Stuck Sketches mid April challenge

Nearly the end of April, where has this month gone? I have hardly done any scrapping, but I did sit to do this challenge last night, I really loved this sketch from Stuck Sketches.

I found this photo of my nephew holding his nephew, my great -nephew - got that - lol. I had created the background from a negative of stencil, from a previous layout I had created during the day, and it worked perfectly for this layout. 

I found lots of scraps of co-ordinating patterned papers. I found a few matching embellishments from my stash, including ribbon - I know! Ribbon, we don't tend to use it any more do we. I also used some tags and a flair from Studio fourteen40, they worked so well. 

I added a Charms Creations hessian heavenly heart, which finished my layout. 

Anyway, I am happy with the end result. Thanks for looking at my layout and for any comments you may leave. 

Cherish the moment

Show Us Your Stuff April challenge

Mid April already???? My goodness how this year is flying by. Have you seen the challenge at Show Us Your Stuff? It is to get creative with stamps.

Now I am sure that I am not the only one with a collection of stamps, so I am hoping you will join in with us for this challenge. 

For my layout, I decided to get grungy and funky. Now I don't do this very often, unless I am doing a really grungy boy layout, which also doesn't happen very often. However, I was given this new cool product as a birthday gift, Colour burst, which helped me to create my layout. 

I had this photo of some graffiti, taken on a day out in Fitzroy, here in Melbourne, my husband and I went to explore our city for the day. In Fitzroy, there is a heap of awesome graffiti - not tagging - but real art. It was amazing to look at, so I took a couple of pics. 

The stamping on my layout, is in the background, there is a script stamp, from Dina Wakely that I have stamped to replicate tagging graffiti.

I used 2 different alpha stamps for my title - the smaller font is from Making Memories, and ART is made using Autumn Leaves alpha stamps. 

This really was a lot of fun to create. How creative can you get? 

Street ART

Show Us Your Stuff April challenge

Mid April already???? My goodness how this year is flying by. Have you seen the challenge at Show Us Your Stuff? It is to get creative with stamps.

Now I am sure that I am not the only one with a collection of stamps, so I am hoping you will join in with us for this challenge. 

For my layout, I decided to get grungy and funky. Now I don't do this very often, unless I am doing a really grungy boy layout, which also doesn't happen very often. However, I was given this new cool product as a birthday gift, Colour burst, which helped me to create my layout. 

I had this photo of some graffiti, taken on a day out in Fitzroy, here in Melbourne, my husband and I went to explore our city for the day. In Fitzroy, there is a heap of awesome graffiti - not tagging - but real art. It was amazing to look at, so I took a couple of pics. 

The stamping on my layout, is in the background, there is a script stamp, from Dina Wakely that I have stamped to replicate tagging graffiti.

I used 2 different alpha stamps for my title - the smaller font is from Making Memories, and ART is made using Autumn Leaves alpha stamps. 

This really was a lot of fun to create. How creative can you get? 

Street ART

D-lish Scraps DT share - Let's Explore

Hi, I'm back again with the last of my April shares for D-lish Scraps.
This is another March Cybercrop challenge that I did, this one inspired by Sonia Cotugno.

Isn't that image just awesome? I so love the rustic door.
Anyway, I chose to scrap about a day out that my husband and I shared in our city of Melbourne, one of the older inner city suburbs of Fitzroy. We came across a heap of street graffiti by exceptional artists, but I scrapped this photo of me on one of the many sidewalk seats - only in Fitzroy - LOL. It's a fascinating place - very hip and happening. I felt the colours of the chair, teamed with my tee-shirt worked well for this challenge.
On my layout, I used a pip berry stem, monochrome journal it's tags, mini metal flower, green tara azaleas.

I repeated these embellishments around my page.

I had  a lot of fun creating this layout, and the image that inspired allowed a lot of artistic freedom, thanks Sonia. 

Let's Explore

D-lish Scraps DT share - Delight

Hi everyone, I'm back again with the second of my April shares.
This one is a scrap lift of one of the other D-lish Scraps designers, from the March cybercrop challenge in the Scrap Suite. Here is the challenge:

I chose to scrap lift Mandy Melville.
Here is my layout:

Delight

and here is Mandy's layout that I scrap lifted:

Heart You

I tried to stay as close as possible to Mandy's design as possible, but to make it mine, I changed the side hearts,  and used a banner at the top of my layout instead. Mandy's original layout is beautiful, I am sure you will agree. 

On my layout I used punchinella, paper bag, paper doily, monochrome journal it's, and Little Birdie butterfly (now retired). 

I also added some wax blossoms, one of my favourite flowers in the D-lish Scraps store.

My other cluster has a flair button. 

I had a lot of fun doing this layout, and I hope I did justice to Mandy's layout. 

D-lish Scraps DT share - All That Jazz

Today I am sharing the first of my April shares for D-lish Scraps.
This layout is what I have done for the Inspiration Board challenge, which is this:

So in keeping with the "chic" theme, I chose too work with this photo of my mother in law and sisters in law, who were being "oh so fabulous" at a family wedding. I decided to keep this layout simple and clean, to allow the embellishments to shine. 

I used a kit from Glitz designs for the paper, puffy embellishments and the ephemera tag under the photo, as my starting point. My D-lish Scraps embellishments topped it all off. 

I used a silver doily under my cluster to the right of the page.

 The left sided cluster has a  monochrome journal it's tag, sequin bow, fabric bloom (now retired), and a Kaisercraft paper bloom. 

I have also used a forget me not flower and scattered some sequins. 

I hope you have a go at the inspiration board. 

All That Jazz

CSI colour challenge - guest designer for Charms Creations

This month Charms Creations is a sponsor at CSI colour challenge. As Charms Creations creative team members, we have been invited to be guest designers at CSI. Here is the latest challenge:

This one really appealed to me, I loved the vintage bike image with the spring flowers in the basket. 

In Melbourne in spring, we have an annual French Festival, I have attended a couple of times now, as I have a love affair with all things French, lol. 

I took this photo of these gorgeous peonies at the festival last year, a stall holder was selling fresh bunches of gorgeous flowers, and the display was so beautiful. 

From the challenge requirements, I loosely interpreted the sketch. I used all of the colours, and for the testimony, I used the words spring and fresh in my journaling, actually converting the word fresh to frais (French). I also added a Charms Creations heavenly heart. 

For my evidence I used metal, flowers, bicycle, decorative border, and rub-ons. To this cluster, I added a Charms Creations map marker.

This is a fun challenge to do, so why not give it a go.

Peonies

More Than Words April challenge

The challenge at More Than Words for April, is to use a "mood photo" and the word escape.

I like the sound of this layout, but not sure about the end result of my interpretation. 

I had this photo of a windmill, in black and white, which met my mood photo part of the challenge. I took this photo on a country getaway one weekend with my husband. The country is always a place where we can escape, and let the grind of every day life and work just disappear. I have used the word escape in my title and in my journaling. 

I wanted my background to be grungy, yet rustic and country. I think it is halfway there. 

I enjoyed the challenge, so thanks for the inspiration More Than Words team. 

Country Escape
Thanks for looking at my layout, and for any comments you may leave. 

Kraft plus April challenge

When I saw the April challenge at Kraft plus, my heart sank a little. I find it really difficult to be confined to such a limited colour scheme, black and white. However, because I haven't missed one of the challenges yet, since the start of the challenge site, I couldn't let this beat me. LOL. Here is the challenge:

 I really had no idea how to attack this challenge, and yet it should have been incredibly easy. I really do overthink things. Hmmm, need to work on that. I chose a black and white photo to go with the theme. I used a heap of rubons, with a botanical theme. I did this as the photo was taken in botanical gardens. I also added a few black and white flowers, and the black and white paper.

 

 

I'm not really sure how I feel about the end result. Anyway, wasn't going to let it beat me. 

Thanks for looking at my layout and for any comments you may leave. 

On golden pond

CSI challenge - case file 196

This month at CSI colour challenge, Charms Creations is a sponsor. We are playing along, as guest designers. I didn't get this one done in time for guest designer, but played along anyway.
Here is the challenge:

I had this photo of my nephew with a moustache from a Christmas cracker. If you knew my nephew, you would understand this would have been amusing at the time. He is a bit of a crazy 6 year old. 

Anyway, for my evidence I used stripes (washi tape), moustache, googly eyes, buttons, robot and cogs. The testimony was the journaling about him doing this. 

I have used a Charms Creations arrow and O's. 

I hope you give this challenge a go, I love the CSI challenges, lots of fun. 

Crazy kid