Scrapbooking Top 50 2016 Block challenge

This post is my interpretation of the Week 2 challenge at Scrapbooking Tip 50 2016 Block challenge. Here is the inspiration:

I loved all the colour in this photo, the greens and pinks are very dominant, but I didn't want to use pink as a dominant colour in my layout, even though it is in the photo, doesn't seem right to me to use pink for boys, lol. So I went with the orange instead, with just a little pink. 

The wet mediums I used were texture paste, dylusions ink spray, glimmermist, and a new product I bought recently, Golden brand tar gel, which I mixed with acrylic paint, and then dribbled over the background. I learnt this technique recently in a class by Lisa Oxley using house paint. I think this product will be better, I will be able to colour it any colour I want. 

The texture in my layout comes in the form of the crochet lace, tulle, buttons, felt embellies from Charms Creations and Rainbow Splendour, flair from Funky Flairs Studio, and some enamel dots, wood veneer, wire arrow and twine. 

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

Milk 'stache

CSI colour challenge #180

I am sharing the layout I have done as Charms Creations guest designer for the CSI colour challenge #180. Here is the current challenge:

For this challenge I was a bit stuck with photos/stories about reading or books (found one after I did the layout), so I kind of used my photo and the title to make the link. I chose this photo of great niece and nephew, dressing up with hats, at a baby shower afternoon tea - another link for the story reference. I am relying on a little creative licence here, so the title Mad Hatters, and afternoon tea - link to the story Alice in Wonderland. 

The evidence I used on my layout are - polka dots, banner - from Charms Creations, leaves, metal flowers, decorative border, doilies, scallops and watercolour. I have included a little bookpage "O"with hat button from Charms Creations, to top it off. 

 I did the journalling kind of "table of contents" format - I know it's a stretch.

If you haven't already tried a CSI colour challenge before, why not give it a go? Charms Creations is sponsoring again for this challenge. 

Happy scrapping.

Mad Hatters

123 February challenge

This month at 123 challenge blog, the challenge is a really fun bright one, using the requirements as below:

Lovely bright colours, which I have found myself using quite a bit of lately. This one is perfect for boy layouts. That's exactly what I chose, using these two photos of my nephews Patrick and Jamieson. They are 2 busy little boys, and obviously need to do what all little boys do, climb trees. 

For my layout, I kept it pretty clean and simple, unusual for me, who normally likes to use mixed media. I did do a couple of paint splatters to finish, lol. I used the glitter on my word duo, to make it pop a little. 

The tree die cut is a sizzix die, which is pretty cute. 

Thanks for looking, and for any comments you may leave. 

Dynamic Duo

D-lish Scraps January Cybercrop - Katie's challenge

Cybercropping is back for 2015 at D-lish Scraps, and even though I have only managed 2 of the 5 challenges, they are still pretty awesome challenges.
This one was designed by Katie Howard, which was to use triadic colours - silly me, thought this meant 3 colours, but it means 3 colours that are complementary to each other on the colour wheel. So after I perused the colour wheels, I decided the primary colours were what I was going to work with, and these photos (small one replicated from large one), of nephews Patrick and Jamieson worked beautifully. Boy layouts are not always easy to do, but I found with the use of the primary colours, I was able to find embellishments that worked, including the star by Charms Creations, and the little alien monster from Scrap FX, worked a treat.
I had a lot of fun with this one, and let the mediums work for me - including the splats.
Thanks for looking at my layout, and any comments you may leave.

Beware of little monsters