Week 9 of my 100days

Well the Sketch n Scrap 7th birthday bingo came to an end at the end of May but I've still got a few more to share with this week's recap:

Day 57 - Meena's challenge with Twist - Pastel Colours

This gives me my 5th bingo... sure am getting nice and close to the end.

Day 58 - Seven - card sketch 67

Day 59 - Tina's Challenge with twist: messy background

Now I have another column bingo done (and the top row which I seemed to have missed!)

This square I must admit was the hardest one until I started singing Christmas carols in my head and found this preprinted tag which was perfect:

Day 60 Song - Card sketch 71

This gives me two more bingos:

And now my final block:

Day 61 - May 15th - Layout sketch 179

I've blurred my journalling on this layout as it is very personal about the trauma of this incident. Thankfully it was a few years back and we are now past this.

With this layout I managed to score three bingos.

So there you have it the final block done and now I have a BLACKOUT! Here's my full card.

How did you do with our bingo this month? We had 58 people in our bingo hall with 19 actually uploading creations plus 10  DT members playing along and inspiring everyone. So discounting the DTs, there were 366 block completed, 145 bingos and 9 blackouts. It was a ton of fun for all.

The last two for this week are DT layout links:

Day 62 School layout for Stick It Down.

Day 63 Life layout for Let's Get Sketchy.

Now that Bingo is over I will need to find more interesting craft creations to share for the rest of the month of June... stay tuned here and on Instagram.

Let's Get Sketchy - June 2019

Here is my second layout for today, this time for Let's Get Sketchy.

I used a few papers and things from Celebr8 and Penelope Dee on this layout... just loved the colours and how they worked well together. I even got adventurous in using some glimmer paste through my Stenciled by Jow stencil... don't you just love those circles too?

This is our great inspiration sketch for this month.

Visit the blog and see loads more inspiration from the design team.

Sadly this will be my last layout for this team as I've decided to step down as of this month. It's been lovely being able to design for Let's Get Sketchy... this was a team that I had wanted to join for ages so feel privileged to have had the opportunity to design for them for the last 18 months.

Let's Get Sketchy - May 2019

It's sooooooooooo nice to have a public holiday today. I've been catching up with myself on some DT stuff and just generally taking it easy. Did do a load of washing in our new machine (yes hubby bought a new one on the weekend as our existing one is about to conk out!) and some baking.

Next week we have another holiday as we go to vote, so how apt that I've just done a layout about voting in 2016. Guess next week I will be doing much the same stuff too as in this pic... hehe.

As well as the great sketch we are also playing with a moodboard this month. I tried very hard to stick with the variety of bright colours by using some Simple Stories paper from my stash.

Visit the blog and see loads more inspiration from the design team.

Let's Get Sketchy - April 2019

It's a new month... April already! As our minister at church yesterday said, the first quarter of the year is gone.... yikes! Oh well guess that means we are all that much closer to Christmas... hehehe.

We had a wonderful relaxed holiday last week at the beach... last time we were there was 2015! I'm not a beachy person, but love watching the waves. Our apartment was right at the top of the building so we had a perfect non-restricted view of the sea. Guess I need to get scrapping some of those pics now too.

Speaking of scrapping, here is my layout for today's reveal at Let's Get Sketchy:

I flipped the sketch and used a circle with a coffee cup die from the Silhouette Store to allow my photo to sit inside the circle. The title chipboard is from Celebr8. The backgroud paper actually has coffee beans all over it and is from Fabscraps. I added the coffee stains with a stamp from Bo Bunny... by far my favourite stamp (mmm I wonder why! hehe).

Visit the blog and see loads more inspiration from the design team.

PS - I am taking part in  #the100dayproject again this year... I did this in 2016. Actually this photo is about one of the days during my 100days from that year which was all about #coffeewithcathy. This year I am doing #100DaysofCraftsWithCathy and will be sharing all sorts of crafty things on my instagram account (link in sidebar --->) Though the official project doesn't start till tomorrow, I am making today my first day.

Lets Get Sketchy - March 2019

The first of the month sure sneaks up on us... so here is today's reveal

I used some of my new Penelope Dee papers that I got in my Christmas prize pack. I used all the woody grain and rustic feel papers to got with the rather beaten up theme of my pics... these were from a robbery we had a few years back.... so not nice. But thankfully the most damage was to the back door and they only stole my laptop. This is the only time our house has actually been broken into in the 20+ years we've lived here.

Visit the blog and see loads more inspiration from the design team.

Lets Get Sketchy - 1 Feb

Another layout to share for today:

I won a whole host of product from Penelope Dee in their December Christmas Traditions giveaway and so decided I best delve in and use some of it. I created this page with the Paradise papers. I went all out and fussy cut the seahorse and shells and also all the words.

The two photos weren't taken together, in fact the landscape one is more zoomed in, but I found they lined up so well that it just worked to arrange them as such. The photos were taken from our hotel room up on the fourth floor looking out to where Keith had gone fishing... he is one of those minute dots out there somewhere on the beach near the rocks!! At least the memory is down on paper.

This is the sketch we are working with this month:

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Lets Get Sketchy - 1 Jan

Happy New Year to each and every follower of my blog. I pray that 2019 will be a truly blessed year for us all.

Being the first of the month, it's reveal time and here is my layout for this month:

I scrapped about being published in our local scrapping mag, ScrapAffairs. Such a privilege. I used some Simple Stories papers for my page and found enough alpha stickers in my stash to make my title.

Visit the blog and see loads more inspiration from the design team.

Let's Get Sketchy 2019 Design Team

Now that Christmas is over and we are all looking forward to the new year, I can officially announce that I will be part of the LGS team for another season.

There will be lots of inspiration to see each month so be sure to follow along on the blog.

Lets Get Sketchy - 1 Dec

The first of December... wow we're in the last month of the year... where has it flow? Aaron is done with Grade 11 (just one week of official school left but nothing being done except fighting for marks from his exams.) Having said that, I am still scrapping photos from 2014/5... so it's hard to always remember my little boy in these pics is now nearly finishing school.

Here's my layout for today's sketch reveal for Let's Get Sketchy:

My layout is made using Echo Park papers and stickers... I picked colours from the photos as my inspiration and then the stickers just created fun elements to the page.

Visit the blog and see loads more inspiration from the design team.

Lets Get Sketchy - 1 Nov

It's November and that means it's birthday month for me... I am knee deep in party planning at the moment.... it all comes together on Saturday at my party.... eeck got to get cracking on the last few things needing to be done. I have managed to squeeze some scrapping in over the last few weeks so can happily show you this one today:

I used lots of things out of my "leftovers" stash... papers in colours that I love, hearts that were previously diecut or left over from kits and of course some little flowers. I also added some stamped splats and then stickers for my title.

Visit the blog and see loads more inspiration from the design team.

Lets Get Sketchy - 15 Oct

Can you believe we are already halfway through October.... this year is flying past. I have so much going on at the moment that it's hard to keep track of which day of the week I'm on. I'm grateful therefore for the gentle reminders of posting my layouts on certain days so I can figure out where I am in the scheme of things. Here is my layout for this reveal:

I started off with a fairly plain pattern paper background that didn't really do much for the pics so then I decided to be a bit daring and get messy. I hauled out my box of inks and went slightly mad with some browns and blues and a bit of water. I love the way it all worked in the end to give me the watery muddy feel we had with the water flooding our garden too!

Here is the sketch that we worked with:

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Lets Get Sketchy - 1 Oct

It's so good to be on holiday and still be able to showcase some of my scrapping... the joys of being able to schedule posts!

I decided to dig into my scrap stash and use up a few bits and piece of old papers for this page... it's just a mish-mash of papers that all go together and complement each other without distracting too much from the cute bunnies in the photos.

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Lets Get Sketchy - Sept 15 Reveal

It's been a busy and frustrating week for me trying to deal with Telkom on Mom's behalf.... grrrr!!! It is sooooooooo frustrating dealing with incompetence and people who don't do what they are supposed to when they are supposed to. Hopefully the situation will get resolved on Monday.

I definitely need to find some happy time in my scraproom now to get back to being my bubbly self. It's therefore lovely to be reminded of this layout I made a few weeks back for today's reveal....

I used some of the new-ish Kaisercraft paper (Miss Betty Collection) and turned the sketch 90 degrees to better suit my photo and allow me to use all the preprinted pieces of paper. I even got to play with some Versafine Clair inks and cut my title out on my Curio.

Check out the blog for loads more wonderful ideas with the sketch.

Lets Get Sketchy - Sept 1 Reveal

Welcome to the first of Spring... yippee! This is one of my favourite seasons... I love seeing the new blossoms and all the little baby birds. It's such a pretty time of the year.

I am still scrapping up a storm and trying to get ahead of myself. Thank goodness I have deadlines and commitments or I might just come to a standstill. Here is the layout I made for today's reveal:

I've been using more and more Kaisercraft papers lately... (a) to use them up as I have a whole stash; and (b) because they are so pretty.This layout is made using a variety of ranges all with the hint of blue. I cut up a whole sheet of pattern paper for the flowers (for a different page) and ended up not using them... so grabbed a few to use here. The colours went perfectly with my photo. I then picked up those same colours for my title which I cut on my Silhouette Curio.

Here's the great sketch we worked with:

Come play along with us and see what else the DT made over on the blog.

Lets Get Sketchy - Aug 15 Reveal

It's mid-month and time for some more sketch and layout reveals. First up today is this layout:

I went with a monochromatic theme to match the chocolate bears we were eating... remember caramelo bears?... they were a childhood fav of mine so when we spied them in the shop I just had to treat Aaron and I to one.... yummy.

This is the very versatile sketch we got to work with:

Come play along on the blog and join in the fun.

I am also entering this layout in the Kraft+ August challenge - theme is terracotta. I feel that the different browns I used on my page definitely remind me of shades of terracotta (and chocolate!).

Lets Get Sketchy - Aug 1 Reveal

It's a new month and that means new reveals are up... here's my first one for today:

I took a little liberty with the sketch and decided to replace the strips down the right side with some stencilling. I used a Jowilna original design stencil and applied a mix of maroon stazon glass glaze with gloss texture paste. I then added some pen stitching down the piece on the left of the page and also to my title which I cut on my Silhouette.

Come play along with us on the blog and get inspired to scrap.

Lets Get Sketchy - July 15 Reveal

Here is another layout for today.... remembering a trip to Wyndford and the adorable piggies. They just about had snow this weekend...brrrr.

This is the sketch we played with:

Come and play along with us on the blog.

Lets Get Sketchy - July 1 Reveal

Here is my second reveal for today...

I dug around in my scrap stash for some blue/grey papers and found the SEI papers with the words on it.... remember them? I loved scrapping all their albums in a box.... not that I ever put in photos in them!

Here is the sketch we worked from:

Come play along on the blog and see what the rest of the team has done.

Lets Get Sketchy - June 15 Reveal

The new sketch is up and here is my layout

I decided to do things a little different for me on this sketch and used a few more layers than I usually do. I started with die cutting the fence in white cardstock, then layered that with a strip of pattern paper, some inked up book paper and some washi tape strips. I also added a couple of circles. THen I decided to add the arrows using some clear texture past which I coloured with red All Purpose Ink. This just brought the colours through without being too bright. Once dry I added my photo and then the flowers, title and journalling.

Here is the sketch we worked from:

Come play along on the blog with us.

Let's Get Sketchy - 1 June reveal

Our new sketch is up and here is my layout for this month

I kept my layout fairly simple and just added a journalling block to the bottom to tell the story behind these photos. I used one of my favourite cut files from Juliana Michaels for the circles and then also made my own title.

Check out the blog for lots more inspiration.