Scrapping winner!

Hey everyone :)
Hope this post finds you well and DRY...as it's still raining here!!
We did need it but I wish it would fall where it's needed the most and give some much needed relief to our drought stricken farmers who are doing it really tough at the moment.

Last post I shared this layout I'd created for the March Scrap The Boys challenge and I'm excited to say I won a prize! YAY...LOL

I must admit the Scrap The Boys challenge site has a special place in my heart. Did you know I started that site many moons ago?
It started out as a place just to share layouts of BOYS for inspiration to other scrappers but sadly I couldn't keep it going after returning to work. I handed it over to the very talented Susan Longman who turned it into a challenge site and the rest, as they say, is history. Right now, Susan's sister Wendy is looking after it. Just a little bit of trivia I thought you might be interested in LOL

I also mentioned last post that I was heading off on a Retreat that weekend. The Retreat was organised by Lisa Warren of Inspired Blueprints and was held at The Tops Conference Centre in Stanwell Tops. I've never been to a retreat there but I can tell you it certainly won't be the last!
Such a beautiful place, the staff were great and the food was amazing...all the little things that make up a great weekend away for scrapping with the girls.
As for the girls...I had an absolute blast with not only my retreat partner in crime, Chrissy, but a few others as well. I think I'm to blame yet again for a very late night...or should I say early morning on the Saturday. 5.00 a.m bedtime. Oops ;P

Lisa had arranged a few challenges to be done over the weekend so I entered them to keep the mojo flowing. I ended up getting 4 done (I know right? I need to stop chatting and start scrapping on Retreat!). 2 of those pages I don't consider finished properly yet so I'll get on to them before I share.

This one I did for a challenge at Scrapbook Savvy (owned by the lovely Sar Ward) who was having her own Cyber Crop on the same weekend.
I misread this colour challenge and thought it was pink and blue. Thought I had it in the bag when I re-read...also GREEN! Arrgghhh...this threw me back HOURS as I just couldn't see where or how I was going to put some green. Really, really LOVE how this turned out though.

I did a beach photo shoot back in February of a friends' gorgeous daughters who are dancers and I've been busting to scrap the photos. One down...about a million to go...hehe.

The second page I actually finished wasn't part of a challenge but I bought a couple of new stencils at Retreat and wanted to have a play with them.
They were both really cool, grungy stencils (and let me tell you BOTH got a massive workout over the weekend from everyone).
One was just perfect for this photo of my son and his trainers at his last Muay Thai fight:

Such a cool, grungy boys page.

Right now I'm working on a mini canvas to put in my scrap room. I'm loving texture paste with stencils and Gelatos with gesso at the moment and the way they all seem to blend together.
Beautiful mixed media.

Well I'm off to cook dinner and hopefully have a little play at the scrap desk tonight.
Chat again soon,
Sharryn xx

Retreating this weekend!

Hi everyone,
Hope you have all been well in your part of this big, wide world!
Can you believe it's almost April already? How time flies.

Have you been or done anything exciting lately? I went on my very first Ghost Tour with some friends recently and wow...it was amazing! Even the extremely skeptical in the group must have been awestruck at some of the experiences we had. The tour was in a beautiful old house with servants quarters and breathtaking gardens, although you couldn't really see them in the dark. I'll definitely be doing another tour in the near future!

I've been busy in my little craft room making things for my market stall in between photo shoots and daily life so it's been pretty hectic as usual around here.
I just have to share this ballet point shoe I made for market but I love it that much I'm contemplating keeping it for me. I think it would look gorgeous in my craft room :)

 
I'm off on a scrapbooking Retreat this weekend with my retreat partner in crime, Chrissy, and let me tell you...this break couldn't have come at a better time!
It's a Retreat neither of us have been too before and I'm looking really forward to the views I've been told this place has to offer. We are off to Stanwell Tops Conference Centre this time.

Just to get my mojo flowing before Retreat I pulled out my new Faber Castell Gelatos that I've had sitting around for the best part of 8 weeks before I even touched them. I just had to have them before Retreat!
So I got out some cardstock, Gesso and the Gelatos and OMG...I am IN LOVE!!
Gesso and Gelatos are my new best friend! Love the effect it has!
Here's a layout I finished using both on the weekend. I'm entering it in this month's Scrap the Boys Challenge:

LOVE that no matter what...each and every background you create will be unique!

I've also had an unfinished layout sitting here since LAST YEAR! Can you believe that?? I just never got around to finishing it so I got stuck into that and now it's off my desk and in a folder. Here it is:

Really love the colours in Merry Go Round...so soft and pretty.

Well that's it from me for now. I'm off to help my son do something with his car *groan* then start packing for this weekends Retreat.

Chat soon and take care,
Sharryn xx