Stick It Down - Double layout - Aug 2019

It's time to share my layout for the new double page sketch for this month:

This is the fabulous sketch we worked with. I really liked all the different bits and pieces which can be papers or photos. I used the birthday range from LA Paper to create my layout.

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

Let's Scrap Sketches - 1 Aug

It's a brand new month and hopefully I will get some scrapping done this month (physical and digi!). With the month of July being part of the northern hemisphere's summer things getrather busy over there and so the second sketch for last month got a little missed in all the fun. So this month there will actually be three sketches to play with.

First up is my layout using the July 15th sketch:

I just used the right side of the sketch to make a single layout. Used some pretty Kaisercraft papers with lots of fussy cutting as well as a cutfile for my title.

You can see what the DT did on this post.

An now on to my layout for the first August sketch:

I chose to document a month's worth of photos on this page... it was all about my #CoffeeWithCathy #100Days challenge back in 2016. I used the EchoPark range all about coffee... soooooooo perfect for these pics. I was really great to use all the different papers as well as the stickers.

Visit the blog for lots more inspiration.

Remember that both these sketches will run for the month of August so get scrapping.

Pixel Scrapper Summer Layout Madness

I am taking quite a plunge into digi scrapping... I spent part of this month organising my digit stash, and even adding to it! I think I have more digi stash than I ever had in the paper stash.

Anyways I took part in the Pixel Scrapper Summer Layout Madness during July. I only thought I'd do about 5 layouts and ended up doing 9. Super thrilled with myself.

Commons

Using June Kits

Using the July Good Life kit

Call A Colour Challenge

Bingo Challenge

I also did these which I showed earlier:
Mothers Day layout for Roll the Dice
Spoilt - for No Prompt
Adventure (part 1) - for No Prompt
Adventure (part 2) for Pocket Scrapping

I have been playing with the app PixelLab to do a lot of these pages... it's great to be able to scrap on the go so to speak. Hope to keep at it and do lots more in the coming months.

Simply Project Life - Christmas in July

This group on facebook is hosted daily challenges in July to celebrate Christmas. I decided to dive in an take part. Instead of the usual 12x12 pages, this time I decided that I would make 6x8 size pages for these challenges and possibly print them into a mini-album (or not!).. they are just fun to do. Here's what I've managed to do:

1- Tree

2 - Lights

3 - Treats

4 - Clothes

5 - Tradition

6 - Santa

7 - Making a List

8 - weather

9 - family time

10 - Food

11 - Christmas Eve

12 - Celebrations

This was a really great way to remember all sorts of things about Christmas over the years.

#SPLChristmasInJuly2019

UnstampaBellas: July2019

Here is my project for this month's theme at UnstampaBelles:

This month's challenge is: Stunning Stencil Play
The twist to the challenge is: It Pays to Spray

I used two different stencils to create my background... the sun rays one I had to flip to make a full half-circle of the sun going down. Then I used a wood grain stencil for the grass. My rhino I cut out on my Curio machine and then spent a few evenings making lots and lots of little coils to stick all over him.

Remember to link you entry to the challenge post. See more great inspiration from the team on the blog.

Sketch n Scrap - July monthly challenge

Hope you've taking the time to join our monthly challenge group on facebook... here is my card challenge for today:

My twist on this challenge is to use numbers.... I used three oversized number stickers on my card along with a sticker ribbon strip and sentiment. Also added 3 blings for fun.

Come play along with us in our Monthly Challenge group and get inspired.

IQCG - July2019 - monochromatic

We have a fun new challenge on the blog for Indian Quilling Challenge Group... it's all about going monochromatic this month:

For my monochromatic colour, I picked shades of yellow and decided to do a whole mason jar of little daisies. This is an idea that's been rattling around in my brain for a while so was nice to have an excuse to make it.

Come play along. Visit the blog for lots more inspiration and to enter our monthly challenge.

Wrap up of my 100 days project

So the 100 days has come to an end... awwww! I thoroughly enjoyed making lots of creative crafts over the last few months and sharing them every day on Instagram... the bug has bitten that I might just carry on (hehehe). Anyway's here's the last two days of what I shared:

I am trying to do the Summer Layout Madness challenges at Pixel Scrapper and this is one I made for their "Roll the Dice" challenge:

Day 99 - Digital layout for Pixel Scrapper

I have made good progress with my knitting... finished all 403 rows of the pattern but have found that the poncho is not quite long enough so have to still do another 30cm or so... will just keep going.

Day 100 - My poncho progress

And so there you have it... 100 days of Crafts with Cathy. I've shared:

Quilling: 53  (35 cards)
Scrapping: 37 (1x technique, 29 paper layouts, 8 digi, 1 card)
Knitting: 4
Sewing: 3
Baking: 1
Design team projects: 32 (8 quilling, 24 scrapping)

Sure is a varied list... hope you've enjoyed them all as much as I've enjoyed making them.

Week 14 of my 100 days

This past week has been a hodge podge of projects... I've been working on all sorts of things inbetween trying to organise Aaron's learners licence (that didn't pan out but will try again) and knitting my poncho... it's a nice long blanket at the moment! Anyway, here's what I shared:

Day 92 - Birthday layout for Stick It Down

Day 93 - Heatwave layout for Let's Scrap Sketches

Day 94 - Enlisted layout for Sketch N Scrap

I decided then to try doing a few digi pages for my 2018 album... downloaded lots of stash and got a little creative

Day 95 - a quickpage from Pixel Scrapper

Day 96 - another quickpage from Pixel Scrapper

Day 97 - a matching page for Day 95's layout... done in ProjectLifeApp

Day 98 - a layout for a challenge at TheDigitalPress

So the digi bug is biting quite hard at the moment... inbetween these I still have normal DT commitments to do, managed to get two pages made this weekend for my August commitments. However I am so keen to learn more digi stuff that I've taken the plunge to partake in a few challenges this month... at The Digital Press and Pixel Scrapper... so hopefully I can get them done and uploaded in time and share them here on my blog too in the coming weeks.

There are now just two days to go on this 100 day project and I've still got sooooooooooooo many crafts on the go I might just keep at it... hehe.

Sketch n Scrap - July 1st sketch

I've been hanging on to these pics for a while and when I saw this month's sketch I just knew they would work:

This is the sketch that I worked from:

I chose the predominately red papers for the patriotic Canadian theme. Also used a few stickers that Keith bought me on his last trip to Canada. Don't know when else I would use them... hehe.

Oh and how appropriate is this Canada theme page with it having been Canada Day yesterday?

Remember to play along with us on the blog and facebook.