Kraft plus October challenge

This October at Kraft Plus, it's all about friends. How nice is that, and leaves you free range for your design:

I had this photo, taken of our group of friends, friends my husband has known since his childhood. We often take vacations with these people, and we celebrate all the big events in our lives together. You couldn't ask for a better group of people, who also know how to have a good time. 

I have kept this layout reasonably simple, it didn't need to be too overdone. I added a Charms Creations super star to the layout, it seemed to work. The addition of the string is symbolic of tying us all together in our friendship. 

My Tribe

Scrapping Outback January challenge

This month at Scrapping Outback, the challenge is to be inspired by this image:

I found this a challenge. I really struggle to scrap with such neutral colours, even though the silver is there as an extra touch of elegance. I was also missing my mojo when I scrapped this layout. 

I started with a white patterned paper, to which I stamped and stencilled on. I chose some black patterned papers, don't actually have many in my stash, as they are a challenge to me. 

I had the Dusty Attic chipboard chandelier piece, to which I added kindyglitz. 

I also added some Scrap FX chipboard feathers and 2 Crafty butterflies, which I left natural. 

I'm still trying to figure out how I feel about this layout. Thanks for looking at my layout, and for any comments you may leave

Friends

Deer and Fawn Designs mini challenge by Amanda-Jayne

The lovely Amanda-Jayne Baldwin from Deer and Fawn Designs, has set a mini challenge this month, to use Christmas papers and products for a non-Christmas themed photo. Cool challenge, so I thought I would give it a go.
I chose this photo of my friends son, daughter in law and grandson, a selfie they took of their little family. It is such a cute photo, and I've been waiting to scrap it for a little while.
I used some My Minds Eye patterned paper, with die cuts form one of the older collections, as well as some Basic Grey paper. I added a patterned paper bag, Therese Collins die cuts, sequin bow, beads and Charms Creations lush lollipop.

I think my layout, actually looks a little like Christmas, but then again doesn't , if that makes sense, lol. Anyway, I had fun with it. Thanks for the challenge Amanda-Jayne.

Family Photo

Tea and Scones - D-lish Scraps Design Team share #1

Hi everyone. 

 I am very excited to be part of the D-lish Scraps design team, and am looking forward to the next 6 months of sharing with you. 

I have decided to start my shares, by setting a theme  - to use texture on your projects. You don't have to be restricted to just using paper, there are many products on the market, and also found in your home, that can add texture to your layout.  

I would like to start with my layout that I did using this months Inspiration board, which is a beauty. 

Straight away when you look at the board, you can see texture in it - crochet birds, pinwheels, wood fence, fabric banners, frames, buttons, flowers, gobstoppers, etc. So many textural elements that are inspiring. 

I took inspiration from the banner, the flowers, the crochet birds, the wooden fence, and the buttons, as well as the primary colours. 

I kind of used the sketch, with this patterned paper, which I felt went with the elements I was using, and the photo. The patterned paper on it's own is very flat though, so it needed the textural elements to lift it. I added one of the wood veneer postage stamp frames behind my photo. Ordinarily I have struggled to use these frames, but mounting the photo onto it worked well. I also coloured the frame, to give it the wood grain look from the inspiration board. I also added a little wooden birdhouse buttons  in a cluster to the side of the wood veneer frame.

For more texture I cut in half a yellow crochet doily, and tucked it into my cluster. I then added  plastic buttons, starflowers, resin flowers, and spiral stamens to my cluster for a variety of textural elements. 

I also added a few of these items to other areas of my layout.

I also added a few of these items to other areas of my layout.

Tea and Scones

D-lish Scraps August cybercrop sketch challenge by Sue

There is a cybercrop on at D-lish Scraps, it goes until mid September. I haven't done any cybercrops for a while, just run out of time. I have had some enforced sick leave - not allowed to work with a virus in my job, so what better thing to do, then scrap the time away - lol. I chose to do this sketch challenge, desgined by the talented Sue Plumb.

I chose this photo, which has been sitting in my stash since last Christmas. It is of my work colleague and I meeting Samuel Johnson - actor, comedian, and breast cancer awareness supporter through the charity Love your sister. My colleague Kerrie, organised for Samuel to come to our work Christmas party, as a guest speaker and to collect a donation that we had collected. A lot of scrapbookers will know of this charity, as Samuels sister Connie is a scrapbooker, and their story has been published in Scrapbooking Memories magazine - he signed my copy for me, lol.
Anyway, the products that I have used on my layout from the D-lish Scraps shop include the red after 5's flower, the gold spiral stamens, resin buttons, flair button, journaling tags, paper bag and wood veneers.
Thanks for looking at my layout, and for any comments you may leave.

Meeting Samuel Johnson

Archiscraps August challenge

This month there is a challenge at the Archiscraps blog, to used something clear. I thought I would have a go at this one, as I have a lot of clear embellishments in my stash, so why not use some of them up. That was my thought anyway. For some reason, I struggled when it actually came to putting this all together, as my mojo has taken a dive again.
From my stash I chose Heidi Swapp banner, ghost letters (remember those) and some other clear items from an ephemera pack. I think what I struggled with most, was putting the ghost letters on the page - attaching them, without glue showing, and the only other way that would have worked for me was to staple them, which I didn't want to do, as it would have detracted from them. So I glued them, don't think I should have, but it can't be undone now. Anyway, the layout is ok, I just don't feel it with this one - mojo - come back. Even photographing this was tricky, the photos all taken at the same time, just didn't match up colour wise - grrr, bit disappointed about that.

Adorable

Scrapping with Charms Creations butterfly hearts

Charm from Charms Creations has created some absolutely gorgeous butterfly and heavenly heart embellishments. This is an example of one of the embellishments available in her store. You can find them here.

So on the facebook page there is also a challenge to use the new embellishments. It is a gorgeous challenge. Why not give it a go, and don't forget to upload it to the inspiration page. 

So here is my take on the challenge. Although I didn't use the quote  in my layout, I was inspired to use butterflies, and use the title in the script writing. I also chose the bright colours in the image on the right. 

This is a photo of a friend and his baby girl, taken back in 2009. I think the butterflies are a perfect embellishment for a baby layout, as are hearts. 

Baby girl

Have fun with the challenge. 

Off the Rails Scrapbooking April Challenge

This month at Off the Rails Scrapbooking the challenge is to be inspired by this mood board:

 

or there is this version:

I chose to use the one with the pink for my layout. I used a photo of my one of my daughters long term friends, Leah. Leah had taken this selfie, which I asked if I could scrap, she was obliging and said yes. 

I loved how the challenge colours were able to be picked up in the photo, so the 2 could work well. 

I tried a few different backgrounds, but the black cardstock worked best for this layout. I misted a little and did a bit of stencilling with texture paste and added some glitter. 

The leaves were cut with a Tim Holtz die and some glitter card and fantasy film (really old stuff from my stash). The patterned papers are also really old stuff. I thought I may as well keep going with the old, and added the sequin trim which was from a friends' mothers unwanted stash. The sequin bow from D-lish Scraps finished it all off. 

I showed the layout to Leah last night, I think she liked it, lol, 

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

Smile

D-lsh Scraps February Cybercrop challenge by Kerry

The challenge designed by Kerry Stuchberry was fun, fun, fun all the way. Tie dying on paper, who would have thunk it?

Well I knew exactly which photo I needed to use for this layout. I had this photo of some of our friends, taken at my 50th birthday party from nearly a year ago already (where did that year go?) This pic has been sitting in my stash waiting for the right challenge, yay, it appeared. I found some old yoyo flowers to use with the gorgeous after 5's and tutu flowers, found in store at D-lish Scraps. 

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

Groovy Baby

D-lish Scraps January Cybercrop - Wendy's challenge

This is the second of the challenges that I did do from the D-lish Scraps cybercrop that I managed to do this weekend -the sketch challenge by Wendy.

The photo I have used is of a friends daughter - Maddy, a few years ago, when she was just a little one, but a real cutie (she still is). I really wanted to make a soft layout, and the lovely pastels helped me create this layout. It really was just a little bit of fun working on this one. I have used another one of the lovely handmade embellishments made by Charms Creations, but also some of the loveliness to be found at D-lish Scraps - very cute flairs, crochet flowers, bows, sequins, journaling tabs. 

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

Maddy girl at 2 years

Show Us Your Stuff November Challenge

Despite it being a busy month this month, with a 21st birthday to organise and celebrate, and now Christmas shopping, somehow I have managed to get some scrapping challenges done. I thought this one from Show Us Your Stuff for November, was a great challenge to inspire.



For this challenge, I chose the 5 x 7 inch photo, stencilling, the bow, and the word laugh to create this fun layout of a friend and his 3 daughters. This was fun, the photo needed something funky, and despite the paper being a bit old, with a bit of background work, I think it was just right for the layout.

My handmade embellishment is the 3 felt flowers, and also a handmade flair button.

Thanks SUYS for the challenge.

Thanks for looking at my layout.

Laugh out loud



123 October Challenge

This month I have decided to give the 123 challenge a go, as it was too pretty not to. For October the challenge was to use the following items in a layout:

I love swirls, and the word forever had so many opportunities, the apricot was very nice to work with, who wouldn't give this challenge a go.

I decided to scrap a photo of my daughter Melanie, and a friend Sherrilee, who she has now known for 23 years, since Melanie was a 1 year old. They have always enjoyed each others company, despite
Sherrilee being a bit older.

I created the background using a kaisercraft stencil, ink and then embossed that. I have added a couple of other colours to this layout as accents, but predominantly used the apricot. I have then added some lovely embellishments from Kaisercraft, D-lish Scraps, Heidi Swapp, A lil Somethin, Project Life and Prima - some old things, some new things. I added a wooden swirl to my cluster, and used the work Forever 3 times - in journaling, title, and embellishment. 

Thanks for looking at my layout.

Forever Friends

D-lish Scraps cybercrop challenge 4

The 4th challenge at the October D-lish Scraps cybercrop was to use purple - arrrgggggghhhhhhh! This is probably the one colour I dislike working with the most, apart from neon, lol. So, I sat down, set to, and battled that demon that is called purple, and I won the victory - yay! I am really pleased with how this layout turned out, will think differently about purple now.

Photo of my daughter and a dear friend of mine, who used to be my daughters family day carer.

D-lish Scraps products used - paper flowers and button flair, plus monochromatic journaling tag.

Thanks for looking at my layout.

 Cherished

Scrap the Boys August challenge

I have only done a Scrap the Boys challenge once before, this one really appealed to me, so just had to give it a go. So for the Scrap the boys August challenge, I scrapped this layout.
I chose this photo of our friend Steve, who really is a born entertainer. He's a bit of a funny man, he loves to sing and entertain, but can also be very serious, and he is constantly performing and giving of his time to his favourite cause, The Starlight Foundation.
I loved how this challenge was to profile a male, which worked perfectly, in my opinion for this layout. The little D'lish Scraps journal it's almost look like dot points here.
Thanks for the challenge ladies.
Thanks for looking at my layout.

Born Entertainer

D'lish Scraps August Cybercrop challenge 3

For challenge 3 at the D'lsih Scraps cybercrop, a "selfie" photo needed to be used - could be a selfie taken by anyone. I chose this photo of a friends daughter Zoe. She is a lovely and sweet girl, and also gorgeous, hence this layout evolved as it did.
I picked up the gold tonings of the photo, and kept it pretty much to that. I experimented with some gold leaf- not as hard as I thought it would be, plus glimmer glam and gelatos to create the colour of the background. The floral background was done on chipboard sprayed with gesso, and The crafters workshop stencil and texture paste. A bit of extra glimmer mist and glitter added to finish off the detail.
The D'lish scraps products I have used are paper flowers, a button flair and freckled fawn wood veneers.
Thanks for looking at my layout.

Gorgeous

Show us your stuff August Challenge

This month at Show us your stuff the August challenge is a shapes challenge using the following shapes:
 a square, a rectangle, bunting, a circle, a banner, a splash of paint or ink, and a handmade item. Now this initially sounded like a challenge that would absolutely challenge me, as I am not a big fan of bunting - just struggle to use them, and multiple shapes - hmmm - as the girls at Show us your stuff have said "it sounds like a lot, but it's not really that hard". I now agree, and after creating my layout, I realise I didn't struggle that much, except maybe still to use my bunting. I doubled up the bunting, not sure why, still not sure if it works, but it's there now lol. Anyway, the photo I've used is of a friend and his 3 gorgeous girls, one of them my husbands God daughter. I've used all the required elements, and my handmade item is a felt heart, and also diecut denim flowers and circle diecut.
Thanks for looking at my layout.

I will love you forever