What a Weekend!

And what a horrid time to suffer from scrapper's block!! UGH! I seriously sat most of Friday night and the start of Saturday morning staring blankly at this one particular photo I wanted to scrap and this one piece of wonderfully coloured paper (BG, Lime Rickey collection) that I NEEDED to use and it just wouldn't come together for me! It took my mom to say - 'why don't you just use a totally different photo and different paper then?". So this is what I did and within about 30 min the bulk of my layout was done. I hate when that happens! Mothers always know best.

Anyhow, here is the first layout I managed to complete this weekend using the Cosmo Cricket line in Get Happy.

Close up of some trees cut out from My Little Shoebox Paper - Turtle Lane collection. Awesome paper!
The second layout actually looks better in real life. I guess it was camera shy?! I did the layout for Scrapping Out Loud's Challenge blog where I used the sketch of the week (below)

and incorporated their weekly theme: FIRE! "Your house is on fire, your family and pets have escaped and taken your scrapping stuff with them.... including albums and photos. What is the one thing you would grab to save from the fire? and why? Now scrap it!"

The 2 things I chose to save were my sons' beloved 'pets' - Goddy and Red Puppy with whom they would be lost without. They have been around since my sons' birth and are 4 and a half and 3 respectively. The are truely "Part of the Family". I didn't have a chance to squeeze in their word of the week which was Jump. Next time ladies!

Lastly (yes, I only managed to complete 3 layouts) for one of the crop challenges at Scrapbook Star, your layout was to include ONLY the following items: 1 piece of cardstock, 10 buttons, 10 flowers, 2 photos.

This was actually quite challenging for me as I am totally addicted to patterned paper and cutting out embellishments lately.

Thank goodness for doodling (although I think I went a titch overboard)!



Anyhow, had a crazy busy weekend with a soccer game, family barbque, house cleaning, 100 loads of laundry (not exaggerating), etc. but did manage to get in some time for scrapping thanks to DH who took the kidlets out this morning for 2 hrs. Its no secret I love scrapping - I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE IT! I'm on the verge of obsessed (lately). Can't get enough of it! Apparantly, my family agrees. Once the kids go to bed, I'm off to scrap (my poor DH never sees me anymore - LOL). My mom sent me this email earlier today - after numerous emails to which I did not respond and to a phone call to which I did not answer... "Where r u? stop scrapbooking!!!" GULP... Maybe I need a night off?