Not long now!

And I get to go pick up my boy! I sure hope he had a great time... no phone calls, so I'm guessing that he's had a blast! Ahhhh I can't wait to scoop my boy up and give him enough cuddles and kisses to make up for the last 4 nights that I haven't been able to love on him :D I'm sure he's going to talk our ears off on the way home! 3 hours and counting :D

And keep an eye on my blog.. either later tonight, or tomorrow (hopefully!) I'm going to have another little freebie on my blog :D I'm in a designing mood lately, and while I'm still realllllllly new at it, I'm having a blast, and quite pleased with what I'm coming up with! This new freebie was influenced by our recent weather, and I'm loving how its coming together so far :D

Like I said, keep an eye out!!!

Oh, and if you hop on over to Scrap Orchard, they are having a MASSIVE sale this weekend! Farmers Market where you will find hundreds of kits and all sorts of goodies for only $1.. yes, a measly $1!! And their December Mystery Mega is out, so make sure you grab that one too for only $3... after a week it goes up to $10... so grab it while its hot! Seriously, its so worth the dollars!

Here Kitty Kitty!!

So I'm BACK! LOL Only one day since my last entry, and oh my gosh, I'm here again.. what in the world is wrong with me? LOL

Here's what's wrong.. I have a freebie for you! Thanks to my awesome friend Patti, who gave me the inspiration to do this, I made a small little freebie kit called Here Kitty Kitty! Obviously, I'm getting a new kitty soon, so Patti suggested I make a kit to do with cats, and wah-lah.. here it is! I hope someone can find some use for it, and if you like it, let me know where you've put your layouts, so I can leave you some love :)

Download the Elements

Download the Papers

Enjoy!! I'd really love to see some layouts using my very first freebie! :D
Peace xx

Boy on Camp and 1 week to go!

So my oldest boy went on his very first school camp on monday. He doesn't come home until friday, and I miss him already! It was so cute. We got to his school at 7.40am for a scheduled 8.15am departure. Lots of people already there. Stood in line, checked in his medication and handed in his pocket money, and then went and got his gear on the bus. We stood around waiting and waiting. L-man was getting quite anxious and slightly impatient to get going! But I think he was nervous too, because he kept putting his arms around me and cuddling into me. It was so sweet. How many 10 year old boys will hug their mum like that in front of his peers? Not too many! So then the time came to load the kids into the bus (2 buses... a boy bus and girl bus.. huh? LOL).. he had already reserved a seat for him and his friend Jakie. He gave me another big hug and kiss and told me he loved me. I got my phone out and called Keith and handed the phone to Lachie to say bye to him. So funny... acting all male with his dad LOL.. he got on the bus and it was another 10 minutes before they took off. I stood where he could see me, and he just waved and waved, and then blew me the sweetest kiss.. I blew one back and mouthed "I LOVE YOU" and he nodded and smiled a big huge smile. Man, that kid is awesome. Gives us a run for our money, but he is nothing but awesome. So sweet, loving, caring, sensitive.. According to their itinerary, they are off to Australia Zoo (Steve Irwins zoo), and I know he's going to love that. A real animal lover that boy. I think it was the one thing he was really pumped about with camp. They will be doing other activities like body boarding, circus skills, fishing, orienteering... lots of great things to keep him busy and occupied! I just worry about him at bedtime. That he will have enough time to think about us at home and get homesick. I'm sure that's probably not happening, but I know him, and I'm sure there's a little homesickness going on to some level, at some point of each day. I just can't wait for him to come home and tell me ALL about his fun times! Unfortunately they weren't allowed to take cameras, so I can't show off his photos.. apparently at the end of camp, the teachers (who took their cameras!) will burn their photos onto disk and sell them to the parents for $5.. a bit of a rip off considering the camp cost $280, and I'm not going to pay that at the risk of my son only being in 2-3 of those photos! Unless of course they are going to make disks of each child.. I hope that's the case! I don't want a disk full of other peoples kids! LOL KWIM??

And now its 1 week until we pick up my still unnamed kitty.. I'm having real trouble finding a name that I like.. I thought of Suki.. I'm liking that one alot.. Lachie wants to call her marmalade which I am liking as well... I guess I'll just see what personality she has and go from there :)

It's only 4 more weeks until christmas *GULP*.. I have bought one thing so far.. how bad is that? I'm hoping that I can get the whole lot done soon. I hate the last minute rush of christmas shopping. It stresses me and bothers me and while I love to actually buy all the fun things, its the mad rush of people, the crowds, the pushing and shoving.. the almost empty shelves.. crazy!! I keep telling myself that each year I will start the shopping mid-year, but I never do. Silly silly me. Next year.. I promise ;)

Anyway, that's about it for now. Nothing much else going on! Will update after my boy gets back from camp, unless something else pops up in the meantime! xx

Time to blog I think!

Ok, so I figured it was about time to update with some bloggity goodness, seeing as it has been a week more longer since I last updated! Not a huge lot going on in this house, but I've been scrapping a bit, and really happy with the way they are turning out :) There are so many new cool kits and bits n bobs being released at Scrap Orchard, and its hard not to grab them all and create with them! Here are my latest layouts!

This one is of my two boys cooling off last week after a stinking hot day. H wasn't sure at first of being hosed off, but then got the hang of it, grabbed the hose and started turning it on everyone LOL I used Amanda Heimanns "Coconut Tree" kit for the LO

This one is of my oldest girl reading on the couch. The lighting was just perfect, and seemed to "spotlight" on her. The kit is an applecart challenge freebie at Scrap Orchard.. made by Irene Alexeeva :)

This one is of B-meister blowing bubbles in the backyard :) She loves blowing bubbles!! The kit I used for this layout is called Sweet Orchard, and is a collaboration kit between the designers of Scrap Orchard and Sweet Shoppe

This one is of my sweet H-man.. also used the Sweet Orchard kit for this one.. its such a great kit to use!!

And lastly, this is my very latest layout, called "3 Weeks Old".. and yes, this is my soon-to-be kitty cat!! She hasn't got a name yet, but I'm getting ALOT of helpful suggestions from a couple of sites I go to :D The kit used for this layout is called Fiesty, and is from Ziggle Designs at Scrap Orchard.

And just a little note about the Sweet Orchard Kit.. if you purchase $10 or more in products from the SO store, you get Sweet Orchard for FREE!!! Can you believe that??? And spend $20 or more, and you get not only Sweet Orchard for free, but you also get a fab Quick Page Album as well.. for FREE!!! What an absolute bargain!

So you may have also noticed that I have added a music player :D I selected quite a few different styles of music, but all of them being my favourites!

And as I mentioned, we are getting a KITTY!!! After we sadly had to give away our last kitty when I was pregnant with H, hubby said I was never getting another cat. WELL.. friends of ours have a litter of kittens they are trying to find homes for.. well, hubby made the mistake of telling me about it.. and well.. I kind of won ;) I reassured him that he will have absolutely NO responsibility for the cat, it will be my responsibility. In return, he has to take over looking after the dog! I just hope the poor thing doesn't starve, as its been quite a long time since he's fed her. Thank god I remember right? LOL But now its going to be his job. I wonder how often I'll have to remind him before he does it automatically? Hahah.. So yeah, I'm VERY excited about getting another kitty! I wish we hadn't had to get rid of our last one, but circumstances just didn't work out with her :( I miss her even now! So I'm sure in 3 weeks time, I will have alot of kitty stories to tell LOL She's only 3 weeks old at the moment, so we won't be able to get her for another 3 weeks.. but that's ok! It gives me time to prepare!

Well, that's enough news for the moment.. I'm just about to cook myself up some fries for lunch.. nom nom. After yesterdays STINKING hot day, we had a big storm and its still raining today, so its MUCH cooler, so I feel like something warm to eat :D

I promise I'll try to update more often!
Cya later alligators!

Selective Colouring Tutorial

My sister asked me how to do selective colouring, so I decided the best way would be to do a mini-tutorial with some pics to show how to do it :) Seeing as she will be using PSP, this tutorial is going to be for PSP..Hope its easy enough Sue!

SELECTIVE COLOURING

1) Choose the picture you want to recolour and open it in PSP

2) Make a copy of your image (Edit - Copy, and then Edit - Copy - Paste - As a new image)

3) Convert your copy into greyscale

4) Now copy the greyscale image, click on the original picture, and paste the greyscale onto that one (Edit - Paste - As a New Layer). In the Layers box on the right, you should now see two layers (Background and Raster 1).

5) Select the eraser tool from the toolbar on the left hand column (it looks like a pencil with an eraser on the end). Adjust the size of the eraser as needed for the areas you are going to erase, and for the fiddly little areas, zoom right in for good definition. It should start to look something like this :-

6) Once you have the areas you want colour to show erased, you can then merge the two layers together like so :-

7) Save your new image as a jpg, and you are done!

Here is the original image I started with...

And this was the final product.. very effective, and a great way to make parts of your picture pop!