My Desk & Some Exciting News

Hi everyone,
If you like checking out other people's messy creative spaces, be sure to head to Julia's to find out more. Not a great deal to actually show as far as scrapbooking goes today as I tend to do most of my creating on weekends and towards the start and end of the week. Wednesday may be my most unproductive day of the week. So instead I took a phot of my incredibly messy desk. Pretty awful, hey? But that's kind of how it always looks. I'm a clutter-er! I do have a fab new computer though.


These are a few photos of the new addition to my sister's family that will inspire me to do a layout soon.

So onto my exiting news. Well I'll start with the news I got online today. I won 2 prizes. The first was the Feb/March sketch challenge at http://www.scrapbookit.com.au/ which was a $20 voucher to spend in store. The second was a prize pack from the Scrapmatts blog hop I did on the weekend. Whoooo... chipboard coming my way. Very excited! So that was some nice news for the day.

Now onto my big news. I've wanted to share this one for a couple of weeks now but had to wait for the official announcement, however I am now part of the Design Team over at The Scrapbooking Haven. So excited! I love this store as its so cheap and has a great variety of supplies so I'm very much looking forward to receiving my first DT pack. I hope it would have arrived today but nope... so fingers crossed for tomorrow. Be sure to head on over to the store, as well as to their forum where there are 3 great challenges going for March. Also, become a follower of the blog as there are sure to be some great updates in the near future!

Thanks for stopping by.
Holly xo

Bridesmaid Layout

Wow, I just did the quickest layout of my life. It took about 15-20 minutes which is a record for me. I'm usually so slow!
Its for the new Scrapbookit challenge which started today.

Here's my take on the sketch and some detailed close ups:

What Better Way To Spend Friday Night Alone... Creating Layouts!

Hello everyone,
I was supposed to go to Lismore with my husband yesterday as he had a show to play with his band, however it worked out easier if he just went with his band instead. It turned out kind of annoying as there ended up being a spare bed I could have had and room in the car etc, but too late now. So I spent the night home alone in my scary house. Still a little nervous since our attempted intruder almost 2 weeks ago, but at least I made it a productive night. Look out, lots of pics in this post.. although its a bit overcast today so not brilliant ones. Need to get a better photo editing software.

This first layout is for Scrapbookit and the sketch included a really large journalling space, which generally makes me pretty uncomfortable, but I figure it's probably a good way to give myself a bit of a reminder on certain aspects of our big day by doing a reception layout for our wedding. The big photo is actually of the clay cake topper I had made. It is customised to look like us and I ordered it as a surprise for my hubby but he discovered it lol It weighs almost 700grams so ended up sitting next to the cake instead of on it.

Here is the second layout I created last night. This one I kept fairly simple, but used some lace and a handmade flower that was part of the pack I won from Screen to Scrap the other week. Very sweet. Also, as the paper had a glitter look to it, it did not need a great deal more, so I used a few simple stickers in the top corner and a Kaisercraft sentiment next to the photo. I've been having fun with sparkly paper lately. Just glams everything up a little more so its good for wedding layouts.

So this one had a bit of a joint challenge inspiration. The initial idea was to work with the Bird Is The Word current challenge, which is to create a layout with the world beautiful. The Kasiercraft sentiment was perfect for this as it states "Everything beautiful has its moment". However, I also worked from the sketch over at Wicked Princesses which had a circle background with a landscape photo.

I have this habit of putting my layouts on the spare table in our open plain dining area. My husband eats his breakfast there as the actual dining table is covered in stuff at the moment from my clean out. However, when I finish a layout, I tend to put it on that table for a few days. With my wedding layouts, they then go into the album, but the rest kind of just stay there. I think I need to start putting some away though, as he's running out of room for breakfast hehe