Kraft Plus November challenge

Hi, for November at Kraft plus, we have a great challenge for you, with mosaics:

Look around, and you will see mosaic designs in many places. Take it as you see it, many different options for this challenge. 

I chose a simple mosaic design of diamond tiles. I used these photos from a chateau in France, as inspiration for my layout, the diamond tiles on the floor of this building. I could have even used the mosaic design of the gardens, at this place, so much of a mosaic design that they are. 

I stencilled a design with a diamond stencil, added some diamond shaped chipboard pieces and finished it with a diamond shape from Charms Creations. 

Opulence

I hope we get to see what you do with this challenge. 

D-lish Scraps June share #3 - Pyrenees

Hi everyone, this is my last share for June, and isn't it scary that's half of the year gone.

I was quite excited to do this layout, another page for my album from my France trip 5 years ago.

We didn't get to visit the Pyrenees Alps, but looking from a distance, I so do want to go there.

So I created the background with stencil, texture paste and stamping, a spray of blue, my favourite way to create backgrounds. 

Embellishing this layout was fun, using punchinella, bitty blooms, and Kinder Kreations chipboard chevrons from the together pack. I also added Creative Cuts pie charts. The main feature is Pip berry stems which I have used to frame the photo.

The next cluster features carnations, and a wild rose. 

The last cluster has a flair button and kraft journal it's.

One day I will get my France album finished, lol.

Until then, happy scrapping.

Show Us Your Stuff June challenge - DT share

I can't believe it is June already. It is also 5 years ago, that my husband and I went to France for our very first overseas trip. The challenge this month, is to scrap freely, so I decided to scrap a travel photo. Here is the challenge:

Whilst we were in Paris, we went to the Moulin Rouge. My husband was actually feeling unwell, and not really up for a night out, but we went and he enjoyed this fabulous and historic show. It was full of entertainment, and not just the can can dancers. There was magic, and comedy, dance and colour. 

I thoroughly enjoyed it, and have ticked it off my bucket list. 

To create this layout, I found a piece of patterned paper with a very subtle background, and then applied a crackle stencil over that. I sprayed with some gold ink and then added splashes of blue and red. I also added some stamping. 

I tried to find as much vintage style stuff that would work, but had this chipboard pack that was designed as a French pack. I also added some gold paper from Ferrero Rocher chocolate wrapping. The sequins added a sparkly touch. My hand made item to top it off, are a Charms creations O and terrific tab. Also a flair, from Studio 1440. 

I love that this is another layout for my France album done. 

Moulin Rouge

Charms Creations guest designer for CSI

Hi everyone, this month, Charms Creations is sponsoring the challenges at CSI, so the design team have been busy designing layouts as guest designers there. Here is the challenge:

I enjoyed this challenge. For the testimony, I journalled about the photo, taken from our trip to France 3 years ago. For the evidence I used clouds, tree, filmstrip, music element, watercolour. I also used the sketch provided. 

I used Charms Creations cute cloud and chevron. 

I hope you have a go at the challenge over at CSI, 

Love in Paris

Anzac Day - D-lish SCraps DT share

I am sharing the first of my D-lish Scraps shares for the month, which is a Project Life styled layout, using a challenge from last months Scrap Suite cybercrop designed by Sue Plumb.

I don't ordinarily do Project Life, but I have found for travel pages, it has been helpful to get in more photos than regular 12 x 12 layouts, featuring 1 photo.
I holidayed in France nearly 3 years ago, and still haven't finished my album. By doing the Project Life pages, I think I will be able to get it completed soon.
On my pocket page, I have used bakers twine, Kaisercraft alpha stickers, Dusty Attic mini upper case alphas, Washi tape and resin bird.

I also used paper flowers, basic journal spots, which I have attached to a Project Life card. I included some wood veneer chevrons, flair button and wordfetti. 

It's surprising how many different items can be used on a pocket page, to make it special. 

ANZAC DAY Dawn service

Kraft + challenge February

So the challenge at Kraft plus this month, is to use postage stamp related things:

Now I have a collection of old postage stamps, probably dating back to when I was a kid, coz that's what we did back in the olden days, lol. My dear grandfather was an avid stamp collector, and he got me started on collecting stamps. My father has inherited Poppa's lovely collection. Most of the stamps I have are not worth much, but they are really cool just for a challenge like this. I have been waiting for a moment to be able to use stamps on a layout, and yay, it arrived. I really did enjoy this challenge, and I had many ways I could have gone with this, as I do have so many different types of stamps - I was looking at dogs, butterflies, Australian landscapes, and to do another layout for my France album. 

Unfortunately, the stamps I had from our trip to France didn't really suit what I wanted to do, so I found these Australian flag stamps - perfect - to scrap a layout from our Anzac Day Dawn Service visit at Villers-Bretenoux in France. This was one of the most amazing days of my life ever, to experience this moment, and reflect, remember and try to imagine just how awful it must have been for the diggers. So I guess this is my tribute to the ANZAC Diggers who sacrificed so much, so that we may live as we do. 

I had this lovely chipboard title ready for this layout. It worked so well. 

I also added a lovely Charms Creations chevron.  

I really loved this challenge, and it's another layout for my album, yay. 

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

Anzac Day

Kraft + December challenge

Well it's December, and this is the final challenge for the year at Kraft +, how the year has flown, it's been a fun year of doing these challenges. So the final challenge for the year is to be inspired by this one:

I love travelling, so this one was never going to be one that I would deliberate over, and I had this photo that I have been waiting to scrap from our trip to France in 2013, so now I have the front page to my album - very happy about that. 

I stamped using a Darkroom Door scribble stamp, and used mostly Kaisercraft products from their travel range Wanderlust - it's very nice. The map paper is the first layer over the stamping.  

I added a Charms Creations DIY map marker, which I stamped using the same Darkroom Door stamp, rubbed some Tim Holtz ink over and spritzed it with water to spread the colour, dried it off and added a brad to. Must say I like this effect. 

Anyway, I am so glad I have this layout for my album - just need to finish the rest of it, lol. 

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

On our way

Show Us Your Stuff November challenge - DT share

This month at Show Us Your Stuff, I was the creator of the challenge - and I really hope you like it, and that you will give it a go, this is the challenge:

I am still scrapping photos from a trip I did over 2 years ago to France with my husband, our first time overseas, and now we are considering another trip overseas next year, I better get a wriggle on with my album, lol. 

So with that in mind, I decided my challenge needed to be about travel. But not just about travel, adding other things to the challenge, to make it a challenge. 

I chose to scrap a photo of the Arch de Triumphe in Paris, my travel themed word was explore, and of course, I have done all of this on map paper. I used a lot of collage bits on my page, to really give it a feel of tickets and stubs etc. My handmade item is a map marker from Charms Creations. 

I loved reliving our trip with this layout, I hope you get the same feel with your layout and relive some memories. 

Happy scrapping. 

Explore

Scrap Around the World March Challenge

Once again at Scrap Around the World there has been an awesome challenge set for the March challenge, to use the following as inspiration:

For this challenge, I decided to use a photo of this vintage carousel (hence the name), taken on our trip in France. I kept the layout fairly simple, as I didn't want to take away from the intricate detail in the photo.

I was inspired by the colours, the image of the horse (the horses in the photo), the linear aspects in the drawing - which I think I have captured in the vertically striped paper. 

I have used a prima stamp in the background, with paper doily and vintage music paper and a variety of mixed embellishments. 

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

Vintage Carousel

Show us your stuff September challenge

For the September Show us your stuff challenge, the design team have organised inspiration from the following inspiration board:

Spring Mood Board

I love these types of challenges, as there are sooooooo many options on how to create the challenge. This mood board certainly offered just that, and colour selection was certainly going to be fun for this one.

I had these photos taken from our trip to France last year, of tulips that were taken in one of the gardens near our Paris hotel, and were perfect for this challenge, given that we were in Paris in spring.

I really had a lot of fun with this layout, and it came together quite well for me - didn't have to labour over it for ages like I usually do.

My handmade items are some crochet flowers and doily.

Thanks for looking at my layout.

Spring in Paris

D'lsih Scraps August Cybercrop challenge 4

The last challenge for the August D'lish Scraps cybercrop was to scrap a non living thing.
I chose this photo from our holiday in France last year. We took a day trip from where we were staying to the north of Spain, with our friends. This fishing port village was absolutely stunning, and the day was sunny and bright. I had some fun snapping the photos of the fishing nets along the port, as they looked so artistic, lol.
I had a lot of fun with this layout, and just let it flow, no overthinking. Yes, it's very themed, but what else could I do for this????????????
The D'lish Scraps products used were hand dyed muslin, bottle cap, button flair, dew drops, journal it's and shipping tags.
I had some fun with the background as well, trying to emulate the netting.
Thanks for looking at my layout.

Port de la Silva

Lets Get Shabby Challenge #56

So the Let's Get Shabby challenge # 56 is to use transparency. I love using transparency, but do not use it often. I love how it adds detail, but without covering over too much of the layout. With the variety of transparent embellishments available now, we are spoilt for choice.

For my layout, I chose to use some detail from a Kaisercraft sheet of transparency that depicts travel, which I have used behind my layout and also in the top left hand part of the layout, along with a Heidi Swapp transparent heart on the photo. I also used some Hambly transparency to highlight the words Notre Dame under my photo, along with a bit of washi tape that is semi-transparent.

Thanks for looking at my layout.

 Notre Dame

Les Aliberts

This is one of the layouts I have created this weekend, scrapping with my friend Alz. I just did this layout, asa I wanted to add to my France album, it's for no particular challenge. 

This is one of the areas in France we visited last year, in the south. The town Minerve dates back to 1100 AD, and is a tiny village in one of the wine growing areas. Our accommodation was in an old farm house, which has been developed into lovely units. We stayed as a large group of friends, and had a lot of fun. It was an idyllic place to stay, the hosts were fabulous. 

Thanks for looking. 

Les Aliberts

Lets Get Shabby Challenge #54

A challenge I decided to do whilst on a scrapbooking retreat in Qld, was the Lets Get Shabby May challenge. Unfortunately, I didn't get this linked up to the challenge site in time, so it won't qualify for the challenge. It was however a very nice challenge to do - to use maps, and a travel photo or bon voyage card. Having been on our holiday in France last year, I decided to scrap with one of those photos, and used this one of the Eiffel Tower, an amazing structure, which I just was in awe of.

Le Tour Eiffel

White With 1 May challenge

White With 1 May Challenge, is to use gold. Hmmm, gold, quite tricky, and initially I balked at this challenge, thinking it was too hard. Isn't that what challenges are about? Challenging ourselves to work on something that pushes our experience and minds? So, when I reframed the idea, and thought about autumnal tones, those golden tones that we see here in Melbourne when the leaves are turning just before they fall, I was able to change my thinking about this challenge. The end result was in my opinion very pleasing to the eye, and is another page added to my travel album on France.

Heaven on Earth

ANZAC DAY - LEST WE FORGET

Last year whilst travelling in France, Peter and I were fortunate enough to do a tour of the Somme battlefields, which included attendance at the ANZAC Day dawn service at Villers-Bretenoux. It was an amazingly moving experience, which leaves us with memories we will never forget.
We are fortunate people who live in a fortunate country, and we have the men and women who served in the wars to thank for that.

ANZAC DAY DAWN SERVICE VILLERS-BRETENOUX FRANCE





Words Or Whatever April Challenge

This is the first time I have participated in a challenge by Words Or Whatever, a new source of inspiration for me. The April Words Or Whatever Challenge is to do a layout using a sketch designed by the very talented and lovely Sue Smith, including some product from the Words Or Whatever range.
I found Sue's sketch quite inspiring, and can see the sketch being used again for other photos. For my layout I used a photo from our trip to France last year, of a "selfie" photo that we tried to capture - I'm not great at taking selfies, and usually not happy with the end result, this one I don't mind. The included WOW products are the title - Selfie, the word smile, the chipboard camera, and the round heart cut-out.

Selfie

Sue's Sketch from WOW

I tried to scrap this layout as true as possible to the sketch, and I'm quite pleased with the end result. Thanks Sue for your inspiration.