A quick class layout

I seem to be hibernating of sorts lately in my scraproom and not venturing out. Costs have been escalating over the last few months for me personally (car, school, more car, dental, yet more car, etc) so I decided to curb my expenditure on scrappy stuff, stay home and use what I have.

Well that all worked beautifully till last week when Jowilna advertised a class using the new travel papers from Art from the Heart.... one of my fav South Africa designers. So I bit the bullet and went to class.

I truly love how my page turned out... yes I even took the photos with me. Besides the title stickers everything else was done and finished in class... a rare accomplishment for me... hehehe.

Maybe now I will actually be inspired to finish the few other pages from Jow's classes that I have sitting on my to do pile.

Finally finished 2013

I decided that last week I was going to finish all my layouts for my 2013 albums..... so I was like a man on a mission... scrap,scrap, scrap every chance I got and yesterday I did my last layout. So feast your eyes on all of these...9 doubles and 3 singles.

This first one was from a Scrapkits layout that I had planned but didn't have the paper anymore. Used some Celebr8 papers instead.

Another one using one of the new range of Celebr8 papers

The next few are all Jowilna layouts that I have adapted to suit my style (and stash)

These next two are from Let's Scrap Sketches

And this last one is one designed by Lara at Scrapbook and Things.

So there you have them all... nicely scrapped. Now for my next mission of actually getting them all filed away in the albums.

July scrapping

This month has been a good one on the scrapping front... I've done more layouts in the last week that in the past few months... feels good to be creative again. Unfortunately I can't show you the layouts just yet.... but they will be revealed during August.... so keep coming back to see my blog. For now, here are a few of the pages that I have completed:

This is an old Scrapkits page that I changed the colours on totally... It was really good to do a multi-photo layout again, with flaps... take a look at how many photos I got on this one layout.... 48!!! I think this must be a new record even for me.

Next up is are three Jowilna inspired layouts

For this last one I made my own stamp for my tag.... I just gathered all the flower stamps that I have and put them onto an acrylic block that would fit my tag. It's good to stretch oneself to thinking how to make something instead of always needing to go out and buy more supplies. Recon I need to do this a bit more often.

I have three more pages on my table just needing a few finishing touches. Hopefully I can get to them during this week.

Scrapbook Challenges - Sketch Crew Crush: ME

Yip it's my turn to have me featured on the Sketch Crew Crush... and it's all about creating double pages. This seems to be what/how I scrap a lot of lately... not that I am complaining... I love the doubles as it gives me room to add lots of photos.

Browse around my blog and get inspired.  Just as an added taste, here is a layout that I FINALLY finished this past weekend... I started making this way back in 2012, just need to add the many (and there are many!) photos to it and journal... well I got A into G and did that this past weekend... another page ticked off my long to do list.

This layout was an old Scrapkits set of notes that I had... love all the pockets and the mini albums... I even added in extra flaps as there were so many photos to put on this page.

Leave me a comment and let me know which page has inspired you to scrap doubles. And don't forget to see the blog for more ideas from the design team.

A long overdue update

It's been way too long since I last did a blog post.... with no design team commitments since February, I have taken a bit of a break and trying to catch up on myself... except that isn't really working as I've been doing a lot more overtime work than anything else!!!

The upside of it all is that I have managed to do a few pages here and there so I get to show off some of them for you now... these stretch as far back as January!

These first ones are from Scrapkits that I changed up a bit

This page is a design by Sharon Coetzer

These next ones are all Michelle van Wyk designed layouts with twists from me.

This next page I did years and years ago but never had photos for...this one was from an all-day event I did with Retha when she still had her shop(!)

and finally... a page that I design all by myself... no sketch or kit!

Think that's enough for this post... have some more pages to show off but will do them in another post or two.

Final scrapping in 2013

Being on holiday for the last two weeks with not much going on has let me spend loads of time in my scrap room catching up on some much needed scrap therapy.  So feast your eyes on the layouts that I've managed to complete:

A Scrapkits layout about Mom's trip to Antarctica

A cute layout from Michelle van Wyk

 The rest of these are all from sketches from Scrapbook Challenges that I never got around to doing during my last Design Team term... so nice to finally cross them off my to do list

Sketch 355

Sketch 358

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SS6

SS7

SS8

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SS11

SS13

SS14

SS15

SS16

I still didn't make my goal of a layout a day, but definitely tried hard this year.... a total of 280 pages done! Looking forward to tackling a lot more in 2014.

My latest batch of completed kits

I've been slowly working my way through some kits and notes and have completed a few more in the last few weeks:

A page from MandM Scrapbooking Adventures - repurposed in different colours

This is a class that I did with Michelle van Wyk in December last year... eventually found an event with enough photos to fill the booklet.

The following are all from Scrapkits - some the actual kit with a few tweaks and others redone in my own papers.

This one is actually a four page layout... here is page 1&2

This is page 3&4

Turned this very girly sewing kit into a lovely unisex one... just using different papers and embellishments

This one is by Sharon Coetzee that I got as a freebie from Scrapbook 'n Things on the retreat.

So added a few more pages to my growing list of layouts done this year... still a long way off my goal of a layout a day but am making inroads into it.... done over 200 pages so far.