Cover girl Kylie ...

Oh my goodness ...

I just picked up this week's Stock Journal ( I only look at the pictures!!) and what should I see on the cover ...


a photo of three children that I am 99% certain was taken by their Mum Kylie Shepperd!!!

Unfortunately I couldn't find it credited to her anywhere but I think this won in a calendar competition for ABB for the 2010 calender!!

That is such a thrill I reckon!!

IMPORTANT NOTE RE. RETREAT

One vacancy has become available for our retreat next month (March 26 - 28th 2010) at Nt Shields.

This is sad news for us however this is FORTUNATE news for someone wishing to attend at short notice!

Please ask around, ask your friends, rellies - we would love to see any new (and old) faces!

No proxy registration taken....it must be made by the person wishing to attend. All 3 classes are still on offer for the new person wishing to attend.

The person registering will need to pay within the week of registering and payment will need to be the full amount - $150. If the registered person would like to attend the classes we would appreciate payment at this time also. Please note that the $150 attending fee is non refundable.

The class details and costs can be seen here -

Mel Forbes Class
Meredith Treloar Class
Amanda Hall Class


This will be offered to the first person responding in a DEFINITE acceptance and will be confirmed after payment is cleared.

Failure to pay by the due date (one week) will forfeit the position and it will be reoffered.

Please email Meredith if interested ASAP at john.treloar@bigpond.com

We hope some lucky person can join us for a weekend full of fun, friendship and of course scrapbooking.

Thanks
Meredith, Sue, Amanda
e2c girls.

Sue- colour challenge

Here it is....there is some green, blue, brown and PINK! Love these new thicker 'Delight' alphas, bit smaller than most thicker fonts, which i feel is very user friendly.

So good to see lots of scrapping here on e2c!!

Amanda - photo challenge

Ok i have two 'photo bombs' to share.

This one is very old - maybe circa 1982 ish.

I was in Brownies and going for my photography badge. The criteria was a photo of a pet and I had lined my sister Meagan up to take a shot of her holding our pet corgi on the leash out on our back lawn.

While i was fiddling with the camera settings, Mum and Ryan came out. Mum was in the middle of toilet training Ryan and according to the look on his face things were not going well this day.

By the time i snapped, i had accidently moved off my subject and happened to get more of the action behind her in the shot!

This photo ALWAYS makes me laugh. I could look at it 500 times and laugh every single time. Maybe because of how innocent the whole situation was or maybe because of that hilarious look on my brothers face - all the time with his pants down!

Ryan had a shockingly bad temper when he was little (strange because he is sooooooo layed back now you have to check for a pulse at times!) and Mum used to say 'Temper control Ryan!' when he was getting all steamed up.

This photo is titled 'Temper Control' in my computer - which also cracks me up.




This next one is supposed to be of G and K but i had a little Piper drop in on the action!

Fun photo challenege - Tiff

Tiff said ... "We went on the Pichi Richie last Easter and I took the camera along. I was just about to shoot the curve of the train as it was going around the bend when Kym popped his head out of the window next to me. Not like him to be the centre of attention LOL!!"


Thanks Tiff!! Hope you managed to get the curve!! At least he looks pleased with himself!!! LOL

Fun photo challenge - Jenny

Jenny sent in this photo bomb ...

"trying to organise the boys for a dress up display - Sam had to be silly"

Very cute Jenny!! I'm guessing a convict, a army man and a pilot ... am I close??!

Tiff - colour challenge

Tiff has stamped her title onto a brown paper bag, cut around it and then scrunched the whole thing. When sticking it to the page she only applied adhesive here and there - leaving the textured, crumpled look.

Very clever Tiff! Nice work with the colour challenge!

Sue's Sketch - Meredith

I discovered today that using this punch ...

on both sides of a strip of paper, but off setting the second side results in a ric rac effect!!

This punch is by Stampin' Up.

Fun Photo challenge - Sandra

Sandra was quick off the mark with this one ...


She said "Recently Teagan and I had a bit of fun with the camera and I actually got in front of the camera instead of being behind it! Trixie our dog decided she wanted to be in on the fun too!"


Great start ... photo hog dog!!! Great expression on your face Sandra!!

Fun Photo challenge

Okay ... so I was reading the latest Notebook magazine yesterday and saw a "word play" (p. 31) that we could get some examples sent in for a fun photo challenge!




PHOTO-BOMB!!



"to drop into a photo unexpectedly; to jump into a picture just before it is taken."

This is not the best of examples ... Lachlan running through the background of this photo of Hannah.

I was sure I had a better example on the computer somewhere but couldn't find one!!

Have a look through your photos and send in your picture ... it may be a photo that you would normally delete!!

peeps at our retreat so far...

LOTS - absolute mountains of stuff going on behind the scenes but here is a couple of photos i can share:

This place is resembling a post office with the amount of parcels arriving daily! Very exciting ripping the bags open! I am sure our local postman is wondering what the heck i am buying!! Luckily we have a insider who may be able to tip him off a bit (thanks Janice!)

and these are another little peep at what we are up to... single handedly contributing to the world wide shortage of Kraft cardstock!!

Hmmmmmm wonder what that is all about?!!!

I will post more sneaky peeps as they emerge :)

Ali - colour challenge

A very warm welcome to Ali M from Roxby! YAY we have a new person to play with!!

Hi Amanda,

I'm always thinking that I'm going to join in and do the E2C challenges,but never do so here I am, I've actually done the colour challenge.

Let's see how I go with the others... See you at the retreat, I'm looking forward to it very much!!

Ali

This is great Ali - thanks so much for joining in. LOVE the mix of colours, your fantastic brackets and nice bold title...........ummm speaking of titles i reckon i spy a little bit of matting there too. So technically you have done TWO challenges in one! That jade/teal thickers title just pops against the black matting as well!

Very cute photo at one of our e2c -ers fav. places! WOW at your amazing paint work.

Thanks Ali. Can't wait to meet you in March and keep those layouts coming until then!

Sue's sketch - Jenny

Jenny said ...

"Here are the challenges. Ellie's page is the Sue's sketch and the other two are the colour challenge but I just can't decide where to put the blue brads.

I had a lot of fun doing these, got me beat where my inspiration went to, but I am back, I hope this time."

Lovely digi layouts Jenny! Gorgeous pictures of Ellie!!

I can't decide about the brads in the second two either, keep scrolling up and down to look!! I think I like the horizontal ones!!

Great to see you back Jenny!! It's been a while so I hope the mojo continues to flow!!

Janice - Sue's sketch

Hi Amanda,

A challenge done at last.
Thanks for the inspiration Sue.

Janice

Very clever Janice ! Great idea for a photo and layout. There is a LOT of stuff to take to cricket each week let along get those cricket whites so damn WHITE.

love the range of colours you have used - perfect! And that sketch looks totally made for your page.

great work.

Sandra - colour challenge

Sandra has wowed me again!

she says:

Blog Hog Alert!!!!!

*Sandra sneaks in and puts another layout on Amanda's table*

Sorry girls, but I have another layout using the same papers thus fulfilling the colour challenge criteria... also dabbled in the 6x12 again.

such fun.

sorry for being such a blog hog!!

Hope you are all having a great weekend!

Sandra

xx

Don't apologize Sandra. This is awesome and i really love how you have incorperated those album covers onto the page - pure brilliance!

Colour challenge ... Meredith

Matt title ... Meredith

Sandra - colour challenge cards!

Hello again Amanda

From now on whenever I scrap a layout I am going to scrap some cards out of the scrap paper and embellishments before I put them all away.

These 2 cards came together super quick, and hopefully my card stash will grow as well!So a couple of cards for the colour challenge.

Great idea and inspiration Sandra. (omg at those beautiful roses). Meredith and I were only talking the other day about doing 'last minute' cards and how we should be more organized!

Again love the freshness of the colours!

Sandra -

Hi Amanda!

Here is my entry for the colour challenge.

Found this tricky at first, but once I found the right papers and a sketch from over at PageMaps, it all fell into place quite quickly!

I love this photo!.. Funny thing is if it wasn't for the fact that I loved the interaction between the two of them I might of deleted it because of the flare! LOL didn't realise back then it was going to be the next big thing in photography!

Bye for now

Sandra

This is awesome Sandra. I love how fresh this colour combo it - it almost looks like scoops of gelati ready for eating! Great candid photo - those ones between siblings are the best aren't they?! Those flower cut outs down the side looks fabulous and so effective.

Thanks for taking part and cranking some life into the blog again Sandra!

Tiff - all in one

This fulfils 4 challenges. Something soft, something hard, this months colour challenge, Sue's sketch challenge and the matted title challenge. I think I've got it all covered. *wink*

The something soft is the blue felt and the pink hearts that I cut from an old pair of Annie's flannie Pj's. The hard bit is the pin, the 3 beads in the left corner and the strip of pink bling. I've turned Sue's sketch upside down and rearranged it a fair bit. The 2 pieces of green PP are instead of the 2nd and 3rd photo requirement. But the basis of the sketch is still there. The colour challenge happened to work perfectly with this LO and it also happened to be the one I was about to start on anyway. And as you can see the title is matted in green.

And I just wanted to give a shout out to Janice. Her challenge LO for the 'something soft, something hard' was picked up for publication. WAHU to her. I think it may have slipped under the radar of those who follow the e2c blog as it happened over the mad December month. So I would like to congratulate her and a personal goal achieved.


cheers
t

Wow those colours really pop Tiff. Great job. LOVE the effect of your matted title - it really adds some pizzazz. LOL at that jumbo hat.

And well done to Janice. Fantastic and exciting news re. being published. I think we have had a lot of success stories with publications on here haven't we? Great that we all are able to encourage each other to be brave enough to submit - because the work here is always fabulous! I can't wait to see it in print Janice!