Scrapbook Challenges - Sketch 302

Today has been a day full of ups and downs.... a real "Monday Mayhem" sort of day..... it took me over an hour to get to work.  Then after a few good hours at work we had a power failure.  This was surpassed by my boss taking us out for lunch.  This afternoon at home I had time to scrap and managed to do two layouts... yippee.  Then time for another downer... wanted to make supper and discovered that the gas to our cooker is finished.... urgh!  Oh well, tomorrow is another day and full of fun!

Today also is a fun day in that a new sketch is up at Scrapbook Challenges.... with lots of new exciting developments happening in this new term too.  So here is my layout for this week:

I used this single page sketch:

The double page sketch is just as awesome...

There is a whole host of inspiration to see in the forum... go and check it out.

Paper Mixing Bowl - July Challenge

It was just a few week's ago that I got the news that I was chosen to be part of the design team for Paper Mixing Bowl, and here it is time to have my first reveal.

You have till the end of July to link your layout up on the blog.  Leave me a comment too so that I can come and check out your creation.

It's official

I can now let the cat out the bag..... I'm serving a second term with Scrapbook Challenges... yippee!!!

One of the best parts of this announcement, is that I get to serve with my dear friend Theresa... yippee!!!!

To introduce our new team there will be a week-long event happening on the forum this week.... so please come and join us for some extra fun.

Happy Canada Day

All the best today to all our family and friends in Canada.... may your day be full of fun festivities.

Scrapbook Challenges - Gallery Gems

This is the last week for the Term A Design Team and I thought I'd pick a few of my favourite Design Team layouts as Gallery Gems this week.

First up is Brynn - great hybrid work
   

Chanell's layouts are full of colour and fun  

Jowilna always inspires me


I simply love Tabitha's work


Can't ignore Lee-Anne either


and when it comes to digi, I love Olivia's youthful style

For pretty layouts, I turn to Emmy
   

Carmen's layouts always have lots of little details to admire  

Amanda also has great digi style
 

I could go on and on and on but for now these are just SOME of my favs. Please go leave some love for each one of them.

Till next time,
 

Camp-Friendzy

I've woken up a bit late but as Camp goes on all summer (in the USA!) I thought I'd give it a go and try my hand again at a few extra challenges over the next few months.  Why not join me for a few extra fun moments at Scrap Friendzy.

I did this two years ago (or was it last year?) and thoroughly enjoyed it.

Paper Mixing Bowl - challenges

I finished the last two challenges for the Paper Mixing Bowl and even if I say so myself, I really like both these pages A LOT!!!

April's challenge - White, stitching, chipboard, doilies, journal about something NEW

This page is about a friend from work's little girl being christened.  I did lots of stitching (by hand!) on this page... all the crosses around the photos and then some on the hearts and the strips... think I must be mad in the head at times!

May's challenge - main colour is Kraft, journalling about family, use song lyrics, use a frame and rubons

These photos were taken to be used as part of my Christmas present from Aaron... they are just so sweet that I had to scrap them too.  I used the lyrics from the Barney song "I love you..." all over my page as this is a song Aaron sings to me quite often... he has even taken to changing some of the words now and then.

As this layout has loads of circles on it (the patterned paper had them preprinted and then I added a few more) I am entering this in the Wildcard challenge at Scrapbook Challenges too.  Also going to enter this at Scrap Friendzy for Challenge 2: Camp Songs

Paper Mixing Bowl - June Challenge

Before I start with my Design Team commitments for the Paper Mixing Bowl, I thought I'd tackle some of the previous recipe challenges.

For June's challenge I did a page from my 2010 album of Aaron sleeping while on holiday.

The main parts of this challenge was to use the colour charcoal, with added bits like brackets, paper with script, hidden journalling, metal elements.

I also did a bit of messy stamping on this page, so will be entering it into one of the challenges at Scrapbook Challenges as well.

I did this page for the first recipe challenge at the Paper Mixing Bowl, which called for the colour, dark chocolate!!!  Right up my alley!

The backgound papers are more brown than the scan shows... and all the metal elements/brads/flowers I used are also brown.  This layout shows the day Aaron got his glasses.

I'm busy working on two more which I hope to showcase soon.

Scrapbook Challenges - Sketch 301

Brrrrr.... winter hit with very icy teeth this weekend.... thankfully we have a roaring fire going to keep us nice and toasty.

Today is my last sketch reveal of my current term with Scrapbook Challenges.... it's been a great six months.  The new team will be announced on 1st July 2012.  Here is today's sketch:

I chose to do the single page with a few adjustments (so what's new hey!!)

I only used two photos and added in some tape measure strips.  The little house is from a Cosmo Cricket blackboard set.... I coloured it in with oil pastels and decided to protect my page by then covering it all with dimension glaze.

Please head over to the forum to see what the rest of the design team did this week.

I've been published (sort of)

I submitted three layouts to a blog called "Multi-photo Scrapbooking" and got them all showcased today on their blog.... go have a look.