mini fish (ers)

awww how adorable is this. You have attained balance and symmetry with the placement of photos and embellishments. Looks the five on a dice. The eye naturally flows with this. Love the blooms. Do you know the date of this one??

This is Jenny's third in the oranges and lemons challenge. This chick is on a roll...

Jenny's Boys

What a fabo photo of the boys Jenny. Personality plus for all of them. The twisted ribbon is very eye catching and I spotted your butterfly on the paperclip. Just goes to show u can use them on fella pages too ;D

well well well...look who we have here!

It is just amazing who is having a little look at our blog!

Welcome Marika! She has written in her email to me -

Hi Amanda,
I have been looking at your blogspot and would like to join I wanted to share this mini albumn that i made for Tarnyas birthday.
Thanks Marika

What a gorgous album too! A fabulous gift and i am sure that Tarnya will LOVE it!

Those Kaiser papers look like they were made especially for that project!! Thankyou for sharing it with us!

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Also dont forget to forward your oranges and lemons entries to Tiff on katmfirth@bigpond.com as I wont be able to upload anything after thursday night. Will be back on duty by Tuesday though :)

orange digi

whoo hoo. u girls are embracing the digi world. Maryanne this is awesome. Love the brushes. What are they?? The stars are so hip and I like the slight grunge on it. AND your boys have grown up so much, still cute as ever tho!!

orange and lemon tart

two challenges in one... lol double layout and orange
lovin' the blog at the moment.. so many entries and posts and comments! and the layouts have been outstanding... stunning even... lots of talented people..

green and orange. who would have ever thought of putting them together and guess what, Sandra has pulled it off. With pzazz I might add. Gotta love the pup. Do I spy a little green peg near the green sunflower????

Sea Lions

I was so lucky. Fletch asked if this photo could be done next and if I could please use the starfish! So here it is. ps I recommend this as an adventure but wait til March when the water is a bit warmer.
It reads : Baird's Bay
We went and swam with the Sea Lions. Grandma, Pa, Uncle Scott ,Aunty Kerri and You and me. It was very cold but we all enjoyed it so much we want to do it again. March 2007

Wow Trish. Once again using cord really makes this page stand out from the crowd. Love the frayed end and the knot. Journalling strips are so popular and the starfish are perfect. Fletch must be a challenge mind reader.

Here's Karen's

Karen's answer to yellow. Great to see a yellow challenge LO. I do like the stitching and is that American thickers vinyl letters. Lovely colour. Well done Karen. the owl's a hoot.

Happy is the colour of bright gold.
It smells like flowers and roses.
Happy looks like bunnies in a paddock.
It tastes like lollies and chocolate.
Happy feels like going to the beach.

the tally and the draw

I have just done a count up of pages done for challenges as our monthly draw will be on the 19th July. Tiff will have to do this as Meredith and I will be away on our scrapping retreat in Melbourne (just incase we hadn't screamed it from the rooftops enough!!)

so i have only counted challenge entries from the past month here - no extra layouts or off the pages that you wanted to show us.......

sandra - 4
maryanne - 4
jenny - 4
trish - 2
karen - 2
janice - 3
cassandra - 1
lisa - 1
tracey - 3
brigette - 1
zani - 1
julie - 1


I will leave it up to Tiff to do the draw and i can't wait to see who gets a mini prize for this one!

Dont forget it still isn't too late to do an entry for Tiff's Lemons and Oranges themed challenge......

more layouts you submit in then the more chances you have at winning!

'angi'

You girls have got me all inspired!! There's been this photo sitting on my fridge since 2002, when our AFS daughter was with us. After looking thru my albums for a photo to scrap - i decided the one of Angi was perfect for Tiff's challenge.

Here's my page...

My journalling reads: "Our AFS daughter Angi from Germany fell in love with alot of things here in Australia, but one of her favourites were the Australian skies. She loved the clear starry nights, the beautiful clear blue skies on a summery day and her most favourite was the colour of our sunsets. Angi made us realize how beautiful they were too, so now when we see a beautiful sunset.... We think of our Angi..."

Orange and Yellow is perfect for the sunset behind Angi, what a beautiful sunset & a beautiful girl!!

And lo and behold.... Tiff you will see a butterfly has made it to my page too!!:)

Julie's on the challenge

Great to see you here Julie C. This is the front page to a album of her "Our family trip". snapped with Tracey W camera last Friday night at the 5 Loaves Bakery scrap nite

Loving all the little tags and the info on them esp the 6078kms. Long long way. the pp on your chip words is so nice.

onya Julie. love having you here.

ta-da. Zan's on board

Oh my Zani. This is bew-di-ful. Hasn't Koti got the most amazing colour hair. And she is a mini u. Blue compliments this one so nicely, with her jeans and the sky. Is this at the Grampians (not sure how to spell-that place in Vic). The gathered stitched ribbon is perfect. Make sure you show her that she is on the blog.....!!!!

Sam & Sarah.

Awwww Tracey. This is gorgeous. The blue blooms and ribbon tone down the orange beautifully. I love how you anchored the ribbon and the slide on it is lovely. the PP is perfect.

All Aboard!!!!

With much pleasure we welcome Brigette H to the blog. With a bit of encouragement and Tracey W's camera (thank goodness u had it) Brigette had her LO snapped at the 5 loaves bakery scrap nite.

I do like how Brigette has shaped her photos in the shape of the sandbucket. nice grab of orange.

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I'm sorry this and the last 3 LO's have been awhile to post but I have had Sean in hospital with Asthma since yesterday, and Kym and I are taking turns being with him. He had a night of hell last night but has now turned the corner and should be home tomorrow. I have come home to check the blog, post and then get some sleep, in that order!!.

Please email all your creations to me this and next week as Amanda is under the pump. So send to katmfirth@bigpond.com

Thanks Brigette. We will be seeing more of you.

'bells of St Clemens'

Sandra has a wicked sense of humor. Took me a bit to work out what bells of St Clemens was all about.... der me. Its that nursery rhyme that continues from Oranges and Lemons.

Cheeky chook

Anyway she has risen to the challenge and in style. I wish my Mum (or me for that matter) could whiz up cakes like that. And you used both orange and yellow.

onya Sandra. Stars are so hip right now too....

The journalling on the tag says...
Every birthday I try
and make the cake
of your choice.. For your 8th
birthday it was
Charizard... the pokemon character.

oranges and lemons

Well chicks, since the last colour combo challenge was so popular, we thought we'd try you out on a bit of orange or a bit of yellow.

Any LO, any size, OTP (off the page), whatever takes your fancy.

Please email me your LO's to katmfirth@bigpond.com Amanda is under the pump this week.

Since this was posted late, sorry, we had a meeting (hrmmh) scrap day and finished a bit late, so I reckon deadline for this will be Midnite Friday 18th.

By then Meredith and Amanda will be in Melbourne on their reconnaissance trip to the retreat to get some inside tips for OUR Escape2Create Retreat on March 13th to 15th 2009. Lucky ducks.

just to get the ball rolling this is my LO"s

OMG Sandra

Check this out ladies.

She has gone where few of us have ventured.

digi. Full on.

So proud of u Sandra.

Hi girls!
I actually did a digi page!!
I use the same program as Jenny..scrapbookflair... which is a free program on the internet.. quite good actually, but has its limitations.
I am not sure about digital for myself.. but I think I will use this page as a guide for a 'traditional' layout using the same photo etc..
bit of fun anyway... can see why Jenny is as keen as she is... quite addictive!
sandra

I haven't gone down this road as I really dont know where to go.

Well bloody done.

:D

Jenny's here !!

Sorry Jenny - have had one of those days!!!!

I recieved the entry from Jenny earlier today but have not had a chance to upload it. With a coughing kid, rush trips to Pt Lincoln, housework (what is that???), netball and getting ready for the retreat in Melboune i am certainly feeling under the pump.

Never the less Jenny has created a Masterpeice!!! I love the nautical feel to this with the watery background and also the ummm steering wheel thingos that boats have (what the hell are they called??!!!)

Cute photos and it is always a challenge to scrap with older photos but you have done a brilliant job.

The blue tones are perfect for this page.

Thanks for sharing Jenny and sorry it took me so long to pop it up here :(

Janice's 2nd double

Another gorgeous double of Sarah from Janice. I love the bling heart (I'm a sucker for bling) and I adore the little details with the brads and photo turns.

FYI Ladies. Sarah has her L's now.

doubled up

Janice. You have hit the jackpot with this one of Sarah and her netball GF. Love love love the stitching. I'm going to lift your idea (again). I know A & M will go nuts over the red and black.

Janice says: This layout took me ages, think I procrastinate too much as there isn’t much to it, but I am pleased with the way it turned out.
The stitching is supposed to represent the goal ring net hence Sarah’s position as Goal Shooter. Sarah thoroughly enjoyed her netball season and said this was the BEST grandfinal win, (5 in a row) with a fabulous bunch of girls and a great coach. We were very proud of Sarah on this day

Trish's take

This is my double now finished. The journaling reads : We were all dressed up for dinner,because Dad won a bet with our German uni student Barbara.So we put on our best clothes and she had to cook us a beautiful 3 course meal. Dad even put his suit on and I wore my high heals. Georgie loved this dress. Aunty Kerri bought it for her.

I have seen these pages not quite finished irl and fabo Trish. Love the thread. Did u use some DMC cotton in the end??? And the pin for the note is perfect. And isn't Georgia so darling in a dress. Thanks for sharing her with us.