I love you, I love you, I love you.....until dinner time.

Yep, that's what my beautiful girl came running up to me yesterday morning and said as she gave me a cuddle. It was so beautiful. I mean at 3, dinner time is such a long way away from when you've just woken up. I can't imagine she would be able to think much further than that? What a gorgeous, wonderful sentiment.

So, have you seen SBO have revealed the names of the final 5 in their DT call? OMG, I happen to be one of them! Vicky Gibson, Sharee Mortensen, Ilka Adam, and Delys Cram are also in the final 5. And I tell you its been somewhat nerve racking. I mean people vote on the LO's they like best. No matter how many LO's you may have created, or shown to people, to have people actually vote on them is quite something else. Now thats nerve racking! LOL. But its also been interesting. Its been really cool to see what people have liked. And its been fun trying to work out whose LO is whose.

So tonight I asked Andrea if it was ok to show my LO's now that everyone knows whose still in. And.....here they are.

This is my favourite from the very first entry (and its just been added to the Basic Grey gallery!)

Then we had to do one on our favourite place/spot. My favourite place has always without fail been One Tree Hill. So early one morning I got up and tried to get some sunrise photos for my LO. Unfortunately the weather wasn't playing nice so I didn't get any bright colours, but I did get a heap of cool photos. This is the LO I came up with. Not exactly my fav, but hey, at least I tried something new with the brushes and journaling printed onto a transparency, then put over the bottom photo. Here it is...

Following that we had to do a receipe page. Now I really enjoyed this. I had some great pics of brightly coloured biscuits, so really had fun making a bright coloured page. I still like it.

   

The next challenge was to do a monochromatic LO using ribbon and paint. Now in scrapping terms monochromatic means all the hues of one colour. So while remaining annonymous, and working on a short time frame, I had to come up with something all in one colour. I had no photos that were working cooperatively and no time to go print some more pics, so I decided to do an all white LO. I was stoked with the way it turned out, but when I saw everyone elses LO's thought I was out for sure. As it turned out I wasn't. Here it is (my and Dan's hands). Please note the black is just background. I had to take a photo of this one as the scan didn't look very good at all. The LO is actually scalloped shaped.

We then had a midweek optional challenge with a twist thrown in. We weren't to know that immunity was up for grabs. We had to think of a special number, then use it 6 times in the LO, as the number of embellishments, the actual number and the written number plus another 3 times as well. Can you find my 6 times the number one is shown? I wasn't going to give it a go, but in the end did. Unfortunately I didn't win the immunity, but hey, I created another LO which is always good. This is it....

The last challenge we had was to make 4 cards - and we had to use one piece of PP that was the same on each of the cards. I chose a crate paper. OMG! I do cards on occassion, but it hasn't been something I've found easy. However, I actually really enjoyed this challenge. It made me think smaller. It made me use my scraps (yep, apart from the one sheet we had to use, they were all scraps). And cards being smaller are quicker. Which for me right now is good. LOL. Here are my four. My favourite is the 'thinking of you' closely followed by the Xmas card...

So this week the challenge is to create a canvas (and its no longer annonymous!).

Oh dear. I've never actually done a canvas before. LOL! So today I went and brought one (or three! LOL). And I guess I'm gonna have to get it done in the next day or two. Eeeeek.

So that's it for now. I need to get to bed. I'm still catching up on sleep. Only 2 days til I see my buddy Jane! Can't wait!

Later! 

Comments

[Janine]

wow wee I heard about the top five and congrats on making it!! How exciting. Loved your layouts and cards. It's interesting how as woman and scrappers we are harder on ourselves than what others are. As I simply adore the mono layout. Stunning. I love how the photos of one tree hill are dark. Love the way Sarah thinks by the way. So cute!!

[Andrea Senn]

So gorgeous about Sarah's comments. And congrats on making it to the top 5! And I bet your canvas will be awesome.

[Penny]

Go you! I really admire you girls and how you can churn out such brilliance in response to a time frame and specifications. Very inspiring.

[Chris]

All your entries have been sensational Trina!!! Brilliant work!
Hey, not sure if you're getting my emails, but check out my blog for a little challenge I've got going if you want to!

[sharon]

Congratulations and awesome work as always!

[Tracy]

congratulations on being in the top 5, your pages and cards are awesome! Good luck with the canvas :)

[ruth]

wow Trina, congrats!! Love the layouts, especially the number lo and the cards are goregous.

[girlfriday]

love Sarah's sentiment!!
and how exciting that you're in the *final five* :) looking forward to the next challenge!!

[YvonneM]

All of your work is amazing - congrats on being in the final 5. I'm sure your canvas will *ROCK*.

[Susan Longman]

Trina I love your all white layout. Congrats on the comp.

[Erica Johnstone]

Wow Trina I just looooooove all of these LO's, I adore "small things" - it is just so darn cute!!! Good luck with it matey - I wish I had 100 posts, I'd be voting for you for sure!!!!!!!