May 'Design Me This' Challenge Freebie

Bree is running a 'Design Me This Challenge' over at Digiridooscraps, so you can learn how to design papers etc. Every month there will be a new tutorial and challenge, then you make the products and share as a freebie with others.

I have absolutely NEVER been interested in the slightest in designing.....I'm the sort who likes someone else to do all the hard work, I just like to download and use the product.

Anyhow, the challenge looked quite interesting, so I decided I would take part........and you know, it was actually easy, interesting, and darn good fun!!!

If any of you are interested in taking part in the challenge, come on over, register, and start learning some new skills. Believe me, its GREAT FUN!!!!

These are the papers I made for the challenge. I thought I would share them here on my blog, so I hope you enjoy them.

Download HERE

Thank-you to my Wonderful Friend

I got this wonderful award from my gorgeous friend Vicki at Artful Validation of Vicki . Thank-you so very much Vicki.

Here are the rules for this award:
1. Thank the person who nominated you for this award.
2. Copy the logo and place it on your blog.
3. Link to the person who nominated you for this award.
4. Name 7 things about yourself that people might find interesting.
5. Nominate 7 Kreativ Bloggers.
6. Post links to 7 blogs you nominate.
7. Leave a comment on each of the blogs, letting them know they have been nominated.

7 ThingsAbout Me.......

1. I love skinny latte' made from lactose free milk

2. I adore walking in the rain

3. The sound of rain on the roof makes me feel safe and secure

4. I love walking with my feet in the ocean

5. Autumn is my absolute favourite time of the year

6. I hate clothes shopping...loathe would probably be more like it!

7. I really dislike wearing shoes in the summer

Nominate 7 Creative Bloggers.......

1. Bree at Scrap'Itby Breeza because she is a fantastic designer/digiscrapper, tech person extrordinaire, motivational bum kicker, and all round creative person - as well as being my beautiful daughter

2. Pene at A Pene for your Thoughts is an artistic paper, digi and hybrid scrapper as well as being a beautiful person

3. Jane at Fragments of Time for being a great paper and digi scrapper, a brilliant photographer and a wonderful friend to boot

4. Helen at Around the World with Helen and Tony for not only being a gorgeous friend, but for allowing me to share her adventures and travels by doing amazing digi layouts of the places she travels to, and her articulate and interesting blog entries.

5. Lenore at Tales from Colorado for being the sweetest and gentlest friend I could possibly have, and a beautiful paperscrapper

6. Maz at Now Then Habibi for being funny, creative, funny, a fabulous digi scrapper, irreverant, and did I mention funny?

7. Sharon at Digital Creations for being amazingly creative, a wonderfully talented digi scrapper, paper scrapper, and for being on more CT's than anybody I know and yet still able to fit so much into one day

Vicki, thanks again for thinking of me, and you know this is 'right back atcha girl' - oh so talented paper scrapper, creative goddess and all round beaut person....and I'm lucky enough to be able to count you as a friend!

DIGIRIDOOSCRAPS GOES LIVE

Digiridooscraps went live yesterday morning (GMT+10). We had the most wonderful day, lots of new registrations, and lots of friends coming for a browse around. The forums are rockin', especially the POLL that was started by a few 'dastardly digiridooscrappers' on "Should we make Bruce Scrap?" You can find the poll here .
There are some great challenges up and running in the forum , you can win yourself a $5 gift certificate by leaving a comment on the blog , and the gallery is full of wonderfully inspirational layouts for you to browse through.
The shop is filling up with lots of new goodies, and the designers are still uploading their products to the site, so don't forget to keep coming back and checking.

We have a HUGE Grand Opening planned for 5th June, with a crazy storewide sale, heaps of freebies and give aways, a cyber crop, scrap bingo, live chats, and more!!!! Keep a look out for more info closer to the date!!! You can't miss this, so put the date on your calendar so you don't forget it!

Come on over and join in the fun, take up a few of the challenges, upload your LO's to the gallery, come and chat in the forums, TAKE PART IN THE POLL, buy some of our great products from the shop. Come on, come and join our Digiridooscraps family!

We're Going Live

WE FINALLY HAVE OUR DATES FINALISED!!!! Digiridooscraps will be going 'LIVE' on Friday 1st May.........we're hoping you will come and take a look around and maybe make this your new digi-scrapping home.
We will be holding our 'GRAND OPENING' on the weekend starting Friday 5th June. We have lots of freebies, fun challenges and a huge sale planned, so put it on your calendar and come on over and join in the fun!!!!
We will be introducing our new team to you soon. Watch this space..................................

Getting Closer To Opening Day

Our DT and CT calls finished on the 19th with an amazing response to both. We have chosen the successful applicants for the DT and sent out contracts etc. Our CT is still being chosen but the succesful applicants will be notified in the next couple of days. As well as the new team members, we have quite a few faces that you will all know and who we are extremely happy and honoured to have on board. This is going to be a fun and vibrant team. We can't wait to introduce our whole amazing team to you all. We are hoping to give you a definite opening date, as well as the date for our Grand Opening in the next few days.
We are getting so excited! You will soon be able to browse our fabulous new shop, buy products from our wonderfully talented designers, make fabulous LO's with those products and upload them to our gallery, join in some very fun challenges or chat in the forum, read our newsletter every month, get some FREEBIES..............and then a few weeks later we have the Grand Opening to look forward to. WOW!
We have a new fan blinkie available for the site, you can see it at the very top of the right hand column here on my blog. You can help yourself to the blinkie if you would like to display it in your signature or on your blogs.
I will be back with some more news for you soon.
Until then, take care and ((((((hugs)))))) Maz

Here are Some Photo's Finally!!!!

I finally got the pics off my camera, so here are a few from the last week.
Kady's birthday cake...a 'Lumberjack' cake and a pic of the birthday girl.

The rest of the pics are from Easter Sunday. We had a wonderful day with the kids and grandies. Here are the girls after their Easter Egg hunt.
Ashie and Phee had a wonderful time playing in the pond and in the dirt. The girls all have amazing imaginations and play together really well....MOST of the time! Ashie and Phee were playing restaurants in this pic. If you saw what they dished up to us it was enough to make you sick, but they thought they made wonderful food for us LOL!!!!

Bruce and Chloe played 'Upwords' after lunch. Chloe seems to be really enjoying board games now. This is Bruce concentrating on his next move......

and Chloe pondering how she can outsmart Gramps on her next move.
The girls didn't get their basket of eggs from Nannie and Gramps until it was nearly time for them to leave, as they had so many eggs already. Our eggs came with packing and the girls had more fun with it than the actual eggs........

OK, so it wasn't only the little kids who had fun with the packing.....a BIG KID did too ROFL!
We hope you all had a very happy Easter and a great Easter break!

A Quick Update

Well, my scrapping seems to be suffering a LOT lately, but it is all for a good cause.
Bree has worked her butt off , with some help from Gill and Szilvia, to get the site ready for opening. It has been so exciting for me to see the site take shape. First the logo, then the calls, then the home page, forums, gallery and x cart. It has been amazing for me to watch Bree go through such a transformation - from knowing very little tech stuff to actually understanding a whole lot of the jargon, codes etc now. I am truly proud of my girl. ((((hugs)))) hon. None of this would have gotten off the ground without her giving us the big 'prod'.
We will give you more news as it gets closer to the opening day, which we are thinking will not be too far away now. We will keep you posted.

I have received the first CD of photo's from my neices wedding from the photographer. I am just waiting for the CD from friends of the bride and groom and I MUST get back into my scrapping again.......like I need to be pushed too hard lol!!!! I am REALLY looking forward to doing this album.
I have been asked by one of my friends at work to do a page for one of her husbands friends 60th birthday, so that is another little job I need to get done soon too.

Since my last post we have celebrated Kady's birthday. Kady lives with us during the week while attending university. All her family drove down for the evening and we went to a local Thai restaurant for dinner. We came back here for coffee and birthday cake. Her real celebrations with her boyfriend and friends took place on the weekend, and I'm sure it was a much less sedate affair than the family dinner LOL!!!!

Bruce and I travelled up to Echuca yesterday (Good Friday) to spend the day with his family. We had a lovely day...barby fish fry, salads, a few drinks, chockie and sweet things, and the fact it was spent with family, reallymade it a special day.
Bree, Michael and the girls are coming around on Sunday for a barby, Easter Eggs etc. So another special day to look forward to.

No pics for you this time sorry, but the camera hasn't been used very much lately.