Guest Designer - Gone Digital Designs

Oh squeal.... I got some happy news on Sunday which has just been announce here on my birthday ...  I will be guest designing for December for Gone Digital Designs who has a shop through The Digital Press.... yippee yay I need to pinch myself. My first digi scrapping design team (or creative team as it's termed here) work.

So look for lots more post from me coming soon throughout the next month.

AppScrappers challenge

On the 9th of November the facebook group AppScrappers had a whole day of challenges. I managed to complete quite a few of the list which I am glad about. Thankfully the challenges were of such a nature that I managed to use these same pages for the other digi sites for their November challenges. This is like multi-tasking I guess but in a scrapping form.

So these first few will be going into challenges at The Digital Press:

IT WAS THE PERFECT (OR NOT SO PERFECT) DAY

IT’S ALL ABOUT ME!

CHEERS

I had fun making this layout...started the photos in PL App then everything else was done in PixelLab. The background is actually two papers on top of each other with the opacity of the map page set to about 40% to that the text paper shows through... was a lightbulb aha moment when it worked!


These next a few will be submitted for Gingerscraps challenges:

I AM GRATEFUL FOR

EARTH, WIND, AND FIRE

NEW LIFE

DESTINATION: UNKNOWN

SUGAR AND SPICE AND EVERYTHING NICE

I did this one for a challenge at The Lily Pad:

WORKIN’ FOR A LIVING!

and not forgetting about Pixel Scrapper too:

ALL IN THE FAMILY

Phew! So besides 3 (out of 13) challenges from the AppScrappers, I have done quite well I think for a week's scrapping.. even inbetween working and all. It's been lots of fun trying out new techniques and stretching my thought process to get pictures scrapped.

Sketch n Scrap - November Crop Challenge

It's monthly challenge time again at Sketch n Scrap and I have a card challenge for you.

I've used a piece of paper from Simple Stories that when I folded it looked just like the sketch that I used. I jazzed it up with some thread and quilled lightbulbs and then added some glittery washi tape to the bottom edge. A simple way to liven up some Christmas cards.

So come on over to facebook and join us for our monthly challenges.

IQCG - November moodboard

Our moodboard this month is all about giving thanks... it's a lovely thought indeed.

I made a card with lots of flowers on it and then added leaves that I got from my Mom-in-law in Canada that she had made when doing quilling. How special is that to combine two generations on one card?

Remember to tag us with #IQCG64 when you post your entry on instagram, your blog or load it on our facebook group.

Check out the blog for loads more inspiration from the design team.

Stick It Down - Double Layout - Nov2019

It's hard to believe that November is here already... This year has flown by again. At least with scrapping past years I get to slow down time just a little.

I used the lovely CocoaVanillaStudio Happiness range on my layout...love the bright colours. The page didn't need to much else so I just used some of the stickers from the range and added my title. I swopped the two sides of the sketch around as it worked better for the flow of my photos.

This is the fabulous sketch we worked with.

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

Sketch n Scrap - November layout

It's time to share a new layout this month using the 1st of November's sketch:

I used a "new to me" range for this layout. It's called The Timbuktu Collection by Leah-Donna, a South African designer. I haven't used these before but must say that worked so well with my travel photos.

Here is the great sketch that I used:

Come join us on the blog or on facebook for lots of fun sketches and challenges.

Last few October digi pages

So as we wind up October I thought I'd share the last few pages I've created this month for the challenges that I've been tackling.

For those at The Lily Pad:

Scraplift

Style

Photography

I completed 6 challenges of the 8 on offer.

At the Digital Press I've now completed 6 of the 9 challenges:

Short Story

Instant Replay

Dress Up

Digi Morph

White Space

So it sure has been a successful month digi scrapping... I am learning lots and lots and being creative is soooooooooo good. Though I do keep getting distracted from other stuff I should be doing. Need to figure out my scrapping schedule a little more maybe. Weekends are definitely scrapping (and not working!) time.

UnstampaBellas: Oct2019

Here is my card made especially for this month's theme:

This month's challenge is: Well, Thank You
The twist to the challenge is:Brilliant in Blue

This challenge was fairly easy for me as blue is my favouritist colour in the whole world. I found the soft paper in my leftover stash and even the rubon flowers too. The quilled flowers were ones I had wanted to try for a while. I bought the sentiment diecut in March and it worked so well for this challenge.

Remember to link you entry to the first post of the month and you can win a prize

See more great inspiration from the team on the blog.

Sketch n Scrap - WCMD 2019 #4

It's our last sketch reveal today for the month of celebration of World Card Making Day.

I really enjoyed making this set of cherry themed cards... hope they brought a smile to your face too.

Remember to head over to the blog to see what the rest of the team made and to share your cards too.

Gingerscraps - October challenges

I've had a productive month learning digi scrapping using the Photoscape program. This is really because my tablet and phone both started objecting with storage space issues. Digi scrapping supplies are quite intense in size and each file can be over 5Mb (or bigger!)... with the final jpeg getting to be that or larger. At least on the pc it doesn't get as sluggish or full and I can resize in a jiffy. I am sure I will still do app scrapping on my mobile devices as it is convenient, will just have to do less graphic intense work till I can get a decent upgrade in a few months time.

So to get me going I dove into doing some of the 20+ challenges at Gingerscraps... The goal is to do 10 and then you land a freebie.... and look at that I've managed to get 10 done. Here's what I accomplished:

Font

Scraplift

Pocket Scrapping

Connie Prince Mini Kit

Inspiration

Mix It Up - use torn paper

Daily Download

Mini Kit

Brush

Designer

This last double layout is inspired by a Jowilna original design... I thought long and hard about my scrapping and decided that seeing as I REALLY love Jow's design style I will see if I can translate it digitally. Super happy to say that with some tweaks and a bit of forethought I think I will be able to do a lot of her designs in the future.

Seeing as this was such a successful month scrapping these challenges, next month I plan on doing some more... it is definitely helping me get through my 2018 album backlog.