7 Day template challenge from Rachel Etrog

I found this wonderful template challenge from Rachel Etrog, one of the designers at the Digital Press, and I decided to dive in and try my hand at doing each one. I stuck pretty close to each template... didn't want to stretch toooooooo far. Here's the layouts I've made.

Day 1

Day 2

Day 3

Day 4

Day 5

Day 6

Day7

For each template I used Rachel Etrog's products from various freebies that I've collected over the year plus two of the kits I've purchased. Love how each layout looks so totally different. Am truly enjoying this learning experience.

I used Photoscape X to create each of these layouts... this program has lots of hidden gems that I am discovering and figuring out how to make them work as I go... some are just fluke (like the sunburst fading and changing brown woodgrain to blue). I still have lots to learn, but lots to scrap to, so am sure will be getting lots of practice soon.

UPDATE 20th Dec - just heard this morning that I won first prize - super excited to go stash shopping!

IQCG - December moodboard

It's another DT reveal day for us and the theme this month is winter flowers. Well as it's the Christmas season too I went with the traditional Christmas flower of the poinsettia.

I kept my flowers simple and added a few holly leaves and then embellished the card with the tag strip and string.

Come play along with us and remember to tag #IQCG and #IQCG65 in your post on instagram or in the facebook group.

This is my last post for this team. I've enjoyed quilling this year and coming up with designs each month to match the moodboard. The girls are soooooooo creative and I've gotten a lot of inspiration from the entries each month.

GDD - Christmas Morning kit

I am having such fun scrapping for Gone Digital Designs that when the new kit comes out I can't wait to dive in and create.

Unfortunately I had to wait almost 24 hours to get going this time as we had major loadshedding yesterday and then it tripped and didn't come on till the middle of the night. AND to crown it all we ended up with more loadshedding this morning. In one way I am thankful for Aaron waking me up at 6am on a Saturday as I managed to download my kit quickly and then scrap once the power was off.

I am sure I will be making more layouts with this gorgeous kit. You can find it here at the Digital Press... papers, elements, word strips and there are also alphas that I am dying to use.

Sketch n Scrap - December challenge

We are having our monthly challenges again this month with lots of challenges coming. Here is my layout for the first challenge:

So the challenge is to use this sketch and for the twist - no cardstock allowed.

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

Gone Digital Design - school layout

GDD has sooooooooooo many lovely kits for sale at The Digital Press that I just couldn't help myself from making another layout.

This one used the "Fun on the Fourth"kit that was on the Black Friday sale. Yes it is typically for the USA holiday but seeing as blue is my favourite colour I just had to use it and so went with school photos. The stars are always a go to item as well for school pics.

Till next time the scrappy bug hits...

Gone Digital Designs - bonus layouts

My commitment for GDD is to do one layout per collection.... well as I said in my previous post I really like this one and so created two more layouts using it. So here are the bonus pages:

These pages really come together so quickly once I know what I want to achieve, but there is still a lot of dithering going on. I think I might have figured out that I still need a sketch to work from as then I scrap happiest. More layouts to come during the next few days I am sure.

Gone Digital Design - First layout

It is soooooooooo exciting to be on my first digital Creative Team even if it's only as a guest for this month. I am trying to stretch myself and learn a few bits this month too but this first layout I've kept to my usual scrapping style.

I used a sketch from Pagemaps as a starting point for my page and used the new release called "we are Family" which you can find here at The Digital Press. This whole kit is soooooooooo pretty and I really like it a lot.

Lots more to come all month long.

Stick It Down - Double Layout - Dec2019

December is definitely the festive season... we are gearing up again for the end of year functions and so what better photos to scrap than one of my previous work end-of-year parties.

I've used the Penelope Dee Christmas range ... really love the blue colour of these papers. I stuck fairly close to the sketch except that I used four photos across on my right page. Added in a card for a nice touch and it says exactly what happened on the day! hehe.

This year our end of year party is going to be at this venue again but with a beach theme... I wonder how many more people won't end up in the lake!

This is the fabulous sketch we worked with.

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

This is my last layout for this team. I've had an absolute ball designing for Stick It Down for the last two years and will miss it. If ever you want to be on a team this is definitely one to go for,

Pixel Scrapper - November challenges

I still visit the Pixel Scrapper site every day as there are daily freebie downloads. I haven't managed to do any challenges over the last two months, but this month I thought I would try a few, however I only managed to get one done.

Center It

I've already got my eyes on a few of the December challenges that have been posted early so hopefully will get a few more done next month.

November challenges at The Lily Pad

These are the layouts that I've managed to complete for the monthly challenges at The Lily Pad:

Style

Scraplift

Photography (sequence)

Journalling

Inspiration

Another good month doing these challenges... it sure is stretching me to do new things in new ways with the limited supplies I have from this site. Hopefully next month I can manage to do a few more.