The fat lady has sung

I'm officially out of the running for the Embellished Idol 2007 competition. I'm disappointed as I thought this week's entry was the most talented of the lot that I'd entered, but I'm so not surprised. I knew sooner or later it would boil down to the overall most talented and popular members of the forum. Just commonsense really. I'll call it now, and I've known since about Round 2 or 3 that Binxcat will be the eventual winner. She's hugely popular, but that's not enough, she's hugely talented too. Her work throughout has been amazing, as has many other ladies' work. And I'm glad that I entered because I have now got 6 great LO's to add to my albums.

Forget Idol though, David's getting excited about football. Geelong's doing really well this year and are favourites to take out the Premiership. What a bugger DB is going to be offshore on Grand Final Day - still that's a real Murphyism to ensure victory. He's pulled all his shirts, stubby holders, etc out of storage and is wearing them with pride. :)

I'm still using my Carlton stubby holders with pride. No matter where we finish on the ladder I'll ALWAYS be a blue girl!!

Callin' It

Okay, I'm calling it. I'm SURE this week I'll be out on Embellished Idol. Funny how things can change so much in just a few days. A couple of days ago I was really pumped because I was so pleased with how my LO turned out, and very proud of my digi-art. And now, I can see I'm just not getting as many comments as others, so I really think I won't get the votes to stay in either. Kinda spewing as I don't think they really get just how much effort went into making something as technical as my digi-piece. But I'm also kinda okay about it too, because it was really only a matter of time before my time was up anyway. I could have told you the winner by about Round 2 or 3 - far and away the favourite, and very talented too - no denying it.

Anyway, this week's challenge is to create a LO using a piece of packaging from scrapbooking products. So not up my alley, in comparison to last week. I'll prob give it a go even though I don't expect to go through to Round 7.

Sasha's Kindy sports carnival tomorrow. Weather's looking really dodgy. Can't believe I've only just realised that dodgy weather probably = overcast = great photo weather!! Camera's on charge, DVC already charged up. David's in charge of the video, I'm in charge of the photos, and Nikita's in charge of mayhem.

On a good note, Nikita's pretty much day trained with the toilet thing. She still has occasional accidents (as does Sasha - just today!! *mad*), but most times we don't have problems. Yee-ha - life just gets better and better!! Keep going Nikki & we'll give night training another try soon!!

Anyway, it's 20 past bedtime & we've all got a BIG day tomorrow. We're lovin' the Kindy Life!!

OMG I'm through!!

I truley can't believe that I've made it through to Round 6 of the Embellished Idol comp for 2007. What an amazing thing to have happen!! To see my name up there with some really serious talent is amusing at best and somewhat embarassing. But anyway, it's been a really great journey.

This week's challenge is hybrid scrapping, which is right up my alley. I often use a bit of hybrid stuff on my LO's - using Photoshop to add text, or create elements. Of course if I really want to stay in the game, I need to push the limits and I think I need to create a really beautiful meld of images together. I can kinda see in my head what I want to produce, but getting there in reality might be much, much, much more of a challenge of course.

Another thing I tend to think is that the more fabulous the photo, the better the chance of staying in the comp. I'm starting to run out of really fabulous photos I think.

I need fresh eyes!!

Anyway, tomorrow night's scrapping night, so for tonight I'd best finish playing with my playgroup paperwork and then hit the sack.

Stuck on You

Here's my latest for Embellished Idol. I've actually made it through Round 4!! I'm so surprised. I never thought I'd get through Round 1, let alone Round 4.

So anyway, this is my entry for Round 5. The challenge this week to do a LO without using adhesives. ie. no glue, double-sided tape, or other traditional adhesives. So I've stuck my photo down using wet paint. The other items are attached using staples, brads (split pins), hand stitching and machine stitching. It's come out kind of cool and the original idea came from the title which is an obvious play on words from the challenge.

Will find out on Friday if I live to play another week. Every week I expect to be my last entry, and this week is certainly no different.

I'm also quite proud of this LO as I made it from start to finish in one night!! Almost unheard of in my scrapping experience. And especially as I was at a crop at Just Scrapbooking at the time, so plenty of chat going on too. The girls were intruiged at the idea of a adhesive-free LO. This comp has definitely been good for my albums. I've made 5 LO's in 5 weeks.

On top of that I also finished my Harry Potter LO which I started about 6 weeks ago. Not super happy with it, but I knew that I wouldn't be as soon as I found I had too much to fit on the page. If I wasn't so lazy I would have made a mini book to sit on the page with each of the books on a separate page & a little bit of journalling for each book. But I suck at journalling anyway, so probably not a bad thing. Otherwise I'd still be working on getting the LO finished at Christmas time. Anyway, it's 1am, so I'd better head to bed. Will get around to scanning the HP LO tomorrow (later today) methinks.

Instructions for Care

Here's my entry for Embellished Idol 2007 - Round 3.



The challenge was to use tags on the LO. Whilst I actually like tags, I found it quite a challenge to try to use them in a way that isn't "been there, done that". Trying to do this, along with the post-processing of Nick & Joan's wedding photos weighing on my mind, made it quite hard going. However, tonight, the last few pieces of the puzzle of this LO came together and I'm really happy with how it turned out.

Teddy is such a sweet little guy, so it's nice to have a couple of LO's dedicated to him. I'm sure Nikita will really treasure them in years to come.

I'm pretty sure that this will be my last week of Idol, the competition and talent is just so amazing, I know I'm really out of my league. But it's served its purpose of getting me getting some stuff done.

Full of Spunk

Quick post & run of this LO I created for the Embellished Idol 2007 - Round 2 Challenge.

Very stiff competition, so I'll definitely be lucky if I get through to Round 3. Still quite happy with how this turned out, especially considering how busy & distracted I've been.

Embellished Idol 2007

I've crazily signed up for a scrapbooking competition at Embellished. My user name is DSK72. The competition runs for 8 weeks with a new challenge each Wednesday. Last Wednesday the 1st challenge was to create a LO using a sketch for inspiration.

I'm happy to say that I have completed & uploaded my entry for Round 1. Doubt that I'll last much longer than that, so it's been fun. I've got a lovely LO to enjoy for years to come, and I've learnt a little. :) I *might* just continue competing in the "
just for fun" category as long as I can keep motivated.