ScrapPlezier - Aug moodboard

It's been a tough month of very little scrapping and now I need to get cracking... here's my first layout I've made in August, just in time for this lovely moodboard reveal

I went with the more "green and pink" combo than "olive and rose" but it still follows the basic principle of the moodboard. Also the woodland feel of this moodboard led me to scrap photos of Wyndford. Where will this moodboard take you?

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Stick It Down - Aug Double

We've just had the most amazing weekend out in the bush at Pilansberg. We saw lots of wildlife, including elephants, lions and multiple sightings of rhino. It was a lovely relaxing time. I haven't yet managed to get to scrap this month, but did manage to squeeze this layout in early last week.

I used an aeroplane stamp I have and stamped it with Versafine Clair... such lovely stamping ink. I also found the letters for my title but they were the wrong colour so I inked and embossed them with red but not so that the pattern on the letters would disappear, just enhance the look.

This is the great sketch we are playing with this month:

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Sketch N Scrap Design Team

I got exciting news at the beginning of the month which I can now share with you... I've been chosen to be a social media design team member for Sketch N Scrap.

You can come and join in all the fun on their blog, facebook or instagram. Remember that there are online crops virtually every month as well as two card and two layout sketches released on the blog each month with more reveals on their facebook page....lots of scrapping opportunities.

Check out this month's online crop scheduled to start on Friday.

Lots of scrapping going to be happening in the next few months.

Let's Scrap - 1 Aug reveal

Here is my second layout for today.

I played a bit with my layout and changed plans along the way. I started with stamping a stencil across two white background cardstocks but then found it was a bit too busy, so I cut it into strips and used it to matt my pics instead. For my title I used only chipboard letters and white sticker letters. The chipboard I covered with gold foil flakes to highlight the gold bell. I wanted to do a bit of paper piecing on my layout tooo and found a cute little owl ringing a bell but ran out of time to make him, so simplified the idea and went with a graduate owl instead.

Here is the sketch we played with this week:

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Lets Get Sketchy - Aug 1 Reveal

It's a new month and that means new reveals are up... here's my first one for today:

I took a little liberty with the sketch and decided to replace the strips down the right side with some stencilling. I used a Jowilna original design stencil and applied a mix of maroon stazon glass glaze with gloss texture paste. I then added some pen stitching down the piece on the left of the page and also to my title which I cut on my Silhouette.

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Sketch n Scrap - Red White & Blue Crop

I haven't done much scrapping this month... it's been a very slow month for me... only managed about 6 singles and sneaked in two doubles over the last two days. But some of the scrapping I did do was for the online crop at Sketch n Scrap.

Challenge 1 - I used my new celebrate die that I got in June... love how the yellow just pops.

Challenge 3 - Used up some stash on this page

Guest Designer- Decided to be a bit adventurous with my layout and added some ink to the background before using a JustNick cut file for my circle and title. I used Celebr8 papers on this layout.

I am super chuffed that I managed to get these pages done for this online crop seeing as I wasn't up to scrapping much this month. Now I I best get cracking in August as I have a whole host of design team layouts due pretty soon.

ScrapPlezier - School Is Cool

It's still school holidays but only just... it all starts again tomorrow.

This layout follows on to the one I shared earlier this month... it shows the rest of the initiation days.

This layout is based on a Jowilna original.

I used some new and old Kaisercraft school themed papers for my layout. I really love the numbers paper from the newish Documented collection. This was my start of my page. I left the barcode attached and incorporated it into my design. The cards on the left page were all leftovers from previous school layouts that I have done. I made a rosette for the right page and topped it with a sticker. Also added some buttons and stitching.

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Let's Scrap - 15 July reveal

And look at that... a third layout for the day. Yes it's been a busy Design Team Reveal Day.

I only found enough pics to do one side of the sketch... Just shows again that you mustn't limit yourself to the sketch as a whole but think of all the possibilities.

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Lets Get Sketchy - July 15 Reveal

Here is another layout for today.... remembering a trip to Wyndford and the adorable piggies. They just about had snow this weekend...brrrr.

This is the sketch we played with:

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Off The Rails - July Moodboard - Coldness

This month's moodboard fits right in with the winter season... brrrrr. It seems that the cold has finally arrived and might be here to stay. Though I do feel a bit chilly I am not complaining (at least I hope not!). I'd rather put on another layer in the winter than swelter in the summer. And scrapping next to a roaring fire over the weekend is the perfect plan too.

 I chose to scrap adorable photos of my great-nephew from two years ago, all dressed up for this chilly weather.

This is our inspiration for this month...

Come play along with the moodboard and find lots more inspiration on the blog.