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True XOXO Scrapbooking has Moved....

10:55 AM

... and you could help us design our new Blog Header for our new home!!

In celebration of our new home, we are looking for a new BLOG HEADER! For the public, by the public!

*Anyone can enter. Just design a blog header 1000×288 pixels in size. (All medias welcome.)

*Email your header to TrueXoXoGirls@gmail.com by APRIL 15th.

*Our team will privately vote on their top favorites.

*We will then post our top favorites in a blog post on or around April 16.

*The public will vote on their favorite until April 30th.

The winning blog header will be posted for at least four months!
The only requirements are that the blog header must have “True xoxo Scrapbooking’, have ‘black and pink’ (zebra is optional!). There may be extra credit if it’s swak, too. Good luck!

It is a bit of fun and if you have the creativity to give it a go, I would love to see some Australian entries in the mix!!

There are still a couple of days left to get your Pinterest challenges in too.... I cant wait to see what others are using as inspiration!!!

Its not far off the 1st of the month so all of the new challenges will be released in a couple of days. I have some beautiful Stuck?! sketches to show off and of cause the True XOXO challenge which was amazing fun and perfect to get the mojo flowing.

Be back soon xx

Stuck?! Sketches - 15th March

7:36 PM

Holly hell, where is this year going?? I have been hoping for more time to scrap but being on a fitness kick and organising a wedding on top of general life, time just isn't working in my favour!!!

One thing I can guarantee is that I will get 2 pages done a month, and you can too by playing along over at Stuck?! Sketches. I am loving the work that the creative team are producing. There is some pretty amazing inspiration in every style you can imagine.

Here is my take on the sketch

Loving Life

and the sketch

All you need to do is piece together your take on the sketch and upload it before the end of the month to be in the running for some pretty generous prizes from our sponsors.

TFL xx

True XOXO 'Pinterest'ed Challenge March 2012

9:29 PM

This month over at True XOXO we are playing with Pinterest. The challenge: to draw inspiration from anything on Pinterest. This could be anything you have pinned, or even the Pinterest logo. The choice is yours. This is the perfect chance to finally use something on those boards!!!

I have chosen a colour inspiration and it matched perfectly with the February We're Savvy kit. And the holiday layouts have started.......

Here is my layout - Last Day at Mele Bay

and my colour inspiration thanks to Design Seeds

All you have to do to be in the running for a Guest DT position with the girls for the month, is upload your take on the challenge to our NEW website.

Have a bit of fun and play along. You have until the end of the month to get your entries in!!

Happy pinning xx

Stuck?! Sketches - 1st March

11:43 AM

I am loving the sketches that Stuck?! have been putting together over the last few months and the ones coming up are no different. They are fantastic!!! As I have been selected to stay on for the next 6 month term, I am very excited about whats coming up and working with another super amazing Creative team.

Here is my take on the sketch:

And the sketch:

All you have to do is interperate the sketch however you please (but the sketch must be reconigsable) and upload to the linky over at the Stuck?! sketches site. If nothing else head over for a look at the wonderful inspiration from the team!!

TFL xx

52 Weeks

2:12 PM

I am so glad that I have committed this year to doing my first 52 week album. We all know that every year as life goes on gets busier and busier, but this one is very special and I am glad this is the first year I am doing it.

There has already been one week where I have thought that I may have missed photos but it turns out with a little bit of forward planning, I hadn't missed a thing!!

Here is my page from the week we were on holidays. It was a hard choice over holiday or birthday as the topic, but birthday won on this occasion!!

Turning 30

This page is using the February She's Savvy kit from Scrapbook Savvy.

TFL xx

True XOXO Additional Challenge February 2012

1:16 PM

Over at True XOXO we are recognising that this year is a Leap Year, which falls in the month of February. The lovely Lindsay has set us, and you, the challenge of completeing a page with the theme LEAP.

My page is week 1 of my 52 week album and is inspired by purchasing my wedding dress. This page has come from the January Savvy kit with a couple of extras added for touch.

Taking the Leap

It is a great challenge to have a go at as it will have you thinking outside the square. There are only a few days left in February to complete this one, but worth the fun... By uploading it over at the True XOXO site, you will be in the running for a Guest DT position.

Check out the other DT girls inspiration too, as there are so many diffferent styles. You are sure to find heaps of ideas for future pages.

TFL xx

Stuck?! Sketches - 15th February

11:19 AM

I don't know about everyone else, but I am getting some serious scrapping done while on holidays!! It is a bit of fun pushing the creative boundaries once in a while too.

Its time for the second sketch reveal for Stuck?! Sketches and as always the girls have done an amazing job.

Here is my take on the sketch:

SLIP N SLIDE

And the sketch (which I have rotated to the left)

Head over to the Stuck?! site and check out the inspiration on offer this time around. All you have to do is complete the sketch and upload to the Stuck?! linky before the end of the month, to be in the running for some awesome prizes. That easy!!

TFL xx

True XOXO February Challenge 2012

8:38 AM

I really wish I knew where this year was going.... We have just returned from a week in Vanuatu which was more than relaxing, but seemed to fly by. I say it all of the time but when someone finds the pause button to life, please let me know!!!

This months challenge over at True XOXO was a bit of fun. The criteria was getting MESSY and it is amazing how mess can look to other people!

Here is my take on the getting messy challenge....

Dunkin Donuts

I have misted, spritzed, splattered, wiped, stamped and drawn, and that is just the card stock!! From there the papers are all torn and randomly arranged with the only bit of order on the page being my cluster and my title. I love the end result!!!

All you need to do is head on over to the True XOXO site and check out the inspiration on offer from these very talented ladies!! Join in on the messy challenge to be in the running for a Guest DT spot with us for our next challenge (and I can tell you they are awesome criteria coming up). There are also a couple of extra challenges going on over there this month, but I will be back to share the next one shortly!

Thanks for calling past xx

Stuck?! Sketch - 1st February

2:18 PM

Seriously where is this year going?? I haven't scrapped since the end of January and it is now the 11th!!!!!

So as it is well past the 1st of the month I thought I best share my take on the Feb 1st sketch over at Stuck?!

I loved putting this one together. It was a lot of fun putting these memories down on paper.

Summer Selfies

And here is the sketch

Head over to the Stuck?! Sketches site to check out the other inspiration the girls have put together.... There is plenty of it. Upload your take on the sketch before midnight 29th Feb to be in the running for some of the prizes from the fabulous sponsors.

TFL xx

Getting Attached...

6:46 PM

It amazes me how easily we can become attached to material items in our lives.

I am by no means a car enthusiast or lover. I am one that owns a car to get me to where I have to go and back again, and the novelty of an form of new car wears off after a while. I guess I am someone who takes for granted that I have a nice car.

Well I have again said good bye to another car. My Silver Bullet has been sold. I knew the day would come, but even though I was no longer driving it, and had another car, I still makes me sad. I can't believe how attached I become to a piece of metal.

Part of me didn't want to watch it drive away, but I with a smile on my face that it was going to a young guy that was as proud as punch to be owning his first car. He could see how attached I was and promised to look after it. I cant help but think of all the memories that come with that car. My first car I bought myself and paid off, it was a piece of freedom from my single days where I was never home, it was the car I was driving when I met my gorgeous man, it saw happy times and sad times. It was a piece of me!!!

So, as I am doing a 52 week album this year, Week 4 was

"Saying Good Bye"

I know I am not the only one who gets so attached to material items, but I guess we need to remember that once those items are gone the memories still live on!!!!

TFL xx

Pinch Me, Please

9:59 PM

Have you ever had one of those days where things just happen out of your control, but is something that you never would have though happen in your wildest dreams? Well today was one of those days for me. I can't say too much, but I did receive a couple of emails today that brightened my world.

This has all happened on top of winning the Scrapbooking section at the local Kiama Show over the weekend. It seems my scrappy world is spinning, and I am loving it!!

I know I have done nothing but tease with this post, so to make up for it, here a page I completed this month using the new Core'dinations & Tim Holtz grunge card stock... Now that was fun to play with too :-)

Time to Blitzen

Leave some love if calling past. I love to know who is reading...

TFL xx

Fun with Paper and Glue

2:54 PM

I have had a bit of fun playing around with some new ideas. After a year or so toying with the idea to make a 52 week album, this year is my year. It is going to be a huge year with so many milestones. I turn 30, my parents both turn 60, my grand parents celebrate their 60th wedding anniversary, a holiday to Vanuatu and of course our wedding. 2012 has so much to offer me to record, and I dont want to miss documenting a thing. I am inspired to do this, and into it so much, I am already up to date. The other upside to this project is that I get to play with 8.5x11 layouts. They are a challenge but one that I am having fun with.

Week 1 is a DT challenge page so it will have to wait until it is released.

Wk 2 - A Day of Celebrations

I knew that to tell the story of this day, I needed to have both photos, but a traditional 8.5x11 wouldnt allow them both to fit. To make this work, I have turned the page sideways so that I could use the extra space.

Wk 3 - Road Trip

I have also beening playing around with general stuff, and produced this layout.

At 29

I am liking doing one of these each year, just before my next birthday. It is a chance to reflect on some of the things I have done in the 12 months at that age. This was inspired by the Creative Scrappers sketch 190.

TFL xx

Friday Night @ Delights

3:03 PM

Friday night saw one of the first crops at my LSS Scrapbooking Delights for 2012. Along with many laughs and good company, it was a very productive night for me. A total of 4 layouts achieved.

I had one page already layed out in my head, but the rest appeared from a mojoless mind. Im still not sure where they came from, but fairly happy with them all.

Star Shine

Grand Central

Wollman

The Strip

I am now hanging for the next crop night!! If you are calling past, leave some love and your blog address so that I come and see what you have been up to too!!

TFL xx

Stuck?! Sketches - 15th January

11:21 AM

I cant believe it is half way through January already. Time is flying by and I don't see it slowing down anytime soon either.

I just loved the latest sketch over a Stuck?!. The moment I saw it I knew exactly what I was going to do with it (and I will tell you that that doesn't happen very often)!!

So here is my take on the sketch

Precious Moments

Photo thanks to Phil Harris Photographer, Nowra.
and here is the sketch

If you are looking for something to get the mojo flowing, trust me, this sketch with do exactly that!! You have until midnight 31st January to upload your take on it over at the Stuck?! website. If nothing else head over and check out the gorgeous inspiration that the other girls have provided. You wont be disappointed.

If you are stopping by, be sure to leave some love and a link to your blog. I will head over and check out what you have been up to!!

TFL xx

Stuck?! Sketches - 1st January 2012

2:15 PM

Happy New Year to all of the Stuck Girls and anyone playing alone this month. The sketch for January 1st is a goodie too, which I am sure a lot of people will love.

Here is the sketch

and my take on it

Snap Happy

I had fun playing with the new My Minds Eye - Funday Range. It is perfect for just about everything.

Head over to the Stuck?! Sketches site to check out the inspiration from the other girls. And to play alone, all you need to do is upload your take on the sketch to the linky to be in the running for some awesome prizes.

TFL xx

Savvy Cybercrop

8:42 PM

The best way to end the year is with a Christmas cybercrop. It has seen most of my 2011 Christmas photos already scrapped. Thats one step to being organised in 2012, and let me tell you, this year I need to be super organised!!

Taras Christmas Sketch

Xmas Day

I love this layout and am so happy with it. Made with the Merry Savvy Brights kit.

Saras Christmas Colour Challenge

Happy Place

I treasure my Christmas tree and it is the one photo that I get each and every year without fail. I must admit, I dont think I have ever seen so many pressies under it. It looks full of love with that many of them!!

I still have Kerryns Christmas Puzzle Challenge to go (which I am not sure I am going to get done).

Entries need to be uploaded to the Savvy Gallery by midnight tomorrow night to be in the running for prizes!!

I hope you had a very Merry Christmas and 2012 is a bright and happy new year.

TFL xx

True XoXo January Challenge 2012

9:52 AM

As the New Year has been welcomed in all around the world, all of the new challenges for January are being release. True XoXo Girls is no acception.

The DT girls have produced some amazing work based on this months challenge..... Lather, Rinse, NO REPEAT. Criteria...

Uno. Un. Eins. ONE!

This can be interpreted in many ways. One of each item on the page, One Colour, One word title or even one manufacturer. You name it, the girls have achieved it!!

Here is my take on the challenge

He's 1

All you have to do is take the criteria and use the DT pages for your inspriation. How easy is that. It is a wonderful challenge to get the mojo flowing.

Do you want a chance to be a gdt with the True xoxo team? Have your blog posted forever on our sidebar? Hang out with us in our super secret Facebook group? Be treated like a queen for a month? Time to enter! Just let us know how you were inspired by finding inspiration, or scraplifting, any of these layouts. Color, design, subject or wording - there is endless inspiration in any or all of these. Enter as many times as you like! Enter to become eligible by:

showing you layout on your blog, link its specific post in the comments section below -or-

putting your layout in your favorite gallery and post the link in the comments below -or-

use Mister Linky to link up any of the above.

Although it's not required, we'd love to know what or who inspired you, and how, if you have a little time to write about that.

Layouts are due January 31st, midnight your time.

The team will vote on their favorite and the winner will be announced on or about February 5th.

Winner will be our February guest design team member; you will be invited to hang with us in our private Facebook design team group for the month, see how we get our inspiration and have a layout posted in the February blog post.

Winners are eligible once every three months.

Why not challenge yourself and see what you can come up with!!

TFL xx

Final Total for 2011

2:44 PM

2011 has been the first year I have seriously tracked the amount of layouts, cards and OTP that I have completed. It was a fun exercise, but me being me, I like to compete with time and myself. By September I could see how I was going then set a target for the year. I am sad to say that even with a last minute rush of pages, I didnt manage my 200... I fell 19 short!!

My total is 181 Layouts, 33 Cards and 2 OTP's.

I can also say that I am not dissapointed with that effort at all. I know how hard I can be on myself, but the time spent not scrapping was spent caught up in everyday life. Because of this fact I am going to try and get through a 52 week album in 2012. To document those everyday life moments we get caught up in and between turning 30 and getting married in 2012, there will be a lot to document!!

So as I have been working towards my target this month, I have some pages to show...

Little Drummer Boy

Using Merry Savvy Traditional Kit

Then There Were SIX

Using the new My Minds Eye Kraft Funday range

Conquered

Using November Shes Savvy Kit

Snow Days

East Coast Ride

Using September Hes Savvy Kit

Lombard St

Using November Hes Savvy Kit

I still have a couple more layouts up my sleeve to share, but as they are for Design Teams and Challenges I will show them in seperate posts.

I hope you all have brought in the New Year in fine style and I cant wait to get into 2012... Its going to be a good one :-)

TFL xx

Are you a Lipstick Chick??

8:49 AM

I am.........

I have been busy working behind the scenes on my first challenge with my new Design Team over at True XOXO Scrapbooking - Lipstick Chicks....

I received an email from the beautiful Lindsay, who I must say I had forgotten that I submitted an application, asking me to become a True XOXO girl, and how could I resist.

It is not your average scrapbook challenge blog! First the team is challenged, then you are! We're kissing our creations goodbye because we want YOU to to be inspired by them!

I will be working with an amazingly talented group of girls and our first challenge will go live on January 1st 2012 (USA time). I have seem more of the layouts already and you are sure to be inspired!!!

Why dont you check in over at True XOXO and play along with the challenge?

TFL xx

December OTP

10:07 PM

OTPs are something that I find a little scary... A bit like double layouts really! But like doubles, when you put your mind to them, you can achieve them and be happy with them.

I found a particular mini album that would work as a little extra Christmas present for my future Mother-In-Law. I love nothing more than getting photos of our Nieces and Nephews, and Christmas is no different. I though if I put both of those ideas together, I would have a nice little snapshot of the kids at our family Christmas gatherings for one very proud Nanna.

Here are a couple of photos of the finished album using the My Minds Eye 12 Days of Christmas, WOW Chipboard, Purple Pumpkin Buttons and a few other bits and pieces.

This photo of all of the kids together is the one and only we have since Lachie was born. We did have to tell them that there were no presents until we took a group photo, but they all cooperated and the photos is one of those happy memories of a wonderful day (and time of year altogether).

I will admit, I had fun with this. I didn't know what photos I would have and knew that I would not have time at Christmas to make it from scratch, so to fit in with the time constraints, I put it all together less the photos a month prior. All I had left to do was play with the photos and make them all fit!!

I love the end result...

TFL xx

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