Anyone for coffee?

My goal for this year is more coffee, more chocolate and more scrapping... so what's better than scrapping about drinking coffee and eating chocolate...hehehe.

So this is a scraplift of a layout I saw on pinterest and decided this would be the perfect topic. To make the mugs I found a clipart pic that I then traced and cut. All the papers are Lady Pattern Paper.

I made this layout for the Mercy Tiara 27 days challenge for February. The challenge is based on a "love potion" recipe:

Start by creating a project about something or someone you love (this is, after all, a LOVE potion)

Add an image of the object of your affection by including at least one photograph

Variety is the spice of life (and love), so add at least three different patterns in your creation.

This is a love potion, so it must be extra-special. Add sparkle to your potion with glitter, sequins, jewels etc.

Put yourself into your potion: use first-person journaling that starts with “I”

And finally, because this is a love potion, include at least one heart somewhere on your project!

So there you have it... I love coffee and it makes a beautiful scrapping subject.

27 day challenge - October layout

Phew October came and went without a single blog post from me... hectic to say the least I guess.  I did manage to get some scrapping done last month... did 10 layouts in one weekend and then only four more for the rest of the month! Yikes. Not sure if I will actually get too much more done in November as it's just as hectic.

So seeing as I found the 27 day challenge group on facebook in September I thought I'd take up their challenge last month again... but then it got complicated.

The challenge was to use 6x6 pad of paper... well I didn't have any so my twist was that I only used scraps and leftovers. Secondly we had to use a photo of ourselves and it had to be 5x7 and black&white.... well I didn't have any printed and don't usually scrap black& white... so scrounging I went. I found a pic that Aaron had taken of us last year when I had my surgery which I only had in black&white... hehe... perfect or what? I printed it on watercolour paper to give it a bit more of a grainy effect and then sat down and scrapped my page.

I even included my actual hospital bracelets on the page and they fit in in just the right colours too.

27 day challenge

I found a new challenge group on Facebook last month... as if I didn't already have enough on my plate!.... they offered a free cut file and sketch by Kristine Davidson of Creative Scrappers, for the challenge... guess that was my incentive... anyway I used the sketch for my layout...

I might just try my hand at their monthly challenges too... they are announced on the 1st and you have 27 days to do it... sure sounds easy enough. Why not join me... just look up mercytiaras27daychallenge and join.