Show Us Your Stuff March challenge

Can you believe it is March already? 2016 is already flying by.
For this month, the challenge at Show Us Your Stuff, is this awesome sketch designed by Chloe Neilson.

I had some fun with this sketch, I rotated the sketch 90 degrees, which worked better for me with my photos. I used some photos of my nephews having fun with Meccano. 

For my hand made elements, I have used Charms Creations chevrons, Studio fourteen40 flair and some die cut cogs from chipboard. 

I really love how this layout turned out, as sometimes our boy pages can be quite tricky. I think that if we apply the same rules to our pages as we do for girly pages, just substitute the embellishments that show boys. This sketch made doing a boy page easy. Hope you give it a go. 

Boys Play Meccano

Black with 2 May challenge

I recently went to visit family in Queensland, and had a scrappy day with my mother and her friends. I decided to do the Black With 2 challenge. A couple of the other ladies were working on the same challenge, great minds, lol. This is the first time I have done one of the Black With 2 challenges, so it was interesting to try something new. Boy did this one challenge me though. The Black With 2 May challenge was to use mixed media, with the colours black, slate gray and pale gray. This put me right out of my comfort zone, to use such dark colours, but hey a challenge is a challenge, so I gave it a go. I chose a photo I had taken only a couple of nights previously of my step-nephew Jamie, a quiet and reserved 16 year old, who does not like having his photo taken AT ALL. Somehow, with a bit of coaxing, he obliged me, and I was able to incorporate this photo into this challenge.

I played for a while with paints and stencils, incorporated some washi tape, and very male inspired embellishments. The layout was also based on the following sketch, that was to be used as inspiration.

Your Young Life