Scrapbook Challenges - Sketch 342

Another great sketch this week from Scrapbook Challenges with lots of possibilities

In Feb I went to the Barnyard theatre with a good friend for a great night out.  As I didn't actually have a photo of us, this pic another friend took of the stage before the show worked just as well.  So I dug out music paper and the tickets and voila the page came together.  The trumpet player is part of the paper but I decided to cut him out, mat him and then raise him... just added an extra detail to the page.

Here is the sketch we had to work with this week.

Now head to the blog to see the other great pages that the Sketch Crew did this week.

Nuts About Sketches - Week 263

Last Monday in April already... and we have a new sketch at Nuts About Sketches for you to see

I started my layout with the background paper... just such a super piece of paper that worked so well with my colours in the photos and the page just grew from there... I love the end result.

Here is the sketch we worked with this week.

So check out the blog for lots more great inspiration.

Scrapbook Challenges - Design Team Challenge

Today I am hosting a challenge over at Scrapbook Challenges... it's all about taking one shape and turning it into another.  This is the layout I created.

So come over to the blog and see what you need to do for the challenge.

Nuts About Sketches - Week 262

With Mom's move last week to her temporary home around the corner, what perfect way to celebrate than by showing a layout about her signing for her new home.

I re-purposed the flowers on this page from old premade pages that I disassembled... They really worked well here.  The "16" is the number of Mom's new unit and the numbers are from a piece of patterned paper that I have had in my stash f-o-r-e-v-e-r just waiting for a place to use... now that I found one home for them, I think I need to find a few more pages to use them on.

Look at this awesome sketch that we worked with at Nuts About Sketches...

So head over to the blog to see more great pages.

Scrapbook Challenges - Sketch 341

It's another Monday and a great reveal is up again at Scrapbook Challenges.  Here is my layout

 This page is about our work end of year function... I chose a Christmas range of paper but didn't make the page too Christmasy as it wasn't really that sort of function.

This is the great sketch that we used.

So check out the blog to see what the others on the Sketch Crew created.

EcoScrapbooking eBook Launch Party

Welcome to the Earth Day (April 22) blog hop hosted by EcoScrapbooking to launch a very exciting book.  I'm super excited to be a collaborator on this project and you can see more about my layout in the book which you can download here or in pdf format from here.

Remember that eco-scrapbooking is all about scrapping greener and wiser... so use products that are "green" otherwise Reduce, Reuse and Recycle... which is what i did on my page... I recycled an old coffee can tinfoil seal.

Here is the full blog hop list:

Danielle Hunter | EcoScrapbook

 Zaira Sierra | Hacer Scrapbooks

Lisa Troch | The Cherry on Top

Cathy Sanders | What's up with Cathy < - - - you are here!!!

Jules Hollis | Inspired Jules

Erin Bullock | Deeply Rooted Life

Stephanie Medley-Rath | Scrapworthy Lives

Renee Joy | Charms Buttons & Bows

Andrea Friebus | Lights C.a.m.era Action

Jody Spiegelhoff | SpiegelMom Scraps 

For added fun, here is another eco-friendly scrapping idea.  I decided to clear out my scraps for Aaron's school as a fundraiser. 

I took my full and overflowing box of layout leftovers

punched lots of circles in 3 different sizes 

and then assembled them into the perfect Christmas ornament.  

I made up kits with the full instructions and the kids at school thoroughly enjoyed making their own ornaments too. So now you too can reduce your stash and make something decorative.


So happy hopping and eco-scrapping. Your next stop is  Jules

Scrapbook Challenges - Sketch 340

Wow this week has run away with me, what with helping Mom move house on Monday and Tuesday, so I never got around to posting this week's sketch for Scrapbook Challenges.

I did my layout about a friend's daughter's 10th birthday party we went to... the top photo is actually a little mini book with lots more photos of the party... great way to include more photos on a page without cluttering it up.

This is the sketch for this week.

So head over to the blog now and see what the rest of the Sketch Crew did this week.

Nuts About Sketches - Week 261

I'm right in the middle of helping Mom move from the East Rand to the West Rand.... so luckily I managed to get my April layouts scrapped before Easter for my design team commitments.  Here is this week's one for Nuts About Sketches.

I have a box of finished pages that just need photos and decided to browse through it to see what I could use... well I found this page and it worked perfectly for the sketch.  The page was done about 5+ years ago at an all day scrap held by Retha van der Walt at Scraptifity (subsequently closed).  I must say though that just about all the rest of the pages done that day have been unassembled and put back into my stash... just not the sort of pages I scrap (or colours).

Here is the sketch for this week.

So now head over to the blog and check out the rest of the great pages on display this week.

Paper Mixing Bowl - recipe for April

It's April and that means things spring related for those in the Northern climates... but here in South Africa it's the start of Autumn.... not that that has ever stopped me from scrapping about another season... I just scrap!

The reveal is up at the Paper Mixing Bowl for this month.

I used a sheet of question paper for this layout and then in the little booklet I answered all the questions.

Here is the recipe card for you to do too.

Head over to the blog to see some more stunning pages done by the rest of the team.

Scrapbook Challenges - Sketch 339

In between reorganising my acrylic stamps on Sunday, I scrapped this page for Scrapbook Challenges. The whole reason for the stamp reorganising was that I was looking for a stamp with which to alter my letters.  I found it but then carried on organising for another hour before finishing my page... hehehe... silly me!

So my stamps are now all nicely sorted by type into old CD covers so that I can see what I have and if I need a flower they are all together in one place.

This is a cormorant that we spied near the penguin rehab centre in PE on our holiday last year... I thought he was soooooo beautiful that he deserved a page all of his own.

This is the sketch that we worked from

Head over to the blog to see what the rest of the Sketch crew did this week... there are some stunning pages.