First of the Month - OUAS

Can't believe it's the fifth month of the year already! It's time for another challenge over at Once Upon a Sketch. To celebrate Mother's Day, Nadia designed this lovely sketch and focused on the theme of Mum/Mom.

Here's the challenge.

 Theme: Mum

We would like you to create a layout and interpret the theme "Mum" however you like based on the following sketch. You can journal as little or as much as you like, but your layout must incorporate this theme and the sketch.

Ideas for journalling: you as a mother, your role as a working/stay-at-home mum, sacrifices/benefits of being a mum, one day in your life as a mum, how your life has changed since being a mum, a tribute to your own mum, grandmother, guardian or someone you consider as close as your mum, your relationship with your mum or your daughter, one trait you have take from your mum, your desire to be a mum, your feelings on motherhood, what does it mean to be a mum?, what kind of mum do you want to be? , Mother's Day celebrations/traditions, your favourite Mother's Day gift given/receive etc..

Here's my layout, "Love Mum."

Mother's Day has such a special meaning for me. It took me many years to be a mum and I remind myself how lucky I am every day to have my two precious ones. I'm not one for being in front of the camera so I don't have many pics of us. These are ones I treasure. The three of us were just sitting chatting one afternoon in the backyard when dh came out with the camera. I really must take more.

I loved playing with all these beautiful rich colours from Pink Paislee. Added some Manor House goodness and some lovely ID chippies from our OUAS sponsor.

  The cute mushrooms and bling from Flourish with a Bling.

   Lovely butterflies and chipboard shape from Imaginarium Designs.

Some Manor House Creations blooms.

 So blessed to have my two gorgeous kiddos. Love you so much xx

Happy Mother's Day coming up to all the mums, moms, mother-in, laws, daughters.

Thinking of my mum for this Mother's day too.

Jenix

Blog Hop on it's way- Manor House Creations

 
Manor House Creations is having it's first ever blog hop on Mother's Day weekend. It begins Sunday 6th of May at 8am (Australian Eastern Standard time) at the Manor House Creations blog, through until midnight on Tuesday 7th of May. There are 4 fabulous prize packs, chock full of beautiful Manor house creations flowers to be won.

We want to get the word out to as many people as possible, so, as well as these prizes, we are also offering one bonus 'mystery' prize for anyone who advertises our blog hop on their blog.

( prize will be drawn randomly)

All you have to do is advertise our blog hop, on your blog, starting today to be in the running to win one of the prize packs. Also leave a link to your post on our blog, or facebook page.
We can't reveal what the prize is yet, but we can tell you it contains some gorgeous Manor House Creations flowers.

Remember to put the 6th to the 8th of May in your diary. You definitely don't want to miss this!

Thanks for dropping by and don't forget to join our hop for the Mother's Day weekend.

Jeni x

Celebrate flowers

 My new one for Manor House Creations. It's a pretty clean one for me. It just felt so light and fresh with all the white, I decided to leave it that way.

Lots of Manor House blooms. I created a couple of simple rosettes to match in pp from The Scrap Cake.

Discovered a very easy way to do these. Also included some clouds from Flourish with a Bling.

                A cute pic of my kids on their 7th birthday. Looking ever so adorable. lol. Love that "tattoo" flower covering nearly half of Sienna's face.

                                                  This yellow Meringue flower is so yummy.

Thanks for dropping by.

Jenix

Eggs-tra-ordinary!

That's how incredible the response has been from the OUAS blog hop! Yes I know that's a dreadful pun but it is Easter time after all.

I want to thank everyone who stopped by to leave such wonderfully, thoughtful comments. I was truly humbled by your kind words. I'm trying to get around to all your blogs to say a personal thank you.

I'll be drawing my giveaway later today. My kids want to draw the winning number.
LATE UPDATE

Hard to tell but it #115.  Congratulations! Noe from Hungary. I hope you enjoy the prize.

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Here's a couple of Easter projects I created for Manor House Creations.

Wishing you all a very

 Happy Easter time with your family and friends.

 Easter Magic - There's something so wonderous about the search for Easter eggs. My kids look older but they're only 8 in this pic, with teeth that would rival any bunny! lol

  Some absolutely gorgeous Manor House blooms. Love all the bright colours.

 A lovely flourish from Flourish with a Bling.

And here's my Easter Topiary sitting on our doorstep. Look how dry the background is!

My kids have more soft toys/stuffies than they know what to do with. These ones look so cute sitting waiting for Easter.

The topiary was sooo easy. I did a step by step with everything you need to create it, and will post it in a couple of days.

An overload of MHC beautiful Spring coloured flowers.

Thanks for stopping by and wishing you a Happy Easter,

Jenix

OUAS BIRTHDAY BLOG HOP!!

                                                  April 1st Blog Hop 

Welcome to Once Upon A..Sketch' s first birthday blog hop! It is so exciting to have you here and we hope you are inspired along the way to join in the fun and get creative!!You should have arrived here from Sandi's blog, http://scrappingasigo.blogspot.com.au/  but if you haven't you need to go back to the beginning of the list below so you don't miss out.

Once Upon A..Sketch blog 

Nadia Cannizzo 

Patti Hamil 

Irini Liolia 

Gerry Van Gent 

Mahlin Wiggur

Vicky Varvadouka 

Sandi Taloumis

Jeni O' Connor  You are here! Nearly half way!

Lene Neby 
Pamela Young
Larissa Albernaz

LG Belarmino 

Bente Fagerberg 

Natalie Elphinstone

Georgia Heald 

Jasmine Shea

Mai Kosugi 

Natalie May 

Heather Jacob 

 

and then back to Once Upon A...Sketch blog to leave your name on the list. 
You DO NOT have to participate in the blog hop to enter this challenge. 

Our new MONTHLY challenge has just been released! Each Design Team member has created their own  layout based on this sketch and journalling criteria and you need to follow the above list to see what they came up with.
We would love to see what you create, so please link your project to back at the Once Upon A...Sketch blog. You DO NOT have to participate in the blog hop to enter this challenge. 

Here is this month's challenge....

April Challenge

 The theme of this challenge is HOME. 

We would like you to create a layout and interpret the theme "HOME" however you like based on the following sketch. You can journal as little or as much as you like, but your layout must incorporate this theme and this sketch. 

NB. Sketch is rotated to the left of original.

Here's my layout...

I took a bit of a different perspective. I thought about lots of ways to scrap "my" home. I thought about scrapping old pics of all the houses I've lived in, my childhood home, or the first house I bought. The house I live in now has never really felt like home. It's the house we live in for this time in our lives. IYKWIM. 

In the end, I decided home, to me, is more about the people who surround you than the house you live in. I took this pic of my dh and our kids playing around and it was the perfect symbol of my home.

My journalling says it all.

I love the joy on their faces.

Some beautiful Manor House flowers. 

Some chipboard from our wonderful Imaginarium Designs sponsor. Word and top shape.

Some bling from Flourish with a Bling

Lots of texture, masking, stamping, gesso and tissue paper.

PP are The Scrap cake, Bo Bunny, Webster's Pages.

 

Our main sponsor of this blog hop is ....

Imaginarium Designs
http://imaginariumdesigns.blogspot.com.au/ is donating this prize to one lucky winner of the blog hop.

 This prize pack includes AUS$70.00 worth of chipboard PLUS inks PLUS Spray Mists PLUS free postage to anyone in the world.

DETAILS
***In order to be entered for the main prize,you must be or become a follower AND comment on ALL blogs along the way and finally back at the Once Upon A...Sketch blog to tell us that you have left a comment for everyone.

***There will also be some other prizes along the way which our Design Team have kindly donated.  To win these, you need only comment on and follow the blog which is giving the prize. The randomly chosen winners for these prizes will be announced at that Design Team member's blog.

This is the prize I am giving away....

 

This is open to ANYONE who becomes or already IS a follower of my blog and leaves me a comment on THIS POST.

The blog hop starts today, April 1st and finishes midnight (Australian Eastern Standard Time) 5th April with the MAIN PRIZE winner to be announced soon after the blog hop ends at the Once Upon A....Sketch blog and the other winners announced at the Design Team member blogs soon after the blog hop ends also.

  Thank you for visiting and taking part in our blog hop!

We hope you found some WONDERFUL inspiration along the way.

Your next stop is ...... Lene Neby

 http://www.lenemors.blogspot.com.au/

Thanks for dropping in and I hope you enjoy the creative inspirations from the amazing OUAS design team members along the way.

Jeni x

PS . Some comments have asked me about my "quote." Thanks for the lovely compliment but it's just my own journalling.

 

Manorhouse and Creative Scrappers

Today Manorhouse Creations supports the Canadian sketch site Creative Scrappers for their 200th celebration.
Check it out here at  http://creativescrappers.blogspot.ca/ and http://manorhousecreationsblog.com/ 

And here's my take on the sketch.

A cute pic of my two taken as the sun was setting.

To create the background, I used tissue paper and mod podge. I love the effect.

The chippies are from Imaginarium designs and the vine from Flourish with a Bling.

Gorgeous new Manorhouse Creations blooms. I love those meringue ones. They look good enough to eat.

Jenix

A little of this and that

Here's a bit of a catch up, with a little bit of everything that's happening.

First up, it's challenge time over at OUAS http://onceuponasketchblog.blogspot.com/2012/03/march-15th-challenge.html. Come over and join in the fun.

March 15th Challenge

Journalling Criteria:   Finish this line "I miss...". 

 Tell us about someone you are missing right now and why. Your journalling can be as long or as little as you like, but we want to hear all about someone you are missing!

Ideas for journalling: missing time alone with your partner, missing your old self, missing your children because they are off to school, university or living away from you, missing your children being young, missing a friend you have not seen in a while, someone in another country, someone that has passed away, a mentor whose advice you could use, a relative you wish you lived closer to, someone you regret having an argument with, missing a pet.

Remember that you are allowed to also create a card or altered project based on this sketch and theme and instead of the journalling criteria you need to use a quote.

YOU MUST combine our journalling criteria with this sketch..

So sorry to see Helen, Irma and Vibeke go. Fabulous designers and wonderful ladies.

Wishing you all the best.

Check out all the challenge details here http://onceuponasketchblog.blogspot.com/2012/03/march-15th-challenge.html

Some great prizes to be won too.

Adding some creations in here.

I've been wanting to do these for a while...they're Pen pots.

Created for dt work for Manorhouse Creations.

Each one is separate which is great when you just want some pens and not the rest.

Added some Flourish with a Bling vines and toadstools and jewel scrolls.

Sienna now has them sitting on her desk and loves them. I like that she's stopped asking, "Mum do you have a pencil/pen/scissors." LOL

Here's a lo for Manorhouse too.

Doesn't that watermelon look delicious!

Last one is in this month's Scrapbook Creations magazine for the Colour Team.

We had to do one highlighting contrasting colours. I took mine from Sienna's fushia top.

The reds and greens really make each other pop.

Have a great weekend. Hope you find some time to scrap. Hmm now that would be nice!

Jenix