A quick class layout

I seem to be hibernating of sorts lately in my scraproom and not venturing out. Costs have been escalating over the last few months for me personally (car, school, more car, dental, yet more car, etc) so I decided to curb my expenditure on scrappy stuff, stay home and use what I have.

Well that all worked beautifully till last week when Jowilna advertised a class using the new travel papers from Art from the Heart.... one of my fav South Africa designers. So I bit the bullet and went to class.

I truly love how my page turned out... yes I even took the photos with me. Besides the title stickers everything else was done and finished in class... a rare accomplishment for me... hehehe.

Maybe now I will actually be inspired to finish the few other pages from Jow's classes that I have sitting on my to do pile.

Lets Get Sketchy - March 2019

The first of the month sure sneaks up on us... so here is today's reveal

I used some of my new Penelope Dee papers that I got in my Christmas prize pack. I used all the woody grain and rustic feel papers to got with the rather beaten up theme of my pics... these were from a robbery we had a few years back.... so not nice. But thankfully the most damage was to the back door and they only stole my laptop. This is the only time our house has actually been broken into in the 20+ years we've lived here.

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Let's Scrap Sketches - 1 March

Here is my layout for our newest sketch:

I decided just to do a single and used the right side of the sketch. I went for a very busy paper and colourful stickers for my title. I also used various colours for the matting across the middle. A fun and festive page.

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Off The Rails - Feb moodboard - Recycle

I am sharing today my layout for Off The Rails moodboard... I really liked the bright colours and used that as my starting point:

With our theme too of recycling I decided to use up some of my leftovers for my page. I pulled out all the bits that had lots of colours on them, punched squares and then cut those in half to form triangles. Next up was to arrange the triangles in a chevron pattern across the page and machine stitch them in place.

The photos were also punched into squares and then mounted into photo strips. This is all mounted onto a piece of patterned paper. Lastly I dug out some old button stickers and a few others to add to the layout.

The only "new" bit on my layout is the title which I created in Silhouette Studio and then cut out.

My layout is a scraplift of one from Paige Evans from a few years back:

We are no longer using the blog to share our layouts, but rather loading it all onto the OTR facebook group.... join us there for lots more inspiration.

UnstampaBellas: Feb 2019

Yes I might already be on a few design teams and be busy busy with all my scrapping, but I've took the plunge and applied (and was accepted) to a new team:

Today I get to share my first creation for this month's challenge which is: Simply Bright and Cheerful
The twist to the challenge is: Arty Creations Appreciated

Well I decided to try my hand at a mandala and then turned it into a funky ornament... all bright and cheerful indeed.

If you play along you could also win this prize:

 $15 Gift Voucher 
(via PayPal or direct to on-line store, whichever suits)

See more great inspiration from the team on the blog.

By The Numbers Challenge - week 1

It's time to share a few layouts I've been making for my 2018 album. There is a new challenge series going on in the Simply Project Life facebook group that I am using to motivate me to get my pages done... it's called #bythenumberschallenge. Here's what I've managed to do so far:

1. Page with only 1 photo - I decided to make the front page for my album:

2. Use two different kits - I used the Bloom Edition and Kiwi Edition kits.

3. Use three square pockets - I took a bit of liberty with this one and used three squares as embellishments.

4. Use Bigshot4 template - Made right side in Design U using #justaddcolorphotooverlay and #fft journalling, then exported. Finished in Bigshot4. Used the #HelloDecember kit to get the green colour.

I will post a few more pages next week... the challenge runs till the 18th of March if you want to play along too.

Let's Scrap Sketches - 15 Feb

It's finally time to share this layout:

I looked at the sketch and found photos that would work with the right side of it but when I came to scrapping, the alignment went very vertical... at least I was inspired by the sketch! hehe.

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ScrapPlezier - Moments

This month is flying by. I haven't been scrapping as much this month as in January, maybe because I did all my Feb DT pages in January... hehe. I am slowly working through my March commitments as well as a few digital pages inbetween too. But here is one of my pages to share with you today:

For this layout I took my inspiration from some of the colours of the moodboard for this month. I picked up on the blues and then added in the brown for contrast. I kept my layout fairly simple so as not to distract too much from the small photo. I also used an old Project Life Card to create a subtle subtitle for my page. My other embellishments include ribbon, thread and stitching.

My technique on this page is stamping. I tried to do a two colour stamp on my title. I first masked the big word and inked the small ones in brown and stamped them onto the page. Next I masked the small words and inked the rest of the stamp in blue and then stamped that onto the page. I used the same two colours to stamp the flowers.

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Sketch N Scrap - Queen of Hearts crop

It's time for a new challenge at our online crop and here is what I have for you:

Using the sketch below create a layout and as an added twist, use a grid. Yip I used a sketch that has one already so it's a no-brainer. You can use photos in your grid like I did, or just use lots of different papers. Can't wait to see what you create.

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ScrapPlezier - Feb moodboard

It's time for us to share the new moodboard at ScrapPlezier. When I saw it I knew I had the perfect photos to scrap!

I used a cutfile by Paige Evans for my page and combined it with some Bo Bunny papers in shades of blues and greens to pick up the colours.

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