34 weeks, a birthday and a baby shower...

This week has been a busy one - starting with a 34 weeks check up at the hospital, all appears to be going well with baby which is great news, and while I'm really excited I am also starting to feel a bit freaked out at how little time is left before our baby arrives :0 On Thursday I celebrated my 34th birthday, and yesterday my sister and mum put on a baby shower for me :) and while they took care of most of the food and preparations I was still able to get a bit creative with some of the decorating... starting with the invitations
and these cute cupcake toppers

little toadstool appertisersand I even had a go at these Martha style pom poms

It was a great day shared with family and friends, loads of yummy food and plenty of wine (not for me of course) and I wanted to say a big thanks to everyone for your genoristy with all the gorgeous gifts - I will have plenty more pics on facebook soon ;)
Aga xx

SM Masters...

I finally got myself a copy of Scrapbook Memories magazine and have been soaking in all the scrappy goodness all afternoon :)

A BIG congrats to all the Masters, everyone did such an awesome job and an extra special congrats to Hetty, Kim and Sarah :) not to mention all the fabulous work featured from many of my scrapping friends with their beautiful honourable mentions!!

I was really happy to receive an Honourable Mention this year - here's a little peek of my mystery project that is featured in the magazine

and this was my shaped layout... which was my personal favourite :)which opens up into a cloud shape

my double layout, turned out a bit too simple (even for my standards lol)but I had fun working with these stamp collection pockets
and lastly my single layoutwhich had me giving my craft knife a workout to cut the design from the blue paper so I could slide the scalloped circle underneath
So there you have it.... these were my efforts, and I will no doubt do it all again this year ;)

Thanks for stopping by

Aga xx

Breaking the drought...

After being stuck in a scrapping rut for the past few months, I am very happy to have finally broken my scrapping drought after creating this layout :) I have also been working on a Mother's day project for SM Magazine, but I can't share that one just yet.

OMG I have been jacked...

Remember this layout?
well I'm proud to say that it has been jacked....

Aussie Scrapjacked that is :)

Check it our here!!!

Another page from my journal...

Hi again :) I have just completed another page for my quote journal using the Blue Bazaar monthly art journal prompts - this is a whimsical collage created using magazine cutouts, paints, pens and markers Teesha Moore style, and I have to say I had so much fun using these techniques and already have a heap of cutouts for future pages ;)


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And the New Year begins...

Hope everyone has had a good weekend and are ready for 2010!!! We went to see the fireworks at Panthers, then the next morning our boys headed out to Colo river for a bit of camping with family, so it's been pretty quite here.

I'm still on a scrapping drought and haven't created a layout for over 2 months... not sure what's going on there? but am hoping to get something done soon and in the meantime I have created another page for my quote journal using the Blue Bazaar monthly prompts - this one was to create a monochromatic background and I ended up with a textured wallpaper lookand have also made another card... as you can see I am still going through a bird phase LOL

Thanks for stopping by!

Aga xx

Merry Christmas...

We've had a lovely Christmas so far, and after spending the past two days with our families, filled with joy and loads of yummy food :) I am now enjoying a quiet moment while the boys are out at the movies with their cousins.

Here are some before and after pics of the scene under our tree yesterday morning :)

I hope everyone has had a wonderful Christmas

and wish you all a safe and happy New Year

xx