Before I go to work....

My christmas wish layout for the Scrapbook Outlet competition. My teenagers were not convinced about the santa hats but the photo shoot was fun. We didn't get too many good shots, partly due to the subjects and partly due to my pathetic photography skills. I have threatened them with a repeat shoot. Maybe reindeer antlers this time. LOL. Heres some more photos from the shoot.




Have a good weekend everybody. Oh and if anyone can tell me how to put the blinkie Mel from STG sent me via e mail onto my blog and onto my signiture on the forums then I would be most grateful. Thanks Raewyn for telling me how to do links!!

Katepai X X X

It's official

I got chosen for the Scrap the Girls contibutors/design team. This is my first go at this sort of thing and I am very excited. I must say with 4 daughters I am certainly qualified in the girls department. Anyway I am uber excited and it went up on the STG's blog today. Congratulations to the other 6 ladies aswell. I am so definately doing a little katepai jig around the place. I've got a couple more layouts to put up but I am actually off to work. Just wanted to post this fabuloso news. Annelie I see your name there too, go you. And Kim, Whoopee.
Katepai x x x

Here's another one.

This was my entry for the October sketch challenge on SketchbookNZ. I used Basic Grey Urban Prairie papers from my Tarisota kit. Yes I was lucky enough to recieve 3 months Subscription for my 40th from some very special peeps.
It's very exciting cos I won this one. Also it is on the Basic Grey gallery and if I could turn Basic Grey into a link I would but I can't. Someone might tell me how to do that one day.

This one is also in the basic grey gallery. I did it for the Sketchbook Friday night challenge. I was picked out of the hat to win this aswell which was hillarious and got a lovely RAK from Scrappin'Patch.

I am also taking part in The Scrapbook Outlet's Very Sweet Christmas Competition.
First challenge was to create a Christmas countdown calender. I was admittedly a bit stumped for this one (I'm very afraid of Off the Page) but managed to put this little thing together made out of an old frame I had hanging around. A bit of BG some bling, tags and some beading.




Challenge two we were asked to make a set of three cards. This has set me on quite a card making spree. .




Lili had birthdays to go to last weekend so I made these



And then last but not least (for now anyway) there's nothing like a good catch up!!
My layout for the last No 8 wired challenge blog.



That's all folks. That certainly killed some time while I wait for my Tarisota pack to come. Rachels has come so I am eagarly awaiting the arrival of a most exciting pizza box. I think I better go out before I drive my teenage daughter crazy!!

Some stuff I've been doing...

I bit of a back track here. I did this layout for the Sketchbook celebrity challengein October. The brief was to cut out patterned paper and use it on your layout. I used a beautiful Karen Russell pp and some lovely old hand made lace/doily.
Now believe me when you were married in the early '90's it's not easy to scrap wedding photos. My sister in law took this on black and white film while the photographer was doing his thing in colour.
Sadly,my wedding dress was stolen from my home not long after we were married but Mum still has her petticoat which I had borrowed for the day, I thought this photo showed it off as well as any.

Ok I can't work out how to stop any further photos going to the top so I will have to do separate posts.
Heck, I hope I get better at this.

Katepai

Up and running

Oh my gosh.. here it is, my first post. I want to write something unbelievably earth shattering but I can't think of anything.
I have been pondering a blog for a long time now and here it is at last. It is definately going to be a work in progress and I'm sure it will change along the way but it's good to be up and running. Ok so I guess nobody will actually read this except for my dear friend who I will insist on coming to have a look so I can just say "here I am, blogging.... Yay!!!"