New Lay outs for Better Scrapbooking

Hi guys, a quick share of the LO's I have done for the better scrapbooking monthly scrap pack kits.The kit this month wasn't my usual cup of tea but I had lots of fun working with the papers, and I am really happy with the LO's :)

Just be you

Bo Bunny back to backs: Serenade dragonfly

  Serenade promenade

Serenade Trellis

Green card stock

Tissue paper from an old sewing pattern

Teensy type alpha stickers

Black ribbon

Watered down black paint

Grid stamp

 Smile silly boy

Bo Bunny back to backs: Serenade dragonfl y

  Serenade promenade

 Serenade Trellis

Orange card stock

Tissue paper from a old sewing patteren

Teensy type alpha stickers

Black ribbon

White paint

 I can't C U , U can't C me

Bo Bunny back to backs: Serenade dragonfl y

  Serenade promenade

    Serenade Trellis

 Serenade sunrise

Green card stock

Teensy type alpha stickers

Flower

Thanks for looking :)

Lay out....What the...

Hi guys, another quick LO post.

I was sorting some photos to get printed the other day and came across these photos, now bit of back story …I didn’t take these photos, nor do I know who took them, or when. But at some point my daughter has gotten into some of my stickers and one of the boys has taken some photos of it..lol It really is amazing what you find when you go wondering around your hard drive!!

Products Used

Jillibean soup blossom soup fresh cilantro

Road show Dainty print

Plain paper bag

Washi type

Ribbon

Buttons

Printables

Glimmer mist

Black ink

Thickers

Thanks for looking

Picnic with fairy bread, Layout

Hi guys quick post today, just sharing my scrapbook layout,  Picnic with fairy bread. Photos are of my little girl, she just loved the fairy bread best part was they were cut in the shape of dinos!!

Still going for the layering trend in this LO

Products

papers, 3 bugs in a rug, One fine day collection.

tissue paper from a sewing pattern

alphas, American craft, Thickers

random buttons

doily

random ribbon

Video of the process

Remember to follow me on Youtube and see the LOs as they are posted

Thanks for looking :)

More Mixed Media

Hi all, I have been busy, busy, busy making lots more mixed media canvases !! and I now have a Facebook page called Jens Gems where I am making all my one of a kind mixed media art to sell come and check it out and like my page. I also make little boxes and other stuff to order as well. Once I get over 100 likesim going to doing a little giveaway!!

freedom

Little elephants

Home is where you are.

No Net update

Well last Thursday I went net free, this was meant to go all day till 7 pm but I caved and at 2:30 I did turn the lappy on. BUT this was not a failure, no no no not in the least.

By 9 am I had all my house work done!! All that was needed to do was hang out the washing, then I sat down at my corner and went to work, I got two scrapbook Layouts completed and a Mixed media canvas started. All before lunch!!!

Then I wondered around the house looking for things to do!!  

So I have made myself a new rule, I don’t have to go all day with no computer and TV, But defiantly during the week no laptop before lunch time!!!

The scrap room/corner makeover

So I decided to make a new scrap desk video, as some of you will know a we while ago I moved all my stuff out into the little shed we have outside, and I did love it for a while, but I got very lonely out there and I felt I could only head off out there when all the kids were asleep and my husband was home. Which isn’t as often as I would like at nights (shift work) and then when he was home I would feel rather guilty for heading on out to the shed….Plus in winter it was cold out there!!! So more often or not I would head on out to the shed with great intentions of making all this lovely stuff but alas it didn’t happen. Most of the time I would head on out there with a bottle of wine, a good move and sit there and get nice and toasted, then when the movie was finished I would go back inside and have nothing to show for myself but puffy eyes the sad movie had caused (The Note Book is way up on the movies that make me cry list)

So a couple of months ago  while I was sitting there with my wine, puffy eyes and a good ole sob fest movie  with nothing on my desk, I said stuff this, I am freezing, I am lonely I’m going to move back inside!!

We have all seen the YouTube vids of these wonderful scrap rooms, I covet these rooms but I have neither the space or the money to fill up a big wonderful room so instead when I moved out of the shed a lot of my stuff did not move with me L it was hard at first, but Now I only buy what I need and quite frankly I don’t need to much, I don’t have 100 different colored inks or glimmer mists etc., I don’t own a cuttlebug or big shot, I don’t have 100 stamps, I only buy what I think I will use a lot of. So far this is working wonders. Although I wouldn’t mind more punches…Now they would be handy, but I’ll be stuffed if I’m paying close to $40 for one border punch …ill make do without.

And the best thing of all is the mess…I used to let my room get into some shocking states pics below, I had so much stuff out there (Well still do) and I would never put anything away …Ever !!!

It's so messy I cant even open the door

But now with the desk back in the lounge and without all stuff around I have found keeping tidy so much easier, now don’t get me wrong I can get my little corner in some right states, but now instead of it taking me 3 days to clean up after about an hour at the most is as good as new!!

Gah I can't stand my voice

Thanks for looking :)

No NET or TV for day

So I have decided I tend to spend way, way too much time on the computer during the day. I go from Facebook to YouTube to blogs to MSN and back again. I can sit for hours if you let me and next minute its lunch time and I have done nothing with my morning, so this Thursday I and going to have a net and TV free day…I don’t really watch a lot of TV in the daytime anyway, but it’s always on just there and sometimes something will catch my eye, normally as I turn my chair away from the computer getting ready to get up and do something.

What do I hope to achieve with this??…Honestly I’m not sure, I expect my house will be clean and tidy no doubt, I may even get some crafting done , but I think more than anything I want to make myself more aware of how much time I sit on my bum and do almost nothing. Might I add that said bum is getting bigger and bigger!

I am obviously aware of it otherwise I wouldn’t be doing the net free thing, but I think I am tricking myself at the same time. I am saying naughty things to myself trying to make excesses to make myself feel better…Oh come on its not that much, you still get most of the house work in (of course only what really has to be done) the washing is still done at the end of the day (not folded thou), what does it matter if I spend a little time online???

It matters because at the end of the day when my kids get home from school I am still just wanting to sit in front of the pc. I get grumpy when heaven forbid one of the kids wants me to make them a sandwich or something. It’s selfish and I never wanted to be that person.  I don’t want to fight with my almost 13yr son about computer time and get angry cos he won’t hurry up and get off it when I tell him too, just so I can see if anything new has happened on FB. I don’t want to get angry when I walk into the room and see my husband is reading the news and think “man he has stolen my lappy again”. Please no judging!!

 The internet is a privilege not a right!!!

So this Thursday I am net free from first thing in the morning till 7 pm  I would do it Wednesday but I’m out most of that day anyway and I think that is kinda cheating when I’m not going to be home to really take stock of things. For this to work it has to be a day when I’m home!!

But if anything happens around the world, like big important stuff someone please text me…LOL

Oh and I do have a update for my spring cleaning but that will have to wait a couple more days, never know i may have more to show after my no net day!