Destash scrapping

I decide that it's time to do some major de-stashing... I've sorted through my vast scrapping supplies and whittled out some stash to sell.

Part of this de-stashing was some mini albums that I did at various classes or events over the years. These have been sitting in a box for years just gathering dust so it was definitely time to de-stash.

I emptied the albums and recycled the papers and embellishment into a useful pile and a rubbish pile. I then decided to actually USE the papers, and so made the following three layouts.

I sure hope that I have motivated you to do some de-stashing and scrapping too.

Winners - Creative Scrappers Sketch Book

Thanks to everyone who left a comment on my previous post about the sketch book.... all 11 of you. Wow I don't think I have EVER had that many comments on a blog post... hehehe.

Anyway, I printed them all out, cut them up. Folded and then shook them up. I then picked one.... and the winner is....

TILLA

Congratulations. I will contact you with instructions to claim your prize.

Creative Scrappers - Sketch Book V4

I was super duper excited when Kristine Davidson asked me to design a layout for her latest book for Creative Scrappers.  I have one copy of the book to give away.

Unfortunately, I can't show you my page here (which is on page 38!) but just to whet your appetite here are some closeup details of a few of the bits:

You can of course buy a copy of the book... Kristine also has a discount voucher available on her blog.

So leave me a comment and I will draw a name at the end of November.

Scrapping with Scraps

In October I decided that I needed to stop stockpiling my leftover papers and actually use them... so I made it a mission to create a few pages just using my scraps. I turned to Pinterest for inspiration and over the course of a weekend managed to turn out 10 layouts. Some of these still need a few finishing touches, so for now, here are the ones that I finished.

I extend a big thank you to the original creators of these pages for the inspiration... I might not know who made them originally but having found them on pinterest I was inspired. I now need to make a whole bunch more layouts using this ideas I never even made a dent into my stash of scraps!!

Scrapbook Generation: Lights Camera Action Online Crop

The weekend we were away in October was the same one that Scrapbook Generation held their latest online crop. Well I didn't stop that from participating... I did as manage of the games over the weekend as I could and once I got home I started planning pages to scrap for all the challenges.

These are the ones that I've finished:

Plus I used a few others that I've already posted as they were appropriate for the challenges.

Scrapbook Challenges - Flashback Friday

You might have noticed that I haven't been posting anything for Scrapbook Challenges in a while.... well this is due to Brynn needing some time out and the site is in a hiatus till the new year. But I still have two layouts that I did back in March for Flashback Friday's that were never published, so thought I'd share them now for a little inspiration.

 First up is my layout for Sketch 151

And here is the one for Sketch 165

These are still the original sketches, we never did get around to updating them... but old is still new when you haven't used them before.

Scrap Affairs - sketch challenge

The latest Scrap Affairs magazine (issue 50) has a sketch challenge by Kim Watson... I took the plunge and created a page for it.

Celebr8 Sketch Challenge

Our local manufacturer of scrapping paper and goodies, Celebr8, put out a sketch challenge on facebook with the launch of their latest range of paper. This range is super cool with the colours that I like to scrap with, so I decided to take up the challenge and create a page. BUT seems I missed the deadline for submitting my layout as the competition winners were announced today... bummer. Oh well as least I can say I scrapped another page on my long to do list.

Here are a few closeups of some of the details too:

September Roadtrip Scrapping

Way back in September a bunch of us scrapping friends took a roadtrip down to Durban for the weekend and scrapped together at Shortcut Crafts in Kloof. It was a truly fun and busy weekend with friends (and family... as my Mom went with and we stayed with my brother and family).

We did three different classes with Jowilna over the weekend :

First up was a double page layout:

Next we did a project life class, but as I am not too big on Project Life I adapted mine to be a double We used photos of our lunch stop on the way down for this page.

And lastly we dabbled in some art journalling. As I am not tempted (yet!) to do this, I used part of the art journalling piece as an embellishment on another layout. I scrapped pictures from our weekend on this layout.

A big thank you to Dave from Shortcuts for sponsoring us for some of the scrapping and our roadtrip goodies, as well as to Monique and Michelle for their hard work over the weekend.

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.