Scrapbook Challenges - Gallery Gems

This is the last week for the Term A Design Team and I thought I'd pick a few of my favourite Design Team layouts as Gallery Gems this week.

First up is Brynn - great hybrid work
   

Chanell's layouts are full of colour and fun  

Jowilna always inspires me


I simply love Tabitha's work


Can't ignore Lee-Anne either


and when it comes to digi, I love Olivia's youthful style

For pretty layouts, I turn to Emmy
   

Carmen's layouts always have lots of little details to admire  

Amanda also has great digi style
 

I could go on and on and on but for now these are just SOME of my favs. Please go leave some love for each one of them.

Till next time,
 

Camp-Friendzy

I've woken up a bit late but as Camp goes on all summer (in the USA!) I thought I'd give it a go and try my hand again at a few extra challenges over the next few months.  Why not join me for a few extra fun moments at Scrap Friendzy.

I did this two years ago (or was it last year?) and thoroughly enjoyed it.

Paper Mixing Bowl - challenges

I finished the last two challenges for the Paper Mixing Bowl and even if I say so myself, I really like both these pages A LOT!!!

April's challenge - White, stitching, chipboard, doilies, journal about something NEW

This page is about a friend from work's little girl being christened.  I did lots of stitching (by hand!) on this page... all the crosses around the photos and then some on the hearts and the strips... think I must be mad in the head at times!

May's challenge - main colour is Kraft, journalling about family, use song lyrics, use a frame and rubons

These photos were taken to be used as part of my Christmas present from Aaron... they are just so sweet that I had to scrap them too.  I used the lyrics from the Barney song "I love you..." all over my page as this is a song Aaron sings to me quite often... he has even taken to changing some of the words now and then.

As this layout has loads of circles on it (the patterned paper had them preprinted and then I added a few more) I am entering this in the Wildcard challenge at Scrapbook Challenges too.  Also going to enter this at Scrap Friendzy for Challenge 2: Camp Songs

Paper Mixing Bowl - June Challenge

Before I start with my Design Team commitments for the Paper Mixing Bowl, I thought I'd tackle some of the previous recipe challenges.

For June's challenge I did a page from my 2010 album of Aaron sleeping while on holiday.

The main parts of this challenge was to use the colour charcoal, with added bits like brackets, paper with script, hidden journalling, metal elements.

I also did a bit of messy stamping on this page, so will be entering it into one of the challenges at Scrapbook Challenges as well.

I did this page for the first recipe challenge at the Paper Mixing Bowl, which called for the colour, dark chocolate!!!  Right up my alley!

The backgound papers are more brown than the scan shows... and all the metal elements/brads/flowers I used are also brown.  This layout shows the day Aaron got his glasses.

I'm busy working on two more which I hope to showcase soon.

Scrapbook Challenges - Sketch 301

Brrrrr.... winter hit with very icy teeth this weekend.... thankfully we have a roaring fire going to keep us nice and toasty.

Today is my last sketch reveal of my current term with Scrapbook Challenges.... it's been a great six months.  The new team will be announced on 1st July 2012.  Here is today's sketch:

I chose to do the single page with a few adjustments (so what's new hey!!)

I only used two photos and added in some tape measure strips.  The little house is from a Cosmo Cricket blackboard set.... I coloured it in with oil pastels and decided to protect my page by then covering it all with dimension glaze.

Please head over to the forum to see what the rest of the design team did this week.

I've been published (sort of)

I submitted three layouts to a blog called "Multi-photo Scrapbooking" and got them all showcased today on their blog.... go have a look.

Paper Mixing Bowl - Design Team

I heard last week and have been bursting to share.... I made the Design Team over at The Paper Mixing Bowl.... super super excited.  I will be creating a layout a month with a few guidelines... hope you can join me on this new journey.

Scrapbook Challenges - Sketch 300

It's the last Monday of the second term... this time next week I will be on Mommy holiday... and looking forward to getting time to do lots of scrapping... the last few weeks have just been so busy that I haven't actually touched sides.

This past weekend we had a soap box derby on at Aaron's school... it was a real fun-filled day.  If you want to see more, check out the school blog.  To top of the amazing day I went and fell on the steps at our house that evening and ended up hurting my feet.... was hobbling around most of Sunday.  Thank goodness this morning everything seems to be back to normal.  It was Father's Day yesterday and my folks came over for lunch.  We just  vegged by a roaring fire all afternoon... played monopoly as well.

Today's sketch is up at Scrapbook Challenges and we have reached the 300 milestone. Be sure to check out the forum for lots more inspiration.

For my layout I used the single page sketch and decided to change the circles for hearts in keeping with the "valentines" theme of the photo.  At Aaron's school they don't celebrate valentines as such... rather they have renamed it "Agapanthus Day" to celebrate Agape love.... love one for another.

While you are at the forum checking out the rest of the team's layouts, why not join in a game of bingo... you choose 25 words from the list and the words will be called during the month of July.

Don't forget too, there are lots of fun challenges each week run by different Design Team members.

Scrapbook Challenges - Design Team Call Layout

I've been on the Design Team for Scrapbook Challenges all year (as I'm sure you know) and have really enjoyed it.  The Forum is a great place to find sketches and challenges each week and we also chat and encourage each other.  Now it's time for a new team to be chosen... so have you applied?  I have!  So what do you need to do, well mainly you need to create a layout using this sketch:

So I created a layout to, just for this occasion:

You have till the 16th of June to apply... check out the blog post for more information.

Scrapbook Challenges - Sketch 299

Can you believe it, but it's Monday again... hehehe.  Had a busy week last week with lots of blog posts.. hope that you enjoyed reading it all.  Here is this week's sketch from Scrapbook Challenges.

My layout for this week is from my 2010 album... one of the photos from our December holiday.

This was taken on the hill behind the cottages we were staying in... the only place we could get cellphone signal.. my niece Veronica spent a good part of each day here chatting with her mom or boyfriend.

For my layout I used papers and stickers from a variety of manufacturers... I love how they all end up working together.

Be sure to head over to the forum this week to see what the rest of the design team did.

Better Living Through Scrapbooking Challenge

I found a blog a few years back that I also follow on facebook, called Better Living Through Scrapbooking.  Well they have monthly challenges and the last few months they haven't had anyone take part... so I thought I'd try my hand at one of them (make a layout using yellow & cream) and here is my layout.

I did take a bit of licence with this challenge and added in some blue.  I used Bo Bunny papers to do this page.

Catch up post

I've been going through my list of layouts that I created this year to see which ones I've posted and which not... so here are some of the ones that you haven't seen yet.

This first layout is a scraplift of a page I saw a few years back at ScrapGirls.com

I saw this layout at The Scrapping Studio and just knew I had to do one myself.

Two/three years after making this layout by Michelle van Wyk I eventually found photos to do it justice.

A kit from M&M Adventures... I did this one a few months back but only finished it this past week when I got the class photo from school.

This layout is also a scraplift.  It has two flaps that move to reveal lots more photos.

I also had fun creating this gorgeous layout (can I say that?)  I've had this paper mini album in my stash for a few years now... and now it's done.

The following layouts are from my 2009 album... trying very hard to finish off that year.

 

This last layout includes some stitching that I discovered how to do after reading Cathy Lane's blog... must admit it was effective, but not something I will do again in a hurry... took me over 3 hours!

and to end off this long post, two layout that include bicycles from Enmarc.

Thanks for sticking with me to the end... hope you enjoyed the feast of layouts.

Scrapbook and Things Challenges

I have bought the kits each month and entered the challenges over at Scrapbook and Things.  The last time I posted about this was Challenge 2... so I thought that I had better show you the last few challenge pages that I've done.

Challenge 3

Challenge 4

This is the latest one:

Challenge 5

I already have my kit for Challenge 6, so need to get creating with it soon too.

If you are in the Johannesburg area, please pop in to Scrapbook and Things and vote for my layout.

Scrapbook Challenges - By The Numbers

I am hosting a challenge this month at Scrapbook Challenges, called By The Numbers.  Here is the layout that I made for it:

To find out more about this challenge please head over to the forum and take part.

Scrapbook Challenges - Sketch 298

What a weekend it has been.... celebrating the Queen's Jubilee.  I enjoyed watching a little of the pomp and ceremony last night with the flotilla of boats down the Thames.  Tonight I'm enjoying the celebration concert.  At least the Brits have better weather for the concert than yesterday when it poured down.

With it being Monday it is of course time for a new sketch from Scrapbook Challenges.

This is a really fun sketch... I love the angles for the photos... just adds a bit of extra interest.  For my layout, I went with the single page and did a layout about my Mom's birthday two years ago.

I am very proud of myself on this layout... I hand stitched... I think I must have been crazy, but I really do like the finished product.

Check out the forum to see what the rest of the Design Team did this week.

Queen's Jubilee

I haven't posted too many Google Doodles here lately... just been a bit busy.... but today's one really deserves to be shown....

Happy Jubilee to the Queen of England... long may she reign.