Scrapbook Generation - Happy Camper crop

The first week of May saw a huge online crop happening on facebook run by Scrapbook Generation. I played most of the games during that week and then planned all my layouts for completion during the month... there were 16 layout challenges and these are what I have managed to complete:

3. campfire recipe

5. go explore

8 adventure awaits

11 one page sketch

12 tic tac toe - I used an SG Sketch, Embellishment Cluster and a Cut File (the flowers are from The Cut Shoppe Wild Flowers)

14 two page sketch

16 don’t be square...ie I used a row of the same size circles

I also did these challenges and combined them with others throughout the month of May. I have already posted them,so just follow the links if you want to see them again:
1 double page layout - My layout for Stick It Down
2 single page layout - My layout for Off The Rails
4 smore memories - the layout for challenge 1 at Sketch N Scrap

6 stories around campfire - the layout for Birthday Sketch2 at Sketch N Scrap

9 just before sunset - the bunny layout for The Cut Shoppe NSD crop

13 merit bade – My sunset layout for The Cut Shoppe NSD crop, as well as my Let's Scrap layout

15 camp rules - the Celebrate layout for The Cut Shoppe NSD crop and challenge 2 at Sketch N Scrap

The only two challenges I didn't get to were:

7 social butterfly
10 remember me: make a list

So getting 14 out of 16 done is pretty good going I think. It is sooooooo nice to get so many pages completed. Looking forward to the next online crop session.

Sketch N Scrap - 6th birthday crop

I took past in an online crop this month to celebrate Sketch N Scrap's 6th birthday. They posted challenges and sketches on facebook as well as their blog, and I've tried to do a whole host of them:

Challenge 1 - use 6 items from your stash older than 2 years

Everything on this layout is actually over SIX years old! I somehow misread the challenge hehehe.... but at least it stretched me to use up some of my stash.

Challenge 2 - use the word celebrate - I did this layout for The Cut Shoppe NSD Challenge #3 shared earlier.

Challenge 3 - use items to form the word HAPPY
H - handstitching, A - Arrow, P - Pattern paper, P - Pearls, Y - Yellow cardstock

Challenge 4 - use balloons and/or stars
This layout is using paper from the new LA Paper BirthYay range... love the bright colours.

Guest Designer

From their blog I also did the following sketch challenges:

NSD Sketch

Birthday sketch 1

Birthday sketch 2
Another layout using more from the LA Paper BirthYay range showing how versatile it is.

Birthday sketch 3

I have truly enjoyed my scrapping this month and having multiple challenges to do... and being able to enter some of these layouts in various other online crops too. It's been a great scrappy month.

ScrapPlezier - This is Me

It's our 23rd wedding anniversary today. Just another ordinary day really but it is worth remembering the occasion too I guess. We went to church this morning and then it's been the usual chores of doing the washing, nagging Aaron to study and doing a few scrap pages. It's also reveal day for me over at ScrapPlezier.

I took my inspiration from the moodboard for this month and used soft colours on my layout. I turned to some fairly "old" stash and used papers from both the Miss Betty and High Tea collections. I then added a butterfly which I got from free cutfile from The Cut Shoppe. I used the original butterfly and cut it our of the pale pink paper from the High Tea collection and then traced the butterfly and cut if out of navy cardstock to back it. I then also reduced the butterfly and cut two smaller ones from the navy. These I outlined with a white pen. Lastly I added a few butterfly brads to my page too.

The words on my layout are from VERY old Kaisercraft rubons... I couldn't even find them on the website to let you know where they are from, that's how old they are! I've been holding on to these words to make a special layout but never seem to have the right photos, so this week I decided it was time to stop hording and start using.

Check out the blog for lots more inspiration.

Let's Scrap - 15 May reveal

Here is my third reveal for the day.... busy day here on the blog indeed.

I found some old Simple Stories papers to play with...yes at the moment I am digging into my stash and trying to use some of it up. I got inspired by the 24/7 printed on the paper and decided that coffee photos would work well with the title... plus I had lots of pics to make the double. Actually I made the three "tags" into flaps and have extra photos under each one too.

You have all month to make a layout and link it up on the blog for this sketch (as well as our earlier sketch too) so come play along.

Off The Rails - May moodboard

It's time for me to share my layout for the moodboard at Off The Rails.... this month out theme is Mother Nature.

I was drawn to the predominately orange colour of the fire but my first thought was of sunsets, so I chose a beautiful photo of a sunset as seen from my scraproom. I decided to pair it with a cutfile from PaperIssues. I cut this out of orange cardstock and backed it with plain white to which I added yellow, orange and red distress oxide inks.

Once all was stuck down I ran a stitching wheel over it to form some more sun rays and then went over these with a white pen. Lastly I added my title which is a Rachel Hodge free cutfile.

Check out the blog for lots more inspiration.

Let's Get Sketchy - 15 May reveal

A few weeks back we had a weekend break at Maglies Park. It was a lovely relaxing weekend away. Mom & I took quite a few walks around the golf course and spied a few of the local buck species on the greens. We never did get quite as close to these buck as in previous visits... but it was still a good holiday. These pics are from one of our previous trips in 2015.

I kept this layout fairly simple and clutter free but did follow the sketch for the placement of my elements. I used a Celebr8 chipboard title which I inked in blues and greens and covered with a layer of All Purpose champagne. I picked up the leftover ink from my craftsheet and splattered on my page to for that nice shimmery effect.  The flowers are a die cut which I cut in green and blue and added a few microbeads to the centers.

Check out the blog for loads more inspiration this week.

Doing a bit more quilling

I got an order when I was at the craft market two weeks ago for some clowns and owl... so I've been busy making and delivered them today.... love how fun they turned out.

I couldn't decide on the colour for the owls at first so made a few extra.. I still have these two available:

Drop me a comment if you would like any of these of my other work.

iNSD with The Cut Shoppe

The 5th of May was {inter}National Scrapbooking Day and lots of blogs were having online challenges and crops. I decided to try my had at a few but then scaled down and only did one. I ran out of time really. Anyway here's my entries for the challenges held by The Cut Shoppe:

I used the polaroid cutfilefor this and backed it with lots and lots of scraps from Simple Stories. It all got inspired by a journal card on the Simple Stories paper which I ended up cutting out for the bottom corner. This is also for a product challenge at Scrapbook Generations.

It might not show up tooo well in this photo but I stitched a straight line through each row of hearts to hold them down. I then added some pink and red ink before stamping my quote and added the inked chipboard title. I used a few hearts from the center of the cutfile as well and then added some bling.

I loved the title cutfile and decided that bunny pics would be perfect for this. I also used the colour scheme from the challenge at Scrapbook Generations.

I started with the sketch and celebrate challenge for Sketch N Scrap for my page and then added the challenge from Scrapbook Generation where I had to used certain products. Managed to tick all the boxes on this one. For the cutfile challenge, I offset the words to make a matt. I inked the actual words with Brilliance silver ink.

I am happy that I managed to get these layouts done. It also got me to use some of my stash and play a bit with my curio machine and cutfiles.

As you can see, I am also entering some of these layouts in other challenges at Sketch N Scrap and Scrapbook Generations as well. Posts about those challenges will be coming up towards the end of the month. It's going to be a busy scrapping month ahead!

ScrapPlezier - May moodboard

It's time again for another moodboard challenge:

I was inspired by the soft and "dreamy" feel of the colours in this moodboard and so chose to scrap ballet photos of one I saw four years ago all about a dream. I used a half sheet of the Truly sheet from the Kaisercraft XO Collection and paired this with some packaging leftovers for the tags. Before sticking everything down I added some blue and pink ink splats to my background. I finished the layout off with some stamped stitching.

Check out the blog for lots more inspiration too.

Quilling goodies for sale

As mentioned a few time in the past few blog posts, I've been busy creating with my quilling for a craft sale that was held on the 5th of May. Well I didn't sell as much as I had hoped, so I still have quite a bit of stash available. If you would like any of these, please drop me a comment, or even a message through my facebook page.

These pegs make the perfect little addition to a gift bag, or you can add a magnet to the bag and pin them on your fridge with a photo.

Flowers

Balloons

Butterflies

Dog Paws

Then I also made a few cute little animals:

Long legged cat (SOLD)

Orange Cat

Doggy 1 (SOLD)

Doggy 2

Not sure if it's a puppy or kangaroo - you decide!

Tiny frog

and I made tons of these little flowerpot pegs too which make perfect mother's day presents:

Remember you can order any colour or any of these creations and I can make it up for you too.

Stick It Down - May double pager

May seems to be gallopping by fast... or maybe it's just because I've been so busy this last week. Aaron's school had a fundraiser on Saturday for the SPCA and I took a craft stall to sell my quilling. So most of last week was preparing for that. I did manage to scrap a little at the beginning of the week, seeing as Tuesday was a public holiday. I made this layout for the new sketch up at Stick It Down:

I really had fun creating this layout. I started with Celebr8 paper and then added my photos. Once it was all stuck I decided that the background needed a bit of work so grabbed a plastic bag and my distress ink and did a bit of inky messy stamping in blue, yellow and orange on my background. Yes I really should have done this before I stuck my photos, but sometimes the brain just doesn't kick in till after! The only slight mishap is a few blue splashes on one photo (but not enough to distract from anything!).

Check out the blog for loads more inspiration from our great design team.