Lets Scrap Sketches - 1 Feb

I might be a few days late with sharing this post but I still think it's totally worth it. It's hard to believe that these photos were taken at the end of Grade 7 and now my boy is in Matric! Yikes, soon I will be scrapping his very last day of school never mind just primary school.

We had this wonderful sketch to work with, though I only used the right hand side. I took my inspiration from the stars on the sketch but used a circle star cutfile instead to frame my slightly blurry photo of the group. I also used some diecut stars around the page as well as rulers which were cut from the pattern paper. All the papers on this page were from leftover scraps of past school pages.

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Sketch N Scrap - Feb card

It's a new month and we have a new card sketch to share... here is my example.

I got inspired by a challenge in last month's crop which was about using only stickers on a card so I dug through my stash and found these ones which matched the sketch idea beautifully. I started with a piece of book paper that I dipped into some gold ink. Once dry I cut it to size, matted it and then adhered it to the card. The stickers and bling finished it off nicely.

A perfect card for valentine's day in a few days time.

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ScrapPlezier - Precious Bundle

Last month we had our National Scrapbooking Day on the 26th of January. I didn't scrap on that day but rather did quilling demos which was fun and a first for me. Part of the day though there were various competitions.... one of which is a sketch competition for Scissor Sister Kaisercraft Kits. Well I couldn't pass up on the opportunity to scrap this great and easy sketch so dug out some papers and then found these gorgeous photos of my boy when he was very little (a few months old).

I created a quilt effect by doing some hand stitching between each of the blocks of paper on the background. Kept the layout fairly simple with just using some title strips on the right and adding some bits from the collections pack for the title and embellishments. Added in some buttons and splat stamping too. The little train is a chipboard one I've had for years (most probably as long as I've been scrapping!). I sprayed it with a mixture of Nuvo mousse, all purpose ink and distress oxide refill... all in shades of dark blue. Once dry I then inked it a little with more distress oxide ink before adhering it to my page.

I really love how my page turned out. As I have already scrapped these photos years ago and that layout is in my album, I might just have to get myself a frame for this one to go up in the house.

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IQCG - My Passion & Love

It's time for my first reveal for the Indian Quilling Challenge Group... and our theme this month is My Passion & Love. Well anybody who knows me well knows what I love.... CHOCOLATE. So what better thing to start off with than making a whole box of chocolates:

I've wanted to quill these chocolates for years... ever since I bought one of my quilling books, simply because it has them on the cover... yummy.

I also bought this stamp which comes with a few dies as well, especially for card or scrapping but the sentiment works perfectly for me and so I used it for my box of chocolates.

I stamped and embossed the words in the middle of my piece of white, then added a few strips of washi tape to cordon off the areas. I then just applied distress oxide ink in three different shades to the squares and added a few splatters of water. Once it was all dry I stuck my chocolates to the squares.

These all looked so good and realistic that the other night whilst I was still making them, Aaron thought they were real and asked if he could have one... hehehe. Think I best go find some chocolate to eat now.

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Lets Get Sketchy - 1 Feb

Another layout to share for today:

I won a whole host of product from Penelope Dee in their December Christmas Traditions giveaway and so decided I best delve in and use some of it. I created this page with the Paradise papers. I went all out and fussy cut the seahorse and shells and also all the words.

The two photos weren't taken together, in fact the landscape one is more zoomed in, but I found they lined up so well that it just worked to arrange them as such. The photos were taken from our hotel room up on the fourth floor looking out to where Keith had gone fishing... he is one of those minute dots out there somewhere on the beach near the rocks!! At least the memory is down on paper.

This is the sketch we are working with this month:

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Stick It Down - Feb2019 Double

It's a new month already... January seemed to take forever but also flew by if you think that we are now in the second month of 2019. January was a good scrapping month for me in that I got all my February DT scrap commitments done within record time and still managed to do a few other bits too.

Today the weather is much cooler than it's been... we've had some heatwaves over the past few months. As I type this, it's busy raining.... so blessed to have the rain falling.

Today is sketch reveal day and I am the featured double page layout designer this month. Here's my take on our sketch:

I chose our trip to Mocambique in 2014 for this page as I had the one big photo that needed scrapping and the rest fitted into the layout. I love how easy it is to adapt a sketch to suit the photos on hand.

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Indian Quilling Challenge - Design Team

This year is going to be a crazy busy year for me designing.... I just got accepted to another DT... this one for quilling. Yes I am trying very hard to expand my repertoire!

Here is the whole team:

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Off The Rails - Jan moodboard - Parents

This month at Off The Rails we've had added inspiration as we are scraplifting each other's styles as well as following the monthly moodboard:

Well I went for the challenge and chose to scraplift Lisa-Marie Watling. I love her layered look but it is sooooooooo not something I do... plus she usually only scraps with one photo which I rarely do either... so I really was stretched. I scraplifted this layout:

As you will see my layout has three extra photos on it... that's because I had them already printed and didn't want to waste them.... plus I felt they told the story too which I journalled about after I had taken the layout photo as it is a little bit more personal.

Here's the moodboard we are playing with:

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ScrapPlezier - Scratched

It's weekend! Yippee yay. That means scrapping time for me in my happy place. I will be finishing up some projects that I have on my desk and hopefully starting a few new ones too. It's all part of getting the memories into an album. Just like today's layout:

It's hard to scrap about the not so nice things that happen in life but I try very hard to include those in my album too... like my car being involved in another bumper bashing.. thankfully this one wasn't serious and more of an inconvenience. As I drive a green car I usually try and scrap with green colours. For my layout I used some pretty papers just to soften the blow! I used the Miss Nelly Collection - Her Laugh and then added in the bluish strip and the green dotty bit from the Party Animals Collection - Hooray. I also added some bakers twine in green around the bottom and over the flags at the top. To highlight the scratch theme I used a wonky circle diecut in brown.

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Lets Scrap Sketches - 15 Jan

It's been a rather productive week for me at work... got lots done. Also had some lovely rain during the week so that was very refreshing. I am busy with a quilling project at the moment for our NSD event next weekend so haven't done nearly as much scrapping this week. I have thankfully scheduled (at least in my head!) some time to scrap my February DT commitments this weekend so that I can get ahead of schedule. Will have to see how I do.

Here is today's layout for the reveal at Let's Scrap:

As I only had four photos and not enough to make a whole double layout, I chose to do a single. I used the left side of the sketch but then replaced the "title" bit with the flags from the right side of the sketch. I started off too with picking the circle paper from Bo Bunny for my layout as it sort-of represented the lego circles in my brain. I combined this with the stripes from the same range and then picked up blue and grey cardstock for extra contrast. The aeroplane paper from Kaisercraft just ran with the theme and matched the greyish colour.

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