Just Me and Them

September Sneakies

I have a busy day ahead of me, as soon as I get my butt off my computer I have to get ready for a Kaszazz training day.  Did I tell you that I joined Kaszazz?  I couldnt not when they had so many goodies and I really liked the feel of the company so I joined.  Today is a training day with our group and I will get to make and get to know the other ladies in the group - bit nervy actually!!

Anyway, all week I've been working on school and the September club pack bits and pieces.  Here are the sneakies of what I have made so far -

One of these little goodies has been made for my mums birthday and I love it to bits which is why its for her.  I only have the newslettter article sections to write and my pages to scan together and I will be finished!!  Then on to some literacy game making for my class!!

 

New Blog Banner

With so much to do, guess what I did tonight?  Yep, I made a new blog banner for my blog!!  It's fairly different to what I have been doing but I bought the hummingbird action at the Gotta Pixell webshop tonight and once I began playing with it, well I really liked this one and everything just kinda snowballed from there!!

Anyway, I need to add some credits here -

Armina Designs - (Amalie) Fern Leaf; Rose Li Padovese - (Action) Hummingbird; GypsyChick - (Vintage text overlays) 3, (Spot of Grunge) 9, (Magic Texture) Overlay and (Flower Frenzy brushes) circlebrush1; Jessica Sprague (Brush Abilities) Stitch.

Fonts - Galleria and Guilty.

Now, off to bed - I'm stuffed!!

A change and another Freebie

I've spent most of this week at home in my bed all wrapped up and trying to get over the flu.  Matt shared it with me - men!!  Anyway, last night I decided it would be fun to make up another blog banner and as you can see - I did!!  It's been created using the very awesome scrapbooking kit called Carefree and was created by Cinnamon Designs.  I also created a new signature and watermark to go with it!!

While creating my banner I made up the scalloped template to use and kept a copy in PNG format to share as another freebie -

I've actually uploaded a full size (that is blog banner size here) image here so you only need to right click to save.  The image was created at 400 x 1200 pixells.

Blog re-work!!

I've had written on my to do list, a rework of my blog banner for so long that I can't remember it not being there!!  finally I finished creating my banner after downloading some very very pretty digi elements.

Here's the list of what I used for both my navigation buttons and my blog banner -

• IMendez- SpringBreeze-Solids-Bracket paper 3

• TSIMS Lay-It-On-Me-2-6 overlay

• NRJ BELLA BACK6 overlay

• JSprague Kraft paper

• kimhill BasicStitches  - Blanket-NO-Holes and pink sherbet clip

• CAH_HillsAndValleys1and 3; wise owl; sun; pink house and welcome house

• KAagard_ChalkGarden_tree

• cap_mtinthemeadow_button3 (tinted red) and tree

• sellis_sunshinegarden_grass

• klewis-lilmrpirate-doodle swirl 3

• rjf_draft alphabet_outline

• jencaputo-staple2

• KathrynEstry_ClippingMasks2-2

• LivE-S4S-StitchedPageOverlay

• tangie_ohmy_wornjournalboohmy2

• Rough Draft font

Although the whole thing was pretty time consuming, I had a blast making one of my own!!

Onto some more work... I created this as the last class page for the Digi in Deep class I have been doing -

It was a blast doing this course, although it was very time intensive, I now feel a whole lot more confident with photoshop and have begun talking about what more I can do to learn more!!  I think I will probably just start looking at some TAFE courses on photoshop and design, see where they take me!!

Awards, Stamps and More!!

This morning I woke up to a comment left for me by Shirley, I went over to her blog and found this little pretty there waiting for me -

Now this little pretty came with its own set of rules -

Rules of this award:

1. Add the logo to your blog.

2. Link to the person from whom you received this award.

3. Nominate 7 or more blogs.

4. Leave a message on their blog, letting them know they are “One Lovely Blog”

So here are my linky links in no particular order -

1. Cathy
2. Jo
3. Em
4. G
5. Deb
6. Alisa
7. Julie

What do you think of this little cutie?  From the moment I saw him I was in love lol!!  He comes from a company called House Mouse and I foudn them completely by accident on boxing day.  Needless to say I orgdered him and a few other stamps from their very cute collection.  They have a tonne of stamps that feature this cute little mouse with or without his pals but always doing something super cute and I personally can't wait for him to arrive hopefully this week so I can colour him!! These are the other stamps that I bought at the same time -

If you like these stamps you can find them over at their online shop here.

For me the purchase was an international one but I really loved that the postage costs were really fair and of course affordable!!

   

Christmas Spirit Award

I found this little pretty while doing a catch up on all the blogs I visit!!  Thanks Shirley!!

So... The rules of the  'Christmas Spirit' Award are -

• The person to whom you give the award must also be in love with Christmas.

• You must link back to the person who gave you the award.

• You must list 5 things that you love about Christmas.

• If you can't limit it to 5 things, then keep going till you run out of space!

• Pass the award along to as many people as you like.That can be 1 or 45; it's up to you. But, you must pass it on to at least one person in order to keep the Christmas cheer going!

• Let your recipients know that you have tagged them by leaving them a comment.

Alright, so here are my favourite things about Christmas -

1. Listening to Sarah sing Christmas carols over and over.
2. Watching the girls open their presents in lightening speed.
3. Overeating at lunch and not feeling guilty about it!!
4. Handing out hand amde Christmas cards to those I care about.
5. Spending time with family.

Now onto the tags from me -

• Jo
• Alisa
• Deb
• Gloria

• Emma

   

Blogging Friends Award

Tonight I discovered that a friend and also another DT member at Scrappit tagged me for another award!!

Shirley is the DT co-ordinator at Scrappit and she does sooo much over there so its always awesome to get an award from her!!

The rules of this one are:

1. Only five people allowed

2. Four have to be dedicated followers of your blog

3. One has to be someone new or recently new to your blog or live in another part of the world.

4. You must link back to whoever gave you the award.

So... here's my list . . .

1. Cathy
2. Jo
3. Deb
4. Septagon Studio's
5. Wiehanne

A bit of a change!!

I sure hope you noticed?!?  I made a new banner for the top of my page with my very adorable cat Misty!!  I took the photo last weekend of him lying in the warm spot of my bed with his cheeky little head restinig on my pillow.  He just looked so cute and I loved the photo so much that I decided it was time to change and used the photo as my perfect excuse lol!!  Also, I've changed around my galleries as well.  I got rid of my others gallery and merged the photo's into the kit pages gallery and renamed it simply "scrapbooking pages" .  It seems a better way to go.  So from now on any pages I create for Scrappit using the packs will be found in the Scrappit gallery and everything else will be in the scrapbooking gallery including my Elsie 52 challenges pages!!

Alright time to go back to earnign some money!!

Nearly There!!

Phew!!  I've been adding the little old watermarks to my photos and can finally upload them.  There is already tons of photos in each of the galleries which I love!!  Some I've not shared before!!

Spent most of today in my bed - well on the couch under a ton of blankets AND the heater on, trying to sweat the flu out.  Hasn't completely worked but am being a big sook and taking tomorrow of work as well so I can concentrate on getting better.  Man I hate being sick - this is my second flu this year and I am so over it!!

Oh well, thats it for my whinge - back to uploading photo's to the galleries.  Should be finished by the end of tonight!!

Sharon

Welcome!!

Wow!!  It's hard to believe such a big change - well for me it's big!!  I felt a bit cramped and contained at blogger so I officially made the move - hope you like!!  Everthing here feels pretty new at the moment but hopefully that will change in the next coming weeks. 

I love that I can have my own page galleries that share my work now without cramping the actual blog and of course the fact that they are all in one place is even better!!

Thats it for me for now - am stuffed and sick and well stuffed!!

Sharon

PS.Hopefully will have the galleries up by the end of this week!!