Scrapbook Challenges - Mood Board

The theme running through July at Scrapbook Challenges has been all things Nautical... today's mood board was just the thing I needed to get a kit finished.

This is a layout that was designed by Sharon Coetzer which I've had sitting around for a while and just needed to get photos printed.

Check out the blog for a few more ideas.

Scrapbook Challenges - Flashback Friday Sketch 206

Last week Friday was the actual reveal of the Flashback Friday but I didn't get my layout done until yesterday... opps. It had sat on my desk for a whole week while I stewed over it and hunted for my diary of our boat trip... which I still haven't found! Anyway I decided to change plan a bit and added some technique detail to my page instead.

You can of course see other layouts on the blog for more inspiration.

Monday Mojo - July reveal

It's the third Monday of the month, so time for me to share my layout based on the Monday Mojo sketch.

For my layout I chose to scrap photos of Shaun's dip in the Antarctic... brrrr.

I stuck to the positions of the photos but changed things up a little with adding in the certificates as part of the photo block.

The blue background piece was a leftover piece of paper that I had laying around from a mixed media class I did at the beginning of the year.  I also did a technique on the blue banner... embossed it and then ran my white inkpad over the raised areas.  I also added some white embossed vellum flowers. A simple page yet full of fun techniques.

Check out the blog for some more inspiration for this month and see where it leads you.

Scrapbook Challenges - Sketch 448

I love weekends when I get to scrap lots... and this past weekend was a very productive one in that regards... so there will be some more posts coming soon with lots of different layouts.... but first today's reveal that I managed to scrap two weeks ago.

As an added extra on this layout I used the actual coaster that I got with my coffee... says everything!

Check out the blog for a few more ideas with this sketch.

Scrapbook Challenges - Sketch 447

I had a productive weekend... I managed to get some scrapping done, plus edited and printed 100+ photos for more layouts... even stuck some of those printed photos down onto layouts that were needing pics... really feels good to complete some pages.

Today's reveal was one of the new ones I did on Saturday afternoon.

I found a set of Karen Foster gym embellishments in my stash that I have had for a few years waiting for the perfect photos...well I used them! Yay... used up stash on a page.

Check out the blog for some more great ideas with this sketch.

Scrapbook Challenges - Flashback Friday #180

Boy oh boy am I ever glad it's Friday today....been one of those weeks with work and all.  To crown it all we had load shedding today at work so I came home to work only to have it go off here too! grrrr.  But am thankful for small mercies of fully charged laptop and a 3g modem so I could still be productive. Also very grateful that today's power outage at home was only for 2 and a half hours not the 4 and a half they originally said.

Anyways, enough griping... I'd much rather scrap and if I can't get to that at least I can post about what I have scrapped... namely today's reveal.

You know when you have a plan in mind and then end up finding your photos are too big?  Well I just used them anyway... still love how the page turned out.

Head over to the blog to see some more great ideas with this sketch.

Yummy Stamped layout

A few weeks back I did a class at Scrap-A-Doodles with Jowilna learning about cutting my own stamps... though I have yet to actually try this on my own machine, we got to play with the stamp Jowilna had made and of course did a layout to showcase it... the lovely owl.

Though the class layout was only a single, I changed it into a double just by adding in two more pics and repeating the squares at the bottom... and so chuffed that I also found the right photos to match this gorgeous paper.

Now to get play with my machine and make some new stamps.

Scrapbook Challenges - Flashback Friday #214

This layout was only completed on Sunday but the reveal was actually done in May already... yip there are times when deadlines come and go and layouts don't get finished on time... better late than never I guess.

This layout is about visiting my Great-Aunt Isabel who will be 98 this year in December... wow!

You can see more layouts done on the new sketch on the blog.

Scrapbook Studio Sketch competition

The Scrapbook Studio in Jefferys Bay has a monthly sketch competition.... I have all the good intentions of creating a layout but never seem to get there... well this month I did.... yip planned my photos, printed them out and yesterday put the page together... and am super duper chuffed with how it turned out.

Now to hold thumbs that I got it entered on time.

Scrapbook Challenges - Sketch 446

It's so great when you get a weekend to scrap and manage to catch up on a few layouts due... well that was me two weeks ago.... made a few pages that you will see over this week.

Instead of one big photo, I used three... a quick an easy way to use up some not so good pics.  I also designed and cut my title on my silhouette machine.

Check out the blog for a few more ideas with this sketch.

Midlands scrapping recap

I went on the Midlands scrapping weekend run by The Scrapbook Studio during May.... it was a great weekend away with Theresa and awesome scrapping with Jowilna and Cariena and about 34 other ladies. These are the pages that we did over the weekend:

Our last class on Sunday was a very different sort of page that I just couldn't click with, so changed it up to more of my style that is evolving.

This was a really good weekend away... full of scrap therapy, laughs and wonderful food. Looking forward to our next one.