A great sketch challenge - Win a $15.00 Store Voucher

Howdy all, welcome to another glorious Saturday, the sun is shining....yet we are still freezing our tooshies off hmmmm.

Anyway, onto the news for the day....

Discover Scrapbooking has just announced it's very first exciting Sketch Challenge Competition, your chance to win a $15 Store Voucher wahooo, what can be better than that hey?

Pop on over to their Blog - 1st Sketch Challenge and check it out, you have until midnight Friday, 14th August to get your entries in.

2nd big exciting news of the day, my good friend Tina (aka Martina) lol has won a gorgeous Blog Candy from Lisa Kamphuis and I am so incredibly excited for her, congratulations Tina and thanks Lisa for offering such a gorgeous RAK on your blog.

Have a great day, Kris :) xo Keep on smiling!

Okay girls....it's BLOG CANDY **ALERT**

LISA is offering a very gorgeous blog candy, go and check it out HERE, you know the drill, leave a comment, link to your blog, and make the love go round 'n round lol.

Here's a pic to help make you all drooooool a lil teensy bit lol.



and if you are addicted to playing the "bubbles game" you are soooo never gonna leave her blog lmao.

Good luck to you all, take care & thanks for looking xo Kris :)

This week's scrapping projects....

Well I managed to finally get 2 layouts done! School holidays is definately not a great time to get any scrapping done!!! Impossible to have time out to think straight :( but alas, back to school on Tuesday wahoooooooooo how happy am I? hehehe

Anyhow, can't share my 1st layout yet as it's for DT work for Discover Scrapbooking, but I can certainly share my 2nd layout of my girls, a rare moment of sweetness between 2 of my "usually sparring" daughters lol. This was my take on a Beggahuna Sketch.

My very first Tilda Creation :)

Well I finally received my very first gorgeous Magnolia stamps this week, so thought I better have a little play and see what I could manage to construct.

Then my mum reminded me this afternoon that it is my eldest sister's birthday in 2 days (I'm so incredibly bad with remembering dates - large families lol) So I did this little card up for my sis, hahaha she'll be my first handmade card victim hmmm I mean recipient lol.

Anyway, here's a pic of it. Not too shabby a starting point, plenty of room here for improvement that's for sure lol.




I've used Magnolia Tilda Stamp, Watercolour Pencils, Dove Blender Pen, Embossing Powder, Cricut Diecuts, Versa Inks, Kindyglitz, H2O's, Daisy Trim and Kaiser Rhinestones

Thanks for looking, have a great day xo Kris

Been absent for a lil while..... where have I been, what have I been doing?

Hey there folks :)

Well I have been missing in action from my blog for a little while..... I've been a bit ill lately with a rotten old tooth ache :( oh god I hate toothache.... dragged the 5 monsters out with me on Wednesday to do a bit of grocery shopping cos quite frankly the cupboards were bare folks and that's not a great thing when the monsters are on school holidays cos these guys can eat you out of house and home within hours when they're bored bored bored!

Decided after that debacle that we'd splurge and have Chinese takeaway for dinner that night, yum yum yum, but within minutes of finishing dinner, I came over feeling incredibly ill, and thought oh boy, don't tell me something in there was bad!!! Nope, the nerve in my tooth decided to flare up and just about send me through the roof, so with tears in my eyes, and hot packs and cold packs doing nudda thing, a zillion panadeine, nurofen you name it, I phone my favourite Dentist (favourite=never hurts) lol and he told me to come on in on Thursday morning at 8.30 and he'd fix it up......well here I sit now ... minus 1 dreadful Wisdom Tooth **Who the heck knows why they are called that, nothing Wise has come from it so far**

4 days later, still have a very sore and tender gum BUT nooooooo more pain woohooo!

Friday, Saturday & Sunday bought to town the local show.... yup Carnie Time!

Anyhooo we took the kids up to the show for a couple of hours on Friday night, they had a ride or 2 each and a crappy show bag each (with bribes from M&D that we'd get a better one at the Brissie Ekka next month hehehe) waited around for the fireworks, they were great, a bit windy at the showgrounds so they were kinda flying straight out towards the bay lol. Dropped Daddy and kids off at home and scooted off to the LSS Crop Night yeehaaa, nice n warm there too!

My gorgeous friend Shirl was there and we got to catch up after a couple of weeks, she gave me this fantastic RAK **Thankya Shirl** and a fabulous Tilda Card she has made OMG how much do I love these cards?!!!!



Did a bit of online shopping here on Thursday after my evil tooth experience of the morning, figured a bit of retail therapy might just be in order to ease my pain LMAO

Couldn't control myself *again* and did a spot of investigating into Digital Stamping, must say it's very hard to find them but I did manage to find some, and stumbled across these and bought a set, had a play with this evil monkey character lol he cracks me up, and made a card up with him for my lovely friend (shhhh secret).



Monday today and guess what arrived!!!!!!!!!!!!!

OMG yes a bag full of heaven sent goodies woohooooooooooooooo

2 Tilda's, a Tilda Background and some gorgeous Twinkling H2O's omg gonna be a fun fun fun nite tonight :)

So in keeping with my *retail therapy* kinda theme lol I trotted off to the local shops and bought some gorgeous new Watercolour Pencils and Pad mmmmm heaven and have started playing with my new toys :) Ahhhhh BLISS!

Catch you all again soon xo Kris

Happy 8th Birthday to my gorgeous Girl..... Keely Allyson :)

Well today is the 8th Birthday of one of my sweet little girls.... Miss Keely Allyson! We've had a great day so far, Keely has enjoyed opening up her pressies, we bought her a new Playstation Game, Tamagotchi (yet another) & a new pair of spunky black long pants omg she loves them! Oh and how could I possibly forget??? I made her a gorgeous card for the occasion, yes folks, that's right, I actually finally made a card that was able to be given lmao, now that's a first eh!

Her Nan & Grandpa are away exploring this beautiful Country of ours again, currently in Northern Territory having a ball, but they snuck a little surprise into the house for Keely before they left a few weeks ago. Can't believe the lil toffee nose didn't spot it hiding away in my closet lol (this kid is a great snoop...usually) So what's in the enormous box? A lovely new pair of trackie pants and matching hoody top Oh Gosh, this girl is over the moon with excitement today lol.

So....I let her stay home today and enjoy her goodies cos quite frankly, who wants to go to school and leave all their new treasures behind? We had some pizza, then Mummy had to get the dreaded Mixmaster out of hiding and whip up a quick treat for tonight with the family. We had a little bit of help from Betty Crocker again lol lol lol. So we are having a delightful Chocolate Swirl cake covered in a whole lotta heavenly chocolate frosting with oodles of smarties on top and some gorgeous little candy fairies that I managed to find recently on one of my shopping trips.

So here is a little collage of Keely's day so far.....



I had a lesson on making one of these cards yesterday out at Discover Scrapbooking, thoroughly loved this one, so came home and whipped up a pink one with cupcakes for Miss Keely's birthday last night, I used Pink CS, DCWV Sweets Paper Range, Ribbon, various stamps, Versa Inks. She loved it!!! yay

Dreams come true.....I'm a Big Sister :)

I printed this photo out with the intention of using it in the LOS #4 Challenge recently, but changed my mind. I just adore this photo of Miss Ellen, it was taken on the day she became a "Big Sister" and had her very first cuddle of her baby sister Amy. I just love how her whole face lit up in this photo.


Thanks for looking, hope you all have a great day and enjoy the rest of your weekend :) xo Kris

Your Blog Makes Us Smile - Award

I received this gorgeous Award from my dear friend Shirl today. Thankyou so much Shirl xo

I have already tagged you girls, see the other posting for that one lol, so I am also passing this award along to Vicki, Martina, Renee, Stacy, Tamara and Samantha. Check out their blogs, they have some great projects to see.

:) xo Kris

LOS Challenge #4 Entry for Scraps of Us

This Round we had to complete a layout with a Fairytale theme. This is my entry.


Thanks for looking. Hope you all have a fantastic and safe weekend xo Kris

Oh heck, I've been tagged :)

I've been tagged by Samantha and Shirl, who has also awarded me my first ever blog award woohooo Thanks Miss Shirl :) Now, need to answer these questions and then tag 8 others! Here goes...

Q1. What are 8 things you look forward to:

1. Friday night crop night every fortnight :)

2. Escaping 5 very noisy children on said crop nights :)

3. Sleeping in!!!! Every mother's dream isn't it???

4. My first cup of coffee for the day.

5. Winter School Holidays, so I can stay in my nice warm bed til a decent time of the day lol

6. Pay Day.... I mean who doesn't look forward to that?

7. Oh definately Thursdays, my one and only child free day each week, I can scrap wahoooo!

8. Spring ---- I hate this cold weather.....give me Spring every day of the year I'd be stoked!

Q2. What were 8 things you did yesterday:

1. Chatted with Tina all night and scrapped for the LOS Comp.

2. Packed up lunches for kiddies to go to school and an extra for Jared's excursion

3. Paid the bills.

4. Did the washing.

5. Did the grocery shopping.

7. Helped my girlfriend out for a few hours.

8. Went to bed early, was sooooooo cold lol

Q3. What are the 8 things you wish you could do:

1. Stay up late (I miss my night owl days)

2. Have more hours in a day!!!

3. Have more patience.

4. Add a 2nd level to the house, I miss having my craftroom :(

5. Get my kids to respect their belongings would be way up there on this list!!!

6. Catch up with Mum & Dad more often.

7. Get more scrapbooking done.

8. Go back to Decaf(cos it's so much better for me) but hey there is no way on this planet that I'm gonna go thru those awful withdrawal headaches again.

Q4. Name 8 things or shows you've watched lately:

1. My Best Friends Girl ..... OMG Laughed my bum off :)

2. ABC Kids

3. Bride Wars

4. CSI Miami

5. Grey's Anatomy

6. Twilight for the zillionth time.... actually is that even a word? lol

7. Snow Puppies

8. Ellen DeGeneres show lol such a funny chick.

Okay, well I've managed to find a couple of gals to tag for this one, they are, Vicki, Martina, Renee, Stacy, Tamara and I'm also sending these lovely ladies the Blog Award, enjoy girls, you have great blogs :)


Cheers Kris :)