Another One...

Here's another layout from "week 11" of the "Design Your Life" class:

This one I'm not 100% sure on. I don't know what it is. I just found it really hard making it...I just couldn't get the sketch to work, I mean...work for *me*. Nothing I did I really liked. Though at the end I liked it more than I did when I was halfway done. LOL! Madness! Not sure what that means :)

Just One To Go...

One. ONE. O-N-E. That's all. One single layout left to do for the "Design Your Life" class by Cathy Zielske and then I'm finished. Caught up. For those of you wondering what I'm talking about, Cathy held a 3 month class at BPS from Oct-Dec. I was away and unable to do the last 3 weeks...so for about 2 weeks now I have been trying to catch up on the class and get all outstanding layouts done. And now I only have one single layout left to do - yay! :) It's such a great class and I'm really pleased I made a point of getting those last few weeks done too.

I was hoping that I could have gotten that final layout done today. But I got some new pre-releases at the Lilypad and I wanted to get a layout done & uploaded for the Creative Team before the official release tomorrow. So that's what I'm busy doing at the moment...

I did this layout just the other day. Another one for the DYL class. This one was the first assignment for week 11 and I really enjoyed doing it. Cathy even supplied us with a template for PSE to get the four photos into a cool little photo strip.

Get Ready For Super Cuteness...

If you, like me, like super cute things then I think you agree that Easter is a great time. I mean, what's more cute than bunnies, little chicks, and pastel coloured eggs? :)

And I have found the most *perfect* digital Easter kit for me. Really honestly, if I could have had someone designing ME an Easter kit, I think it would be very close to this one. I was in love as soon as I saw it. *smile*

What am I talking about? Kay Miller's "Easter Joy"! Isn't it just THE cutest ever? :)

At first my obvious thought was to make some Easter cards. But then I spotted this cute basket template by Heather Roselli at SSD so I decided to use that instead.

The basket was pretty straight forward to make and I really enjoyed putting all the design together for the sides of the basket.

I always find that it's hard to get a good glue for projects like this. My usual Herma (which I use for all scrapping) is not strong enough. Double-sided tape looks like it works but a few hours later it peels apart when you least expect it...

This time I decided to go for a wet glue - Glossy Accents - and yes you have to hold it in place for a little while so the glue sets but it really doesn't take that long. So I think that will be this glue to use for future projects. If you have found another good glue for boxes etc, please do share :)

I'm off to work on a birthday card for my dad now :)

Thanks...

A big thank you to everyone who left ideas for me on yesterday's border-punch-storage-dilemma. Head is now full of ideas and I'm considering different options and investigating what's around. I'll be back and let you know how it goes :)

Pinky - I do like the idea of sending the punches to you so you can store them for me...only thing is that I use them quite a lot so I'm not sure it would be such a practical solution ;) *giggle*

This is a 12x12 double layout for the "Design Your Life" class by Cathy Zielske. Wow it was big to work on! I don' really do double layouts very often any more and certainly not 12x12. As usual I have done a fantastic (not!) job of taking photos of it and the right page looks anything but straight I'm afraid...which it of course is in real life.

Desperately Need Ideas Please...

I'm stuck when it comes to my pretty Martha Stewart border punches - this is NOT a good idea for storage at all. In fact, dumped on the window sill doesn't even count as "storage"...

Please, I need ideas. How do/would you store border punches? They are such an awkward shape that I really can't think of a good way of storing them. And I desperately need to store them in a handy way with easy access. I thought of hanging them in some way but there seems to be no good way of being able to "hook" anything into/onto them because of how they are moulded. Please leave a comment if you have any ideas - I'd really, really appreciate it :)

And talking about comments I have some that needs replying to:

Melanie - yes I did get to watch Twilight and enjoyed it very much :) I tried to watch without too many expectations, so I don't know if that made any difference, but I really liked it and thought it was much better than I "dared hoping". But I do wonder how much sense the film would have made if you'd not read the book first...? I guess I will never know LOL! We watched the film on Saturday evening and yesterday we watched the 2nd DVD with all the extras. There was much more on that second DVD than I thought there would be and some parts were REALLY interesting to see. I'm really pleased I got the Special Edition with 2 DVDs now :)

Ruth - just wanted to say "thank you" for taking the time to leave your first comment on my blog. I really appreciate it :)

Now...yesterday was a long day. Why? We went here...

...and had a amazing day out. :) Took like a million photos (well, maybe not quite!) and had a really great time. I'm really pleased with how some of the photos turned out...though of course small blog photos does not really show that at all.

Meet Mr Camel...

And there were loads of lions. Of course all the photos had to be taken through the car window when it came to the lion enclosure. I'm glad I have got 10x zooooooom on my camera :)

This peacock was amazing and this photo (in the original size) is absolutely fantastic in reality...unfortunately making it small for the blog totally lost the "wow" feeling.

And the final photo I chose for this post is Mr (or is it Mrs?) Giraffe. And no I did not climb the trees to take this. On the ground with full zooooooom :)

Exhausted...

Been out all day. Exhausted now LOL! Will tell you all about today's adventures tomorrow when I have recovered - now I'm going to collapse on the sofa with a big glass of ice cold water.

Happy Girl...

The title of this post was going to be "bleugh" LOL! As I woke up feeling a migraine coming on and had no energy whatsoever. Took some migraine tablets asap and then went for a walk. It was pretty nice weather but quite early so still very cool which was nice for the head.

Anyway as I launch blogger to start typing this, the postman comes and delivers:

The 2 DVD Special Edition of Twilight. Yay! I pre-ordered it probably about 2 months ago now and I think I was pretty lucky to get it today as I believe (?) it's not officially released here until Monday.

Because we were away over the Christmas period (when it was shown at the cinemas here) we never got to watch the film. So I'm really excited about this! Of course I have read all the books and totally loved them but I also know that the film has got quite mixed reviews so I'm going to try (!) and watch it without too high expectations...

Anyway, I better get away from this computer monitor and rest my poor head or there won't be any Twilight watching for me tonight...

Pretty Spring Colours...

Yesterday I mentioned that I was working with some new pretty spring kits to be go on sale at the Lilypad today. And the April BYOC kits have now been released. Such pretty, pretty spring pastels. :)

Since it's the big release of the month there are so many kits to choose from but I've tried my best to pick a few of my personal favourites as usual.

Kate's doodles are...well, irresistible as always...

These tape bits by Jenna are just so useful:

And finally buttons. I can't get enough of buttons whether it's for normal paper scrapping or digital scrapping and these cute felt ones by Amy do just the trick:

So what did I come up with using the new BYOC? I did the layout below yesterday afternoon and I'd hoped to get a second one done too but the time ran away and it was impossible. So I'm working on a second one this morning instead. Those cute Easter doodles by Kate will definitely be featured :)

[Supplies: Felt Buttons by Amy Wolff, Flairy Floss - Elements by Flergs, Flairy Floss - Frames by Flergs, Flairy Floss - Papers by Flergs, Funky Strips by Jenna Desai (all from the Lilypad),
And I Quote...Laughter by MandaBean (SSD)]

Today...

...I'm having a break from the "Design Your Life" class. The reason? Tomorrow is the first Friday of the month (obviously!) which means it's BYOC time at the Lilypad again. And therefore (being part of their CT) I'm very busy today downloading lots of pretty kits and tagging them in ACDSee. I hope to have that all done, unzipped and sorted by lunchtime...ish. :)

And then I must find some time in the afternoon to work with the new kits, ready for the big release tomorrow. I can't say too much as it's all secret so far, but if you like pretty spring colours you won't be disappointed ;)

See you tomorrow :)

More Progress...

Yay I'm making lots of progress on catching up on the "Design Your Life" class. I have also extended my "free pass", to access the classroom, by another week so I can hopefully get it all done. If you have a class that you have taken and you're behind on it, I can really recommend making an effort to set a little time aside for it and gather some determination to get it done. It's such a great feeling of accomplishment. :)

Jana - thanks for the comment you left. Of course I don't mind at all if you want to take "my idea" of printing all the class materials and making it into a book. :) And yes, getting access to the class again is very simple. Just e-mail BPS and tell them which class it is, give your username and full name and they should have it activated very quickly for you. Mine took less than 24 hours. They give you a 7-day access pass but you can ask to have it extended at the end if you need to (which is what I did yesterday).

This is a really cool layout design (I could imagine doing this concept over and over again in a mini book or similar) for "week 10". Cathy gave us this cool template that she'd made for printing out and basing your page on. It was fun, fun, fun to do from the beginning to the end :) And I love pages where you get to use up your scraps of cardstock and patterned papers - such a good feeling :)