Let's Scrap Sketches - 15 June

Happy Father's Day to all. It's on days like this when I miss my Dad but I do know he is in heaven. Soooooo one day I will see him again.

This is one of the reasons I also enjoy my scrapping... I can look back and remember all the good times we have had together.

Here is my layout for this week's sketch from Let's Scrap:

I really took a twist on this sketch.. used only the left side and then flipped it so that my photos would work better. I used papers that I got for my birthday last year on this page as they were fairly neutral yet played well with the colours in the pics.

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Off The Rails - June moodboard Inspiration

It's time to share once again for Off the Rails Scrapbooking.

I was inspired by the beach photo in our moodboard and just had to scrap these photos. I pulled out lots of lovely Kaisercraft beachy papers and an old sticker sheer for my embellishments. I also used a project life card leftover from a boy range (just covered up the gun with the big crab!). This layout is based on a Jowilna original so obviously has lots of little touches from her... like the stencil stamping down the sides... love this technique sooooooo much. I even got to use up some sea themed paperclips that have been in my stash for ages.

This month you actually get two moodboards to choose from - Fun In The Sun or Sewing. Pick one and come play along with us on our facebook group.

Whilst there you can see lots more inspiration from our DT.

IQCG - June - School

This month's theme is school related.

I created a sweet little owl for my school related theme. These are really lots of fun to make and adding them to a card is such an easy way to display them. I made a bigger one of these about a year ago as a farewell gift for a teacher. They can be for exams wishes, graduation, teach appreciation or just because it's cute!

Be sure to check out the IQCG blog all month long for loads more ideas. 

Create along with us and link your entry to this post.

Week 10 of my 100 days

It's been a fairly busy week of sharing again... lots going on so here's the recap:

Day 64 - Sister Act layout for Let's Scrap Sketches

Day 65 - world map

I made this map as a farewell present for Aaron's geography teacher. I really enjoyed creating it over the last few weeks. I used a clipart image to cut out all the continents as my base and glued all the little bits to each one and then glued them all to the big base.

Day 66 - Frog

Day 67 - Card for Sketch n Scrap

Day 68 - Penguin

Day 69 - Love Being Here layout for Sketch n Scrap

Day 70 - Ellie

These 3D creatures are what I really enjoy making with my quilling but unfortunately I don't have toooooooo much space to make a whole menagerie. I need to find a few different things to make too so am always up for ideas and suggestions.

Leave me a comment to let me know what you would like to see me make next and I could be sharing it real soon.

Sketch N Scrap - June crop

We are changing the way the online crops are hosted at Sketch N Scrap from this month. We are using a closed the monthly challenge group now which you can join here. So come on over and join us. I am sharing this layout for the first challenge:

The challenge is to use the sketch provided and an optional twist is to add some sewing, whether it is by hand, machine, stamping or pen. My sewing is done by pen...the butterfly trail and some stitching along the pink strip.

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Sketch N Scrap - June card

Today I am sharing my card creation using the latest sketch at Sketch N Scrap:

I liked the wreath shape on the card as well as the flowers and so tried to mimic them on my card. I used one that I had coloured a few weeks back but hadn't quite decided how to decorate. The watercolour inky background is the perfect backdrop to the wreath.

I then found a simple peel off sentiment and added a few blings for effect.

Hope this inspires you too.

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Week 9 of my 100days

Well the Sketch n Scrap 7th birthday bingo came to an end at the end of May but I've still got a few more to share with this week's recap:

Day 57 - Meena's challenge with Twist - Pastel Colours

This gives me my 5th bingo... sure am getting nice and close to the end.

Day 58 - Seven - card sketch 67

Day 59 - Tina's Challenge with twist: messy background

Now I have another column bingo done (and the top row which I seemed to have missed!)

This square I must admit was the hardest one until I started singing Christmas carols in my head and found this preprinted tag which was perfect:

Day 60 Song - Card sketch 71

This gives me two more bingos:

And now my final block:

Day 61 - May 15th - Layout sketch 179

I've blurred my journalling on this layout as it is very personal about the trauma of this incident. Thankfully it was a few years back and we are now past this.

With this layout I managed to score three bingos.

So there you have it the final block done and now I have a BLACKOUT! Here's my full card.

How did you do with our bingo this month? We had 58 people in our bingo hall with 19 actually uploading creations plus 10  DT members playing along and inspiring everyone. So discounting the DTs, there were 366 block completed, 145 bingos and 9 blackouts. It was a ton of fun for all.

The last two for this week are DT layout links:

Day 62 School layout for Stick It Down.

Day 63 Life layout for Let's Get Sketchy.

Now that Bingo is over I will need to find more interesting craft creations to share for the rest of the month of June... stay tuned here and on Instagram.

Let's Scrap Sketches - 1 June

And yet another layout for today... this one is for Let's Scrap Sketches.

Sister Act is one of my absolute fav movies (both 1 and 2) so when it came to the theatre I just had to go see it... loved the show. I used photos from the programme for my page with the little selfie of my friend Theresa and I to prove we were there.

I only did the right side of the sketch. I used some of my favourite Illustrated Faith papers for this too. This layout came together so quickly once I had decided on what to do. Used the preprinted banners as well as they worked perfectly with my theme.

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Let's Get Sketchy - June 2019

Here is my second layout for today, this time for Let's Get Sketchy.

I used a few papers and things from Celebr8 and Penelope Dee on this layout... just loved the colours and how they worked well together. I even got adventurous in using some glimmer paste through my Stenciled by Jow stencil... don't you just love those circles too?

This is our great inspiration sketch for this month.

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

Sadly this will be my last layout for this team as I've decided to step down as of this month. It's been lovely being able to design for Let's Get Sketchy... this was a team that I had wanted to join for ages so feel privileged to have had the opportunity to design for them for the last 18 months.

Stick It Down - June2019 double

It's the start of June and I am about to flood you with sharing. Here is today's layout for Stick It Down:

I really had fun creating this page. I used strips from lots of school themed papers from Penelope Dee. and Simple Stories. I added two cutfiles from our sponser SpiegelMomScraps.

This is the fabulous sketch we worked with.

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