Scrap the Boys July Challenge

So this month at Scrap the Boys, the challenge is to be inspired by this moodboard:

This one really tricked me, to me it felt more feminine than masculine, so I guess that is where the challenge lies. However I did manage a layout, and it feels right for me for the board. 

I used this smaller versioned photo of nephew Kalden, and kept the layout fairly simple. I was inspired by the orange and yellow in the board, and by the circles in image 2, and the quote. I used a variety of tubes from various things such as paper towel and other household items to create the circles with acrylic paint. I used one of the heavenly hearts from Charms Creations, a few punched circles of patterned paper and a couple of buttons, so kept it pretty simple. I am pleased with the overall effect. 

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

Free Spirit

Kraft + May challenge

This month the challenge at Kraft+, there is a delicious mood board to be challenged by:

I just loved the colours and designs in this. Countless designs could have been created for this one, alas, I don't have time to do any more than 1. Anyway, I chose to use a photo of our nephews, 2 cute little dudes (Kalden I scrapped last month as well). I loved this photo of them reading, and thought it would go well with the mood board. 

I was inspired by the colours, working with the orange, green and blue. I was also inspired by the denim, the vintage books and the twine. 

I used a vintage book cover as the backing to my photo, and also some pages out of the vintage book. I added the twine behind my embellishments, and my lollipop embellishments were made by me a little while ago, using denim and some scrap fabric that surrounded a bunch of flowers. I sprayed the kraft cardstock with dylusions spray and added some Heidi Swapp colour mist. I had some rub-on alphas that were in the same colours that I scattered around the page to tie in the theme of reading and learning. I used a Charms Creations denim star embellishment and a D-lish Scraps button flair. 

I am really pleased at how this layout turned out.

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

Kraft + April Challenge- retro recipe

This month at Kraft +, the challenge is to use the following recipe to inspire your creation:

Wow, again endless possibilities with this challenge, and the colours are right up my alley. I loved creating my layout for this challenge. 

I chose a photo of nephew Kalden, taken on Christmas night, at our family dinner. He wasn't quite two, but he was trying to match it with the bigger boys who were running around all night. He was terribly cute, so I just had to snap some photos of him. I managed to get a couple, pity he didn't look right at the camera, but he was just too busy to pose, lol. 

I have followed the recipe, I've included all the ingredients - silver is the star sequins and the square paper clips, 3 tags, stamping on the white tag - Heidi Swapp stamp, and Kaisercraft under the papers. Small amount of red washi tape, polka dots on the patterned paper and the cotton. I journaled around the border. I also included a Charms Creations star, to finish it all off. 

Thanks for the challenge Kraft + team. 

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

Kalden... cute as

Happy Easter with Charms Creations - Mini Easter Bags

Hi Everyone, this week being Easter week, we are celebrating at Charms Creations, with a blog hop. 

There is lots of fun stuff happening on the blog this week, so make sure you check in every day. There is a prize up for grabs at the end of the week. Don't forget to collect your words. 

Easter for my family usually means a relaxing weekend, maybe some time to do projects at home such as gardening, finishing off something that has already been started, catching up with family, maybe a picnic or a drive. This year, I'm hoping to get a couple of scrapping layouts created, with so many cool challenges around. 

The Easter bunny still comes to visit, even though my kids are adults now, they still want some eggs. There are 2 little people in our family though, who do get a little extra visit from the bunny, nephews Jareth and Kaldon. 

So instead of the boring old presentation of eggs and bunnies in commercial packaging, I have created some mini Easter bags to present them in. 

I found these cute bags, bunnies and chicks whilst out shopping recently, at the homewares store - Bed, Bath and Table. 

So I had a plan to use these for the goodies for the boys. I thought about how to enhance them rather than leaving them plain, and Charms' Creations came to mind along with the bunnies and chicks. These are some of the bits from my stash that I thought I might work with. 

I tried a couple of different ones, but in the end went with the arrows. 

So here are the bags from this:

To this:

A simple project, but something a little special other than ordinary commercial packaging. 

Happy Easter, and happy creating. 

xxx Sandra