Sketch N Scrap - Deee-lish

It's time for a layout share at Sketch N Scrap.... I've made a de-lish-ous layout about an equally delicious cake... hehehe... when Aaron saw the layout in the making his comment was that I must make this again... guess it's time for a rerun!

If you are wanting to make this lovely chocolate creation, you can find the recipe here.

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ScrapPlezier - Jan moodboard

Yesterday was such a busy day for me I never got close to my pc at all. I was busy making salads and pudding before going to work, then once done it was fetch and carry Aaron before the long trek to the airport and back to fetch my Uncle and Aunt who flew in from PE. We then had a family supper last night with my brother as well.... busy day but so rewarding. Today will be another busy day with shopping this afternoon for my Aunt and then tomorrow morning I take them to the airport again so they can fly home to Zim. I think then I can put my feet up for a while and maybe get some other things crossed off my to-do list.

Back to the topic of discussion for today though:  Scrapping for ScrapPlezier.

This month's moodboard is definitely a stretch for me.... I don't enjoy scrapping in black & white and have very little in the way of stash to make it work.... but make work I did and I must say I really love how this layout turned out:

For my layout I found an awesome sketch in one of my pinterest folders and then went from there. I hand-stitched a circle in white onto the white background. The one "new" part of my layout is the subtle grey dot stamp which is from the Kaisercraft Scrap Studio set I bought for my birthday. I then added a bit of white texture paste through a stencil. I diecut a whole host of hearts from various Kaisercraft off-cuts that I have that are in different shades/patterns of black. I also added very old Kaisercraft rubons and then the letter stickers for my title. As a final touch I added some washi tape strips and ink splat stamping and the date stamp.

Hope my layout will inspire you to also stretch yourself a bit and make a layout with this moodboard.

This is the sketch that I used:

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ScrapPlezier - Our Memories

I am starting out this month's sharing for ScrapPlezier, with a layout about the close of another one... New Year's Eve dinner 2014.

My layout came together by using various Kaisercraft papers based purely on the colour choices. I started with the circle paper (Lush Collection - Japonica) and then picked up the orange colour in the dots (Little One Collection - Mia). I used a strip of blue polka dots (Bubblegum Hills Collection - Blue Lemonade) for the tag paper. The journalling tag as well as the word strips are all from the bow & Arrow Collection - Fire. Just by working with colours it is easy to make papers from different collections work together.

The last few touches on my layout were the diecut corners in gold and then a sprinkle of star sequins.

Hopefully I have now inspired you to also dig out some papers and make them work together.

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Stick It Down - Jan2019 double

The first working Monday of the year... most people were back in the office today so it was really all systems go. For me it is just another day in the office seeing as I started back last week already. In one way it's nice to already be in the groove of working, in another I would really much rather still be on holiday.The one upside of today was that there wasn't any traffic so it was still a breeze getting to work.

Well enough about that for now. Back on the actual topic of today... scrapping. Ok the topic of everyday! I decided to do another panto page for Stick It Down... had enough photos to make this work.

I used my new Jillibeansoup papers for this layout.... love all the bright colours and the various patterns. Making the tags was the perfect excuse to use them all! As I had lots of little photos from the pantomime I created a filmstrip effect down the right side of my page. I found a quote about Neverland and used that as my title which I made using lots of different stickers.

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Sketch N Scrap - New Beginning Crop

We're having an online crop to celebrate the new year and new beginnings. This year we will also be throwing in a few bonus challenges on the crops. Here is my card for Challenge No 2.

The bonus challenge I have for you is to use 3 shapes on your card using the sketch below. I used circles, star and triangle (okay they started as triangles and got chopped a little hehehe).

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Lets Scrap Sketches - 1 Jan

Well the year has now truly started - I went back to work today! Yip routine is falling into place slowly... next week hubby goes back to work and on Wednesday Aaron starts matric - yikes!

At least I still have memories like this one to scrap:

I used a lovely science set by Echo Park for my layout... and nearly used up the sticker sheet on it too! hehehe.

This is the great sketch we used for inspiration:

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Lets Get Sketchy - 1 Jan

Happy New Year to each and every follower of my blog. I pray that 2019 will be a truly blessed year for us all.

Being the first of the month, it's reveal time and here is my layout for this month:

I scrapped about being published in our local scrapping mag, ScrapAffairs. Such a privilege. I used some Simple Stories papers for my page and found enough alpha stickers in my stash to make my title.

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Ending off 2018 scrapping

I am sooooooo proud of myself for my scrapping goals this year.... I have scrapped lots (even got all my January 2019 commitments done before Christmas!). Here's one of the last pages I made which was just for fun:

This is a scraplift of a Jowilna orignal page. I used the newish Crafty Girl line from Simple Stories.... love the colours in this one. Just kept the layout fairly close to the original and used lots of stickers in place of some of the embellishments Jow had used.

Now on to some stats on my scrapping:
Total single layouts done: 180
Total double layouts done: 83
Total number of layouts done: 263
this means that I have done 346 pages... that is the MOST layouts and MOST pages I have scrapped in one year and the closest I have ever come to my goal of a page a day! Yes it is largely down to doing the whole of my 2017 album digitally in January this year (69 layouts) and making a start on my 2018 album too... but the majority of the rest of these pages is physical scrapping. I think there are only 3 that need to get photos stuck on to them.

So now what's going to happen with my scrapping in 2019? Well I am on six design teams and so have lots of commitments for next year that will keep me going. Plus I have my 2018 album to do in the project life app.... so I will still be doing lots of scrapping next year!

PL challenge layouts

I have spent the last few days since Christmas working on my 2018 album, in between filing all my finished layouts and tidying up my scraproom, and have taken part in some of the challenges on the Simply Project Life facebook group. Here's what I've made:

The following layouts are for the Documenting December challenges (#docdec18) which was to use different cards on each layout based on the prompt:

Challenge #1 plaids - I made my own plaid card by combining an orange card with a plaid overlay.

Challenge #3 strips 

Challenge #4 Chevrons - our current Christmas photo.

Challenge #5 stars

Challenge #7 wood grain

Challenge #8 hearts & Challenge #10 numbers - I used each side for each challenge.

Challenge #9 word art - used the pink card for this challenge.

I did already blog about challenge #2 & #6 here.

Since Boxing Day there has been an impromptu word challenge (#holiday2018) every day to get us scrapping. I thought I'd give this a try too. The word doesn't have to be on the layout but can rather just be inspirational too.

#1 Twinkle - got inspired by the twinkling lights at the Carols by candlelight at Aaron's school.

#2 Magic -  All about the field of cosmos we saw in March on the way home from Wyndford.

#3 Believe - our trip to the flying school open day in Feb.

#4 Wrap - took this as "wrapping up" the school year and did last day of school pics.

#5 Family - a great family visit back in July.

 

#6 Party - the perfect word to get started on scrapping my birthday party. (I might just need to tweak this page a bit still)

and then to round out my digi scrapping I put together a collage layout of my last 50 years pics that I used at my party.

It is soooooooooo good to make a decent start on my 2018 album and to be able to complete these challenges this year still.

Off The Rails - Dec Tutorial - Christmas

Christmas has come and gone and now we are heading towards 2019. Have you managed to get any scrapping done this holiday season? I've done a few pages and LOTS of planning for next year.

The theme for this month at Off The Rails has been "anything goes" and I did this layout about seeing out the old year (yes it's from a few years back!) This layout is inspired by a Jowilna original too.

Be sure to head on over to the blog to see lots more inspiration through the month from the whole team.