By The Numbers Challenge - Week 2

Last week was an interesting week with the #ByTheNumbers challenges on the Simply Project Life facebook group. Some of them I found easy enough to do and others I stressed over and rehashed before I was 100% happy. So here's what I've created:

Challenge 5 - a layout with 5 filler cards
I had fun creating this page... I used 5 filler cards - 3 on the left (blue dots, camera, yellow happy) and 2 on the right page (Fun and friends) as well as a whole bunch of journal cards. I made sure that the filler cards were "as is" and only journalled on the others... hehe. The title of my page is actually the graphic used to advertise the day.

Challenge 6 - a layout using the 6th kit in the "my kits" section of your library
This kit for me is the "celebrate everyday overlays" ... well that's a stretch as there aren't toooooo many options of cards.

I made this page which I like but it's not actually going to go into my album ... so just making a pretty page defeats the object for me.

I will need to redo this challenge.

Challenge 7 - a page using the 7th vertical filler card in the Kraft Edition kit
This is the "good times" card. I made this page very quickly using a few photos and the card.

As this layout isn't one I had planned for my 2018 album and I wasn't really happy with it, I then redid the page for the challenge.

Now I really love my layout as it stretched me in making it all in the am, used the card and also used my favourite blue colour. I might go back and change the orientation of the journalling just to make it easier to read.

Challenge 8 - a layout using your 8th from last font
My font is kg Arrows which is such fun font to add to a layout. I used the letter "x" to add arrows to two of my photos along with some text to create sort of an overlay effect.

Challenge 9 - use 9 fonts on a layout
Well this one was a challenge indeed. Lots of people used their fonts to create a sort of "word pile" but I wanted to stretch my creativity and use my fonts for the embellishments. This is all done through the fft feature of the project life app and using fonts that I've imported and some standard app fonts. I will most probably still tweak this page before it is finally printed but for now I am happy with what I made.

The fonts I used are:
1 kg flavor and frames 3 - scallops
2 sanserif thin - stitching on scallops
3 kg frames 4 - flags
4 times new roman - stitching on flags
5 mouse memoirs - Dec
6 numberpile regular - dates on photos
7 numberpile reversed - dates on journal
8 jonathan - journal text
9 janda flower doodle - flower

So now I wait for the last three challenges to be released this week so that I can create a few more pages for my 2018 album...oh and I guess I can redo challenge 6 too.

Stick It Down - March2019 double

Today was a busy day at work... yip I'm right back into my busy crazy billing schedule...along with a few hiccups. Hopefully it will all be smooth sailing for the rest of the week. I've also had the saga over the past few months of trying to get my hands on a textbook for Aaron.... found out today from the people I ordered from that they don't have it and can't get it. Thankfully the school supplier still had one in stock... only R100 more expensive! yikes. But now it's paid for and should be delivered this week... nothing like not having a book for the whole term!

Oh well enough of that saga... I do still have my scrapping to keep me sane. My mojo is a bit lacking in that department too so hopefully it will arrive pretty quickly as I have a ton of pages still to finish before we go on holiday in three weeks.

Here's my layout for today, that I made last month... had fun putting this one together:

The strip across the top is washi tape and then the rest is just fun papers and stickers that I had on hand. The rocket paper has been in my stash for ages and finally I got to use it.

Check out this great sketch we are using this month:

Be sure to visit the blog for lots more inspiration.

ScrapPlezier - Heart to Heart

It's the new month and we have loads of inspiration coming over on the blog this month... like this layout from me today:

I used some Illustrated Faith papers that I've been hording for a while... I love the bright colours of the papers but don't always have the perfect pics for them. These pics are by no means perfect. In fact they are all saved from a video I took of the kids doing their play. They are also fairly dark which is why I matted them on yellow to help lighten my layout. I kept the whole page fairly simple and besides the strip of star paper and cardstock, all the rest is from one sheet of paper. A nice economical page.

Come check out the blog all month long for loads more creativity.

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.

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

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.

Visit the blog for lots more inspiration by the DT.

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.

Visit the blog for lots more inspiration by the DT.