Let's Get Sketchy 2019 Design Team

Now that Christmas is over and we are all looking forward to the new year, I can officially announce that I will be part of the LGS team for another season.

There will be lots of inspiration to see each month so be sure to follow along on the blog.

Let's Scrap Sketches - 15 Dec

Yay I am on leave for 2.5 weeks... looking forward to a little bit of sleeping in (hopefully the neighbours co-operate and don't do any gardening early in the morning!) and some scrapping and sewing... plus of course Christmas and family time.

I used some fairly old (okay discontinued!) Kaisercraft papers for my layout... I don't usually use the ones with preprinted images on like this but felt it just worked so well with these pics so why not... just added a few circles with some nuvo mousse and even dug out the matching sticker sheer and went a little crazy. Must admit for a layout created in the middle of a heatwave, it turned out pretty good... my creative brain is on strike with this heat!

This is the great sketch we worked from... as you will see I changed up the photos a little.

Visit the blog for lots more inspiration from the Design Team.

ScrapPlezier - Christmas Delivery

It's super duper hot again this week... I really don't cope well when it's so hot...would rathre just lie on the couch and nap! Only one more working day left of this year then I am on holiday for two weeks. Roll on the weekend! I am not planning to do a heck of a lot this year, but my to do list is getting full...will just tackle each task as I can and see where we get too by the time I go back to work in January.

One of the tasks of course is scrapping...this layout I made on Monday and I have another one due for Saturday still needing to be put together....eeck!!!

I've used two different Kaisercraft collections on my layout:
December 25th
Twig & Berry

Yes these are very old collections, but Christmas never goes out of fashion and the colours are always relevant.

I used the green and white papers for my background to mount everything on. The tree is made with bits for a variety of papers, just picking up on colours and patterns. I used a journalling card as a tag sticking out from under the photos. This worked nicely as it already had the date on the card.

To finish off my layout, I added a star which I had diecut. I used various bits from the Twig & Berry collectables pack and the scattered some gold brads around the tree for added effect.

Head on over to the blog to see some more details and inspiration.

Sketch N Scrap - Merry & Bright Crop - Challenge 4

It's time for a new challenge as part of the Merry & Bright online crop at Sketch N Scrap... here is my card:

I used some vintage Couture Creations Christmas papers for my card. We are playing with this lovely sketch...

Come and join us over on facebook and have some fun with the online crop.

ScrapPlezier - Dec Moodboard

It's getting closer to Christmas and the silly season sure has set in. I've had such a busy week last week with the end of term for school, my busy week billing at work and then also selling my quilling goodies at the Night Market at school as well as setting up my Mom's new pc and printer. Just been soooooooooo busy that I haven't had too much time to scrap. I managed to carve out a few hours yesterday to put this page together:

This layout is totally inspired by a Jowilna original page that I've wanted to do for the last three years! I finally managed to get it done.

I used two items from the Kaisercraft collectables for the Scrapyard collection... the LOVE words matched my layout theme exactly. The rest of my layout is made from Simple Stories paper and Project Life cards that I've had in my stash for years. The background of my page has also had some mixed media techniques applied to it... gesso, gold paint, stamping, texture paste, inking and then brads and thread as well.

We got to play with this moodboard this month. I was influenced more by the gold than the grey and ended up using more black than grey too... but it is all shades of the same colour isn't it?

So come and play along with us on the blog and get more inspiration there too.

Quilling goodies

I thought I'd post here with some of the quilling goodies that I've made over the last few months and sold out of this week... yes I am sooooooooooo happy to say that I managed to sell most of my goodies between the school Night Market and church Ladies Fellowship. I've even got a few order that need to be finished quickly in the next two weeks.

First up I made calendars for next year... I made 12 which all got sold and now I have orders for 3 more. They are all different but based on the same basic structure, so will only share one here.

Then there are the variety of angels that I made too:

I made a new little Santa and a Christmas tree:

Also made another Elf:

and some Christmas puddings:

In the last month I also made this picture as a farewell present for Aaron's science teacher:

Now I need to finish the new orders, so best I get busy.

Let's Scrap Sketches - 1 Dec

Yikes I missed posting this layout at the beginning of the week... better now than never!

Scrapping is about the good and the sad memories.... this was one of those very sad ones for which I took photos.... our bunny died and Aaron wanted to have a funeral.

Having kept to the sketch as much as I could I added a few touches of my own... the bunny at the bottom is from a Fabscraps stencil which was in the ScrapAffairs magazine earlier this year. I used some embossing paste to stencil it on and then applied some White Pearl embossing powder. Once heated it got even more texture... fluffy like a bunny! I stamped the heart in versamark ink and used the same embossing powder so the heart is just a subtle touch to show our love but also our heartache.

This is the sketch we worked from:

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Stick It Down - Dec Double

I really had fun doing this layout after my initial scrapping block... I sat down with the sketch and my photos and just stared at the page... eventually after finding my inspiration on the jillibeansoup blog the layout just fell into place.

I diecut all the leaves for my layout from different scraps and hand-stitched the tree trunk.

This is the great sketch we worked with:

Be sure to check out the blog for lots more inspiration.

Sketch N Scrap - Dec 1 layout

It's time again to share some inspiration for Sketch N Scrap... here is my layout using our newest sketch this month:

I chose to use some leftovers of the Hello Lovely range from Simple Stories... this range is really soooooooo pretty and versatile. I used all sorted of bits and pieces for my page. I also added some journalling in place of the title on the sketch and the big circle on the left of the page became the title. Lastly I hand stitched around a few of the circles too.

Come join us on facebook to see more as well as the blog. We are also doing an online crop this month... Merry & Bright.

Lets Get Sketchy - 1 Dec

The first of December... wow we're in the last month of the year... where has it flow? Aaron is done with Grade 11 (just one week of official school left but nothing being done except fighting for marks from his exams.) Having said that, I am still scrapping photos from 2014/5... so it's hard to always remember my little boy in these pics is now nearly finishing school.

Here's my layout for today's sketch reveal for Let's Get Sketchy:

My layout is made using Echo Park papers and stickers... I picked colours from the photos as my inspiration and then the stickers just created fun elements to the page.

Visit the blog and see loads more inspiration from the design team.