Scrap the Boys April challenge DT layout

So it's April, can we please rewind the last 3 months? Oh well, no holding back of time, so we must look forward to the new things, like the new challenge at Scrap the Boys.

What fun this challenge is, so many geometric shapes to choose from. I chose to use circles. I had this lovely patterned paper from Cocoa Vanilla Studio that was my inspiration, the found as many circular elements that I could - cogs (perfect for the bike photo), bike chipboard, other circle wood veneers, die cuts, and stamping. Even the frame has circles on it (well spots actually, but spots are round). To top it off, the lovely O from Charms Creations. 

New bike

Show Us Your Stuff March Challenge

Another month, another challenge. This time at Show Us Your Stuff, we have this moodboard to inspire:

How yummy are those cakes? I actually found this a challenge, as I wasn't sure if I should scrap about a cake, or a birthday, in the end I chose a birthday, so this is about Kieran's 21st. 

So I created a mixed media background, but because the photo was so busy, I didn't want to overwhelm it all. Keeping to the primary colours and black helped with this. I had a decoration from his party still in my stash so used that as my title. I added some washi tape, and die cuts. My handmade embellishments include foam arrow, emoji button and spotted fabric button from Burdy's embellies, who is sponsoring this months challenge. I have also included an arrow from Charms Creations.

21

Scrap the Boys 2018 February challenge

So I finally made it to the design team at Scrap the Boys. I tried a couple of times to get onto the team, and made it last year. So this is my first blog post with the team.
So the February challenge, is this:

Wow the possibilities are endless, just with 3 words. Not only the words, but the colours are awesome. I pulled out a variety of different photos that could have worked for this challenge. I finally decided on this one of my son when he was a baby, exploring the beach for the first time, so much joy on the little face. 

I really wanted to keep the beach theme going, so I found lots of beach themed bits and pieces - wood veneer, twine, muslin, beach images. The background is a gelli plate lift, which looks like water, so it was perfect to use. I also added a Charms Creations hessian arrow, in the perfect colour. I decided the words in the graphic, were perfect as a title. 

I loved creating this layout. 

Explore, dream, discover

Stuck?!Sketches! March 15 challenge

The mid month sketch is up and ready for playing with at Stuck?!Sketches! Here is the sketch:

This one had me stumped for a bit, as I wasn't sure what photos I had a series of to use for this one. My daughter took some photos of my son and his puppy, and these were what I used. Once I cut them down a bit, they were perfect. 

I had perfect embellishments from Charms Creations to use on this layout, and they are one of the sponsors of the challenge this month. I used a heavenly heart and an o from the xo shapes - this one includes a doggy button. 

Lol, this layout used up some really old Kaisercraft papers, but they were perfect for it. 

Dusty

Show Us Your Stuff January challenge

Happy New Year 2017.
I really do hope this year doesn't go as fast as 2016.
Anyway, welcome to the challenge at Show Us Your Stuff. Here is the challenge:

So this will be great for your summer holiday photos. My photo is from a summer a few years ago now. 

I love the Cocoa Vanilla products, and this one Hello Sunshine from a season ago, is still very appropriate to use. I added a Charms Creations arrow and a flair from Funky Flairs Studio. 

Happy creating. 

Fun in the sun

Scrap The Boys October challenge

End of October already, I managed to sneak in the challenge at Scrap the Boys, a sketch, awesome - I love sketches.

My mother recently gave me these photos of my son when he was 2 (he is now 23). Ihad forgotten about these pics, lol. He was having breakfast with his favourite companion of the time, Brown Ted. 

It seems that with the age of my photos, my layout took a turn to my vintage stash - I really pulled out some of the old stuff for this. I have got old patterned paper and felt fusion - remember that? It seemed to work for this layout and my photos. 

I added a Charms Creations arrow, and a cork embellishment and arrows from Burdy's embellies.

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

Brown Ted

White with 1 October challenge

I haven't done a White with 1 challenge for a while, just seem to run out of time lately. The colour for October challenge is cayenne:

Now this is not ordinarily a colour I would choose to use a lot of, but I seem to be trying things out of my comfort zone a bit of late, so I thought why not. 

I have been wanting to scrap these photo booth photos for a while, and I think they worked perfectly for this challenge.

I sprayed the cardstock with some glimmer mist - it kind of looks like a blood bath, but anyway I ran with it. 

I used some handmade paper and embellished with an x and o from Charms Creations, and a Studio Fourteen40 flair. I decided to leave the wood veneer raw, I think it helped to tone it all down a little. 

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

Fun with my son

Show Us Your Stuff September challege

This month at Show Us Your Stuff there is a great sketch to use, along with some mixed media:

This is a really cool challenge, I had so much fun with this one. 

I chose a photo of my son, in black and white. I used the Ken Oliver colour bursts to create the background, along with texture paste and stamping, plus some paint splatters. This would have to be one of my favourite ways to create a mixed media background. 

Of course with the Show Us Your Stuff challenges, you have to include a handmade item. I have used a Charms Creations DIY heavenly heart and a hessian arrow. I also added a Funky Flairs Studio flair. 

I hope you give this challenge a go, see how creative you can be.

My Boy

Show Us Your Stuff July challenge

This month at Show Us Your Stuff, we have a moodboard designed by Cally Brunner and Chloe Nielsen to inspire:

How cute is this, and how very wintry, seeing as we are now in the middle of winter here in Australia. 

I had the perfect photo for this challenge, one taken of my son, 10 years ago. He and his father were on a camping/4wdriving weekend with a group. It was in November, and it was snowing! It was also his birthday, so he had a fun snowy birthday that year.

On my layout, I was inspired by the colours, and have included them all. I also loved the little snowman, and this is represented in the photo. I have dug through my old supplies and found some snowflake charms and old snowflake eyelets. The patterned papers are very old, but they work. 

I included a Charms Creations hessian super star, perfect colour. Other handmade items include journaling tags from D-lish Scraps, and a flair from Funky Flairs Studio. 

I had lots of fun with this layout, I hope you have a go at it. 

 Snowy day

D-lish Scraps DT share - Grade 1

This is my last share for this month at D-lish Scraps. This time I have chosen a challenge from the current Cybercrop in the Scrap Suite on Facebook, set by Emma:

I chose this photo of my son, when he was in grade 1, in 2000- seems sooooo long ago now.
I matted the photo with a 5 x 7 paper bag. I added some washi tape, and then I used basic journal spots - which I tucked in as a feature rather than to journal on, and then added another basic journal spot on which I journaled. I also added a wood veneer.

My next cluster has again a tucked in  basic journal spot,  ticket, flair button  and wood veneer. 

 

To the side of the photo, my title has been created from Dusty Attic alphas. I repeated the cluster with the basic journal spot,  ticket, flair button , wood veneer and washi tape. I tied some bakers twine around the page, and added a Dusty Attic mini banner. 

The colours I used for the layout are drawn from my sons school uniform. 

So I hope you have a go at this challenge, for any school photos you may have hanging around. 

Grade 1

D-lish Scraps November inspiration board challenge - DT share

This month for my shares at D-lish Scraps, I have decided to scrap about very special events. We all have plenty of them in our lives, and they very possibly are the only ones some of us scrap. So this month the inspiration may be helpful if you are a special event scrapper.
I would like to share the layout I have created for this months inspiration board:

It's a very classy moodboard, and to me it felt like it really did need an "After 5's"/formal style photo. I chose this photo of when my son was a partner to a girl at a debutante ball, quite a special event for a young person.
For my layout I was inspired by the flourishes in the cushions, the diamond image and the flowers.
I stamped with a flourish stamp onto the scripty paper, and used patterned paper that had a pattern similar to the 3rd cushion. I also added a paper doily, and a rhinestone flourish under the side cluster. I have also spread lots of glassy glitter around the page - representing the diamond.

To the side cluster I have used a variety of flowers including after 5's black flower, apple blossoms, sweet petites, mini roses, and heather sprigs. 

I repeated a small cluster to the bottom of the layout with the apple blossom and mini rose.

So you can see the moodboard really does like a special event, why not give it a go?

Debutantes 2010

Happy Scrapping

Off the Rails Scrapbooking September challenge

The challenge set at Off the Rails Scrapbooking for September is to use this moodboard for inspiration:

The colours in this spoke of male inspired but also winter. I didn't want to scrap winter, I'm over it, so I scrapped a male themed layout. I was inspired by the word dream and the colours.  I chose this photo of my son, from his karate black belt grading 3 years ago. I decided to go grungy with this, after all it takes a lot of blood, sweat and tears to get a black belt. 

I chose this Rusty Pickle patterned paper - yes quite old I know, (is that brand even around anymore?), but it worked, in my opinion anyway. I roughed it up, and layed it onto the basic grey patterned paper base. I added a strip of the leftover, and then a strip of Couture Creations die release paper, some washi tape, Project Life journaling cards, tissue paper. I embellished simply with Charms Creations chevron, buttons, Birdies embellies chevrons. I die cut the title out of chipboard. 

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

Dream

Scrap our Stash challenge #30 week 1

I have often thought about doing the Scrap Our Stash challenge, but have just not got around to do it. I was needing something to inspire me for this photo that I have scrapped, and this challenge helped me.

So the sketch is optional, but I used it as well. 

For my items that I used from the word layers, I used - L - layering, A - acetate, alphas, Y - yarn, E - enamel dots, embossing powder, R - resin snowflakes, S - star embellishment.

I had this photo of my kids from a recent trip to Mt Buller for a day of skiing. My son was wearing this skeleton mask - pretty scary in my opinion, but hey - what would I know - lol. 

I had this star embellishment with a skeleton button on it from Charms Creations which I had to use, and this was the perfect match for the photo. 

I layered under the photo with some project life journaling cards, patterned paper, acetate card, and chipboard strip. I also added the yarn as a layer under the photo. I embossed on the snowflakes with Stampendous embossing powder, and sprinkled the resin stars and enamel dots around the page. I have also added a flair button from Funky Flairs Studio. I am really happy with how this turned out. 

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

Skull Face

Scrap the boys August challenge

The challenge at Scrap the Boys for August is a little different and a lot nice:

I really liked this as soon as I saw it, I loved the colour and I really loved the quote. 

I chose a photo of myself and my son (seeing as we are allowed this month to include a mother in the photo), taken quite a few years ago now. 

I had planned on some clean scrapping - pffft, that went out the window, that is way harder than mixed media - lol, it's for me a challenge to make it special. I tried a few things, and none of it worked. So mixed media it was. I had to rescue the Websters Papers patterned paper I had massacred, and cut out of it what I could. I grabbed some good old card stock, a Crafters Workshop stencil, and ink, and inked around the cardstock. I had tried using glitter with the stencil on the patterned paper, but most of that rubbed off, but it did leave a cool effect of the left over glitter - so not all bad  - lol. 

I really liked the quote, so that became a feature on my layout. I recently acquired the Heidi Swapp clear banner, and I suppose it is fitting that I used that seeing as she recently lost her son. I used some new X, O and heart embellishments from Charms Creations, Freckled Fawn wood veneer, and Prima flowers to embellish. 

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

Love my boy

Scrap the Boys June challenge

For the June challenge at Scrap the Boys, there is an awesome sketch to use:

I really loved working with this sketch, so very, very cool for a male layout, I can see myself doing another one. I chose these 3 mini prints of my husband and my son, which I took last Fathers Day, of them just sitting and being together enjoying each others company. 

My layout background was created on Teresa Collins paper, to which I had tried doing some stencilling on for another layout, but made a mess of that, set it aside, but was able to pull it out and use it for this challenge -waste not, want not, especially Teresa Collins paper. 

I then added more to the background with a TCW stencil and Tim Holtz inks and then splatters of dylusions ink. I added a heap of cotton thread and then built my layers with some old scrap Basic Grey and Kaisercraft captured memories cards. The words are cut out from Teresa Collins co-ordinating paper. The embellishing otherwise is kept pretty simple, only the naughts and crosses/plusses embellishments from Charms Creations, and a flair button. 

I love the overall effect of this layout, so do my boys. 

Thanks for looking and for any comments you may leave. 

Cheers