It's been awhile since I made a heritage layout, also a while since I used Thickers lol. While searching for an old photo which was already photocopied, I came across 15 unfinished layouts, most of which were barely started. They were all put away because I got stuck on ideas etc for them. I made a new goal to get round to finishing most of them one day. Anyway, I took this old photo from one of them lol. 

Also, my Grandma recently turned 90, so I made her this quick card.

I'm 3 weeks into my course and im currently swamped with homework. Gonna do a huge catch up this week, enjoy the 5 day weekend, and then get started on the next assignment, which I will be more productive on and use my time wisely.
I'm also starting to fall more behind on project life, so I'm going to start setting time aside most nights for scrapbooking/pl.
tfl.

once again it's been ages since i've blogged lol. course finished 3 weeks ago and for that 3 weeks i've had a cold. i have a 4 month holiday until i start my next course (diploma in computer graphic design) and in that time i'm planning to do heaps of scrapbooking, keep up with excercise, do my holiday homework (reading the required books and drawing) and hopefully getting a job. oh and i'm dating one of the guys that was in my class. who would've thought the quietest person and the loudest person in class would get together lol. but anyways, these are my newest layouts, the first 2 i was working on during course and only just finished.

tfl :)

I started making this layout about half way through last year and finally finished it a week ago, lol. I wanted my Dad to find out how old he was when he got his childhood dog and when they gave her away, but he kept forgetting to ask my Nana or it just wasn't a good time. Then when we saw my Nana for christmas, it turns out she can't remember, so I just got my Dad to write down a couple of thoughts about Penny and I used that as my journelling.

And I made this card for last months kaisercraft monthly sketch challenge. I think I'll give it to my cousin for her 6th birthday in July.

i made this layout for the scraplift challenge at Paper Secrets. it was the perfect challenge for me because i've been wanting to do a punched out background, i just needed inspiration first lol. all the paper is from a kaisercraft 6x6 paperpad. it's pretty much impossible to tell that the striped paper is actually 2 peices joined up, pretty sneaky lol.

challenge 4 over at Punky Scraps is a sketch challenge.

here's my take on it:

 

my mum's maiden name is Cooke, and this is an old family photo of the Cooke's (minus my auntie, who i'm guessing took the photo lol). i made the brown circles by dipping a small lid into watery paint and stamping it onto the paper.

and here's the sketch:

just noticed i haven't posted in awhile, i guess that's coz i have a pile of unfinished lo's on my desk (waiting for inspiration). sorry for the bad scan, i'm too lazy to take a photo of it lol.

i found some lace paper at my lss and thought it would make an awesome mask, so this is what i came up with lol. after i masked and doodled on the background, i noticed that it didn't need any paper or many embellishments, and i didn't want it to look cluttered. so it's a pretty simple lo.

i made this layout for the kaisercraft saturday sketch contest.

oh, and i have some awesome news. i've been published in scrapbook news and review, under masks and stencils. so i'm pretty stoked about that lol

 I've had this photocopied pic of my brother lying around for about 2 years, and i finally scrapped it lol. I had so much fun with all the doodling and making handmade trees.

I used a kaisercraft 6x6 paperpad to make this layout.

The photo is of my mum, about 1960. I think it's really cute, so for once, I didn't need my dad's help to come up with a title, lol.

here's some old layouts that i've done in the past year