ScrapPlezier - Remember Today

I have a little bit of a challenge for you this week... try something old and turn it into something new.

I have a little bit of a challenge for you this week... try something old and turn it into something new. For me that is paper piecing. To finish my layout I decided that it needed some mushrooms, but seeing as I didn't have any stickers or paper to fussy cut, I turned to a paper piecing book to get some inspiration. I found the perfect mushrooms and turned the patterns into a cutfile before cutting them out of lots of leftover Kaisercraft papers using my Silhouette Curio machine. This definitely made paper piecing sooooooo much easier. When last did you make your own embellishments from your stash for a layout? Try it and share what you've made.

Come get more inspiration over on the blog too.

Let's Scrap Sketches - 15 June Reveal

It's another reveal for today

 I had fun creating my title for this layout. I found a clipart title that I liked and then after tracing it and redrawing certain parts of it, I finally got it all to work together. The it was just a matter of cutting the different bits out of different colours and putting it all together. The papers for my layout are all Kaisercraft ones that I love... very boyish and I felt worked well with this rather "metalic" theme. I also added some stensilling with a Celebr8 stensil to my backgound.

Come play along and be inspired by the rest of the Design Team over on the blog.

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.

A little Bowl

I shared this on my facebook page as well as Instagram this week and thought I best not leave out my blog followers too... just a little bowl that I made a few weeks back.

It is not the most practical of bowl, but it is soooooooooo pretty in all the rainbow colours. Makes a perfect little desk ornament to hold washi tape and such.

Working Girl layout

Just sneaking in here with this page that I scrapped with Jow at Shortcuts at the end of December. Yes I know it's months later but I've been holding on sharing this and have now decided today's the day.

We did a sort of mixed media type layout....played with stamps and ink. Here is my finished layout (finally!).

I took lots of pics of the process of creating this layout and actually have one of them as the background on my phone... love playing with colours and stamps.

ScrapPlezier - June Moodboard

It's a new month and a new moodboard is up today.... all about using Aubergene. As purple is not my most favourite colour to scrap with I found this a bit of a challenge, but I do like how my layout turned out.

This layout is a Jowilna original with my few twists to make it mine. I used some gloss texture past with purple glitter which I applied through a stencil to the patterned paper. Once this was dry I assembled the rest of the layout. I used some purple cardstock for the photo matts, diecut and punched some border strips and added some stamped ink splats. There is also some purple stitching on the left page. I even managed to find some purple letter stickers for my title. The last thing I added were the purple flowers and buttons.

So from seeing the moodboard below which is distinctly purple. you can see that I used the colour inspiration but toned it all down by using the white background.

Check out the blog as well for more inspiration.

Stick It Down - June double page

It's a new week and I am now in the middle of my busy week at work... billing billing billing. But I can say that I had a good and productive weekend. I got all my layouts from the past 6 months filed into their albums. I have also planned which pages I am going to scrap for my DT commitments for the next 6 months.... so good to be a little bit organised for a change. I even managed to make a start on my June scrapping too, so am getting ahead and can plan to do a few other pages inbetween too.

This is one of the pages I managed to complete in May  for today's reveal at Stick It Down.

I used the free insert paper from the Scrap Affairs magazine from a few months back. The colours worked well with these photos. I fussy cut all the flowers and words as well. So nice to finally use one of these inserts instead of just hording them.

Check out the blog for lots more inspiration.

Let's Scrap Sketches - 1 June reveal

The new sketch is up and it is a fun one this week.

I chose to do a single page and used the right side of the sketch. I altered the photo sizes a bit to better suit those that I had on hand but stuck with the principle of the sketch. I used some of the LA Paper BirthYay range for my layout, paired with cardstock and a very very old tag from my stash.

Check out the blog for some more inspiration.

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.

Scrapbook Generation - Happy Camper crop

The first week of May saw a huge online crop happening on facebook run by Scrapbook Generation. I played most of the games during that week and then planned all my layouts for completion during the month... there were 16 layout challenges and these are what I have managed to complete:

3. campfire recipe

5. go explore

8 adventure awaits

11 one page sketch

12 tic tac toe - I used an SG Sketch, Embellishment Cluster and a Cut File (the flowers are from The Cut Shoppe Wild Flowers)

14 two page sketch

16 don’t be square...ie I used a row of the same size circles

I also did these challenges and combined them with others throughout the month of May. I have already posted them,so just follow the links if you want to see them again:
1 double page layout - My layout for Stick It Down
2 single page layout - My layout for Off The Rails
4 smore memories - the layout for challenge 1 at Sketch N Scrap

6 stories around campfire - the layout for Birthday Sketch2 at Sketch N Scrap

9 just before sunset - the bunny layout for The Cut Shoppe NSD crop

13 merit bade – My sunset layout for The Cut Shoppe NSD crop, as well as my Let's Scrap layout

15 camp rules - the Celebrate layout for The Cut Shoppe NSD crop and challenge 2 at Sketch N Scrap

The only two challenges I didn't get to were:

7 social butterfly
10 remember me: make a list

So getting 14 out of 16 done is pretty good going I think. It is sooooooo nice to get so many pages completed. Looking forward to the next online crop session.