New Challenge

Hard to believe we are up to the March Sketch Challenge over at NZ Paper Chase already! Is it just me getting old, or are the years really getting shorter?!

Anyway Tanya Watson created this cool sketch for us. You can find details of the challenge and examples and..photos of the prize that's up for grabs HERE

 This is my take on Tanya's sketch.

The challenge within this sketch challenge is to use paint, or ink on your background paper, or card. I decided to use a bit of both.

 White paint over card makes for a lovely stamping surface.

Hope you can join us this month over at NZ Paper Chase.

Must see blogs!

Check out these beautiful and extreamly talented ladies. They are the new Elite Team for

NZ Paper Chase

If you click on their names you will be transported into Paper Craft heavens!!

Maggie

Donna

Angela

Lynne

NZ Paper Chase

Check out our latest challenge over at NZ Paper Chase, this sketch was brought to us by the talented Donna O'Leary, All of the details for this months challenge can be found over on Donna's blog.

Check out Donna's way awesome scrapping skills...

Below is the sketch, hope some of you will give this a go!

Our prize's this month include a Dry embossing stencil by Martha Stewart and

this Prima Buttefly 2 pack

Steph from NZ Paper Chase released the names of the 2012 Elite Design Team. I'd like to send a huge welcome and an even bigger 'well done' to these ladies...

Angela Knight

Donna O'Leary

Lynne Harwood

Maggie Armstrong

I'm looking forward to getting to know you all better over the year ahead, and I just know you are going to 'wow' us all with your talents!

A whole New Year

So 2012 is upon us...I cannot help but wonder what it will bring with it.
Check out this gorgeous Daily Truth ...A little Birdy told me email I received today from The Brave Girls Club today....


....Makes you think doesn't it!


 If you like this as much as I do then pop over to  Brave Girls .com and sign up to receive their Daily Truths letters direct to your inbox each day.

While on the subject of the year ahead check out my latest art work, which is a work in progress

 While I was tyring to decide on what challenge I was going to put onto the NZ Paper chase blog I was given two great ideas from a couple of the ladies who take part in the challenges. Tanya Watson suggested a recipe challenge and Angela Knight suggested a Mini Book Challenge. Both great ideas...thanks ladies. I got to thinking and was inspired to create this mini book album cover and to use a recipe on the cover, only my recipe is for a "Happy Year", instead of a tasty treat!

I found a clothing tag, saved amongst my ever growing 'could be useful one day' stash and decided it would make a perfect title for my album...Life Space, pretty much sums up what my album is going to be about.

 I hope by the time I get to the end of this year my Life Space album is going to be full of happy positive beautiful memories with more ups than downs and more triumph's than tragedy's. I also hope that YOUR year will be the same :-)

As I was saying some where near the beginning of this post.... this project began as my example for the latest challenge over at NZ Paper Chase. Check it out HERE...and feel free to join in. We'd love to see what you do! And please do join up to our Face Book page.