March White with 1 challenge

Happy Saturday, and what a beautiful day it is too! This month's challenge over at White with 1 is white + kraft + layering. I love white & kraft together so this was a lot of fun to play with. I started this page yesterday & left it overnight to simmer & this morning I added another layer. So this is the finished product.

And by the way, I have another layout published in this month's Australian Scrapbook Creations Mag. Very chuffed I must say. I used another photo of my DD taken by the talented Steve Hill (thanks for providing my inspiration Steve). This mag is a terrific source of inspiration with lots of layouts by some very talented scrapbookers & I'm very humbled to be published alongside of these wonderful ladies.

Have a great weekend :)

Some Everyday Enchantment

Like I said.....I'm back with the layout I did over the weekend for the March Sketch Challenge over at The Boxx. It just needed some "tweeking" before posting. I've used the beautiful Everyday Enchantment pp from the current Stampin' Up! Sale-a-bration catty with matching ribbon & brad. I've been dying to use this paper and equally so the photo of my sweet girl (photo by Steve Hill). And of course I had to add some butterflies :)

I've also used a little Maya Road clock & I think the branch is from Prima (could be wrong), and leaves from Craft Queen. Anyhoo, thanks for looking :)

Having fun with bright colours

Happy Sunday everyone. I had a small window of opportunity to get some washing dry before it rained again today and of course spent the rest of the day being creative. I managed to get a few projects completed this weekend; an off-the-page timber project, two challenges for March & two pages for our travel album. Not bad seeing as I also did some cooking & watched three movies over the weekend as well as the usual pantry re-stocking, ironing and a bit of cleaning. So all in all, not a bad effort if I do say so myself :) I have another one of "those weeks" coming up so won't get back to my creation station until next weekend.
This page is my entry in the fornightly challenge over at The Boxx. We were to take our inspiration from some photos that Gina had posted. The lovely colours in the photos were my inspiration. I couldn't wait to scrap this photo of DS & his friends at a recent farewell party. They had so much fun in these costumes (although a bit too hot to stay in them for too long but time enough to get up to some shananigans in them!). Anyway I'm glad someone had the where-with-all to take a "before" photo. I downloaded the comic book icons from the internet and printed the second pic using the "comic book" option on my photo editing program.

I punched the stars with my Stampin' Up! star punch, stamped them with a background stamp & glossed them with Crystal Effects. I've used Pool Party, Calypso Coral & Island Indigo colours from the new Stampin' Up! In Colours. I thought the American Crafts puffy alphas were perfect for this page. Click on the photo for a close up.
 I'll be back tomorrow to post my entry for the Monthly Sketch Challenge on The Boxx. TFL xx

Gr2 Feb Show Us Your Stuff! Challenge

The Group 2 February Challenge over at http://showusyourstuff.blogspot.com.au/ is a recipe challenge. 3 pps, 3 embellies, at least one heart and paint somewhere on the page. So here is my entry. Now I may have mentioned this before, but purple is a colour I very rarely use, however I wanted to match the colour in DS's shirt & tie so I pulled out everything I possessed in my stash that was a shade of purple, then I added just a dash of green to break it & also black to make it more masculine.

I cut a little pocket at the top of the page for some hidden journalling, and white washed the background paper with white paint. The dyed doily, heart pin, purple satin ribbon, ticket & advert are all from Tattered Inspirations; cogs are from Srapmatts, and the stamp is from Stampin' Up!
Thanks for looking :)

Card Creativeness

This is a card I made for a family friend who is leaving to start a new career. I've embossed the motorbike & the "good luck" sentiment in white embossing powder to make them stand out more. I also used the Stampin' Up! textured impressions Square Lattice embossing folder for the background and white baker's twine. And I always like to stamp the envelopes to match, otherwise the project doesn't  feel quite finished. Other than this I've been practicing using my brayer today, as next week's technique class will include a brayer technique. Unfortunately I'm a tad messy & have managed to get more ink on myself than on the actual project.....how does that happen????

Please feel free to leave a comment :) I would love to hear from you.

The Boxx - Scrapper's Challenge

A wet Sunday....how unusual, but what a wonderful scrapping day :)  After an eventful, emotional & challenging week, I eventually finished my entry for the Scrapper's Challenge over at The Boxx. The criteria was unusual in that we had to use something on our page beginning with each letter from our name. So for mine I used: J = journalling, O = Orange, A = Alphas, N = Notes/Nonsense, N = Name/numbers, E = Embellishments/envelope.
I love the colour of this "blob" we found in Canberra so of course a photo had to be taken, so the photo is a bit of Nonsense :)

The little envelope is cut with a Big Shot die from Stampin' Up! (very cute) and the lovely fabric covered buttons are from Purple Pumpkin. Feeling a bit drained & below par today, so this will probably be it for my creating today. Thanks for dropping by.

Stuck?! Feb 15 sketch challenge

Happy Sunday!  Here is my entry for the challenge over at Stuck?!  The sketch looked fairly easy, however when I decided to use some of my holiday pics, therefore killing two birds with one stone, it became a tad more difficult than I'd imagined. Anyway, this is the end result.

I have "one of those" weeks coming up, so this will probably be the one & only page I'll get done for a while.
TFL :)