Scrap Africa #63 Mood Board

Hello and welcome back!  This is a pretty mood board for your mid-month challenge with SCRAP AFRICA. If you love using flowers on your creations, well this is the challenge for you! Check it out:

Is was inspired by the pretty, feminine colours in this Board. I've used some lovely chipboard embellies from 2Crafty (one is looking a tad crooked in this pic but not IRL so not sure what has happened) and the chipboard title is from The Dusty Attic. I also used a stencil from Kaisercraft for the background as well as stencil from Donna Downey Studios for the flourish. The lace is from Craft Queen.

Some of the flowers and berry coils are from D-lish Scraps.

I really hope that this Mood Board has given you some ideas & I'd love to see your entries. You have two weeks to enter. Thanks for dropping by :)

Kraft Plus November challenge

So I put the art books aside for this weekend and concentrated on a couple of layouts. This one is for the November challenge at KRAFT PLUS. Lots of fun using a title from a song by one of my fave entertainers:
                                       

Raise your glass!

It's not very often that the men in my life get a chance to wear their glad rags, but this was one of those occasions that required a photo or two of this rare occurrence :)
I spread around some tiny gold seed beads on this layout and used lots of gold accents. The circles represent the bubbles from the champagne.

A very fun challenge at Kraft Plus this month. I hope you can join in. Thanks for looking xx

Pocket Page Letter...

I almost forgot to upload pics of the last pocket page letter that I sent to a lovely lady in October via Scrapping Clearly. This was the criteria:

Now I do like a bit of glitter/bling so here is the pocket page that I sent off to my recipient:

The cute little mason jar is from my friend Mary and I created a little sequined confetti pocket as well as cutting a few words with a Tim Holtz die. Here is the reverse:

I really like creating these little pockets but I've had to put it on the back-burner for a while due to other commitments, but hopefully I'll be able to join the group again in the near future. But you never know if one of these will turn up in your mailbox as well over the next few months as time allows :) Keep an eye out!

November Challenges...

Yes I know! How on earth did November roll around so quickly! The only thing we can do is embrace it and what better way than to join in on some challenges?  Here is the new challenge at SCRAP AFRICA. Another stunning sketch from Denise:

 Here is my take on the challenge:   Wonderful Memories

I've used lots of Kaisercraft ephemera, 2Crafty Chipboard, Prima wood veneer cogs, crochet lace and some fantastic Graphic 45 month stamps. The clock Flair button is from Studio fourteenforty. I urge you all to call into the Scrap Africa blog and check out the most amazing DT inspiration :)


ARTastic NOVEMBER CHALLENGE:

And another truly inspirational piece of art that Jane from ARTastic has given us this month to follow. The ONLY criteria is to use flowers on your project. Have I mentioned before that I'm in love with the Dylusion's paints at the moment? I just had to have another go at them in my Art Journal for this challenge.

Here is the inspo by Emma Uber entitled "Weeds". A beautiful, colourful, whimsical piece I must say by this talented Australian Artist :)

Here is my Art Journal page. The quote reads "Your mind is a garden, your thoughts are the seeds. You can grows flowers or you can grow weeds".

I used my fingers to apply the paint and then added a few sprays of water to spread it around. I added some fluffy white clouds and stamped some birds, butterflies and a music note stamp to the background. The Chameleon Colour Tone pens came in handy to create some of the flowers and I used a punch to created the flowers from a piece of music sheet.

I'd love to see what you can come up with and I'm sure a lot of you just love including flowers in your projects. As a side note, ARTastic is having a Design Team Call for 2016. Jane and all the ladies over at ARTastic are so easy and fun to work with. Pop on over to the blog and check out the details. Applications close on the 15th of THIS month.

Thanks for dropping by and have a fantastic week! xx

Scrap Africa #61

October is flying by and before I know it there is another wonderful mood board to work with over at SCRAP AFRICA.  I'm sure you'll love this bright and pretty Board.

Here is my Design Team Inspiration: "Cambridge"

I really loved working with these colours. I've used the Botanical Tea papers from Graphic 45 and a bit of chippy in a brick design as well as a brick stencil and texture paste.

I fussy cut a rose from one of the G45 sheets, cut some leaves with a die and used 3D foam to mount them. I really hope you get a chance to play along with this beautiful challenge.

While I'm here, I'd also like to share with you another page from my London Pocket Page Album. I had a night shot of Tower Bridge/HMS Belfast enlarged and then I sliced it up to fit the pockets. I was really happy with the way it turned out. Especially the quality of the enlargement, because I took the original photo on my trusty little point-and-shoot camera with no tripod!

The very top of the enlargement was a bit too short to fully fit the top pockets, and it was only black sky anyway, so I cut it off and inserted two 6x4 photos that were taken on the same night. This is one of my favourite ways of displaying my favourite photos as enlargements in my travel albums :)

Thanks for dropping by. I'd love to hear from you, so feel free to leave some love :) xx

Art Journal Journey...

Well hello again, I'm just getting in by the skin of my teeth with this challenge. The ONLY challenge I've been able to enter so far this month. This one is for Mixed Media Place Creative Gym Exercise #12 - "Proverbs & Sayings". I was inspired by my family's ongoing International Nights. This Saturday night we are visiting France. This one has been a bit long in coming around because it's getting harder and harder to get my offspring and their partners all together at the same time, but I keep persisting :)  So finally I get to decorate the house with some lovely French decorations. We girls have organised the french wine, a Fondue and I'll be cooking Coq au vin. I've decided not make dessert as it's DD's birthday so we'll have birthday cake instead. Hopefully someone has organised that side of things :/  So enough of my chit chat, here is my take on the challenge:

"Paris is always a good idea"

A closie of the little Cafe' scene:

Lots and lots of wet media layers on this project. It's a wonder the pages didn't disintegrate! anyway they held together thankfully. Head on over to Mixed Media Place and check out the fantastic DT inspiration. Thanks for looking xx

Scrap Africa Challenge #60

I'm back again today (can you tell that it's the beginning of a new month!) with the new Challenge over at SCRAP AFRICA and what a beautiful sketch Denise has come up with this time!

Just lovin' the circles! Here is my take using some of the fabulous chippies that I recently recieved from 2Crafty for winning one of their competitions.

I've used the chippy vine circles and chippy flowers from my 2Crafty haul and coloured them with water colours & a dab of Inca Gold here & there.

The pretty Flair buttons and flowers are from D-lish Scraps. I die cut the word "beYOUtiful" using a shining gold cardstock, unfortunately a bit hard to see in these photos.

So there you have it, my design for the current sketch at Scrap Africa. I'd love you to pop on over to their blog and have a go at this Challenge. Thanks for dropping by xx