the bigger kid of them both ha ha

Merry Christmas

Hi everyone,
I just wanted to wish you all a Very Merry Christmas. I hope you all have a fabulous day with your families and hope Santa was as good to you as he was to us.
Happy holidays
Caroline

Challenge prize

How excited am I and what an amazing Christmas present. I just discovered I won a challenge from the ladies over at http://sketchythursdays.blogspot.com/ I am so happy as its the first time i have ever won a Challenge so thanks ladies I really appreciate it. I won an amazing kit

from over at http://www.scrapinkits.blogspot.com/ so a huge thanks to Amber there for putting this fabulous prize up for grabs. I am actually a member of this Scrap kit club so i just know the kit will be amazing. To see the layout i submitted for this prize check out the post 2 under this one called baby girl

T'was the night before Christmas

Stole this poem from Sharlene as it's so funny

Twas the night before Christmas, I'm glued to the tree. I'm wondering what Santa brought just for me. Could it be cardstock, or inkpads, or lace? Or some stamps, I said, with a smile on my face. And that's when I heard him ... "Hi Santa, " I said He replied, "You know ... good girls should be in their beds". "I know I should Santa, and now I've been caught. But I was just so excited to see what you brought." "Well, let's take a look in this room where you work". He shook his head quickly, and left with a jerk. I heard him exclaim as he put it in gear. "You've got enough crap, I'll see you next year!"

Baby Girl

here is a layout that i made using this weeks sketch from http://sketchythursdays.blogspot.com/ I actually found this very hard to do with all the white space, but i think it turned out all right in the end.

Family Santa picture

Here is a layout using the family picture we got taken with Santa claus last week, so Cute

Tis the season to be jolly

Here is another layout i did for a sketch challenge over at http://scrapbookchallenges.ning.com/ this was a fab sketch to work from. This is 1 of the 2 pictures we got taken last week when we took Lucy to see Santa

A Little Sparkle

This is a layout based on a sketch from over at http://scrapbookchallenges.ning.com/ I finally got round to using Lucy's scan pictures, I kept this layout very simple.
Happy scrapping

Fabulous giveaway offer - check this out

Wow you must really go and pay this amazing lady's blog a visit http://redoaklines.com/ She does some fantastic layouts and has been on design teams all over the place. Don't believe me go check her out
Caz

Design team

Woohoooooooooooooooooooo i made my first Design Team, how over the moon am I? you should check them out , lots of fun for everyone http://scrapbookingcraftingfriends.ning.com/

Would love to see you there
Caz

Love

Now here is a layout I based around these absolutely amazing butterflies , aren't they just gorgeous?? i bought these from Kay too and they are just my fave shade of cobalt blue. I bought bling to put up the right side but it just didn't look right so i just left as is.

I also used a sketch of Trisha's from sketch inspiration (link at the right)

If the last layout didn't get you over to Kay's blog/shop surly these amazing butterflies will . http://kayskreativekorner.blogspot.com

Happy Scrappin

Caz

Beautiful

This is a layout i made based on a sketch from

a blog i love but i just cant remember the one right now(duh) so i will give credit as soon as my daft brain remembers . Don't you just love this butterfly i bought this from a lady called Kay over in the USA that makes all these really cool things by hand, they are totally amazing. here is a link to her blog http://kayskreativekorner.blogspot.com/ go have a look

Caz

2 OF US

I love this picture of Lucy and myself, she has put on purple eyeshadow lol and her eyes look all funny, she is just so cute ha ha
I did this layout for a sketch over at sketch inspiration, thanks Trisha for a great site!

Princess

Here is a layout I worked on this week using a sketch from over at scrapbook challenges. This layout is actually really lovely in real life but I cant get a decent picture of it tonight, and believe me i have taken around 20 lol.

Happy scrappin

Caz

POSER

Here is a layout i just worked on recently. I got the sketch over at http://gotsketch.blogspot.com/ anyway here is my take on it.
For this one I used more of the beautiful Lilac Ave papers from Kaiserkraft
Happy Scrappin

Caz

Bored

Gary took this picture of Lucy one night while we were waiting on her milk heating. I love her facial expression she just looks soooooooooo bored, if she could of spoke she would have been saying, come on mum wheres my milk lol

U and I

I absolutely love this picture of Lucy and I, This was taken last June while we were in Florida getting married. We had just came of the tea cups and Universal , Lucy just loved the tea cups.

Friends forever

Here is a layout i worked on last night, i used a sketch from over at sketch inspiration for this one(thanks Trisha) It is a picture of my friend Fiona and me at my leaving party, isn't it lovely.

Anyway Fee Fee I know I'm over in NZ and your still in Scotland but I'm always thinking of you, and remember I'm always here for you. Love you Mrs xx

Round Robin

Here is another layout i worked on last night, I really love this one. This was done for part of a round robin challenge over at scrapbook challenges and was lots of fun.

I took Lucy shopping one day and we ended up visiting Santa, how funny she had red and white on , Santa told her your wearing my favourite colours lol. Was a wee shame she didn't know what was going on . isn't she amazing

Summer Launch Night

Well I made it over to a friends Stampin up Workshop last night for a launch of the summer mini that just came out on Dec 1st. I had a really fab night and made some cool stuff oh yea and bought some cool stuff too. Though I must add that I was really good and stuck to what I had to spend in my purse and not a cent more. The good this is there is 3 months to buy everything in it that I would love. Think I may have to have that awesome circle cutter, wow so easy to use. Any way i bought 2 lovely packs of buttons , some sweet treat cups and a white pen for highlighting some of my layouts (the sweet treats are used in the friendship card in the picture and I am looking forward to using them). Anyway if you like what we made last night you have to go look at Sharlene's blog , her stuff is just fab http://www.stampwithsharlene.blogspot.com/

Got to say hi to the nice ladies I met too , was lovely meeting you and I'm sure I shall see you at stamp club soon

Happy Scrappin

Caz

Angel of Mine

Well My parcel from Liz over at http://www.artfullcrafts.co.nz/ finally arrived yesterday so I got working on a layout using the fab Lilac Avenue range from Kaiserkraft straight away. Got to say I love the 6x6 pads that they are doing now, this is what I used for my title and it saved me having to cut up a 12x12 just for the title. I can see lots of layout getting made from this range. Hope you like it Liz.

Happy scrapping

Caz

Our tree 06

Here is a layout I just worked on today, It was a quickie as I was just using up the last sheet from the pack i used for my star wreath and the scraps that were left

Enjoy