what happened in 1965

I used a sketch posted by Donna at SBO for this layout about some of the things that happened in 1965 (the year I was born).

Journalling:-

Popular movies
* Mary Poppins
* Goldfinger
* My Fair Lady
* The Sound of Music

Popular authors born in 1965
* Khaled Hosseini
* J.K. Rowling

Children’s book
* Fox in Socks by Dr. Seuss published in 1965.

* Cigarette advertising banned on Television in Britain

* Ranger 8 crashes into the Moon after a successful mission of photographing possible landing sites for the Apollo program

* Winston Churchill died on 24 January 1965

* The Mary Quant designed Mini Skirt appears in London and became the fashion statement of the 60's.

* New Zealand Australia Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) was signed on 31 August 1965

* Support for United States in Vietnam; New Zealand combat force sent, protest movement begins.

* Cook Islands becomes self-governing.

Popular musicians
* The Beatles
* The Rolling Stones
* The Animals
* The Kinks
* The Seekers
* Cilla Black
* Dusty Springfield
* Tom Jones

You will see that I have used some of my favourite patterned papers on this layout, if you have any/some of this range that you are willing to sell me please check out this post.
R

Wanted to buy

any Scenic Route Harvest patterned papers. This range is no longer available in NZ (well not that I know of) so if you have any sheets (or half or quarter sheets) in your stash that you are willing to sell please email me...

whinney@xtra.co.nz

I love this range and use them in my Book of Me albums and for the framed layouts on our lounge wall.

Hope someone can help me.
R

What a way to spend a Saturday...

National Scrapbook Day (NSD) is only one week away. Yep, May 3rd it is and its going to be huge over at the Fiskars Craft blog.

They have got a heap of things planned for the day including a workshop with Trina McClune (NZ's lead ambassador), and some fun games and maybe even a prize or two.....hmmmmm, can't quite tell you exactly whats happening, but be assured its going to be fun and its going to run all day.

So pop the date in your diaries and make sure you check it out to take part in some of the fun! See you there, I'll be waiting for you!
R

How wonderful

I took a break from some scrapping to check my emails and I was rapt to find a surprise email from Kate at Paper Pesto, telling me I had won the Friday freebie!

I had a plan in mind for each of these scrapping goodies as soon as I saw them posted on the Paper Pesto blog, so I think it was my positive thinking that helped me win the draw, oh and the fact I left a comment too!

I can't wait to get my hands on the goodies so I can begin creating with them, I will be stalking the postie that's for sure.

To be in the draw for the next Paper Pesto freebie keep checking their blog, you've gotta be in to win remember!

On the subject of winning, don't forget to check out the Trina-jack over at the Kiwi Jack Me Up blog, link up your 'jack' layout and be in the draw win a spot as a guest designer.
R

Take stock challenge

Here is my layout for Meek's TAKE STOCK challenge over at the ScrapbookingbyDesign forum.

I used a whole heap of old embellishments, some are so old I can't remember the exact name of them...

*three different MM embellishments
*a couple of Scrapworks conchos
*the twill 'fashion DIVA' label
*metallic heart and flower brads
*Design Originals stickers
*Hot pink sunglasses button (shank removed)
*and a KI Memories eye candy embellishment

Now that I have used up some of the old stash does that mean I can go shopping for more scrapping goodies? hehehe

Even though I gave away a heap of embellishments recently, there are actually still a lot left so maybe I should do this challenge again (and again, and again)!

ETA: I notice a button has fallen off the top, I suspect it was the one that I found stuck to my sock this morning.
R

I won a prize!!!!!

I entered a layout for the March Sketch challenge over at the ScrapbookingbyDesign forum.


Monique (aka Meek) was the sketch designer, I have always wanted to sit next to Meek and scrap, cos she creates the most amazing layouts. Even though we have met IRL, we sadly didn't get to scrap together, but we did have a fun time with Vicky and Julie and our kids at the amazing Hamilton Gardens in Oct 2006.

I won a $20 voucher to spend in the SBD shoppe, I have chosen some of my favourite white stickers, some shaped brads and some cardstock. I can't wait for the sound of the courier van coming up the driveway with my package!

Meek's latest challenge is the 'take stock challenge'.
a. firstly have a good old tidy of your scrap area, not just the surface but have a poke around in those drawers and boxes and containers then....

b. Pick out 5 of your older supplies and like any good stock taker pull them to the front and move them!! In this case use them!! Think of some fun and new ways to use up those dated supplies they don't have to be all on the same layout (or they might be!), but you must use five different old supplies.

I recently cleaned out and gave away a whole heap of my old supplies, but if I dig deep enough I am sure I will find something left to use. I have a layout design in mind so will work on my layout soon. Why don't you head over to the ScrapbookingbyDesign forum and join in with the challenge, you've gotta be in, to win a RAK from Meek.
R

It's BOM month over at Fiskars

About five years ago I realised that 'my story' was just as important as my kid's or DH's 'story' so have been creating pages for my Book(s) of Me (BOM) ever since then.

In fact I have completed over 150 layouts all about me, about my pet peeves; my survival kit (handcream); my fave surfy shirt from the 70's; school photos (I have named almost 95% of my classmates from 1970-1982, no mean feat let me tell you), and even a layout about 'my sign' that I designed way back in 1981 as my logo (which I recently had made into a piece of garden art) and even a layout about my name found on street signs, plus a whole host of other topics.

Here is a link to an album I have set up at Flickr of some of my BOM layouts. Please keep in mind that some of these layouts are over three years old so are very plain, even for my K.I.S.S style.

I am very excited to see that FiskarsCraft are getting in on the BOM thing too. Here's what they say...

This month, we'd really love you (and us) to think about adding to that 'Book of me'. We know that alot of you either

a) aren't keen on getting in photos

b) are always taking the photos so aren't in them

c) even if you're in the photos are too busy scrapping all the gorgeous kiddie ones you have.

So this month is all about YOU. Yep. YOU.

And if you don't have a 'Book of me' yet, then whats stopping you from starting? C'mon! We're gonna make it really easy for you.

We're going to be putting up prompts each day (maybe even more than once a day, so keep on your toes!), to help you along. We're even going to be designing pages and projects to go along with these prompts so you can get visually inspired too.

So what do you think? Do you want to join us on this journey? Delving into the deep, dark, mystery that is yourself? Yeah! We knew you would.

Stay tuned and we'll put our first prompt up shortly.

Trina

PS: The prompts we are using have been taken from either:

a) The Me Book by Autumn Leaves

b) Scrapbook Shortcuts by Simple Scrapbooks

c) Ourselves

So go here NOW (and every day of April) to read the prompts. Even if you don't think you will get all the prompts scrapped, I hope you at least jot down the ideas to scrap at a later date. Have fun, oh and make sure you get in front of the camera more often.
R

This is no April Fool's Day joke...

but the new jack layout goes up today, so keep an eye out for it here. I always get excited when the new jack goes up, so even though I have to work today I will be sneaking a peek at the blog throughout the day to see all our jacks together.

ETA: the Trina McClune jack has gone up, so now I can share my version.

I challenge all my blog readers (I hope there are more than a couple of you) to give this jack a go and link your layout in the blog comments (on the Jack Me Up blog) to go in the draw to be a guest designer and to choose the jack layout for the following month. See what the rest of the team came up with here.

Happy April Fool's Day and Happy Birthday to my oldest step-son Brent who is 37 today! sheesh.
R